If it’s not too much to ask…
IT IS.
“I’m bravely speaking Truth to Power–I mean, by your leave, sir, Mr. President, sir.”–Our Fearless Watchdog Press
Question: Has Barack Obama been asked one single tough question since he became president?
Has he been asked why he’s obsessed with Rush Limbaugh instead of Mahmoud Amadinijhad? After all, not even Paul Begala and Jame Cobble think Rush is cooking up a nuke program over at his beach house.
Has Obama been quizzed about what kind of paper-thin narcissist fixates on a talk-show host to the point of legislating a Bill of Attainder against his radio show…while Iran arms, Pakistan teeters on the brink and Russia punks an American president as he sells out Eastern Europe for a handful of nothing?
Has Sultan Obama been questioned about his Hamster Dance in the Land of 9,000 Earmarks? Or queried about hiring lobbyists after he said he wouldn’t? Or why his budget is based on savings gleaned from cancelling the Spanish-American War? Or if he ever imagined that the reason we haven’t used those “Cold War relic” weapons is because we have them?
Perhaps because of their experience with royalty, the British press is much less inclined to the obsequesious deference and outright toadyism of the American press. That explains why Obama did not deign to entertain any piffling questions from them despite the Prime Minister’s visit.
It pains me to say it, but the toughest question Obama has been asked so far came from his fan club at HuffPo. They asked if he was going to arrest the entire Bush administration, as if this were not America, but some Third-World rat’s nest. The premise was morally-retarded, but at least it was a hard question.
Maybe some day we’ll have a media that approaches the intellectual rigor and honesty of the Huffington Post.
Just kidding–we already do.
UPDATE: When they finally get one right, we should say so. TIME’S Claire Suddath:
Still, the middle class may have a better shot at making ends meet than at influencing the Middle Class Task Force. That’s because no member of the Middle Class Task Force is actually middle class. Every member of the President’s task force – from Biden ($227,000) to Council of Economic Advisors chair Christina Romer ($172,000) to energy secretary Steven Chu ($191,000) – makes well over $150,000, putting them in the top 5% of wage earners.
While middle class Americans are invited to submit questions and ideas through the task force’s website, AStrongMiddleClass.gov and tickets for the Philadelphia meeting were distributed to labor and environmental groups, the task force did not accept questions from the audience.
Instead, the task force talked to Pennsylvania governor Edward Rendell ($175,000), Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter ($167,000) and United Steelworkers of America president Leo Gerard, (who reportedly earns over $170,000).
That’s just how Liberal Elites do it; a middle-class summit with no actual pesky middle-class peons around to mess up the Tuskeegee-on-a-Cul-de-Sac Experiments being planned on them.
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