Related Link » Obama Hovers From on HighSome think The Obaminator is God. Many think he's the Messiah. As the POTUS, he surely is someone "of weight". The problem in his case is that his weight is concentrated in his ego.“On the one hand, there certainly is some American university where the women's softball team has received insufficient Title IX funds -- while, on the other hand, Saudi women showing ankle are beaten in the street, Afghan school girls have acid thrown in their faces, and Iranian women are publicly stoned to death for adultery. (Gays, as well -- but then again we have Prop 8.) We all have our shortcomings, our national foibles. Who's to judge? That's the problem with Obama's transcultural evenhandedness. It gives the veneer of professorial sophistication to the most simple-minded observation: Of course there are rights and wrongs in all human affairs. Our species is a fallen one. But that doesn't mean that these rights and wrongs are of equal weight.”
— Charles Krauthammer“I'll come down talk to you later. I'm "of weight".”
— Det. Frank Keller (Al Pacino) in "Sea of Love" (1989)
His audacity is not of hope but of presumption. He presumes that his weighty ego is equivalent to a weighty intellect. So he insinuates equivalence of principle whenever and wherever it suits his purpose, despite the obscenely disproportionate weight of his examples.
As Charles Krauthammer said, "And hovering above it all, above country and history, is a sign not of transcendence but of a disturbing ambivalence toward one's own country", wherein Krauthammer gives him the benefit of the doubt about which country is The Obaminator's own.
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