Posted on 07/18/2014 3:18:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The White House likes to use a phrase of tingling adventure to describe the president's recent penchant for wandering the country talking to people: "The bear is loose."
There are three problems with this unbearable metaphor: Barack Obama is not in captivity, he's not a bear and he's not loose. As Voltaire said of the Holy Roman Empire, it was "neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."
When our whippetlike president travels on Air Force One from staged photo-op to staged photo-op and then to coinciding fundraiser to coinciding fundraiser, encased by the White House travel behemoth and press centipede, that's kind of the opposite of breaking loose.
Yet, even as the world is roiling, the president's desk is clean.
The president's odysseys are meant to illustrate that he's still relevant. But do they actually underscore irrelevance by conveying his view that if Republicans in Congress are going to keep blocking him, he may as well go fishin'?
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
I’ve been around here long enough to know the rules regarding MD posts. I was commenting on CZJ in general and that particular dress. No need to disabuse my eyes with a pic of MD.
That was just plane mean, and so very wrong, according to the long standing FR MD posting rules.
Apologize at once!
Nah, just photo bomb his threads with pictures of Helen Thomas. ;)
Tempting, but I might die from an HT overdose, and Lord knows we’ve had too many threads here with an over abundance of HT pics.
I think I’ve surpassed my lifetime quota.
“Bear” is a homosexual reference. Look it up.
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