too much for Twitter
"America is now a campus, and Obama is our Dean."
Last week, Obama was at it again. He blasted the oil companies and his own government for lax regulation in the Gulf, apparently convinced that no one in the media would consider his last 16 months of governance in any way responsible for, well, federal governance....
Obama also trashed, inter alia, Halliburton for the spill, as he had done on other matters ritually in the campaign.... Obama seemed to assume that few cared that his administration just gave Halliburton a $568 million no-bid contract.
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How does our tenure with Obama as dean end?
I have no idea other than I think at some point Obama's untruths, hypocrisies, and contradictions will, in their totality, finally remind the voter that he is a citizen and not a student.
After all, America is not a campus. It has real jobs that are not lifelong sinecures. Americans work summers. There are consequences when rhetoric does not match reality. Outside of Harvard or Columbia, debt has to be paid back and is not called stimulus. We worry about jobs lost, not those in theory created or saved. We don't blame predecessors for our own ongoing failures. Those who try to kill us are enemies, whose particular grievances we don’t care much to know about. Diversity is lived rather than professed; temporizing is not seen as reflection, but weakness.
And something not true is not a mere competing narrative, but a flat-out lie.
Last week, Obama was at it again. He blasted the oil companies and his own government for lax regulation in the Gulf, apparently convinced that no one in the media would consider his last 16 months of governance in any way responsible for, well, federal governance....
Obama also trashed, inter alia, Halliburton for the spill, as he had done on other matters ritually in the campaign.... Obama seemed to assume that few cared that his administration just gave Halliburton a $568 million no-bid contract.
[...]
How does our tenure with Obama as dean end?
I have no idea other than I think at some point Obama's untruths, hypocrisies, and contradictions will, in their totality, finally remind the voter that he is a citizen and not a student.
After all, America is not a campus. It has real jobs that are not lifelong sinecures. Americans work summers. There are consequences when rhetoric does not match reality. Outside of Harvard or Columbia, debt has to be paid back and is not called stimulus. We worry about jobs lost, not those in theory created or saved. We don't blame predecessors for our own ongoing failures. Those who try to kill us are enemies, whose particular grievances we don’t care much to know about. Diversity is lived rather than professed; temporizing is not seen as reflection, but weakness.
And something not true is not a mere competing narrative, but a flat-out lie.