I was struck by this sentence in Jen Rubin’s piece today on the end of the Obama honeymoon:
The swiftness of the criticism seems remarkable given the reverence which the media displayed toward Obama and the presidential transition which most commentators regarded as unusually smooth.
So what happened? Why was the transition so “smooth” and the actual governing been so rocky and seemingly incompetent?
Well, here’s something that all the transition swooners in the media and other places didn’t consider. What changed on January 20th? Who was in charge before that date? Blinded by the glow of their adoration, did they perhaps misattribute the source of the “smoothness”?
And what does that portend for the next almost-four years?
What changed on January 20th? The oceans stopped their rise. That alone is worth having to eat wood fire charred rats for my protein source.
BTW, Rand, are you gonna eat ALL of that grass and dirt soup? By yourself? Really?
Somebody pass me the bowl of carbon credits and a piece of universal health care.
I can probably subsist quite nicely for four years on red ink, but Obama’s sending me more than I need.
What changed on January 20th? Who was in charge before that date? Blinded by the glow of their adoration, did they perhaps misattribute the source of the “smoothness”?
That Bush! He’s responsible for everything. If he hadn’t craftily worked so hard to make a smooth transition for Obama, thus raising expectations for the new government far too high, then Obama’s actual performance now wouldn’t have been nearly so disappointing.
Is there no end to the man’s duplicity? Sheesh, he probably implemented the surge last year knowing that by winning so smoothly in Iraq he’d make Obama’s loss in Afghanistan next year look like plain incompetence, instead of like the statesmanlike recognition of the limitations of imperialist patriarchical military force that it will be. Bastard.
Those idiot chimps are just too dang clever.