OBAMA THE PROFOUND – AT 11:19 A.M. ET:  What a mind!  What an intellect!  What phrasing!  It's such a pleasure, after BUSH (!!) and CHENEY (!!!!) to have such an articulate philosopher in the White House, a man who grasps the subtleties that others miss.  Consider:

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Sunday he expects to be judged in the 2012 election over his governance of the American economy, which he said was still not growing fast enough.

Brilliant.  Just so brilliant. 

"For me to argue, look, we've actually made the right decisions, things would have been much worse has we not made those decisions -- that's not that satisfying if you don't have a job right now," Obama told CBS in an interview taped last week and aired during his annual vacation in Martha's Vineyard, an island near Boston.

His understanding of the peasantry – can anyone equal it?

"I understand that and I expect to be judged a year from now on whether or not things have continued to get better," he said.

Yes, yes.  Only he, the One, understands that things are getting better.  Don't you believe your lying eyes.

The unemployment rate has been stuck above 9 percent and growth was very weak in the first half of 2011, causing many Americans to question whether Obama's stimulus and bailout measures following the financial crisis worked.

Oh those silly questions.  Those people cling to their guns and their religion, and can't possibly understand. 

Asked about the past month's stock market drop, Obama said concerns about the U.S. recovery were contributing to investor jitters, along with "headwinds" from Europe's debt crisis, high gas prices and knock-on effects from Japan's earthquake.

It's the foreigners, don't you see?  Especially those pesky allies.  And those gas prices!  Now, don't let anyone tell you that they're caused in part by our refusal to expand oil exploration in the U.S.  Has nothing to do with it.  It's all those American drivers burning up the road while they still cling to those same guns and that old religion.

I'm so frustrated.  We have such brilliance in the White House, but the proletariat just doesn't understand.

August 21, 2011