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October 27, 2009
Obama Sycophant of the Day
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at October 27, 2009 6:27 AM
Rocco Landesman, PBO's handpicked chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, displays the verbal butt-kissery that won him his position.
This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for American artists.
Scott Johnson of Powerline notes that not only is this ridiculous praise, it's also inaccurate. Several presidents since Teddy Roosevelt have written books, including Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and B.J. Clinton.
It's also probably racist to point out that Wilson and Nixon wrote about politics, Hoover wrote about fishing, JFK wrote Profiles in Courage (though his authorship, like Obama's, is disputed), while narcissists BJ Clinton and PBO only ever wrote about themselves.
But this is the kind of accuracy one has come to expect from the community-based reality.
In other news, Home Depot is adding a new color to its paint selection: Rocco Landesman's Nose Brown.
