The political vagaries of psychological denial ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Obama as unserious - The view from the business community You'd think this would also be the view from the intellectual community, but it isn't. Why ? Best guess : psychological denial. Viz, "he can't be as unserious as he actually is because his rhetoric is exactly what we want it to be.And because his social values-- pro-homosexual, pro-Muslim, anti-Christian by and large ( but with just the right amount of lip service to liberal Christianity ), anti-Boy Scouts, pro-abortion, pro-illegal immigration, pro-black victimhood to excuse all cultural failures of African-Americans, pro-global warming and all associated issues, pro-hardline feminist, anti-Fox TV, etc, are our social values." But behold, the business community sees the obvious, the emperor really as no clothes Uhhh, a great many voters seem to see the same thing. Especially Independents, who have no vested interest in the ideology or payoffs of the Democratic Party Left. One other thing. This also speaks directly to the denial of the intellectual class. Obama is no Jack Kennedy. Intellectuals might be willing to forgive Barack Hussein many things, but what is the unforgivable sin is lowbrow cultural taste. JFK, as well as ( or even moreso ) Jackie, enjoyed highbrow culture. Beethoven was as much a musical preference as the Beatles. JFK went out of his way to lionize serious litterateurs like poet Robert Frost and classical cellist Pablo Cassals. With BHO there is almost none of that. His cultural word is strictly --so it seems-- Top 40 in character. Even the Clinton WH had Hillary, regardless of Bumpkin Bill, someone who could be depended on to enjoy and patronize symphony orchestras and fine arts museums. With the Obamas even this much is too much to expect. The disillusionment of the academic class has to be great, for which the only available recourse is psychological denial. My humble opinion Billy ===================================================== Investor's Business Daily An Unserious Presidency On View Posted 07/28/2010 Leadership: As Americans suffer economically, President Obama golfs, vacations, campaigns, appears on a frivolous talk show — and vacations some more. Gee, don't we have a war and other problems to attend to? Will history record that Barack Obama's only great achievement as president was getting his golf handicap down to the teens? The president played more than two dozen rounds of golf in his first year in office — as many as George W. Bush did over his entire eight years. This week, he traveled to New York City to be swooned at on ABC's daytime gal fluff-fest "The View." It led Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell to remark, "I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency... I think the president of the United States has to go on serious shows." The city's Transit Authority warned that between 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. at least 32 bus lines in Manhattan and the Bronx "could be either severely delayed or detoured" as a result of the president's trip. And while tying up traffic in the Big Apple, the president also headlined fundraisers at the Four Seasons Hotel and at a big donor's home. This week has him on for two other moneymaking events for the Democratic National Committee too. He will soon travel to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Austin for more. With the unemployment rate near double digits, in spite of over $800 billion in a misguided Keynesian stimulus, and two-thirds of Americans believing the country is headed in the wrong direction — that direction being global decline — the man elected on a platform of "Change" with a capital C seems to think his job is to neglect his job and have a blast. His vacation in Bar Harbor, Maine is followed by another vacation in that elitest of lefty locales, Martha's Vineyard, where he can tee off on Mink Meadows, a "classic 1936 Wayne Stiles design" that "is a challenge to both novices and low-handicappers." Next month, the first lady and nine-year-old Sasha will meet the king and queen of Spain on yet another vacation. At taxpayer expense, this president flies to Broadway to take the first lady on a date. Among the stars he's summoned to the White House to play court jester are Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Emmylou Harris, Herbie Hancock, Elvis Costello, Jerry Seinfeld, "three of country music's biggest acts" including Charley Pride, and earlier this month a Broadway cavalcade of stars that was "the sixth in a series of evenings celebrating the music that helped to shape America."
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