Sunday, May 13, 2012

It's good to be the king...

 I should rather title this "It takes two to tango". Timothy Stanley writes in The Telegraph:
“The Prez could go seal-clubbing and much of the media would see it as a new epoch for winter sports. ‘Barack Obama Becomes the First President to Kill Six Seals in Under One Minute,’ The New York Times would proudly report, while Twitter would be all abuzz with how hot he looks in snow shoes.”... All politicians are ambitious; all powerful men are self-absorbed. But few have competed with Obama’s extraordinary sense of intellectual self-importance. But then, this is a man who had written his autobiography before the age of 35. It used to be that only reality TV show contestants did that.
A narrator and his spellbound audience walk into the bar...