The Strong vs. the Weak
July 13, 2009
AllahPundit put a couple of great clips up last month that feature Obama declining to vote for Justices Roberts and Alito. I’m sure someone’s reminded the President of those moments, too, and he’s grinned and said “but I never dreamed that someday I’d be heading up the Executive Branch myself!”
I remember fretting about Obama’s tone-deaf trip to the ice cream parlor during the unrest in Iran; I couldn’t believe that he’d be that callous. Why not send someone out for the ice cream, rather than doing it so publicly?
The husband: “Because he sees this gig as being a really cool job—just like all the other jobs he’s had.”
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July 13th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Hasn’t the entire Democratic plan of action for as long as you and I have been alive been based on the politically strong preying upon the politically weak?
July 14th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Criticizing Obama for going out for ice cream during the Iranian unrest is totally absurd, just in line with standard Republican angles of attack. As if you were sitting somberly in your home, dressing in all black, sobbing and grieving the loss of life. Yeah right - 12 months ago most conservatives would have had no problem with a unilateral bombing campaign against Iran, but now you guys are the big humanitarians - sure, sure. There is a government oppressing and killing its people somewhere in the world every single day and there isn’t anything that President Obama can do about it.
I suspect this came about because conservatives remember liberals accusing Bush of being an insensitive, unserious asshole when Katrina hit because he was accepting guitars and eating birthday cake with John McCain. The difference here is that this was an American catastrophe, affecting Americans, in a major American city. Bush had near infinite resources to address the crisis, but he didn’t even seem bothered in the initial days. The Iranian situation is an entirely different animal, involving a state that we are historically not on good terms with and absolutely no Americans. So what should he have done? He should have gone about his day. He should have had ice cream with his kids, he could have watched a baseball game, he could have made love to his wife. It doesn’t matter, because as far as Iran goes, he doesn’t matter. Just because there’s a photograph of the most photographed man on the planet smiling during a crisis somewhere in the world doesn’t mean you have a legitimate claim to criticism.
Republicans are stupid, and you all think alike.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:31 am
Frankly, I didn’t seen anything wrong with Obama going out for anything inherently lawful (including ice cream). It’s not like a foreign oligarchy’s crackdown on demonstrators is something that will go different for the US if the POTUS steps away from his desk for a break.
And the last time I read the US Constitution, it said nothing about the President dealing with natural disasters, especially in light of the fact that we do have a federal agency deputized to act on his behalf. That they dropped the ball is Bush’s fault only in the eyes of those for whom no excuse to critisize Bush is too flimsy; they would have blundered under my cousin Al just as badly as they did under Bush.
And Levi, the real reason that the right criticized Obama’s ice cream trip is because during his presidency, everything that Bush did or said was portrayed in the worst possible light by the mainstream media. Goose, meet gander.