Should POTUS really be seen on late night talk shows, playing roles in gags, pandering to the younger voter segment, and almost exclusively doing so during an election period? It's so transparently fake, so transparently an attempt to look hip and cool, and I personally feel that it devalues both the brand of the P and of the very office itself. POTUS should have way, way more important things on his mind than fooling around on some late night lightweight candy shop such as Fallon: it is not the right place for any so-called leader of the free world. Go onto a hardcore political warfare show, if one must, where one will be put through one's paces and made to answer some real questions? God, no. Let's go on The View, where I will be screamed at the second I come out from behind the curtains, and where I will have a wonderfully sycophantic sofa on both sides of me. A bunch of sycophantic women hosts and the secret service, both adoring/protecting me; now that's fun! Yes, yes, we know that ol' Elisabeth is unlikely to be such a sycophant over a Democratic candidate, but no one cares what she thinks anyway, it seems.
The populus does not care about the fancy suits, the many holiday photos, the tales about the White House dog or how, unbelievably, the wife buys some dresses at stores where the unemployed can also be found, looking for cheap groceries. Nope. It is almost insulting to their situation, to apparently assume that a bright smile and some gags or cute comments between POTUS and our Babs, will soothe the hurt and make them vote favorably once again. The mid-terms in 2010 should have sent shock waves through the party itself, indicating that the populus is way smarter than given credit for: they took away a supermajority from right under the party's feet, inside a mere two years. A clear indication that people were hurting, they wouldn't be fooled a second time by image over content, and were going to turn out and vote to prove it. On this watch, the loss of Ted Kennedy's seat in the Democratic fortress that was Massachusetts was unthinkable, but it happened, and it said it all.
Roll the sleeves up. Stay off glamorous TV shows filled with candyfloss. Solve some real problems. Fire some ass. In the secret service itself, maybe?! Hire more competent ass. Flamethrower the big banks and financial institutions that were bent over to, by the country's very own TARP-covered ass. Get the economy truly back on track, without playing with unemployment numbers and other stats. Create truckloads of new jobs and businesses. Put people back to work. Give them their lives back. The lives that were stolen from them. That is what matters.
Then? Well, guess what? Then it is time to maybe, say, hmm, do a few late night or daytime talk shows!! It's way more fun basking in the glory of achievement, not image, and seeing that the sycophancy is based upon what one might have actually done for people, not what one promised to do for them recently but knowing deep down that one couldn't deliver. The very fact that this election is shaping up to be tight, with a less than inspiring Rep candidate who should have been easily swept aside is indication in and of itself that things did not go anywhere close to projected in the bold promises of 2008/9.
"If we do not turn this around, by 2012, then we are talking about a 1-term proposition. Clearly." Famous last words. - Kevin Mc
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