Sometimes I think I am obligated to change the name of this blog to The Stupid President, since I heap criticism on President Obama as I have never done with any other President, including former President Carter.  Most of my blog posts are focused on hammering away at him.

However, happily I digress from direct Obama-bashing to bash none other than Sarah Palin.  Yes that conservative cutie angling for another shot at the White House in roughly three more years.

Gasp - you say?  How dare I criticize a conservative, as an avowed conservative myself and recent - first time mind you - contributor to the Republican Party?  Well I can because the First Amendment still exists, for the time being, and because I don't hesitate to kick some conservative butt when so deserved.  If conservatives are doing something stupid, then only too happy to criticize.

Of course Sarah Palin is not actively trying to run the Country into the ground (see other posts), but the recent silliness over the use of the word "retard" or "retarded" warrants some comments.

Now we know some people may take offense to the current title of this blog:  The Stupid Nation.  No one likes to be called stupid, at least most people I know don't really like it.  However, my take on it is that when The Stupid Nation stops behaving stupidly, I will gladly change to something else.  I am entitled to my opinion, however coarse or potentially offensive that may be to some people.  You will just have to find a way to get over it.

Onward to this retard business.

One of the thuggiest of the thugs Obama surrounded himself with was recently quoted as using the term 'F-ing retarded' to describe some idea or another at a closed door meeting with democrats (hec - aren't most Democrat meetings held in secret these days?  Unless the Republicans are invited too - another post some other time).

After dear Rahm's typically coarse remark, Sarah Palin, mother to a downs syndrome child objected strongly to the term, and called for the White House Chief of Staffs' head.  Apparently it was demeaning to retards to be compared to Democrats.  Point taken.

Shortly thereafter Rush Limbaugh used the term on his talk show (which for the record we do not listen to but rarely, though we do visit his web site about two times a week on average), and rather than Sarah demanding Rush be pulled off the air, she gave him just a scolding.  Now, we have to say, sometimes Rush gets satirical and sarcastic (sometimes?) on his show, so we don't know if Rush was playing games or not.  What we do know is that the liberal bloggers out there jumped all over the double standard Paling applied between the loathsome Chief of Staff, and champion of freedom, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

So for the sake of argument, let's say the lib bloggers are spot on.  Palin is applying a double standard.  Ok - bad girl.  Bad girl.  Though in Rush's defense, he didn't say 'F-ing retarded' so there is a slight difference in the application of the term that maybe warranted only a wrist slap as opposed to an 'off with his retarded head' reaction.

But, let's take this one step further.  As much as we like Sarah Palins' conservative views generally,  the fact that she is the mother of a down syndrome child does not appoint her as the sole guardian and good taste free speech censor of all those who dare use the word "retard" in a derogatory way.  In fact, I generally detest the politically correct 'movement' in this country anyway.  If Rahm Emanuel wants to call his fellow libs a bunch of 'F-ing retards', we celebrate his right to free speech.  That we agree with this assessment, generally, however crudely it may be offered....I guess that's icing on the cake.

So, we rebuff Sarah Palins' objections to the use of the term.  While retarded people out there may be offended at being compared to lowly Democrats, there are much bigger things going on in this country to complain about.

I guess I should be relieved that I didn't call this blog The Retarded Nation.  Frankly, it didn't occur to me, and had it, I would have stuck with what I have anyway, it has a better ring to it.  At least it sounds better than The Not So Smart Nation....or some other more politically correct derivative.

While we are on the topic of Sarah Palin......I voted for McCain/Palin in Election '08.  I didn't like and still don't like McCain for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is McCain-Feingold.  I did like Palin though.  I thought she would do fine as a VP, learning the ropes in that largely ceremonial job.  And now having had a little more than a year - all those nasty jokes about Palin being stupid, and Joe Biden being an experienced man-of-the-world rock star - look at the way that one turned out.  Could Sarah Palin have possibly done worse than Joe Biden?  The hype was hilariously wrong.  Joe Biden has distinguished himself as a boob VP even more than Dan Qualye.  My preferences remain to see Palin on a future ticket in the VP slot.  Her conservative values are good, she's managed an entire State Government, that's good (more than Obama's resume had on it), but she is missing international experience on her resume.  She's got three years to convince us all that she knows what she's doing in that regard (assuming there is another election).  So, we'll see.

Speaking of experience...I can't help but groan when I see people talking about Scott Brown for President.  Come on, haven't we already seen enough of what damage a raw neophyte can do?  NO to Scott Brown running for President in the next election.  Dare I say...that's retarded (with apologies to Sarah).  At least let the guy learn the Senate phone system first <wink>.

Since this post as been about retarded....I note the (political) passing of Ray Nagan, Mayor of New Orleans, and overseer of the worst disaster preparedness and disaster response in at least the modern history of the country.  Off the top of my head, I have to go back to the disastrous actions of the San Francisco government in the aftermath of The Great Quake to find something comparable.  Farewell Mr. Nagen.

        

Ok so let me make this clear.  I am not an economist.  I didn't take economics while at school.  In my early adult days I had little interest in the topic.  But over time I came to understand that knowing at least the basics of how the economy worked helped me understand what economists where talking about.  So I learned gradually, over time.

Then there is also pure and simple common sense.  You have a certain amount of money coming in, you have a certain amount of expenses going out.  Hopefully more is coming in than going out.  When more is going out than coming in, we all know this is flatly absolutely positively unsustainable activity.  Sooner or later you simply have nothing left to give out, and nobody will lend you a dime brother, not after that.

Makes sense, yes?  Need a PHD in economics?  No.  Need to have John Nash explain it to you?  No.

In the news today was a story that Pennsylvania was actively contemplating bankruptcy as a budgetary strategy.  And the capital of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, was in dire financial straights.  (Note I didn't invest the time to understand what put Harrisburg in that unenviable position).  New Jersey is battered and on the rocks.  New York is hammered, and the great and kooky state of California is one UnGodly mess.

Much of this is about debt.  And, in my opinion, it's not being talked about enough in the press.  Perhaps because it's dry and boring, I don't know.

Here is the simple concept:  Nationally we have been suffering from a financial psychosis where the majority of us, including some very smart people, demanded an ever increasing amount of services from our Governments, but we balked at actually paying for it.  Perhaps this psychosis has it roots in the Great Depression and the Roosevelt Administration's shift from largely self-reliance to entitlement.

So now many of us have bought into the kool-aid elixir that the government 'owes us', when in fact, it does not.

Thus, in order to maintain the increasingly 'you owe me' attitude of The Stupid Nation, our State and Federal Governments have been borrowing and borrowing to keep those voters fat, dumb, relatively happy, and most of all - at home and out of the polling booth.  'You owe me' in a perverse way helps breed apathy (that would be another amateur psycho-analysis post all by itself).

This is my trademark long-winded wind up to the point:  Generally speaking many state residents are screaming bloody murder about taxes.  And the same applied to Federal taxes as well.  They're too high, we say.  We can take no more, we say.   You must cut State employee roles, trim nutso-generous pension plans, medical benefit plans to die for, cut back on wages, and so on - just so long as those precious services we collectively like aren't touched.  It's stupid, oh yes it is, and it's also hilarious, and sad all at once.

The problem with cutting "fat" out of Government is that, at least in many states, it's not the spending on services that's the main problem.  It's the spending to support the debt service these governments have accumulated over a generation or more.  The debt service in California, New Jersey, and New York as prime examples, is staggering.  And all the money that goes to servicing the debt, cannot go to paying for the services we don't want cut but refuse to pay for.  So our taxes are high, and they stay high because we have to pay off the borrowed money, and we still have to provide those pesky services.

What a mind-boggling mess.  And it's our fault people - the Government failed The People because The People failed the Government.  In a democracy, voters ultimately are to blame, either because they voted stupidly, as so many did electing Obama into office, or because they didn't vote at all.

Nothing at the state level can remotely compare to the absolute obscene orgy of borrowing currently going on at the Federal Government at this very moment.  How can supposedly very smart people be so unbelievably dumb?   How can you claim sanity and pile one block of trillion dollar debt on after another?  You really have only two possible conclusions as to why the Obama Administration and the Democrats would do this:  Spectacular stupidity, or sinister intentional destruction of the United States.  Obama is a Marxist, and he is an ideologue despite his lies claiming the contrary.  And thus, we cannot help ourselves but wonder about what the hell Obama thinks he is doing.

The more debt we pile on, the ever smaller the fiscal margins are for us to be able to react to another calamity without it bringing down the entire nation.  It's like Mount Saint Helens all over again - the volcano slowly rotted from the inside out, and then collapsed under pressure in a sudden horrific cataclysm.

Iceberg, right ahead....HARD RIGHT!


   

        

Way to go Mr President, taking another giant crap on tourist dependent Las Vegas, and trying to shipwreck the boating industry all in one sentence.  Even the loathsome Harry Reid gets it.  It's pretty embarrassing to look dumber than Mr. Harry 'the war is lost' Reid.   I guess it's something of an accomplishment.

When it comes to the economy, you are dumb as a stump and twice as stupid. 

For your bash-Vegas stunt, we say.....

Take another bow.  As bowing is definitely something you're got talent for.

Then there is the previously mentioned improper, rude, insulting, and outright wrong swipe at the US Supreme Court Obama took during the State of the Union speech.  Many a lawyerly scholar have since pointed out that the former constitutional law professor Obama didn't know what he was talking about.  Alito was right when he said 'not true' to foreign business being allowed to influence American political campaigns.   Other statutes block foreign corporations from meddling in the US political process remain intact.  They were not struck down by the court.  Obama was doing what he does best - blowing it out his butt.  How ironic that the Republican leadership apparently went to great pains to ensure there was not a repeat of the "You lie!" episode.  The conservative leadership all telling the ranks the President deserves respect.  Nobody told the President he should reciprocate.   

Truly pathetic.  This is the guy bringing a new tone to Washington?  Yeah, the tone of bully who shits on anyone he feels like (and the more conservative the better).

And then there is the Semi-Transparent President.  It is all well and good to turn to secret meetings between Democrats hammering out public policy on health care, but let's have the TV camera's in for a photo op of Obama's false piousness accusing the Republicans for all his woes.  'I am not an ideologue'?  Oh, riiiight - you're a Marxist....how could we get the two confused?  Silly us.

Let's repeat what I have observed earlier:  Obama's idea of bi-partisanship is for the Republicans to do what he tells them to do.  'I won; you lost.  Now do what I say'. 

To hell with that.

How about that civil trial of the 9/11 mastermind dude?  Isn't it thrilling to hear the President, the Attorney General, and the President's Press Secretary declare that we are going to give the terrorist a fair trial, find him guilty no matter what, and then kill him.  Yes a shining beacon of American justice, and a shining example of Obama Administration stupidity.  I still hold out hope that the blind justice system will humiliate these stooges by throwing out all evidence and all charges because this evil scum had his Constitutional rights violated.  The stupidity of civil trials is just....well it takes my breath away it's so dumb.  And in NYC of all places!!  My God.  My God.

And last - a catastrophic budget that is such a train wreck I am just agog at the staggering stupidity of it. 

A Stupid Nation voted in a truly stupid President.  Mark my typings.  We may yet live long enough to historians judge Obama as the worst President in the history of the Former United States.  The Former Soviet Union had a nice ring to it, but the Former United States is just too bitter to contemplate.

The founding Fathers are doing somersaults.

I admit it, this blog post is a bona-fide rant rather than my usual fact referenced analysis.  I guess I just needed to get it out of my system. 

I fear for the United States, while our national peril grows under the stewardship of a monumentally unqualified, incompetent President.  Few things are worse than seeing the train wreck coming, and knowing full well that you are utterly powerless to stop it.



 





   

        

We will keep our observations uncharacteristically short:  President Barack Obama struck us as a spoiled brat throwing a fit during the State of the Union address.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is da man!  He is a New Jersey native and he had the temerity to execute his own "You lie!" at Obama.  You want to climb up in the face of a NJ guy, you'll get back dude.  You'll get back. 

Good for him!  USSC was right to rule in favor of free speech.  McCain-Feingold is a train-wreck. 

We can summarize Obama's entire speech this way:  "I am a leftist dammit!  I have always been a leftist, I always will be a leftist, you elected me to office as a leftist, and I will not be dragged to the center so help me Reverend Wright!"

Amen Mr President.  You stick to that leftist agenda right up until your last day in office a little less than three years away. 

Lie and deceive, lie and deceive.

        

The internet headlines are a'blazing tonight boys and girls.  Mr. Scott Brown pulled off an historic upset in the bluer than blue state of Massachusetts.  He won deceased Senator Ted Kennedy's Senatorial seat.  It's a stunning double upset.  The Kennedy clan have held comfortably onto their Democrat power base for decades.  And in the end, Senator Kennedy went out badly, dying a hard death from a brain tumor.   And even the sympathy of a losing battle against an unstoppable and hard disease couldn't rally the sentimentalists to install an equally liberal replacement.  Voters were pissed.  Really pissed.  And Scott Brown rode the wave.  The Muppet Kermit the Frog could have been the Republican candidate, and he would have won too. 

The People Spoke.  The People - a small but still respectable majority - have had quite enough of Obama and his dictatorial one party system of governing.  The balance of power has been restored just enough to - perchance - save the Republic.  Now the Marxist Socialist Obama is going to have to govern a democracy.  And we think it's gonna leave a mark.

We have seen pre-election headlines blaring that if Brown is elected, the health care "reform" disaster is doomed.  Health care "reform" that was birthed by ambitious socialists who saw an opportunity as never before to move the United States closer to an outright socialist state in the midst of economic chaos.  And the heavy-footed, sneering and seedy way the "Democrats" conducted themselves awoke enough sleeping Americans to the danger that we have moved back just enough to adversarial governing.   It has long been reported by pundits and number crunching analysts alike that America prefers the adversarial style of government where neither party enjoys absolute power.  And after observing Obama and his super majority of Democrats in action for this past year, I say A-men brothers and sisters, A-men.  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.  I don't want to see either party ever in a position where they can essentially rule the country in single party fashion.  Adversarial government forces debate, forces compromise and that is sure a hell of a lot better than having either party ram their dogma down our throats.  The outcome of adversarial government is not always perfect, but it is more perfect than absolute power held by a few who can rule in secrecy over all of us.

As far as health care goes.  During the ebb and tide of the nasty games being played from the very start of Obama's brave new paradigm initiative, we have seen headline after headline about how this god-awful freaking disaster of a bill was on deaths door time and again, only to be saved at the last moment by a political bribe here and there.  So, we will not consider this health care mess dead until it's really dead.  Rational people might expect that after the Democrats were taken to the woodshed in Massachusetts, that they would get the message.  That they will drop health care like the hot steaming cow pie it is to save themselves this coming November.  But the Democratic Party is currently controlled by the far left.  And health care is all about socialist ideology, and has nothing to do with solving real problems with the current system.  And since it is about ideology, I will not be shocked in the slightest if the far left, lead by Obama and Reid and Pelosi, doesn't try every dirty trick in the book to get health care passed no matter what the consequences.

Obama wanted the shift to socialized medicine as a perceived feather in his historical cap.  It's one of the key facets of how Obama wants his Presidency remembered.  He doesn't care if more than half the country hates it.  It doesn't matter if the current proposed legislation is good law or bad law - those are mear details.  All that matters is EGO, and being able to say in that condescending way of his: I did this.

So, I will not breathe easy until the health care bill is dead for real.  Yogi Berra says it's ain't over till it's over.  He was, is, and always will be right.

Now is not the time for conservatives to get giddy, or sloppy, or let there guard down.   Now is not the time to copy the Democrats and gloat.  Now is the time for all good conservatives to come to the aid of their country.  "Hope and change" was really lie and deceive. 

We can't afford to let those newly aroused go back to sleep.......



 

        

I suppose it's only fitting that I kick off the new year with another shot at the worst President of the United States since Buchanan (widely blamed for setting the stage for the American Civil War), and is still tracking nicely to be the worst President in the history of this country.

Of course, I refer to President Obama.

I just wanted to remind all that Obama was washed into office billed as a breath of fresh air after 8 years of the reviled Bush Administration (which is looking better and better in hindsight compared to the current Obama Administration).  Obama was supposed to bring a new paradigm to Washington.  He was going to right the wrongs of President Bush, and save us from the Republican Evil Empire.  He was also supposed to rule from the center-left (can't help but guffaw on that one)

Well, well.

So far Obama has turned out to be anything but.  The Obama Administration thus far has a feeling of classic political sleaziness, with more than a touch of thuggery, and way more than a dash of ineptitude.  Hope and change is already well along at turning into despair, political status quo, and international humiliation.

The remarkable thing for me about Obama is that there is absolutely NOTHING I can latch on to in agreement.  Nothing.  I can't remember a time in my adult voting life where I so strongly opposed every single action undertaken by a sitting President.  I can't even say that about Carter, who in many circles is regarded as an awful President in his own right - and for good reason.

So C-Span challenged both Obama and the Democratic Party to open the reconciling negotiations between the egregious House health care bill and the appalling Senate bill.  Obama, who promised repeatedly that his administration would be open and transparent with the American People, opted for total secrecy.  And thus, once more dear friends, a rather ordinary professional politician who lied his way into office, defrauds the people who put him in power.   Oh yeah, mark my typings, when the Frankenstein Bill meets the Dracula Bill in conference, the bastard child produced by that unHoly coupling will include another broken promise about raising taxes the middle-class.  When the CBO estimates the additional cost of healthcare is going to be two trillion dollars, you can conservatively double that to come closer to the real cost, and brace yourself for a triple.  After all, when has the true cost of a Government run social program ever come in at or under budget?     

I understand the need for secrecy in dealing with matters of National Security.  I understand the need for some levels of secrecy in diplomatic dealings so as to protect our friends, and deal with our enemies out of the light of day when necessary.   But I do declare that public domestic policy set by a handful of people shrouded in secrecy is a very bad, very ominous thing that is a direct tacit threat to our democracy.

Today I joined the Republican Party. 

Update:  So Obama offers C-Span a whopping 1 full hour of coverage of the secret conference meetings.  The intellectual equivelent of spit in the eye of everyone who expected Obama to fulfill his promise of transparency.

Meanwhile, Jack Cafferty, a commentator and long time news hound currently working for CNN editorialized recently that he was hoping that voters remember "this crap" come November.  Cafferty is not exactly known for his right wing sympathies.  And therein lies the rub, and the warning.  When the leftists in power finally start really pissing off the left media, you know they're in trouble.  It's starting to sink in - Obama was full of it from the very beginning.  It's frustrating for me to sit here knowing full well from the very beginning that the Obama story being fed to the American people was a total sham.  Now The Stupid Nation is slowly awakening to the fact that, once again, they've been had by a professional politician who told them what they wanted to hear so he could get elected.  Which begs the question:  How many more times are we going to buy one load of bullshit after another from politicians lying their way into office?

        

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was sitting on a Delta flight to Detroit, zipping through the air at around 600mph seeking a rendevous with what was supposed to be his glorious Christmas Day destiny, if only Allah would will it so.  Allah, apparently indifferent to Umar's reported plight of loneliness, didn't.  Thus, Allah be praised.  Perhaps Allah took umbrage at the idea of killing a bunch of mostly Christians on the day the Christian world celebrates the birth of Jesus.  Islamic extremists might do well to pause and consider this.  Like Mother Nature, it is unwise to piss off God.

And so, as Umar fumbled with his home-made explosive, surrounding passengers predictably sprang into action, thwarting the bombing attempt.  For the good guys - and mark my words, despite what Obama and his ilk think, we are the good guys - we won this little insignificant skirmish on the front lines of a religious extremist war.  Hurray for us.

In the aftermath of Umar's failed attempt to meet his maker in high style by taking as many other souls with him as possible, the predictable and not unwarranted who-dunnit blame gamers popped up out of the woodwork.  Normally we find the blame-game a bit irritating.   However, while surely it is necessary to dig into why early warnings went unnoticed, and do-not-fly databases were not timely updated and so on for the purposes of lessons learned, it is the bigger picture that we worry about. 

It would be all too easy to play the political game and just hang this around Obama's neck and blame him for weakening America's defense.  While I believe Obama has an agenda to emasculate the United States internationally (doing a 'great' job at that so far), I can't bring myself to dive in and join that game.  At least not yet.  I don't think the fact that this would-be suicide terrorist got through the system can be directly laid at the President's feet.  Although we can say with great confidence that Department Of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano is quite talented at making a buffoon out of herself.  Every day she continues in that post is an embarrassment to the Obama Administration - and that is absolutely Obama's responsibility.

What we think this incident really points to is a fundamental failure of the underlying purpose and intent of forming the gigantor bureaucracy known as Homeland Security in the first place.  The Dept. of Homeland Security was not an Obama invention, though we suppose that since it is a massive Government hole in the ground, he whole-heartedly supports it's bastard existence. 

In the aftermath of the Sept 11 terrorist attack on New York City, then President Bush initially opposed the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security, and I think correctly so.  Roughly nine months later, in the late spring of 2002, Bush reversed course due to mounting political and public pressure.  Political leaders, and talking heads on TV, were all clamoring for a new layer of Governmental bureaucracy as the end-all-be-all solution to the multi-agency lapses that contributed to the 9/11 attacks.    Thus, Bush simply could not resist the political tide, and the Department of Homeland Security was established on November 25, 2002, by the Homeland Security Act of 2002.  A 200,000 employee mega-bureaucracy was born.

Most people who have done Corporate troubleshooting in their careers, as I have done, understand that when tasked with fixing a dysfunctional group or organization, the one thing that you do not do to solve the problem is add another huge layer of bureaucratic management on top of the already dysfunctional group.   And that, of course, is precisely what the grand solution was for solving the well documented Governmental lapses leading to 9/11.  The primary mission of the Department of Homeland Security was, and is, to prevent terrorists from attacking the populace, either from within or from without.  And here, lonely Mr. Abdulmutallab has done us the courtesy of demonstrating that DHS is an abysmal failure.  We were just lucky that he did so without killing anybody. 

Not a surprise.

Of course, I believe the right thing to do is abolish the Dept of Homeland Security in favor of a new leaner, more flexible intelligence structure to deal with the Islamic extremist threat.  But I  also know that it is easier to get a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a liberal to let go of a massive Governmental bureaucracy.  Particularly so with liberals these days - failure is absolutely an option, and in some cases, the obviously preferred outcome.  That the DHS behemoth failed in it's primary mission is both a lesson for the obtuse among us, and a dark warning of things to come.  I am not speaking just of the immediate security issues surrounding this would-be bomber - such as why didn't Al Qaeda execute with it's usual M.O. of multiple attacks coordinated for simultaneous execution?  Was this a test to see if the concept worked?  Was the lone-bomber scenario just because the US has successfully crippled Al Qaeda operationally?  What about these reports of several hundred terrorists in training in Yemen?  Questions.  Questions.  And more questions.

It's not just all that.

As just about everyone knows by now, the Senate just passed an abomination of a bill "reforming" heath care services in the United States.  A new, and soon-enough-to-be staggering Federal bureaucracy is about to spring up out of the grass.  This bureaucracy is going to invade your life in the most personal of ways.   And it is doomed to fail in it's stated mission, just as the DHS has failed in it's mission, as all massive bureaucracy's are doomed to fail.

Government, left unchecked as it is now under the Obama Administration, will consume us all.  And absolutely no good can come of it. 

The sleepers must awaken.

        

                                            

Well, this blog has been dormant for awhile, as other aspects of my life have taken a higher priority.  I wish I had the time to post consistently at least once a week, but putting a relatively coherent blog post together, backed by at least some fact-finding/research, takes time.  So, even though I think it's important to add my obscure voice to the blogoshere, I can only do so when other higher priority activities subside.    I have a lot to say, and not enough time to say it.

Be that as it may, I just wanted to hop on the blog to wish everyone a happy holiday.  And even though I fear 2010 will remain a tough year economically for ordinary Americans, I hope everyone makes the best of it they can, and for those doing OK, pause to lend a helping hand to those down on their luck. 

My holiday wish for the country is for National Health Care to fail, and in doing so buy time for The People to restore some political balance to Government so the Leftists are blocked from their mission to destroy the United States as we know it.  That is both a wish and a prayer.

Keep the faith, and all the best.

        

Remember the controversy surrounding whether or not Obama bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia in the spring of 2009?  At the time, the White House flatly denied Obama performed this symbolic act of subjugation, humiliating the people of the United States for whom he represents abroad.  At the time, the White House Press Secretary offered an unequivocal denial of the obvious:

QUESTION:When the President met with King Abdullah, there was something thattook place which I believe the White House explained was just thepresident being taller than the king. We took a look at the video, andit does appear that the president actually bowed to King Abdullah. Didhe bow or didn't he?

GIBBS: No, I think he bent over with both, to shake -- with both hands to shake his hand, so I don't--

QUESTION: Did he bow or didn't he?

GIBBS: No.

Reality:  YES.

In a photograph that has already 'gone viral' over the internet, Obama is shown in yet another humiliating bow, this time to the Emperor of Japan.  What should give every citizen pause in this country, is that this bow is not standard protocol for a visiting President, it is an Obama invention and it shows what Obama thinks of the United States in his heart, which isn't much.  I wish I could post the pic here, but I assume it's copyrighted, so please follow the above link to see the President of the United States humiliate both himself and the nation he represents. 

It's PATHETIC

Recently Obama declined to defend the United States use of two nuclear weapons to end World War II.  He is the first American President to dodge the standard question of the Japanese press since Truman authorized their use.  This is not a surprise to me, and entirely consistent with the teachings of Obamas' racist radical mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who ignorantly rails against the United States use of these weapons at that time.  When one sits around ignorant demonizing hate-filled sermon after sermon for somewhere north of 20 years, it's gonna rub off, especially on the weak-minded, and rub off it did, because Obama not only didn't have the guts to defend his homeland, but he also didn't have the guts to say what was really on his mind regarding the topic.   He had a golden opportunity to do Rev. Wright proud, but he knew main-stream America would reject his radicalized thinking.
 
And what of those two nukes we used against Japan?  As the United States armed forces approached the Japanese mainland, island by island, each battle grew more bloody than the last.  It became readily obvious that an assault on mainland Japan would have caused carnage on a scale very difficult to imagine.  Not only for US troops, but also for the then brainwashed Japanese populace, as evidence by what happened on the island of Okinawa.  It is therefore easy to deduce that an invasion of the Japanese mainland would have likely killed at least one million and probably more.  So those poor souls who were incinerated in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provided a macabre service to their fellow citizens.  They were sacrificed so that hundreds of thousands more might live.  It was Japan's own folly that caused the use of these weapons - the pathological fear of public humiliation that comes with capitulation, the blind belief that divinity would intervene and save mainland Japan as they falsely believed it had centuries before, and so on and so on.  It doesn't take a Harvard graduate to figure all this out, so why doesn't a Harvard graduate understand it?  Ask yourselves that question.  Think about it, if you dare, because it will draw you into an unpleasant reality regarding our sitting President.

A stupid nation voted a President into office, and we all suffer the consequences.

Three years to go.  Change we CAN believe in.





 

        

Nationalized health care, embedded in a virtually indecipherable 2000 page bill, has come to town.  I was fairly certain, barring a miracle, the bill would pass due to the lopsided majority of "Democrat" Socialists in the House of Representatives.  And I see there was no miracle in the offing, the bill passed by a few votes - passing is passing.  Of course, the problem there is that, while the House contains a majority of Socialists, America at large does not.  Time after time the politicians lie about their true 'colors', and then show themselves for what they are with their unmasksable votes.  Obama himself is a good example of that.  His voting record during his brief stay in the Senate should have been a clear indicator of what was to come, but alas, the ignorant masses were enthralled by the propaganda flowing out of the press at the time.  The rest is regrettable history that, if we're lucky, historians will get to puzzle over for generations to come.

The most brazen example of a Socialist lying through his teeth to get elected is Bill Owens of the widely covered New York Congressional District 23 race.  Owens declared he was firmly and unequivocally against the "public option" component of the nationalized health care legislation.  Then, only hours after his election, he unapologetically recanted his position.  In other words, he audaciously lied his way into office, and now, the 23rd District, which the polled electorate indicated the majority opposed the "public option", is apparently stuck with the creep who represents Socialists, and not the constituency of the 23rd New York District.  If there was a way to sue Owens for fraud and deceptive advertising it should be done.  And as an aside, isn't it interesting that we have all sorts of regulatory standards for business hawking their wares in public venues on the truthfulness and accuracy of their claims, yet politicians can advertise a blatant lies, and there is no standard by which they are held to account.  None.

While the ignorant populace vexed over the war in Iraq - discontent fueled in part by a relentlessly hostile press - the Democratic Party was undergoing a little noticed transformation into a far left-wing organ controlled by a handful of very rich and therefore powerful Socialists.  So when the national elections rolled around a year ago, a disillusioned populace foolishly voted their wrath at conservatives generally, without knowing or considering what the Democratic Party had become.   Now at least some of these very foolish voters had realized their error.  Too late.

We are highly highly skeptical of the press we read suggesting the 2000 page assault on individual liberty and free market capitalism is not going to pass, in some form or another, within the Senate.  If it does fail - there's your miracle.  Hours before Congress slipped in the vote on a Saturday, Republican Congressman were on TV telling news anchors that Pelosi didn't have the votes to pass - it was bull.  Now on the same TV shows we hear the House bill is "DOA" in the Senate.  Don't believe it for a nanosecond.

So, what is the hope?  The hope is that the Democratic Party has now fully exposed itself for what it is, and that main-stream America rebells against them.  Just as many people voted their disgust with conservatives during the Presidential election cycle, they can voice their disgust again by bouncing the Socialists out of office - and that includes Obama.  The nationalization of health care, if it happens, is not permanent.  If the will of a properly aroused populace asserts it's authority over Congress, nationalized health care can be reversed.
 
And remember the Bill Owens model - the Democrats are lying, brazenly lying, to you and me about their intentions, and they must be measured by their deeds only.  Their words are worthless.  And those deeds speak volumes:  The Republic is under attack from within.