by James Como (March 2015)
Consider the following: The president opines that the world is not messier now than under his predecessors but just seems messier because of the amplifying effect of social media; he regrets grinning it up on the links right after his press conference on the first horrific beheading because “I should have anticipated the optics,” not the indecency of his behavior; the Islamist rampage at Fort Hood was “workplace violence,” not a jihadist terrorist attack. Rarely downright inarticulate, his gaffes (“I don’t speak Austrian,” “I campaigned in all fifty-seven states,” “the Marine corpse”) bespeak a broad lack of cultivation. But more troubling – and clearly so – are his non-gaffes. more>>>
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3 Responses
And one more for your glittering collection and indictment: “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.”
I, I, I. http://www.klassika.ru/stihi/xodasevich/ya-ya-ya.html
I grew up in the East Bronx, but went to school at Iona up in New Rochelle. I can’t remember any instructor or professor for the life of me except the chap who taught rhetoric in my sophomore year. He also ran the drama department. In those days, rhetoric, like most other courses in the first two years, was a mandatory course. After reading Professor Como’s essay on Obama, I am reminded why that one course is so fondly remembered; indeed, my favorite.
More than a profile, this is an autopsy of a diseased megalomaniac seeking revenge for the nature of his own being.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice (and he did), shame and blame on me.