“How Can We Not Love Obama?”
Over at Esquire, some guy named Stephen Marche is asking an important question: “How can we not love Obama?” While inside most media circles this rhetorical question is probably commonplace in even the most professional settings, outside of journalism schools and fashion mags, a little explaining seems appropriate. So Mr. Marche, if indeed he is real and this is not some prank, elaborates:
“Before the fall brings us down, before the election season begins in earnest with all its nastiness and vulgarity, before the next batch of stupid scandals and gaffes, before Sarah Palin tries to convert her movie into reality and Joe Biden resumes his imitation of an embarrassing uncle and Newt and Callista Gingrich creep us all out, can we just enjoy Obama for a moment?”
In what is either a brilliant piece of satire or a creepy love letter, he explains further:
“Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we’re going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph. Whatever happens this fall or next, the summer of 2011 is the summer of Obama.”
So, “contemplating” Obama should be like staring at an art poster on your dorm room wall with with classic rock blaring and some ESPN highlights looping on mute in the background? Trippy. There do seem to be a few elements missing from this story, but that’s okay. He goes on to describes how amazing Obama is, then how he kinda isn’t that amazing sometimes, and that we all must love him because he is both part amazing and also part not that amazing.
“We love Obama — even those who claim to despise him — because deep in our hearts and all over our lives, we’re the same way — both inside and outside our jobs, our races, our cities, our countries, ourselves. With great artists, often the most irritating feature of their work is the source of their talent. Obama’s gift is the same as his curse: He’s somehow managed to be like the rest of us, only infinitely more so.”
He then goes on to break down the perfect seven narrative plots to his epic Obama love story or something. Plot number six is where… wait for it… Obama goes to Ireland. It’s definitely a must-read.
Twenty years from now, instead of looking back on this time as a “glorious idyll in American politics,” I hope we can look back and laugh at the fact that it was a time when grown-ups used to drool over smooth-talking politicians like starstruck teenage girls at a Justin Bieber concert.
Excuse me . . . I had to vomit.
Obama hates America, hates capitalism, hates the rule of law. That’s why I don’t like him. He is a petty simp, a narcissist with an inability to empathize with anyone other than himself. He wants to destroy this country. He wants to replace it with a fascist, centralized, top down government that crushes independent thinking and destroys souls. Unless, of course, you are a buddy of his.
I don’t love Obama. I don’t like Obama. I despise the man. It is personal. Because he’s trying to destroy everything that I hold most dear. Liberty. Honesty. Respect for the rule of law. American exceptional ism.
Mr. Marche is either smoking crack or recently had a lobotomy. That’s all I can conclude.
Oh, the President isn’t a idiot, far from it. He is just to the left of Socialists and a little bit right of a Communist. He believes everything must be organized from DC, and when I say everything, he means EVERYTHING. My Daughter just opened a lemon-aid stand and she was told by the POLICE that she must submit her beverage to the FDA. Ya, no shit! This is no joke, he wants to regulate lemon-aid stands. Oh ya, at her school, they are no longer able to have bake sales to raise money for school programs because they have to submit their baked goods non other than the FDA. Does anyone realize how F!*King crazy this is. Did you ever think that some day, the US government will someday Regulate a Lemon-aid stand. Someone in the US Government really said to themselves, I think we need to Regulate the 2,000,000 bake sales kids have at schools! These are the type of people our “President” put in power to run our lives!!! This is to say nothing of what the US government is doing to private companies like Boeing. The President is telling Boeing it CANNOT hire 2,000 new non-union workers in S.C. or the Feds will put them out of business. Of cause its OK if they just hire the Union guys. Never in my life did I think our leadership would be so Anti-American as it is now!!!!! Why do you need enemies when you have friends like Obama!