…..The chattering class suggests that (Obama) has temporarily lost the common touch. But when did he ever have it? He didn’t need the common man to win the presidency; he had the influential elite. He is largely a product of self-congratulatory upper-class euphoria, who is no more comfortable with Scott Brown the Pickup Driver than with Joe the Plumber . . . It would be more appropriate for Obama to give interviews beneath a painting of JFK than Lincoln, though JFK pulled off a more successful remoteness. Obama manages to be aloof and tediously familiar at the same time. Contrary to his recent protestations, he has spoken directly to the American people — through a teleprompter…..
SOURCE: The President Who Knew He Was Right”
By George Neumayr, American Spectator, 1.28.10
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/01/28/the-president-who-knew-he-was
The ‘Common Touch’
…..The chattering class suggests that (Obama) has temporarily lost the common touch. But when did he ever have it? He didn’t need the common man to win the presidency; he had the influential elite. He is largely a product of self-congratulatory upper-class euphoria, who is no more comfortable with Scott Brown the Pickup Driver than with Joe the Plumber . . . It would be more appropriate for Obama to give interviews beneath a painting of JFK than Lincoln, though JFK pulled off a more successful remoteness. Obama manages to be aloof and tediously familiar at the same time. Contrary to his recent protestations, he has spoken directly to the American people — through a teleprompter…..
SOURCE: The President Who Knew He Was Right”
By George Neumayr, American Spectator, 1.28.10
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/01/28/the-president-who-knew-he-was