Taken individually — like Mrs. Obama notoriously wearing $600 tennis shoes to a food bank event — these acts can seem like minor gaffes. Everyone expects a president to relax or exercise or stage elegant parties. But in the broader context of events nowadays, such a blatant pattern of persistent insensitivity comes across as, at best, just plain stupid, or possibly, brazenly indifferent. We’re here and you’re not.
(emphasis added – Ed). I suggest reading the whole thing.
h/t to Instapundit who concludes…
Without the press more-or-less literally carrying him, this guy couldn’t have gotten elected dogcatcher.
