The Presidency is Too Much for Anyone? Or Just The One?

The Looking Spoon ^ | 11-22-10 | Jared H. McAndersen

[The Looking Spoon]

    

Newsweek's depiction of President Obama on its latest cover has irked some Indian Americans who, fresh off Obama's visit to the world's largest democracy, are not happy with the image of the U.S. president as the Hindu deity, Lord Shiva.  

  

The Newsweek cover shows Obama with several arms carrying policy issues while balancing on one leg. The headline reads: "God of All Things" with a subtitle, "Why the Modern Presidency May be too Much for One Person to Handle."       

Shiva, who is one of three pre-eminent gods in the Hindu religion along with Brahma and Vishnu, is considered the destroyer of the world, which must end, metaphorically speaking, in order to be   reborn as a more universalistic place. However, the god's purpose is not to foretell an apocalyptic ending.   

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I didn't read the article, and I'm not going to. The premise is ridiculous and totally unfair to every president who came before BOZ the clown. 

Why didn't Newsweek think the presidency was too much to handle for Bush? All of a sudden we make excuses for presidents who don't wet our whistle? Is this latest depiction of Obama as a deity meant to be a downgrade or pivot from the left's messianic delusions of grandeur?

Google Newsweak...um..."Newsweek cover Obama" and you would think he was the god of that magazine. PSST! maybe they're trying to save face.

Here's a little Newsflash for NewsWEAK (now that we don't have to answer to Google for the rest of this post)....are you ready?.....brace yourselves, because I don't want to cause any aneurysms over there.....every presidency is too much for one person to handle! 

That's why they get to have entire administrations, with a Vice President, and a cabinet, and a chief-of-staff with advisors, and cool logos, and undersecretaries, and deputies, and they ALL have to work together because those 3,000 person $200,000,000.00/day trips to India aren't going to coordinate themselves!

I've got a great investigative story to pitch to them for their next issue. Its perfect for their style of hard-hitting journalism. It goes something like this:

Why a burning fireplace may no longer be the best place to store gasoline.

I REALLY want to know who brokered the deal to sell that rag for A DOLLAR. Seriously, because I've got some ice to sell to eskimos, and anyone who can sell something at a price that is 100% of what its actually worth is someone I want working for me.

If it really is true that Obama inspires the revelation that "the modern presidency may be too much for one person to handle" then we must all be ghosts, because I was totally unaware that he was the last person on earth. 

[Irenic]

Why didn’t Newsweek think the presidency was too much to handle for Bush?
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I’ve wondered the same.

[Roscoe Karns]

[SERKIT]

If Barry is bored with the Presidency, if he is too cool for the Presidency, and his intellect far exceeds the requirements of the Presidency, let’s find him a new job....and fast! Now there’s a jobs program we can believe in!

[t-dude]

It was too much for Jimmy Carter too.

I swear they had the same op-eds saying the job had just grown ‘too big’ for one man.

Of course Reagan came along and made it look easy, restoring the economy and ending the cold war, all while taking regular naps...

[Da Coyote]

You betcha Sarah could handle it. She has actually earned a living doing real jobs.

[Pan_Yan]

[ryan71]

Oh, I get it. Since Obumbling idiot sucks at being president, suddenly, clearly, the job is bigger than ANY man can handle. They are so pathetic.

[TexasFreeper2009]

the local dog catcher job would be “too much” for the zero.

[Bullish]

I do know one thing for sure: Honest journalism is WAAAY TOO MUCH for Newsweak to handle.

[angryoldfatman]

Oh yeah, it seems like they’re rehashing everything from the Carter years, including swine flu. I fully expect 0bammy to show up on TV (or the interwebs) wearing a cardigan, talking about turning down our thermostats and then segue into the malaise of the country.

[TexasFreeper2009]

The left just can't bring themselves to admit that they were duped and Obama is an idiot.

The believed he really earned those degrees. It just never occurred to them that a liberal ivy league school just gave him a degree to meet a quota.

[Dr. Sivana]

Well, of course the presidency will be too much for anyone who thinks the government’s job is to “fix” everything.

[RINOS ARE RADICALS]

Funny I was watching Sarah’s interview on Hannity and just lost Fox News
hmmmm..

[RINOS ARE RADICALS]

Funny I was watching Sarah’s interview on Hannity and just lost Fox News
hmmmm..

[ScoopAmma]

To me it is proof positive that affirmative action does not work.

[EternalVigilance]

Actually, the presidency IS too much for any one man...without a complete dependence on God.

Which explains, of course, why this alleged president can’t handle it.

[hosepipe]

Reduce the federal government by 75% and it will get a lot easier for everyone..

[carcraft]

Dec 17, 2004 ... As Robert Oppenheimer exclaimed in dismay upon viewing the awfulness of that first primitive nuclear explosion, “Now we have become Shiva, ... Maybe news week is onto something-Obama the “god” of destruction?

[carcraft]

... As Robert Oppenheimer exclaimed in dismay upon viewing the awfulness of that first primitive nuclear explosion, “Now we have become Shiva, ... Maybe news week is onto something-Obama the “god” of destruction?