Obama's Class and Smarts

Class and Smarts vs. Lack Thereof

Maybe it’s just moi, but despite the lionizing of the Obamas in Europe I think that adulation is colored far more by politics than it is by substantive reality. One French restaurateur actually was supposed to have said as Obama’s motorcade whizzed last week by that he had just seen God.

I don’t know what the French are smoking lately but not only isn’t our president God but he’s also not nearly as smart, classy, and attractive as he’s cracked up to be. In fact, he’s not even close in spite of our mass media’s efforts to glorify him.

It may be snarky, a Brit word of recent vintage meaning snide or irascible, for an American male of mere average and outdated appearance to critique the attractiveness of America’s First Couple. Therefore, I won’t, other than to say that Laura Bush is much foxier than Michelle Obama and that George W. Bush is a better looking guy than Barack H. Obama could ever hope to be.

And the Bushes have far better teeth.

I do feel free to evaluate what waiters in fine restaurants call “presentation.” The overall presentation of the Obamas is more reflective of smarmy Chicago politics than it is of the real stuff of first families of yore–as in 5 months ago and earlier.

I’ll save further reflections on the First Lady for another time.

Take the president’s speech patterns. Obama is widely lauded as the greatest orator in the history of orators, a guy who would put Demosthenes to shame, with or without pebbles in his mouth. Those lauders must suffer from major hearing losses or they idolize Barack to such an extent that they their auditory capabilities are temporarily crippled by their adulation.

When speaking extemporaneously, Obama is almost as inarticulate as Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. Caroline is very fond of expressions such as, “ya know.” As pointed out by one college dean, Lee Thornton, Obama peppers his off-the-cuff remarks with other “vocal fillers” such as “umms,” “ahs,” and the conjunction, “and.” In addition, he has a noticeable over-reliance on one particular word, “notion:” http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/183868834.html.

The good dean only hints at the reason for the Obama-fillers, namely to collect his thoughts. I have no hesitation in saying it is more an indicator of a lack of constructive thought, a lack of surety, or a combination of both. He also likes that, “ya know,” indicating sub-consciously that he really doesn’t know.

Lapses in diction, and thought, are irrelevant to Obama-lovers, however. He did graduate Columbia and Harvard, ya know!

No media twitette has announced as yet that she wanted to award Obama with oral sex in appreciation for his stance on endorsing abortion, as Time Magazine’s classless Nina Burleigh promised Bill Clinton back in 1998, but who knows what beneficence lies down the road.

The bottomline with both Bubba and Barry is that they have as much grace as most of their voter base, meaning minimal. The chief difference is that the former was usually able to publically conceal his Arkansan roots, except on some occasions such as his infamous shorts or briefs response. The latter doesn’t bother to hide his South Side connection.

You can take the boy out of the Windy City but you can’t ever hope to take the Chicago out of the boy.

Clinton is old and bygone news but Barry is very much in the news. Take a listen and a look as to how Obama presents himself as President of the United States: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/05/obama_you_aint_seen_nothing_ye.html.

It’s odd to hear a president acclaimed for his professorial demeanor to let loose with the line, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet,” even if it was spoken at a Hollywood fundraiser before an audience . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)