Yes, the ne’er-do-well Eddie Haskell of Leave It to Beaver was the kid next door who was a paragon of virtue in front of Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver but once they were out of sight he was anything but virtuous. Always coming up with some shady scheme, always backing off from his stated intentions, never getting caught when things went wrong, leaving his “buddies” to take the rap—that was Eddie Haskell.
From Wikipedia:
He was known for his neat grooming—hiding his shallow and sneaky character. Typically, Eddie would greet his friends' parents with overdone, good manners and often a compliment such as, "That's a lovely dress you're wearing, Mrs. Cleaver." However, when no parents were around, Eddie was always up to no good—either conniving with his friends, or picking on Wally's younger brother Beaver. Eddie's two-faced style was also typified by his efforts to curry favor by trying to talk to adults at the level he thought they would respect, such as referring to their children as Theodore (Beaver's much-disliked given name) and Wallace, even though the parents called them Beaver and Wally.
A weaselly wise guy, Eddie could be relied upon to connive and instigate schemes with his friends—schemes for which they would be in the position of blame, if (and usually when) caught.
Sounds just like Obama to me.
2 comments:
I think you nailed it, er, him.
Some news piece about Obama (what else?) came on the radio yesterday, and I was struck by the same realization. This morning Googled the two names just to see if anyone else had made the connection, and sure enough there were about 10,000 hits. It's good to know.
Jerrod Mason
Tucson
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