Monday, October 26, 2009

JOE QUEENAN AND NONSENSE

LETTER TO WALL STREET JOURNAL

I was puzzled by Joe Queenan’s “Man Up, Obama and Other Nonsense’ (Oct. 26) until I got to the end and saw that Mr. Queenan is identified as a satirist. Then it all made sense. Mr. Queenan has written his masterpiece of satire in which he uses irony to ridicule both Obama and his true believer acolytes. I was almost sucked into believing that Mr. Queenan actually thought Obama was competent and thoughtful. The irony, of course, is that Mr. Obama, the narcissist, has no core beliefs, other than a muddled Marxism; he has no qualms about betraying his true believers who have invested their hearts and minds in his image. Mr. Queenan’s sarcasm to the true believers that they should ‘man up’ and accept their position under the perpetual Obama campaign bus is truly delicious.