CAPTION THIS.
Posted on 04/14/2011 9:09:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What is it about Barack Obama that caused his vice president Joe Biden to fall asleep during the president’s speech Tuesday?
Did Biden, getting on in years, just need his afternoon nap? Well, maybe, but the television cameras showed a woman quite near the veep nodding out as well.
No, I think it was a natural response. Biden and the woman were bored stiff. Barack Obama has become the most tedious president in my lifetime. He is like those college professors whose classes you did everything you could to avoid but, if you had to go, sat as far back as possible in order to get a little shut-eye yourself.
But what is it about Obama that makes him so boring? I submit it is something quite simple — he has nothing to say. He is a boring person, the quintessential “hollow man” in the T.S. Eliot sense. He is kind of a socialist, kind of a liberal, kind of a multi-culturalist, kind of an environmentalist, kind of globalist, kind of a budget cutter — but none of them with any real commitment. Basically, he’s a vague and uncommitted person pretending to be otherwise. He is the man that voted “present,” now in the presidency. The fact that he never specified the targets of “hope” and “change” during his election was far from a campaign ploy and more typical than we ever dreamed. There never was a there there. And now, I strongly suspect, there never will be.
We saw that writ large Tuesday in his dull budget speech – so devoid of detail and lacking in anything remotely original or surprising. Despite the titanic deficit crisis, it seemed almost phoned in. (No wonder Biden went to sleep.) But that has been the hallmark of Obama’s administration, disengagement and ennui. Even his signature legislation, the healthcare bill nobody read and nobody wants, reeks of alienation.
We have elected our own Joseph K., except he has nowhere near Kafka’s brilliance, nor the Czech’s dark humor.
Apparently, or so I have heard on the rumor mill, the troops inside the White House are well aware of this disengagement. They talk of how uncomfortable they feel listening to the president discuss sports for the first half-hour of a forty-five minute foreign policy meeting, seemingly unaware (or uncaring) of the urgent matters at hand. Perhaps this accounts for Rahm Emanuel’s quick exit from the administration. Surely, if he remained, bigger things awaited than even mayor of Chicago.
I have written earlier that Obama does not really want to be president. I think I overstated it. He “kind of” wants to be president. He will run for reelection because he doesn’t want to lose, not because he wants to continue what he is doing. (He isn’t doing much — and business as usual liberal deficit spending is not likely to make a comeback anytime soon.)
I listened to a conservative pundit on Hannity tonight opining that the 2012 election will be the most important in our country’s history, that if Obama were reelected we would be plunged into socialism.
I tend to doubt it. With a Republican House and, most likely, a Republican Senate we will be headed into four years of stultifying stagnation. Most likely of all, like Joe Biden, we will all go to sleep.
Or, as Eliot put it at the end of “The Hollow Men”:
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
UPDATE: As for the substance of the wretched Obama speech, the WSJ has it just right.
Boring? More like scary as hell. He wants to destroy our American way of life.
The 2 behind him were also nodding off.
It must have really been a boring speech. I didn’t watch it. I was taking my afternoon nap. lol
While I was listening to his speech (Awright, I had dialed in Rush!), I remember thinking how plodding his delivery was. It was as if he were a high school sophomore reading someone else’s paper.
Since when are his speeches not boring?. I wasn’t listening to him either. I muted my TV and after a while I changed the channel. I got tired of looking at his facade
This is definitely a ‘tossed-under-the-bus’ offense for Biden. Knowing how petty and vindictive Obama is, I would expect him to have Biden removed from the ticket in 2012. I wonder who the new VP candidate will be? Ted Strickland? Bill Nelson?
The there there is something he realizes is still unacceptable to an American public which at least mouths the words praising economic and political freedom. Obama's plans are more like when he takes over car companies, banks, and the entire medical system of the country. But calls for outright nationalization of everyone's jobs and savings would go over like a lead balloon, so he gives some milquetoast speech about promises having been made, a responsibility to care for each other and a demand that those who have more "give it back" to the government. Bleh!
I've got a train station named after me now. I can rest easy.
ROTFLMAO!
If you watch the black young woman in back of Biden she also nods off
Obama wasn’t talking about the colorful rabbits like his good friend George Soros.
“Tell me about the rabbits, George”
Stand up, Joe! Take a bow!
Oh, what am I talking about!
Just remember that Biden is Obama's impeachment insurance. If replaced, it would have to be an old white guy even far-left Democrats think is clueless.
How about McCain?
Four more years of this S—T!
Liars are always boring.
People on drugs are boring, too. Remember how boring Rush Limbaugh got there for a while? We found out later that was when he was addicted to pain killers. (He’s never regained his former verve, either, IMO.)
Obama appears to have some kind of (legal) drug addiction to me. I’ve seen him often with eyes at half-mast, speaking like many of my clients who take mood/mind altering, benzodiazepine-type medications, talking talking talking and boring boring boring. Obama fits right in with this bunch. Hum, I wonder if he’s being medicated for a bi-polar disorder?
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