Never send the village idiot to a MENSA Convention.
That’s an apt sentiment to describe what our country has endured and what the world has witnessed for nearly four years of the Obama Debacle, a haphazard grab-bag of deceitful sound bites and self-promotion that turned out to be little more than a tutorial symbolizing the difference between marketing and managing.
…a haphazard grab-bag of deceitful sound bites and self-promotion that turned out to be little more than a tutorial symbolizing the difference between marketing and managing.
To the incorrigibly blind believers and advocates of the Left, Obama will always be remembered as a beacon when to the world at large he’s regarded as little more than a low wattage refrigerator bulb. Emotions trump facts for people with hyper-mode zealotry and do so to their detriment because rabid ardor is not conducive to rational thinking in a world of fairies and gnomes. Harsh realities, however, led more reasoned people to a justifiable skepticism once they realized they were sold nothing more than Jack’s beanstalk beans.
The sales and marketing department of the administration has never taken its foot off the gas since the campaign of 2007-08, so instead of the country benefiting from cogent and practical policies that could have bolstered the economy we were presented instead a never-ending bombardment of promotional dreck meant specifically to cover the considerable foibles and weaknesses that comprise the man and his regime. Nobody bargained for a gadfly-bon vivant; they thought they were electing a leader with a vision.
It turns out he had a vision all right, and that was to kneecap the country financially and buckle its underpinnings from within with unconscionable regulation in order to bring the country into a sordid equilibrium with the rest of the world. As things worsened from policy failures, however, the greater the onslaught of puff-pieces, from magazine covers, to a stories about his Amazonian wife looking out for our caloric welfare, to stories about golf, celebrity friends, and endless footage of him jogging up and down the stairway of his personal air-taxi and onto another dais to emphasize his youthful exuberance.
Unfortunately, youthfulness meant a shocking amount of naivete and impractical dream-sequence ideas, and the enthusiasm morphed into a maniacally driven ideologue with no management skills or experience and no inclination to learn or “unlearn” for the purpose of promoting pragmatic solutions. Failure to identify or admit to the nefarious intentions of the Arab Spring has imperiled the Middle East and ceded an unimaginable geographic stronghold for worldwide terror; an effort to appease environmentalists and curry favor to Arabs who share with him a desire to see America weakened has left us without an energy policy and vulnerable to the whims of racketeers in OPEC; an obsession with controlling business as an income producer for his grand scheme has strangled growth, productivity, and innovation.
When he spoke like an eighth grader about cutting the deficit in half along with unemployment he was either delusional and woefully uninformed or else running a misdirect play as he readied the pig for slaughter, yet he was left unchecked by the media and Congress to burnish his façade. He was either in collusion with his attorney general to foment criminal activity in Mexico with the sophomoric Fast and Furious, or too ignorant and disorganized to recognize what went on beneath his very nose, and the same could be said of his doppelganger in the Department of Justice. Finally, when it became clear that numerous security leaks conveniently designed to promote a false reputation of toughness and international brilliance were coming directly from the White House, the pattern of illegal disclosures ceased with the speed in which they inexplicably started appearing.
The EPA is no longer a watch dog organization, but instead another piece on Obama’s chessboard, allowed to regulate at will and create ex post facto law at its discretion, all with the idea of creating more government control with a cult-like commitment. The presumptuousness, of course, is that all business is bad, all business is out to pollute, and all businesses care nothing about the environment, an utterly fallacious premise, but one that resonates with this White House and one that strengthens an incestuous symbiotic relationship intended to weaken our country with higher energy prices. The question is “why?”
Energy prices rise and fall due to three things: manipulation of supply, the reality of demand, and emotionally driven speculation, and in what can only be interpreted as an effort to strengthen the hands of the Arab world, Obama leveraged the BP Oil Spill and hysterical assertions by environmentalists to shut down coastal and gulf coast drilling and avoid a joint venture pipeline with Canada that would clearly modify the three aforementioned influences on fluctuation and stability.
The following vignette is universal and involves the proverbial girl next door. You knew her as a kid, you might have known her older brother, or maybe you regarded her in a sisterly way because she played with your siblings. You watched her grow up but never really paid close attention to her, never regarded her as any more than a casual acquaintance, and gave her no consideration because you found so many other things and other people more interesting. Then one day she walks into a room and you wonder how foolish you could have been, for she embodied an ideal beyond your wildest dreams.
That brings me to Canada. “O Canada.”
Canada has arguably been our most loyal and trusted ally, a neighbor with enforceable laws and impeccable standards, one who doesn’t threaten our country in the myriad of ways of Mexico, and yet we have taken them for granted. Canada has the third most proven oil reserves in the world, and complements our role as world leader in production of natural gas with a significant role of its own. Canadians enjoy rich traditions similar to ours, believe in a non-radical common good, are not an incubator or foothold for worldwide terrorist organizations, and are quite literally the girl next door we have ignored. For reasons that remain unclear, we have felt the need to cultivate other international relationships but never paid her any mind even though she’s been sitting there all along.
Their proximity to us make them the ideal partner, the one with whom we should improve strategic alliances in energy and defense and do so with unwavering trust, and yet we willingly remain marionettes to the puppet masters in the Middle East, occasionally even bending to kiss their rings.
And there she is next door. Just waiting for the phone to ring.
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Thanks, Dan! We have treated “The Girl Next Door” pretty much like we’ve treated our best ally in the middle East, Israel. Now we are running out of allies, and our enemies are licking their chops! How did we get here in four short years?
Great question, Sunny.
We have a president with an anti-American bias. Just think about that for a second: we have a president with an anti-American bias.
That explains the problem, but it does not explain what the electorate could possibly have been thinking when they voted for him 4 years ago, much less what it would portend for our country if he somehow got re-elected.
Thanks, Dan. Great article. Hopefully, that phone will ring in a few more months… “…We are led to believe a lie when we see with not through the eye…” by William Blake And, this, I think, is what happens to the liberals. They believe Obama’s promises -lies – but don’t follow up to see what he actually does. Liberals just don’t seem to get the whole picture.
and listen to the recent comments made by Harper regarding the security of Israel, but Obama still has not even set one foot on her soil, (Branwen).
Once again I bow three times in your general direction. Great Rant. I am convinced that the only thing more frightening than a lawyer as president is a college professor. My fear meter can’t even compute the level of terror raised by a law professor president. Think about it, college professors have a great life. They are surrounded by generally attractive (if they were Olie women) young people who look up to them and are partly under their control. Once the have tenure, their worries are gone. That freedom from worry gives their somewhat potent minds room to wander. Their idyllic existence leaves them plenty of angst-free time to contemplate diverse subjects. Unfortunately, too many of them turn to politics and the economy. With tenure, they are guaranteed a pretty good salary and job security, that is, they live in a parallel universe. Combine financial security, slavishly devoted students and big egos and you have the recipe for disaster. Without financial or job concerns, socialism doesn’t seem so bad. The rich all are evil neo-corporatits, or some other bullshit, multi-syllable pseudo-intellectual term, who got their money by stepping over the little guy or by theft (unless, of course, they are big donors). Higer taxes, especially on the rich, and higher government spending are good for the economy. Keynes makes sense. And, worst of all, the government is the best entity to solve our problems. Obama epitomizes the professor prototype. He’s rich, has a cadre of worshipers (especially the press) and has the biggest, undeserved, ego of all. He spent his entire working career, with the exception of a long weekend, avoiding the private sector. He has contempt for people who work and, selfishly in his mind, want to prosper and keep most of what they earn. Obama has Alinsky memorized, as well as Marx and Mao, I suspect but is fuzzy on Econ 101 or the constitution. Problem is, he has been told for years that he is always the smartest person in the room and he has come to believe it. For three years, the MSM has been playing informational bodyguard, killing negative stories and praising anything that could posibly spun as good news. A big problem arises when you have been coddled, supported and praised for so long, the spin becomes your reality. Then Mitt happens. Little Barry is exposed. No amount of spin will undo the damage done. He ISN’T the smartest person ever to be president. The Mitt the buttmonkeys of the press have been foisting on the people didn’t show up. He wasn’t incompetent or out of touch. He had good ideas and specific plans. He was well spoken and in command of the facts. He was compassionate and human. He served ace after ace and Obama flailed away unsuccessfully, incapable of saying anything other than regurgitated talking points. The voters were shown that not only did the emperor have no clothes, he has a small dick too.
Great description on the professors, GK. I recall a little nimnod named Paul Wellstone who made my life a living hell until I wrote a paper that regurgitated everything he wanted to hear.
Think of how many minds he polluted with his position at the podium.
Wellstone was the ebola virus of the govey dept. There was one anomaly, however, Ralph Fjelstad was a conservative. It amazes me he survived so long at such a liberal institution.
I’m not only surprised the institution survives, GK, I’m equally stunned that they count us among their alumni.
I don’t have words in a polite environment to describe Wellstone, much less the school itself.
Dan;
Excellent rant thank you, pblee is spot on with her assessment of the situation the U.S.A. has put itself into. “0” is a carrot dangling fool and about half this country is content with it, if in fact we do take out the trash on November sixth on November seventh we had best be ready for some heavy lifting.
Unshackling a once great economy is all it will take, r.woods, and it will, indeed, be off to the races.
Dan,
I pray you are right!
Dan, from your mouth to God’s ear, AMEN!
Thanks, Howard.
(my uncle was a Logan grad, by the way)
Great article! The people that believe mr O have closed their minds and put slave chains back on of their own free will!!There is no limit what a united country can achieve!!
You’re right, simmjz.
I was an active player in the 80′s economy unleashed by President Reagan, and when Romney gets elected and lights the fires, just stand back. We’ll re-assume the position our country worked hard to establish.
Agreed, Paul G. Jr. They’ve tried selling him as one with enormous capacity since he hit the stage, and at last people are realizing it was a snow-job.
I agree wholeheartedly with pblee above. Bread and circuses (food stamps and the NFL on wide screen TVs); it didn’t work out for the Roman Empire and it won’t work our for us. The barbarians are at the gates and the gate keepers are out golfing. God help us!
Pretty chilling, Gary T.
The fate of the country is in our own hands and in 30 days we’ll know if we’ll “re-invent” ourselves or go straight down the flusher.
Good thinking!
Great article, Thanks to you and other well informed writers like your self…we can fire this hoodlum and get back and restore this once great country back to where it was and then build on to make it even better…Thanks again
I haven’t used the word, “hoodlum”, Jim, but when I think about it I wish I had.
Not only is the current resident of the White House a hoodlum, but he is a hooligan and all you Marxists out there know exactly what that means.
Hard to believe we’re talking about our president, isn’t it pblee? ? ?
Mercy………………………….
good article!
I was just in Canada visiting relatives. I was surprised to learn that they think Obama is great. They repeated all the Left talking points against Conservatives. They said they are a socialist country and it works well for them. I tried to point out that they rely heavily on the U.S. for many things, such as health care, but it didn't seem to resonate.
It’s a relationship worth cultivating, Denise, but we have been lax in doing so. We can’t change their hearts over night, but if we plan to invest our time with any other country, I can’t think of a better one.
Excellent Rant…. As always and very much appreciated. A great concern is: as @pblee stated the nails are on our own coffin. How many will listen to voices of reason or open their eyes to see reality until it slaps them in the face. This poser of a POTUS has fooled the mass into becoming the blind mice and follow him over the cliff into the Hinterland of Make Believe. Collectively speaking we have become a self-centerd country putting cotton in our ears refusing to hear any voices of reason.
Are we not like the students going to class with an ITouch connected to their ears, texting on the cell, refusing to listen to the teacher because there is much more to do rather than learn? The students cannot read their home work or hear the lesson; therefore aren’t they well deserving of the proverbial “dunce cap?”
We’ve totally ignored our neighbor and will they want to befriend a “fair weathered neighbor?”
Thanks, gain, Mychal Massie… Enjoy your provacative writings…. God bless and prayerfully you reach through the stone walls of idol worshippers of the Pied Piper. The Hinterland of Make Believe will turn into the pits of hell!
Ha good analogy – and if she were really really watchful, she'd not pick up if and when we call. At least not until after we get a decent job and stop hanging around bad influences.
You’re right, John LeDuc.
I wouldn’t want someone in this state of affairs calling on my daughter, either.
Excellent commentary by Mychal Massie's Daily Rant.
Multiple nails hit square on their heads! Too bad they are on our own coffin lid if enough people don’t get their heads out of you know where.
The other side of this outrageous equation is this: the average American DOESN’T CARE ANYMORE so long as the plasma screen TV is big enough, the sport of choice is not on strike, the beer and Cheetos are within reach, and the check from Uncle Sam is in the mail.
Politics in this country, the presidential race in particular, have become a kind of super-size me version of MTV or BET Award shows. Nobody listens to the substance or lack thereof of what is being. What matter is the style, the cool level, the obvious gaff that can be made fun of the following morning to keep the entertainment alive until the next sound bite.
When America regains its sense of citizenship and puts aside its sense of entitlement, only then will we get ourselves out of this national suicide march we seem to be on.
PUT OUT THE TRASH ON NOVEMBER 6.
I happen to like beer AND Cheetos, pblee………..but I get your point and you make it well.
Totally amazes me how many as enamored of Obama….the blind leading the blind….the Pied Piper……follow him right off the cliff…probem is the rest of us go with…..God Forbid…..
Puzzling for sure, Barb. Nothing more than the blind leading the blind through a mine field.
Wonderful article… amabo has been nothing short of ZERO…. he is truly the empty suit sitting in the empty chair.