In London there was plenty of the local product to start my day with but here in Prague it is The New York Times in its Euro-disguise as The International Herald Tribune. The front page story in the lead up to the Democrat convention: “The Perfectionist in the White House”, written with not a trace of irony. Here is the first para:
As Election Day approaches, President Barack Obama is sharing a few important things about himself. He has mentioned more than once in recent weeks that he cooks ‘a really mean chili.’ He has impressive musical pitch, he told an Iowa audience. He is ‘a surprisingly good pool player,’ he informed an interviewer – not to mention a doodler of unusual skill.
From there it is all downhill. He also used to say how he could zing a ball over the plate but anyone who has ever seen him throw the first pitch has had a laugh moment of unusual hilarity. A great chili, musical pitch, pool playing skills and a doodler (why isn’t he paying attention?) are the oddest assortment of skills as a recommendation for the American president. That he has no others just goes without saying.
PLease do not suggest he pay attention. The less he does, the less mess he causes. He is a source of problems, not an agent of progress
WhaleHunt Fun
4 Sep 12 at 5:54 pm
Sounds like a Gitmo punishment.
Infidel Tiger
4 Sep 12 at 5:57 pm
The secret is to use Labrador.
Infidel Tiger
4 Sep 12 at 5:59 pm
Hey, don’t knock his doodling skills.
Chistery
4 Sep 12 at 6:19 pm
I always read the IHT when OS if I can’t get the Times or UK Telegraph. Yes it’s lefty but the features are interesting and it saves me getting the shakes having nothing to read over breakfast. Also it’s a manageable size.
Viva
4 Sep 12 at 6:56 pm
Obama shows us how it’s done! What a throw. What an athlete.
dd
4 Sep 12 at 6:59 pm
What grown man throws like that? honestly?
Max
4 Sep 12 at 7:01 pm
These are all non-work recreational skills. I dare say these aren’t things he thought of on the spur of the moment, but have been carefully selected by Obama and his team to paint a picture, specifically a versatile, intelligent man of leisure.
dd
4 Sep 12 at 7:06 pm
At a guess I’d say a homosexual Marxist born a bastard in Kenya. I could be way off.
Infidel Tiger
4 Sep 12 at 7:09 pm
You forgot “Who has had a stroke”.
Catfeesh?
4 Sep 12 at 7:25 pm
A legend in his own lunchtime.
Mother Hubbard's Dog
4 Sep 12 at 7:35 pm
Token
4 Sep 12 at 7:37 pm
At a guess I’d say a wookie-pecked homosexual Marxist born a bastard in Kenya. I could be way off.
Token
4 Sep 12 at 7:38 pm
Probably not much different from the things we’ve told about Ms Gillard, her knitting and kick boxing and yoga assorted stuff made to endear her to us.
Tony Abbott’s actual pursuits and achievements (which he doesn’t boast about at all) don’t get a look in.
In the end tho’ peole are going to vote for better management of the economy and someone they can trust.
candy
4 Sep 12 at 7:54 pm
Obongo is quite the super star. I wonder if he ever shot 19 holes in one in a round of golf.
big dumb fu
4 Sep 12 at 7:59 pm
Chili con Cairns (Terrier).
Mmm mmm mmm.
sdog
4 Sep 12 at 8:10 pm
I’ve actually had occasion once to ride in a peleton of road riders with him. He’s bloody fit and quick.
papachango
4 Sep 12 at 9:34 pm
specifically a versatile, intelligent man of leisure.
Well now that he’s won the Nobel Peace Prize, stopped the rise of the oceans and begun to heal the planet, what’s there left for him to do? /sarc
I sometimes pity his supporters – they stepped on the train when the support was pushing hysterical levels (like pre-war Nuremberg without the Jew hate), yet to step off it and embrace reality would be to acknowledge the most terrible mistake the US electorate has ever made – as well as risk losing them a lot of the people they call their friends.
Some clever wag elsewhere on the Internet, referencing the crumbled sand-sculpture, called him “Obamandias”, and I can’t help but think they were right.
perturbed
4 Sep 12 at 9:44 pm
Obama appears to have much in common with the late ‘Dear Leader’ of North Korea. He too had many remarkable achievements to his name.
In the following list replace Kim Jong-il with Obama and it would sound like a White House press release.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8965150/Kim-Jong-ils-greatest-achievements.html
I wonder if the North Koreans are laughing at Obama?
Stephen Williams
5 Sep 12 at 7:37 am