Posted on 04/03/2010 7:17:21 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
NOT since Clark Kent changed in a phone booth has there been an instant image makeover to match Barack Obama’s in the aftermath of his health care victory. “He went from Jimmy Carter to F.D.R. in just a fortnight,” said one of the “Game Change” authors, Mark Halperin, on MSNBC. “Look at the steam in the man’s stride!” exclaimed Chris Matthews. “Is it just me, or does Barack Obama seem different since health care passed?” wrote Peter Beinart in The Daily Beast, which, like The Financial Times, ran an illustration portraying the gangly president as a newly bulked-up Superman.
What a difference winning makes — especially in America. Whatever did (or didn’t) get into Obama’s Wheaties, this much is certain: No one is talking about the clout of Scott Brown or Rahm Emanuel any more.
But has the man really changed — or is it just us? Fifteen months after arriving at the White House, Obama remains by far the most popular national politician in the country, even with a sub-50 percent approval rating. And yet he’s also the most enigmatic. While he is in our face more than any other figure in the world, we still aren’t entirely sure what to make of him.
Depending on where you stand — or the given day — he is either an overintellectual, professorial wuss or a ruthless Chicago machine pol rivaling the original Boss Daley. He is either a socialist redistributing wealth to the undeserving poor or a tool of Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs elite. He is a terrorist-coddling, A.C.L.U.-tilting lawyer or a closet Cheneyite upholding the worst excesses of the Bush administration’s end run on the Constitution.
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Secret Identity = Emmanuel Cleaver
I wonder if Frank Rich realizes that I, and millions of others, think that F.D.R. was one of the worst presidents in the history of this nation.
I have four cats. It’s just not fair that they don’t get free veterinary care. (To be sure, if Obama was doing it, I’d have to pay a tax at least three times the average annual vet bill, per cat.)
There isn’t anything mysterious or nuanced about Obama. All one has to do is listen to what he says, consider what he has actually done in his life, and look at his friends. He hasn’t been in office 18 months, and he has managed to antagonize our allies, keep the economy in a tailspin, nationalized huge chunks of the economy, embarrass the country with his weird bowing, and make peculiar, even irrational statements about Islam. It’s all there for those with eyes to see. We’re in deep manure.
This is another example of BHO's groupies being addicted to the groupthink of Oprah's favorite book, THE SECRET which is all about positive thinking & positive affirmations.
These idiots are so naive that they actually believe that if they state something enough times that it will materialize in reality.
There is a clinical term for this, it is called, "magical thinking," and it is disgusting to see supposedly educated people in positions of power apparently believing in and attempting to use THE SECRET's techniques upon the public.
Just appalling.
Geez, Frank. Get a room.
This article reminds of the JibJab music video featuring the Imposter-In-Chief.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVFdAJRVm94
Nutty, but consistently nutty.
Get some Kool-Aide antidote!
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Bkmk
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