Monday, August 22, 2011

No Privacy At All

A US President, for better or for worse, lives in a publicity fish-bowl. It has almost reached the extreme of that early scene in "The Last Emperor" where the eunuchs examine the morning deposit of the toddler Emperor for portents of his health and the nation's future.

The Bamster went to the bookstore in Martha's Vineyard last week. He bought a stack of books and in a magnanimous gesture disagreed with the owner of the store at checkout regarding the price. He wasn't being charged enough for the large stack of reading material he was acquiring. There is a parable there about his economic policies, but I'll let you ferret it out yourself.

We learned what the children were reading and now we find out what the Messiah himself is using to improve his mind, broaden his outlook, and find solutions to the economic crisis:

President Reads Fiction Exclusively: Crime, Porn Kings and Robber-Baron Chi-Town

Frankly, I'm not surprised. How better to learn to govern than to review the Capone days of the Second City. That's when the true leaders really knew how to corrupt a town.

What I am surprised at is why the President, for all his high-tech, social-media, Twittering press conferences, flash-mob campaign stops hasn't acquired a Kindle or an iPad with an account at Amazon or iTunes.

He could read all that crap in privacy and pay what everyone else pays without a quibble and it would be all secure thanks to HTTPS encryption.

1 comment:

Hippo said...

He can READ? Wow, I am impressed. Thought he only did teleprompters.