I could not help thinking as I watched President Obama during the Newtown tragedy that he is not real. The touching of the eyes, the perfect cadence and pauses, the reflective moments … this guy is our best actor since Reagan. I suppose that is what is expected of basically a ribbon-cutting office, but our media does fawn over him.
Which of course makes me wonder about the office in general. What is he – our daddy? Why do we even care about his thoughts on anything outside of presidential actions? And even there our toady press follows his every word, deed and action. Real power lay elsewhere, and the job of the media is to deflect our attention from the actions of really powerful people. So he’s a nice magnet for that purpose.
But watching him during the tragedy gave me the creeps. This guy is too good, too smooth to be real.
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Bill Moyers had a nice “revolving door” piece last night on PBS with Obama, Baucus and Liz Fowler prominently featured. Can’t make the link work, sorry.
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It appears to me that Fowler is only perceptually in anyone’s employment in government.
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Same could be said of many Senators, especially Montana’s two gems.
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It is very interesting at Int Discontent that they are genuinely naive about the role of money in politics in their own party.
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Not their concern. Birds of a feather…… Or, love is blind?
It’s got nothing to do with what one normally associates with politics. No philosophy, no ethics, no moral compass, none of that matters anymore. It’s been deny, delay and counter attack since Clinton.
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