Like Algore running up a $30,000 utility bill while telling the rest of us to stop using electricity or the planet will be destroyed; like Code Pink with their demands that we ride bicycles rather than drive (for the sake of the planet!) while they toss theirs into the back of a pickup truck and drive; and like John Edwards, with his demands that the “rich” America pay “their fair share” to the poor America, made from the comfort of his 30,000-ft2 mansion, Leftist “leaders” have always had a set of rules they want to prescribe for the people they lord over, and an entirely different set for themselves.
Barack Obama is, unsurprisingly, no different.
The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
Sounds like he’s setting the thermostat to at least 72 degrees, doesn’t it? I’d call that a tad hypocritical, wouldn’t you? Just a tad?
Indeed, President Obama may have spent some of his teenage years in Hawaii, but he’s been exposed to Boston, New York and Chicago winters for some decades. You’d think he would be less of a hot-house flower by now.
Indeed. In fact, maybe President Obama should throw on a sweater or two and summon up some of that “Chicago toughness” he chided Washington for lacking (from the comfort of his 90-degree office).
Did the Times even note the hypocrisy, or at the very least the incongruity, in its report on Obama’s White House? Not at all.
Many people in America, especially where I live, would like to heat their homes to a comfort level where sweaters and coats become unnecessary. However, Obama and the Democrats want to impose ruinous taxes and penalties on energy production and fuel that produces carbon dioxide — a naturally-occurring element — and make that choice economically unbearable for us. In fact, candidate Obama spoke directly to that end in May of this year:
In fact, candidate Obama spoke directly to that end in May of this year:
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
Well, apparently some of us can, and those lucky few do call themselves “leaders”. The rest of us call them hypocrites as we fetch another sweater.
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There's a bunch of people in KY who'd like the temperature up to 72 right now.
Moe Lane (Diary) Sunday, February 1st at 1:35PM EDT (link)Heck, right now they’d settle for 42.
But you enjoy the Super Bowl, Mr. President.
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I think they got at least above freezing today.
Steph C (Diary) Sunday, February 1st at 2:20PM EDT (link)How long it will last is anybody’s guess. It’s a nice 55 or so here and KY is just north of us here in Nashville. The eastern side, however, probably won’t get that temp.
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Glad Mr. Obama enjoys the heat...
Frederick (Diary) Sunday, February 1st at 1:39PM EDT (link)…since I’m helping pay for it.
Yes, apparently this really is the change we can believe in…
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He may be enjoying the heat
woodsman (Diary) Sunday, February 1st at 2:02PM EDT (link)but how will he be able to respond to it if and when something really heats up?
How utterly typical
Right_Again (Diary) Sunday, February 1st at 2:19PM EDT (link)“Do as I say, not as I do” appears to be the motto of the Democrats. We now have a Treasury Secretary who cheated on his own taxes. This man refused to pay amounts he owed because the statute of limitations had run, until he was nominated to this position. We have Secretary of State who will pretend impartiality as her husband’s foundation accepts what amount to bribes from leaders of foreign countries. And we have a President who chastises us for keeping our thermometers at 72, but thinks nothing of doing so himself.
Truly this is change we can believe in.
Are we allowed to hope for something better?
Sadly, these are our leaders.
Steph C (Diary) Sunday, February 1st at 2:24PM EDT (link)It’s not a left or right failing but a failing all around. I can count on one hand the number of our leaders in Washington who might have passed leadership 101.
I was always taught you don’t expect more of people than you expect of yourself. Isn’t that one of the tenets of leadership?
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It's not cynicism ...
kchand Sunday, February 1st at 3:23PM EDT (link)it’s contempt with a heaping helping of arrogance.
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But we all misunderstood . . .
disintelligentsia (Diary) Sunday, February 1st at 4:28PM EDT (link)When BO said that we can’t keep our thermostats at 72 it was May and Summers was coming up – he likes it warm and therefore, we should all follow our dear leader’s example and keep things warm. Now that it’s winter, that whole 72 thing no longer applies. He’s OK with us turning on the heater – just not the A/C.
“Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.” –Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Nicholas, 1803.
That idiotic comment alone...
Neil1030 Sunday, February 1st at 11:14PM EDT (link)Should have knocked him out of the race last summer. I suspect that back when the “news” media showed some semblance of fairness that guys like Mondale, Dukakis, or Carter would have been hurt by such a line. That and others like once we take over the Earth will begin to cool, and other messianic pronouncements like that. But now forget it. I wonder how many Americans even were aware Obama said that. Sadly, even if it was 100% I suppose few would have changed their votes. If that is what a majority of Americans want then maybe Mike Steele and co. should pack up and go home because the nation is already lost. I hope that is not the case but the trends are not good.
This kind of hypocrisy and surrender to world opinion is another issue McCain and Palin could have tried to play up more in the campaign I suppose. But when you’re facing a juggernaut with half a billion dollars it is hard to overcome opposition with a propaganda machine as large as the Dems had in ’08.
The new government motto: "We stand behind everything we do."
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Sunday, February 1st at 11:31PM EDT (link)Translation: A member of The Civilian Defense Corps is behind your sofa.
Actually they'll be behind you everywhere in your house, except your bedroom
civil truth (Diary) Sunday, February 1st at 11:38PM EDT (link)…unless they suspect you of having a gun there or clinging to a Bible.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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crux Sunday, February 1st at 11:58PM EDT (link)“Some are more equal than others”
I’m waiting for the MSM to get a clue – they are a part of the teeming masses, just like the rest of us. His “great ideas” are for us to do, not him. “Do as I say, not as I do”