Ballin' with The Boss

A big part of being a high profile politician is being a good actor.  You have to be able to say all kinds of absurd things with total sincerity.  The story here is that Obama is good at acting because he practices, and he's athletic and likes sports so they like to cast him in roles in movies like "Ballin' with The Boss."  Naturally, NYT perpetuates the theatre instead of reporting, administering a slobbery tongue bath to the narcissistic asshole they describe. 

He preemptively blames his staff for problems by claiming his superiority to them at their jobs.  So confident!  My favorite part is Obama whining ("in his darker days" ha!) about how he should be judged against the accomplishments of the hypothetical Republican alternative rather than on his own record.  Dude is the exact same as them!  What, he's pissed off that we don't care that Bush didn't even bother to work hard at the acting while basically doing all the same dirt?  Dude pardoned Bush and his accomplices for their crimes and continued and escalated those crimes in between his golf lessons with PGA pros.  NYT focuses on the golf.  Dude got his Grammy and his 2008 Marketer of the Year.  He isn't satisfied with those performance awards and wants voters to give him credit for it too?  Seems kinda greedy, dude.  NYT ignores that Obama can't go all-out against the Republicans because he's complicit in all of their crimes.  So competitive!  Bullshit!  So cooperative.  So compliant.

By the way, here's the plot of Ballin' with The Boss, which won 25 Oscars, 56 Golden Globes and 3 Nobel Peace Prizes.  Once upon a time Obama called in a "double tap" drone strike on a bunch of Pakistani "militants," knowing full well the NYT would comply with his directive that all young men killed will be called militants.  A few minutes later, while he lectured a very special group of underprivileged teens how anything is possible, the first tap killed 9 members of a wedding party. A few minutes after that, the second tap killed 8 would-be rescuers and 16 survivors of the first attack.  A few days later, Obama talked a bunch of shit while slacking off on defense, then demanded the ball on offense, knowing his White House staff league basketball opponents would never risk challenging his drive to the basket.  The one time a brash young intern plays tough defense on Obama, the ref calls a highly questionable foul.  After the game, Obama teammates laud his accomplishments.  He's so smart and talented and his close friend says he tries to do his best!!  The next day the intern is fired. About a decade later, 50% of the long forgotten very special underprivileged audience have been killed or incarcerated in the war on drugs, 90% have received inadequate medical care, and the few who made it to post-secondary education are an average of $79,00 in debt with no job prospects. Meanwhile Obama basks in the luxury and prestige of the post-Presidential speaking circuit, collecting unimaginable speaking fees from all his partners who profit from the destruction of the lives of inconsequential losers.   Obama plays to win!