On Tuesday night, President Obama delivered a long “farewell address” to the public. On Wednesday morning, the president-elect held his first news conference since July.
Obama’s speech was part Bill Clinton (long,) part Ronald Reagan (tugging at heartstrings,) part John F. Kennedy (gracious and graceful) and part FDR or Winston Churchill (understated but powerful.)
You couldn’t ask for more in that kind of a speech.
The following day, the president-elect met the press. He backed down from “Russia didn’t hack us.” And he got into a shouting match with a CNN reporter. He had a pile of manila envelopes beside him, said they were legal documents about how he’s going to temporarily cede control of his holdings but wouldn’t let anyone see any of them because they’re “legal documents about how he’s going to temporarily cede control of his holdings.”
Obama drew smiles, tears, applause. The president elect drew flies.
You had to wonder where the Obama on stage in Chicago had been hiding for the last eight years. You had to wonder at how he went to work each morning when the path to accomplishment was always blocked by the body of a morally, spiritually and legislatively dead series of republican bodies lying across the path.
Was this guy really president? This master of the speech, this orator in chief? Yes, he was. But the part we saw was hidden behind those bodies.
Was the Affordable Care Act all it was cracked up to be in the long run of coming attractions that came before it? Of course not. Can you figure out why?
The President elect has shown no understanding of how government works. He appears to have confused the presidency with wheeling and wheedling real estate development companies he’s been running.
Development has several meanings. You can look up the original definition in any dictionary, even the newer ones that report your usage, unlike the older ones that report on what should be you usage.
In Academia and other charities, “development” means panhandling. In real estate it means take paradise and make it a parking lot, according to pavement scholar Joni Mitchell.
So the president elect has been in effect privatizing the executive branch. But there are some in government who haven’t gotten the message.
Little Marco Rubio for one. He’s already started his 2020 presidential campaign by feigning a move toward human rights while the basket he’s shooting for is the White House.
The intelligence agencies may be several dogs fighting over the same bone. But they’re best friends when it comes to digging up dirt on people they don’t like.
Shrapnel:
--FBI director Comey is on the carpet over the timing of his big mouth. He presented the beanbag on Hillary Clinton eleven days before the election, ceremoniously opened it. No beans spilled and now the parent agency, the Department of Justice wants to know he got away with it.
Today’s Quote:
“There’s not a guy would try something as stupid.” -- Chairman Sergio Marchionne of Fiat Chrysler on reports of a federal investigation into VW- like cheating on emissions tests.
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