House of Eratosthenes

Obama has been in office roughly a year and a half. That’s long enough to get a handle on what motivates our president. He’s pretty binary. When he’s not partying with rock stars, he’s either apathetic or angry. Here, in no particular order, is a little list of Obama’s responses to both world situations and domestic policy initiatives that have occurred so far during his administration:

It breaks down this way: Eight issues arouse apathy in He Who Argues With The Dictionaries, and three issues arouse anger.

Graphic shamelessly swiped from No Sheeples Here

At this point, I don’t imagine Bookworm has ventured into the realm of reasonable dispute. His Eminence is, as she notes, a binary figure. When a coin lands on heads, there can be little argument that it has indeed landed on heads.

And now that we all agree on that…it does not appear the apathy-versus-anger response is being decided according to America’s interests, or a desire to defend the nation robustly or responsibly.

But that much is the opinion of Yours Truly. Why don’t you RTWT, and see if you agree. Here’s a hint: Overall, it seems apathy is the response when a thing happens that can really affect the outcome of something, and impact the lives of the little people. Anger, on the other hand, is the response when someone’s screwing with Holy Man’s P.R.

How come we have democrats, again? Something about Republicans being apathetic about the plight of the common-man? They’re just so cold and lacking in compassion? If your body was on fire they might keep you around long enough to light their cigars with it before they tossed you out the door?

We need to vote democrats into office so that we can have some leaders who will empathize with us. Who will feel some urgency when the hoi polloi are missing some things they have to have, or are being forced to tangle with financial hardships they cannot abide. Vote democrats into office, and maybe we have a shot at fixing problems like those.

And yet, here we are. We have a genuine crisis, and Holy Man is bored by it. He wants to play golf…if He’s feeling really engaged in the moment, for some reason, He’ll want to sell us some crap.

If someone’s messing around with His image, that’s when He’s spurred into some real action.

Apathy, anger. I like this approach. It is crude and binary, but it’s no more complicated than the thing it is set up to observe. I’m going to start watching Chairman Zero in this light, and I recommend you do the same. For as long as it fits. And I am presuming, reasonably I think, that it always will.

At least I finally heard you call him “Chairman Zero.”
- cylarz | 06/23/2010 @ 20:09
The problem with your article here, Morgan (as well as the ones you refer to) is that it will be completely lost on those who still stubbornly support this president and everything he does.

There’s a website I frequent which tries to be centrist and balanced. It has many columnists from both the Right and the Left – a little of both. Among them is a columnist named Larry Meeks, who is black and writes almost exclusively about racial issues. While he’s never come out and said, “I’m a conservative,” it’s obvious which side of the aisle he’s on. He’s very critical not just of Chairman Zero, but also of so-called “black leaders.” He’s an advocate of personal responsibility and accountability and intolerant of black people taking refuge in their race. Think of him as another Bill Cosby.

Anyway, for some reason, there’s a regular on the comment threads at Meeks’ column, the kind of guy you’d call a “gadfly.” You know, the typical annoying liberal who keeps hanging around and hanging around, disputing everything that is said by the columnist and those who agree with him, insisting that blacks really are all victims, and praising everything Obama does. The kind of guy which makes you ask, “Why does this guy keep coming back? He obviously doesn’t enjoy the articles.”

Awhile back, I jousted with this guy, daring him to name any of Chairman Zero’s accomplishments. By this I meant, “Name something which doesn’t fall into either ‘angry’ or ‘apathetic’ categories. Name a real accomplishment.” His response was to rattle off a long list of legislative items that us Obama critics discuss every day – Crap N Trade, Obama Care, Cash for Clunkers, TARP, the stimulus bills…and so on.

My response was simple. I said, “Some of us don’t consider looting $1.5 trillion from the US taxpayer and trying to nationalize 1/6th of the US economy, to be ‘accomlishments.'”
- cylarz | 06/23/2010 @ 20:35
At least I finally heard you call him “Chairman Zero.”

Maybe the right nickname is something like “Captain Boolean.”
- mkfreeberg | 06/24/2010 @ 07:11
Captain Boolean. I like that. I doubt the joke would make much sense to a person with no programming experience, but hey, I get it.

I’ve been collecting Obama nicknames for some time now. Want to see what I have so far?
- cylarz | 06/24/2010 @ 10:44
Absolutely.

Not sure if it shows, but I was kind of grasping at straws on this one, and I’d only burned through…what…four or something?

There’s gotta be at least fifty of ’em out there. Let’s see what ya got.
- mkfreeberg | 06/24/2010 @ 10:49
Jug Ears
Obamunist
Obonga
Obamaniac
Comrade Obama
Obamao
Obamarx
Maobamarx
Maobama
The Won
Earbama
President Dumdum
Bozobama
The Annointed One
Odumbo
Ditherer in Chief
Moonbat Messiah
Manchurian Teleprompter
The Big Empty
Maximum Leader Zero
Zippy
President ACORN
Mister Wonderful
President Pantywaist
Hopey McChange
OhBummer
Teleprompter Jesus
NerObama
Nubian Nero
Captain Boolean
Chairman Zero (my personal favorite)
- cylarz | 06/24/2010 @ 10:54
When I was a child in Alabama there was a brand of jams and jellies that if I remember right was called “O’Bama” it came in a jar that was actually and ice-tea glass. Thus, my name for him is Mr. Jelly Jar

Other names missed in the list above:
Captain Utopia
The Ear Leader
Obummer
0bama (A zero instead of a “O”)
- Fai Mao | 06/26/2010 @ 04:20
Yeah I forgot “Dear Reader,” a take-off on what the North Koreans are forced yo call their president.
- cylarz | 06/26/2010 @ 12:21

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