Amidst the sturm und drang that is the nascent Obama administration, pundits, analysts, talking heads, blogger boyz and other professional bullshitters are running amok, racing each other to see who can be first to bang his/her head into a brick wall trying to figure out just where the Spokesmodel-in-Chief is coming from, and exactly where he might think he’s going. Needless to say, none of them seem to have a freaking clue. Is he too tired, over his head, fiendishly Machiavellian, liberal, centrist, Socialist, Marxist, fascist, or, just, as Mickey Mouse allegedly said to the divorce court judge about Minnie, fucking Goofy?
The New York Times, in an interview aboard Air Force One, tried valiantly to pin the Teflon TelePrompTer Reader down about his overall philosophy of governance, to little avail:
Q. The first six weeks have given people a glimpse of your spending priorities. Are you a socialist as some people have suggested?
A. You know, let’s take a look at the budget – the answer would be no.
Q. Is there anything wrong with saying yes?
Obama then goes on to give a classic 4-paragraph, professorial ObAnswer that didn’t come anywhere near to answering the question.
Q. So to people who suggested that you are more liberal than you suggested on the campaign, you say, what?
A. I think it would be hard to argue, Jeff. We have delivered on every promise that we’ve made so far. We said that we would end the war in Iraq and we’ve put forward a responsible plan.
Q. In terms of spending.
Obama then goes on to give a classic 3-paragraph, professorial ObAnswer that didn’t come anywhere near to answering the question. Which of course, prompted the interviewer to again ask the president if he was a Socialist:
Q. Is there one word name for your philosophy? If you’re not a socialist, are you a liberal? Are you progressive? One word?
A. No, I’m not going to engage in that.
No wonder the pundits, analysts, talking heads, blogger boyz and other professional bullshitters are all having such a hard time sussing out where he’s coming from; they’re using yardsticks to measure water temperature. The only logical answer to the “where’s this guy coming from?” question is, “someplace only he knows.” He fits no known description, he is an Obacanacratist. He fully intends to “change” the “old ways of Washington,” just like he always said he would. What I can’t understand is why so many people find something so obvious, so hard to comprehend.
Until everybody, on both sides of the aisle, and down the middle, wraps their heads around the fact that he’s not a Democrat or Republican, Socialist, Marxist, or any other -can,” “-crat,” or “-ist” you can think of, they’ll never be able to answer the only pertinent question, which is not, “what’s he up to?” but, “are we going to let him get away with it?”
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I posted this at the Confluence too but for those who like a little astrology fun with their perspective …
bo is a Leo sun sign but the moon in his birth chart is in Gemini
In general, those with the Moon in Gemini like to exercise both body and mind. Their time is usually divided between studying and socializing. They may live in more than one place or change residence quite often. In short, these individuals like to move around. The Moon in Gemini is excellent in terms of intellect and those who fall under its jurisdiction are inevitably attracted to the literary and the scientific, which tends to indicate that the chosen vocation will also be somewhat intellectual…writer, teacher, journalist or scientist, etc. However, the influence of Gemini usually leads to the changing of careers as often as it leads to the changing of residence. Gemini’s theme will continue through the life of this individual…he or she may be ambidextrous and will probably find it easy to do two things at once. Those with their Moon sign in Gemini are not always honest people, particularly in their dealings with those around them. However, they are usually so proficient at deception, that others rarely realize they have been hoodwinked. Moon in Gemini people tend to be nervous, witty and changeable, thriving on communication and the “cut and thrust” of the social world. Boredom cannot be tolerated by these persons and there is a proclavity for an “up and down” type of personality. The spoken word is the chief means of relating for those who fall under the jurisdiction of this Moon sign, and they are equally adept at coming up with the perfect “put-down” as they are with impressing others through their cleverness and wit. Working in media or travel are ideal for those with the Moon in Gemini, as are careers in sales. However, there is a proclavity for these individuals to push themselves too hard and they often feel exhausted when they have overdone the “partying.” Nevertheless, after a brief respite, they are ready to forge headlong into the world once more. A person born with the Moon in Gemini is not likely to be happy with his or her own company for very long.
There is more to moon in gemini . Astrologers look to the moon for information regarding the mother , and inevitably moon in the dual sign of gemini reveals “two mothers” ; sometimes a stepmother , or a large part of ones life parented by another mother figure , which in this case would be bo’s grandmother .
Depending on other aspects of the chart, moon in Gemini can be shallow , and they sometimes think if they have talked about something long enough , they have actually done it.
I think he is an “ist”, as mjB commented above, he’s a narcissist. He has no loyalty, no convictions, no concern about anyone but himself. Obama 4 Obama.
THE QUESTION ISN’T WHO IS GOING TO LET ME; IT’S WHO IS GOING TO STOP ME. (AYN RAND) Obama has read up on his Ayn Rand?
I know because it is the quote on my myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/cantgetherefromthere
I just saw the cross post.
Do you have two blogs? Because this one
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/pin-the-tail-on-obama/
has the exact same post, a day later.
Props to you for managing to read that interview. I tried – a few times – and had to stop.
You are absolutely right. Where is coming from is not a relevant question, but rather, where is he going?
Obama is the super-delegator–he doesn’t know what he is because he has everyone else doing his work. Why? because he is quite possibly LAZY, but also a confirmed narcissist–and milking the crisis to propel his agenda of social spending while dragging his feet on actually addressing the financial crisis.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1543285/the_ploy_of_inaction.html?singlepage=true&cat=75
mB
I can’t believe how badly the botched the Brown visit and the Meechelle went here to get the gifts for the P.M.’s two sons:
http://whitehouse.merchantcart.net/mainshopping.cfm?icg_id=10&Show=PURCHASE
Cheeeeep. Gauche and no class.
Is he an idiot or what? He must be a terrific customer in a restaurant when the waiter asks for his order. Does he answer the same way? “I’m not going there”.
He has no definition because there was never any “there” there to begin with. The perfect example of the blank slate.
Didn’t he define himself as such in his book? I guess that was one moment of candor – or maybe cynicism: I am whoever you want me to be