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Smirk Of The Union: How Better Politics Became Bitter Politics
 [BREITBART] The beauty of last night's speech was that in the midst of all his high-minded rhetoric the President slipped. All of the carefully crafted paragraphs about a better politics were blown away in one instant of thin-skinned irritation. After the President said, "I have no more campaigns to run," Republicans began applauding. The President snapped back, "I know cause I won both of them." This brought howls and applause from the left. The president acknowledged this with a chuckle and then with a self-satisfied smirk. Did he realize in that moment that he'd just undercut the last 1,000 words of this speech? President Obama wanted to project an image of himself as a believer in "a better politics," but what his unscripted reaction revealed was something else. The mask of bipartisan comity is hiding a disdainful smirk. Behind the earnest stage whisper about common ground is a cynic's chuckle at his opponent's expense. What we saw last night, for a moment, was the real Barack Obama. When it comes to being a uniter he talks a good game. He may even believe it, right up until the moment he's challenged. Then, in the blink of an eye, he's the competitor who has to remind you who won and "a better politics" is out the window. That dynamic surely helps explain why we are where we are today and not where the president so often claims we ought to be. The remark was particularly inept, given that he was speechifying to a room full of people who had also won, many of them at his expense. Posted by: Fred 2015-01-22 |
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