Obama on the Couch

NRO ^ | 4 Jan 2014 | Matthew Continetti

[Rummyfan]

Imagine my surprise this week when my daily paper suddenly turned into a copy of US Weekly. With a turn of the page the New York Times became the sort of celebrity magazine that dispenses trivia in order to prove that a rich, famous, and powerful person is, at heart, just like us. The luminary was Barack Obama, whose taste in television was mined by correspondent Michael D. Shear for insights into the presidential character. Shear failed to provide any, but his article was riveting nonetheless. What at first glance might be dismissed as a piece of journalistic fluff, a beat-sweetener written for the slow news days between Christmas and New Year’s, is on close examination an exercise in social positioning, an assertion of class allegiance on the part of the president and the paper.

[Rummyfan]

“It may be ‘Homeland’ that offers the most interesting insight into Obama’s downtime preferences,” Shear says. Homeland is a Showtime series about an insane CIA agent pursuing an Islamic sleeper cell. The show is just as violent and ridiculous as 24, but lacks the “let’s roll” ethos that imbued the background of the earlier series. For Shear, however, this increasingly absurd program stands for much more. “‘Homeland,’” he writes in a wonderful example of cliché, “reveals the hidden dangers in a complicated world.” It is also “subtle, presenting choices that are rarely easy and never cost-free.” Complicated, subtle, rarely easy, never cost-free — do these adjectives call to mind the reputation of a certain head of state? “It is not unlike the phrase Obama often uses with his advisers: ‘Hard things are hard.’” And dumb things are dumb.

[BenLurkin]

[Paladin2]

Dang, I thought this was about Bammy making music on the shell (Conch).

[BenLurkin]

I can’t imagine how anyone at the NYT would seriously believe this TV viewing habits “revelation.”

[Graewoulf]

Is Barry’s above pictured toy-boy still alive?

[showme_the_Glory]

Is Barry’s above pictured toy-boy still alive?

missing

[Little Bill]

Come Faeries
Come Buggers
Come Eunuchs exotic
Come, Running, Come Running you anal erotic.

With soft little hands and flexible Bums
Come Oh Castrati unnatural ones!

Petronius, Satiricon

WHD Rouse Translation.

[Graewoulf]

Is this the same toy-boy that gave Barry S. the Wedding Ring that he still wears?

If so, then Barry has something tangible and unsealed to remember his former toy-boy - - - .

Such a sad, sad story.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Heck I thought it was about the state of Bammy’s marriage. :)

[SparkyBass]

[Paladin2]

Well, THAT certainly covers the next couple of weeks.

[nascarnation]

At least in 2012 he was:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/choice-2012/the-frontline-interview-sohale-siddiqi/

[Georgia Girl 2]

I think they left out Duck Dynasty which he also watches.

[Senator_Blutarski]

One reads “Obama’s TV Picks” not for the information it contains or for the conclusions it draws, but for the opportunity to be reassured that, no matter how incompetent he may seem, no matter how far his approval ratings may fall, Barack Obama is, in the end, just like us.

Excuse me me, but Obama is not just like me. I have spent my entire life trying to be the exact opposite of Barack Obama, and I have largely succeeded. And for the record, I have never seen any of the TV shows he watches.

[ETL]

Or Marxist revolution...

Obama Espoused Radical Views in College
Steve Malzberg - WOR News Talk Radio 710 ^ | February 12, 2010 | Ronald Kessler

Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.

During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.

“Barack [Obama] and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together,” Drew says. “We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics.”

For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.

“He [Obama] was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.

“The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others,” Drew says. “That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren’t paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”

Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as “part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society.” ..."

Referring to Obama’s quote from “Dreams of My Father” that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, “What he’s not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors. When you understand that, Obama’s later associations and policies make more sense, including why he was taken in by Rev. Wright’s ideology.”

[JoeProBono]

[ETL]

“Wear pajamas with a rear-end flap door
Drink the Kool Aid
Talk about Marxist Obammicare”

[ilovesarah2012]

That is not normal.

[Wayne07]