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Monday, December 04, 2017

Idiot du Jour

Remember Lou Dobbs? Yeah, vaguely -- some Fox News "personality" or something.

Well, he's really outdone himself this time. From WaPo:

Someone asked Obama about recent comments made by his wife, Michelle, in Toronto: The former first lady said it was never a good idea to “tweet from bed,” a not-so-subtle commentary on Trump’s early-morning social media habits.

In New Delhi, her husband agreed.

“Michelle was giving the general idea. … Don’t say the first thing that pops in your head. Have a little bit of an edit function,” he said. “Think before you speak. Think before you tweet.”

Not such a stretch, and applicable to just about everyone at every time -- especially sitting presidents: Think before you open your mouth.

Well, not as far as Dobbs is concerned:

Call it an unwritten rule — a matter of decorum among the small fraternity of men who once held the title “leader of the free world.”

Before he left office, Barack Obama said his goal was to steer clear of the political spotlight — as George W. Bush had done when he left the White House — giving the new president room to govern without Obama's shouldering into every debate with the megaphone that being a former commander in chief affords.

But a Fox Business commentator said Obama violated that unwritten rule with a recent comment about Trump’s tweets. What’s more, according to Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, that violation should merit arrest.

“I think U.S. marshals should follow [Obama], and anytime he wants to go follow the president like he is and behave [like that],” Dobbs said on his show Friday. “I mean, this is just bad manners. It’s boorish and it’s absurd and he doesn’t realize how foolish he looks.”

“I mean, he should be brought back by the marshals. Isn’t there some law that says presidents shouldn’t be attacking sitting presidents?”

The irony here is that Trump is the one who insists on dragging Obama into everything he does by his unremitting attempts to wipe the Obama administration from history.

As for Dobbs -- he's an idiot. He's always been an idiot. He always will be an idiot.

Via Digby.

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