Posted on 08/04/2010 1:36:26 AM PDT by thecodont
"The trouble with you is," she continued steadily, "you think people should stay in their own sealed packages. You don't believe in opening up. You don't believe in trading back and forth."
"I certainly don't," Macon said, buttoning his shirt front.
Anne Tyler, "The Accidental Tourist"
If politics were literature, Bill Clinton would be Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby," casually smashing lives around him while remaining untouched by the chaos he creates. Barack Obama is more like Macon Leary in "The Accidental Tourist," the author of tour guides who hates travel. "He was happiest with a regular scheme of things" - a cautious driver and committed flosser, systematic and steady, suspicious of unpredictable yearnings, displaying an "appalling calm" in times of crisis. "If you let yourself get angry you'll be ... consumed," Macon says. "You'll burn up. It's not productive." Only order and method are productive. He is attracted to the "virtuous delights of organizing a disorganized country."
Macon uses structure and rationality to avoid facing personal loss. Obama's emotional distance seems rooted in self-sufficiency - a stout fortress of self-confidence. But the effect is much the same. Obama leads a country without reflecting its passions - at least any he is willing to share. Events leave him apparently untouched. He doesn't need the crowd. Americans have always loved Obama more than he seems to care for us.
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"Obama's limited rhetorical range raises questions about the content of his deepest beliefs."
Limited rhetorical range : three-word bites with a few color words thrown in, topped off by a poofter lisp at the end on his S’s....
Apt description.
He evidences no passion for women, either.
Cats are less aloof than the Bummer.
“He doesn’t need the crowd. Americans have always loved Obama more than he seems to care for us.”
Obama cares for American in the same way Lenin and Stalin cared for Russia.
He excels only at explanation. Initially this conveyed a chilly competence. But as the impression of competence has faded, we are left only with coldness.
This came from the WASHINGTON POST??!?
Obama is finished.
Uh...no we don't.
And there's nothing American about him.
Right. Just like his, ". . . who's a$$ to kick." comment, or his 'addresses' have become rants at the pulpit podium with the phrasing and tempo of an evangelistic sermon.
As president, Obama's rhetorical range runs from lecturing to prickly
There, fixed it.
He excels only at explanation excuses, whining, finger-pointing.
Obama's limited rhetorical range raises questions about the content of his deepest beliefs.
0's limited range REVEALS answers about his limited competence.
He's already given us answers about what he believes.
He believes in his privilege to rule.
Beyond that, there doesn't seem to be much.
If B.O. said to his audience, “It’s now time for all of us to jump off the cliff to certain death” (complete with whistling s’s), his glassy-eyed, mesmerized minions would shout amen, nod their heads like bobblehead dolls, and line up by the precipice. There’s really a lot of similarity between this huckster and Jim Jones in 1978. This time, however, the White House, Congress, judiciary, and his hypnotized voting base make up the People’s Temple.
This is totally different from my perception of Obama, who very much wants the crowds' adoration. He almost demands that they view him as the messiah.
AMEN!! AMEN!! AMEN!!!! He is the JIM JONES of politics.
I think Sorosbucks and the MSM helped Araq buy a lot of love.
That sums it up.
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