Tiger, Barack, and the Law of Transitivity By Lisa Schiffren
We are staring because we've been had. Betrayed. We see now that the image was all a fraud. The talent was real. But the things that made the public like Tiger personally -- the low-key demeanor, manners, and sweet smile of countless sports-page photos, magazine covers, political analogies, and most important, product endorsements, was an act. That would be betrayal enough. But it wasn't just Woods' act. The larger lesson here is about how much artifice -- sustained, deliberate deception -- goes into the construction of a public persona when there is profit to be made or power to be had.
..The Obama campaign did explicitly attempt to borrow the from the then-universal Tiger Woods appeal to allay any discomfort voters might have had with a mixed-race politician. They constructed a persona that would make the American electorate comfortable with a barely-known, first-term senator with a left wing voting record, a deliberately obscured personal and professional past, and no traditional qualifications for high office.
Ultimately, Woods is an exceptional golfer with a character problem. Barack Obama, by contrast, is not an exceptional, or even particularly competent, leader. But because so many politicians, interest groups and factions have an interest in his continued presence, no one is ready to reveal the man behind the curtain just yet.
..But many voters from both the center and the far left who believed in the Obama magic are increasingly dismayed by watching the human god fall to earth. This is a major problem because, as Shafer notes, the impulse of the betrayed is to tear their fallen deities to shreds.
Nothing is going to come out that overturns anything this bunch of aholes have done...
It is time for the states who care to split off peaceably or us to load up and end this coup through force...
Take your pick...
Lisa, you may have been played but some of us knew he was a snake oil salesman from the beginning.
And the result is likely to be 21% unemployment, 4.00 per gallon gas and 6 week waits for visits to the government medical clinic.
Thank men like James David Manning and not Limbaugh .
Totall agree and it will occur in 2010 sometime...only Soros’ money is keeping it hidden. I hope some of the Rinos come back and acually work for the American citizenry along with the Tea Party folks. We are part of the solution as well as Rush, Hannity, Beck, Levin, etc.
