"You can roll around in a pile of dead fish, but you have to accept the consequences." Really Important Stuff My Dog Taught Me, Cynthia L. Copeland
November 16, 2016
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
It's not that unusual. You have a New Baby and the Old Baby feels left out. That's all that's happening with President Obama. He's used to getting all the attention.
And now he's not.
It's especially uncomfortable when the New Baby is adorable and smart, and everyone says so. When he gets all the toys the Old Baby wanted.
A spoiled baby would probably throw a temper tantrum and try to pinch the New Baby when no one's looking. He'd probably tell his little friends to be mean to his new baby brother.
But who wants a kid who acts that way? It puts the whole family in a tizzy. And, like it or not, the Old Baby has to take a back-car-seat to the New Kid.
It's just the way it works. In a family, or in a democracy.
One way to handle it is to tiptoe around him. Say, "Shhhh! Be very, very quiet," and wait until he leaves for pre-K, (or leaves office), otherwise he might do something very bad.
Another is to ignore his little buddies when they're rude. Maybe give the toddlers a history lesson, to distract them.
Tell them that the real Alexander Hamilton, in the real world, was a Founding Father, not just some nameless actor. And add in that Hamilton was an early proponent of what has become our modern day Electoral College.
Imagine.
As for President Obama, he tried being gracious, but it didn't last. Gracious was never his strong suit. He met with Trump because he had to. He repeated over and over, "I will make a smooth transition. I will, I will!" But he won't.
Because he can't ignore it. He lost the election. And his Legacy. It lost, too.
He denies it bothers him. "Heck," he says. "I wasn't on the ballot."
But he was.
We saw him campaigning. We heard him tell the Congressional Black Caucus he'd be insulted if they didn't vote to protect his Legacy. And we heard Michelle say "We're going high, when 'they' go low." But they didn't.
So the voters rejected him, just as the Brits rejected his "suggestion" to vote to remain in the European Union.
But Obama still insists his "policies" had nothing to do with Hillary's loss, and he's telling the world. In Athens. In Berlin. And at the APAC Summit in Peru.
He's confident he's done a good job, he says. He's sure his "vision" is right, that all Americans agree with him, he says. And he's sure Trump supporters will soon realize how good they had it during his administration.
When asked if the loss at the polls meant his policies were rejected, he bristles. "Last I checked, a pretty healthy majority of American people agree with my worldview on a whole bunch of things."
Yeah. Well, it's tough to lose, but it's tragic not to be honest as to why you did.
But he wasn't honest. Obama didn't tell the citizens of Greece, Germany or Peru about Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Donna Brazile, his corrupted FBI, or his communicating with Hillary on her secret server. And lying about it.
I'm sure those folks noticed his omissions, after all the election was big news around the world. And I'm sure they felt sorry for him for being a sore loser.
And, no surprise. While in Peru he announced he's not going to go quietly. He'll speak out against Trump, he declared, if he feels "U.S. ideals are at risk." And he'd know.
So when FOX commentator Bill Hemmer asked former New Hampshire Gov. Sununu, "What will this mean?" Sununu replied, "Who cares?"
And Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, at the Heritage Foundation, had a similar view.
"For a president with an embarrassing foreign policy record, President Obama's been an extraordinarily self-confident figure. His record doesn't match his arrogance.
Hold the line, America.