Newsweek surpasses itself

The authors must be extremely talented persons - to perform dazzling fellatio on teh Obamessiahâ„¢, whilst simultaneously writing a shameless puff piece on his behalf is some feat.

But don’t worry. They accomplish it with aplomb - I suspect they’re still wiping each other’s chins - but the article made it into Newsweek (who have abandoned any pretense of objectivity and are now openly cheerleading for teh Obamessiahâ„¢) with the entirely unbiased headline “Sit Back, Relax, Get Ready to Rumble” (yes, they did call it that).

There are no screamers on Team Obama; one senior Obama aide says he’s heard him yell only twice in four years. Obama was explicit from the beginning: there was to be “no drama,” he told his aides. “I don’t want elbowing or finger-pointing. We’re going to rise or fall together.” Obama wanted steady, calm, focused leadership; he wanted to keep out the grandstanders and make sure the quiet dissenters spoke up. A good formula for running a campaign—or a presidency.

Oh baby……oh yeah….right there…..that’s it baby! Who’s your daddy?

Don’t worry though, they are journalists, so they can maintain OBJECTIVITY.

The Republican Party has been successfully scaring voters since 1968, when Richard Nixon built a Silent Majority out of lower- and middle-class folks frightened or disturbed by hippies and student radicals and blacks rioting in the inner cities.

People were ahem, scared, by rioting, and flag-burning and people smoking weed in the streets? Those NASTY Republicans, always scaring people.

Obama disdains cable-TV talk-show shoutfests as trivial sideshows, and he tends to discount the seriousness of campaign gaffes and flaps. As a result, he was slow to denounce the most recent round of tirades by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. By failing to alert Obama to the gravity of the Wright fiasco, “I don’t think we served him well,” admits his chief strategist, David Axelrod.

Is that haughty disdain, of the John F. Kerry variety, or just the regular disdain of typical white people? (Interesting that this genius needs David Axelrod to ‘alert’ him to the ‘gravity’ of his Pastor going around accusing the God-damned US Government of indiscriminate mass murder, amongst other less serious indiscretions).

Obama’s almost preternatural equanimity has helped keep his campaign on an even keel. Although he can seem slightly humorless on TV, as he is fencing with an inquiring anchorperson or debating an opponent, he has a light touch in the office, and he can laugh off adversity.

Preternatural equanimity, as in shaven, pregnant, web-footed MILF’s blowing Thai ladyboys? (Seriously, was this manuscript submitted with the pages stuck together?).

After watching his father’s triumph in 1988 and failure in 1992, George W. Bush had a good feel for the mechanics of campaigning: the importance of money, message and geography. His 2000 campaign was well managed by a tight group of loyal aides, with little infighting. It was only after he became president that voters began to grasp Bush’s failings as an executive—his disdain for expert opinion, his stubborn approach to policy or rivals, his fatal lack of follow-through.

Like his decision to cut and run in Iraq? His shameful cheerleading for Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas? His willingness to believe that any accusation from a sworn enemy of America is a prima facie case of our brutal imperialism?

Oh no, that would be the authors, wouldn’t it?

Obama, at least, seems to be more curious than the current president. Ruchi Bhowmik, a legislative counsel in Obama’s Senate office, is one of the staffers whom Obama has called upon because she was too quiet in a gathering. “When he’s at a meeting, he’s very inclusive and a very good listener,” she tells NEWSWEEK. “He’s not looking to dictate what everyone is discussing, and he wants to hear what everyone is thinking. He doesn’t discount things.”

(Take a listen at the door of the authors as they wrap up:

“Yeah honey, do you like it there? Does that feel good? Oh baby…..that’s right…..yeah..yeah….yeah…yeah…..yeah….right there baby….oh look at that baby….oh My God…oh My God…oh My God!!!!!

OK we’re finished, let’s send it in to the office.”)


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