…for that silly “no-sweat” workout thing in Germany. Something to do with hustling the hustler. Hah!
Obama told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd over the weekend that his encounter with Bonesky at the Berlin Ritz Carlton gym was a set up.
“I’m just realizing what I’ve got to become accustomed to,” he told the paper on Sunday. “The fact that I was played like that at the gym. Do you remember ‘The Color of Money’ with Paul Newman? And Forest Whitaker is sort of sitting there, acting like he doesn’t know how to play pool. And then he hustles the hustler. She hustled us. We walk into the gym. She’s already on the treadmill. She looks like just an ordinary German girl. She smiles and sort of waves, shyly, but doesn’t go out of her way to say anything. As I’m walking out, she says: ‘Oh, can I have a picture? I’m a big fan.’ Reggie [his assistant] takes the picture.”
The unauthorized article was a blow to Obama’s carefully orchestrated media image. He has not allowed European journalists to travel with his campaign, and the German media has criticized the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for denying them interviews during his stop to their country.
So I read this as…Obama comes from that weird outer-world planet in which public relations is work. We all know someone like this. You work your ass off, and some “colleague” of yours takes the credit. If you don’t show up to his apple-polishing ass-kissing sessions he acts like you aren’t doing any work, and he’s doing it all…when really, all he does is talk to people, and as far as the ass-kissing sessions, he doesn’t even invite you in the first place.
So form is the substance. Talking is doing.
And this thing called “charisma” is, after all, a perfectly good qualification for being President. The only noteworthy one.
But then on top of that, he still wants to be the walks-on-water guy when he can’t even orchestrate his own photo-ops. He waltzes into this gym to pump his dumbbells ten times each, and lo and behold it turns out someone else has an agenda of P.R. too.
People at work who don’t really do work and just show off…at least they’ve been known to do a good job of anticipating the desires and motivations of others, friends & foes, and jumping out in front of them. It seems to me the Obamessiah can’t even do that much. He’s just another left-wing control freak. He’s got this charming baritone voice with its dulcet tones, which is just a gimmick when you get down to it. Putting that aside, when you watch him work with people, he’s just got his notions about what he’s going to do and what everyone else is going to do too. The second someone wants to do something he didn’t know they wanted to do, his plans all come undone and he’s blaming the other guy for it.
I’ve known quite a few people like this before. I’ll bet you have too.
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First of all, this seems part ‘n’ parcel with his prayer in Jerusalem that (horrors!) got “leaked” by the media. “Why, I had NO idea that this would ever get out!”
Second of all… How exactly is this incident “a blow to Obama’s carefully orchestrated media image”? What, exactly, IS his media image? Isn’t it the perfect man, the messiah with the model American family, the smart, professional wife who still shops at Target and takes the kids to piano lessons, who controls the Senate banking committee even though he isn’t on it, who never makes a mistake, who will get Iran to drop its nuke program just by talking to them, who causes reporters to orgasm simply by being in the same room with him? A reporter comes up with a breathless story about how The Annointed One DOESN’T EVEN SWEAT when he’s pumping iron… and that’s somehow a blow to his image??? Isn’t a superman (or, given the venue, Ubermensch) EXACTLY the image that he and his flock like to portray?
Sounds to me more like MoDo is carrying a little water for the MSM’s candidate: “Oh, he didn’t MEAN for that story to be published! Why, he’s a very modest man who would NEVER pose for a reporter in that way!”
Bah.
Second of all… How exactly is this incident “a blow to Obama’s carefully orchestrated media image”? What, exactly, IS his media image?
You know, that’s the same question that popped into my head. It seems the Obama campaign lately views the “swooning white girl” as a public relations device involving a greater cost over the long term than its expected benefit. Maybe, like anyone inexperienced, he just wants to manage every little thing.
I think he’s in a pickle: He can’t afford to lose any votes at all, because everyone who’s going to pull the lever for him in November, is already in his camp — there are no conversions in his favor from here on out. (Nobody’s saying that, but it’s true.) Meanwhile, his tent is so big that he has to keep certain things undiscussed in order to keep everyone in it, so he ends up worried about who’s gonna be ticked off when things like this happen, before anyone says anything about being ticked.
To me, that’s his real weakness. Because authority figures who play to the crowd instead of getting any real work done, always end up really, really boring. And there’s still over three months to go.