Posted on 07/05/2011 11:44:09 AM PDT by lbryce
By readopting his arrogant professor persona and likening Republican stonewalling on the budget to Sasha and Malia procrastinating on homework, the president is putting himself on dangerous ground for 2012. When President Obama used the example of his daughters finishing their homework on time to scold Republican lawmakers for putting off tough decisions about the budget, you may have realized, with some horror, that the president had become narrative-challenged.
The story of The One, the Messianic Figure, the Soulful Black Man Come to Redeem a Fallen America, the Quintessential Stranger Who Was Thus the Quintessential Figure of American Democracy—the thrilling, universal tale of Obama’s rise through a torn family with a world-wandering mother and an absent father had become tired and irrelevant. It was all used up.
Instead, you were left with the off-putting image of the dry, arrogant law professor, with his superior intellectual airs, that had occasionally appeared during the last presidential campaign. Back then, that unlovely side of the candidate was quickly eclipsed by The One’s universal tale. Now it has emerged as the only storyline the president can muster. Which means that Obama and the Democrats could be in big trouble.
Tea Partiers’ anger runs on feelings that they have been belittled by liberal elites who are far removed from the country’s immediate everyday interests. And here was Obama on Wednesday, fulfilling every aspect of the frightening chimera that the the new American right has turned him into. By comparing the Republicans, unfavorably, to his two children, he was dismissing their concerns as childish and unserious. You recalled his allusion to the New Testament during his inaugural address: “We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things.”
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“The story of The One, the Messianic Figure, the Soulful Black Man Come to Redeem a Fallen America, the Quintessential Stranger Who Was Thus the Quintessential Figure of American Democracy—the thrilling, universal tale of Obama’s rise through a torn family with a world-wandering mother and an absent father had become tired and irrelevant.”
Yeah, but high yellow by-blow of a minor communist and an obscure slut is a tougher sell.
Sasha and Malia likely don’t do homework, they do shoes.
They know no teacher will give them a bad grade. They are the black kids of a president and a terminally affirmative action afflicted mother.
Life for them requires no effort. They have moved on up
“Daffy Duck could beat Ubama.”
Sadly, Daffy Duck is more likeable, authentic and wise than roughly half of the announced GOP candidates.
CHOPE
*shrug*
I don’t know who this Lee Siegel is, and he’s probably another stinking liberal, but that was a pretty good piece.
He might also have mentioned how our ever golfing, often vacationing, budget not producing President scolded others for not working.
But, let us rejoice and be glad, because this IS the meme for him now.
>>> By comparing the Republicans, unfavorably, to his two children, he was dismissing their concerns as childish and unserious.
Not much different then “those silly women are just jealous of Palin”.
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