I'll Always Be a Triple-A Kid!
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Aug 8, 2011 at 11:42pm
I think Obama may have taken that line from here:
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Dec '10
Re: I'll Always Be a Triple-A Kid!
Yep, Claire. That's about it.
There's a T-shirt that says, "It's okay, Pluto. I'm not a planet either."
That's about the level of discourse our President feels the American people can handle.
May '10
Re: I'll Always Be a Triple-A Kid!
Beaver: "Well gee whiz, Mr. President, you're right! Golly, thanks for the encouragement! No matter our country's debt outlook, she will always be creditworthy in our hearts."
All: [sentimentally] "Awwww."
[Everyone hugs, queue credits, sappy music, live happily every after.]
Edited on Aug 9, 2011 at 12:28amNov '10
Re: I'll Always Be a Triple-A Kid!
Stuart Creque:
That's about the level of discourse our President feels the American people can handle. · Aug 8 at 11:56pm
I'm about the last person ever to make any sort of defense of this President, but given the pernicious frivolity, dissoluteness, and myopia that permeates so much of American society today -- I think I'm squarely on Claire's page here -- the President's "level of discourse" almost seems perversely fitting. Oddly, I almost can't blame him.
At the very least, he's speaking to the level of those who put him into office -- the idiot underclass and the high-toned elite for whom "self-esteem" in schools is integral to the propaganda they feed to the former. The secret to the Left: extreme elitism + extreme egalitarianism. (Which I can't help but point out makes modern liberalism a permutation of the medieval ecclesiastical polity -- and a decisive shift away from a natural rights republic...)
Mar '11
Re: I'll Always Be a Triple-A Kid!
All that Mr Obama learned he learned in Kindergarten (or at the feet of his mentors).
Feb '11
Re: I'll Always Be a Triple-A Kid!
One of my nephews was exposed to the same sort of self-esteem-building when he was about 8, in the form of a video of the general theme "you are wonderful." He came home and asked my sister "Mom, how do they know I'm so wonderful? They've never even met me!"
Feb '11
Re: I'll Always Be a Triple-A Kid!
David Williamson is right. The Bible of the Modern Left: "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" http://www.amazon.com/Really-Need-Know-Learned-Kindergarten/dp/034546639X
May '10
Re: I'll Always Be a Triple-A Kid!
That book is for ages 2-9?! If there's a page on mathematics, maybe we should send the White House a version targeted at the 50-53 set.
Really, it's because of his sunny demeanor that President Obama is still a D- president in my book!
Jun '10
Re: I'll Always Be a Triple-A Kid!
I like to sit in my recliner with a cigar and a beer and watch Mrs Pilgrim's aerobics videos. Does my self-esteem a world of good to watch a nubile lass repeatedly calling out "Good job!", "OK!", "That's the way!"
Jun '10
Re: I'll Always Be a Triple-A Kid!
Obama is a creation of the self-esteem society: how you feel about yourself is more important than what you actually do.
WHICH REMINDS ME of my favorite contemporary philosopher Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes). In one four-frame strip Watterson created a philosophical mini-masterpiece, while pulling the mask off the entire self-esteem movement. In the first frame, Calvin and Hobbes are building a snowman. Calvin says, “We shouldn’t need accomplishments to feel good about ourselves. Self-esteem shouldn’t be conditional.” He continues in the second frame: “I don’t need to learn things to like myself. I’m fine the way I am.” In frame three, Hobbes asks: “So the secret of good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?” Calvin replies, “Right. We should take pride in our mediocrity.” In the final frame Calvin looks over at his snowman (which has no eyes, no mouth, no arms, no nose, and no hat) and says, “I think this snowman is good enough, don’t you?”
I give you the Obama administration: "Hey, I've done enough on the economy. Let's play some hoops."