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Sunday, May 17. 2009

Calling Dr. Freud

Dino is trying to understand what makes Obama tick, and he rightly wonders what would cause a 33 year-old to write an autobiography. Dino is looking for clues to the man's underlying personality structure.


He is especially puzzled by this recent O quote:



Many of you have been taught to chase after the usual brass rings: being on this “who’s who” list or that top 100 list; how much money you make and how big your corner office is; whether you have a fancy enough title or a nice enough car…such an approach won’t get you where you want to go; that in fact, the elevation of appearance over substance, celebrity over character, short-term gain over lasting achievement is precisely what your generation needs to help end.



Puzzles me too. It does sound like transparent preaching of the "Do what I say, not what I do" variety. Anyway, I have no interest in trying to analyze the guy's character nor am I qualified to try. I just wonder two things: 1) Where does he smoke in the WH? and 2) How is he going to try to screw me next?

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:03 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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I don't care where he smokes.
#1 Michael R. Kesti on 2009-05-17 13:03 (Reply)
The guy is on something...He smiles just a little too much for a leader of a nation in the middle of a hundred year economic crisis. Of course, we will probably never learn what the quacks or dealers are providing for him...
#2 Scott Wiggins on 2009-05-17 14:58 (Reply)
That drug is called 'Charisma'. Like the charismatic movement in the Christian Church, Obama is divinely conferred by his belief in himself. He's learned over his lifetime just how powerfully he wields the effects of that drug and has gotten just about anything he sets out to get. The street name for that drug is "Smug". Another name is "B" for 'beguile'.

The side effects are that one day the user realizes his faith in himself has produced the need for junkies surrounding him at all times to give him the right answers because he, himself, doesn't have any. For example, he was grim about the financial collapse until one of his junkies told him it was time to be upbeat. The frown immediately turned into a smile. 'Smug' doesn't kill the user, but it eventually causes much disgruntlement among those who believe the smiles and frowns are sincere. Very scary stuff.
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#2.1 Meta on 2009-05-17 17:42 (Reply)
I suspect he smokes in one of Bill Clinton's "rendezvous closets" of which there seem to be many in the White House. or "his house," as Obama calls it. Rampant narcissism is the kindest description of that comment. You're just a "renter," guy. And not even that, because we, the taxpayers, pay the bills.

Marianne
#3 Marianne Matthews on 2009-05-17 15:02 (Reply)
i'd want to be opening and closing those rendezvous doorknobs with a Handi-Wipe.
#4 buddy larsen on 2009-05-17 16:54 (Reply)
Ha! Oh man, you got me rolling with that one...those door knobs are covered with a combination of body fluids and stinking snake oil.
#4.1 Jephnol (Link) on 2009-05-17 18:09 (Reply)
I imagine he smokes wherever he damn well pleases and your next Presidential screwing continues today.
#5 Rattso on 2009-05-18 13:23 (Reply)

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