RSSObama Suffering from HUHA Syndrome!
Gene Lalor | June 24, 2009
Sitting presidents in the last century have suffered from various lingering maladies and from sudden onsets of near-catastrophic health events. Wilson’s strokes, FDR’s polio, Ike’s heart attack, JFK’s Addison’s Disease, LBJ’s gall bladder issue all had some negative impacts on their administrations.
Our current chief executive’s continuing battle with HUHA Syndrome may be one of the best kept health secrets of our president, even if its symptoms are apparent daily to the most casual observer.
Tuesday’s scheduled Rose Garden news conference was held inside the White House instead, in deference to the humidity of Washington D.C., and a reminder that the capital was built adjacent to a swamp. Unfortunately, Obama’s HUHA Syndrome showed its ugly head early and often during the president’s 55 minute Q&A.
In deference to its Republican viewership, Fox News Channel declined to air the event, perhaps also fearing that a HUHA episode was in the offing and refusing to be party to televising a president’s physical flaws to the nation especially since it was a daytime affair and kids could be watching.
HUHA, as most people know, can be a-symptomatic in the perception of those afflicted but to witnesses it usually is quite obvious. The president’s feigned lack of awareness that his staged first and principal questioner was a set-up was a clear indicator of a HUHA attack. 
The question came from a HufPo columnist, someone customarily relegated to the nosebleed section of the Washington Press Corps. The “exchange” went as follows:
“In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran.
‘Nico, [addressed as if Pitney were an old smoking buddy] I know you and all across the Internet, [sic] we’ve been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran, . . . I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?’
Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said, said: ‘I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian.’ ” (http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0609/Obama_calls_on_HuffPost_for_Iran_question.html)
Duh, Nico, back to the cheap seats for you! Evidently, Nico had not been briefed that his query was supposed to look spontaneous so that Obama could respond with equivalent spontaneity, but that was not to be.
HUHA symptoms were transparent thoughout as Obama went on as if the obviousness of the set up question, for which the president had rehearsed his extended reply, was not also transparent. It must be conceded that, despite his pledges, transparency is as integral to his first 5 months in office as protecting the pre-born from abortions.
At least he was consistent.
The fact that staged Q&A at presidential news conferences were as honorable and acceptable as serving Hebrew National hotdogs to Arabs at our foreign embassies at 4th of July celebrations never dawned on our president.
(A fess up: I stole that Hebrew National joke from Mark Davis on Tuesday’s “Rush Limbaugh Show.”)
HUHA is an insidious syndrome. Not only does it induce greater stupidity but it makes for forgetfulness of the need for multi-tasking by a president.
Obama derided Senator McCain for that failing and, less than eight months after that derision, HUHA-induced obliviousness must have caused him to forget such issues on America’s plate as Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Pakistan, war, and our troops fighting for our freedoms: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24106.html.
I fully understand that presidential news conferences are designed to allow reporters to pose questions of our leaders that elucidate substantive responses. But, if Obama and his toadies can pre-arrange queries, as they do, maybe next time he could show some interest in more than one topic?
I also understand that HUHA is a serious problem for President Obama but I think that if he gets more practice at getting his head out of where the sun doesn’t shine, we would all be better off.
Maybe start by spending some of those billions of stimulus $$$ by establishing a foundation. It could have as its honorary chairman Barack Obama and as safeguards a few highly-respected experts at treating and curing HUHA.
Proctologists skilled at extracting heads from anuses could do wonders for the president.
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