Poor Baby Obama: I Have To Make The ‘Really Hard’ Decisions

FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Two big stories emerged from Pres. Obama’s interview with New York Times reporters aboard Air Force One yesterday:

1. we have a whining, self-pitying president. 2. The Times scrubbed from its article the worst of the president’s comments, the ones that revealed him in that self-pitying light.

Fortunately, the Today show had the tapes, and played them this morning. According to Today, when President Obama met with reporters from the New York Times yesterday aboard Air Force One, his goal was “trying to sound hopeful and reassuring.” Mission not accomplished. As ambivalent as were the president’s putatively reassuring words on the economy, the delivery was even worse–halting and anything but assured. Be sure to view the video.

But much worse was his whining when it came to the burdens of his office:

PRES. OBAMA: I wish I had the luxury of just dealing with a modest recession or just dealing with health care or just dealing with energy or just dealing with Iraq or just dealing with Afghanistan. I don’t have that luxury, and I don’t think the American people do, either.

A bit later came this stunning statement, edited out of the Times story but broadcast by Today

View video here.

[April Lexington]

Keep pointing out that Pelosi and Reid are spinning this guy like a top. They rammed (Rahmed?) the stimulus package down his throat and the bankers a re having a field day with the credit crunch. This guy is seriously out of hes element and he is putting American interests and lives in danger. Opening Cuba may be a sop to the Russians but it will create huge problems in the non-communist Caribbean and Latin America. Not good. Not good at all...

[Interesting Times]

For Obama, it’s always all about Obama.

[April Lexington]

Spot on. There are MANY Americans with darker skin who would make excellent presidents. They would be good and competent because they have character and have put the past behind them to lead for the future. This nut case, however, is a product of the 1960s black communist infiltration operations of the USSR. He was raise on communist ideology and black liberation theology. He has no business in this office and we will pay the price for his total lack of experience and his Bolshie mindset.

[an amused spectator]

Somebody noted to me that by the time something reaches my desk, that means it’s really hard. Because if it were easy, somebody else would have made the decision and somebody else would have solved it.

He was all fired up about the job until a couple of days after the election, when one of his staffers that was actually literate corrected him about the spelling of his newly-won office:

The title is "President", Mr. Obama - not "Present". It requires you to remove your Id, change the selfish "Present" to "President" and serve the People, instead of yourself. So knock off the Wagyu beef snacks, quit the whining, and get on the job...

[an amused spectator]

BTW - you're going to make the White House enemies list if you keep coming out with pieces like this.

Gibbsie will know you by name by the end of the week.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I would wear their disdain as a badge of honor.

[a fool in paradise]

Life sucks when you can’t just vote “present” anymore.

[a fool in paradise]

That NYet Times quote is stoopid. He’s the president. EVERYTHING will stop at his desk for approval or veto.

This job is above his paygrade. What a joke.

[Palladin]

“Gibbsie will know you by name by the end of the week”

...and where he lives!