Maybe This Administration Doesn’t Politic Pretty Good After All.
For reasons known only to himself, the President dispatched his faithful flop-sweater Robert Gibbs to deliver a slap to the President’s most ardent stooges supporters that would have made Moe Howard proud.
During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did as good enough.
“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.”
The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”
The aforementioned “professional left”, stung by being dressed down by Robert Gibbs, erupted in a series of temper tantrums that, were they volcanic eruptions, would have wreaked extinction-level havoc around the globe and plunged the survivors into an eternal New Ice Age. Not surprisingly, they felt betrayed by the President for whom they had forsaken all vestiges of integrity and self-respect. Prominent among those was John Aravosis of AMERICAblog, who decided to dish a little bit of dirt on the President in return.
Then there’s all that work we did for the campaign, all the dirty work they asked us to do – and we did it, gladly, and quietly – none of that counted either, apparently.
Oh? Do tell, John! What “dirty work” did the campaign ask you to do on the down-low? Might it have involved slinging mud at Hillary Clinton so Barack Obama could maintain his squeaky-clean, “post-partisan”, “steady, calm” image? More importantly, how much did the Obama campaign leave on the dresser for you after you concluded your dirty work with them?
Backup Mouth of Obama Bill Burton then took to the podium the next day in a suprise switch-o change-o maneuver to explain that Gibbs’ statement were “honest” but that we really shouldn’t pay any attention to them. Gibbs had already gone to the MSM earlier in the day to say that he was frustrated, his comments were “inartful” and that we really shouldn’t pay any attention to them.
Got that? What Gibbs said on the behalf of the White House was honest and heartfelt but we shouldn’t pay it the least bit of attention because…ummm…
…well, heck folks. You got me on that one. I’m stumped.
Ed Driscoll, a recurring guest on “The Delivery”l sees the Gibbs brush-back pitch to the nutroots as a bit of awkward rhetorical triangulation by a White House in desperate need of a pivot to the center and a big pot of late-90′s Clintonian mojo. If this move really is a ploy to grab a few points in the polls, I can’t imagine how it could have botched more badly than it was. If I didn’t know better, I’d say this administration’s legendary ability to “politic” isn’t all that good when it has lost its media tailwind and has to face a competent opponent
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Category: Our New Democratic Overlords, President Barack Obama, Progressives
