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A Government Tailor-made for Obama

Posted by Longplay on Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:20:18 AM
What irony. 

With the announcement that the Federal Government might take control of certain U.S. banks to deal with the global credit crisis, the current administration is paving the road with gold for Barack Obama, making easier his goal of setting the country on the road to Socialism - on the road to serfdom.

And the right won't be able to say much of anything in dissent as the new administration will be able to blame them for what Obama and his newly appointed leftist friends will have gleefully inherited.
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But Don't Hold Your Breath

Posted by Longplay on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:00:43 PM
But, given McCain's tendency to show anger and outrage to friendly audiences only, and to suck up to his "friends" on the other side of the aisle lest they not like him (as if they do anyway), most likely we will hear Casper Milquetoast feeling our pain ala Bill Clinton, using the same sappy inflections used when, as the GOP's Presidential candidate, pleaded with the country to please, please wear sunscreen when outside.
 
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Kathleen Parker, Now I'm Really Worried

Posted by Longplay on Saturday, September 20, 2008 7:48:43 PM

Kathleen Parker, whose thoughts I usually enjoy, really does have me worried by her latest offering, "A Time to Worry", but not for the reasons she outlines.

The disappointing article shows the tendency of too many on conservative side to want everything perfectly pure even though it means losing; of making the perfect the enemy of the good; of calling people with bad ideas merely misguided.

Reading it really does make me worry,

She starts by stating:

"Confession: I love Barack Obama and I love Sarah Palin — both for different reasons. They both also scare me to death.  I love Obama for his style, grace, intellect, and his way with words. I want the healing power that an Obama presidency could deliver to this country."

She follows this by listing things about Obama that fly in the face of the traits she just claimed for him. 

Obama may have style but he has neither true grace nor intellect.  In Obama, "grace", when it even appears, takes the form condescending quiet talk and a hand rudely and manipulatively placed on someone's shoulder.

And his "intellect" is a figment of the imagination of a populace with little intellect itself.  If ones intellect understands the world incorrectly, how is that intellect?  Why do conservatives with real wisdom, and who constantly speak of the ills in our educational system of grade inflation and "self esteem" (read "ego inflation"), insist on declaring Obama "brilliant"?  He isn't. 
 
"Healing power"?  Where has that ever been in evidence in Obama's career or campaign?  Nowhere.

Where's the grace, intellect, or healing power in:

Voting against laws to stop the practice of letting born-alive infants die in a closet.
 
Never once truly working "across the aisle" in either Illinois or the U.S. Senate?

Playing the race card by falsely accusing others of playing it.

Accusing regular-joe, hard-working Americans of clinging to guns and religion out of frustration.
 
Where's the grace or healing power in self-servingly opposing his own country while overseas by asking the Iraq officials to delay working the U.S. on the transition of power in Iraq until after the election - after he is elected?

on and on ...
 
Ms. Parker finishes by stating, "Whatever happens, we may deserve what we get. On the other hand, maybe there’s still time to wise up: Obama boots Biden and taps Clinton; McCain dumps Palin and picks Romney. It’s a concept."

It may be a concept, but just as with Obama's "grace" and "intellect", it's not a good one.

We do indeed need to "wise up", as in "getting wisdom".
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Obama's Neighborly Taxes: Part II

Posted by Longplay on Monday, September 15, 2008 12:28:24 AM
Four days ago I posted on candidate Obama's comparing taxes to his "neighborly" act of tipping a waitress.
 
Today Jeff Jacoby more thoroughly covered the theme in his Boston Globe article, in which he points out that Obama is not quite so generous in his non-imaginary life in the area of personal charitable giving (all of us have fallen short, of course).  The article prompted a few more thoughts of my own.
 
Not only would Mr. Obama coerce others to tip his waitress, realize that he would also be forcing you to tip his waitress.  Not your own waitress but the one he decided was worthy.
 
Perhaps your waitress was unworthy.  Perhaps your waitress was good but felt pridefully that her performance was just part of the job and nothing special.  Perhaps you learned that your waitress was comfortably off and just did this job for the enjoyment of meeting people.  Perhaps you'd even rather compliment the chef instead of tipping the waitress, or maybe even the busboy, who never gets much attention at all.
 
Worse yet, it could be that Barack's waitress hadn't actually performed exceptionally but that he decided that you should give her some some of your money merely because she was pretty, or that he felt sorry and somehow vaguely responsible for her being in that job.
 
[For full disclosure I should mention that I once, and for a very short time, cooked at a Big Boy, and played tricks on cute waitresses]
 
The point is that in Barack's world it would be he and his unsavory friends who would be the ones to decide who was worthy to get, and who could "afford" to and thus be required to give.
 
Mr. Obama hasn't demonstrated any great judgement skills in picking mentors such as Bill Ayers, Reverend Wright, and Tony Rezko (and the  list goes on).  Should we expect any keener judgement from him concerning the selection of worthy waitresses?
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Palin is a Real Woman, Doniger is Not a Real Professor

Posted by Longplay on Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:21:39 AM
Kathryn Jean Lopez, at National Review Online's The Corner blog posted this this morning.
"Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman."   
 
The rabid reaction to Sarah Palin just got worse: This time, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions, University of Chicago’s Divinity School, writes that Sarah Palin is not really a woman"
That Ms. Doniger is a "professor" of "the history of religion" is not only pathetic but ironic.
 
Apparently the professor professes in public that she doesn't appreciate it when anyone professes anything about religion other than in private.
 
If that happened I guess she'd eventually be out of a job.
 
In support of that making that happen, I'll volunteer to keep my mouth shut for awhile (in private).  

Sort of like Ted Kennedy, about whose religious beliefs it's been said, "they were so private, even he didn't know about them".
 
"More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise." - Orlando Gibbons
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Obama on Being "Neighborly" with Your Money

Posted by Longplay on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:36:21 PM
Culled from the excellent Patriot Post:
 
'On taxes: “If I am sitting pretty, and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can’t—what’s the big deal for me to say, ‘I’m going to pay a little bit more.’ That is neighborliness.” —Barack Obama **Because taxes are JUST LIKE tipping the poor.'

Yes, it is neighborly to say you're going to pay a little bit more.

But it is definitely not neighborly to say that the rest of the folks in the restaurant will be forced to chip in, too!
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Lipstick on Pigs in the Animal Farm

Posted by Longplay on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:54:10 AM
The morning drive-time radio team was engaging callers this morning in a discussion of whether Obama’s recent “lipstick on a pig” comment was an intentional attack on Sarah Palin or merely a description of the GOP’s policies.

The audience was split on the answer but leaned slightly to the sense that Obama knew what he was doing, which is my take.

While Obama’s campaign has shown much stupidity of late, they can’t be accused of not being clever and devious. Obama and his staff knew perfectly well that in using this well-known phrase they were getting a two-fer. They could seem to be attacking McCain’s policies yet at the same time get a dig in on the bottom of the ticket, all the while knowing that the commomness of the expression lent them plausible deniability of the latter.
The evidence of Obama’s intent can be seen in his delivery of the line. First, he verbally stumbled and hesitated before making the quip.  Second, rather than maintaining eye contact with his audience during the utterance, he looked down. Thirdly, and most telling, was his full stop after the line, the rhetorical trick of someone whose script says “pause for laughter” – the laughter they knew would come.

The ironic thing is that, even if Obama was only speaking to his opponents’ policies, it’s yet another example of the Democrat trick, perfected by Bill Clinton, of the pot calling the kettle black.

Essentially, Obama’s rhetoric amounts to putting the lipstick of caring and compassion on the tired old failed, and dangerous, pig of socialism.

“All animals are equal , but some animals are more equal than others.” – a proclamation from the pigs on the Animal Farm
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The Epitome of Symbolism Over Substance

Posted by Longplay on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:42:44 PM
The Obama-Biden ticket is the epitome of what Rush Limbaugh years ago dubbed "symbolism over substance".
 
And the symbolism, at both the top and bottom of the ticket, is pretty shoddy.
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