Posted on 08/19/2014 9:53:34 PM PDT by Aria
WASHINGTON — Affectations can be dangerous, as Gertrude Stein said.
When Barack Obama first ran for president, he theatrically cast himself as the man alone on the stage. From his address in Berlin to his acceptance speech in Chicago, he eschewed ornaments and other politicians, conveying the sense that he was above the grubby political scene, unearthly and apart.
He began “Dreams From My Father” with a description of his time living on the Upper East Side while he was a student at Columbia, savoring his lone-wolf existence. He was, he wrote, “prone to see other people as unnecessary distractions.” When neighbors began to “cross the border into familiarity, I would soon find reason to excuse myself. I had grown too comfortable in my solitude, the safest place I knew.”
His only “kindred spirit” was a silent old man who lived alone in the apartment next door. Obama carried groceries for him but never asked his name. When the old man died, Obama briefly regretted not knowing his name, then swiftly regretted his regret.
But what started as an affectation has turned into an affliction.
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How extraordinarily unsuited he is for his office.
If ole Dowd is done with him, he’s toast
No, Dowd. YOU projected onto him what YOU wanted him to be. Now live with the creature YOU created.
Maybe they will put him in solitary confinement in prison.
“savoring his lone-wolf existence”
Lone wolf? If I had to pick an animal to describe bathhouse Barry, it would be a polecat.
It really is remarkable isn't it...
Wow! What a suprise. I thought MoDo was writing the first chapter of her new autobiography.
Obama and Michael Douglas ought to get together,have a beer and commiserate over Dowd and her poison pen letters.
Smug even then! Who is he sitting with “Abu Jihad”?
Dún do bhéal, Máirín.
Just a little too cute. I always feel like I’m getting sucked into a spider web while reading her articles.
MoDo is getting off this horse - she’s coaxed this nag along way beyond what anyone thought possible - it’s way beyond lame. Time for a new ride.
Soon she’ll be riding alongside Pocahontas, AKA Elizabeth Warren... or will it be Warren Wilhelm, AKA Bill deBlasio?
Decisions, decision.
“The man whose singular qualification was as a uniter turns out to be singularly unequipped to operate in a polarized environment.”
Which he singlehandedly created.
Spring Break destination for a college student named Barack Hussein Obama:
Pakistan.
Who knows? I wish I could say what I feel, but sometimes I need to restrain myself.
No, no, say what you feel as long as you avoid a Class D felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871.
Many people are angry but of course we are not going out onto the streets destroying property, threatening law enforcement officers or looting, unlike other...ahem, folks out there.
How odd! Abu Jihad has 10 fingers on his right hand!
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to who wouldn't do
The role I was about to playBut as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch
Cut me into little piecesLeaving me to doubt
Talk about, God in His mercy
Oh, if he really does exist
Why did he desert meIn my hour of need?
I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturally
-PJ
Abu Jihad was actually a PLO leader, close to Arafart and he was “eliminated” in Tunis by Israeli Commandos, lef by the current Israeli Defense Minister Alon.
Good Lord, people. It's twenty-some posts in -- we gots rules.
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