Obama says Trump's tv reality shows declare him not to be a serious candidate

This man declares Trump to be non-serious, and certainly not as presidential as he himself pictures that he is.

Newsweek’s Thomas: ‘Slightly Creepy Cult of Personality’ Around Obama

. . . "ROSE: Watching him last night -- that speech when he’s out there alone, and watching him in Denver, same thing -- when he's making a speech. He -- he knows the power of his ability to speak, and there is at the end, when he finishes it -- you know, with certain speakers, there's a kind -- they're overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the moment.
MEACHAM: Right, right.
ROSE: You know? And that they're walking from -- and his is a much more -- he finishes, and he sort of -- it’s almost like he then ascends to look at the circumstance --
MEACHAM: He watches us watching him.
ROSE: Exactly. He does --
MEACHAM: It's amazing." . . .

From way back in 2009 this was spotted: Obama's reality-show presidency   . . . "This is the first administration, however, to fuse iterative, real-time lifestyle coverage with the star power of a true celebrity politician. The White House is deftly serving the huge public and media interest in President Barack Obama, not only as a leader and celebrity but also as a character in a fascinating story far beyond politics . . ."

Win one for Nino

Charles Krauthammer

Let’s understand something about the fight to fill the Supreme Court seat ofAntonin (“Nino”) Scalia. This is about nothing but raw power. Any appeal you hear to high principle is phony — brazenly, embarrassingly so.

"In Year Seven of the George W. Bush administration, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) publicly opposed filling any Supreme Court vacancy until Bush left office. (“Except in extraordinary circumstances.” None such arose. Surprise!) Today he piously denounces Republicans for doing exactly the same for a vacancy created in Year Eight of Barack Obama."

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"As I said, this is all about raw power. When the Democrats had it, they used it. The Republicans are today wholly justified in saying they will not allow this outgoing president to overturn the balance of the Supreme Court. The matter should be decided by the coming election. Does anyone doubt that Democrats would be saying exactly that if the circumstances were reversed?

"Which makes this Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) moment. He and his cohorts have taken a lot of abuse from “anti-establishment” candidates and media for not using their congressional majorities to repeal Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood, block executive orders, etc." . . .

Jeb! couldn't fix it. Inside Jeb Bush's $150 Million Failure

"His closest aides failed to predict Trump and never changed course, guiding a flawed candidate into a corner he couldn’t escape."

Politico "His closest aides failed to predict Trump and never changed course, guiding a flawed candidate into a corner he couldn’t escape,” by Politico’s Eli Stokols, on the Jeb beat from the beginning, with Glenn Thrush and Alex Isenstadt: “Interviews with more than two dozen Bush insiders, donors and staff illuminate the plight of an earnest and smart candidate who was tragicomically mismatched to the electorate of his own party and an unforgiving, mean media environment that broadcast his flaws. The entire premise of Bush’s candidacy ... was an epic misread of a GOP base hostile to any establishment candidate, especially one with his baggage-weighted last name. ..."

” ... @MarcACaputo: “Jeb Bush exits the race for president the way he (usually) campaigned -- in a totally classy way” ... 

From Hot Air:  . . . "The conservative base was already fed up before Trump came along and Jeb Bush was never the prescription to scratch that itch. We were waiting for somebody to come along with a blowtorch and Jeb Bush was offering a candle."
More to come on this...

Trump-mentum  . . . "Newt Gingrich, past winner of the South Carolina primary, weighed in with open eyes, unclouded by the DC establishment fog, recommending that the GOP, “Start taking Donald Trump seriously.”

"What’s the chance that a GOP frontrunner can lose the first four primaries and stay in the race, much less win the nomination? It’s never happened. Then again, a Donald Trump phenomenon has never happened either, so maybe there is slim hope for Rubio. Yet he finished third in Iowa, fourth in New Hampshire, second (barely) in South Carolina, and trails by over 20 points in Nevada."