“If our leaders don’t relax, cool it, and stop these weird presidential “teachable moments” and all this stooping to editorialize about local irrelevancies (cf. the beer summit, the Tony Robbins–like escapades of the ubiqutious Imam Rauf, the line about Arizona law enforcement supposedly deporting the innocent “out to get ice cream,” etc.), we will devolve to the level of psychodrama.”
What do you expect from a pop culture president? It’s stuff like “Lindsay Lohan is in rehab again” or “Brit Spears stole her girl fiend’s girlfriend.” Trashy sensationalism meant to seem important. In the worse sense it is talking down to the people, assuming they only know TV soap operas. And yet, in another way, it is trying to reconnect for election time.
2008 was the American Idol election.
Hopefully we’ve grown up.