Obama Underappreciation Syndrome [Major Hoot!]

Wapo ^ | 10/22/10 | Charles Krauthammer

[freespirited]

In an increasingly desperate attempt to develop a narrative for the coming Democratic collapse, the Democrats have indulged themselves in what for half a century they've habitually attributed to the American right -- the paranoid style in American politics. The talk is of dark conspiracies -- secret money, foreign influence, big corporations, with Karl Rove and, yes, Ed Gillespie lurking ominously behind the scenes. The only thing missing is the Halliburton-Cheney angle.

But after trotting out some of these charges with a noticeable lack of success, President Obama has come up with something new, something less common, something more befitting his stature and intellect. He's now offering a scientific, indeed neurological, explanation for his current political troubles. The electorate apparently is deranged by its anxieties and fears to the point where it can't think straight. Part of the reason "facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time," he explained to a Massachusetts audience, "is because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country is scared."

Opening a whole new branch of cognitive science -- liberal psychology -- Obama has discovered a new principle: The fearful brain is hard-wired to act befuddled, i.e., vote Republican. ...

Faced with this truly puzzling conundrum, Dr. Obama diagnoses a heretofore undiscovered psychological derangement: anxiety-induced Obama Underappreciation Syndrome, wherein an entire population is so addled by its economic anxieties as to be neurologically incapable of appreciating the "facts and science" undergirding Obamacare and the other blessings their president has bestowed upon them from on high.

[freespirited]

Worth reading the whole thing. Have to excerpt here thanks to Wapo's overinflated opinion of its own importance.

[gov_bean_ counter]

That's our Chuck. When he's good, he's real good.

[matthew fuller]

As usual, Krauthammer is absolutely devastating, with precision.

[Danae]

Oh this was a good one!

[Waverunner]

Let me be the first to admit it... I underappreciate President Obama...Come on admit it - you do too..
Everyone - Make the underappreciation pledge.
I vow to underappreciate President Obama, more and more, every day.

[Irenic]

That was yummy! I do love reading his columns!

I especially loved the last line...

"An adjudication of the question will be rendered on Nov. 2. For the day, the American peasantry will be presiding."

pwned!

[JoSixChip]

BFL

[AF_Blue]

Worth reading the whole thing. Have to excerpt here thanks to Wapo's overinflated opinion of its own importance impotence.

There, fixed it for ya'.

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[Rummyfan]

Opening a whole new branch of cognitive science -- liberal psychology -- Obama has discovered a new principle: The fearful brain is hard-wired to act befuddled, i.e., vote Republican. ...

Every day I think our Pres__ent cannot get any more pathetic, and the next day I am proven wrong again.

[screaminsunshine]

They will be on their knees begging us to let them help us soon.

[ronnie raygun]

He means like the science that brought us global warming?

[nhwingut]

The best takeaway...

I have a better explanation. Better because it adheres to the ultimate scientific principle, Occam's Razor, by which the preferred explanation for any phenomenon is the one with the most economy and simplicity. And there is nothing simpler than the Gallup findings on the ideological inclinations of the American people. Conservative: 42 percent. Moderate: 35 percent. Liberal: 20 percent. No fanciful new syndromes or other elaborate fictions are required to understand that if you try to impose a liberal agenda on such a demonstrably center-right country -- a country that is 80 percent non-liberal -- you get a massive backlash.

[freespirited]

Duly pledged!