Hoo-boy, right out the box, Barry delivers TMR Gold:
At his very first press conference, Barack Obama was asked if he had talked to any "former Presidents", and his answer was that he had talked to "all the former Presidents, that are living,..." Then, in order to cover for that bizarre gaffe, he compounded it by saying, "I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances." Doh!
For the record, it was Hillary Clinton who did the séance, using supposed psychic Jean Houston to "channel" FDR's wife. (A NewAge belief that certainly confirmed she was "the most qualified" person to be POTUS.) Former First Lady Nancy Reagan consulted an astrologer after Reagan was shot.
Still no word on where Obama stands on all the cultishly NewAge tomfoolery (possible ambassador) Oprah Winfrey is notorious for believing in. I'm sure he'll get around to that at his next press conference.
UPDATE: The question, from the reporter, was has Obama spoken to any "former presidents who are alive", which is dumb, so it would make some sense for him to answer as he did, but he still didn't have to go there. He's supposed to be "smart", y'know?
It's situations like this when you know there's only one place to be - only one place that has an expert on the mixture of politics and the metaphysical - and that place is your friendly neighborhood:
BHO is already mystifying me. Today on Sky News they had a clip of him talking about the prospective "first dog" (which judging by the huge coverage of the issue is a vital matter for world governance) where he said, `Of course we'd like a shelter dog but the problem with shelter dogs is they're all like me.' He then made a face, looked really grim and walked off stage. WTF is that about?
ReplyDeleteJust watched it again, verbatim it's, `Our preference would be to get a shelter dog but, obviously, alot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.'
ReplyDelete"Mutt" line quoted in this
ReplyDeleteSky News report. http://tinyurl.com/5j7l5a
Need a video though to see his face after he said it, that was the strange part.
Johnny,
ReplyDeleteHe's a pretty grim guy. Trying to keep a cult of personality going requires a lot of thinking in the background, even while he's speaking about something as stupid as the dog. He's always second-guessing himself for imagery, etc. Listen to this clip:
http://themachoresponse.blogspot.com/2008/11/cult-of-obama-its-creepy-and-not-just.html
Nothing is as simple as it seems anymore.