When candidate Obama talked about bringing us all together, this is presumably not what he had in mind . . .
There was surprising consensus on today’s Morning Joe around the fact that this is an arrogant White House. It was press secretary Robert Gibb’s boast—responding to Pres. Bush’s rather mild recent remarks—that “we kept score last November and we won” that set things off. Willie Geist analogized it to an athlete whose team is ahead telling an opponent to “look at the scoreboard.”
Pat Buchanan took it from there, with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and even John Harwood, not known as a blood enemy of the Obama admin, chipping in.
Conversation highlights:
PAT BUCHANAN: This White House has no humility.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: It’s a little smug, that’s what you’re saying?
BUCHANAN: Smug, arrogant [makes back-of-the-hand gesture]. This is a former President of the United States.
BRZEZINSKI: Like that fly!
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Does that start at the top? That’s actually the same thing that this president said to a Republican when they were having talks over the [stimulus]: he said we won.
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BUCHANAN: I don’t think Pres. Bush was deliberately trying to take on Obama. He was trying simply to say we did the right thing in terms of interrogation techniques; we believe we did the right thing, and I’m a free-market man.
JOHN HARWOOD: I must say when I saw former Pres. Bush’s remarks I did not see them as highly critical of Obama. I thought he was defending [himself].
Note: I’d say Scarborough was onto something when he suggested that Pres. Obama himself sets the arrogant tone for the administration. Have you ever heard PBO try to tamp down the MSM’s deification of him?
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Arrogance is such an ugly thing….
Of course Obama sets the arrogant tone.
He played along with the “messiah” theme, using it in the most cynical way, like the pulpit photo, creating a campaign poster that looked like a church bulletin with the words “Faith, Hope, Change”…..all the talking about his faith, which he ignores now that it’s no longer needed….
My cousin’s boyfriend in high school had two working titles for books on humility that I’ve always thought would serve our humble President: “Famous People who Have Known Me.” and “How I, Too, Found Humility.”
When the day comes that even Harwood is sitting there agreeing, it would be wise for Gabby Gibbs to take heed, along with the O-Team.
Are you listening Rahm?
You may want to try to tell your boss his arrogance is going to be his downfall from that Throne he thinks he sits on.
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