Posted on 04/07/2012 10:41:11 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
As Bob Hope and Bing Crosby observed in Road to Bali:
He gets his shirts straight from Paris
Cigarettes from the Nile
He talks like a highbrow
But he plays Chicago style . . .
Ive no idea where President Obama gets his shirts and smokes, but he certainly talks like a highbrow, sufficiently so to persuade presidential historian Michael Beschloss to pronounce him the day after the 2008 election the smartest president ever. Yet, in the end, he plays Chicago style. You can take the community organizer out of Chicago, but you cant take the Chicago out of the community organizer. Or as the Agence France-Presse headline put it, Combative Obama Warns Supreme Court on Health Law.
Headlines in which the executive warns the courts are usually the province of places like Balochistan, where powerful cabinet ministers are currently fuming at the chief justices determination to stop them kidnapping citizens and holding them for ransom literally, that is, not merely figuratively, as in America. But, here as there, when Obama warns the Supreme Court over health law, its their health prospects he has in mind. He cautioned the justices an unelected group of people not to take the unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.
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OMG - where is Sarah when we need her?!!
Obama's contempt for all those people he considers lesser beings than himself (meaning everyone) seems obvious to me, in his face and in his voice.
Yet, there are people who still plan to vote for him. All I can think is that they like someone who looks down on them.
” Maybe Republicans will say no to him.
:) “
They will.... NO PROBLEM<OBAMA
“Contemptible” is more like it.
“How does this guy remember the lyrics to that ditty thats about 50 years old? “
I believe he got his profession start as a DJ and writing about show tunes and other popular music. When something is your profession, you tend remember details for long periods of time. He switched to political writing rather recently, I believe.
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