The Imperial President
The news is coming fast and furious, and for a part-time blogger, it's really hard to keep up. Actually, it's impossible to keep up.
Today Barack Obama held a relatively rare press conference, and I thought there were times where his arrogance, and barely veiled contempt, was nothing short of breathtaking. Now, I expect all Presidents to exhibit some amount of arrogance. It's the nature of the job, and the pre-requisite titanic ego for the office-holder. Most Presidents exhibit arrogance in one form or another during their terms. There were times when Obama's predecessor, George Bush, was arrogant, and his predecessor, Bill Clinton, could turn on the arrogance like Rudolph and his nose so bright when the moment moved him. Bush Sr - arrogant at times...Reagan - occasionally arrogant too. None can hold a candle to Barack Obama.
In a quote that has now ricocheted all over cyberspace, Obama had this to say at his news conference today: "I've been doing Afghanistan, bin Laden and the Greek crisis. You stay here. Let's get it done."
Oh really? Exactly what has Obama done in Afghanistan? Apparently he's been working up a sweat trying to figure out how to semi-gracefully bow out of a mess he advocated making all the way back to his days as a neophyte Senator. We shouldn't be in Iraq he declared, Afghanistan is where we should be (even though we were already there - no matter). Now that we are there, after Obama spent months sweating and wringing his hands over a decision whether or not to add troops to the conflict. Under the great and steady hand of our senior statesman, all Obama wants to do is get out anyway he can, so long as it doesn't cost him an election he is already destined to lose. Our military leaders say we can win the fight and we should stay, and Obama says, screw winning. Winning hasn't been important since the Korean War, let's hand over the fields consecrated with the blood of Americans to our enemies, and call it a day. Man, that would cause me to work up a sweat too! In fact, Obama has been so busy and engrossed in all things Afghan that he can't even remember who he awarded the Medal of Honor to in that theater of war
On 'doing' Osama Bin Laden (an interesting coin of phrase for a President, and certainly up there with 'wanted, dead or alive'). How much sweating did Obama do on that count anyway? Was he pouring over the raw intelligence himself? Perhaps he was making secret trips abroad to waterboard prisoners. Planning the black op to take out the Prince of Evil all by himself? No. Obama's involvement in 'doing' Bin Laden was to sit through an intelligence briefing on the strength of the intel, the pros and cons of going after the mass murderer, and going to bed to sleep on the 'go' decision, as if he had any other choice but go. That must have been one sweat filled over-nighter. Whew!
Onward to getting the President to The Greek, and crises. Now here's a doozy. Here our imperial President, with a domestic economy in tatters, with every spendaholic big government Keynesian economic program an utter failure. A non-recovery recovery disintegrating before his eyes......housing statistics rolling in that are unprecedented in American economic history - worse than the Great Depression, chronic high unemployment where the pretend percentage is just under 10% and the real number is not that far away from Great Depression levels...truly staggering fiscal deficits...all this, and our imperial President can't be bothered with a pesky domestic budget crisis. He's breaking a sweat saving a simpatico socialist state from imploding, just as it should. But, to Congress, Obama sniffs and says: You stay here and get it done (I'm off to my 76th golf session and then a much needed vacation).
By gosh, the man is so busy and sweat-soaked, it's no wonder he can't remember what year this is.
No wonder.
PS: One more thing... Mr. President: Earlier this year you mockingly and arrogantly suggested that people who didn't like the high cost of gasoline should go out and buy a new fuel efficient car. In your opening statement today, you oddly acknowledge that people are worrying, among other things, about how to fix that broken down transmission. So, Mr. President, if the wretched refuse of this wrecked economy can't afford to fix that broken down transmission, how the hell do you think they are going to scrape up enough money to get that new Prius, or better yet, that shiny new Chevy Volt? You sir, are a jackass.
Update: Political commentator Mark Halperin referred to Obama as a "dick" while on the air at MSNBC today. While not necessarily as civil as "jackass", nonetheless Mr. Halperin deserves an Emmy for the Truth in News Media category. What? There is no such category? Well, of course there isn't. A refreshing albeit highly snarky departure from the normal niceties you see on TV news. No need to apologize for being right, Mr. Halperin, but I do understand the economics of why you must beg forgiveness.
Today Barack Obama held a relatively rare press conference, and I thought there were times where his arrogance, and barely veiled contempt, was nothing short of breathtaking. Now, I expect all Presidents to exhibit some amount of arrogance. It's the nature of the job, and the pre-requisite titanic ego for the office-holder. Most Presidents exhibit arrogance in one form or another during their terms. There were times when Obama's predecessor, George Bush, was arrogant, and his predecessor, Bill Clinton, could turn on the arrogance like Rudolph and his nose so bright when the moment moved him. Bush Sr - arrogant at times...Reagan - occasionally arrogant too. None can hold a candle to Barack Obama.
In a quote that has now ricocheted all over cyberspace, Obama had this to say at his news conference today: "I've been doing Afghanistan, bin Laden and the Greek crisis. You stay here. Let's get it done."
Oh really? Exactly what has Obama done in Afghanistan? Apparently he's been working up a sweat trying to figure out how to semi-gracefully bow out of a mess he advocated making all the way back to his days as a neophyte Senator. We shouldn't be in Iraq he declared, Afghanistan is where we should be (even though we were already there - no matter). Now that we are there, after Obama spent months sweating and wringing his hands over a decision whether or not to add troops to the conflict. Under the great and steady hand of our senior statesman, all Obama wants to do is get out anyway he can, so long as it doesn't cost him an election he is already destined to lose. Our military leaders say we can win the fight and we should stay, and Obama says, screw winning. Winning hasn't been important since the Korean War, let's hand over the fields consecrated with the blood of Americans to our enemies, and call it a day. Man, that would cause me to work up a sweat too! In fact, Obama has been so busy and engrossed in all things Afghan that he can't even remember who he awarded the Medal of Honor to in that theater of war
On 'doing' Osama Bin Laden (an interesting coin of phrase for a President, and certainly up there with 'wanted, dead or alive'). How much sweating did Obama do on that count anyway? Was he pouring over the raw intelligence himself? Perhaps he was making secret trips abroad to waterboard prisoners. Planning the black op to take out the Prince of Evil all by himself? No. Obama's involvement in 'doing' Bin Laden was to sit through an intelligence briefing on the strength of the intel, the pros and cons of going after the mass murderer, and going to bed to sleep on the 'go' decision, as if he had any other choice but go. That must have been one sweat filled over-nighter. Whew!
Onward to getting the President to The Greek, and crises. Now here's a doozy. Here our imperial President, with a domestic economy in tatters, with every spendaholic big government Keynesian economic program an utter failure. A non-recovery recovery disintegrating before his eyes......housing statistics rolling in that are unprecedented in American economic history - worse than the Great Depression, chronic high unemployment where the pretend percentage is just under 10% and the real number is not that far away from Great Depression levels...truly staggering fiscal deficits...all this, and our imperial President can't be bothered with a pesky domestic budget crisis. He's breaking a sweat saving a simpatico socialist state from imploding, just as it should. But, to Congress, Obama sniffs and says: You stay here and get it done (I'm off to my 76th golf session and then a much needed vacation).
By gosh, the man is so busy and sweat-soaked, it's no wonder he can't remember what year this is.
No wonder.
PS: One more thing... Mr. President: Earlier this year you mockingly and arrogantly suggested that people who didn't like the high cost of gasoline should go out and buy a new fuel efficient car. In your opening statement today, you oddly acknowledge that people are worrying, among other things, about how to fix that broken down transmission. So, Mr. President, if the wretched refuse of this wrecked economy can't afford to fix that broken down transmission, how the hell do you think they are going to scrape up enough money to get that new Prius, or better yet, that shiny new Chevy Volt? You sir, are a jackass.
You are absolutely right! It is impossible
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