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Weirdness Remarked Upon

Matthew Cooper at The Atlantic mulls what today’s questions asked and unasked, re crises rampant and crises dormant, say about news and the presidency — Iran and health care’s hot, two wars and GM failure’s not. More proof of our national case of ADHD, at the highest levels. Cooper also remarks on the weirdness of some Obama utterances, like his personal smoking struggle analogy today, that it’s like being in “AA.”

Sounds innocent enough. He does have a penchant for odd jokes, weird remarks, non-sequitorial behavior, both at the overly personal and the grandiosely presidential levels, though. Don’t make me bring up that Hot Dogs for Mullahs Strategic Initiative again. Or the gee whiz guys letter to the Russkies. Or the gifts to the Brits. Or that strange love letter to Jacques Chirac. Or that time he horrified Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes by laughing about the recession. Or large parts of the entire press conference today. Then there was that weird bow to King Abdullah.

I dunno about you, I’m looking forward with a shudder to more profound weirdness as this presidency continues. I don’t think we’ve even scratched the surface of that yet. To paraphrase the late, weird Hunter S. Thompson, when the going needs a pro, this pres gets weird.

(Balloon-Juice #2 … who does as poorly at reading comprehension as BJ #1 does at communication that doesn’t involve the use of the word “asshole” … thinks weirdness is Cooper’s main point. It is the title, but better than three-quarters of the post addresses substantive aspects of the press conference before Cooper gets to the “AA” weirdness. BJ #2 has a point though. It was pretty mild as O weirdness goes. See above for your Obama weirdness starter kit. … And welcome, Alicublog readers! Your guy’s a little weird, too. Thanks for the comparison to the highly talented Christian Bale, though.)

Topics: Obama

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:47 pm Comments (1) on Tuesday, June 23, 2009

One Response to “Weirdness Remarked Upon”

1. sugarbiscuit Says:
   June 24th, 2009 at 2:42 pm

   Jules – please address why it is weird to compare kicking nicotine with kicking alcohol?

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