Posted by
Longplay on Monday, September 15, 2008 12:28:24 AM
Four days ago I
posted on candidate Obama's comparing taxes to his "neighborly" act of tipping a waitress.
Today Jeff Jacoby more thoroughly covered the theme in
his Boston Globe article, in which he points out that Obama is not quite so generous in his non-imaginary life in the area of personal charitable giving (all of us have fallen short, of course). The article prompted a few more thoughts of my own.
Not only would Mr. Obama coerce others to tip his waitress, realize that he would also be forcing you to tip his waitress. Not your own waitress but the one he decided was worthy.
Perhaps your waitress was unworthy. Perhaps your waitress was good but felt pridefully that her performance was just part of the job and nothing special. Perhaps you learned that your waitress was comfortably off and just did this job for the enjoyment of meeting people. Perhaps you'd even rather compliment the chef instead of tipping the waitress, or maybe even the busboy, who never gets much attention at all.
Worse yet, it could be that Barack's waitress hadn't actually performed exceptionally but that he decided that you should give her some some of your money merely because she was pretty, or that he felt sorry and somehow vaguely responsible for her being in that job.
[For full disclosure I should mention that I once, and for a very short time, cooked at a Big Boy, and played tricks on cute waitresses]
The point is that in Barack's world it would be he and his unsavory friends who would be the ones to decide who was worthy to get, and who could "afford" to and thus be required to give.
Mr. Obama hasn't demonstrated any great judgement skills in picking mentors such as Bill Ayers, Reverend Wright, and Tony Rezko (and the list goes on). Should we expect any keener judgement from him concerning the selection of worthy waitresses?