Posted on 07/10/2009 2:32:58 AM PDT by Scanian
Life sometimes imitates art, even in the Obama presidency. The old movie, The Truman Show, starring Jim Carrey as the earnest and clueless Truman Burbank, a man literally raised in a bubble since he was born, and the star of a popular television show, is a decent analogy for Obama's first half year in office.
Let's start with the bubble itself in the film. The enormously costly stage for the show is a sealed environment where everyone is scripted, except Truman himself, and all actions are tightly controlled. The drama for the TV audience is in how Truman will react to the latest life-changing material from the show's writers. He has some inkling that not all is as it seems, but doesn't know how to act on that feeling. Obama's trajectory is similar. Absorbing almost nothing except Far Left ideas from adolescence, and then choosing to live entirely in that echo chamber as an adult, he has only a vague notion of fairness in the place of any strongly held convictions. That has allowed others to write the script, and as if on cue, Obama acts and reacts in unexpected ways.
On domestic legislation, the wildly unpopular Democratic Congress (current approval rating 35%) wrote the script on the stimulus. Pelosi and Reid assembled a pork-loaded and ineffective boondoggle resulting in record deficits and crippling debt. True believers expected Obama to denounce the pork, veto the legislation, and send it back to Congress for another try. But they were shocked -- shocked! -- to see him endorse and sign it. After all, hadn't he promised a change in the way Washington does business?
Ah, but that was the script from an episode in The Campaign season, and obviously not Obama's words or ideas.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The American Thinker has another terrific article. This is so accurate!
BTT
I nearly missed this. Excellent stuff.
He and Michelle both look so uncomfortable in so many situations. It’s a long way from being a community organizer to being most important man on the planet. Even their advisors know so little of what they should know. Even TOTUS cannot cover up for all the gaffes.
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