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Read @ Newsweek.com

Too Cool For School

by Patti Davis
September 09, 2010

“Maybe we fell in love too fast,” my friend said. “You know, we might have zipped right past the road signs.”

Several of us were sitting around over the holiday weekend, enjoying a lovely bottle of wine at sunset ... and discussing the condition of our country. Which led us to the president. Which led us to our mutually shared disappointment in him.

We are all liberals, we all supported Obama, and we all remember how emotionally uplifted and hopeful we felt when he was elected.

“But he was a brilliant orator,” another friend offered. “He went right for the heart, and he did it so well.”

Yes, but now ...

We all agreed that we felt betrayed. We’d expected so much; we’d believed greatness was ahead of us, leading us, guiding us into the future. Maybe we did fall in love too fast, and the person we thought was a godsend didn’t stay for breakfast and never called again.

[SNIP]

The no-drama, too-cool-for-school persona worked really well during the campaign, especially when he came up against a hothead like McCain. But when you are leader of the free world and a man-made environmental disaster is wiping out an entire region of the country; when birds and turtles and marine mammals are dying excruciating deaths; when people are losing their entire way of life and their livelihoods; when millions of others are watching helplessly, weeping at the suffering and the devastation and trying to think of some way, no matter how small, to help ... being cool doesn’t cut it.

[SNIP]

And then we saw photos of our president on the golf course. That’s a big reason why we didn’t feel better.

I started thinking about the art of communication, and how dependent it is on a certain level of theatrics. If you want your audience to feel specific emotions, you have to understand how to stir up those feelings in them. It’s both dance and dialogue, taking place deep beneath the surface.

[SNIP]

Perhaps the White House should hire an acting coach who could instruct President Obama on opening up and emoting. It starts with motivation. How about: Mr. President, your motivation is “I feel your pain.” You don’t say that, of course, because you’ll sound ridiculous. But you think it, feel it, let it guide you. People want to believe you care. We just need a little hint that maybe you do.  (Emphasis added)

Continues @ Newsweek.com
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Yeah, out of touch person is more like it. Pedagogy is not what we expect in a leader.. definitely not from the WH.

A person communicates with every move they make.  Every holiday they do or do not take. Every look, who they look at, and when.   AND IF IT DOES NOT COME FROM THE HEART,  WE KNOW.

[Patti Davis’s most recent book is The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us.]  - I have to look up the book.


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It's unbelievable to me that this was written by an adult. I get why the immature Obamakids fell for his crap, but an adult - an educated, professional, woman. Please! If she was as clueless as she indicated in the article, this woman has a problem. It took only a few minute of research, of reading a few forums and blogs, of educating one's self, to recognize that Obama was not what he represented himself to be. Hell, just his political life in Chicago was enough to know that fairness and decency were not high on his priority list.

This woman and her damn friends owe the country an apology for ignorantly, blindly supporting Obama. Next time, Patti, try to read a few publications other than Newsweek. You might learn something!

BTW - I checked out her previous articles, and found the little gem below from 2008 - Patti calling on Hillary to speak for women "who are angry at the assumption that, just because Sarah Palin is female, we will fall in line behind her."

Do you believe that sh**. This female Obamanut had the nerve to post an open letter to Hillary.

The whining, image-conscious, hyper-politically correct, so-called feminists like Patti Davis of Newsweek, have done their part to set back the cause of women's rights.

What Hillary Should Say Now
An open letter to the almost-nominee.

Dear Hillary,
Where are you? We haven't heard from you since your strong and eloquent speech at the Democratic National Convention. You might be taking a well-deserved vacation--certainly you must need one after all those arduous months campaigning. But we need to hear from you right now. We need your voice to speak for all the women (and there are many of us) who are angry at the assumption that, just because Sarah Palin is female, we will fall in line behind her.
We need you to make clear that women do not automatically judge someone because of gender; we are more concerned with the quality of their character and the depth and breadth of their experience.

http://www.newsweek.com/2008/09/04/what-hillary-should-say-now.html

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Is this the same Patti Davis who is also Ronald Reagan's daughter?

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It seems she is, Jen.  Here's an excerpt from another Newsweek article from her:

In the Name of the Father .....

The 2008 presidential candidates are obsessed with who's more like Ronald Reagan, who's a better hunter and who's more religious. Can't anyone be their own man (or woman)?

OPINION
Many years before my father was governor of California, when America began naming things after John F. Kennedy, I remember thinking how really weird it must have been for his children to have highways and airports named after their father. Now, all these years later, I can say from experience that it truly is a surreal experience. "A traffic accident on the Ronald Reagan freeway…" "Delays at Reagan National Airport…" Believe me, you never really get used to it.
But that's not nearly as strange as seeing the 2008 presidential candidates try to imitate my father and proclaim themselves more Reaganesque than their competitors. Where is Lloyd Bentsen when you need him? "I knew Ronald Reagan… Senator [or Governor], you're no Ronald Reagan." snip

http://www.newsweek.com/2007/12/28/in-the-name-of-the-father.html



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LOL on the Lloyd Bentsen remark!

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