Chris Matthews* has competition.
Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we're going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph. Whatever happens this fall or next, the summer of 2011 is the summer of Obama.
This is satire right?
Jesus!!
" glorious idyll in American politics"
When the govt went without a budget, the debt doubled, unemployment soared and the president set a record for rounds of golf played.
To quote Sarah Palin WTF? if this guy is serious, then gag me with a spoon!
Sheldon
No. It seems the author has a decided preference for thin, democrat, male, black, American politicians as opposed to fat, conservative, male, white Canadian politicians.
Well I, for one, had to go puke after reading that.
Schoolgirl crush.
A shame Esquire no longer publishes their year-end Dubious Achievements issue...hang on, with this one article, it looks like they just did. Why is this man laughing, indeed.
Darn, and I had been so looking forward to supper : (
Guuuh..."it looks like they just started the (Dubious Achiements) issue back up again".
Me speak English real good, eh?
Now you know what ignorance is in five hundred words or less!
Liberalism truly is a mental illness.
"...But even if you disagree with him, even if you hate him, even if you are his enemy, at this point you must admire him..."
That would be one yup, two 'your getting warms', and a definite no.
And, by the way, I hope your Mummy doesn't let you near all those old National Geographics...
Marche's screed is a prime example of literary phallus.
"Because twenty years from now, we're going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph."
Oh, I get it,he's speaking of the Eisenhower years.
Yes, we "like-d" Ike! Why not, he helped win World War 2 and was an intelligent man and consummate gentleman. We knew the Country and the West were in good hands with Ike.
Kinda strange to be bringing him up all these years later,though.
He is either off his meds or seriously in need of meds.
This guy is gay to the Max with love in his heart for Obama. Longing with groans & his growing to be loved back by his Hero. Either that or he's completley lost touch with reality.
People wonder how Jim jones got people to drink arsnic laden Koolaide. Heres your answer.
JMO
What a decadently unprincipled "talent" he possesses. He's essentially giving the thumbs-up to a catastrophic presidency on the exclusive grounds that Obama most delightfully tickles his twee little aesthetic sensibilities.
I guess that's what a doctorate in English from the University of Toronto will do for you.
BTW, Marche is the same guy whose Globe and Mail column (later removed) began:
OMG!
In 2011, it is possible to be a levelheaded, warmhearted, cold-blooded killer who can crack a joke and write a book for his daughters. It is possible to be many things at once. And even more miraculous, it is possible for that man to be the president of the United States.
Umm we used to call those types sociopaths back when I was in the child protection racket.
Oh, such a literal-minded lot...
A bet must have been lost by the author. A pretty important one too by the odious nature of the penance entailed in losing. He must have been drunk when he made it.
Old couch
Is that like literal in the literal sense?..or is this nuance?
Dig deeper pal.
Haven't read such tripe since the second spawn of trudeau wrote of fidel castro.threw up in my own mouth
Worst. Article. Ever.
The honeymoon with this empty-suit is over, except for the author of this "article", apparently.
Notice the Reagan-bashing:
FIG. 2: Left, the original master of mass-media performance art. Except his performance was one-note
cal2
If yer better now we should consider a Stampede Round Table.
Marche's article read like a sycophantic ode to Stalin extolling his virtues.
This dude is black right? (never mind - just Googled the blackest white guy in the US). I just want to say - oh, never mind again.....
I think that in the fullness of time - say ten years - even the author of this delusional fawning will find this article both laughable and disturbing.
Textbook example of a form of hysteria that despots around the world down through the ages have been able to generate. And without doubt BO would be a despot if he could - feeding the kind of narcissism he has would drive him to it.
"...a glorious idyll in American politics,..."
Let's see:
1. Youth unemployment at about 45%, official unemployment above 9%;
2. The growing possibility of a fiscal crisis imposed by the debt ceiling;
3. A US dollar that is devaluing as rapidly as the government can make it devalue without actually bringing on a currency crisis;
4. A housing market that two years later still hasn't hit bottom;
5. Several US states in virtual bankruptcy including the largest one, California;
6. Starting a new war in the Middle East without any definable goals and pursuing those goals in the most expensive and time-consuming way possible. If the US really wanted to get rid of a tinpot Libyan dictator it could have done so in about four hours.
7. A failed public health insurance policy kneecapped by government financial distress years before it even takes effect;
8. Supplying guns to Mexican druglords;
9. A public debt and deficit ratio that exceeds that of WW2;
10. Partisan rancour in Congress at an all time high;
11. Wikileaks, meaning that no diplomat with any brains at all will now talk to any American diplomat about anything serious.
I could go on, but what's the point. These are things that virtually every American, regardless of political views, would see as things wrong today. Every one of these is a direct consequence of lack of leadership by the current incumbent and not inherited from previous administrations.
Hurl!
I'm so grossed out.
Oh my god, pass the barf bag. That guy is on some kind of love drug and it's not pretty. Wait until his fantasy president comes crashing down with the economy ... it cannot happen soon enough for me.
These are things that virtually every American, regardless of political views, would see as things wrong today. Every one of these is a direct consequence of lack of leadership by the current incumbent and not inherited from previous administrations.
~cgh
True, but Leftists, like the guy who wrote the article, can only hold one of those examples in his head at a time and has endless excuses as to why Barky O'Blowme isn't to blame for it.
Typical Lefty point-by-point explanation:
1. Businesses aren't hiring, it isn't Barky's fault
2. The possibility of a fiscal crisis is the Republican's fault for not rubber stamping an increase in the debt ceiling
3. The dollar isn't devaluing, greedy businesses are gouging the consumer
4. Barky has been working hard to make sure the market doesn't hit bottom by propping it up, you should be thanking him
5. Virtual bankruptcy isn't actual bankruptcy, it always looks darkest before the dawn...things are getting better
6. NATO, not the U.S., is in charge of the Libya kinetic action and are just there to protect civilians and safeguard the rebels while they make their move toward democracy
7. The public health insurance policy hasn't taken affect yet, but when it does it will not only succeed but provide 400,000 new jobs
8. We're investigating that, we don't know what went wrong or who is responsible yet
9. So you say, we don't understand math so your point is moot
10. That's the Republican 'Party of No's' fault, Democrats are always willing to negotiate and compromise
11. No problem, they can do the diplomacy in person or tele-conference
Things are just peachy, Barky will win the day and history will look back on the summer of 2011 and say we lived in the Golden Age thanks to O’Blowme./channelling Lefty Chucklehead
This was just one of those norko Pyongyang Times durante style 'dear leader', over-the-top puff pieces translated for comic relief?
Right?
Is anyone left (perhaps only on the left..) still believing this obozonomics crap?
Addlebrained whacademics and deep inhalers from the seventies, yes, but genuine two plus two equals four people are dropping off the bandwagon.
Day by day, ever more are awakening to the soros owned office temp's destructive agenda.
the Manchurian golfer in chief, only still standing propped up by the durante msm, and the criminal organised labour thugs.
This is the all out war on liberty by the collectivist cabal.
Do not waver.
Your pushback is essential, single voice by single voice.
We can see relief in 2012
He's Alfred E. Newman with a tan. The same ears. The same take on the country's problems.
"What... me worry?"
Of the 57 states he claims to have visited in the last election, he will win one... the State of Denial.
This article is satire,100% tongue-in-cheek.
C'mon now,one day from Chicago,the next from
Hawaii. Pure fun.
syncro
Im doing better but very booked this week ,how about next week sometime. same place??
Stephen Marche, wonder boy writer was obviously sitting in a pool of his own milt while he wrote this winner.
There should have been a far stronger warning attached to this link. I got through maybe 1/3 of it before I didn't care what kind of psychopathology the author was suffering from, I just wanted out. Maybe I missed the big /SARC at the end, but I'll let braver souls than me make that literary journey and hopefully some will report back.
This is a level of sycophantic excess from the era of the cult of personality that may never be equaled. Obviously the author seeks a strong father figure and seeks to be relieved of making any and all life decisions by an all encompassing state that will dispense with his need to exert his feeble intellect to decide what to have for breakfast (the same as all of the other comrades are having as there is no choice due to the capitalist caused crop failures).
A suitable penance for writing this screed would be limiting his literary output to hand lettering "Don't throw cigarette butts into the urinals" above every urinal in every public restroom in America.
Wander if this is what alternate universe feels like?
If not, could it be that people that avoid reality become "journailsts".
cal 2
sounds good...
This can't be real, it's got to be a joke. Either that or this guy is in real need of help...
I concur......GAAAAAKKK!!!
Reporters/talking heads should take steps to avoid the appearance of fellating their stories subjects.
Just saying...
Heather Mallice with a smaller penis and a larger mouth, this fellow.
bartinsky
yeah...but can you imagine how proud he is?
These days, Obama doesn't look like he could take anyone.
Is it just me, or do people who write things like that make you back away slowly (honey, take the kids... now.) because you know they belong to a cult, and they will get violent when reality starts conflicting with ideology and they actually notice it.
Cult of Personality much?
I didn't realize the New-Auschwitz is accepting job applications already.