Posted on 11/15/2010 3:32:47 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Freudian slips may haunt Obama By: Keith Koffler November 15, 2010 04:36 AM EST
President Barack Obama, fresh from his drubbing in the 2010 midterms, is trying to revive his fortunes by pursuing a path toward the middle.
But Obama’s effort to overhaul his image is encumbered by conflicting impressions of who he is that have been engraved in voters’ minds by his own words.
During unguarded and even some staged — but inadvertently revealing — moments, Obama has allowed unintended glimpses into his thinking. At various times, his offhand comments have led critics, and many voters, to view him as an ardent leftist or an elitist or — most recently — a partisan Democrat.
These Freudian slips, uncovering the man beneath the spin and the speeches, are embedded in Americans’ subconscious, if you will, because they seem to come directly from the president’s inner self. Obama can change his policies, but he cannot easily erase these perceptions. And because of his cool opaqueness — noted even by his own staff — and his relatively brief track record on the national stage, voters have little else to go on.
Obama’s meteoric rise and young presidency have been marked by asides that appear to offer insights into his psyche.
His surprising self-revelations began during the presidential campaign. They were harmful but did not create major problems.
First, there was his condescension toward blue-collar Midwestern voters. At a San Francisco fundraiser, he said, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
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This article is a case in point of how the media can pretend to “criticize” Obama while in reality handling him with kid gloves.
“is trying to revive his fortunes by pursuing a path toward the middle.”
Sorry.
There is no “middle” any more.
He should save his energy for the golf course.
Now that the rest of the State Run Media is starting to admit that Zero is a failure, politico jumps on board yelling "ME TOO!, ME TOO!".
They're a joke.
He’s a smarmy, oily punk.
Nothing this maoist can do or say will convince the majority of Americans that he is not a true disciple of Rev. Wright.
Hating America and wishing only to destroy our economy and our national security. To say nothing of destroying our standing in the rest of the world.
Exactly what I was thinking when reading it.
I remember early on he went to some event where they were serving hamburgers, and he asked for Dijon mustard ....
nothing wrong with mustard - I like it myself - but by adding “Dijon”, it just sounded elitist ... maybe ‘cuz of that “Grey Poupon” commercial where the two limos pull up side-by-side ....
That can app;y to the Demonrat Party as a whole which is comprised of leftists, far-leftists, socialists, and and communists.
These are not slips of the tongue but unrepressed truths about Obama and Moochelle. Were it not for their handlers insistence on the teleprompters, this would all be common knowledge.
Obamao’s only complaint with that picture would be that it makes him look fat.
The evil core of Obama's being haunts America. Look what he attracts: flies, lies, rodents, terrorists, media sycophants. Look what he repels: Americans, American values and traditions, the Presidential seal, truth...
and Americans, with their desperation to have an African American in office to calm their guilt, picked the most wrong person they could have ever picked. George Soros’ another elitist puppet. There were a lot of Americans who did not know his middle name was Hussein until inauguration day. I worked with 3 of them. They sat watching the inauguration and their jaws dropped.
A mild-mannered fellow walks into his office one morning, looking very glum. His colleague asks him what's wrong.
"Well, this morning, I was at the train station. I wanted to buy two tickets to Pittsburgh. The ticket clerk was a gorgeous, buxom blonde, and, a bit flustered, I asked for 'Two pickets to Titsburgh.' I was very embarrassed."
His buddy replied, "No big deal. It happens all the time. It's just a slip of the tongue. Nothing to get upset about."
"Really?"
"For sure! Why, just this morning, I had a slip of the tongue. I was having breakfast and I tried to say to wife, "Darling, could you please pass the cornflakes. But, I inadvertently said, 'You f***ing b*tch, you ruined my life.'"
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