Pseudo-Random Thoughts
*Clever Chris Christie: *In his Fox News Sunday interview
<http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday/transcript/gop-stars-chris-christie-and-tim-pawlenty-039fox-news-sunday039?page=3>,
Governor Christie was asked --- as he must have known he would be ---
about his presidential ambitions. He gave the expected answer, that he
was working hard at being governor of New Jersey, and then got in a
clever dig at two potential opponents.
Listen, I think every year you have as a governor in an executive
position in a big state like New Jersey would make you better
prepared to be president. And after one year as governor, I am not
arrogant enough to believe that after one year as governor of New
Jersey and seven years as the United States attorney that I'm ready
to be president of the United States, so I'm not going to run.
Christie is implying that Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are arrogant.
And he does so without mentioning either person's name.
Chris Wallace asked him about Obama in a follow-up question, giving
Christie a chance to add to his criticism.
*WALLACE:* Yes, but you know, and I heard you say it might make
more sense somewhere down the line, 2016, 2020, whatever. But one
of the things that Obama learned and showed us all in 2007, when
it's your moment, you have got to move.
*CHRISTIE:* Listen, that is a decision that he made. And he's
obviously was successful in winning the presidency. My view is I
want to, if I ever would have run for the presidency, if I was ever
to do it, I want to make sure in my heart I feel ready. And I don't
think you run just because political opportunity is there. That's
how we wind up with politicians who aren't ready for their jobs.
Christie is implying that Obama was, in 2007, unready to be president.
Christie isn't the first Obama opponent to imply that Obama is arrogant
and unready to be president, but few have made those criticisms so cleverly.
Christie was lucky (or perhaps very good in his timing) not to be asked
a similar question about Palin. But he had already shown, earlier in
the interview, that he could deflect such questions.
(Oh, and there was an added bit that former Minnesota governor Tim
Pawlenty must have appreciated: Christie said that being governor of a
"big" state prepares you for being president, implying that being
governor of a small state, or even a medium-sized state like Minnesota,
doesn't.)
- 6:19 AM, 18 January 2011 [link]
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/January2011_3.html#jrm9532>
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