Yer Infantile Majesty, Einstein and Madison had the right to get bored. Neither did, so far as I know. You, Moral & Intellectual Midget, have not one breath of said right.

At this point, Conservatives should stop getting on him for vacations and golf and parties and stuff, and push him to do these things more. He’s worthless, and his little ventures into Presidenting cause more harm than good. The less he gets involved the better.

As for the capital letters, that must have been subconscious. I have no conscious memory of reading the poem before, but I surely read your post about it when it appeared, likely both times, and that may be why the phrase appeared so vividly in my writing mind in capital letters.

And while we’re on the subject of strange linkages, I checked John Berryman’s bio to see if there was any possibility that our mothers knew each other (it would seem not ) and there learned — in connection with one of the other subjects we’ve been exploring here over the past few days — that he was haunted throughout his life by the suicide of his father when he was 12.

I’m reminded of a scene in “Fiddler on the Roof” [I hope I get the sense mostly correct; it’s been a looong time]:

There’s a debate raging. One of the townspeople makes his point, and the protagonist exclaims, “you are right”! Another of the townspeople voices the opposing position, and the protagonist exclaims, “you are right”! Someone points out to the protagonist, “but they cannot both be right.” The protagonist comes back with, “*you* are right!”

But seriously . . . neo, *you* are right: “the two are not mutually exclusive.” They can feel mutually exclusive, only because the malignancy involved is so multifaceted. Was I emoting rather than thinking?

Are you John Berryman’s sister?

Did you follow the link in my post to the previous post where I quoted Berryman’s poem, with the following lines:

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn,
and moreover my mother told me as a boy
(repeatingly) “Ever to confess you’re bored
means you have no

Inner Resources.” I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,
Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes
as bad as Achilles,

who loves people and valiant art, which bores me…

The two are not mutually exclusive.

Obama can be dedicated to any number of goals (and I’ve talked about a lot of them—chief among them weakening the US, and establishing the Democrats in one-party rule in perpetuum) and still be lackadaisical and uninvolved with the actual operation of how to get there, except in the broad outlines.

As if it really matters much at this point.
He was always the empty suit paraded to the public, and he is not now nor has he ever been the real power in this administration. Obama is a true believer, but he does as he’s told. When the going even begins to seem like it’s getting rough, the wimp checks out & goes golfing.

The person doing the ‘telling’ in this administration increasingly appears to be Valerie Jarret. This administration was fraudulently elected to a second term. They have nothing to loose and everything to gain by going for broke. Afterall, with this crowd, Cloward-Pivoning the government beyond the breaking point does not seem to be a bug, but a feature.
Recently quoted,

“Apparently, when an OPE operative suggested the media sees the Obama White House as “done”, and “old news”, Jarrett’s eyes flashed indignantly as she shook her head from side to side, her right pointer finger tapping the top of a desk several times with enough force it echoed inside the small White House conference room.

“They think we’re done? Not quite. Not yet. Not even close.”

Any reasonable objective observer cannot help but conclude that the actions of this administration go well beyond corrupt and incompetent. (My opinion here which, along with a dollar will get you a cup of coffee.)

A brief and not by any means complete recitation of the stellar achievements of this administration;
Obama care
De-fanging the Inspectors general
Fudging unemployment statistics
Fast & Furious (arming drug gangs in Mexico and aiding in the de-stabilization of it’s government)
Embracing the Honduran thug
Abandonment of Israel
Abandonment of Iraq
Upcoming abandonment of Afghanistan
Backing the Muslin Brotherhood in the Egyptian uprising
Libya (but what difference does it make?)
The bright red line in Syria
Our southern border
Dismantling of our military
Etcetera, ad nauseum….

This goes way beyond incompetence.