Maggie's Farm

Yup... Gingrich is smart as a whip, greatly experienced, and not very likeable. Don't tell me we are going through the "my candidate must be perfect" thing again in 2012. I should hope we had learned our lesson with the present White House egotist-in-chief. When he is in a suckup mood, Obama can convince some moderately foolish people that he cares about them. Put him in a high stress situation, and his inner ugly comes out. Then he does stuff like waving in front of the face of the leader of another country [grade school popularity stunt] , making pejorative remarks about the prime minister of Israel when he is in reach of an open microphone, picking up tar balls with a bemused expression while squatting on the sandy shores of the Gulf of Mexico ... and many other childish, amateurish actions, like taking credit for the SEAL raid which did in Osama bin Laden. As Chuck Pfarrer, a fellow SEAL, now retired, who is writing about the raid, said, "If the SEALs only meant to kill him, a box of hand grenades would have done the job." What Obama did, in actuality, was say to the SEAL team, in the words of an old joke, "let's you and him fight." That takes no skill at all on the President's part, yet Obama's Mainstream Media boosters are giving him all sorts of kudos, and he is striding around with his chest stuck out.

In so many ways, he shows that he's an amateur on the world stage, and as long as he is so poisonously self absorbed, he'll never learn anything new.

Marianne