The last president to fail this miserably spoke candidly of the malaise that had descended upon the American people. While the Iranians jerked us around, President Carter put on a smile and a sweater and gave pep talks in a dimly lit White House as the energy crisis choked the economy. We all learned there was a reason he was known as “Jimmy Who?” before the election and we realized anew that the president ought to have some experience and know-how before coming to office. But then comes 2008 and an “articulate black guy” (as Biden put it) pops on the stage. A combination of liberal white guilt and Obama’s ability to say nothing eloquently enough to mean anything gripped enough of the left and mushy middle to sweep him into office. Now people complain that he is doing nothing. Government’s doing nothing is usually a good thing. Not having enough laws does not usually rate in polls asking what Americans are concerned about. Obama in his short ten months not only has no accomplishments but has done the following damage:
· Assaulted the First Amendment—This crazy war the White House has launched against Fox News has people remembering Nixon’s enemy’s list a feud with NBC. Being compared to Nixon is never a good thing. Not even Carter was this thin skinned.
· Wrecked the economy – Passing the stimulus bill was heralded as one of his accomplishments. They claimed they saved jobs as unemployment surged passed their direst predictions. Even a key White-House advisor admitted that the stimulus package “will have no further simulative effect passed the second quarter of 2010.” I guess a trillion bucks doesn’t buy what is used to. Meanwhile the world’s economists warn the dollar may collapse due to the reckless debt Obama has mounted (more than all his predecessors combined).
· Offended our allies—The liberals whined that Bush was not nice enough to the international community. Obama has offended the British by grabbing their Queen with both hands as if she were an eager campaign donor and gave the British Prime Minister a CD player that does not work in Europe. The Poles and Czechs are furious because he canceled a missile defense program there because Russia wanted us out. And while the Russians gave us squat in return, did he ever wonder why Russia does not want Poland to be able to defend itself? And while we heard no end of Bush’s snubbing the snobby French, their prime mister said this week of Obama’s Iranian policy, “I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing. More enriched uranium, more centrifuges, and on top of that, a statement by Iranian leaders proposing to wipe a UN member State off the map.”
· Emboldened our enemies—Afghanistan, a war of necessity in Obama’s words, is being lost while he dithers, waiting for the elections in November to pass before inevitably alienating is left-wing base by sending troops to the war zone. Close elections, like the governor’s race in New Jersey, will go to the Republicans if Obama’s base is offended. Meanwhile soldiers die. Do you think the media will calculate the number of Democrat votes that were bought by each soldier’s death?
Obama learned from Carter’s failures not to stand by and take it. Having the media in their lap like a pretty poodle, the only vicious lap dog out there is Fox News. Obama is lousy at governing but great at campaigning, especially when it has an enemy, be it Fox New, Humana, or the Chamber of Commerce; it takes the attention away from their abysmal failings. But the liberal white guilt exerted during the campaign meant that no tough questions were asked during the campaign and a very thin-skinned, unseasoned Politian has been elevated to the presidency because of it. People who voted for the president primarily because he is black call the current opposition racist. After all, how could anyone be against this president; he is still black.
Wrecking the economy is a natural result of implementing liberal policies. Liberals whine that Bush started it. The economic melt-down was the result of forcing banks to loan to people who could not pay them back. These people fit the liberal definitions of down-trodden. True, Bush did not stop it and he did acquiesce to Obama’s plans during the transition, but it is still a bad idea. If Bush spent too much, how is it better that Obama spend more, astronomically more? But Obama lacks any experience that would tell him this is a bad idea. His overconfidence in liberalism may very well bring on the depression he claims to have avoided.
His offense of our allies is because his overblown sense of self convinced him that they would love him just for being himself. Although this is true of the Nobel Committee, much of Europe is addicted to American defense welfare and will not step up to do anything. His asking for help from the Europeans has not only yielded nothing, France (of all countries) lectures him for not doing enough in Iran. Hey, Mr. President, don’t you know that not listening to France is what got Bush in trouble? Although Sorkarzy is right, how about France does something to earn its seat on the UN permanent counsel.
Our enemies scoff at the liberal belief that we are all people who just want to get along. While liberals bristle at the racism that caused slavery, they fail to realize that this same force is at work through Islamofacists who would make slaves of us all. You think tea-baggers are racists? What do call a maniacal dictator that wants to kill all the Jews? You weren’t planning on making him your race-relations Czar, were you?
Hey Liberals out there, next time you decide to relieve your white guilt by doing this much damage to the rest of us, could I get you to ask one question first: “Would I vote for someone this inexperienced who has told us virtually nothing about himself with ties to radical left-wing groups if he were white?”
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Nature of Government: What Michael Moore Does Not Understand
While watching Sean Hannity was interviewing his pal Michael Moore, Moore asked "Why do you hate this government so much?" The context was Hannity's reluctance to allow the government to take care of Americans with endless entitlement programs. I have pondered the question and have decided the question shows a grave ignorance over the nature of government and the precarious situation we find ourselves in vis-a-vis this government. Attitudes toward government form the basis of political philosophies and underscore the fundamental difference between Conservatives and Liberals.
Governments wield power. In fact, power is the core of government. Governments throughout the centuries have wielded their power in various ways. When government power is wielded by a king, dictator, or oligarchy, the result has eventually been upheaval from the governed. These governments have either yielded to democratic reforms or suffered revolution and/or collapse. Our nation's founders experienced the latter and established a replacement government that reflected their extreme suspicion of government. They set the Constitution, a written document, as the supreme law above all the government rulers. Rulers can be fickle but a written law is immutable. Then lest the nation's rulers just ignore the constitution, they made the rulers accountable to the people, drew lines between federal and state powers, divided the government in three parts (executive, legislative, and judicial) and set them at odds with each other through and ingenious check-and-balance system. Then they wrote a bill of rights listing what the government could not do. Hey, Mr. Moore, if you think Hannity was suspicious of government, you should have met George Washington or Thomas Jefferson.
Government, therefore, is a magnate of people who crave power. We should be suspicious of those who wish to wield power over us because wielding power always means curbing our freedom. As a conservative, I believe government should exercise its power to balance my freedom against yours. You have the right to swing your fist anywhere you want but your freedom must end where my nose begins. Government must stop you from hitting my nose or punish you if you do. Making laws against murder, robbery and such is a legitimate role of the government. With power comes virtually endless resources through its ability to tax. Government then also becomes a magnate for those desiring wealth. Liberals believe that power and wealth should be used to better society beyond just preventing you from hitting my nose. For lack of a better term, I call this social engineering. Our experience with social engineering has been largely detrimental. There are three basic reasons why social engineering is doomed to failure.
First, politicians are just not smart enough. Virtually no one is. We rely on free markets to do what no person or small group of persons can do. Social programs are engineered by people who do not know what they are doing, make assumptions that bear no resemblance to reality or work at cross purposes to the governed for their own benefit. The war on poverty has spent trillions without eliminating poverty. Medicaid and Medicare cost seven times their projected estimates. Congressmen are still being caught in bribery and tax evasion scandals.
Second, your social engineering interferes with my right to swing my fist. You may argue that I do not need to swing my fist but what the heck gives you the right to decide? If I want to make a billion dollars in a year, why do you get to decide you need half? Forcing me to work for the benefit of others is slavery. Is is alright to enslave people based on their fitting in a certain category? If I decide you should be my slave because you have blond hair, would that be OK? Our nation's founders believed in maximizing the freedom of white males which we have now expanded to mean the freedom of all people. Singling out a category of people for tax punishment (rich people), economic punishment (not allowing Rush Limbaugh to buy a NFL team based on political speech), or opportunity denial (preferring minorities over whites in college admission) are all social engineering endeavors that run counter to the premise that everyone is created equally and are equal under the law.
Third, expanding the role of government amplifies the negative aspects of its nature, usually without great benefit. The more government does, the more lobbyist flood into the government tempting the power holders with worldly goods. Companies that could use their capital to produce more goods and services are, instead, paying campaign donations to stave off threatened regulations and with good reason. Government power does not stand idle. Bureaucracies grow through endless hiring and justify their existence with never-ending regulation, most of which is costly and nugatory. How much of our national productivity is lost to lawyers and lobbyists dealing with this asinine nonsense? Some regulation is necessary. You should not be able to steal my money via a Ponzi scheme (like Bernie Madoff did to thousands) but even when regulation is in place the government often fails to do its job (or do we blame this on the extreme incompetence of Tim Geithner who was the head regulator in New York at the time?) Experience has shown that he governs best who governs least.
Things are especially precarious now because the liberal have developed an us-versus-them mentality. Conservatives are heavily scrutinized while Liberals get a pass. Hypocrisy is at record levels with Democrats who now run the entire government. While Tom Delay had to be run out of Congress for, as I understand it, being mean to Democrats, Charles Rangel keeps his chairmanship while committing tax fraud. Nancy Pelosi breaks out in tears and demands Wilson apologize to everyone multiple times for calling the President a liar (which turns out to be true) while Grayson can use defamatory lies to demean Republicans with near impunity.
With Congress and the White House in the same party the power check between the two has broken down. With the appointment of Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, we break down the check of the judicial branch because she does not believe the constitution to be what the founders intended, an immutable law. The courts already pretend the ninth and tenth amendments do not exist, while the Federal Government leaves its heavy footprint on the backsides of the states. The first amendment grants the press special powers to be the watch dogs over the government but they have abdicated their role, all tilting left as well. While the corruption of ACORN, a recipient of billions in tax dollars, was being exposed by undercover novices, the New York Times did not cover the story saying that too many of its reporters were on vacation at the time. Yet the "Naked Politician" was covered (sorry for the pun) during that week. The liberals in Maryland do not seem to be as concerned with ACORN helping set up brothels with underage, illegal aliens as much as they are that the undercover agents used clandestine recording devices. Unchecked, the White House has stocked their ranks with tax cheats, lobbyists and Marxists. The environment for corruption and abuse of power by the the White House is rife. Mr. Moore is naive if he does not think that Obama and the Chicago thugachracy he brought with him do not have the ability or inclination to abuse government power. Besides, the last president who misused his power (in that case he fixed the outcome of a law suit against himself for sexual harassment) was let off and still held in high esteem by many people.
This leaves the American people to protest and threaten the House of Representatives with reprisal in the next election. This may be the only way left to correct this mess. The White House has reacted to this by slandering the people who oppose his initiatives. And in a bizarre turn they have declared war on Fox News because it covers the protests, does not faun over the president, and has commentators that actually criticize the President's polices. Liberals have tried to brunt opposition, not with reasoned arguments, but by labeling opponents as racists.
Mr. Moore, I do not hate this government but I do not trust it or any government. Government must earn my trust each day and I will always be suspicious of anyone wishing to wield power over me regardless of their political stripes. However, never before has so much of the safeguards put in place by the founders been breached because of the wide-spread power of liberalism and the inability of most of the press to do their jobs! Let's at least put the Congress back in the hands of some conservatives, then we'll talk. I bet the press will start doing its job then!
Governments wield power. In fact, power is the core of government. Governments throughout the centuries have wielded their power in various ways. When government power is wielded by a king, dictator, or oligarchy, the result has eventually been upheaval from the governed. These governments have either yielded to democratic reforms or suffered revolution and/or collapse. Our nation's founders experienced the latter and established a replacement government that reflected their extreme suspicion of government. They set the Constitution, a written document, as the supreme law above all the government rulers. Rulers can be fickle but a written law is immutable. Then lest the nation's rulers just ignore the constitution, they made the rulers accountable to the people, drew lines between federal and state powers, divided the government in three parts (executive, legislative, and judicial) and set them at odds with each other through and ingenious check-and-balance system. Then they wrote a bill of rights listing what the government could not do. Hey, Mr. Moore, if you think Hannity was suspicious of government, you should have met George Washington or Thomas Jefferson.
Government, therefore, is a magnate of people who crave power. We should be suspicious of those who wish to wield power over us because wielding power always means curbing our freedom. As a conservative, I believe government should exercise its power to balance my freedom against yours. You have the right to swing your fist anywhere you want but your freedom must end where my nose begins. Government must stop you from hitting my nose or punish you if you do. Making laws against murder, robbery and such is a legitimate role of the government. With power comes virtually endless resources through its ability to tax. Government then also becomes a magnate for those desiring wealth. Liberals believe that power and wealth should be used to better society beyond just preventing you from hitting my nose. For lack of a better term, I call this social engineering. Our experience with social engineering has been largely detrimental. There are three basic reasons why social engineering is doomed to failure.
First, politicians are just not smart enough. Virtually no one is. We rely on free markets to do what no person or small group of persons can do. Social programs are engineered by people who do not know what they are doing, make assumptions that bear no resemblance to reality or work at cross purposes to the governed for their own benefit. The war on poverty has spent trillions without eliminating poverty. Medicaid and Medicare cost seven times their projected estimates. Congressmen are still being caught in bribery and tax evasion scandals.
Second, your social engineering interferes with my right to swing my fist. You may argue that I do not need to swing my fist but what the heck gives you the right to decide? If I want to make a billion dollars in a year, why do you get to decide you need half? Forcing me to work for the benefit of others is slavery. Is is alright to enslave people based on their fitting in a certain category? If I decide you should be my slave because you have blond hair, would that be OK? Our nation's founders believed in maximizing the freedom of white males which we have now expanded to mean the freedom of all people. Singling out a category of people for tax punishment (rich people), economic punishment (not allowing Rush Limbaugh to buy a NFL team based on political speech), or opportunity denial (preferring minorities over whites in college admission) are all social engineering endeavors that run counter to the premise that everyone is created equally and are equal under the law.
Third, expanding the role of government amplifies the negative aspects of its nature, usually without great benefit. The more government does, the more lobbyist flood into the government tempting the power holders with worldly goods. Companies that could use their capital to produce more goods and services are, instead, paying campaign donations to stave off threatened regulations and with good reason. Government power does not stand idle. Bureaucracies grow through endless hiring and justify their existence with never-ending regulation, most of which is costly and nugatory. How much of our national productivity is lost to lawyers and lobbyists dealing with this asinine nonsense? Some regulation is necessary. You should not be able to steal my money via a Ponzi scheme (like Bernie Madoff did to thousands) but even when regulation is in place the government often fails to do its job (or do we blame this on the extreme incompetence of Tim Geithner who was the head regulator in New York at the time?) Experience has shown that he governs best who governs least.
Things are especially precarious now because the liberal have developed an us-versus-them mentality. Conservatives are heavily scrutinized while Liberals get a pass. Hypocrisy is at record levels with Democrats who now run the entire government. While Tom Delay had to be run out of Congress for, as I understand it, being mean to Democrats, Charles Rangel keeps his chairmanship while committing tax fraud. Nancy Pelosi breaks out in tears and demands Wilson apologize to everyone multiple times for calling the President a liar (which turns out to be true) while Grayson can use defamatory lies to demean Republicans with near impunity.
With Congress and the White House in the same party the power check between the two has broken down. With the appointment of Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, we break down the check of the judicial branch because she does not believe the constitution to be what the founders intended, an immutable law. The courts already pretend the ninth and tenth amendments do not exist, while the Federal Government leaves its heavy footprint on the backsides of the states. The first amendment grants the press special powers to be the watch dogs over the government but they have abdicated their role, all tilting left as well. While the corruption of ACORN, a recipient of billions in tax dollars, was being exposed by undercover novices, the New York Times did not cover the story saying that too many of its reporters were on vacation at the time. Yet the "Naked Politician" was covered (sorry for the pun) during that week. The liberals in Maryland do not seem to be as concerned with ACORN helping set up brothels with underage, illegal aliens as much as they are that the undercover agents used clandestine recording devices. Unchecked, the White House has stocked their ranks with tax cheats, lobbyists and Marxists. The environment for corruption and abuse of power by the the White House is rife. Mr. Moore is naive if he does not think that Obama and the Chicago thugachracy he brought with him do not have the ability or inclination to abuse government power. Besides, the last president who misused his power (in that case he fixed the outcome of a law suit against himself for sexual harassment) was let off and still held in high esteem by many people.
This leaves the American people to protest and threaten the House of Representatives with reprisal in the next election. This may be the only way left to correct this mess. The White House has reacted to this by slandering the people who oppose his initiatives. And in a bizarre turn they have declared war on Fox News because it covers the protests, does not faun over the president, and has commentators that actually criticize the President's polices. Liberals have tried to brunt opposition, not with reasoned arguments, but by labeling opponents as racists.
Mr. Moore, I do not hate this government but I do not trust it or any government. Government must earn my trust each day and I will always be suspicious of anyone wishing to wield power over me regardless of their political stripes. However, never before has so much of the safeguards put in place by the founders been breached because of the wide-spread power of liberalism and the inability of most of the press to do their jobs! Let's at least put the Congress back in the hands of some conservatives, then we'll talk. I bet the press will start doing its job then!
Monday, October 12, 2009
Obama Finally Wins Something
I was totally thrilled this weekend when President Obama got the Nobel Peace prize. I personally have always wanted a Nobel Prize for science so I got right on it this weekend. I have heard there is a Theory of Everything in science and, although it was not my idea originally, I think it is a good one. I have spoken to people about much I feel it is a good idea. I am even putting together a committee of Czars and demanding they have the theory on my desk to sign by Thanksgiving break. I have also spent the weekend worrying about how the cool autumn air is a sign of global warming and am in total mourning of Evil White European day, today, on account of Columbus coming over here and all. I hope the Norwegians know I don’t mean them ‘cause they didn’t pillage anything like Columbus unless you count the Vikings plundering half of Northern Europe but we all know that plundering from rich white people is what you’re supposed to do anyway.
So all this thinking and feeling has got me too exhausted to write anymore and I am too tied up in knots trying to decide what to have for dinner (I know the deadline for deciding is tonight but I may just put it off until next week even though I have been warned that by doing so I may lose the opportunity to have dinner at all.) I know you expected me to write more but maybe the lack of words will inspire you to admire me for being pensive and deliberative. Say, maybe I could use this blog entry to win the Nobel Prize for Literature!
So all this thinking and feeling has got me too exhausted to write anymore and I am too tied up in knots trying to decide what to have for dinner (I know the deadline for deciding is tonight but I may just put it off until next week even though I have been warned that by doing so I may lose the opportunity to have dinner at all.) I know you expected me to write more but maybe the lack of words will inspire you to admire me for being pensive and deliberative. Say, maybe I could use this blog entry to win the Nobel Prize for Literature!
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Obama: Incompetent, Delusional, or Liar
This week President Obama made a pitch to bring the Olympics to Chicago. He promised to use all his powers of persuasion to bring the Games home but it worked out just about as well as all his other attempts to persuade Congress to pass his radical agenda as the Olympic Committee voted to send the Games to Rio de Janeiro. The president was criticized for the colossal waste of money and time but at least he wasn't doing something stupid like his recent Air-Force-One flyby of Manhattan. What bothered me was his inability to take the failure like a, well, president (Remember "The buck stops here?"). Instead, he launched into another "I'm-sorry-for-America" speech and blamed previous administrations. Get off it already; Bush isn't there anymore! I have begun to wonder if he is incompetent, delusional, or just a liar. I can't decide. Here is the evidence I have pondered for each.
Of course, he can read a speech like no other since Lincoln and the Gettysburg address. But why did that not persuade the committee. Is he loosing his touch? Perhaps they are still mad at Bush or maybe they are all a bunch of racists! He has made Obamacare the hallmark of his administration and it is going nowhere. Racism? Clinton tried the same thing and failed. Is the nation so racist that we would not even listen to an honorary black president. Perhaps, the country does not like Southerners? Why doesn't Hilary get out there a stump for the reforms? She was the mastermind behind it last time. Is the president afraid we are prejudice against women? Listen, Mr. President, somewhere out there is a person or persons who can explain your wonderful policies so that we will all love them. Maybe one of your many Czars? We could play some perverse game of "Green Eggs and Ham". Maybe we'll like Health Care Reform in a box with a fox. And then he blames his failures on Bush and on the Republicans in Congress. News flash, the Democrats own Congress! The Republican are there to stop you but there would be too few of them if you could get your party together. Is he just too incompetent to get his proposals through and too incompetent to find someone who can?
Meanwhile, Afghanistan is deteriorating and Iran pursues nuclear weapons. He is not talking to his commander in the field. And although the stimulus bill had to be passed immediately before it could be read, he agonizes over sending more troops to a country that had attacked us and harbors terrorists. His only success this week was that his charisma extracted a new set of lies from the Iranians so they can buy time, leaving Israel in the lurch. And when they break this new set of agreements, will he send them another letter telling them how disappointed he is and that they must really shape up this time or else? They are already fueling a power plant with letters they get like that from the UN.
Perhaps he is delusional. He did derail the Clinton machine and successfully lock Hilary away in the Secretary tower, dooming her to mundane diplomacy trips Malawi and Honduras. Some likened him to Jesus Christ and even made caricatures of him as the Messiah. By the way, the National Endowment for the Arts funded an exhibition with a crucifix dipped in urine. I wonder if we could get one of those posters dipped in urine and put on display somewhere. But let's skip the naked, chocolate Obama; I think we have seen enough of his bareness in the tabloids already. He doesn't need any more exposure. But he surely craves it and all this adulation may have gone to his head. Children in schools are now singing songs to his praise to him. If Chairman Mao were still alive, he would be green with envy. Rumors are the Kim Jung Il of North Korea has offered to stop his weapons program if Obama will send teachers from New Jersey to teach his song writers how to compose such marvelous songs of praise.
When Bush was president, he asked the world to help but went forward in our national interests when some refused to help. Now Obama thinks that apologies, sweet words, and the force of his personality will get these nations to change? Have they? Are they helping more? NO! France is still a burned-out socialist society that will do nothing. Russia and China still hate us. North Korea and Iran are as dangerous as ever. Hey, Mister President, are you sure you said "Pretty please with sugar on top?" I think he needs to lay off MSNBC and get his head back into reality. Ever heard of Fox News?
Or maybe he realizes all this and is a just a compulsive liar. He lied about Bill Ayers and Reverent Wright. He ran as a centrist Democrat promising ethical governance and then stuffed is his administration with Marxists and tax cheats. He promised no more lobbyist in high office and then put lobbyists in high office. He promised we would get to see bills on line before they are passed and now pushes them through before anyone can read them. He touts how great his economic measures are doing as the unemployment rate climbs to ten percent, the highest in thirty years. He says he will cut the deficit and then spends more money than all his predecessors combined. He talks about what is in his health care proposal when he has never submitted any proposals to Congress and insists that spending a trillion dollars on health care will not add to the deficit. It does not help that the press does not call him out on any of this. If Bush said the sky was blue, the press would exclaim that the sky was red and the Bush knew it and the only reason he was saying this was to starve children and harm senior citizens. Obama could say the sky was green and the press would report how wonderful it was that Obama turned the sky green in spite of all the racists that claimed the sky to be blue. Maybe this is just feeding his delusions. Does he really think he can cut waste, fraud and abuse from the government? You mean like when he worked with ACORN? And when anyone does confront him on how his proposals are hurting the country (like cutting $500 billion from Medicare), we get the Orwellian "No they're not."
Ten months into this nightmare and we finally are getting a sense of how radically left this president is but now we are left to wonder if he is incompetent, delusional or just a liar. I think he might be a bit of all three. But for all his faults he has done something I didn't think anyone on earth could do. He has made me wish Hillary Clinton had become President.
Of course, he can read a speech like no other since Lincoln and the Gettysburg address. But why did that not persuade the committee. Is he loosing his touch? Perhaps they are still mad at Bush or maybe they are all a bunch of racists! He has made Obamacare the hallmark of his administration and it is going nowhere. Racism? Clinton tried the same thing and failed. Is the nation so racist that we would not even listen to an honorary black president. Perhaps, the country does not like Southerners? Why doesn't Hilary get out there a stump for the reforms? She was the mastermind behind it last time. Is the president afraid we are prejudice against women? Listen, Mr. President, somewhere out there is a person or persons who can explain your wonderful policies so that we will all love them. Maybe one of your many Czars? We could play some perverse game of "Green Eggs and Ham". Maybe we'll like Health Care Reform in a box with a fox. And then he blames his failures on Bush and on the Republicans in Congress. News flash, the Democrats own Congress! The Republican are there to stop you but there would be too few of them if you could get your party together. Is he just too incompetent to get his proposals through and too incompetent to find someone who can?
Meanwhile, Afghanistan is deteriorating and Iran pursues nuclear weapons. He is not talking to his commander in the field. And although the stimulus bill had to be passed immediately before it could be read, he agonizes over sending more troops to a country that had attacked us and harbors terrorists. His only success this week was that his charisma extracted a new set of lies from the Iranians so they can buy time, leaving Israel in the lurch. And when they break this new set of agreements, will he send them another letter telling them how disappointed he is and that they must really shape up this time or else? They are already fueling a power plant with letters they get like that from the UN.
Perhaps he is delusional. He did derail the Clinton machine and successfully lock Hilary away in the Secretary tower, dooming her to mundane diplomacy trips Malawi and Honduras. Some likened him to Jesus Christ and even made caricatures of him as the Messiah. By the way, the National Endowment for the Arts funded an exhibition with a crucifix dipped in urine. I wonder if we could get one of those posters dipped in urine and put on display somewhere. But let's skip the naked, chocolate Obama; I think we have seen enough of his bareness in the tabloids already. He doesn't need any more exposure. But he surely craves it and all this adulation may have gone to his head. Children in schools are now singing songs to his praise to him. If Chairman Mao were still alive, he would be green with envy. Rumors are the Kim Jung Il of North Korea has offered to stop his weapons program if Obama will send teachers from New Jersey to teach his song writers how to compose such marvelous songs of praise.
When Bush was president, he asked the world to help but went forward in our national interests when some refused to help. Now Obama thinks that apologies, sweet words, and the force of his personality will get these nations to change? Have they? Are they helping more? NO! France is still a burned-out socialist society that will do nothing. Russia and China still hate us. North Korea and Iran are as dangerous as ever. Hey, Mister President, are you sure you said "Pretty please with sugar on top?" I think he needs to lay off MSNBC and get his head back into reality. Ever heard of Fox News?
Or maybe he realizes all this and is a just a compulsive liar. He lied about Bill Ayers and Reverent Wright. He ran as a centrist Democrat promising ethical governance and then stuffed is his administration with Marxists and tax cheats. He promised no more lobbyist in high office and then put lobbyists in high office. He promised we would get to see bills on line before they are passed and now pushes them through before anyone can read them. He touts how great his economic measures are doing as the unemployment rate climbs to ten percent, the highest in thirty years. He says he will cut the deficit and then spends more money than all his predecessors combined. He talks about what is in his health care proposal when he has never submitted any proposals to Congress and insists that spending a trillion dollars on health care will not add to the deficit. It does not help that the press does not call him out on any of this. If Bush said the sky was blue, the press would exclaim that the sky was red and the Bush knew it and the only reason he was saying this was to starve children and harm senior citizens. Obama could say the sky was green and the press would report how wonderful it was that Obama turned the sky green in spite of all the racists that claimed the sky to be blue. Maybe this is just feeding his delusions. Does he really think he can cut waste, fraud and abuse from the government? You mean like when he worked with ACORN? And when anyone does confront him on how his proposals are hurting the country (like cutting $500 billion from Medicare), we get the Orwellian "No they're not."
Ten months into this nightmare and we finally are getting a sense of how radically left this president is but now we are left to wonder if he is incompetent, delusional or just a liar. I think he might be a bit of all three. But for all his faults he has done something I didn't think anyone on earth could do. He has made me wish Hillary Clinton had become President.
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