#ObamainHistory: All Hail President Zelig Lemon Moodring

PJ Media ^ | 5-16-2012 | Ed Driscoll

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May 16, 2012

#ObamainHistory: All Hail President Zelig Lemon Moodring

Ed Driscoll

The Washington Free Beacon “Illustrates White House’s insertion of Obama into other presidential biographies.” Click over for the Photoshops — and then stop by the “Obama In History” Tumblr site for even more, along with Twitchy, which rounds up reaction on Twitter to the “unexpectedly” fragile ego of our 44th president.

But even before news broke yesterday that Obama’s staff were busy inserting their boss’s name into the bios of past presidents ranging from Coolidge to Clinton, Mr. Obama certainly had a Zelig-like reputation. When he wrote in 2006, “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views,” he wasn’t kidding — on Monday, an Atlantic writer dubbed him, “Barack Obama: Our First Gay-Female-Hispanic-Asian-Jewish President,” running down the various encomiums Obama’s received from Andrew Sullivan, Kathleen Parker, Geraldo Rivera and other incredibly cheap dates fawning acolytes, including:

First Jewish President: Like this week’s issue of Newsweek, New York magazine went big on their Morrison reappropriation. Former White House counsel Abner Mikva told John Heilemann “When this all is over, people are going to say that Barack Obama is the first Jewish president.” The magazine made it their cover.

First Asian-American President: In 2009, Associated Foreign Press ran with the headline, “Obama the first Asian-American president?” As evidence, the article notes that in his first hundred days, “Obama appointed a record three Asian-Americans cabinet members and quickly focused his attention across the Pacific. He invited Japan’s prime minister as his first guest and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to Asia on her maiden trip.”

First Hispanic President: ....

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Just a suggestion here...but we need Mitt to get onto a blue-screen display and then put his picture across thirty-odd pictures....speaking out...how he single-handily helped the Yankees win the 1978 with a pinch-hit homer....then he flew missions over the Gulf in the war....then he talked Brittney Spears back into being normal....then he helped to save Biden one night at a DC bar.