What about the rest of you, Comrades!?!?
Posted on 10/27/2012 12:51:49 PM PDT by Arthurio
As we careen towards the finish line in this tumultuous electoral season, President Obama is asking voters to renew his contract as a father figure. And with his new, 11th-hour message that this election is all about “trust,” I think the father-thing is going to resonate. Without going all Carl Jung on you, presidential campaigns are often about archetypes. John McCain as warrior. Paul Ryan as super-hero. Joe Biden as the loyal friend.
In 2008, with the whole “hope and change” narrative – not to mention his youthful good looks and energy – Obama was situated somewhere between Jesus Christ and Rock Star in our collective unconscious. But now look at him. After four sobering years of economic crisis and an Arab Spring that just won’t quit, that increasingly-visible graying of the hair above his ears is symbolic. The President has aged, matured, and – like the rest of us parents – seems both wiser and wearier as a result.
It’s evident in the way that he speaks to us. As I’ve watch the presidential debates with my own kids, I’ve been struck by how parental he sounds. Particularly in the third and final debate, where the president could barely mask his disdain for Mitt Romney’s less-than-up-to-date grasp of our military, many pundits – including my colleague, Melinda Henneberger – saw his tone as patronizing, and wondered whether it wouldn’t alienate undecided women voters in particular.
Patronizing? Perhaps. But isn’t that what parents do? They tell us what’s good for us in an “eat your spinach” sort of way and get exasperated, at times, when we just don’t “get it.” And the most annoying part of that schtick, as we all know, is that they’re often right.
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My father didn’t have limp wrists!
The only article which comes even close to this one was a column from one of the Twin City papers about Walter Mon-dull’s “heroic” decision to pick up Wellstone’s mantle and seek his Senate seat. The columnist pictured Mon-dull seated in his bathrobe after a warm bath but valiantly answered the call out into the bitter cold of another campaign against the vicious GOP.
What about the rest of you, Comrades!?!?
So what’s a father figure doing advertising himself as good for a ‘first time’?
And mine was never schooled by a domestic terrorist.
Some Democrat bloggers exalted when Obama was elected that the "adults" were finally back in charge, but it doesn't appear to have worked out that way.
When it comes to politics people can read just about anything into just about everything. But if you find yourself looking at a politician and thinking "Daddy," you're better off keeping it to yourself.
MY father was not Malcolm the Tenth!
Ain’t no daddies in the Ghetto...
Mac Daddy.
Poppa had 42 years of service when he retired, I’m an army brat.
Somehow, I do not, did not and cannot imagine anyone so confused as to write that about Obama. The man she is describing is not Obama. The question is what would so cloud her perceptions that she may actually see Obama, as the fantasy that she describes?
William Flax
So many things come to mind....
-Sounds like she is describing a N. Korean despot.
-A father would do everything possible to prevent his children from being slaughtered.
-A father would never his daughter to star in a sleazy video to advance his cause.
Is this then “The Fatherland”?
Just substitute “the rich” for “the Jews” and the picture falls right into place.
Father figure?!!!
If he was my son I’d take down to the wood shed and whoop his a$$!
If I’m not too mistaken, the Obama-Stalin poster says,
“BELOVED STALIN - THE PEOPLES’ HAPPINESS!!”
(fwiw)
But it doesn't distill the Creepy Soviet style worship the Obots give him.
My father went to church and did not say he did not know what the preacher was saying after 20 years.
So, Delia, the Demoncrats are saying women should lose their virginity to their father. Isn’t that a bit icky?
I wouldn’t know a word of Russian except in 2003 I was deployed to Uzbekistan during OIF-1. The Uzbeks still spoke Russian after decades of Soviet rule & in working with them I found it much easier to learn some Russian rather than try to speak their Turkic language.
FWIW, the souvenir shop on base offered Stalin era posters along with Uzbek cultural items. The older Uzbeks told me horror stories about life under communism while the young people waxed nostalgic about Stalin & being part of the greater USSR. Strange.
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