are all disappointed in the President. The Curmudgeon knits together some of the skeins we’ve been spinning here:
Her swooning came at a heavy price. Once upon a time her skillful wordsmithing was broadly shared in the conservative dextrosphere. Now, not so much.
It is clear that her euphoria is dying. What took her so long to recognize Obama’s gospel of envy and presidential impotence? As she emerges from her elitist white guilt trip, Noonan succinctly describes the errand boy sent by grocery clerks:
“So he is losing a battle in which he had superior forces—the presidency, the U.S. Senate. In the process he revealed that his foes have given him too much mystique. He is not a devil, an alien, a socialist. He is a loser. And this is America, where nobody loves a loser.”*
So, get over there and read the rest.
* Except for Cubs fans.
- Excited
- Angry
- Not as Angry
- Bored
- Indifferent
- Sad
You put a footnote in there without an internal reference point for it, didn’t you? And I’ll bet you did it on purpose, JUST TO HURT ME!
There should be an asterix after “loser.”
I hope you put that in there. If I missed it I shall be very upset with myself . . .
Yeah, I’m done with Noonan anyway after her Obama-fan-girl performance in 2008. She and David Brooks were far too enamoured of his apparent Brilliance!, Judgement!, and Superior Temprement! for my taste. I’ll give Belafonte a pass; he’s just another civilian. But Noonan, Brooks, and especially Sanders should have clearly seen the disconnect between his rhetoric and alleged “plans”.
My Guess? They were swept away in the historical-ness as well as the pass it would give them for a lifetime of white guilt.
Oh, wicked use of the clown train. Well-played, sir!
Thanks, Joan.
It was so nice of . . . someone . . to find a better version of the train, re-crop it, color-correct it, and make sure it appeared in the actual post, where people could see what it was . . .
Yes, it was! Thanks, Someone!