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Obama's
Ham-Fisted Response To The Attacks On
The U.S.
By Mark Steyn
09/14/2012
So,
on a highly symbolic date, mobs storm
American diplomatic facilities and drag the corpse of a U.S. ambassador
through
the streets. Then the president flies to Vegas for a fundraiser.
No,
no, a novelist would say; that's too pat,
too neat in its symbolic contrast. Make it Cleveland, or Des Moines.
The
president is surrounded by delirious
fanbois and fangurls screaming "We love you," too drunk on his
celebrity to understand this is the first photo-op in the aftermath of
a
national humiliation.
No,
no, a filmmaker would say; too crass, too
blunt. Make them sober, middle-aged Midwesterners, shocked at first,
but then
quiet and respectful.
The
president is too lazy and cocksure to have
learned any prepared remarks or mastered the appropriate tone,
notwithstanding
that a government that spends more money than any government in the
history of
the planet has ever spent can surely provide him with both a
speechwriting team
and a quiet corner on his private wide-bodied jet to consider what
might be
fitting for the occasion.
So
instead he sloughs off the words, bloodless
and unfelt: "And obviously our hearts are broken ..." Yeah, it's
totally obvious.
And
he's even more drunk on his celebrity than
the fanbois, so in his slapdashery he winds up comparing the sacrifice
of a
diplomat lynched by a pack of savages with the enthusiasm of his own
campaign
bobbysoxers.
No,
no, says the Broadway director; that's too
crude, too ham-fisted. How about the crowd is cheering and distracted,
but he's
the president, he understands the gravity of the hour, and he's the
greatest
orator of his generation, so he's thought about what he's going to say,
and it
takes a few moments but his words are so moving that they still the
cheers of
the fanbois, and at the end there's complete silence and a few muffled
sobs,
and even in party-town they understand the sacrifice and loss of their
compatriots on the other side of the world.
But
no, that would be an utterly fantastical
America. In the real America, the president is too busy to attend the
security
briefing on the morning after a national debacle, but he does have time
to do
Letterman and appear on a hip-hop radio show hosted by "The Pimp With A
Limp…
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