It appears America is just going to let Obama run out the clock rather than challenge his “Executive Orders”. Obama's pledge to "act with or without Congress" marks a milestone in presidential usurpation of Congressional authority. No other POTUS in America’s history has been so brazing in circumventing the Constitution and Congress
When Obama first took office, his poll numbers were sky high. Easily seventy percent of the country was solidly behind him, and even many conservatives were impressed with his post-election performance. (Immediately after Obama’s election, many in the traditional media were absolutely giddy with excitement. I was recently stuck in a waiting room with a copy of a December Time magazine; that issue featured four brief essays for possible Persons of the Year. The choices were Obama, Obama, the American people for electing Obama, and Obama again, but with Michael Phelps second).
Obama has squandered much of that good will. According to the reliable Rasmussen Reports, Obama’s overall approval numbers have plummeted from a high of sixty-nine percent in early January (and sixty-five on the day of his inauguration, with forty-four percent of those strongly approving) to fifty-one percent in the most recent day of polling.
It’s not difficult to find the reason for Obama’s drop in popularity. He has turned out to me more liberal than most (at least those who don’t listen to talk radio) expected. With the passage of the stimulus bill, he committed himself to deficit spending, and with cap-and-trade and health care reform, he has signaled his commitment to expensive and intrusive social programs.
Americans liked the hope and change stuff, but many draw the line here. So many moderates shift from “approve” to “disapprove,” and many more conservative people suddenly strongly disapprove of Obama’s policies.
Not a bad thing, from a conservative point of view. But there’s a catch. People who disagree with another politics can rarely restrain themselves to the issues—rather, the other person’s character and person comes under attack.
A good example of this phenomenon is the liberal response to George W. Bush. They couldn’t accept that Bush happened to support different policies than they did—instead, he was a stupid, uneducated hick controlled by a diabolical Dick Cheney. (This about a man who went to Yale, and whose family has set down some pretty solid roots among the Eastern elite).
It was inevitable that such attacks would crop up among conservatives as well. Most of them are irrelevant but tolerable—the worst of these are the nutty but harmless birth certificate rumors.
There are other, more harmful attacks as well, and unfortunately some of them involve race. One, which I experienced, was a chain email, the gist of which was an unflattering photo of Michelle Obama next to a picture of monkey. Another example was a conversation I had with a conservative stranger; she suggested that Obama’s sterling college record was tainted by affirmative action and summer classes, which in her experience were apparently crutches used by “stupid” blacks to retake hard courses. (Speaking as a college student, taking very difficult courses during the summer isn’t exactly uncommon, nor is it done only by unintelligent people).
Both of these people were quite nice; people who you wouldn’t expect to have a racist bone in their bodies, and indeed probably don’t—in the former case, I am quite sure that distain for Obama won out over good judgment with the “forward” button.
Such tasteless joke probably won’t set the cause of race relations back twenty years, or give the Ku Klux Klan a new lease on life, or anything of that kind. They’re just nasty and tasteless, and hopefully they’ll die out soon. And they aren’t any nastier than thing liberals have been known to say about conservative politicians.
At the same time, while these jokes and attacks may be mostly harmless to society at large, they hurt the Republican party. Puns aren’t the lowest form of humor, racial jokes are, and racial attacks are the nastiest. A party, or a movement, is defined by its base—and what discerning person would want to be part of a movement that thinks insinuating that a black woman looks like a monkey (which Michelle Obama, by the way, really doesn’t) is a hilarious and cutting bit of wit?
I think it's about time we voted for a President with breasts. After all, we already put a Boob in the White House in the last election.
Friday, November 14, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
The chew seen around the world.
Just because he won a election and moved to the white house, Just because he was elected as the president, doesn't mean that he has any class!!
As Our Dear Leader, President Obama chomped on Nicorette gum during a APEC summit ceremony in China his behavior was described as "rude" and "inappropriate."sparked outrage in China and throughout the rest of the World!
Obama dressed in a long purple jacket with satin panels on the front —looked like a Pimp was mocked!
President Obama slammed for chewing gum in Beijing
Beijing (CNN)
Obama drew howls in the Chinese media when he was seen chewing gum as he entered Monday night's festivities.
As Our Dear Leader, President Obama chomped on Nicorette gum during a APEC summit ceremony in China his behavior was described as "rude" and "inappropriate."sparked outrage in China and throughout the rest of the World!
Obama dressed in a long purple jacket with satin panels on the front —looked like a Pimp was mocked!
President Obama slammed for chewing gum in Beijing
Beijing (CNN)
Obama drew howls in the Chinese media when he was seen chewing gum as he entered Monday night's festivities.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Lock and load and smoke em if you got em! Happy Days Are Here Again!
This victory for the party I used to support is huge for America. It is a
message as clear as front page headlines... Obama's historic Presidency
will forever be labeled as an epic failure. The polls revealed what the
media was hiding, America opposes the Obama agenda and quite frankly,
they want the office of the Presidency back. We can handle normal
Washington noise on the hill, but we can't stomach the disrespect Obama
has shown to the office of POTUS
The left train stops here. America will no longer allow Obama to make us the doormat for terrorist and a haven for criminals from Mexico
The left train stops here. America will no longer allow Obama to make us the doormat for terrorist and a haven for criminals from Mexico
Monday, September 29, 2014
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Get Ready for Boots on the Ground in Iraq
The handwriting is already on the wall for the Dipstick Obama. Now that he is committed to bombing tumbleweeds and desert oasis, guess what?
What, no empty pharmacies to send T-Hawks into?
Its not working
So, the decision will have to be made at some point.
Cut and run like he did last time? Leave it to turn into a crap hole like it is today? Just another Obama Syria screw-up?
Or will he put boots on the ground to do the job?
I say he'll leave them to die and go play some golf!
What, no empty pharmacies to send T-Hawks into?
Its not working
So, the decision will have to be made at some point.
Cut and run like he did last time? Leave it to turn into a crap hole like it is today? Just another Obama Syria screw-up?
Or will he put boots on the ground to do the job?
I say he'll leave them to die and go play some golf!
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