Rich Lowry's 'Callow' Attack Is, Well, Juvenile
By JASON STANFORD Published AUGUST 15, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
There is an odd recognition in Rich Lowry’s pearl-clutching POLITICO Magazine piece, “The Callow President.” Lowry, who only ends up on the high road when he takes the wrong exit, accuses Barack Obama of recently striking a “characteristically — and tellingly — juvenile and plaintive note,” but by making an argument with all the staying power of the bar napkin he wrote it on, Lowry’s insult comes back on its author.
Lowry, the kind of deep thinker who offers stop-and-frisk as a proper response to the Sandy Hook shooting, commences the flailing about by finding fault with Obama’s admonition to his critics to “just stop hatin’ all the time.” All the dowagers in Georgetown have never clutched as many pearls as Lowry does over this bit of frustrated code-switching. Oh, the horror. The President dropped a g and employed a patois foreign to Lowry’s native Arlington.
Surely a graduate of the University of Virginia like Lowry knows that admittedly snide jibes have a long presidential history.
Abraham Lincoln, in particular, was far more juvenile than Obama when he insulted Major General Joseph Hooker, saying, “The trouble with Hooker is that he’s got his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.” Of a lawyer he held in low esteem, Lincoln said, “He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I have ever met.”
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