President Obama once made promises about changing the “tone” in Washington. But when the spirit moves him, he can get down with the condescending name-calling, though he can’t compete with Trump in that league. (But who could?)
Still, before he was elected, then-Senator Obama lamented the poor wretches in flyover country who “… cling to guns or religion.” He forgot the part about brewing up some moonshine and handling snakes.
And, then, there was the cop in Cambridge who “acted stupidly.”
Monday night, as Jordan Fabian at The Hill writes, he called his opponents: “the crazies.”
Seems that the president told the audience at a fundraiser that on the ride over with Senator Harry Reid, “… they spent time reminiscing and ‘figuring out how we’re going to deal with the crazies in terms of managing some problems.’”
Today, one of the president’s deputy press people walked the language back, reportedly saying that, “he may have been a little glib in his language.”
One wonders if the president thinks of Senator Charles Schumer as being among the crazies. He is, after all, opposed to the Iran deal. As are, among others, 61% of the voters in Florida, according to one recent poll.
In fact, it may be that in the president’s scheme, the crazies are the majority.
