Tuesday, January 20, 2009

SIGH

Mrs. Drang just IM'd me to ask if I was watching The Ascension. Which I found surprising. That she'd even consider asking me, I mean.*

One of the (many, many) things I find annoying about the cult of personality that has arisen around The Chosen One is that suddenly, for the first time since Jimmah Cahtah was misleading the nation, people think children can give meaningful advice or policy suggestions to the (alleged) adult in the Oval Office.

(For any young whipper snappers reading this, one of the many reasons Jimmy Carter achieved sub-George Bush popularity/respect ratings was his tendency to say things like "Amy told me that nookyooler weapons are bad.")

So now we have articles running in the papers in which fifth graders are saying things like "I think Mr. Obama will be a good president** because he can end war."

Granted, when it comes to The Obamessiah, it's hard to distinguish the puerile opinions of children from the puerile opinions of journalists.

Courtesy Tamara, I read where Jeff of Alpheca offers up a bit of a smack down to some fifth graders who think they know how to fix things (Jeff Goes All Mean and Nasty):
I dunno. Between watching the Main Stream Media publicly fallate {sic} Obama for the past year, and reading all the squishy-feel-good crap these past few days, I’m in a sour mood. Now I’m seeing all these articles about what kids expect from the new Socialist-in-Chief.
Go RTWT.



*For the record, I am, once again, listening to the 40's on 4 XM Satellite Radio channel over satellite TV.
**Typo report: I actually typed "god president". Typo, or are the mind-control rays working...?

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