Ace:
“I talked to a former Obama White House person, just before Christmas, when Obama was sort of adrift, figuring out what to do, his poll numbers were pretty low. And he said, ‘Look, the president needs to find an issue to campaign on. This is what he’s good at. He’s really good at campaigning. Maybe not governing,’ according to this Democrat,” Hamby said this morning on CNN.
You had me at “Maybe not governing.”
Video at the link.
Obama, like many of the overpromoted, underachieving members of his class, is a glittering mediocrity.
It might seem ridiculous to psychoanalyze the President based upon his television viewing, but then again, the New York Times did exactly that, divining, in each of Obama’s predictable choices, a Heroic Narrative of a searching intellect.
Well, Matthew Continetti is willing to play the game too. And his takeaway is that Obama has a mind notable primarily for how mundane it is.
In “Obama’s TV Picks — Anything Edgy, With Hints of Reality,” Shear reports that the president, whose “life in the Oval Office” is marked by “war, terrorism, economic struggle,” and “mass shootings,” has a taste, “in his few quiet moments,” not for situation comedy but for drama. He indulges this taste by watching copious amounts of television.…
Shear clearly had a thesis in mind when he sat down to write. His article is an argument in search of evidence. He seems to think Obama’s taste in television reveals a tragic sense of life, a Niebuhrian realism that informs the administration’s domestic and international agenda. Shows that undermine this idea, such as sports and comedies, are downplayed. Dramas with antiheroes, violence, conspiracies, and sex are emphasized.
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One’s favorite movies, television shows, books, and music may not provide deep insights into one’s psychology or politics or point of view, but they do specify the consumer profile under which one falls…. [Obama’s television viewing choices] are utterly typical of the American educated class.
Obama’s favorite shows are as pedestrian and predictable as you can imagine. Progressive favorite Parks & Recreation, Mad Men, The Wire,Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, Homeland, Game of Thrones. It’s the exact same list that every member of the New Class would proudly declared to “love” (after first prefacing the statement with “I never watch television, but…”).
Maybe?
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” – Henry Ford
Who has loose lips AND has left the White House?
Former White House National Security Advisor Tom Donilon.
Hmmmm…..
Any one else?
Damn! My whole life, whenever they were describing Ted Kaczynski or another lunatic it sounded like they were reading my bio. Now that I am supposed to be aged into some state of grace, it sounds like the worst president EVER has stolen my life’s game plan!
Have you noticed that it looks like MOST of the
victimsstaff that get another job sing loudly about the dysfunction among the staff. Do you suppose jug head gives any direction at all?A marionette isn’t any good at anything. Blame the puppeteers.