Three more years

How does one insulate themselves from embarrassment – the normal human response to doing something stupid – or clumsy – or careless – or simply getting caught in the act of an obvious lie or devious or dishonest act?  How can one master the art that was best displayed by Peter Sellers (R.I.P.) performing as Chief Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series of movies? 

Well, first off, we do recognize the failure of this analogy – one guy is acting and the other guy is doing.  But, there is this one similarity – the guy acting is just plain clueless but very, very funny.  The guy doing is just plain clueless.

So, how does one develop the natural defense mechanisms of obliviousness to being a screw up?  Particularly when that one rode to power on an image of capability – intellect – cleverness –  skill?   Think about that – this carefully crafted image of being Mr. Cool now confronts daily the external realization and judgment of ineptitude and failure.  America has Ron Burgundy in the white house.  We have our very own emperor sans pantaloons.

Back to our question – how can someone be so clueless?  And unfunny in the process.

We now offer a brief summary of some possibilities of how one can do that:

·         Narcissistic beyond description of normal narcissism in abnormal psychology tomes

·         Looking for dad

·         Looking for mom

·         Drugs and other pharmaceutical aids

·         Television – sports – other escape forms

·         Adoring press coverage

·         Sycophantic surroundings and surrounders

·         Alcohol

·         Channeling Bill Clinton

·         Channeling Hillary Clinton

·         Relying solely on Valerie and Michelle for input/critique

·         Channeling any recent federal reserve chairperson

·         Limiting public appearances to fawning groups – NAACP, NEA, AFT, SEIU and AFSCME

·         Stacking the stage at carefully choreographed speeches with stooges

·         All of the above

There it is.  Can he pull it off for three more years?  Well, there will be as many opinions in response to that question as there will be responders.   Ours?

We don’t think he has a chance.  He has failed completely and we must struggle along for three more years.   Listening to his empty words and living his failed solutions.  We will survive but his acceptance of mediocrity in measurable results gets awful darn boring.   By the end of his second term America will have lived through an eight year commercial that will forever be a monument to the power of disinformation over results.