Barack Obama, College Administrator
\nOur commander-in-chief seems to think he\u2019s president of the University of America.<\/p>\n
By Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Note how baffled the administration is by sinking polls, tea parties, town halls, and, in general, \u201cthem\u201d \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t 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 \u201cfix\u201d broken things like pipes and windows, but otherwise wisely ignored. Professor Chu, Obama\u2019s energy secretary, summed up the sense of academic disdain that permeates this administration with his recent sniffing about the childish polloi: \u201cThe American people . . . just like your teenage kids, aren\u2019t acting in a way that they should act.\u201d Earlier, remember, Dr. Chu had scoffed from his perch that California farms were environmentally unsound and would soon disappear altogether, \u201cWe\u2019re looking at a scenario where there\u2019s no more agriculture in California.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read the rest: Barack Obama, College Administrator<\/a><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n 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.<\/p>\n Chat ya later…<\/p>\n Thank you for stopping by, In GOD We Trust, God bless you all, don’t buy or breed cats or dogs while homeless pets die (spay, neuter & adopt a pet, one by one, until there are none)<\/a>, Wear Red on Fridays<\/a>, and support Warriors for Innocence<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[915,894,19,405],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-god-we-trust","tag-in-god-we-trust","tag-just-say-no-to-obama","tag-sunday","tag-victor-davis-hanson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"cary\"](\"http:\/\/cartter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sigfile.jpg\" "\\"sigfile\\"")
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