Wednesday, September 18, 2013

The gravediggers of American liberty have a falling out, begin whanging one another with shovels

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has collected some juicy snippets from a variety of sources dealing with the inside baseball of Obama’s campaign and White House management teams, including bits describing – not all that surprisingly – their little tin god’s shocking ingratitude and dubious loyalty.

One reads about such people – their machinations, plots, greed and heartbreak, all devised or sustained in service to the low calling of politics, and the even lower calling of statist expansionism – and marvels at the capacity of human beings for expending their lives and talent in the pursuit of such base and worthless things, driven by political hallucinations picked up in the ideological fever swamps of their youth, or perhaps simply compelled by their private demons to channel their neurotic prejudices and hatreds into the public sphere, the better to strike back at a world that they find cruel and unfair (particularly in its assessment of their own worth). One might cringe in thinking of the work a garbage man does, but still acknowledge the necessity of the profession, appreciate the value of the employment , and respect the worth of the man. I have great difficulty in working up similar sentiments about professional politicians and their handlers. In fact, I am understating the difficulty; I find the exercise well-nigh insuperable.

Update: Hypocrisy with a (black) cherry on top.

10 comments:

rinardman said...

It really does seem, at times, that Obo lives in his own world; one that has no resemblance to the real one the rest of us live in.

I think he does see himself as King, and we his subjects.

Minicapt said...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/252662/o-potus-our-potus-kathryn-jean-lopez

"So, what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do."

Cheers

Paco said...

Captain: Yeah, that must be it.

Steve Skubinna said...

Gol durnit Mr. Paco, you use your tongue purtier than a twenty dollar whore!

Minicapt said...

He is introspective:
"...what Obama told him during the job interview: “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44732_Page3.html

Cheers

Merilyn said...

We interrupt this to tell you that Tim Flannery has been sacked.

Meanwhile Tim B is in France, while this is going on.

As you were people.

Anonymous said...

Captain: That would also explain why his golf scores and academic records are top secret.
They would just blow our teeny-tiny minds.

Anonymous said...

Nicely written Paco.

Penguinator

Paco said...

Flannery sacked? This really is a new dawning for Australia!

Minicapt said...

Unless it turns out to be a nude awning, which is a bare covering.

Cheers