GOODY TWO SHOES: It’s Good To Be The King, Um, President
President Barack Hussein Obama has one set of rules for himself, and another set of rules for everyone else. The New York Times gives yet another example:
When President Obama talks up the family-friendly vibe at the White House - the nightly family dinners, the flexibility to attend school presentations and join impromptu plunges in the pool with his girls - his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, sets him straight. “Family friendly to your family,” Mr. Emanuel counters. …
The Obamas have vowed to create an accommodating workplace for their employees. For many advisers, though, the work-family balance that the Obamas enjoy remains elusive.
White House advisers often work 60 to 70 hours a week and bear the scars of missed birthdays and bedtimes, canceled dinners and play dates, strained marriages and disgruntled children, all for prestigious posts that offer a chance to make an impact and unparalleled access to the president. At a time when the nation is in recession and at war, the public expects no less, many argue. …
Mr. Emanuel said he knew the Obama-mania was waning in his household when he told his son recently that they would again be savoring father-son bonding time at the White House on a Saturday.
The 12-year-old did not jump for joy. He set conditions.
“I’ll go,” his son said, “but I don’t want to sit through another Iranian meeting.”
Bonus: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman makes this observation:
Sen. Jim DeMint says that America under Obama is like Germany before World War II. Republican women in Maryland say that Obama is like Hitler. Hitler comparisons are apparently rife at tea parties. What’s gotten into the GOP?
Nothing. This has been going on all along. …
[E]xtremist rhetoric on the right - even the allegedly moderate right - has been the norm for many years. The only difference now is that news organizations aren’t as diffident about reporting it.
Where was Paul Krugman's conscience when MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was calling Bush a Nazi on an almost nightly basis? Or when CNN posted this photo on it's Home Page during the Republican National Convention? Leaving aside the fact that the media was diffident about reporting Daily Kos denizens and other lefty loonies routinely calling Repubs Nazis and fascists, Krugman looked the other way as his media peers were the extremists making the Nazi comparisons.
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