El Presidente

I don’t know about you, but I just can’t warm up to our president. I keep hearing that he is a nice guy, the type of person that everyone would like to have as a neighbor and one who loves baseball, but every time he gets in front of a microphone he loses my feeble attempt at warming up to him. He makes our mayor, “mumbles”, look like Demosthenes, the legendary Greek orator.

Here’s a guy that graduated from Yale, one of the elite schools in the country, and he can’t put two sentences together. It seems like everything has to be written for him and put on cue cards or a teleprompter. Even when he is trying his best, his poor delivery and stumbles always has a way of making what he is talking about sound insincere. At times he seems like a third grader trying to read his one paragraph book report in front of his class for the first time.

Sometimes it appears that the man lacks any feelings, or just has hard time expressing them. Why would you need a speech to be written for you in addressing the victims of the latest disaster? Can’t this guy come up with anything from the heart? He must have some feeling for what happened. Verbalize your feeling and you'll sound like a real person, not one who seems be removed from reality. I could take the same third grader mentioned above, put him in a similar circumstance and he would do a better job of coming up with something on his own that made sense and would also give the people some sense of hope.

The flip side to this is that whoever is writing his speeches is not looking out for his best interest. But then I say to myself that he is foolish enough to read that mush. He doesn't have any sense to know and say that he is being made to look like an idiot. In the press conference he had the other day concerning the hurricane disaster, he ended it by saying that when this is all and done, the people of New Orleans and America would be better off. Was this supposed to be a Yogi-ism?

Please Mr.El Presidente have your wife do your talking for you and just go on your bike ride with your little dog.