"Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize half of them are stupider than that.” George Carlin
January 21, 2015
By: Linda Case Gibbons
He may not be on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s page, but he’s on hers.
GloZell Green.
Don’t know her? Well, don’t feel bad. Most of us Americans didn’t either. But Obama did. In fact he had an interview with her and two other YouTube stars this week.
It was tops on his priority list. And who can blame him?
GloZell is a YouTube sensation who bathes and eats from a tub filled with her breakfast cereal and who, as it turned out, is not that familiar with the King’s English.
Say what? Well, during her interview, the green-lipsticked GloZel told the prez that her husband was mad at her. Why? Because she snipped the hoods off his "hoodies.”
And she told him why.
"I’m afraid when he goes outside someone might shoot to kill him. It’s not regular folks,” she explained, but "the PoPo.”
The president murmured, "I understand.” And he did!
It was a true meeting of the minds. With more than a million words in the English language, GloZel didn’t understand most of them, but luckily the president knew what she meant.
After all, a lot of what he and his attorney general do has to do with the "bad PoPo’s.” It could also be because "PoPo” was attached to the word "hoodie” and Obama majored in "hoodie” at Harvard with a minor in Race Relations/Trayvon Martin/Ferguson.
And what president wouldn’t jump at the chance to talk to a gal like Glo-Zel? Heck, he already had a heads up that she liked him!
Part of her YouTube routine was to say, in no uncertain terms, but possibly ungrammatical ones, that she loved Obama because, "He black. He black, he black!”
That had to feel good for the president. Not that many people are saying that these days.
And for the rest of us, well, we don’t often get a chance to see the president like this.
He was happy! Not snarky! No chip on his shoulder! He was answering questions! And it was all because he was with his buds, people he felt comfortable with!
He isn’t that way with the White House Press Corps, Netanyahu, Congress and most of our allies.
And he is furious that Congress has powers granted to it by the Constitution that enabled them to act without asking his permission! Separation of Powers always made him cranky.
While back at the ranch, the only thing that amazes the American people is that the Israeli Prime Minister has the fortitude to come back to Washington after the way he has been treated by Obama. In 2010. No dinner invitation. Left alone. Given ultimatums.
And in 2014, called chicken**** by a U.S. official for the prime minister’s supposed failure to take political risks on behalf of the peace process.
And Secretary of State John Kerry’s off-the-cuff, recurring insulting statements about the man.
But fiddle-dee-dee! Obama figures he can think about that tomorrow.
Or the day after.
As for today, he was given the opportunity to be paternal and answer soft questions lobbed at him from low information YouTubers, such as what super powers he would most like to have (Answer: To fly and talk to everyone in their native language) How old he is. What TV shows he watches.
The "event,” as the White House said, was intended to "draw a younger audience” and "to try to engage as many Americans as possible in a variety of venues, to discuss the president’s priorities.”
And it did that. We saw the president’s priorities. Didn’t have much to do with the country, but we saw them.
It was a great 50 minutes of history.
So that at the end of the "event,” a commentator asked, "Is the presidency a full-time job? Because it sure doesn’t look like it.”
Funny. We were thinking the same thing!
Hold the line, America.