Obama is fiddling while America burns…
Our President has been a busy man since he took the helm of the Executive Branch a little over two months ago. Things like making cabinet appointments who aren’t blatant tax cheats can be an arduous challenge. Time to take a break and invite ESPN to the White House for a little NCAA bracket action!
He can fill out an NCAA bracket, but he can't fill out an org chart at the Treasury Department
He needed that little palate cleanser after his… two? three? four? televised press conferences in which he only called on reporters who would ask him about how his day was and if he’d be their BFF on Myspace. When he’s not on TV doing useless crap like this, he’s on TV doing … useless crap like this:
Obama deals with important subjects like insulting the handicapped
Nothing like a quick trip to California on Air Force One at taxpayers’ expense to appear on the Tonight Show! I remember how “historic” this election was supposed to be. And indeed it was, as Barack Obama goes down as the first President in history to demean the office of the Presidency by putting on a Gong-Show-worthy standup comedy act on late night television. When Bill Clinton played the sax on late night television, he was still campaigning. Once he got elected, he at least set about doing the work of the President. Obama seems content to continue campaigning indefinitely… which is just as well, because running for office is the only accomplishment that he can honestly point to on his résumé.
But all that hard work he’s doing in Washington… you know, like fixing the economy - which is his top priority, mind you - can take a toll on a healthy, vigorous young man in the prime of life. Gosh, he’s been working so hard, he needs to take a break, unwind, kick back with a good brew, and … watch more basketball.
Obama watching the Bulls lose - a metaphor for Wall Street
Imagine how bummed he must have been when the Wizards beat the Bulls. (Remember when the Wizards were called the Bullets? I guess that was too violent for, uh, Washington D.C.) Well, maybe his services at the Executive Branch really aren’t all that critical - I mean, the economy is safely in the hands of “literally, the only man for the job,” Timothy Geithner. What could go wrong?
I said all along that Obama was a serious and qualified candidate for President - Student Class President, that is. So far, all he’s proven adept at is continuing to campaign, kicking back and relaxing, and spending money like a druken sailor on shore leave. Now, these off-task moments are not in and of themselves condemnation-worthy. Presidents are people, too. Everybody deserves a chance to unwind from a busy day, to let their hair down and kick back. In fact, having a President who can do all that is a good sign - it shows confidence that everything is under control. Except this is the same man who’s been telling us for weeks that the end of the world is nigh, that the economy is falling in shambles all around us, that he is our only savior, and that fixing the economy is his TOP priority. (Well, actually, if you do a Google search for “obama top priority,” you’ll see on the first page alone that his “top” priority is “keeping Americans safe and secure”, “the economy”, “liberalizing abortion laws”, “energy”, “stopping al-Qaeda”, “launching a new clean energy economy”, and “banning bottomless salads.” [ed. I'd settle for preventing bottomless stock markets.] It seems that nobody really has a consensus about what his top priority is - likely because his top priority is whatever panders to the audience he’s speaking to at the time.) So anyway, he swears he’s working really, really hard to fix the broken economy.
Well, I’m convinced.
Anybody know of any other hobbies Obama has besides basketball and ruining America? Anybody wonder if he spends his copius amounts of spare time practicing the fiddle?
