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发帖数: 29846 | 1 June 14, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
A month ago the President had his tech lackeys add a little something to a
host of past president’s biographical webpages on the official White House
website causing eyebrows to be raised across the country. At that time team
Obama thought would be a great idea to add sections at the end of many
presidential bios touting how great Obama is, too. In an admission that they
overstepped propriety and now that the outrage has died down, the White
House web team has gone back into these pages and pulled the Obama horn-
tooting out of the bio proper and put them in a separate area.
In May, many Americans were aghast at the arrogance displayed by Obama for
having the temerity to insert himself into so many bios of our illustrious
past presidents. Obama added bits touting his own wonderful policy ideas
into the bios of such presidents as Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Ronald
Reagan, Calvin Coolidge, and many others.
Obama was widely criticized over the move and the imprudence was said to
have shored up the perception that Barack Obama is President Me, Me, Me. It
all embarrassed the White House, as well it should. Even ABC News’ Jake
Tapper looked askance at the move saying that the additions are not “
historical, but rather something else entirely.”
That something else is arrogance.
GOP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney released a statement at the time
slamming the president for his swelled-headed additions.
I do know that when the president ran, he said that this election would
be the turning point, that the oceans would recede, that the world would
shift because of him being in office. There seem to be people around him, as
well as himself, who have a very grand view of what he will accomplish . .
. and we’re still waiting to see that. I think the American people have
been disappointed. The promises were grandiose and extraordinary, and the
deliverables have been disappointing at best. I think it is one thing to try
to rewrite your own history — it’s something different altogether to
rewrite that of all your predecessors. . . . I can commit: I will not be
trying to rewrite the biographies of former presidents.
Obviously Obama was embarrassed by the whole incident and this week the
White House has moved to try and put salve over that wound. Of course, Obama
has decided to try and correct that arrogance without admitting just how
wrong he was by removing the horn-tooting entirely not to mention doing this
quietly, without fanfare, in the hopes no one notices.
Originally the Obama notations were added right into the other presidential
bios as an actual part of them. Now those plaudits have been removed from
the bio proper and placed in a separate box at the bottom of the bio page,
distancing the Obama laudations from the presidential bio pages on which
they appear.
This, of course, is marginally better, but the fact that Obama went into
these many bio pages at all to add his little campaign spiel is appalling
whether as a separate box or not. Especially since the chief reason for
these bio pages is for school kids to use when looking up information about
American history. Obama obviously aimed his back patting at our kids.
It would be a far better move to remove this unnecessary campaign rhetoric
entirely, certainly, but at least excising them from the actual bios
themselves was done. And so Obama tries to send another embarrassing move on
his part down the memory hole. |
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