The Increasingly Self-Pitying Obama White House

Commentary Magazine ^ | August 9, 2010 | Peter Wehner

[TigersEye]

President of the United States of America. Leader of the free world. A multi-millionaire. But ...

he's a
VICTIMMMMMMMMMM!!!

Must be his skin color.

[i_dont_chat]

In over their heads . . . .

Reminds me of my all time favorite by Dr. Hook:

In Over My Head
Written by Eddie Rabbit, Even Stevens, and Daniel E. Tyler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cN5GLN74XU

[sergeantdave]

“The Increasingly Self-Pitying Obama White House”

Which is the proper WW II historical analogy?

Stuck in Stalingrad...

Banzai...

Nuts...

[SMARTY]

“What we are seeing, I think, is a group of supremely arrogant people humbled by events.”

Ya think???

“O” = Alligator mouth, gerbil a%$!!

[Red Boots]

It got so bad last December that President Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii. It would face the ocean and sell only one color and one size. “We didn’t want to make another decision, or choice, or judgment,” Emanuel tells Purdum. They took to beginning staff meetings with Obama smiling at Emanuel and simply saying “White,” and Emanuel nodding back and replying “Medium.”

What a bunch of Pussies !

[DManA]

I see the grey is back in Barry’s hair.

[SamAdams76]

There’s an old saying that goes something like “Self-pity makes for poor box office.” I haven’t seen this much self-pity in the White House since the Jimmy Carter years.

[TigersEye]

I said if after his first month in office and it's still true.

Amateur Hour.

[pingman]

Governing is such a bore, when all you wanted was to rule.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

“Politics is the worthiest ambition, wrote John Buchan (the author of JFK’s favorite book, Pilgrim’s Way); it is the greatest and most honorable adventure.”

If this is true, why then are most politicians such flaming a$$holes?

[flowerplough]

“It got so bad last December that President Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii. It would face the ocean and sell only one color and one size. “We didn’t want to make another decision, or choice, or judgment,” Emanuel tells Purdum. They took to beginning staff meetings with Obama smiling at Emanuel and simply saying “White,” and Emanuel nodding back and replying “Medium.”

What a wimp. What a pair of wimps. No wonder that, upon taking office, Bammy guy sent Tony Blair’s Churchill bust back to the Brits.

[Fractal Trader]

ping

[SanFranDan]

Recall the bills and money management skills these grifters had before they were anointed to the ultimate bling jobs? They were up to their eyeballs in debt. Now the country is. See any pattern?

[SamAdams76]

It got so bad last December that President Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii. It would face the ocean and sell only one color and one size.

That might actually be a job they would be capable of handling. Of course, they'd need to hire somebody to handle the money, pay the bills and keep the shirts in stock.

[houeto]

They are in over their head, because they have no real world experience.

[FourPeas]

According to the preview offered by Vanity Fair:

How apropos! Vanity Fair is a perfect description of Obama's White House.

[Semperfiwife]

You missed - Obama was groomed for the job. He was chosen by Valerie Jarret’s dad and his fellow Socialists to be the last, best hope to reshape American into a socialist country with the Chicago machine in firm control for generations. The kind that lines the pockets of their cronies and keeps everyone else in poverty. Look at the city of Chicago to see what they have in mind for the rest of America.

[They'reGone2000]

President Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii.

[houeto]

I would never have hired his lying @ss in the first place.

You're right as rain. How could he even make it through the application stage with no documentation, much less the interview?

[Interesting Times]

Valerie Jarrett says she looks back wistfully to a time when credible people could put a stamp of reliability on information and opinion: “Walter Cronkite would get on and say the truth, and people believed the media,” she says.

"...or the way it was in the old Soviet Union," Jarrett continued, "when Pravda would tell the people everything they needed to know."