Clueless Zero

I have a word to say about Barack Obama's crack on Jay Leno, that his bowling was like the Special Olympics.

It was funny. As Larry the Cable Guy would say, "I don't care who you are, that there was funny."

And if a friend of mine had said it, I'd have laughed out loud...with no offense meant to the real participants of the Special Olympics.

And if a friend of mine had said it, all the people freaking out about it on the radio, television and the internet would privately have laughed too...with the same caveat.

But my buddy didn't say it. The "President" of the United States said it. And he is not allowed to say such things.

HE IS NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO THINK SUCH THINGS.

The moment he took office he gave up those privileges of the "commoner". With the immense power and status of the presidency, he also accepted the strict and limiting protocols of proper and formally correct conduct.

I never liked Princess Diana. She annoyed the crap out of me. She was a princess. A goddamned Princess! And all she did was whine about all the stuff she couldn't do, and what she didn't get, and how she was treated....and about all the "normal" things she wanted for her children.

I would scream at the TV, "You're a goddamned PRINCESS! You're living every little girl's dream. You're an actual, for real princess....with a goddamned crown! And all you can do is complain that you can't do the stuff every barmaid can do?"

I have no patience.

There are trade-offs in life. And when you get to be a Princess, you have to give up all the more or less vulgar stuff that we commoners get to do every day. Along with the luxury, status, adulation, virtually highest social position in the land...and almost every other land, you get Rules of Comportment. It's a package deal.

You don't get to act like a barmaid and have people curtsying to you, addressing you as "Your Highness".

You have to fucking PICK ONE, you selfish, spoiled little brat!

Same goes for Hollywood stars and their "privacy". Sorry, you lose. You can't be famous for being famous, and have your privacy too. It's the trade-off. It's the price. Get over it. Stop whining.

And the same goes for being President of the United States. You represent all the people, even the retarded people. And you don't go around insulting them, or making jokes at their expense. Even if it's funny. You are not allowed to do that. There are rules of comportment required of the most powerful man in the country, the leader from whom the people expect appropriate, serious, dignified, tasteful behavior.

In America, the President carries the same comportment responsibility as royalty. With the added benefit of having significantly more power.

Displaying common, thoughtless, mean—if funny—humor is wildly inappropriate. As was showing up without a tie, like you're "Joe Cool" just off the movie set.

Some people might get a kick out of the President being "cool"—for a minute. But in the final analysis, most Americans venerate the Office of President, and they won't suffer an idiot to insult in with vulgar, common & inappropriate comportment.

Even if he is funny.

The Gunslinger