Maggie's Farm

One of the greatest things I learned in the past twenty years is that "people accuse you of being, or doing, what they themselves are, or would do." When you lead a quiet life, tending to your knitting or horse-shoeing, other folks aren't jealous of you because what you're doing is hard work and may not pay off well even if you are doing it perfectly. But as soon as you start receiving kudos and maybe selling well what you make, they want what you've got. And then the character-assassination begins. That's the stage Obama is in. He says that we are too stupid to understand what he's saying, that the big world is just not bright enough to understand complicated little him. But he'll forgive us anyway, if we'll just shut up and get in the back of the bus.
It's hard for me to keep my mouth meekly shut, but as Macchiavelli once said, "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Marianne

Back when Hillary was running against Obama, some pundit pointed out that Obama had never met a payroll, never run a company, never run a city, never run a state, which made him a complete tyro as far as experience in governance was concerned. His sole attempt at running or governing anything was when he and Valerie Jarrett ran The Annenberg Challenge. Walter Annenberg was a successful businessman who donated a huge chunk of money to improve housing and other conditions in the slums of Chicago. In short order Obama managed to take that chunk of money and make it disappear.

And that's the man we managed to put in charge of our precious country.

Marianne