The Unmaking of the President
5th June 2012
Obama reminds Scott Johnson at POWERLINE of George McGovern.
Those with a long memory will recall that Senator Tom Eagleton of Missouri was McGovern’s first pick for vice president. Eagleton had to step down from the ticket when it was revealed that he had twice undergone electroshock therapy to treat “nervous exhaustion.” By contrast, Obama’s first pick for vice president got to stay on the ticket. He only talks like someone whose brain has been messed with.
Ah, those were the days.
McGovern’s small business venture ended unhappily. McGovern concluded his column with a timely observation:
I’m lucky. I can recover eventually from the loss of the Stratford Inn because I’m still able to generate income from lectures and other services. But what about the 60 people who worked for me in Stratford? While running my struggling hotel, I never once missed a payroll. What happens to the people who counted on that, and to their families and community, when an owner goes under? Those questions worry me, and they ought to worry all of us who love this country as a land of promise and opportunity.
Obama doesn’t think or talk like that, and it’s not just a function of age and experience. It’s hard for someone who thinks he knows it all to learn from experience.
One of the disadvantages of having an Obamateur as President is that we get to suffer from his mistakes.