“A man becomes preeminent, he is expected to have enthusiasms.”
Last week, the President invited the heads of several banks to the White House for a little sit-down meeting during which he reminded them that he, like fellow Chicagoan Al Capone in The Untouchables, has enthusiasms.
So, what are Barack Obama’s? What is that which brings him joy?
Well, it sure as heck isn’t baseball.
But President Barack Obama wasn’t in a mood to hear them out. He stopped the conversation, and offered a blunt reminder of the public’s reaction to such explanations. “Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.”
“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
Fortunately for the bankers, they couldn’t get a round table into the meeting room, and the President is a little too spindly-armed to wield a baseball bat in anything resembling a menacing fashion. But who needs a baseball bat when you can whip up a handy bunch of club-waving thugs to lead the angry mobs against private citizens who step out of line plus have the full power of the United States government as a backup in case the mob doesn’t scare them badly enough? Guys like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe, heck even old Il Duce himself would have killed to have that sort of power behind them.
Well, guess who has it and isn’t afraid at all to use it?
Below the fold, full explanation of the post title and Capone reference (some violence at the end, so be warned).
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Category: President Barack Obama, The Economy and Your Money, The Rise of the Nanny State
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