My Idiot President

I've been struggling to resist that subject header for a while, now.

The president, after all, deserves a certain degree of respect no matter how much I disagree with his boneheaded policies.

Sure, I've expressed my displeasure with the election of Obama...but I don't think I had ever lost respect for the guy...at the very least, I had reserved the healthy respect of one's enemy.

Things have changed, however, now that the White House is trying to convince me that the President did not bow to the king of Saudi Arabia. Whether or not bowing was a good idea or bad idea is besides the point at the moment. The guy bowed and is trying to say he didn't.

It's like the little kid saying he didn't go into the cookie jar even though he has the remnants of cookies on his face.

Or like an episode of Fawlty Towers when John Cleese has to develop a convoluted string of clear and embarrassing lies to excuse some faux-pas (maybe we should start referring to him as Basil Obama...which I guess would make Biden his gaffe-ridden sidekick "Manuel").

The liberals like to accuse Bush of having been a liar about WMDs--but at least if he lied (and I don't think he did), they were plausible lies whose reality was hid behind a curtain.

It's easy to overuse the term "Orwellian," but, come on...we've all seen the video on YouTube.

We're being told that we haven't seen what we saw.

What's next? Have rat-filled cages strapped to our faces when we refuse to say that bowing isn't bowing.

I still have some hope for Obama, though. He seems to be on a roll for making apologies to the rest of the world...maybe he'll turn around and apologize to us for lying to us and treating us like we're stupid proles.

Comments

[Isabel]

You didn't tell me about the Fawlty Towers analogy, which is hilarious. See, this is why I have to read your blog.

[Akh Ari]

My, my - didn't I just tell Zack you weren't being disrespectful to our President?

It does not seem to have dawned on President Obama that being the President means he is no longer a private citizen - he seems quite unaware that in a certain sense whatever he does, the United States of America does.

[PeterTerp]

I know, Akh...I...I just couldn't help it.

I readily apologize for any breakdown in communication caused by my crudely satirical jabs at the president. It was a kneejerk reaction to being lied to.

It isn't in the greatest Christian charity (or even in the basic rules of etiquette) to attack a liar, for, goodness knows, I have my own fill of faults.

Just because the White House thinks I'm an idiot, I really shouldn't go around accusing it of being full of them.

Especially not now that the people who publicly express right-wing viewpoints are on security watch lists...