Everyone else in the house is asleep – TMBWitW, MEG, and the dogs (who apparently assumed that since I was out here, emptying and filling the dishwasher with a background of NASCAR on the TV that I wasn’t going to nap out) are all sprawled and oblivious. MEG was really testy all morning, and she finally exhausted herself and fell asleep on the sofa – my sofa – while the dogs are spread all over the big bed wherever there is room. That is, room for them – there is no room for me now.
So, I figured I would clean up my mailbox a little bit, and came across this little tidbit that I had marked as possible fodder for a post. It’s dated September 23, 2009, but even a month later it will answer so many questions you may have about a certain leader of the free world.
I received the piece from a TEA Party member here in Arizona, and she pointed me to the article, which was written by Victor Davis Hanson for the National Review Online.
Barack Obama, College Administrator
Our commander-in-chief seems to think he’s president of the University of America.
By Victor Davis Hanson
If you are confused by the first nine months of the Obama administration, take solace that there is at least a pattern. The president, you see, thinks America is a university and that he is our campus president. Keep that in mind, and almost everything else makes sense.
Obama went to Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard without much of a break, taught at the University of Chicago, and then surrounded himself with academics, first in his stint at community organizing and then when he went into politics. It shows. In his limited experience, those who went to Yale or Harvard are special people, and the Ivy League environment has been replicated in the culture of the White House.
Note how baffled the administration is by sinking polls, tea parties, town halls, and, in general, “them” — the vast middle class, which, as we learned during the campaign, clings to guns and Bibles, and which has now been written off as blinkered, racist, and xenophobic. The earlier characterization of rural Pennsylvania has been expanded to include all of Middle America.
For many in the academic community who have not worked with their hands, run businesses, or ventured far off campus, Middle America is an exotic place inhabited by aborigines who bowl, don’t eat arugula, and need to be reminded to inflate their tires. They are an emotional lot, of some value on campus for their ability to “fix” broken things like pipes and windows, but otherwise wisely ignored. Professor Chu, Obama’s energy secretary, summed up the sense of academic disdain that permeates this administration with his recent sniffing about the childish polloi: “The American people . . . just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act.” Earlier, remember, Dr. Chu had scoffed from his perch that California farms were environmentally unsound and would soon disappear altogether, “We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.”
Read the rest: Barack Obama, College Administrator
Now, that certainly explains a lot. Like why he is so clueless about what we, the people who actually have to live and earn a living in the United States, think about what he is doing as the leader of the US. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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