Gravitas

ABC radio in New York carries that Limbaugh fella at noon every day so the guy who preceeds him calls his time slot 10 to Rush as Rush has taken over the clock setting of noon.  I try very hard to go anywhere during his airtime for fear that I might just flip dials in the car and up he will pop - the proverbial weed in the garden.

Yesterday I was trapped. There was an accident on the road ahead and WABC was the only station without static. Mr. Limbaugh was opining that it was a republican who left the bread crumb trail to Bin Ladin and that "the magic negro" had actually delayed going after him for as long as he was president because he lacked the necessary something to do the job. Further, when Mr. Obama made the announcement he used the pronoun/word "I" as in "I ordered ..." and according to this ball of fat, Mr. Obama was grabbing credit away from the Navy Seals and making it sound like he alone did it all.

When you are President I guess you are president of "all the people" - not just the ones in the population who are sane and not pandering - but everyone.  It is a shame that the efforts of the nation's highest office; the energy that it takes; gets shunted off and otherwise wasted on these outlying louts.

I'm struck by one of the pictures released by the White House; the one from the situation room. This one.  The contrast between talking head and responsibility can't be made sharper. This is clear to all those save the ones with the most jaded eyes.  Substance and gravitas.  Fat and blabber.

Clear?