Posted by
Andrew Roman on Saturday, January 24, 2009 11:16:24 AM
Dignity, wherefore art thou?
The President sure is making friends off the bat, isn't he? His silly glove across the face of Rush Limbaugh is already filling up blog space everywhere tonight - and rightly so. It's been a while since we've seen this kind of pettiness coming from the White House. This is just the latest in what has been nearly four days of yanking away the so-called olive branch Barack Obama spent the better part of his campaign promising to extend to the other side and shoving it into the nether regions of his opponents.
After all, in his own words, "I won." (I'll get to that in a moment).
Let's run through a quick checklist ...
He has already endeared himself to the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by announcing the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. He's reached out to pro-lifers by lifting the ban on overseas abortion funding. His economic advisor has decided the white professionals are not good enough for the rebuilding of America's infrastructure. The benediction at his inauguration was, arguably, the most racist prayer I have heard this side of Jeremiah Wright. And he's already proven what a ray of sunshine he is in dealing with questions he doesn't wish to answer.
Why can't he just eat his waffle?
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Andrew Roman
Brooklyn, NY