funny last night on the subject of how the announcement of bin Laden's demise
was announced.
Colbert referenced Seth Meyer's joke at the White House Press dinner about bin
Laden hosting a late night talk show on C-span and Obama laughing just a tad too
hard...well--I guess you had to have been there, but the visual cracked me up.
On another note, Chris Matthews was interviewing a biographer of Obama's mother
& the biographer remarked that Obama lived in Java from the ages of 6 YO to 10
YO and that she thought that could be the source of Obama's notorious
self-control. She also said that in that regard some Indonesians had told her
that it was an Indonesian character trait--that is, it was very important to
maintain control of one's emotions at all times.
That sounds like something that could be true--although I did not know that was
supposed to be characteristic of Indonesians until the biographer remarked upon
it.
My prejudice is usually to side with the more social-based explanation for
somebody's personality, but I feel contrarian about that particular
explanation. Until people--probably a lot of people--write in-depth
biographies and analyses of Obama's background, that seems like something
unknowable--maybe even after they do.
I'm allowing myself to fall into the preoccupations of the hagiographers
regarding Obama, so I can't complain too much about how MSNBC (excepting Joe
Scarborough, but who cares?) is practically ready to canonize the guy. But I
think I will complain in a few days if the spell doesn't lift a bit.
Wasn't Kate's dress beautiful?
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