Posted on 10/23/2009 9:52:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As an intellectual and sophisticated man of advanced education and refinement, President Obama should know better than to believe press clippings originating with the leftist media.
An experienced political professional intent on playing on the world stage should also be able to accept criticism and dissent without unraveling to the point of utter distraction.
After all, we do live a civilized society where the president serves at the pleasure of the people. He is neither deity nor royalty, despite what obedient armies of Obamanites and adoring media types tell him.
Criticism and robust opposition come with the gig, Mr. President! Winning the presidency confers unlimited power on no one, regardless of how precocious and handsome.
Unfortunately, President Obama seems addicted to the slobbering adoration and hero worship. So much so that he is unable to brook any sort of dissent and criticism.
It is as if the president were a five-year old child on his first day of school, startled to learn that there are other boys and girls in kindergarten with whom he is obligated to share milk, cookies, and attention.
That first encounter with the outside world provides a bitter, but necessary, lesson for the "spoiled" child.
President Obama is America's "spoiled" Commander-in-Chief, unaccustomed to sharing anything but the wealth of others!
For example, after barely assuming the mantel of presidential power last January, Obama invited Republican members of Congress to the White House to inaugurate the "post-partisan era," a concept conceived and implemented by The One Himself.
Foolishly, Obama struck a sour note by immediately advising conservatives that they should stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Excuse me? Why would a new president concern himself with the radio listening habits of the opposition party? What sort of monster ego must a president have to think that his views about a talk show host are in any way relevant?
Besides, how often has Obama has actually tuned in to El Rushbo to hear the other side of the story?
Most likely, Obama takes the word of White House lackeys who get paid obscene salaries just for listening and tracking those with the audacity to disagree with The One.
Obama's unhealthy obsession with quashing conservative voices has grown into a heated exchange of verbal warfare between the White House and Glenn Beck, and FOX News in general, said hostilities waged on a daily basis.
With the war in Afghanistan devolving into a quagmire not unlike Viet Nam, the national deficit exploding out of control, unemployment dashing the audacity of hope for millions of Americans, and tyrants in Iran, North Korea, and Russia conspiring to destroy America, just why in the hell is the President of the United States obsessed with what Glenn Beck has to say?
In case you missed it, Mr. President, nearly 60 million Americans voted for your opponent in the last election! Glenn Beck represents the views and concerns of many of those 6o million voters.
Furthermore, since your administration "owns" CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS as well as most print media, FOXNEWS is vital to preserving an independent and free press in America.
By the way, that mandate that you claim to be fulfilling is but a distant memory, as only 43 percent of Americans would vote for you were the election held today.
Time to put on a stiff upper lip. As President Harry Truman once declared, "If you can't take the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen!"
Still, perhaps the heat of the Oval Office is too intense for a spoiled brat elitist from Chicago where machine guns and the Mafia provide those in power with the means to keep the heat at bay?
A change in venue may be just what the doctor ordered.
If so, may we remind you that the state of Illinois will have a vacancy for U.S. Senator in 2010? You would seem to be a good match for that gig, provided you can sort out that birth certificate mess.
Why not wash Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and FOXNEWS right out of your hair by returning to the Senate where roaring oratory and photogenic looks trump substance and action every day?
Axelrod also warned that Obama’s confessions of youthful drug use, described in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” would be used against him. “This is more than an unpleasant inconvenience,” he wrote. “It goes to your willingness and ability to put up with something you have never experienced on a sustained basis: criticism. At the risk of triggering the very reaction that concerns me, I don’t know if you are Muhammad Ali or Floyd Patterson when it comes to taking a punch. You care far too much what is written and said about you. You don’t relish combat when it becomes personal and nasty. When the largely irrelevant Alan Keyes attacked you, you flinched,” he said of Obama’s 2004 Senate opponent.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Axs_memo.html
Obama is an empty vessel.
He is whatever they pour into him.
Obama is an empty vessel. He is whatever they pour into him.
***Then maybe the GOP does have a pot to piss in after all.
Oh, well done.
oh ...
Malignant Narcissism.
Did you catch the latest—I think it was the Saturday Address—where Obama talks about “what I will not abide” is people who bend the truth.
“Will not abide”? “Will not abide”?
Malignant Narcissism.
Let us hope that his drug-damaged brain, his malignant narcissism, and the stress of the job will all combine to cause a crack-up that will make it impossible even to PRETEND to be functioning.
oh really? like when he bent the truth during his campaign? hows all the transparency going? How about united left and right? how about birth cirtificate? how about not raising taxes? etc...
It should have been easy to figure out Obama’s thinskinned reaction to criticism from FOX after his dressing down of Mo Dowd for her writing about his big ears during last years prez canpaign. He was very sensitive to criticism of them. So naturally Dowd, being the big lib suck up she is, never mentioned them again.
Spread the wealth around comes to mind.
The only time he’s been caught telling the truth.
Axelrod was wrong about the drug issue—it was virtually invisible last year. I don’t know if that was true because of racism (whites just assuming that all young black men use drugs) or from fear of being called racists if they mentioned it, or a generational thing (people assuming that anyone who was born about the time Obama was would have used drugs in high school or college).
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