If You Can Get Through This Entire Article

…you have a stronger stomach than me:

…when I see Obama on television, I’m unfailingly struck by his intelligence and charisma, by his easygoing humor, by the magnificence of his megawatt smile. He just makes me proud. Perhaps this is where I should admit that if there are two categories of Obama critics — conservatives who never liked the guy and have in some cases become unhinged since he was elected, and centrists or Democrats who voted for him but now feel let down — I have more in common with the unhinged nut jobs. My Obama admiration is a kind of emotional inverse of the right-wing Obama antipathy: I can pretend it’s all about policy, but in truth, it’s much more personal. Where his detractors dislike him because of, say, that Muslim vibe he gives off, I like him for similarly nebulous, albeit slightly more factual reasons.

I like that he’s married to—and seemingly still quite taken with—a strong, opinionated, gorgeous woman, and that he has two ridiculously cute daughters. I like his mind-bendingly multicultural extended family. I like that in a campaign interview in Glamour magazine, he could fluently and unabashedly talk about Pap smears. I thought that the beer summit of 2009 was delightful. I was even excited when Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, not realizing until pundits explained otherwise that I was supposed to be aghast at its prematurity.

Jeez, get a room.

26 thoughts on “If You Can Get Through This Entire Article”

  1. Stomach the entire article?!! I had to swallow twice and mouth breath to get through the first sentence.

    It’s just sad that people are that blind to his real abilities, or total lack there of.

  2. I’m more upset with the editors that let this crap be published.

    newrouter, that was uncalled for. I just ate. I see why other women admirers talk about her arms instead of something else.

  3. Am I the last person in America who still adores the president?

    No, there is another

    Oh, now you’ve done it.

    See? You see what happens when you young liberal voters get so disgruntled and disillusioned that you drop all your party’s newborn, hard-won ideas about Hope™ and Change™, without any patience, without really giving them sufficient time to mature, without understanding that hugely foreign, anti-American concept known as “the long view”?

    See what happens when you wallow in hollow disappointment, trudging all over your liberal arts campus and refusing to vote in a rather important mid-term election, all because your pet issues and nubile ego weren’t immediately serviced by a mesmerizing guy named Barack Obama just after he sucked you into his web of fuzzyhappy promises a mere two years ago, back when you were knee-high to a shiny liberal ideology?

    This is the lightworker guy. He sounds a wee bit disillusioned from those heady days two years ago, but not so disillusioned that he can’t find someone else to blame.

  4. “I like that he’s married to—and seemingly still quite taken with—a strong, opinionated, gorgeous woman, and that he has two ridiculously cute daughters.”

    I will vote for the next candidate who is either a) divorced, or b) never married. Actually the latter would be better — divorced people tend to have kids around in some fashion. Please God, give me a confirmed bachelor or a lifelong spinster for the next presidential run. He/she won’t win, of course — most of my fellow Americans are obsessed with Family!™ — but at least I will have someone to vote for.

  5. “This is the lightworker guy.”

    Never, ever read the Morford. You will be a happier person. If not for the internet writers like this Curtis SittonObamaslap (or whatever) and Mark Morford would be consigned to the back pages of free newsletters (like that “Coffee News” one they always have on the counter in diners) and have to earn their living at some job that uses their true talents, something like armpit-sniffer for deodorant companies, or Depends saleman.

  6. You will notice that the photograph accompanying the article failed to show the author’s face.

  7. I read the article Karl links to. I kept thinking “is this some kind of joke?”

    Then this bit made me snigger quietly;

    “As many analysts have pointed out, this wasn’t a vote for the Republicans, but against the limp-wristed Dems who didn’t step up and lead with more authority and clarity of purpose.”

    He got the first bit right, but his conclusion is waay off.

  8. No more than the terrified squealings of piggies who see the axe rushing towards their heads, translated into English.

    A shorter version: “Help me, Oba-ma Kenobi, you’re my only hope!”

  9. Reading some of the links I can’t help but think in another place and time the characteristics attributed to Obama would indicate demon possession (it’s not the pea soup spewing of the movies.) Their is a story about a slave girl that provided prophecy to her owner. She followed some of the apostles around and they cast out her demon. The owner was pretty upset since her prophecies were a source of income for him. Obamas ‘presence’ and ‘voice’ skills would be consistent with qualities coming from that source… not that I’m saying it is so. However, empty vessels do make the best containers.

    False messiahs are also an indication of the end times. All we need now is devaluation of the currency and chaos.

  10. Perhaps Obama worship is the flip side of Bush hatred. Both behaviors seem more characteristic of teenagers than of mature adults.

    Also, articles of this type help to suppress criticism. If you think Obama is still popular you might be less likely to criticize him publicly.

    Finally, there’s the affirmative-action angle. A lot of whites still give Obama public benefit of doubt because he’s black. But this kind of racism is acceptable.

  11. Perhaps Obama worship is the flip side of Bush hatred. Both behaviors seem more characteristic of teenagers than of mature adults.

    “Curtis Sittenfeld” apparently is Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld … who seems to be a living stereotype.

  12. I think Jonathan is spot on. As the Anchoress astutely points out to Prof Reynolds in an email:

    I would argue that Obama too is bothered by adults…he wants the voters to be childlike, chanting three-word catchphrases and buying the product. he does not want adults who actually question, dare to oppose or wish to peer below the surface.

  13. Perhaps Obama worship is the flip side of Bush hatred. Both behaviors seem more characteristic of teenagers than of mature adults.

    That’s an astute observation. Perhaps there’s a form of political bipolar disorder out there to explain both Bush Derangement Syndrome and Obama Worship.

  14. Perhaps there’s a form of political bipolar disorder out there to explain both Bush Derangement Syndrome and Obama Worship.

    Yes, they call it “liberalism.”

  15. @ Ken
    “False messiahs are also an indication of the end times. All we need now is devaluation of the currency and chaos.”

    I doubt the Fed would print more money devaluing the dollar… oh wait.

  16. Bush Derangement Syndrome and Obama Worship.

    It is still Derangement Syndrome. Deranged isn’t necessarily negative. The Obama worship is just as irrational as the Bush hatred.

  17. “Curtis Sittenfeld” apparently is Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld … who seems to be a living stereotype.

    No way. That’s not a real person, is it? It’s got to be a gag article in Wikipedia. A preppy writing about preppies and a thinly (I’d say “badly”) disguised Laura Bush getting critical praise? The publishing industry really is corrupt.

  18. I managed to read the whole thing without vomiting, but that is only because I have been proof reading VERY boring, but important, assembly instructions for my current client, and redlining the literally hundreds of spelling errors in a 50 page document.
    I almost thought that it was a satire; Scott Ott or Iowahawk, but either of them would be far more clever than the perpetrator of this drivel. What is worse that a newspaper that once ran Mike Royko has descended to this level. Royko, who skewered idiots such as the One on a daily basis, must be revolving in his grave at transluminal speed.

  19. Obama is is a cup overflowing with the cream of human goodness.

    (Hat tip to this scene from Heavy Metal, at the 2:40 mark)

    That article is a strong contender for a Media Research Center “Notable Quotables” award. I’m sure there’s a category for Obama worship.

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