Posted on 08/14/2021 5:36:58 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Jay Gatsby gave big, lavish, new-money parties at his sprawling mansion on the water because he wanted to seem cool. He wanted Daisy to notice him.
Barack Obama gave a big, lavish, new-money party at his sprawling mansion on the water because he wanted to seem cool. Being cool is important to him.
One difference is that Gatsby opened his house to the uninvited. Obama closed his house to many of the invited after getting flak for hosting “a celebrity mosh pit,” as Stephen Colbert called it, while officials were telling people to mask back up.
It’s hard to stop thinking about the over-the-top fete the former president held at his Martha’s Vineyard manse for his 60th birthday. It is such a perfect taxonomy of the Obama arc.
As president, he didn’t try hard enough on things we needed. He was a diffident debutante with a distaste for politics. Post-presidency, he is trying too hard on things we don’t need. The culture is already swimming in Netflix deals, celebrity worship, ostentatious displays of wealth, not to mention podcasts. Did the world really need “Renegades,” his duet with Bruce Springsteen?
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That is amazing. Even Maureen Dowd is disgusted.
Barack Antoinette....
...he always was a girlie man metrosexual.
Three things I take from this…….
The never ending failure that is CornPop and his puppet master on the Vineyard has soured some folks
He ga e permission for this as way to take some heat off for the party and to deflect his influence on the current administration
The Clintons have resume control.
Side note,,,,their humble beginnings. Can’t say much about his husband but he certainly isn’t from humble beginnings. What a crock of poo that is.
I guess Barky thought he was immune from criticism.
But unlike him, other people have been severely ... punished ... in all kinds of ways by this Covid cr*p.
Bankruptcies, lost businesses, increase in suicides, murders, domestic abuse and child abuse.
I guess even the left, including Maureen Dowd, has “felt the pain” far too much to give him a pass.
Well, he is a bi-otch - so yeah.
Must not have been invited . . .
The same ending as his name sake had would suit me fine.
Woo Hoo! An article by Maureen Dowd. I’m just waiting for the pictures of CZJ.
Dowd is always that oh so sophisticated girl who wrote for the high school newspaper. Great Gatsby as literary reference. Reverting to type.
Sad that Mitt Romney gave him a second term.
The Vanishing Legacy of Barack Obama - Matt Taibbi
“On the road from stirring symbol of hope and change to the Fat Elvis of neoliberalism…”
I miss the old days on DR where the would several pictures of CAN on this thread by now.
So you say, but everyone promised me that B.O. would disappear, terms over. Yet here he is, in the news, calling it in to Suzie Rice from his luxury mansion. And they laughed at me for saying he’s be back, might even be the Antichrist, future king of the one world global tyranny... got your vaccine passport yet so you can buy and sell, earn a wage?
“The peasants don’t have any bread? Let them eat Mitt.”
CZJ.
True dat.
Yes, there are rules. TY
The withered old bat must have bought new kneepads in anticipation of an invite. She is miffed.
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