Hate To Say We Told You So
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on July 30, 2008 at 5:25 PM in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Washington Post
According to Dana Milbank in his Washington Post piece today, President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour:
Barack Obama has long been his party’s presumptive nominee. Now he’s becoming its presumptuous nominee.
Obama campaign’s arrogance has begun to anger reporters.
Yah think? Begun to anger? Welcome to the club, Dana – it’s been angering us for quite a while. Ironic this is bothering you now, though. I thought you thought the sun rose and set on Obama’s inexperienced behind.
Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday.
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Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the actual president’s.
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Capitol Police cleared the halls – just as they do for the actual president. The Secret Service hustled him in through a side door – just as they do for the actual president.
This is my favorite:
Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, “This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for,” adding: “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
He said it himself! He has become a symbol!! Do symbols know how to govern anything or do they just prance around acting symbolic.
Remember when Wes Clark talked about George Bush “prancing around on the deck of that aircraft carrier” declaring Mission Accomplished!
So all that prancing apparently doesn’t work out so ‘good.’
As he marches toward Inauguration Day (Election Day is but a milestone on that path), Obama’s biggest challenger may not be Republican John McCain but rather his own hubris.
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He has already amassed the trappings of the office, without those pesky decisions.
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Obama was even feeling confident enough to give British Prime Minister Gordon Brown some management advice over the weekend. “If what you’re trying to do is micromanage and solve everything, then you end up being a dilettante,” he advised the prime minister, portraying his relative inexperience much as President Bush did in 2000.
So let me get this straight, he’s actually taking PM Gordon Brown aside and telling him how one ought to govern? Oy, somebody get the hook, please. When he figures out how many states we actually have in our union and that his uncle didn’t actually liberate Auschwitz and that they don’t speak Arabic in Afghanistan, and the small details of coming up with a health care policy that actually works, and learns what a capital gains tax is, among many other things, well that might be a start…
Unless Il Duce is too busy getting fitted for his crown. Whoever is assigned the awful task of designing that crown is going to have a heckuva time – Obama’s head is growing larger every day.
On his presidential-style visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem last week, Obama left a written prayer, intercepted by an Israeli newspaper, asking God to “help me guard against pride and despair.” He seems to have the despair part under control, but the pride could be a problem.
The problem is Americans like an underdog. They don’t respond well to hubris. Certainly not at the voting booth.
The Obama mass marketing strategy seems to be to act as if you already have the thing, brainwashing the public into believing you do.
As Captain Picard used to decree on Star Trek: “Make It So.”
Obama acts like McCain is but a fly in the ointment. Obama treated Hillary the same way. But considering Obama and McCain are basically tied at the polls while Kerry was waaaaaayyyy ahead of Bush at this time in 2004, this does not bode well for the anointed one.
Dana, your fellow reporters note he is: “acting like the Prom Queen” and one also said, “I’ve never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others.”
And as for your colleague, Eugene Robinson, who keeps spreading the memo that calling Barack “arrogant” is like saying he’s “uppity,” Eugene should be ashamed of himself for using such a horrible manipulation. Arrogance is arrogance, no matter the race, gender or age of the person displaying it. Anyone else but Barack would be excoriated for this behavior.
Maybe Obama shouldn’t measure the White House for new drapes just yet. The Republicans have not yet begun to fight because they are waiting to see who the REAL nominee is going to be at the Convention. Trust me, they have more than enough ammunition. And they will not be intimidated by Barack’s interior designers.
Dana, it looks like your chickens have come home to roost.
We have been screaming from the highest hills for six months now that this guy is an arrogant, disrespectful empty suit who changes his policies like he changes his socks.
You treated us, and Hillary, like garbage.
Now Obama is treating you the same way.
Pride goeth before a fall.
Let’s hope he falls before the Fall.
We’d still like to win in November.
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