To be more precise, this is the direct quote
the former (underscore unsuccessful) Vice Presidential candidate used recently
to describe the President:
“An impatient president doesn’t just
get to trample our Constitution and ignore Congress just because he doesn’t get
exactly what he wants every time he wants it,” Palin said. “It’s like an
overgrown little boy who’s just acting kind of spoiled. And moms, we don’t put
up with that, do we?”
I’ve grown
accustomed, over the years, to taking most comments made by the partial-term
Alaska Governor with a grain or two, or twenty, of salt. She has a knack for creatively influencing
media coverage with the best of them. Of
course, she is most effective when operating in the friendly (to her) confines
of the Fox News studio.
Alas, I
confess, when she chimes in, or rather endorses the oft-repeated GOP meme of
Obama as infant, I am more than a little troubled. This past Saturday at U.S. Representative
Steve King’s (Republican – Iowa) Iowa Freedom Summit, Mrs. Palin joined a
number of other Republican voices in promulgating the next new attempt to
minimize the stature and significance of the Leader of the Free World.
Infantilizing
rhetoric such as the quote above is becoming a GOP norm with this President. A few examples include:
·
A few years ago, U.S. Representative
Joe Walsh, Republican – Illinois, characterized President Obama as being “like a teenage
boy.” Representative Walsh
went on to add, “House Republicans effectively played the role of Obama’s
parents.”
·
Rush Limbaugh has referred to President
Obama as “the little black
man-child,” and further compared him to “a little boy” that women
voters “want to protect.”
·
The Wall Street Journal
ran a piece last year in which a former Bush/Cheney
administration official accused President
Obama and his team of being “self-obsessed
teenagers.” All total, the piece referred to President
Obama and his team as “teenagers” six times
in nine paragraphs.
Republicans
have systematically skewered Democratic Presidents going at least as far back
as Presidents Carter and Clinton. In
those cases, however, the pattern did not include the insinuation that the
President was less than adult. Frankly,
all the certain to be deniers notwithstanding, it strikes me as just a sneakily
backhanded way to malign and otherwise disparage a black man, who just happens
to be Commander-in-Chief, by calling him “boy.”
It is a slur. Not so vile and
repugnant as the infamous N-word, but a racial slur, nonetheless.
All this
reviewing of the GOP mind set regarding the President leads me to an
interesting idea. Mrs. Palin has
exuberantly told us what she thinks of our President. In turn, I wonder, what do you, gentle
readers, think of the imperious Sarah Palin?
Let’s transform this post into our very own plebiscite. That’s right; I am inviting you the readers
of this post to weigh in and share your thoughts on Mrs. Palin. Feel free to make your opinion known, be it
brief or exhaustive.
In my own
view, if one were comparing and/or contrasting President Obama to any of the
characters referenced above who assessed, shall we say, his “level of
maturity,” versus theirs, objective observers would almost certainly find
unanimously, that President Obama is the “adult in the room.”
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