Puppet or Genius? Let's Play the Obama Guessing Game!

You might think I'm being hyperbolic.  I do not think that I am.  It's just that I have questions:

Is Barack Obama a moron?  Is he, as it were, Mr. Bean Goes to the Oval Office?

So, is Barack Obama a sock puppet for George Soros, or, in fact, is Barack Obama an evil genius?

Has he, singlehandedly, masterminded the plans by which:

  --  90+ million Americans have LEFT THE WORKFORCE,

  --  nearly 50 million Americans have become eligible for foodstamps,

  --  by which black Americans have fallen behind in every measurable economic indicator,

  --  by which millions HAVE LOST THEIR INSURANCE,

  --  by which millions have lost their private physician patient relationship,

  --  by which America's unions have been forced to admit that his policies are destroying the 40 HOUR WORK WEEK that is considered the backbone of the middle class?

Honestly, I don't know.  And it isn't that I have tried to find the answer.  And it isn't that I am unwilling to give him credit where it is due.  Let me explain.

I'd be impressed with his grades at Occidental, at Columbia, at Harvard.  I would be, if he'd release them.  I AM impressed with his ability to receive FOREIGN STUDENT AID at OCCIDENTAL.

I'd be impressed that he was president of the Harvard Law Review (seldom right in its thinking, but always prestigious in its reputation).  But my being impressed would be based on having thought that he got on the law review the way everyone else does it, by writing a comment, casenote, or legislative note, of sufficient significance and quality to demonstrate that he was equal to the task of editing a law journal.  But there is NO EVIDENCE THAT HE EVER WROTE to get onto the HLR.

I represent activists, and have done so for 25 years.  So I'd be impressed by his work as a community organizer.  But where is the evidence that Obama organized anything?  The present evidence is that he is a community disorganizer, a nation disheveler, a creator of malcontent and discontent.  And, in Chicago, what is the boon to which the communities of Chicago point, fondly remembering the early morning hours of Barack Obama, toiling selflessly toward change?  I mean, I do hear alot about the rampant crime in Chicago, and there is a statistical nexus between poverty and crime, so perhaps the rampant crime is a monument to his work in Chicago.

I'd be impressed by his service as a state legislator in Illinois.  After all, no less luminary a man than Abraham Lincoln served eight years in the Illinois legislature.  But the evidence of Obama's presence in the Senate is terribly thin.  Thin, that is, unless you focus on his efforts to prevent the State of Illinois FROM ADOPTING A LAW THAT PROTECTED CHILDREN BORN ALIVE AFTER ABORTION.  His record of voting "present" on most matters makes me think that he took rather seriously Bill Clinton's decision "to preserve future political viability" (his explanation for draft dodging). 

I'd be impressed by him as a loving and caring father and husband.  Except, as Michelle Obama has explained it, life has not been easy as a single mom.

I'd be impressed by him either as a true fan of sports or as the Commander in Chief of the military, except that he said that, had he had a son, he would not let him play football, and, as many of us have daughters, he has said they can be tasked to front line combat roles.

Is there a bruised reed this man does not disregard?

Is there a hurting puppy he hasn't run over?

Mind you, I'm not DISLIKING THIS MAN and QUESTIONING HIS SUITABILITY to the office because he can't do better than two or three nets out of twenty-five shots from the free throw line, and has to depend on his date, Chris Christie, to win him a prize on the boardwalk.

Five years ago, I wrote that the man is a cipher, that he is a realpolitik version of the International Man of Intrigue.  The intrigue being who he is, where his ideas come from, what, in fact, his ideas are.

His attraction to others, I opined, is that they saw what they wanted to see in him, not who he was.  I observed that it was, nearly impossible, based on his own pronouncements and labors, to know who Obama was.  My views haven't changed nor has the shroud of mystery that enshrouds Obama's past lifted.

Saying Bad Things About Hitler or Obama

There's a fair degree of moral outrage about the most insignificant things these days, and a fair absence of it over matters of substance.  

For example, Ted Cruz -- acting at the behest of his own conscience and the command of his electorate -- fights the good fight to defund Obama care.  When he succeeds, if he succeeds, he lifts tonnage weight off the shoulders of taxpayers not yet born.  But this riles the Neocon Republicans, the socialists in the Democratic Party, and the sock puppet in the Oval Office. 

The Catholic Church and its agencies will be compelled to pay for insurance coverage for abortifacient drugs, and we will all be forced to fund about 120,000 abortions annually under Obamacare.  The left wing loons all only see the horrid injustice of allowing Americans to carry the cost of purchasing contraceptives themselves.  

The histrionics of the lily-livered Republicrats, the Democrats, and the chattering class make those who supported the shut down, and the effort to defund Obamacare, out to be suicide vest bombers, arsonists, and deranged.  But the only outrage is over the occasional comparison of Obama with other nationalist Socialists. 

Case in point, Arizona State House member Brenda Barton:

Representative Barton took aim at the Administration's decision to spend money making sure the parks were all closed during the government shut-down.  Read her remarks, then come back and let me ask you a few questions:

So, what do you think? Is it wrong to call Obama Der Fuerher? If you think it is wrong, why?

-- Is the comparison ill-suited because Obama is inept, but Hitler was some kind of evil genius?  Meaning, Obama is kind of like our Pinkie of evil, but Hitler was the Brain?

-- Does the comparison fail because of Hitler's mesmerizing rhetoric, that brought a Nation to compliance with a horrifically murderous agenda, but Obama becomes Mister Stumbletongue when the teleprompter goes down or gets left behind?

-- Perhaps Obama has failed, thus far, at gun confiscation while Hitler actually succeeded at disarming his nation?

-- Maybe the comparison does not work because Hitler's persecution of the church was more complete, while Obama is satisfied so far to silence military chaplains in the expression of their faith, compel faith-based groups to fund the purchase of abortifiacient contraceptives? 

-- Perhaps the problem is that Obama, as a mere sock puppet of Soros, actually bears no responsibility for the destruction of the country he claims as his own, whereas Hitler's Mein Kampf illustrates a road map to the terrors of the Third Reich, making Hitler the puppet master, not the puppet?

  -- Is it because Hitler made Jews out as scapegoats, and Obama only makes conservatives, tea party types, libertarians, radio hosts, and bloggers out as scape goats?

-- Perhaps it's as Marge Schott suggested, because Hitler had his trains run on time, but as well all now know Obama can't get a $643,000,000 website to work? 

-- Some may object because Obama says old people that need pacemakers to regulate their heart beats should expect to live on pain relievers but Hitler would simply have euthanized them?

-- Or is it because Hitler wanted to bring virtually all of Europe within the boundaries of Germany, and Obama only wants to make 15,000,000 Central and South Americans illegally present in America's boundaries into voting citizens?

So tell me, tell me please, whether and why the comparison to Hitler fails.

A Tale of Two Parks

So ... Lake Meade is a national park property.  Nonetheless, there are private residences constructed on that private land.  Yet, because the National Parks are closed, the owners of those private residences are barred from residing in their own home.

Oddly, there is a publicly owned residence, also situated entirely within another National park.  Though the National Parks are closed, and private residence owners are barred from residing in their own residences in those parks, there is a family being allowed to reside in a publicly owned residence within that other National Park.

Must be nice to be the Village Chieftain.

Yes.

The White House is a National Park.  Yes, the people of the United States own that park and the private residence quarters therein.  Yes, the National Park Service is denying Lake Meade residents the right to return to their homes.  No, the National Park Service has not given the squatters at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the bum's rush.

Extremists? Criticism Hard to Swallow From Senator Warren's Intemperate Tongue

The tirade from the Left is an unending parade of unsubstantiated slanders and hyperboles never subjected by the reporting media to any critical analysis.  The most recent example of the long form version of such screed comes from freshman Senator Elizabeth Warren.  I do have some things to say to the Senator.  First, though, here's a link to her blog/open letter:



She's had herself quite the stem winder.  While she calms down, takes a breath, and dispels her vapors, I think the answer to her objections is straightforward:

An Open Reply from Jim Henderson

Really? Anarchist tirades? There are tirades going on, but they aren’t from your boogey men “Extremist Republicans.” They are from your Democratic Party. Examples:

Pres. Obama: “Speaker John Boehner won’t even let the bill get a yes-or-no vote because he doesn’t want to anger the extremists in his party.”

Pres. Obama: “One faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government shut down major parts of the government, all because they didn't like one law.”

Pres. Obama: “One party to this conversation says that the only way that they come to the table is if they get 100 percent of what they want, and if they don't, they threaten to burn down the house.”

Pres. Obama: Republicans are“reckless and irresponsible”

Sen. Reid: Republicans are “anarchists”

Rep. Pelosi: Republicans are “legislative arsonists.”

Sen. Mikulski vulgarly suggests that Ted Cruz appeases people who bounce their testicles in others' mouths while they are drunk or sleeping: “The reason Ted Cruz ... asked for a delay was so that he could have a vote during today where ... the teabaggers in his tea party were going to watch.”

Dan Pfeiffer has Republicans as suicide bombers, “What we’re not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest. We’re not going to do that.”

Dear Elizabeth,

Your reliance on name calling is a strategy of minimization, rather than civil and candid conversation. Why would anyone think you are a serious counterpart in the Congress?

Please be honest. Obama ordered the Executive Branch to make sequestration as painful as possible. At DHS and TSA, equated with furloughing TSA screeners. Furloughing wasn't required by the sequestration; it was just preferred BY OBAMA and YOUR PARTY.

You provide no basis on which to conclude that the problems are imaginary. I suppose if you ignore the THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of employees pushed off of employer plans and pushed into part time status ALL THE CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE then things known factually to be so really are just imaginary boogeymen.

“Fair and transparent?” Really? Did you want to go here during a shutdown that is a sequal to the Affordable Care Act?

Among the disproportionalities of this Administration’s effectuation of the Act is the illegal one year suspension of the employer mandate, and the missing of 17 statutory deadlines for administrative actions under the Act, the granting of waivers and dispensations to corporations, to unions, to the President and his officers, to the Courts, to the Congress.

Your leap in logic, and your ahistorical assertion astound. Power grids were not, for the most part, built by the FEDERAL government. Instead power grids arose as a patchwork embodying a variety of private, public, partnered, and joint ventures. The national railway system, a marvel in its time was certainly not a product of government production. Schools were never the product of FEDERAL government.

These facetious points do not JUSTIFY government. They do explain it. Simple civil liability would as easily train industry (and, in fact, has trained industry) in the importance of safety, efficacy, design adequacy and the like. Government’s role as a pre-screener of invention and design is certainly DOABLE, but not INDISPENSABLE.

Elizabeth, you know the Democratic Party’s mantra, when it comes to abortion is, “I got mine, now you get yours.” There is no single more selfish act of an individual than to kill another human being so to be able to live a lifestyle otherwise frustrated by the threatened life.

I think Bill Clinton would prefer that you had left “toxic mortgages” out of this discussion. After all, it was his administration and House and Senate Democrats that pushed for the risky LIBOR mortgage structures designed to tease the very edges of the economic community into home ownership.

Your understanding of our History is poor, or poorly expressed. That government governs best which governs least is not a Tea Party mantra, but a Founders’ mantra.