Good grief! Has there ever been such a catalog of folly, fraud, and feeblemindedness as David Solway has compiled here? The Obama presidency has been one long series of foolish acts, dishonest pronouncements, and stupid policies, and the series shows no signs of coming to an end. I would add only one item to Mr. Solway’s already excruciatingly painful list of imbecilities: the president’s never-ending hectoring of the American people.
Has any previous American president so incessantly chastised the American people for their alleged trespasses? Apparently, Barack Obama (the much-acclaimed “constitutional scholar”) has found, somewhere in the Constitution, a clause requiring the president to provide the people with daily doses of exhortation, remonstrance,and harangue. A perfect example was on display last week when he engaged in a speechifying duel with Dick Cheney. Obama began his oration with a characteristic pose: thrusting his chin heavenward (ala Mussolini, suffusing his face with contempt for the ignorant rubes he was about to address, and then unburdening himself of the dullest and dreariest sermon since the invention of homiletics. The tone throughout was blustering, browbeating, and bullying. The man plainly defines the “bully” in “bully pulpit” far differently than Teddy Roosevelt defined it.
Hearty thanks to David Solway for a sterling piece of writing.
