Bestselling fiction, er, memoir author Barack Obama claims he hasn’t taken his storytelling duties seriously enough. In fact, he says his failure to “tell a story to the American people” was his biggest mistake while occupying the White House.
Obama says his biggest mistake as President was not spending enough time as a storyteller. "Julia" disagrees.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 13, 2012
Obama’s composite girlfriend and composite secretary disagree as well, as does Human Events’ John Hayward.
He hasn’t done much except tell stories. Remember the story about how America was filled with helpless sick people who couldn’t get health care coverage, so the government had to seize control of the insurance industry on their behalf? How about the one where Obama is a helpless spectator to his predecessor’s policies, three and a half years after taking office? Remember the fairy tale about how the transparently ineffective trillion-dollar Obama “stimulus” actually “saved or created” countless jobs that had nothing to do with it, even as the American job market disintegrated?
And thus, the #ObamaStories hashtag was born.
Once upon a time, a prince was born. At a certain point he made enough money. The end. #ObamaStories
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 13, 2012
Once upon a time, the land was divided, but then we got in our enemies' faces and punished them, so there was harmony. #ObamaStories
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 13, 2012
Once upon a time, a wise king created or saved zillions of jobs by forcing his subjects to make bad investments. #ObamaStories
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 13, 2012
There once was a wise king who knew "transparency" means not asking questions about gun-running programs that kill people. #ObamaStories
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 13, 2012
Once upon a time, a wise king promised his subjects that… no, wait, let's tell a different story. #ObamaStories
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 13, 2012
Once upon a time, a clever and handsome king sent weapons to a foreign land because [REDACTED] and he wanted [REDACTED]. #ObamaStories
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 13, 2012
Once upon a time, there was a bad man with magic underwear who thought money was worth more than rainbow unicorn turds. #ObamaStories
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 13, 2012
Once upon a time, the king felt his kingdom's private sector wasn't creating enough jobs, so he resolved to make it smaller. #ObamaStories
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 13, 2012
"Once upon a time, Western colonial imperialism was swept away, and there was happy peace." "You mean like in Egypt, Daddy?" #ObamaStories
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) July 13, 2012
For a guy who isn’t focused on storytelling, President Obama sure has built up an impressive library of fairy tales.
What other #ObamaStories has the storyteller in chief been spinning instead of, y’know, doing his actual job?
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