I was perusing the Amazon best-sellers list this weekend to find some potential new reads and I came across one in particular that caught my eye. The book is titled The Amateur by Edward Klein. I will not read this book because I know who the real amateur is, and it is not Barack Obama
Judging by the reviews, the book looks like it is nothing but election year smut. The title apparently comes from something Bill Clinton said about Barack Obama's administration being like amateurs. First of all, we know that Clinton likes Obama, so it is foolish in my opinion to take something that Clinton said like that at face value. This is probably nothing more than some more red meat for conservatives.
But the real issue is that Obama and his administration are considered amateurs. Simply. not. true.
The real amateurs were the corporate hacks and shrills who preceded this administration. Yeah, the same ones conservatives conveniently forget that got us into the mess that was the last 8 years preceding the Obama administration. The same administration that passed tax cuts for the wealthy on the backs of ordinary Americans, the same administration who got us into a quagmire that was Iraq, the same administration who deregulated so much that our economy nearly collapsed. Those were just 3 big ones, there are plenty more. Those were the real amateurs.
Never forget that.