So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as “No Drama Obama” by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by our critiques. Yes, mine included.
And she minced no words describing her impressions of Obama as they sparred over her state’s tough immigration-enforcement law, which is now the subject of a Justice Department witch hunt. Brewer called Obama “patronizing” and “condescending.” I’d say she was excruciatingly polite.
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According to Brewer, “He was a little disturbed about my book. . . . I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read [an] excerpt.” In the shadow of Air Force One, Obama complained that Brewer hadn’t “treated him cordially” and then stalked off while she was responding mid-sentence.
Photogs captured the fracas on film. The civility police gasped at Brewer’s “disrespectful” finger-pointing. On cue, one progressive commentator insinuated the gesture was a “racist” jab tantamount to lynching.
The president was singing a more laid-back tune last summer. As debate on Capitol Hill over the debt ceiling and spending sizzled, Obama bragged to reporters: “I’m not trying to poke at you guys. . . . I generally don’t watch what is said about me on cable. I generally don’t read what’s said about me even in The Hill [newspaper], so part of this job is having a thick skin and understanding that a lot of this stuff is not personal.”
Uh-huh. At least two other Republican governors — Rick Perry of Texas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana — have recounted similar presidential snit fits on the tarmac. He sulked over a letter Jindal wrote to the administration about food stamps for Gulf oil spill victims; he bolted after a half-minute meeting with Perry at an Austin airport over border-security issues.
You know those “petty grievances” of “Washington politics” that Obama has long condemned? Now it can be told: He knows whereof he squawks.
As New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor’s new book, The Obamas, reveals, the president and his inner circle spend even more time carping about conservative influence on public opinion. “He wanted the media to be more of a referee; to put unfair Republican charges to rest,” Kantor discovered. “He could brush off the wildest, most baseless attacks themselves, he told [senior adviser and Chicago pal] Valerie Jarrett, along with [campaign-finance bundler and treasurer] Marty Nesbitt and [bundler and finance mogul] John Rogers, at lunch in the little dining room next to the Oval Office.”
But what “galled him,” the book observed, “was when they gained mainstream credibility despite distortions of truth.”
Kantor then dutifully served as a pro-Obama referee:
Rogers had just noticed a new book by the conservative columnist Michelle Malkin called ‘Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies.’ Among many other allegations, Malkin wrote that Michelle Obama — the president’s ‘bitter half’ — was secretly running the country in Lady Macbeth-like fashion. Malkin even took a hatchet to long-dead Fraser Robinson (Mrs. Obama’s father), arguing with no evidence that his job at a water plant made him part of the ‘Chicago political corruptocracy.’ The book debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and stayed there for weeks.
The facts? It was a former alderman in Chicago, Leon Depres, who provided evidence that Robinson’s job in the city water department was a reward for loyalty to the Daley political faction.
It was Washington Post writer Liza Mundy who reported that the department was “a renowned repository of patronage jobs.”
It was the Illinois press that has long documented Mrs. Obama’s ties to the Chicago machine. It’s Kantor herself who spotlighted the first lady’s internecine warfare with her husband’s cabinet. And from her meddling in everything from the AmeriCorps inspector-general-firing case to her aggressive, Big Labor–backed push for a publicly subsidized food-police corps, Michelle Obama has been openly expanding her East Wing fiefdom in Marie Antoinette–like fashion.
How long before we see a FLOTUS tarmac tantrum? We did get two divas for the price of one. As longtime observers of the royal Obamas have long observed: Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants’s problem has never been the color of their skin. It’s the thinness.
It is very typical of Michelle Malkin to write rubbish, so I am really not surprised. On to better and more thought out articles. Let me go find Charles article.
Not a bit of rubbish here--just the writing of someone who recognizes this president for what he is: a narcissistic, thin-skinned hater of America and all it ever stood for, or could ever achieve in the realm of individual human liberty.
The caricatures of Obama as a totalitarian-loving cold hearted character out of 1984 are not really caricatures at all--they are his true look, his true soul.
redumont, you're a fool.
So he's a narcissistic, thin-skinned hater of America and all it ever stood for, or could ever achieve in the realm of individual human liberty.
Yea fool, he hated the USofA so much, and despised everything it stood for so much he became Prez of theUS.
Do you even read the crap you post?
Oh yea. This is the Nat. Review website. I guess you don't
Go Heels
I completely agree. Her articles are always negative and spend the entire time complaining and being snarky about things I could care less about. I'll take Kevin Williamson and Mark Steyn over her any day of the week.
Now that is a specific, hard-hitting critique. Wish more people would be exact about lines that are untrue/exagerrated, etc., instead of just making ad hominem attacks.
Gentlemen of breeding do not turn their backs even on irate ladies reading the riot act to them. Occupying the White House (OWH) is no excuse for boorish conceited behavior. If the man cannot be galant a la femme then at least for the sake of the dignity of the office an attempt should be made. Does the President turn his back on The First Lady? Probably not. After all if you play the race card to the full hilt you most likely will recognize the ace of spades. I have no use for cads who hide ehind their position.
It's predictably hypocrital for a man who refers to his fellow citizens as bigots, civil rights violators, typical white people, obstructionists, bitter clingers, haters of sick people, old people, poor people and children - and my personal favorite - unserious folks waving teabags around to complain about the ill treatment he receives from those at whom he directs these partisan, incendiary and politically expedient labels. Despite his refusal to be respectful of those with whom he disagrees, he expects respect from them.
The President of the United States stood shoulder to shoulder with the President of Mexico and announced to the world that Governor Brewer and all those who supported her efforts to protect the citizens of Arizona from the consequences of illegal immigration - protection the federal government fails to provide - are motivated by bigotry. And then he directed his State Department to report to the United Nations Human Rights Council that the State of Arizona is a human rights violator. If you ask me, Governor Brewer's comments about the Demonizer-in-Chief were politely restrained.
"Despite his refusal to be respectful of those with whom he disagrees, he expects respect from them."
And an easy summary of THAT attitude can be found in his persistent use of the given names of everyone from reporters to senators when he's talking to, or about, them in public -- meanwhile never encouraging them to reciprocate the informality. (In other words, they keep saying "Mr President" -- as *is* appropriate in the professional and formal settings -- and he persistently and condescendingly, and unprofessionally, says "Bob ... Jane ... Maria ... Joe." Yes, even Joe. The Vice President of the United States. One step below His Excellency's own rank. From Joe on down, they're all His Excellency's underlings.)
"He could brush off the wildest, most baseless attacks themselves, he told [senior adviser and Chicago pal] Valerie Jarrett..."
You forgot the descriptors "Iranian snake" for Valerie Jarrett. Born in Iran and toxic to American liberty.
I base this description on press reports of bin Ladin's takedown. She was the one who urged President Obama not to kill bin Ladin, saying that it would only make the Muslim world mad at us. When Panetta and Gates used their existing authority to order the raid and effectively dared the President to stop it, he voted present, and Valerie Jarrett stormed out, too angry to speak for hours. Why she had anything to do with this operation is an indication of how deeply President Obama is over his head.
She and political hack David Axelrod are his two closest advisors, and they keep his mind right where they want it--on himself--while they steer the ship of state on its wobbly course, making close passes in the night to the Island of Cronies on the port side. President Obama = petty, advisor Jarrett = megalomaniac.
This man obviously is but a mere ventriloquist dummy, operated by a circle of smart yet stupid anti - American opportunistas angling to personally profit from the greatest short selling in modern history. George Soros, anyone?
You are, of course, taking the word of the woman who insisted there were decapitated bodies litering the Arizona desert and that her father died fighting Nazis during World War II. Jan Brewer is to the truth what Newt Gingrich is to fidelity.
"Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lose him when I was 11 because of that...and then to have them call me Hitler's daughter. It hurts. It's ugliness beyond anything I've ever experienced."
During the war, the Guardian reports, Brewer's father was a civilian supervisor for a naval munitions depot in Nevada. Brewer's spokesperson told the newspaper that he inhaled toxic fumes while working there that eventually killed him -- and that the governor wasn't "embellishing the story at all." Drinkwine was on full medical disability when he died, the spokesman said.
While you are backing a man who claimed his grandfather liberated Auschwitz (it was the Russians), denied he heard Wright's sermons (he went to the church for over 20-years) and promised to "go over the Federal budget line-by-line" to eliminate wasteful programs (the Democrats have failed to even enact a budget for over 1,000 days lest they reveal the extent of the Administration's outrageous spending).
