Saturday, March 21, 2009

Obamaout of Touch? I’m angry,”,Mr.Obama said

drawing by marguerita .... the finest in Oval Office:“I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry. I’m angry,” Mr. Obama said

and it is: a clumsy simile for our terror-ridden time, followed by a clumsier joke for our P.C.-ridden time. But presidents don’t generally get a break on minor stuff.
“It’s almost like they’ve got — they’ve got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger,” President Obama said on Thursday of the banks he’s chosen to bail out. “You don’t want them to blow up. But you’ve got to kind of talk [to] them, ease that finger off the trigger.”
Weekend Opinionator: Obama’s Communication Breakdown - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

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