What a neophyte we have in the White House.
During the campaign we were bombarded- bombarded I say- by the media's frequent auto-eroticism at the mere mention of the Obama's rhetorical prowes and sheer genius. Didn't Oprah tell us Obama was "brilliant"? Weren't we constantly reminded of his unique ability to lead?
Wasn't Obama "the one"? Oh Neo- save us from the Matrix.
Today, the master orator, Cato in our time, issued an apology (sort of). He regrets his word choice when he told the WORLD that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly and sided with Prof. Gates after admitting he did not know the fact.
This comes just a few months after he issued an apology making fun of retarded people on The Tonight Show.
Now- correct me if I am wrong- was not President Bush CRUCIFIED at every verbal snafu? Didn't every late night comedian make a living off new-que-lur and "misunderestimate"? Yet I don't recall Bush having to issue an apology for his words.
Words have meaning.
The liberals wanted a retraction of "axis of evil" and "dead or alive". They were shocked and sickened by his "cowboy diplomacy" when he reminded our enemies that he would hunt them down. He did not back down; he did not recant.
Words have meaning.
How sad that our President wants to invite Gates and Crowley- two minor players in a minor misunderstanding- to drink a beer in the White House. The White House! The power home of the world. The building from where we liberated Europe and flew to the moon now playing bit part in Obama's Freudian slip.
Obama didn't make a mistake or choose his words poorly. He let lose the anger he holds in his mind and heart. The same anger he vented at those who cling to their guns and religion, the same anger he used to defend the vile Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, the same anger with which he continues to bash the former President after 6 months of his own colossal failures shined through in his comments. And he is sorry- sorry you saw that side of him. That side is supposed to be hidden.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry so many Americans were duped into voting for this fraternity pledge.
1/8 of his administration is over. The next 7/8 could drive me to drink. At breakfast.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Stir the racial pot, Barry
I reminded myself in posting last night that Barry is nothing more than a community organizer and campaigner in chief. He made his name, and his fortune, by stirring the community into a (usually racial) frenzy. This is his tactic, this is his B.O.'s m.o.
When I was still a clueless kid growing up in NYC, the Tawana Brawley case first turned me on to blacks who use race as a means to achieving a career end. Al Sharpton, along with his huge medalion and pompadour hairdo, convinced us that we were all racists because of the way Tawana Brawley was treated. Well- we know how that case turned out. But for some reason Al survived and continues to this very day as the leader of the racists movement in America.
That's party why I thought it so odd he spoke at Michael Jackson's funeral- not as odd as what he said- but odd that he was even there. As a kid, when everone dressed as Michael for Halloween and my mom, bless her, let me wait up until 11:30 to watch Thriller premier on Friday Night Videos, I never thought of MJ as black. Or white. Or anything. I liked his music. Period. Was I colorblind by birth and society made me see black and white? I often wonder.
But anyway- that's not the point. The point is what our Community Organizer In Chief said last night about the Gates arrest in Boston. His comments did what he does best: stir the racial pot.
Obama lives for societal tension- it's where he makes his coin. Poor v. Rich, Black v. White, Gay v. Straight- the community organizer, the Al Sharpton, the activist NEEDS to foster and subsequently exploit these tensions.
Ever hear of "divide and conquer"?
Obama's commetns last night were beyond stupid. They were insulting. And I bet Gates was a pain in the ass prick who deserved to get arrested. Because he was black? No- because he is a Harvard professor who is probably more arrogant than Obama. Is that anti-ivy-ism? Sorry. I'll take a seminar to cure my ignorance.
Obama has passed from arrogant to just plain stupid and his comments about cops and particularly about Officer Crowley are out of line. The office of the President of the United State, the White House pulpit being used to focus on one insignificant incident in Boston.
That is what Obama is good at: nitpicking, making mounts from black and white mole hills, tempests in tea pots, you get the idea. That is his forte. That is his career history. It's just so beneath the role of POTUS.
Al Sharpton will make his way up to Boston, I'm sure. The NAACP and Rainbow Push and Jessee jackson will make their way too. Shame on the professor for starting such a brohahah. Shame on the President for encouraging it.
When I was still a clueless kid growing up in NYC, the Tawana Brawley case first turned me on to blacks who use race as a means to achieving a career end. Al Sharpton, along with his huge medalion and pompadour hairdo, convinced us that we were all racists because of the way Tawana Brawley was treated. Well- we know how that case turned out. But for some reason Al survived and continues to this very day as the leader of the racists movement in America.
That's party why I thought it so odd he spoke at Michael Jackson's funeral- not as odd as what he said- but odd that he was even there. As a kid, when everone dressed as Michael for Halloween and my mom, bless her, let me wait up until 11:30 to watch Thriller premier on Friday Night Videos, I never thought of MJ as black. Or white. Or anything. I liked his music. Period. Was I colorblind by birth and society made me see black and white? I often wonder.
But anyway- that's not the point. The point is what our Community Organizer In Chief said last night about the Gates arrest in Boston. His comments did what he does best: stir the racial pot.
Obama lives for societal tension- it's where he makes his coin. Poor v. Rich, Black v. White, Gay v. Straight- the community organizer, the Al Sharpton, the activist NEEDS to foster and subsequently exploit these tensions.
Ever hear of "divide and conquer"?
Obama's commetns last night were beyond stupid. They were insulting. And I bet Gates was a pain in the ass prick who deserved to get arrested. Because he was black? No- because he is a Harvard professor who is probably more arrogant than Obama. Is that anti-ivy-ism? Sorry. I'll take a seminar to cure my ignorance.
Obama has passed from arrogant to just plain stupid and his comments about cops and particularly about Officer Crowley are out of line. The office of the President of the United State, the White House pulpit being used to focus on one insignificant incident in Boston.
That is what Obama is good at: nitpicking, making mounts from black and white mole hills, tempests in tea pots, you get the idea. That is his forte. That is his career history. It's just so beneath the role of POTUS.
Al Sharpton will make his way up to Boston, I'm sure. The NAACP and Rainbow Push and Jessee jackson will make their way too. Shame on the professor for starting such a brohahah. Shame on the President for encouraging it.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Campaigner in Chief
He's been POTUS for 6 months and 2 days and he is holding his fourth- his FOURTH- prime time press conference.
This is the strategy of a man who does not know how to govern but rather excells at public engagement. He was, after all, a community organizer. I guess this is how they operate.
Funny how 2 years in the Senate made Obama an expert on so many things: healthcare, automotive industry, mortgage, environment, banking, small business. It's an amazing hubris of Caesarian proportians. Pompey would be a better example...
I was a few minutes late for this week's press conference but when I tuned in Obama was reminding everyone about "the past 8 years" and how many problems he inherited... yaaaaawn. That line is getting old, Barry. Besides being pretty much a lie, it's also a tired line.
Twice he has reminded the audience of the letters he receives. OK folks- let me be clear about someone who worked in the White House- POTUS does not look at those letters. He doesn't. He makes it sound like he sits at the Resolute Desk with a silver letter opener, cup of coffee on an eagle coaster, looking through the mail along with his comcast bill and pre-qualified credit card offers.
Thomas Sowell had a great piece yesterday about the "uninsured". Why are they uninsured? Are they poor? Well- that's what medicaid does. Who's left? People who opt-out? Not my problem. So who are these 47 million uninsured? Does anyone ask that?
This is the strategy of a man who does not know how to govern but rather excells at public engagement. He was, after all, a community organizer. I guess this is how they operate.
Funny how 2 years in the Senate made Obama an expert on so many things: healthcare, automotive industry, mortgage, environment, banking, small business. It's an amazing hubris of Caesarian proportians. Pompey would be a better example...
I was a few minutes late for this week's press conference but when I tuned in Obama was reminding everyone about "the past 8 years" and how many problems he inherited... yaaaaawn. That line is getting old, Barry. Besides being pretty much a lie, it's also a tired line.
Twice he has reminded the audience of the letters he receives. OK folks- let me be clear about someone who worked in the White House- POTUS does not look at those letters. He doesn't. He makes it sound like he sits at the Resolute Desk with a silver letter opener, cup of coffee on an eagle coaster, looking through the mail along with his comcast bill and pre-qualified credit card offers.
Thomas Sowell had a great piece yesterday about the "uninsured". Why are they uninsured? Are they poor? Well- that's what medicaid does. Who's left? People who opt-out? Not my problem. So who are these 47 million uninsured? Does anyone ask that?
Monday, July 20, 2009
Video no longer available
This past Thursday a friend sent me the Hulu.com link of the SNL opening skit which parodied the Clarence Thomas hearings. Chris Farley played Heffelin, Dana Carvey impersonated Strom Thurmond. There was Phil Hartman as Kennedy, Kevin Neilon as Biden (he's our VP, right? I'm not dreaming?) and most salient: Al Frankin as bowtied Paul Simon.
The video is funny in old-school SNL funny. It poked fun at at left and right, republican and democrat and the Senate as a whole. SNL was an equal opportunity offender.
Just now I went to Hulu to show the skit to my brother. It has been removed.
Is it respect for Sen. Frankin? Or is it, as I suspect, just another example of cowardice. Back in March I noted that Seth Meyers http://guffmanandgodot.blogspot.com/2009/03/dear-seth-myers.html and the SNL crew had yet mocked Obama- sure he was in a few skits but paled in comparison (is that a racist remark?) to the harshness and severity leveled at Sarah Palin and John McCain.
SNL has fallend victim to the same PC BS of so many once great institutions- among them schools, newspapers, Hollywood, etc etc.
So sad that some exec at SNL or NBC or GE feels the need to pull the skit. Maybe they fear that Sen. Frankin might pull the funding on some billion dollar GE defense contract...
The video is funny in old-school SNL funny. It poked fun at at left and right, republican and democrat and the Senate as a whole. SNL was an equal opportunity offender.
Just now I went to Hulu to show the skit to my brother. It has been removed.
Is it respect for Sen. Frankin? Or is it, as I suspect, just another example of cowardice. Back in March I noted that Seth Meyers http://guffmanandgodot.blogspot.com/2009/03/dear-seth-myers.html and the SNL crew had yet mocked Obama- sure he was in a few skits but paled in comparison (is that a racist remark?) to the harshness and severity leveled at Sarah Palin and John McCain.
SNL has fallend victim to the same PC BS of so many once great institutions- among them schools, newspapers, Hollywood, etc etc.
So sad that some exec at SNL or NBC or GE feels the need to pull the skit. Maybe they fear that Sen. Frankin might pull the funding on some billion dollar GE defense contract...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
American Soldier Rest in Peace
God bless the American soldier.
"Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the America soldier. And our soldiers don't just preserve liberty abroad but they preserve it for us here at home. For it has been said so truthfull that it is the soldier not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier not the poet that has given us feedom of speech. It is the soldier not the agitator who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, who's coffin is drapped by the flag who gives that protest the freedom he abuses to burn that flag."
-Zell Miller
"Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the America soldier. And our soldiers don't just preserve liberty abroad but they preserve it for us here at home. For it has been said so truthfull that it is the soldier not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier not the poet that has given us feedom of speech. It is the soldier not the agitator who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, who's coffin is drapped by the flag who gives that protest the freedom he abuses to burn that flag."
-Zell Miller
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