Thursday, January 28, 2010
King Barry
Wow! I've never heard a sitting president directly criticize members of the Supreme Court about one of their decisions on national television. I was listening to his speech, pretty much what I had expected from the man, when I heard him comment about last week's Supreme Court decision to overturn laws banning corporations from contributing to election campaigns. I immediately raised my head and thought, oh my, now he's dissing the judges. This can't go well.
He stood at his lectern and lectured everyone about his aspirations and grand designs for America. He condemned the Senate multiple times for not heeding the call of history and passing his plans like the House of Representative has done.
He accepted some blame in the failure of health care passage but only insofar as the delivery of the message not the message itself. He still clings to his beliefs that government is the only power that can improve American life. He graciously granted the Congress a reprieve from that fruitless effort but only temporarily. His mission is to create a health care bureaucracy even larger than Social Security or Medicare. This is his main reason for being in the White House, he says, and while it can be delayed, it cannot be left to die a natural death.
He said the same about Cap and Trade or the ridiculous Energy bill that the House sailed through last year. Social initiatives to spend money on which reap very little in return.
I think Mr. Obama thought his job would be a piece of cake considering the overwhelming approval heaped upon him during the campaign and the praise and adulation that the main stream media continues to gush about.
Tom Petty's old song, "It's Good to be King" is running through his head and no one can approach him and spill the beans that the king is wearing no clothes. The signs are there, he refuses to read them as such. He prefers to plunge onward in his fight for...... This is where I get hazy, who does he think he is fighting for and who is he fighting against? I can't tell.
He certainly isn't fighting for freedom, his every idea goes against that notion. He is fighting for his political life, perhaps, but that is not a fight most people want to be a part of. As for who he is fighting against, it is the American people. And I believe that most people by now realize that this is how he is.
His fight is for himself, period. He'll say what he needs to say to appease the public but deep inside he only wants to accomplish his goal of a fundamental transformation of America in his image. An image that, I hope, most Americans will reject with a vengeance.
Bye bye King Barry. It was nice knowing you. Can I say with feeling now, I really miss Bill Clinton.
OH
He stood at his lectern and lectured everyone about his aspirations and grand designs for America. He condemned the Senate multiple times for not heeding the call of history and passing his plans like the House of Representative has done.
He accepted some blame in the failure of health care passage but only insofar as the delivery of the message not the message itself. He still clings to his beliefs that government is the only power that can improve American life. He graciously granted the Congress a reprieve from that fruitless effort but only temporarily. His mission is to create a health care bureaucracy even larger than Social Security or Medicare. This is his main reason for being in the White House, he says, and while it can be delayed, it cannot be left to die a natural death.
He said the same about Cap and Trade or the ridiculous Energy bill that the House sailed through last year. Social initiatives to spend money on which reap very little in return.
I think Mr. Obama thought his job would be a piece of cake considering the overwhelming approval heaped upon him during the campaign and the praise and adulation that the main stream media continues to gush about.
Tom Petty's old song, "It's Good to be King" is running through his head and no one can approach him and spill the beans that the king is wearing no clothes. The signs are there, he refuses to read them as such. He prefers to plunge onward in his fight for...... This is where I get hazy, who does he think he is fighting for and who is he fighting against? I can't tell.
He certainly isn't fighting for freedom, his every idea goes against that notion. He is fighting for his political life, perhaps, but that is not a fight most people want to be a part of. As for who he is fighting against, it is the American people. And I believe that most people by now realize that this is how he is.
His fight is for himself, period. He'll say what he needs to say to appease the public but deep inside he only wants to accomplish his goal of a fundamental transformation of America in his image. An image that, I hope, most Americans will reject with a vengeance.
Bye bye King Barry. It was nice knowing you. Can I say with feeling now, I really miss Bill Clinton.
OH
# posted by OH @ 9:56 AM 
