President Obama is waving in the wind like an old torn flag one minute slapping down Standard and Poor’s for its bogus downgrading and in another saying let’s all work together as tea bag fringe lunatics like Michele Bachmann who created the debt ceiling crisis blame him for the downgrade without worry of any push back from the White House.
Maureen Dowd suggests tea baggers may have taken away Obama’s Jedi light saber. That may well be the case but rather than even remotely looking like a Jedi warrior Obama looks like the conciliatory robot C-3PO who is more inclined toward intellectual pursuits just as the president seems to yearn for a classroom full of freshmen to face down rather than Imperial storm troopers from the tea party death star known as Congress.
Pundits now want to compare Obama to Jimmy Carter but the comparison is unfair to Jimmy Carter who never capitulated on anything instead he was the victim of circumstances created in part by a media fresh from the Watergate feeding frenzy and an ego driven Democratic Congress all of which Republicans turned to their advantage.
Unlike the resolute Jimmy Carter, capitulate is all Obama does saying two opposite things in the same 24 hour news cycle waving and flapping in the wind as fever swamp tea baggers gather with burning torches to bring down the nation while watching the spectacle with crazy hypnotized eyes on Fox News leaving many to wonder where the heck is that dynamo of a robot R2-D2?