“Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn!” Yes, and in this rendition of the timeless classic, “Scarlett” is code for about seventy percent of the country and it is our President making the strident exclamation. “Blunder Road” might be the title of the musical analogy for the Obama Team.
The handling of the terror-attempt over the skies of Detroit is just another example of the incessant fumbling that is quickly becoming the trademark of this President. A delayed and somewhat cavalier response to the initial event on Christmas Day, followed by an even longer delay in returning with a more forceful performance.
And it is a performance, make no doubt about it. It is becoming increasingly clear that this President is a fine speaker, but there’s not a whole lot more than that when you peel back the layers, or rather, as events peel back the layers for us. Yet, we learned this about him long ago. His first foray onto the campaign trail left audiences weak and starry-eyed. And why not, because as we look back now, we see that both the speeches, and the promises made in them, were larger-than-life. Worse than that, really. They were pure fantasy.
Oh, how we tortured George H.W. Bush for his “read my lips” line which had become the hallmark of his campaign, and when circumstances later forced less enjoyable news to pass from those same lips, he was skewered by the Press. And yet that renegotiation of a campaign promise seems like child’s play now. This President as left campaign rhetoric so far behind, even the Hubble Telescope can’t find it no. Yes, gone with the wind are the campfire songs that promised “change” and “hope” and “transparency” in government. The promise of “no more earmarks” and Congressional jockeying being covered live on C-Span. The halcyon days of simply making promises and effectual speeches are long gone now, replaced with a legislative bulldozer that simply tramples everything in it’s path, and dismisses as ignorant or racist, any disagreement with the Obama philosophy.
You know things are bad for Obama when his number one sycophant, the abominable Nancy Pelosi, slides in a barb about the President, when questioned about the closed-door dealings of Congress and the campaign promise that those things weren’t going to happen anymore, says “he said a lot of things during the campaign…”. Then again, she was so taken aback by the question that she almost fell over, and she may well not remember saying it. It’s one of few things she has ever said that I remember, because I am usually so stunned while watching any news video of her, that I don’t even hear what she is saying. I find it increasingly marvelous that so many undesirable traits and mannerisms managed to coagulate in one person. She looks and acts more like a creature one would find nibbling on cheese in a basement, than she does a person who is only slightly less powerful than the President. How….HOW…does such an insipid, diminutive, shell of a human being ascend to such a position? Constantly impatient with us stupid-folk who are so concerned with a reliably inept government taking over a tenth of the country’s economy, and borrowing a trillion dollars to do it.
Janet Napolitano, too entrenched in her own dream to resign after announcing, with a straight face, that “the system worked” in the wake of a suicide bomber travelling half way across the globe with an explosive in his underwear. Someone who was on a red flag list and a known danger. Janet, whose own hairstyle should have been the first warning sign that there are some slow moving returns on the radar scope of that brain, had she a shred of dignity, would have spared Obama having to take the sword for her. They sent her out to try and launch that line. When it doesn’t fly, you take the cyanide. Then again, we’re talking about a woman who looks like “Thing 3″ from Cat in the Hat. Honestly, there just has to be a screw loose there.
Sadly, there is much at stake. The future of the country, for one thing. A livable future for our children and grandchildren comes to mind as well. What is more disturbing about this President and his followers, though, at least to me, is the way they love to dismiss the rest of us as too stupid to know what’s good for us. A little humility would go a long way, yet there is not a single person on that staff who even knows the meaning of the word, much lass has a grasp of that concept. Maybe it’s best, because I would hate to see the movement that is afoot, to save this country, fizzle and die because we think things are getting better. The mid-terms are getting close, Obama and his Flying Monkeys are going to want us to doze off in a field of poppies, sleeping quietly as snowflakes touch our face, while they finish their work of dismantling the Constitution and arranging civilian trials in this country for every two-bit thug that has killed, or wants to kill, Americans. Don’t do it. This is no time to let up.