Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

A Selfie-Taking, Hashtagging Teenage Administration
Wall Street Journal ^ | May 12, 2014 | ELIOT A. COHEN

Posted on 05/13/2014 5:25:16 AM PDT by Makana

...Why does the Economist magazine put a tethered eagle on its cover, with the plaintive question, "What would America fight for?" Why do Washington Post columnists sympathetic to the administration write pieces like one last week headlined, "Obama tends to create his own foreign policy headaches"?

Clues may be found in the president's selfie with the attractive Danish prime minister at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in December; in State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki in March cheerily holding up a sign with the Twitter TWTR +0.44% hashtag #UnitedForUkraine while giving a thumbs up; or Michelle Obama looking glum last week, holding up another Twitter sign: #BringBackOurGirls. It can be found in the president's petulance in recently saying that if you do not support his (in)action in Ukraine you must want to go to war with Russia—when there are plenty of potentially effective steps available that stop well short of violence. It can be heard in the former NSC spokesman, Thomas Vietor, responding on May 1 to a question on Fox News about the deaths of an American ambassador and three other Americans with the line, "Dude, this was like two years ago."

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: culture; government; obama
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-25 next last
Cohen nails it. We are led by inexperienced, self-indulgent, educated-beyond-their-capacity children.
1 posted on 05/13/2014 5:25:16 AM PDT by Makana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Makana

The children are in charge. The only grey beards in the administration are possibly insane or drunk most of the time....Clapper, Hagel, Biden, Shinseki, Kerry....


2 posted on 05/13/2014 5:33:11 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Makana
"Like self-obsessed teenagers, the staffers and their superiors seemed to forget that there were other people in the room who might take offense, or merely see the world differently."

This has been my experience working with libs. And if you do see the world differently, you are not only wrong, but evil.

3 posted on 05/13/2014 5:33:33 AM PDT by Oratam
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Comment #4 Removed by Moderator

To: Makana

no doubt, great article!


5 posted on 05/13/2014 5:36:37 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Makana

Perfect article on the Cult of Personality running the government. The US is being guided by the navel-gazing Prince of Fools. Someday Obama will be out of office, what do we do about the foolish 47% that vote for a living?


6 posted on 05/13/2014 5:41:43 AM PDT by griswold3 (I was born heI're in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Makana

We should just elect those that are 70yo or older


7 posted on 05/13/2014 5:50:06 AM PDT by redhawk.44mag
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Makana
"Cohen nails it"

Its a talking point.

If you do a Google news search of "Thomas Vietor Dude", you will find an uncountable number of articles in the right wing media on this. It is planned and co-ordinated.

WSJ, Washington Free Beacon, Daily Caller, American Thinker, Twitchy, Townhall, Spectator, and countless others to numerous to mention.

8 posted on 05/13/2014 5:55:37 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: redhawk.44mag
We should just elect those that are 70yo or older

My mom is 79, and she's in love with Barack Obama.

9 posted on 05/13/2014 5:56:36 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Steely Tom

Lets hope she doesn’t get elected


10 posted on 05/13/2014 6:00:28 AM PDT by redhawk.44mag
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Makana
I remember and agree with Abe.

Abe: "You [America] initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas . . . ."

The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats were celebrated in the establishment MSM as the most intelligent generation ever! They are now arguably that very establishment that praised them and they hold themselves and their ideological issue in even higher regard.

Don't know about selfies but the old jerks must remember tweet tweet. I do.

tweet tweet

11 posted on 05/13/2014 6:01:26 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: redhawk.44mag
Lets hope she doesn’t get elected

I guess the point of my comment went over your head.

12 posted on 05/13/2014 6:02:49 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Makana

Hey Zip, your telephone wants to talk to you.

13 posted on 05/13/2014 6:09:18 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Makana
We are led by inexperienced, self-indulgent, educated-beyond-their-capacity children.

Yep!

14 posted on 05/13/2014 6:12:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Makana



15 posted on 05/13/2014 6:12:24 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steely Tom

or just didn’t get off the ground


16 posted on 05/13/2014 6:16:26 AM PDT by redhawk.44mag
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Makana
In a searing memoir published in January, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates describes with disdain the trash talk about the Bush administration that characterized meetings in the Obama White House. Like self-obsessed teenagers, the staffers and their superiors seemed to forget that there were other people in the room who might take offense, or merely see the world differently.

It's the tactics of 1960s Mau-Mauing campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and street agitators. Bring back the flak catchers to suffer their tantrum tactics and let all the other continue to work in peace. Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe.

17 posted on 05/13/2014 6:21:48 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: redhawk.44mag

There are plenty of idiots over 70.

Lets try electing conservatives and see how that works out instead.


18 posted on 05/13/2014 7:05:46 AM PDT by dangerdoc
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: dangerdoc

Isn’t that what we’ve been trying to do? Where are they?


19 posted on 05/13/2014 7:14:47 AM PDT by redhawk.44mag
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Makana

Basically every hashtag a liberal tweets can be summed up as follows:

#WeCareMoreThanYouDo


20 posted on 05/13/2014 7:16:13 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-25 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson