Category Archives: Obama
The Best You Can Do
Obama is ignoring David Ignatius‘ advice to take credit for saving the economy and run with it. In his column, Ignatius calls the voters “willfully stupid” – possibly not a winning campaign slogan. So instead, the president is taking Joe McCarthy’s advice to make a wild accusation and then demand that the accused prove his innocence. The accusation being that the Chamber of Commerce is selling out the country to foreign corporate interests. The New York Times debunked this but that didn’t stop David Axelrod from telling Bob Schieffer, on Face the Nation, that we don’t know that the Chamber is not taking foreign money until they prove it. Shieffer’s response, “…is that the best you can do?”
P.S. While Ignatius thinks the people are “willfully stupid”, Victor Davis Hanson says they’re being “played for fools”.
Prop Refuses to Serve as Prop
Update:
Politicians are keeping their distance from the president these days. When the presidential seal fell from his podium he made a self-deprecating joke that even it didn’t want to appear on stage with him.
No he didn’t. President Obama doesn’t do self-deprecating. He said, “all of you know who I am…but there’s somebody back there who is really nervous right now“. Yes, Mr. President, we all fear you.
Yesterday even Walter Mondale piled on, telling him to lose the “idiot boards”.
Woodward
The Voters Have Spoken… The Bastards.
Actually, the voters haven’t spoken yet but Rich Lowry, in a column about Democratic leaders’ current contempt for the electorate, remembered that quip from Mo Udall in 1976. President Obama’s quip is that Democrats need to “buck up”. John Dickerson in Slate says this suggests he considers them “ignorant, inattentive, or lazy”. Biden just calls them “whiners”. And John Kerry adds that, “We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on.” Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson sums it up this way, “The American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats.” All this flattery is nicely covered in Victor Davis Hanson’s column here.
