Reading Paul Starobin's recent opinion in 'The Washington Post' titled 'Don't expect Obama to be
Superman' " America needs to grow up -- some problems elude even the most
powerful people." is a bit of misplaced indignation (:
anger aroused by something unjust or
unworthy) Webster. Placing any blame on the American people for having over,
exceptionalized (my word) President Obama's abilities to that of Superman, come
on Paul, Superman is a comic book hero, we know that, the question should be,
do most of America's journalist know?
If Americans as Mr. Starobin's says "Americans are his culpable
enablers." of Obama's Superman image, thus setting him up for failure,
Paul's words "Why can't President Obama stop the oil spill in the Gulf of
Mexico? Why can't he get the Israelis and Palestinians to stop squabbling and
make peace? Why can't he get the Europeans to contribute more troops to fight
the Taliban in Afghanistan? Why can't he forge a global treaty to reduce the
emission of greenhouse gases?" Well Mr. Starobin, it's because
Americans were duped. Simple as said, duped. A beautiful campaign full of
promises, an amazing comprehensive use of the internet (to this day) and Supernatural like charismatic
statements "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or
some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that
we seek"(President Obama)February 2008. Unfortunately, for us all, the
"we" turns out to have been 'I'm the one you've been waiting for.'
The campaign slogan of 'Change you can believe in' turned out to be 'Change, I
believe in.' We were given the hope of a savior, and simply got an immature
narcissus of a sort.
All over the net, you are reading Maureen Dowd's
critique of President Obama "The
former constitutional lawyer now in the White House understands that the press
has a role in the democracy. But he is an elitist, too, as well as thin-skinned
and controlling. So he ends up regarding scribes as intrusive, conveying a
distaste for what he sees as the fundamental unseriousness of a press driven by
blog-around-the-clock deadlines." calling the President a "crybaby."
And the shoe fits. Sorry Paul Starobin, your comment on the American people
needing to grow up and give some room (patience) for Obama to do his job...does
not wash here at the Daily Quack, nor resonates with the citizens of America.
Starobin points out FDR and President Reagan's
failures, as a way to show no president has been or could possibly be a
superman. However, presidents Reagan and FDR never posed themselves as 'The
One' nor carried on their shoulders the aura of elitism. This President
squalors in it. And yes, it is nasty, dirty and shameful the way this president
looks down, rather than out on to the people of this, the greatest nation on
earth, for his guidance. We've been duped.
I'm Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason...6 14 10. Post date: 6 20 10
