Sunday, July 12, 2009
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B-Team Blogger Scoops Drudge ?
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Posted by:
Jude at
12:27 PM
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Not really, because I found it at Huffington Post, where it had pride of place for hopeful haters yesterday, but in this age of Obaman self-reference I feel compelled to point out that Drudge's headline right now links to the same story posted here yesterday, namely Eric Holder's getting ready to go after Bush officials, in Newsweek.
Because it's all about me, right? Me is what's happening again...except this time the only 'me' that matters is him, our President. If the 70's were the Me Decade, then maybe this is the Him Decade. Or the He Decade, whichever you like. I'm partial to the 'Him Term', as in single.
Think I'm just being petty? Listen, I used to see my face on the sides of (small) buildings and sing to crowds of girls holding up pictures of me on cd's. I've devoted countless hours to the sound of my own voice and enough time in front of a camera to be embarrassed, so I know a little about narcissism. As I liked to say during the campaign for comic effect, it takes one to know one, and this guy is In.To.Him.Self.
Considering the content of his speeches, I'm beginning to think Obama must have a hard time saying grace without referencing himself.
It's funny, but it's also dangerous.
Victor Davis Hanson's latest column, "Growing Worries About Our Pied Piper, is a good compliment to Duane's post below. Duane asks why the heck we should follow this guy just because he waves his hand and keeps telling us he's doing great. Hanson writes that Obama's Force may not work much longer in the real world.
"Americans are waking up to the fact that their president says, promises, and does things that simply do not make sense, (are) at odds with what they know of human physics — with the predictable nature of the way humans have conducted themselves for centuries: Borrowing is debt, not “stimulus”; serial apologies soon sound insincere or become counterproductive; blaming someone else becomes tiresome; scapegoating leads nowhere; taking responsibility for failure is as necessary as being praised for success; people can be fooled only so many times by sonorous, ego-laced rhetoric.
"Because Obama is a revolutionary who seeks to overturn 50 years of doing business in America both at home and abroad, his shortcomings have the potential not only to diminish his own stature through unmet impossible expectations, but to take all those who signed on to his megalomania down with him."
Read the whole thing. It'll give you that same feeling liberals get when they read the NYT on Sunday afternoon.
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