Posted on 04/12/2010 9:31:04 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
When I first set eyes on Barack Obama I knew that the Republicans didn’t have a chance at winning the Presidency. Obama, a young, handsome, bi-racial idealist whispering the poetry of hope and change was unstoppable when placed next to the old, white, sameness of John McCain. Everything about the Obama candidacy seemed perfectly orchestrated. His presidency, while less popular, has been equally choreographed. There is an almost beauty pageant perfection to his image.
The beauty pageant world of President Obama continued this week with the signing of the Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia. NPR’s “Morning Edition” ran a story, one of four that day, titled “Arms Pact with Russia Advances Obama’s Pledge“. Hosts Rene Montagne and Steve Inskeep delivered the news with overwhelmingly positive coverage. They came across like classic Miss America Pageant emcees Burt Parks and Kathy Lee Gifford. In fact, the coverage of this monumental treaty to disarm the U.S. resembled the cliche interview questions for which pageant contestants are mercilessly made fun of. I imagine it like this:
Emcee: “Mr. Obama, if you become Mr. Universe, what will you choose as your platform?”
President Obama: “As Mr. Universe, I will champion the cause of World Peace by ridding the world of nuclear weapons and forming friendships with all nations of the world.”
Applause! Applause!
The following quote lays it on even thicker by bringing up Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize!
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For me, it was having read some history and so, when the posturing started, I had the older models to compare with and they all indicated that this was going to proceed poorly and end very badly.
I think that is a big part of it as well. Many people are very well versed in history. For me it was more of a ‘feeling’ of dread when I saw him. I didn’t watch the entire speech as I don’t generally watch the Dummies in action, but this was on and it stood out to me. Can’t explain it but believe it was spirtual/perception whatever you want to call it. It wasn’t until he was formally running that ‘history’ kicked in for me. And yes, once all that happened, I thought the same thing as you,”this is going to “end very badly”.
Re#14 True. As they say, and coupled with apathy, 50% of Americans are below average in intelligence.
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