If You Love Me…
[Posted by Karl]
Clingy. Desperate. That phrase is the sort of emotional extortion that usually prefaces a request for something you don’t really want to do, e.g., an odious household chore, an unusual sex act, etc.:
President Obama continued pushing his jobs bill in battleground states on Wednesday, telling a fired-up crowd of students at North Carolina State University that, “If you love me, you’ve got to help me pass this bill!”
The Artist Formerly Known As The One also would like to go on a dinner date with you… if you’re buying.
Mr. President, America’s just not that into you. Really. Your appeals to what remains of your cult of personality increasingly make you look like Sally Field’s character in Soapdish, running out to some mall in New Jersey for an ego boost from gullible fans while the ratings dwindle. People will start to talk.
–Karl