Obama’s first semi-tough press conference….
Kudos to Major Garrett for asking The One “what took so long” with regard to the political oppression in Iran.
Notice how snippy Obama gets. I love that. He’s like a snooty substitute teacher, starting with the way he “looks” for Garrett at the beginning—even though he has assigned seating and a seating chart…”Major Garrett, where’s Major?” Oh, there you are, as if I didn’t know.
What was interesting was that the ensuing questions, from CBS and NBC, continued to press the child president, to such an extent that he felt compelled to remind his audience not once, but twice, that he, The Great Obama the First, was the President of the United States. Good for the MSM, at least the ones who didn’t get invited to run the health care infomercial….
I’m with Neo-neocon on this, there is something very juvenile, petulant, and disturbing about this “I won” president, who needs to keep reminding us—as if reminding himself—that he won, and is now the President of the United States.
I cannot in my lifetime recall a previous president feeling the need to remind the opposition and the public that “I won,” and “Only I’m the president of the United States.” The latter in particular has a “nah nah nah na nah” teasy juvenile quality, especially since Obama is comparing himself to John McCain, the man who ran against him in 2008 and would have liked to have been president instead.
StickerShock:
From Ace of Spades: “It’s not just that Obama is tepid, feckless, anti-democratic, appeasing, cowardly, and weak. That’s his, well, that’s his foreign policy. He has chosen this foreign policy, deliberately, pre-meditatedly, and with malice aforethought.
The galling thing is that, having chosen this path, he also wants credit for Reaganite boldness and unwavering moral conviction in the face of evil.”
http://ace.mu.nu/
23 June 2009, 10:56 pm