Posted on 08/22/2014 7:00:36 PM PDT by EveningStar
White House: That round of golf after the Foley video was released doesn’t show the depth of Obama’s grief
Oh, I don’t know. He seems pretty grief-stricken here, no?
[see embedded Tweet at link]
Ask yourself this, though. Is “optics” really just a Beltway parlor game? My hunch about most low-information voters, a.k.a. most voters, is that they’d struggle to name who the vice president is when asked. We’re lucky if they’re cognizant of what happened to James Foley at all, let alone Obama’s reaction to it.
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Why haven’t the rabbits attacked Bammy yet?
Vacation stops for nothing! They definitely strike me as the “get the hell out of my way I’m having fun” vacationer types.
criteria for 301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
(DSM IV - TR)
(cautionary statement)
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
(3) believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
(4) requires excessive admiration
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
NOTE: The American Psychiatric Association conveniently arranged for this to be REMOVED from the DSM shortly after the 2008 election.
He’s really a very small man after all.
I don’t get why he just doesn’t fly his buds into Camp David. ...no press and he could golf all day. Jeez what a cush job working at Camp David the past 6 years.
It just shows he doesn’t give a s#it
The video doesn’t show ice-water in Hell, either.
Tears of a clown.
Or lack there of
Wow, the depth of his grief pulls are the strings of my heart.
With the statement his lying sock puppet tell are followed by pictures of the opposite. Seem the sock puppets can’t even get their lying stories straight.
Obama has more grief when he misses an easy putt.
Really. Just because we voted for him, do they think we are all stupid?
Nothing shows grief quite like an embedded tweet.
President Obama went back to his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard Tuesday evening after spending less than 48 hours in Washington, leaving people puzzled over why he came back in the first place.
Garrett reported that President Obama spent yesterday playing his eighth round of golf of his vacation and was “swinging freely and shaking hands leisurely along the fairway.”
All told, he said that Obama’s “vacation score card includes three dinners out, two beach days, one bike ride, a jazz concert, and a fund-raiser for Senate Democrats, ot to mention a five hour bachelor party Monday in the Washington home of former White House chef Sam Kass.”
Nevertheless, Garrett stated that, despite Obama being on vacation, the president “was hardly invisible, addressing the nation on Iraq three times, Ferguson twice, and on the implications of Foley’s beheading.”
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Cut to the White House, where Kass is chopping vegetables for the president’s dinner. Kass ended up as Obama’s senior policy adviser on nutrition and the First Family’s chef through a similar fusion of personal intensity and random luck.
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Back home in the tightly knit community of Hyde Park, he ran into Michelle Obama, whom he’d known around the neighborhood since he was in high school. Malia would soon be in his dad’s fifth-grade class at Lab; Barack was off in Washington, preparing for a presidential bid. Michelle was an overtaxed working mom, worrying about the girls’ getting good nutrition and staying healthy. Kass stepped into her kitchen, “went through the cupboards, and started doing his thing—vegetables and home cooking,” says Blue Hill chef Dan Barber, a friend and mentor to Kass. Sasha and Malia quickly fell in love with the big-brother figure.
“My hunch is that President Obama at that point needed someone like Sam; it helped him to be able to focus on campaigning for the presidency,” adds Barber. “Sam being there as a cook, as a presence in the household—someone Michelle could be buddies with and the kids could adore—created a happy family life while he was away from home. I imagine Obama feels indebted for how Sam filled the void.”
It was around the Obama kitchen table in Chicago, when Barack was still a long shot for the Democratic nomination, that Michelle and Kass hatched the idea of a vegetable garden on the South Lawn—which has since become a highly visible symbol of her policy priorities. Kass’s wider influence comes from his role as executive director of the First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative, which aims to encourage Americans to exercise and change the way they eat. “If it’s hard work for a family to make choices that are good for them, we’re not going to be successful,” he tells me. “We want better access to fruits and vegetables, lower prices for them, restaurants serving healthier options, marketing healthy products better.”
The model for feeding the First Family used to be room service: anything you want 24/7. George W. Bush would order hot dogs to a meeting. The new model is a nourishing family meal. The president, who makes a practice of sitting down for dinner with his wife and daughters at 6:30, eats Kass’s cooking five nights a week. “We cook very simple food, but it needs to be balanced and healthy and clean, like no hiding a stick of butter to make it taste good,” Kass tells me. Though he won’t go into much detail about his menus, “there’s always a vegetable, usually a green vegetable. We try to do all whole grains—fish a couple of times, chicken, a good steak now and again.”
Kass and the president are known for having something of a father-son relationship. “He is a close enough friend that he’s almost a family member,” says Kass’s friend Richard Wolffe, who has written three books about Obama. Kass and the president get together for basketball, rounds of golf, and games of after-dinner pool in the White House. Kass won’t talk about any of this except to say that, like Obama, he’s “incredibly competitive” and that he’s never bested the president at golf. “The day I beat him, I will go to the press with that,” he says.
It was Wolffe, also an MSNBC commentator, who introduced Kass to Wagner. After spotting Wagner at White House events, Kass pestered his friend to take him to the MSNBC after-party following the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Wolffe says he told Kass that he was aiming way over his head. “ ‘Forget it. Never going to happen,’ I kept telling him.”
Wiki:
Wagner grew up in Washington, D.C., attended Woodrow Wilson High School,[2] and graduated from Brown University in 1999.[3][1] Her mother, Tin Swe Thant, is an immigrant from Rangoon, Burma.[1] Her father, Carl Wagner, is from Iowa and of German and Irish descent, and is a prominent Democratic Party political consultant who co-chaired Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign.[4] Wagner was raised Roman Catholic.[5]
http://www.spoke.com/people/carl-wagner-3e1429c09e597c100831cd62
Carl Wagner, Co-Founder
Carl Wagner’s experience includes a unique blend of business, technology and advocacy.
He is a highly regarded political and policy strategist. He has advised Congressional leaders, Presidential campaigns, and Democratic Party officials. He served as the national political director for Senator Edward Kennedy’s presidential campaign, as Director of Strategic planning for the Democratic Party, Co-Chair of Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, and as advisor to Democratic leaders in
the U.S. House of Representatives.
Carl founded and served as President and CEO of Entertainment Express Corporation, a California cable television company serving new developments with Satellite Master Antenna Technology, which was acquired by Comcast. As a consultant, Carl provided strategic planning and business development and marketing services to multiple cable system operations and programmers, including Westinghouse Broadcasting, Comcast, Media General, MACOM, General Instruments, and Continental Cable.
For the past 20 years, Carl has also provided strategic planning and membership development services to several public interest organizations, including Hands Across America, the League of Conservation Voters, the Commission on Presidential Debates, and NBC and CBS News.
Carl serves as director of the Committee for the Study of American Electorate, Horton’s Kids (a non-profit devoted to tutoring poor children), and the Ronald H. Brown Foundation. He founded and manages the Trust for the Daughters of Paul Tully.
Carl holds an MA from Iowa State University, has lectured at Harvard University’s JFK Institute of Public Policy, and has published various opinion editorials.
Actually Clinton is a more appropriate comparison.
Old Slick complained about all the photo sessions he had to do with people and all the meetings and that he didn't have any time to himself during the day.
(A quick comparison with Ronald Reagan's schedule would make Carter, Clinton and Obama look like real whiny-butts.)
Be that as it may, Clinton got his schedule cleared so he had a few hours to himself during the day. And why not? Hillary was running the White House.
Then in walks Monica Lewinsky and the rest is history.
Clinton spent as much time as he could engaging in illicit sexual activity with women.
Obama also spends his after golfing hours engaged in illicit sexual activity with men.
Kinda makes Carter look like a moral paragon.
The depth of his “grief”? Any home schooled fourth grader would tell you that two dimensional objects do not have any depth at all.
Obama can play Golf for the rest of his life after his term ends
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