{"id":280,"date":"2014-04-16T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/04\/16\/president-dad-for-better-or-worse\/"},"modified":"2014-04-16T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:14:14","slug":"president-dad-for-better-or-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/04\/president-dad-for-better-or-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"President Dad (for better or worse)"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI continue to write a column for the Ann Arbor Chronicle<\/a>. This month I covered the President’s visit to Ann Arbor. He mostly came to talk about minimum wage<\/a>, but we mostly showed up to See the Man Himself (as is oft the case with these Presidential types<\/a>), so that we could say that we were there, and had seen the guy in person (*hint* he’s the tiny dude in the middle of the pic to the left), and could tell you what kinda guy he is because of that.
\nBut what kinda guy *is* he? Well:<\/p>\n

\nWhat is the PotUS? For one thing, apparently, he is a Dad. And I don\u2019t just mean to say he\u2019s the biological father to Sasha and Malia; there hasn\u2019t been childless PotUS since James K. Polk (who, Batmanishly, took on a nephew as his ward \u2013 so you could argue there\u2019s never been a childless PotUS). I\u2019m talking about the Nature of the sitting PotUS. George W. Bush was a \u201cCool\u201d Big Brother \u2013 which is to say half rake, half bully. His father was a Study Hall Proctor. Reagan was, obviously, a Hollywood Actor. Clinton? He was an Elvis. And the current PotUS is a total Dad.
\nThe PotUS arrived in his shirtsleeves, because he was ready to Get Down to Business and Hit Us with Some Straight Talk about wages and stuff. The PotUS complimented us as good-looking, and commended our work ethic and academic achievements. He seemed to legitimately admire the quality of the prominent sportsball players in the audience, which pleased the audience a great deal.
\nThen, like somebody\u2019s dad, the PotUS cajolingly admonished us to sit down \u2013 which might have seemed sort of cryptic to home-viewers, because the crowd was cropped out of the shot. Everyone had given a standing ovation upon his entrance, and then remained standing. Many folks were standing on their rickety folding chairs \u2013 which any dad will tell you is dangerous, and bad for the chairs. C\u2019mon, guys; settle down. I\u2019ve gotta talk to you about something important.
\nThis was all in the first three minutes and thirty seconds of his speech.
\n. . .\n<\/div>\n

More here: The Ann Arbor Chronicle | In It For The Money: Presidential Stinkburger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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