This reminds me of the incident on 9.11 with W in NYC: a little girl shows him the photograph of her father. They were about to post it on the missing person board as W was visiting. In a sudden act of “ME” inspiration, W takes the photo, scrawls his signature on it telling the girl that when they find her father she can tell him she met W. (They loved this so much they included in the W – hero of 9.11 movie)
So, now we have Jr. Jr in his Baba Wawa massage interview going through a similar moment
BARBARA WALTERS: You know, I don’t have to stress the fact that this is such a hard time for this country. Do you have a Thanksgiving message that you would like to give to the people?
“The people”? Wouldn’t “Americans” or perhaps “your fellow Americans” be customary? And “give,” instead of “send” or “share”? Maybe I’m being picky here, but have a look and tell me if it doesn’t almost come across as Walters inviting a monarch to bestow something on his huddled peons.
BARACK OBAMA: I want to remind people that, as tough as times are right now, and they’re a lot tougher for millions of people around the country than they are for Michelle and I that, we have been through tough times before, and the extraordinary blessings of being an American, of having a nation that has a tradition of communities pulling together. A country where somebody like myself, or somebody like Michelle, has a shot, no matter what the circumstances.
He is now free to indulge in the “I am the symbol” speech which he unveiled too early
“This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for. I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
I feel as if he is reading the stage directions from his character script, handed to him by the manufacturers. Like Poppy famously was doing in “message – I care”
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November 28, 2008 at 8:14 am
Hillary or Bust
I’m sorry, I can’t be excited that we broke the race barrier in the presidency when it happened through voter fraud and blatant misogyny.
November 28, 2008 at 8:41 am
edgeoforever
You have summed it up. Also, when is it Clarence Thomas National Day?
November 28, 2008 at 9:12 am
pumaalliance
his narcissism knows no bounds
November 28, 2008 at 9:45 am
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November 28, 2008 at 9:58 am
Grail Guardian
Thurgood Marshall Day would be a nice touch, if we want to honor real racial pioneers. Hell, we don’t even have a Frederick Douglass Day yet, and this arrogant ass wants it all to be about him.
My prediction is that history will equate him more to Edi Amin than JFK or Lincoln (as he fancies himself). But stay tuned – you ain’t seen nothing yet if this bozo is installed! (No offense intended myiq2xu!)
November 28, 2008 at 10:35 am
peter o'keefe
Coming soon: disappointment you can believe in.
November 28, 2008 at 10:50 am
Nell
And while we’re being picky, did he really say, “for Michelle and I” and “like myself”? Didn’t they teach him anything about proper grammar at Columbia and Harvard?
November 28, 2008 at 10:54 am
edgeoforever
Nell
I have the feeling that they’ll change grammar to adjust to HIS
November 28, 2008 at 11:23 am
johninca
Did he say “for Michelle and I?
A little bit of Latin and Greek, which kids used to study in this country, would cure that– just between you and I…
November 28, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Nell
“…just between you and I…” LOL! John, maybe it’s the five years of Latin study I had in my teens that causes me to liken that expression to fingernails across the blackboard.
Of course, we must find it in our hearts to forgive BO’s grammatical shortcomings. Any self-respecting narcissist needs more than one way to say “me, me, me” — you know, as in “me, myself and I.”
November 28, 2008 at 12:21 pm
alice
What a self-absorbed twit. He deserves mocking and contempt. The best part is: his gigantic ego hates the mocking. So, mock at will.
November 28, 2008 at 12:38 pm
johninca
Nell– ego etiam risi, inter te et me– vel, ut Dux Carus noster forsan diceret, inter te et ego…
November 28, 2008 at 12:47 pm
dixieinflorida
You just ruined the rest of my day Sage. TY very much 🙂
November 28, 2008 at 12:50 pm
johninca
Forgive me, that last comment meant that I got a laugh too, between you and me– or as our Dear Leader might say, between you and I.
Anyway, let’s keep this between you and I, between Barack and I, and between Michelle and I…
November 28, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Glennmcgahee
It really is amazing considering that all of Americans were racist bigots. How on Earth were they able to get their educations and mansion. Those 2 just slipped through our white racist fingers. If I had known they were “colored”, I would have stopped them in their tracks.
November 28, 2008 at 4:39 pm
foxyladi14
what about the dog??????
November 29, 2008 at 11:50 pm
bluelyon
I wonder how long he’s going to hang on to this “symbolic” language and how quickly the American people are going to go along. Sooner or later, he’s going to have to perform.
Symbolism won’t put food on the table, ya know?
November 29, 2008 at 11:51 pm
bluelyon
how quickly the American people are going to go along.
I meant to say: how quickly the American people are going to get tired of it.
November 30, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Mimi Schaeffer
Hey, is that my senator from Virginia, Jim Webb with Barky??
Just-a-wandering…
December 1, 2008 at 1:46 pm
ONE PARTY NATION!
“Perform” is a word that is NOT in the Obama dictionary.
Just ask Larry Sinclair!
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