MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe has written a new book called “Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside Obama’s White House.” And somehow he found a publisher willing to lose money on another book destined to gather dust in stores across America.
Based on its title, you know this is supposed to be seen as a serious tome, but one of the more meaningful incidents in the book shows the President taking his nanny state mentality down to the personal level.
The New York Post has the snippet:
One staffer was conspicuously overweight. The president, in an incident that Wolffe believes proves how caring the man is, took it upon himself to present the aide with a salad for lunch — “then listened to him protest that he could take care of his own health. ‘I love you, man,’ Obama said. ‘I want you to look after yourself. Eat the salad.’ ”
I love you, man. Eat the salad. That is the Obama presidency in a plastic see-through clamshell. (Hold the ranch dressing!) The president loves us. He knows what’s best for us. We should bow to his superior wisdom.
… The “eat the salad” command is echoed throughout the book, which finds Obama in emergency mode at all times and always convinced that his combination of charisma, intelligence and moral authority makes him uniquely qualified to solve any problem that has bedeviled humanity for any number of generations. As Obama sees the hapless White House underling — an oaf who has never heard of salad and has been waiting for a visionary to guide him to the land of arugula — he sees the world.
Isn’t this a microcosm of Obama’s problem? He thinks can solve any problem and he thinks we are hapless oafs.
Wrong on both counts.
Source: New York Post
