This is why actors should stick to writing scripts.
I keep trying to figure out why Obama — who I so admire, seems to underwhelm in these debates. All I can come up with is that while everyone else aims up for these events — they aim to score, to excite, to appeal — Obama, who is so brilliant, has such understanding of the issues at play, such insight in how to re-shape where we are and how to proceed where we need to go… it seems like all his energy is spent pushing down: containing his thoughts. Suppressing the 20 sub-thoughts that follow each main thought. Speaking in measured tones lest he be perceived elitist or too academic. Keeping in check his healthy sense of the absurd — like when he kept trying to get a word in with McCain plowing away – – actually saying , “John…? Uh John…? Like a guy who’s lost the connection then just smiles and hangs up without re-dialing.
Really. The fact that he can put this on Huffington Post and not feel the least bit embarrassed just boggles my mind.
Jim Treacher pointed it out to me.
In fact, Jim Treacher has been posting quite a lot of funny things about the election. You should read them.
He thinks Obama has a healthy sense of the absurd? After Obama’s comments about his nomination being the moment when the seas stopped rising, after the acceptance speech in a sports stadium (because the convention hall was just too small for Obama to strut his stuff in dontcherknow), after the Greek Temple in the stadium, this guy thinks that Obama has any sense of the absurd? Where do they get these dimbulbs anyway? Is there some special employment agancy, the California State Home for the Dim of Apprehension perhaps?
I actually like Paul Reiser as an actor/comedian. I guess it’s just as well that I disconnect my movie viewing habits from the average intellect of a Hollywood entertainer. Let’s be honest: they’re the equivalent of trained seals, saying things someone else wrote for them and moving where someone tells them to go. Talented seals, to be sure, but I tend not to take political advice from dancing sea mammals.
Everyone hass their D’oh moments. i give you Powerline,
“It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.â€