"Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it."
Alton Brown
just last night...
closing out a rousing episode of Challenge Barramundi on
"Iron Chef America"
isn't that little morsel fabulous?
This week has been infiltrated by the art of polls, politicking, and polarizing issues; not only does Brown's assessment seem fitting, but added with the imagery of putting up the good fight, much like The Good War (if only in rhetoric), the Barramundi itself becomes the quintessential ingredient on the day. Oh, how the Barramundi do not come easily (not that I have personal experience in that...just going by a fish story or two).
They hate nets, or so I'm told; the idea of being trapped, caught, snagged by the misstep, is enough to make a Barramundi give it everything he's got until the bitter end.
Enter Trump... a classic reaction, wasn't it?
“I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully getting rid of this issue...I hope it checks out beautifully. I am really proud, I am really honored,” said Trump. “Now we can talk about oil, we can talk about gasoline prices. We can talk about China ripping off our country.”
What just happened?
... apparently, the guy who 'hasn't got a prayer for taking the next election' made the president blink.
And as the world turns, in an odd way, has almost made the situation worse.
For now the nationwide response is beginning to sound a little something like this:
...what took you so long
...if this was so easy to do, how come you didn't get this over and done with years ago (when Hillary brought it up)
...if this is all "silliness" and "sideshow," according to your own opinion, Mr. President, why in the world did you allow it to go on for three years?
...are you kidding me?
...Trump plays with you
...pokes you
...prods you
...and it prompts a press conference?...seriously?
...as you come to the podium lamenting the position this wayfarer of the tabloids has put you in, saying,
"Now,
normally I would not comment on something like this,
normally I would not comment on something like this,
because obviously there’s a lot of stuff
swirling in the press on at any given day
and I’ve got other things to do..."
and I’ve got other things to do..."
(like catch my plane for The Oprah Show)
"But two weeks ago, when the Republican House had put forward a budget that will have huge consequences potentially to the country, and when I gave a speech about my budget and how I felt that we needed to invest in education and infrastructure and making sure that we had a strong safety net for our seniors even as we were closing the deficit, during that entire week the dominant news story wasn’t about these huge, monumental choices that we’re going to have to make as a nation. It was about my birth certificate. And that was true on most of the news outlets that were represented here."
good grab there Barackamundi; way to stick to the facts and reel us all back in to what it's really all about. well done. oh what's this...we got a sauce to go with it? yum...
"And so I just want to make a larger point here. We’ve got some enormous challenges out there. There are a lot of folks out there who are still looking for work. Everybody is still suffering under high gas prices. We’re going to have to make a series of very difficult decisions about how we invest in our future but also get a hold of our deficit and our debt — how do we do that in a balanced way." Barrackamundi
sweet chili and tamarind, just the thought of it makes my mouth water.
so we get it. you are resting the last three years of spinning the birth certificate bruhaha into a win for you, by snagging the old Trumpster right where you want him...eating his own words.
too bad it didn't work.
Believe you have forgotten who you are up against; Trump has lost everything and come back. And given no experience in politics (to date), funny how the guy has mastered spin on the fly so fast, isn't it?
and thin skinned you're not...
"But we’re not going to be able to do it if we are distracted. We’re not going to be able to do it if we spend time vilifying each other. We’re not going to be able to do it if we just make stuff up and pretend that facts are not facts. We’re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers." Barrakamundi
The clever little net we weave right out of the manual of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals; it's all about "everybody else" -- everybody else vilifying each other...everybody else making things up...everybody else pretending the facts are not facts. If the facts are so straight, Mr. President, then with all due respect, this press conference of yours should have happened long before you ever had the honor of making the biggest power grab in history, doncha think? what's with all this time pulling the old red fish blue fish shenanigans?
Hate to break it to you, but this "silliness" is all on you; this two, three years of throwing it all out there on the line to see what sticks, energizing your base through years of inexplicable manipulation and masterminding around your own story (s) -- that is, until Trump made you come clean -- does little to exude confidence and leadership, let alone a general commandeering of your own reputation... let alone stand for the principles of truth and honor once held in high esteem in this fair land.
But you wrangled with the guy long enough, and it was time to really hand it to him.
"We live in a serious time right now and we have the potential to deal with the issues that we confront in a way that will make our kids and our grandkids and our great grandkids proud. And I have every confidence that America in the 21st century is going to be able to come out on top just like we always have. But we’re going to have to get serious to do it.
I know that there’s going to be a segment of people for which, no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest. But I’m speaking to the vast majority of the American people, as well as to the press. We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We’ve got better stuff to do. I’ve got better stuff to do. We’ve got big problems to solve. And I’m confident we can solve them, but we’re going to have to focus on them — not on this.
Thanks very much, everybody"
good on you.
Trump this: "I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully getting rid of this issue."
In an article from Politico this morning was a quote from the past press secretary, Robert Gibbs, who in a twist of brilliance and irony said this not that long ago, “There are no more arbiters of truth ...So whatever you can prove factually, somebody else can find something else and point to it with enough ferocity to get people to believe it. We’ve crossed some Rubicon into the unknown.”
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