{"id":4987,"date":"2014-03-14T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2014-03-14T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:45:00","slug":"obama-kills-it-on-between-two-ferns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4987","title":{"rendered":"Obama kills it on 'Between Two Ferns'"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A few conservatives, not all of them, need to find a sense of humor.<\/p>\n

Some of them are criticizing President Obama — no surprise there — for appearing on a mock talk show with a comedian, Zach Galifianakis. “Between Two Ferns” aired recently on the Internet and it showed the president of the United States engaging in a bit of repartee one doesn’t usually see involving the commander in chief and the Leader of the Free World.<\/p>\n

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He took to this forum to sell the Affordable Care Act to young Americans who so far have been reluctant to sign up for the exchanges offered by the law.<\/p>\n

Conservatives, though, have tweeted some messages about how FDR, Reagan, Ike, Truman or JFK never would do such a thing. This kind of stunt is beneath the office of the presidency, they say.<\/p>\n

You know what? I could see The Gipper or JFK doing it. Maybe not Truman, Ike or FDR. President Reagan surely had a flair for the dramatic, given his movie career before he entered politics in the mid-1960s. And President Kennedy, you’ll recall, made presidential press conferences something of an art form during his 1,000 or so days in the White House.<\/p>\n

I’m reminded of what the late great East Texas congressman, Charles Wilson, once said about those who criticized his well-known reputation as a lady’s man. He said his constituents were actually envious of his lifestyle. “They don’t want their congressman,” Wilson once was quoted as saying, “acting like a constipated hound dog.”<\/p>\n

I see nothing wrong at all with my president showing a bit of his human — and humorous — side while discussing a serious national policy issue.<\/p>\n

Lighten up out there.<\/p>\n\n

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