Even Politico is weary of Obama’s condescension
Here is one narrative of President Obama’s press conference Friday. Having watched as much as one could despite a pretty good gag reflex, I believe the writer accurately describes it, including Obama’s typical, bizarre, snotty behavior.
If the presser had been a movie, after about the first 20 minutes or so,viewers would see a pair of white coated orderlies taking our president by the arms and leading him out of the room, as continues to babble all the while to the door.
The event was shocking, even for those who’ve witnessed similar Obama performances in the past, even as they have grown more contentious, more contemptuous, more delusional, and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest”-like.
This was a virtuoso performance by the man who proclaims to “lead from his behind”…or something like that. From Politico (excerpts)
“It’s not just the fourth quarter. It’s trash talk time.
President Barack Obama’s never done a good job hiding his disdain for the people he doesn’t like—a long list that includes reporters, Republicans, pretty much every member of Congress, the foreign leaders he considers petty and childish (Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyanu most of all). Everyone would see things his way, he tends to project, if only they were a little smarter and thought it through as thoroughly as he has.
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“Usually when he’s explaining why the world’s wrong and he’s right, he’s looking down his nose and drily lecturing, getting deep into wonky policy explications that leave even his staff yawning and too confused or bored to explain.
“On Friday afternoon in the State Dining Room, at a wide-ranging press conference, he was just having a good time.
“He showed up ready to mock, with an unimpressed, exaggerated upside down smile just one right cheek mole short of a Robert DeNiro impression. The smile popped up again and again, as he swept his hand to dismiss questions, cutting off one reporter reciting criticism of him versus Putin with a wrap-it-up finger motion and saying, “I get it,” then sneering through a takedown that ended with him taking a beat like he’d been training at the Friar’s Club: “So – what was the question again?”
DLH
