"A Coup for the Cool One"

[impik]

Stanley Crouch:



Those who do not know boxing are always doubtful of a counter-puncher's skill--until they see him serve a resounding, high-classed, painful whipping. Negative comments about the counter-puncher are often generated if he does not huff and puff like someone's cartoon of a bad guy in professional wrestling. But after all of the criticism of President Barack Obama's first Oval Office speech, the president has shown he is perhaps the coolest political counter-puncher in many years.

We are all accustomed to seeing Obama accused of being too calm or refusing to act or talk as he should. They would be right if Obama had not brought all the executives from BP to the White House and given their hides a serious tanning. As all of his critics were harping on how the president's Oval Office speech had ground away public confidence in his ability to act, it was announced that BP had promised the cool one $20 billion in escrow for environmental damage and $100 million for the jobs lost or made impractical.


This must have come as a big surprise to lames who think they must be entertained by Obama. Such people want to see his hip-hop oats make their thugged-out presence felt in the presidential bloodstream. In jest, I once asked a filmproducer friend of mine why white people were so much better at playing aliens from outer space and androids than black people. I could not have imagined that my joke would be pushed to the back of the bus by all of the hip, enlightened rednecks who dubbed Obama ''Mr. Spock.''

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In the one-two punch that Obama made of his Oval Office address and his meeting the day after the speech at the White House, our president came with what are his actual gifts. He is a thinker who is focused on the kinds of long-range effects that must always be considered in a country too accustomed to the shape of things as they are to prepare for what H.G. Wells called ''The Shape Of Things To Come.'' While figuring out how to liberate this nation from dependence on fossil fuels is a job beyond a single president, even one of genius, I believe that we will see Obama move us much closer than anyone expected at such high speed.


http://www.theroot.com/views/coup-cool-one?page=0,1

[Aramchek]

1. Spock gave BP a Vulcan Nerve Pinch in that meeting

[kaiden]

2. hahahahahahaha

[Aramchek]

3. or perhaps it's a new move, the Vulcan Shake Down

;)