“As a journalist, I did not drink the Obama Kool-Aid last year. I think if he walks across the Potomac, his feet will get wet.”
–Newsweek editor Jon Meacham at the Reagan Library.
I’m surprised the editor of the liberal opinion magazine didn’t spontaneously combust there. And as Kathy Shaidle notes, “So what you’re saying is: [Obama] CAN walk on water…?”
Perhaps not. It seems entirely reasonable to assume that if the president can, as he promised last year on the campaign trail, cause the oceans to recede, surely he can drain the Potomac from time to time for an easy commute on foot.
Related: Ed Morrissey rhetorically asks:
Has the press discovered that their love affair will be decidedly unidirectional, now that Obama won the election? Or will they actually realize that it was unidirectional all along, but that their infatuation blinded them to this, as well as several other truths about Barack Obama that have become clear from the fumbling, bumbling start to his presidency?
As Ed responds, channeling Steve Martin’s recurring riff as frequent guest-host during Saturday Night Live’s early years, “Naaaaaah.” A more up-to-date recurring riff from NBC spotted here.
Update: Welcome fellow Mark Steyn fans and Corner readers–please look around; there’s much here you may enjoy.
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6 Comments
1. John of Argghhh!:“Update: Welcome fellow Mark Steyn fans and Corner readers–please look around; there’s much here you may enjoy.”
Good luck with that, Ed. They tend to be a pretty focused bunch – zip in, read, and zip back out. Be lucky to score 5 or six comments…
They’re so *fickle* these Cornerites!
8^ D
Apr 2, 2009 - 1:31 pm 2. chrisc:Well, here’s a comment from at least one Corner-ite! I always enjoy you pajamas folks.
And… Why did our president bow to the Saudi King?? Golly, I’m awful tired of saying “Imagine if W did that…”
Apr 2, 2009 - 2:13 pm 3. Andrew_M_Garland:Fumbling and bumbling is what you call the new sheriff when he has trouble jailing the bad guys.
Corrupt, misguided, and out of control is what you call him when he is having trouble jailing the good guys.
Apr 2, 2009 - 3:03 pm 4. FreedomLover:Another voice from the Corner. That photo of Obama making obeisance to a foreign leader is beyond sickening. It is tacit acceptance of the radical Islam demand that we submit or die. Obama submits on behalf of our country.
Apr 2, 2009 - 6:02 pm 5. leah:He wasn’t bowing. He was shining his shoes.
Apr 2, 2009 - 6:28 pm 6. Mr. Singh:Mr. Obama is an embarrassment to any freedom loving individual. Not only does he plan on curtailing them at home, but prostrates himself in front of the Saudi King who is not only a dictator, religious bigot, and misogynist, but a financier, if not directly, of the muslim terrorists waging war against human rights and those countries that putatively defend them.
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