Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Monday, November 02, 2009 10:43:11 PM
Richard Cohen, the predictable liberal columnist at the Washington Post, in a column a week or two ago reviewing a hagiomentary produced by HBO on Baby Barry's successful presidential campaign, gave us perfect examples of two recurring liberal themes, although I will give him some credit for criticizing the producers of this film for not even trying to show any flaws in their films hero, President BO himself. However,...
In the second-from-last paragraph, Cohen writes "If Obama ends the deepest recession since the Great Depression..." Am I the only person alive who remembers Jimmy Carter and the invention of the "Misery Index"? That is a measure we had little use for before, for no president before Carter had manage to blow up unemployment, inflation, and the prime rate simultaneously. In theory, it should be all but impossible, but Jimmy was no ordinary president. Of course, conservatives and honest moderates remember the late 1970s and the economic ruin President Ronald Reagan inherited in 1981, but for liberal journalists and in fact liberals in general, they are edited out. Gone. Never happened. They have to do this, you see, because the Democrats held the presidency and both houses of congress by large margins, so if something happened to the economy then, it was there fault. So, let's just forget those years, okay?
The second example of liberal-think occurs in the last paragraph, where Cohen writes of BO/BB, "But if he fails in all or most of that, it will be because it is not enough to be the smartest person in the room." Will liberal journalists ever stop trying to tell us that every liberal leader is a genius? They told us Bill Clinton was a genius at Oxford, reading a book a day during his time there. (Oddly, he never checked out a single book from the Oxford library. He also didn't graduate.) They told us that Al Gore was "the Senator who can write" when "Earth in the Balance" came out over his name. (P.J. O'Rourke pointed out in a hilarious review that Gore couldn't even correctly interpret the graphs in his own book. Al flunked out of two colleges himself, according to what I've read.)
More recently, there was John Kerry, who famously said on election night 2004 "I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot." The supposed idiot, President George W. Bush, is the only president I can name who holds degrees from two Ivy League schools (Harvard and Yale). The "
idiot" also, it turned out, had slightly higher grades in college that the haughty, French-looking Kerry.
Let's face it, boys and girls. If an egomaniac like BO (who has yet to show any particular ability to understand any part of his current job)refuses to release his college transcript, there's an obvious explanation.
You'll need only one guess.