According to the dictionary, a dilettante is an admirer or lover of the arts or a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge, a dabbler.
My wife once told me that she wanted to be a dilettante. I always thought it had a pejorative connotation, so I looked it up. She wanted to be a lover of the arts, which is a perfectly fine aspiration.
President Obama personifies the second definition.
Warning: What I am about to say here is politically incorrect. If you can’t handle politically incorrect statements, please do not read any further.
A Washington Post story had a troubling story about the unemployment rate among African-American men: “Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions — 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment in the District, home to many young black men, rose to 11.9 percent from 11.4 percent, even as it stayed relatively stable in Virginia and Maryland.”
The New York Times had a story that said that if you are a
young voter, you would have to be an idiot to vote for the Democrats.
OK, well, it didn’t exactly say that.
What it did say is that the United States Treasury is having
some difficulty making its debt payments. The bills are coming due, and the
payments on the debt are our largest expenditure in the budget.
Two hikers are walking in the woods when they spot a bear. The bear starts running after them, and the hikers climb up a tree. As the bear starts following them up the tree, one of the hikers opens up his knapsack and puts on his running shoes. The other hiker asks incredulously, “What are you doing?” The other says, “I can’t run as fast in these clunky boots as I can in these,” pointing to the shoes. “But you can’t outrun the bear,” the other says. “I don’t have to outrun the bear. I have to outrun you.”
It was bad enough that he beat the most viable female presidential candidate in our nation’s history. Now it seems the president is going out of his way to irritate the fairer sex in our nation.
Most men like me already distrusted Barack Obama. It is no shock to anyone that white men voted overwhelmingly against candidate Obama in the last election, while women voted overwhelmingly for him.
What is shocking is seeing how the Obama Democrats are now seemingly going out of their way to irritate working women, and especially working mothers.
The president’s bow to the Japanese emperor caused great
concern among conservative pundits and politicians. Even Dick Cheney, a
noteworthy friend of the Japanese, said that it was inappropriate for an
American president to show such exaggerated respect to any foreign leader.
I didn’t have much of a problem with the bow, because the
Japanese aren’t the economic or military threat they once were. I thought the
bow was nice, and showed that we still value a relationship that is not nearly
as important as it once was.
The Obama administration is making some unbelievable
unforced errors when it comes to the key concerns of the American people.
Perhaps the top concern is jobs. The White House staff have
been slow to realize that job creation would be so critical to their own job
security. They haven’t focused much on it rhetorically, their stimulus has
failed to create many jobs, and their other legislative efforts — cap-and-trade
and the healthcare bill — are job-killers.
When the world convenes in Copenhagen, Denmark, for further talks about what to do about global warming and climate change, most of the press attention will inevitably be focused on what America and China have failed to do to achieve their carbon reduction targets.
But that is not the only issue that ought to be discussed. Indeed, it is probably not the most important one.
According to The Associated Press (and I am not making this
up), Cuba’s dictator loves Barack Obama.
“Fidel Castro appears to have a fascination with the
American leader that would make Obama Girl jealous, writing obsessively not
only about his politics, but of his youth and vigor. And unlike with past
American heads-of-state — he slammed President George W. Bush as a genocidal
drunk — Castro seems to genuinely like the fresh face in Washington.”
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