A Star Falls Over Chicago

Sultan Knish ^ | October 24, 2012 | Daniel Greenfield

[tomkat]

The country doesn't hate him, but it is tired of him.

Mmm... I'd say a pretty large swath does, indeed, hate him, and with good reason.

Very true, and my only exception taken with this offering, another in an OUTSTANDING string of grand slams from one of THE most gifted essayists of our time !

Thank again, ex   :-)

And so he is over because the alternative to him being over is the tastemakers having to confront their own overness. Their own mortality. . .

[JewishRighter]

“But Obama is determined to be a hipster to the very end, instead of embracing the shamelessness of his own media manipulations, he veers erratically between an insincere sincerity and the sneer of the spitefully superior. It’s the performance we saw in the third debate, the antics of every college kid you ever argued with, that combination of smugness and insecurity that marks the hipster as an impossible conversationalist.”

Wow. Just wow. Greenfield is brilliant.

[Let's Roll]

Add me to the list too - thanks !

[GOPJ]

The Sultan is spot on, as always.

You're right Kitten...

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

He became that one man at a party that you don't want to talk to because he will go on forever and all his chatter leads nowhere, because for all his conversational skills, he is capable of nothing but talk. And after talking to him for ten hours, you don't know him any better than you did after ten minutes.

Sounds like 98% of the college professors that's I've ever dealt with.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Obama does not know how to govern. He does not know how to address the economy or war. The one thing he knows how to do is be popular. That is the one and only skill that he has cultivated in his life.

So he's Paris Hilton. And just like her, he's the biggest waste of carbon since the soft-lead pencil.

[luvie]

Awesome and thoughtful post! And sooooo true on many levels!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yep, O’s legacy is dying a slow death just like Oprah’s OWN network. Oprah should be somewhere nice, retired with her billion dollars. But instead she’s going to blow it all to prop up a failing TV network that will never go anywhere. Like 0bama, she went to the well too many times and people just want her to go away already.

[Tony in Hawaii]

Ah, The Hunt for Red Ohio!

[arasina]

Perhaps the author of this endless creed should not be so critical of the other long-winded blowhard.

Using half the words would have made this a great article.

1) Your screen name definitely fits.

2) It's screed, dearie.

3) Would you like some cheese with your whine?

[COUNTrecount]

Thank you!

How can we set this article to music so that we can sing it on November 6 ?

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article] Like so much hipster culture, it exists so that the participants can entertain each other with something that no one else thinks is funny or clever. And that elitism is precisely the point. It's the last resort of losers who hide from their lack of taste behind walls of exclusivity.

Oh ... My ... God! TOTALLY .... LAID .... WASTE !!!

And he didn't even call them "Chicago Boyz".

[AndrewB]

You think that you're too cool for school, but I have a newsflash for you Walter Cronkite... you aren't.

[rockinqsranch]

Very good.

[KittenClaws]

It’s amazing how his essays stimulate the mind and touch heart at the same time.

I am forever grateful to expat1000 for introducing Mr. Greenfields work to me.

[lentulusgracchus]

At last we will be having REAL ADULTS who will come into the White House in order to clean it out.

Expect Romney to govern in much the way Gerry Ford did, only more of a Mr. Manager type. I'm afraid of what he will do to social issues -- if he has a GOProud dinner on Inaugural Night, for instance.

He will need, if he's going to go into Barky's stuff, three or four special prosecutors and maybe a committee of the Congress (to jail on "contempt of Congress" anyone who refuses to testify to matters under their knowledge).

He'll need another for Fast & Furious.

He'll need yet another for Barky's sub-rosa dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Umma, including Benghazi and the questions about Obama's citizenship (I'm still halfway convinced he may be an Indonesian, not American, citizen, and that at a minimum, he kept his Indonesian passport beyond the surrender date, making an "election" of citizenship in favor of Indonesia, back when he was in his 20's -- which would mean he's no longer NBC, even if arguendo he was when he was born).

Tom Daschle, Nancy Pelosi, Axelcheat, and others will also be in the sight picture. This has the capacity to be a really big constitutional SNAFU, requiring rescission of dozens of Obama executive orders, and possibly Obamacare.

Against all of that, some GOP advisors will be telling Romney to move on, no scandals, no investigations -- just let us get in there use the honeymoon period to start shoveling out the money!!! [Pigs at the Trough IV.]

[bd476]

Thank you for posting this savory piece.
It was well written and hit all the important notes.

Please add me to your Ping list. Thanks.

[arrogantsob]

Thanks for the correction, I am humbled by your sharp eye.

I loves me some cheese.

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[thecodont]

expat1000:

Thank you for this link. What a cathartic thing to read./p>

lentulusgracchus:

... and the questions about Obama's citizenship (I'm still halfway convinced he may be an Indonesian, not American, citizen, and that at a minimum, he kept his Indonesian passport beyond the surrender date, making an "election" of citizenship in favor of Indonesia, back when he was in his 20's -- which would mean he's no longer NBC, even if arguendo he was when he was born).

I'm still wondering how he got to be IL state Senator and U.S. Senator when both offices require American citizenship. If he wasn't a U.S. citizen of ANY sort (I have my doubts) what sort of skids (or palms) were greased to make his entry into those offices possible?