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Barack Obama, the Adolescent President

24th April 2014

Read it.

Recently, Barack Obama — a Demosthenes determined to elevate our politics from coarseness to elegance; a Pericles sent to ameliorate our rhetorical impoverishment — spoke at the University of Michigan. He came to that very friendly venue — in 2012, he received 67?percent of the vote in Ann Arbor’s county — after visiting a local sandwich shop, where a muse must have whispered in the presidential ear. Rep.?Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had recently released his budget, so Obama expressed his disapproval by calling it, for the benefit of his academic audience, a “meanwich” and a “stinkburger.”

Try to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower or John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan talking like that. It is unimaginable that those grown-ups would resort to japes that fourth-graders would not consider sufficiently clever for use on a playground.

4 Responses to “Barack Obama, the Adolescent President”

  1. Oregon Ed Says:

    Shouldn’t you credit George Will, who wrote this column, with the authorship?

  2. Tim of Angle Says:

    What makes you think that I didn’t? Was it the link to his original column, cleverly marked “Read it.”? Or was it the indented block of text conventionally representing a quotation?

  3. Oregon Ed Says:

    Usually when articles are quoted material the intro states it as such…”The following editorial by George Will,” for example.

  4. Tim of Angle Says:

    Where? Not here.