Viewing Barack Obama as an orchid:
As Natalie Angier writes in The Beauty of the Beastly, orchids are “among the most artfully deceptive” of flowers, having acquired “an extravagant repertory of disguises in color, odor, shape, and overall engineering” in order to lure their unsuspecting pollinators to do their covert bidding. Many orchids are actually “named after what their flowers resemble: spiders, butterflies, baskets, shoes, peas, and donkeys,” anything that might appeal to an emissary. “Little about orchids,” she continues, “is what it seems”; most of them “are shameless charlatans.” One in particular, the Lady’s Slipper, seems engorged with nectar, yet “not only is it utterly dry inside; it’s also a nasty trap.” Food for thought, if not for anything else.
Food for thought indeed.
An alternate theory . . .
Obama Derangement Syndrome can be virulent.
Cheers! 😉
Obama Derangement Syndrome can be virulent.
I suppose it’s possible, but I’ve never seen much evidence for it.
I suppose it’s possible, but I’ve never seen much evidence for it.
And that is a classic symptom of the affliction.
And that is a classic symptom of the affliction.
Yeah, the old “you’re so crazy that you don’t know you’re crazy” logical trap.
That’s the classic response of a nutty conspiracy theorist. All evidence, even evidence against the conspiracy, is proof of the conspiracy.
Heh. False consciousness. Perfect.
I think con man is a better metaphor than orchid. Anybody who saw things clearly saw what Obama was about, long before the election. The people who fell for him were those who wanted to and who allowed themselves to believe in the con.
I think the comparison of the President to an orchid is quite unfair.
To the orchid.
*rimshot*
The degree of radical madness of Obamas actions is beyond belief – so folks disregard it as their misunderstanding. But sooner or later folks see through facades – in this case they are likely to get VERY angry when they realize they have been had.
🙂
As stated before, Obama Derangement Syndrome is the continued belief that The One can do no wrong, even as he continues to prove otherwise.
Bill White is a textbook example.
Why not a pitbull or a jackal, a pig or a tumbleweed if someone wants to do a cheap animal-vegetable kingdom analogy-putdown? No wonder why PJ media is the king of the anti-intellectuals!