And we are all the fish….
And, if we want to drag this analogy to the point of exhaustion, BO’s policies are the fahkin shark.
The frustrations of the presidency once had Barack Obama reach for a literary metaphor.
“At times he couldn’t help feeling, as he told one associate, a kinship with the protagonist in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea,” writes David Corn in his new book on the presidency.
“He had, against tremendous odds, caught a big fish, but on the long voyage back to shore, his prized catch had been picked to pieces by sharks,” Corn writes.
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He invoked Hemingway?????????? As if I didn’t loathe that bastard enough already………..
In the words of my beloved Miguel, “Tilt away, motherfucker. Tilt away.”
Actually, there’s a better metaphor for Baracka to employ, “there’s a sucker born every minute”.
“It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.”
— W.C. Fields
“He so crazy.” – Theodore Roosevelt
So, he’s saying his ship of state was a dinghy?
Got it.