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December 8, 2009
What Do Tiger Woods and Barack Obama Have in Common?
Posted by The MaryHunter at December 8, 2009 4:48 PM
Well, it's probably not their golf swings. And, one must concede that Dear Leader, from all appearances, seems to be a content monogamous family man (unlike the last Democrat resident of the White House) who even has the occasional Bill Cosbyesque comment about fatherhood and personal responsibility.
What makes Tiger Woods and Barack Obama so alike? This insightful essay nails their core similarity: it's in the packaging, packaging which now appears to be coming a bit ratty and mussed.
Writes Lisa Schiffren in American Thinker:
If I were watching the public's disgust with the newly revealed Tiger Woods from an office in the West Wing, I'd be concerned. Because Barack Obama is about as completely manufactured a political character as this nation has seen. His meteoric rise, without the inconvenience of a public record or accomplishments, and the public's willing suspension of critical evaluation of his résumé allowed his handlers and the media to project whatever they wanted to on his unfurrowed brow.
Ironically, the parallels [between Obama and Woods] have nothing to do with race. The Obama campaign did explicitly attempt to borrow the from the then-universal Tiger Woods appeal to allay any discomfort voters might have had with a mixed-race politician. They constructed a persona that would make the American electorate comfortable with a barely-known, first-term senator with a left wing voting record, a deliberately obscured personal and professional past, and no traditional qualifications for high office.
But alas, such facades cannot possibly last forever (unless of course one is in a totalitarian state -- and we're not quite there yet):
After a year in the spotlight, Barack Obama, hailed as a brilliant man and a creature of destiny who would heal us all, is himself falling rapidly to earth. (Thankfully, his family life remains above suspicion.) The flaws that were airbrushed out of the candidate photos are becoming glaringly obvious under day-to-day scrutiny of his public performance in the White House.
While both certainly have considerable talent, their skill sets are completely the opposite: One produces, while the other destroys. Whereas Tiger was always a golf protege first and rose to the top of his profession through innate talent and hard work, Obama's chief talent is as a master of deception, lies and obfuscation:
Ultimately, Woods is an exceptional golfer with a character problem. Barack Obama, by contrast, is not an exceptional, or even particularly competent, leader. But because so many politicians, interest groups and factions have an interest in his continued presence, no one is ready to reveal the man behind the curtain just yet.
But many voters from both the center and the far left who believed in the Obama magic are increasingly dismayed by watching the human god fall to earth. This is a major problem because [...] the impulse of the betrayed is to tear their fallen deities to shreds.
A crappy golf swing is about the last thing that Americans have to worry about with this Shanker-in-Chief. One hopes that it is the least of his worries as well.
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