‘Too drunk on his celebrity’
Mark Steyn on Obama's response to this week's crises:
So, on a highly symbolic date, mobs storm American diplomatic facilities and drag the corpse of a U.S. ambassador through the streets. Then the president flies to Vegas for a fundraiser.
No, no, a novelist would say; that's too pat, too neat in its symbolic contrast. Make it Cleveland, or Des Moines.
The president is surrounded by delirious fanbois and fangurls screaming "We love you," too drunk on his celebrity to understand this is the first photo-op in the aftermath of a national humiliation.
No, no, a filmmaker would say; too crass, too blunt. Make them sober, middle-aged Midwesterners, shocked at first, but then quiet and respectful.
The president is too lazy and cocksure to have learned any prepared remarks or mastered the appropriate tone, notwithstanding that a government that spends more money than any government in the history of the planet has ever spent can surely provide him with both a speechwriting team and a quiet corner on his private wide-bodied jet to consider what might be fitting for the occasion.
So instead he sloughs off the words, bloodless and unfelt: "And obviously our hearts are broken ..." Yeah, it's totally obvious.
And he's even more drunk on his celebrity than the fanbois, so in his slapdashery he winds up comparing the sacrifice of a diplomat lynched by a pack of savages with the enthusiasm of his own campaign bobbysoxers. [...]
Don't blame Obama. Blame those who still tolerate him.
Sobering. If we don't get our collective pushback ***sses in gear, my fear is the fanbois & fangurls might drag this wretched fraud back into office.
God help us.
"Yeah, it's totally obvious." Mark Steyn rules!
Assuming the polls are reasonably accurate, then no matter how the election turns out (including the Senate races), we have a VERY serious problem: roughly half of the electorate is either demented or corrupted, not to say degenerate, and that's way too high a proportion of bad apples. This is a MAJOR problem that has to be addressed, because it won't just go away and is likely to get worse, and sooner or later it WILL do major damage if something is not done to counteract it effectively. This is essentially why Cuba went down the toilet, the main difference being that Cubans never imagined they were in that kind of danger till it was too late and rats were coming out of every nook and cranny, sweeping all before them. God, I hope this country doesn't commit suicide like Cuba did.