An Air Force One fly-over viewing the devastation. The lack of a serious response. A shameless defense of his inept subordinate.
Sounds like the lowest point of President Bush’s tenure, when Hurricane Katrina left the Gulf and New Orleans in shambles. But it also describes President Obama’s lack of response to the true core of this economic crisis which has left the entire globe in fiscal agony, that being a solution for the banks and their bad assets.
Instead of flying to New York to do the hard work necessary to make headway on the global credit and financial meltdown, the President does a 180, flying to beautiful Downtown Burbank on the Left Coast to crack jokes with Jay Leno. While he’s there comparing his bowling talents to athletes in the Special Olympics, he does a “you’re doing a great job, Brownie” about his Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
I know that I’m supposed to have a tingle down my leg just thinking about the President, and any negative comments about Mr. Obama puts me in the dog house with many of my friends and family, but I fear that he is being influenced by the most cynical of political operatives and party hacks. The troika of Emmanuel, Reid, and Pelosi are taking advantage of an American public in real pain to enact the most liberal tax and spend fantasies conjured up over the last forty years.
I don’t want to make too much of it, but to me the Leno appearance indicates a lack of maturity and seriousness; like the rock star persona has gone to his head. What was he trying to accomplish with his performance on the Tonight Show other than yuking it up with Jay? Support for the stimulus package which was rammed through Congress in 18 hours and is now law? Firing up the faithful in their class envy of tone-deaf Wall Street bankers?
It might be that it’s just more fun. Perhaps the President is finding that governing takes more than filling stadia with quivering fans. It means diving into the details and compromise and conviction. And painful in its own right. Mr. President, time to get serious.
March 21st, 2009 at 1:45 am
He has hurt many families in America. He needs to say he is sorry in the public, not to an organization.
In addition, someone who claims to have experienced prejudice and stereotypes throughout life, and has written about them in great detail, should be more sensitive and refined from life’s lessons.
Furthermore, Obama claimed he was going to have the world think ‘highly’ of America again. Will this joke help?
For someone who spoke of equality as a creed. Does this joke match that philosophy?
For someone that said he would stand for all people. Does this stand up for those that participate in the Special Olympics?
The fact is Obama claimed a higher standard. To much is given, much is required.
Obama has just showed us that ‘yes we can’ destroy what a campaign stands for with a single joke.
During the campaign for the White House in 2008, the media criticized Palin for being ‘common,’ ‘not-polished,’ ‘not-compassionate’ and ‘not presidential.’ However, compare Sarah Palins attitude in this video created three weeks ago for the Special Olympics in Boise, Idaho.
You decide the more ‘presidential’ among them. Watch: http://tinyurl.com/ccz6nj
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:12 pm
There is only so much of this that we as a country are going to take. Already, with the Obama administration barely in its second month, has an incredible amount of backlash associated with it. Look at the tea parties springing up all over the country. There is a boiling anger within the silent majority, and I pray to God that we will wake up in 2010 and ESPECIALLY 2012 when we have a chance to take back our country.
If Bush had gone on Jay Leno the week after Hurricane Katrina, or the week after 9/11, can you even imagine the crap that he would have gotten from the media?
So the Democrats choose to criticize Bush for sitting in a classroom listening to children read a book to him on the morning of 9/11, but Obama goes on prime time TV during an unprecedented national crisis to crack jokes?
What the HECK is happening?
He is not my president. And honestly, right now, this is not my America. The radicals have taken over, just like we were warned.
The silver lining is that *hopefully* the silent majority will have the guts to change it back.