Forest and Trees
And thus was hay made this weekend, when the President said to the CBC “If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew—uh…as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor”
Hardly the most upsetting thing he has ever said. In fact, the Czar has two comments about this.
First, get over it. This was no Freudian slip: he did not mean to say Jew, nor was he thinking it. In fact, the rapid uh that followed indicates he knew instantly that was way off. Besides, a Freudian slip implies you were thinking at all.
Second, he wasn’t thinking. He did not even mean to say Jew so much as junior, because the two words junior and janitor look very similar on a teleprompter…particularly the transparent-type he uses. Had he not bothered to rehearse, he might have steamrolled right over it; however, he clearly recognized there was a strange word there and caught himself. Jew? The President probably didn’t even know he said it until someone told him later.
So forget about this one word, and instead focus on the rest of the speech…in which Obama tells the CBC that it’s time to get fightin’ mad for him. While he, of course, takes it easy. He’s a lover, not a fighter. Fighting for him? That’s your job.
Is anyone alarmed, by the way, that he thinks a billionaire and a janitor should pay the same tax rate?
Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.