...When you add it all up, it’s clear that Obama deploys mockery, derision, humiliation, ridicule, contempt, scorn and downright nastiness when he’s outside the comfort zone of people he knows and likes. His forays into the heartland seem to evoke either anxiety or hostility that he tries to mask with what he thinks is humor but that comes across to others as a screeching fingernail across the blackboards of our souls. He’s not the smooth, cool guy his PR machine imagines he is: he’s a snob, and a nasty snob at that. He seems to be utterly unaware of how he comes off: unconscious of the intolerance, the disrespect, and the profound ignorance of how people unlike himself and his cronies live, think and feel.
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This discussion was fascinating. Thanks very much for passing it on. I really enjoyed watching the brief demonstration of a mature anger by Reagan. The rest, though not enjoyable, is instructive!
I thought so too, Gretchen Joanna. It's a sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in these days. It gets sorrier every day, it seems.
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