Obama at Mt Rushmore looking up at big stone heads wonders how Hitchcock managed to film scene from North by Northwest oh so way up there. Tour guide shyly informs him scene actually filmed on sound stage. Obama marvels.
Why does this strike one as very odd? Silly, tenuous at least to draw conclusion from it that Obama is an idiot. Is it because he always tries to come off as so suavely astute and effortlessly bright that this small moment rings so harshly? Possible. Or because sounds like he was prepped to say something like this by a handler thus giving one a brief glimpse through the phony veneer? Hmmn.
Maybe cause you don't like the guy. No - have actually been warming to him a bit - not that I've changed my mind viz what a horrible president he'd be or what a dangerous lot of lefty wackos roiling in his wake would flood the Oval office were he to get in - no, it's just that I can see why a naive voter would be attracted to the style of the man.
