Posted on 10/05/2009 8:39:12 PM PDT by Saije
"No-drama Obama"? The president's flight to Copenhagen ...to make a personal pitch for holding the 2016 Olympics in Chicago was an audacious move -- and a dramatic failure. "Second City Absorbs Its Latest Defeat," read the (rather snotty) headline in the New York Times.
But shed no tears for Chicago...With a projected half-billion-dollar deficit next year, the Second City is better off without the Games.
We can't say the same for Obama's reputation after his in-person appeal failed to get his adopted hometown past the first round of voting. What new project can the president undertake to save face?
How about ... reforming college football? In a post-election "60 Minutes" interview last November, Obama called for selecting the national champion via an eight-team playoff: "I'm going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it's the right thing to do."
Perhaps those of us who oppose national health care and cap and trade shouldn't complain that the president seems so easily distracted. But you have to wonder: Does Obama think there's anything too frivolous to merit the president's attention?
...Obama has forged new frontiers in triviality. He's the president of all things great and small: He calls for "a cure for cancer in our time" while also promising to stand behind the warranty on your new Ford Fusion.
With the two wars he's running and his ceaseless efforts to micromanage the U.S. economy, you'd think he'd have plenty to do. But in his televised speech to America's schoolchildren last month Obama took time out to urge students "to stand up for kids who are being teased" and "wash your hands a lot."
He just can't help himself. Six months into his presidency, the Politico reported, Obama had already "uttered more than half a million words in public."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The opposite of omniscient would be omni-inscient or omninscient. A little too difficult to distinguish. I would suggest omnimoronic or obamoronic. The latter could be the standard terminology for incredibly all-encompassing political stupidity a century from now.
His assembly of the doctors outside the WH yesterday looked “obamoronic”. I think it was about the dumbest photo-op I’ve seen since Dukakis rode in the Army tank. The “doctors” all dressed in their lab coats outside the White House waiting for the “One”. He then emerges, walks to the teleprompter and starts reading. Obamoronic is a great word to describe it.
As noted below, the group that supplied many of the doctors for the Rose Garden event, Doctors for America, is a nonprofit organization that grew out of Doctors for Obama, which worked to help elect the president. But it also appears to be working closely with Organizing for America, Mr. Obama’s political organization.
I'm shocked, shocked ...
Reminiscent of the joke about the difference between a generalist and a specialist in medicine.
The generalist (Obama) strives to learn a less and less about more and more and ends up knowing nothing about everything.
The specialist strives to learn more and more about less and less till he finally knows everything about nothing.
Ford is the one domestic car maker that refused government money and control. Wasn't the warranty guarantee for only GM and Chrysler?
If my memory is correct, then this is a VERY cheap shot against Ford.
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