James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal highlights this passage from Bloomberg columnist Margaret Carlson. Carlson is apparently annoyed at Obama’s condescending response to a town hall questioner earlier this week, who told the President that she was “tired of defending him”:
“Now, as I said before, times are tough for everybody right now, so I understand your frustration,” he told Hart, after rather clumsily praising her as part of “the bedrock of America” and before citing new credit-card rules and student-loan procedures as evidence of progress.
“As I said” always carries with it the implied question, Weren’t you paying attention? “For everybody” telegraphs you’re one out of millions, nothing special.
And “everybody” isn’t suffering, which is the truth that gets to the heart of Obama’s problem and makes his brushing off Hart as much substance as theater.
“As I said” always carries with it the implied question, Weren’t you paying attention? “For everybody” telegraphs you’re one out of millions, nothing special.
And “everybody” isn’t suffering, which is the truth that gets to the heart of Obama’s problem and makes his brushing off Hart as much substance as theater.
I would be more sanguine about the fact that Carlson — a high priestess of Beltway conventional wisdom — has had the scales fall from her eyes, if she hadn’t written just last month that his condescension is the inevitable consequence of the fact that he’s just so gosh darn smarter than everyone else:
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