Tag Archives: Obama
Post Punishment President
The president appealed to Latinos this week to double down on his presidency and extract revenge from their enemies.
Snub It
Our prickly president has added Frank Caprio, the Democrat running for governor of Rhode Island, to his snub list. Caprio’s opponent is Independent Lincoln Chafee, a serial snubber of his own former party – the Republicans. One such snub was Chafee’s endorsement of Obama in ’08. The President returned the favor on Monday by refusing to endorse Caprio. Hurt and humiliated, Caprio blurted that Obama can “take his endorsement and really shove it“.
Fear not, the unrequited candidate is already on the rebound. Politico reports this morning that Bill Clinton has swooped in with smooth and soothing words of endorsement. Caprio will now be making the rounds with the president the Donkey Party really loves.
Take This Job and Shovel It
Peter Baker caught the prez in a reflective mood in yesterday’s NYT Magazine piece titled “The Education of a President”. Here’s an excerpt.
Obama Identified what he called ‘Tactical Lessons’ from his presidency. He let himself look too much like ‘the same old TAX-AND-SPEND LIBERAL Democrat’. HE REALIZED TOO LATE that ‘there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects’ when it comes to PUBLIC WORKS.
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”.
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.
