By MAUREEN DOWD
FOR eight seconds, we saw the president we had craved for three years: cool, joyous, funny, connected.
What you mean "we" crazy drunken latent lesbo Irish lady? I think by "we" you mean your cohorts in the ME-DEE-YAH ... the ones stationed on the beltway, that get invited to the parties of the power elites of Washington DC, that get to rub shoulders with the powerful, the connected, the real KEWL KIDS KLUB (KKK) ... I crave a President who will use the power of the bully pulpit to try and create legislation that makes the lives of the overwhelming majority of the people better, that lifts virtually everybody's boat, that gives us all a bigger slice of "the PIE." Such a preznit might at least do some of the following:
Decriminalize Marijuanna -- Legalize Marijuanna for medical use, hell, and for recreational use also (this is NOT my top priority ... my top priority is: Get our military out of the other countries of the world - Shut down the CIA dark ops that are waging wars in 120 different countries of the world .... figure out a way to compensate mothers with children so that not a one of them has to work more than 40 hours a week - and that she can do so in complete confidence that her youngest are getting the best day care available, the best nutrition possible, etc, etc, .... develop a program of NATIONAL HEALTH CARE! (screw insurance ... health care is a matter of national security, and the next time the world gets hit by an influenza epidemic, it will be patently obvious to ALL just why) ... end homelessness (we have the infrastructure to do so) .... do something about education for kids who are reading 3,4,5 years behind grade (and are in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades, respectively) .... do something about RAIL transportation - we have the infrastructure there ... jeez, so much to do, and so little imagination on the part of "the most powerful figure head in the world"
“I, I’m so in love with you,” Barack Obama crooned to a thrilled crowd at a fund-raiser at the Apollo in Harlem on Thursday night, doing a seductive imitation as Al Green himself looked on.
All of a sudden, Barack discovers, he is a black man - and he tosses his fellow black folks ... sweet sweet WORDS ... gonna get away on a rhetorical basis again ... that Barackie - he sure talkie one good gamey!
The song would make a good campaign anthem: “Let’s stay together, lovin’ you whether, whether times are good or bad, happy or sad.” Don’t break up, turn around and make up.
And MODO - you really ought to run his campaign!
Times have been bad and sad, and The One did not turn out to be a messiah, just a mortal politician who ruefully jokes that his talent is hitting the “sweet spot” where he makes no one happy, neither allies nor opponents.
In truth, an effective preznit would basically have EVERYBODY pissed off at him at one time or another - because C O M P R O M I S E ... is mandated on issues that are clearly NOT clear cut!
The man who became famous with a speech declaring that we were one America, not opposing teams of red and blue states, presides over an America more riven by blue and red than ever.
Only in America - we make a man famous for what he said, rather than what he accomplished ... what a fucking sorry state of affairs!
The man who came to Washington on a wave of euphoria has had a presidency with all the joy of a root canal, dragged down by W.’s recklessness and his own inability to read America’s panic and its thirst for a strong leader.
In an interview with Fareed Zakaria for this week’s Time cover story, the president is maddeningly naïve.
Asked about his cool, aloof style and his unproductive relationship with John Boehner, Obama replied: “You know, the truth is, actually, when it comes to Congress, the issue is not personal relationships. My suspicion is that this whole critique has to do with the fact that I don’t go to a lot of Washington parties. (This is probably the single most insightful quote I've ever seen attributable to the Bland One) And as a consequence, the Washington press corps maybe just doesn’t feel like I’m in the mix enough with them, and they figure, well, if I’m not spending time with them, I must be cold and aloof. The fact is, I’ve got a 13-year-old and 10-year-old daughter.” But, Barackie - the fact that you (probably you) engaged in a reproductive act twice with your wife, 14 and 11 years ago, convinces me not one wit that you are warm and engaged ... I actually think Barry is more manipulative, cold, and politically calculating than any one ever accused Slick Willie Clinton of being.
Reagan didn’t socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can’t condescend.
Jesus effen Christ, Barry, REAGAN had Alzheimers fer Gawd's sake ... he didn't know jack shit, pretty much the last 6 years of his administration .. ALTHOUGH ... he read his lines and hit his marks as well as any acting preznit this country has ever had.
The portrait of the first couple in Jodi Kantor’s new book, “The Obamas,” bristles with aggrievement and the rational president’s disdain for the irrational nature of politics, the press and Republicans. Despite what his rivals say, the president and the first lady do believe in American exceptionalism — their own, and they feel overassaulted and underappreciated. MEOW! MODO, the cat lady just used her claws to scratch the Obummah's!
We disappointed them.
As Michelle said to Oprah in an interview she did with the president last May: “I always told the voters, the question isn’t whether Barack Obama is ready to be president. The question is whether we’re ready. And that continues to be the question we have to ask ourselves.”
They still believed, as their friend Valerie Jarrett once said, that Obama was “just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
Their "friend" Valeria Jarrett did them NO favors with THAT fucked up comment ... ORDINARY" PEOPLE ... are incredibly talented, and they do most of their shit for themselves - they can't afford to hire people to grocery shop, cook, clean, do laundry, drive, do taxes, do investments, shit, what a creepy fucking comment
As Kantor reports, when the president met with Democratic members of Congress who had lost their seats in the midterms because of an incoherent White House economic and jobs strategy, he did not seem to comprehend the anxiety that had spawned the Tea Party, or feel any regret. Jim Oberstar, who lost his long-held Minnesota perch, recalled Obama’s saying, “In the end, this is for the greater good of the country.”
I actually agree with Barry, but, probably not in the way he thinks he means it
Who knew, in the exuberance of 2008, that America was electing an introvert? And that one who touched so many felt above the touchy-feely-gritty parts of politics?
Asked last week by Piers Morgan how he got on with Obama, Jimmy Carter — one of two living Democratic ex-presidents — replied, “We don’t really have any relationship.” The Clintons have not been courted with dinners in the private residence either.
COURTING THE CLINTONS - MODO - you must be fucking KIDDING me, don't you remember, there was a time when Slick Willie was so TOXIC that Al Gore distanced himself from him! AND - why the hell would Barry want to have anything to do with Jimmy Carter, who couldn't even get re-elected anyway? ... And about that Billary and Hillary thang - shit, Barry and Hilary probably spend a good deal of time together by day, doing WORK ... figuring out which lies are necessary to spin to get the American public to cheer the current war crimes being committed in so many lands around the world!
Kantor writes that the Obamas, feeling misunderstood, burrowed into “self-imposed exile” — a “bubble within the bubble” — with their small circle of Chicago friends, who reinforced the idea that “the American public just did not appreciate their exceptional leader.”
SO, basically, they are as insulted from reality and diversity as George W Bush and President Dick Cheney?
She reports that Marty Nesbitt indignantly told his fellow Obama pal Eric Whitaker that the president “could get 70 or 80 percent of the vote anywhere but the U.S.”
Maybe he could go elsewhere .... shit, in some countries, they don't even vote ... and NO-F"UCKING-BOD"Y EVER got 70% of the vote (much less 80) running for Preznit of the US of A.
The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They’ve forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House. And after four or eight years of public service, you are assured membership in the 1 percent club.
No, but I've shed tears BECAUSE Obummah was elected, and went on out and did everything all of his critics from the Black Intellectual Community said he would do - suck Israel's cock, wage larger war, cut back social benefits, and toss trillions the way of his corporate base - FIRE - Finacne, Insurance, and Real Estate
The Obamas truly feel like victims. (One of my black activists friends questions whether Barack feels any thing resembling human emotion -- she suggests that he is just a calculating political machine, "the anointed one" the black face pre-approved by Goldman Sachs to implement their desired policies around the world. But Newt Gingrich, who campaigns by attacking the culture of victimization, plays one on stage. He soared at the Charleston CNN debate by brazenly proclaiming himself the victim of “the elite media protecting Barack Obama” (the same Obama who told Time he was victimized by the press). Newt’s gambit was a calculated way of deflecting attention from a charge by his second wife, Marianne, that the family values he preaches are hypocritical platitudes, given his cheating ways with two wives he divorced when they were ill But, please, let us not consider the implications, the character revealed by the Gnewtster!.
Could 2012, remarkably, be a race between two powerful victims yearning to be lonely at the top?
WAIT, MO, are you saying that Gnewt and Barry ARE victims? I think not. They are self-styled "victims" and, as those empowered always do, they blame US for their victimhood. Unrepentant pieces of shit.
Maureen Dowd, you should never try to write serious stuff. It is beyond your ken.
