Posted on 04/27/2013 4:09:42 PM PDT by Comrade Brother Abu Bubba
Tuesday morning, a peculiar announcement trickled out of the White House press office: President Barack Obama would be holding a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston bombings. At the White House. By himself. No press or other intruders allowed.
Except the White House photographer.
That Obama assumed Americans would want an iconic photo of him privately mourning the victims of the bombings was emblematic of a kind of hubris that has enveloped the president and his White House as the president commences his second term.
Hubris in a leader is an obnoxious thing, leading to imperiousness in governing. And it’s also a dangerous thing for a second-term president, often spelling trouble.
Unfortunately, this president’s acts of high handedness and self-absorption have been accumulating in the past months at a blistering pace.
Even as the nation’s workers wilted under a struggling economy and high unemployment, Obama decided to take two round excursions to Hawaii at taxpayer expense over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Just six weeks later, he jetted down to Florida for a luxury four-day golf vacation where he played with Tiger Woods. Meanwhile Michelle Obama took another vacation, skiing in Colorado.
Even as the sequester began to force those who work for him in the federal government to take furloughs and government services were scaled back – including, the White House tours – Obama stepped up his golf, roaring out of the White House in his motorcade three Saturdays in a row for the 50-minute round trip drive to the Joint Base Andrews course.
On Saturday night, he’ll be partying with journalists and their celebrity guests at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association bash.
All while the nation continues to suffer under his stewardship of the economy
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Scam wow presidency from an ID Thief!
“Gun violence.” How about all the child air passengers Obama has recklessly endangered by sabotaging the air traffic control system as an insane political stunt? That is hubris on a huge and potentially deadly scale. The guy is a psychopath.
I knew it! I just knew it!
If? Really? If?
This author is a 5 years late and six trillion dollars short.
Also note the author drags in Nixon, Clinton and Reagan. Really? Reagan for comparison? Really? Pathetic.
Clinton deservedly so.
I can’t see the pics at the link but that Childe Hassam picture is a very nice one. It’s actually nice to think Clinton had a picture of NYC in the oval office.
You posted a pic that’s 3,000px × 1,554px. Give me a break.
Great image work there. He’s all weewee-d up.
Obama: “I’m always so impressed with myself for how humble I am...”
Muahahah!
Give him a break, nature has mocked him enough already!
He should be squatting.
Why is he facing Mecca? /s
#40
Well done... didn’t make it that far down the thread when posting.
Either that, or he's fondling himself, as in this infamous picture...
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