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Jonah Goldberg puts his finger on Barack Obama's pulse, and confirms a throbbing of discontent...

The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff. . . . I'm like, "C'mon guys, I'm the president of the United States. Where's the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up?" It doesn't happen. - Pres. Barack H. Obama

The list of people I feel sorry for is long. It includes not just all of the people I know personally who are suffering from one misfortune or another, but the billions around the world who're having a rougher time than they ought: Japanese earthquake victims, targets of ethnic cleansing, etc. Then there's the supplemental list, which includes everyone from fans of Lost who were ripped off by the series finale to the guy in the middle seat on a long flight.

But one guy who doesn't make the list is Barack Obama.

And yet the president seems eager for people to know he feels aggrieved. All of a sudden, he's had a few "hot mic" incidents in which he "accidentally" vented his displeasure about various alleged insults. His staff let it be known that the president feels the head of China's one-party authoritarian regime has it better than him, because no one second-guesses Hu Jintao.

"I just miss - I miss being anonymous," he told some magazine executives recently. "I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls . . . taking walks. I can't take a walk." He says the reason he plays so much golf is that it's the only way he can get away from the "bubble" he's in.

None of this is entirely new. The president has always had a gift for self-pity. And blame-shifting. "It's Bush's fault" could be the subtitle of his presidency.

And from the outset, the president has had little patience with critics. Serious critiques are always illegitimate "talking points." In the summer of '09 he started insisting that he didn't want to hear "a lot of talking" from Republicans. The time for debate always seems to be over when it's clear to everyone that he's losing the argument. When abroad, he loves to whine about the impertinence of the press.

I can't prove it, but I'm also hardly alone (on the right or the left) in thinking the president really just doesn't like the job anymore. He's testier. His response to the Republican budget plan was not merely dishonest, hypocritical, and partisan, it was bitterly personal.

Moving a bit too slowly for BHO's liking, this 'CHANGE' he's promised to bring to America, this 'community organizer' who now has the spotlight, and is expected to perform duties he likely abhors: dealing with the 'evil rich' and 'corporations', entities that he has detested for decades. As the titular head of the Democratic Party, he must advance their new-found neo-Marxist agenda. Too slowly for his liking, this movement to American Socialism.

Only one Party pushes economic resentment: the Democratic Socialist Party of America. Back when they were capitalism-first Democrats, such behavior wasn’t as apparent; it was well-guarded and kept hidden away in the lofty spheres of academia. Since Democrats were taken over by the LeftLibProgg neo-Marxists (those who decided that the Marx-approved fast-track to socialism via violent revolution wouldn’t work so well in a capitalist-corrupted Democracy that was the U.S. of A.; instead of 'bullets and bombs' these LeftLibProgg Democrats running things today prefer a gradual approach based on the slower-moving principles of ‘Community Organizing’ and economic hardship) they have taken to methods including beating up on the straw-men known as ‘Evil Rich Men’ and 'Corporations' as the cause of all of society’s problems. If only these repressors would pay more taxes! If only ‘Evil Corporations’ (run by the ‘Evil Rich Men’, of course) would pay enough in taxes, why, we could all be living high on the hog in a near-nirvana!

There’s a stirring occurring in the entire population. We will see how this plays out in 2012, a period of time that’s rife for a ‘Black Swan event’.

The left-leaning unions are shaping up to be the ‘revolutionaries’ who will provide the Left’s muscle on the street. It’s looking to be the Tea Partiers vs. the Union Thugs and the ‘Community Organized’ moochers in the overpopulated blue-city ‘burgs, struggling for contril of the heart and soul of this declining nation. Unfortunately, ‘our side’ is considered the ‘silent majority’, and most of us who are everyday Americans don’t pay much attention to political happenings until they're forced to, at election times and in these periods of economic crisis (yes, $4 - $6 + /gallon gas is a legitimate economic crisis).

So, BHO, you want anyone to feel sorry for your sorry ass? I'm much more inclined to agree with Mike over at Cold Fury...

Our King is a lousy, lying, Leftist bastard, and this is all going just the way he wanted it to. It’s lucky for him real Americans will never get the opportunity to thank him in the manner he truly deserves for the suffering he’s causing, directly and intentionally.

Heh, and indeed.

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