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?
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)