A Tough Character?
2010-11-15 - by
The other morning when I turned on the television one of the networks was swooning over Mrs. Obama and praising her to high heavens, comparing her to Jackie Kennedy, showing her wearing a Shari and boogie-luing with a group of Indian children.
Then ole Obama himself got up and started dancing too and I’ll be darned if I can figure out what the President is thinking: We just survived an election that was a pure cry of pain and as soon as it’s over the next time we see the President he’s on the other side of the world in India, holding a press conference and looking like he’d eaten a sour persimmon and hadn’t gotten over a case of indigestion.
‘When I go home,’ he told the Indians plaintively, ‘I want to tell folks India is helping us create 50,000 jobs.’
Later, at another press conference he announced India is going to buy ten transport planes from the U.S. and mumbled over and over, ‘That’s going to create twenty thousand jobs. Twenty thousand American jobs. Twenty two thousand new jobs.’ He looked like a deer caught in head lights.
After Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton and John McCain I thought for all his smoothness and suaveness beneath the surface he was one pretty tough character. But, now, after taking one electoral body blow he’s turned it into an automaton mumbling over and over, I’ve created twenty two thousand jobs.
Maybe the President’s fighting spirit is going to kick in once he gets home but over in India he looked more like a wobbly-legged boxer than Rocky bent on making a comeback.
Posted in General, National Democrats
A Tough Character?
2010-11-15/
The other morning when I turned on the television one of the networks was swooning over Mrs. Obama and praising her to high heavens, comparing her to Jackie Kennedy, showing her wearing a Shari and boogie-luing with a group of Indian children.
Then ole Obama himself got up and started dancing too and I’ll be darned if I can figure out what the President is thinking: We just survived an election that was a pure cry of pain and as soon as it’s over the next time we see the President he’s on the other side of the world in India, holding a press conference and looking like he’d eaten a sour persimmon and hadn’t gotten over a case of indigestion.
‘When I go home,’ he told the Indians plaintively, ‘I want to tell folks India is helping us create 50,000 jobs.’
Later, at another press conference he announced India is going to buy ten transport planes from the U.S. and mumbled over and over, ‘That’s going to create twenty thousand jobs. Twenty thousand American jobs. Twenty two thousand new jobs.’ He looked like a deer caught in head lights.
After Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton and John McCain I thought for all his smoothness and suaveness beneath the surface he was one pretty tough character. But, now, after taking one electoral body blow he’s turned it into an automaton mumbling over and over, I’ve created twenty two thousand jobs.
Maybe the President’s fighting spirit is going to kick in once he gets home but over in India he looked more like a wobbly-legged boxer than Rocky bent on making a comeback.
Posted in General, National Democrats