I’ve been enjoying this all day. Here is Peggy Noonan’s lyrical description of Obama at his post-election press conference, at which he did not exude humility and compromise:
His detachment is so great, it is even from himself. As he spoke, he seemed to be narrating from a remove. It was like hearing the audiobook of Volume I of his presidential memoirs. “Obama was frustrated. He honestly didn’t understand what the country was doing. It was as if they had compulsive hand-washing disorder. In ’08 they washed off Bush. Now they’re washing off Obama. There he is, swirling down the drain! It’s all too dramatic, too polar. The morning after the election it occurred to him: maybe he should take strong action. Maybe he should fire America! They did well in 2008, but since then they’ve been slipping. They weren’t giving him the followership he needed. But that wouldn’t work, they’d only complain. He had to keep his cool. His aides kept telling him, ‘Show humility.’ But they never told him what humility looked like. What was he supposed to do, burst into tears and say hit me? Not knowing how to feel humility or therefore show humility he decided to announce humility: He found the election ‘humbling,’ he said.”
Full column here, and it’s worth your time. Enjoy.
Barack Obama is incapable of a Clintonian pivot, folks. He’s going to take the plane all the way into the ocean, and that sumbitch is gonna be going 650 miles an hour when it hits.
Enjoy your weekend.
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Read that earlier today. She completely nailed it.
I watched the whole presser (didn’t have much choice – I had to do something while the slackers at the local Sears took SEVEN hours to fix my car). The one thing I was kind of pleasantly surprised at was the relatively tough questions the press threw at Obama. There was a time or two I thought he was gonne be pissed at their temerity.
Ms. Noonan… it’s a pleasure to have her out there.
This was such a great OpEd. I thoroughly enjoyed it!