The Case of the Unpalatable President
August 29th, 2010 - 9:00 am
The WSJ has an otherwise solid Peggy Noonan column on the “mystery” of President Obama, but a sharp editor would have nixed this line:
Actually, what is confounding is that he seems more a mystery to people now than he did when they elected him president.
Um… Peggy? Why so confounded? Candidate Obama presented himself as a post-partisan, post-racial centrist, and the Mainstream Media never challenged him on it. President Obama has been a vicious, race-mongering lefty — so much so that not even the MSM can cover for him.
This is no mystery. The American public was sold a bill of goods — and with your help, Ms. Noonan.
That link is less than useful, since it requires me to subscribe to the WSJ in order to read Ms. Noonan’s article.
These four words just stuck out like an ‘unexpected’ object in a punchbowl:
“solid Peggy Noonan column”
Or am I over-reading you?
Since about March, 2008, I’ve had to grade Peggy on a curve.
A generous curve.
Liberals everywhere are asking, What makes Obama tick? But they’ll never find out — they keep trying to analyze him in terms of ideology instead of character. Fuh. When I was an English major, this was considered asking “how many children Lady Macbeth had.”
Evidence that Mr. Obama presented himself as a centrist in 2008 might be kind of thin. There were promises to balance the federal budget, and to cut taxes for 95% of Americans, but nobody believed any of that, even at the time. Sad to say, Obama presented himself as a post-partisan, post-racial liberal, and got elected even so, due to GWB fatigue, millions of new black voters (and who can really blame them?), and Jon Stewart’s army of semi-literate 20-something cynisnobs (we can all blame them).
Obama presented himself as whatever the group in front of him at any given moment wanted him to present himself as. Only the wing nuts noticed, the media dutifully ignored it.
The main stream media has had the same intellectual curiosity about Barack Obama as Arthur Anderson had about Enron.