« Congratulations, Mayor-Elect Bell! | Main | Helen Pleads for Personal Responsibility »
The Cool Kids Get All The Breaks
By Helen Wheales | November 19, 2009
Is President Obama taking the appropriate action to protect our troops and interests in Afghanistan? Is he making appropriate diplomatic choices while visiting with Asian leaders? Did he really think through his decision to try the 911 hijackers in New York City? Is he making flippant and irresponsible statments about the inevitability of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s conviction? Is he doing what he can to revise and negotiate a health care reform bill that will not bankrupt the country and burden our future generations?
Who the hell cares? According to USA Today, he is the hippest cat in America!
Get a load of this graph from a November 3 article:
“President Obama may not have delivered on all the policy changes he promised since his election a year ago, but he and his family have brought dramatic social change to the nation’s capital and to the country’s collective image of its first family — and not just because they’re the first African Americans in charge at the White House.”
While I see how the family has changed the image of the first family, I can’t think of any “dramatic social change” the Obama’s have brought.
The article details all the cool things the Obamas do, like hosting poetry slams, hiring Stevie Wonder, Fergie, and the Foo Fighters to entertain at their house, and they go to Paris and Martha’s Vineyard as a family! The first couple use iPods! She Twitters! He is addicted to his Blackberry. She has a Facebook page.
They go tho their kids soccer games. They work out….and they go out on the town… a lot.
If he got any cooler, he’d be able to bump Johnny Depp from the People Magazine Sexiest Man Alive throne.
The fact is, we all take our kids to soccer games, and we love or iPods, and social-networking tools. We travel with our families, and though we can’t have big-name acts play at our parties, we can entertain with their music. Obama is no cooler than the rest of us. The only difference between us and him is his success or lack thereof in his job, and his approval rating. Hard-working Americans can sit at my cool table. Until The President proves himself worthy, he’ll have to find another spot in the cafeteria.
Topics: In The News, National Politics, The White House | 53 Comments »