Finally - Obama hits back at his critics!
Finally - Obama hits back at his critics! Lord knows they are legion - and increasingly on the left. With so many scandals and failures dogging his administration [["phony" and real, depending on your political allegiance), it's great to finally hear him come out swinging in self-defense!
Quote:
"I've been unfairly maligned about my jeans. The truth is, generally I look very sharp in jeans. There was one episode like four years ago in which I was wearing some loose jeans, mainly because I was out on the pitcher's mound and I didn't want to feel confined while I was pitching, and I think I've paid my penance for that. I got whacked pretty good. Since that time, my jeans fit very well."
There we have it - proof positive that the notoriously thin-skinned President [[Exhibit A: the 2006 Dowd-Obama "ear flap") is capable of reacting to constructive criticism.
Speaking of Maureen Dowd and Obama's jeans, she looks at Obama and the Democrat's prospects in the upcoming 2014 mid-term elections and doesn't like what she sees [["Dems in Distress"):
Quote:
"Obama’s approval ratings will shape the midterms, and some Hill observers compare his crumpling numbers to an illness. The president didn’t do the basic things to take care of himself, and now he’s gone terminal and contagious.
The closest the president came to getting a leg up on mounting a defense was on Friday when he told Ryan Seacrest in a radio interview that he had been unfairly maligned for his mom jeans: “Generally, I look very sharp in jeans.”
Due to the inability of the president and congressional Democrats to move their agenda through Congress, the president is having to govern through executive order and revising federal regulations.
Republicans have latched on to this to make the case around the country that Obama is a dictator and an imperial president. But governing through executive order isn’t a sign of strength. It’s a sign of weakness.
And it’s that weakness that has Democrats scared to death."
