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Bushwhacked, Part III
Stay home, Jeb. Narconomics 101. Mimi outclasses Elizabeth Alexander. Three cheers for GWB. Plus more.
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This letter is in response to the media coverage of President Barack Obama.
In the twenty-five or so years I have been following politics in the United States I have never seen media coverage of an individual that borders on promoting a "cult of personality." It never fails to amaze me how foolishly we elect the leaders of this country. We end up electing someone with virtually no experience in government to lead us out of the worst financial disaster in our country's history. Keep in mind that this disaster has not yet run it's full course. Still the media paint a picture of President Obama as a great savior before he has even executed one of his duly sworn duties. He has not merited the consideration of greatness bestowed on past presidents because he hasn't even completed one month in office not to mention a full term.
In addition to the media's cultic adulation of President Obama is
this pre-occupation with the election of the first black-American
president. President Obama is not an African-American any more
than I'm a Polish-American or Irish-American (nee Moran). He is a
black-American who happens to have African heritage as I am a
white-American who happens to have Polish and Irish heritage. As
for the election, Donald Duck could have beaten the Republican
nominee so to suggest that America has made a cultural shift
towards better race relations by electing the first
black-American president is making an error in logic referred to
as a faulty cause. If the economy was strong and foreign policy
not such a mess, would the election have turned out differently?
We will never know. The only thing certain now is that President
Obama is "on-the-clock" and time waits for no one.
-- Joe Bialek
Cleveland, Ohio
YOUR REPRESENTATIVE
I can’t wait to dash across the aisle.
I’ll glad-hand the others guys with a smile.
Though my constituents thought I’d vote one way
I’ve had to adjust “at the end of the day.”
There are serious receptions I must attend.
Acceptance is what matters in the end.
It’s fine for the folks back home to wonder,
But my social status would be rent asunder,
If I helped to pass their supposed needs.
I am loved here not for my words but my deeds.
Have they thought how a Washington party would be
Without the important inclusion of me?
I’m a politician. I’m a special breed.
I blow in the wind like a scattered seed,
And if you think my kind have had their day
Are you willing to join the Republican fray?
(I would, but I’d have to do it in verse)
-- Mimi Evans Winship
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Michael L. Hauschild| 1.26.09 @ 6:55AM
I marvel at the eloquence of Broker and Erbe. “Walking a mile in someone else’s moccasins,” implied by the former and stated by the latter is the most profound form of communication available. Hogue had the best line though, “The truth seems to be intolerable to those who do not practice even a pretense of honesty.”
frost| 1.26.09 @ 7:48AM
Yup. Mr. Bonn nailed it, then Mr. Broker. Michael's response (above) acknowledged a fine quote; the morning has, at least, started in a positive fashion. Now, think I'll move on to the fondling and media masturbation from the so-called "conventional" (AKA cheerleading) press accounts, along with the Pabulum Puke glad-handing accorded our Marxist-leaning president and his socialist congress...
No, on second thought, perhaps I'll bypass those sheep and retain my optimistic feelings while walking the dog and cooking some breakfast....
Life is Good.
Thomas| 1.26.09 @ 12:01PM
Mr. Bonn is correct in his assessment of the current financial malaise and the means necessary to correct it. But, there may be historical forces at work here that will make any other course than the one we are presently on impossible.
Though many argue, correctly, that the current economic downturn is not analogous to the Great Depression, there are striking similarities.
First, we are in a worldwide recession that is forcing much of the free world toward socialism. The trend toward increased socialism has been underway for nearly half a century, but this situation is providing the impetus toward near totalitarian socialism in the western democracies.
Add to that the fact that China has been building up a military capability many times greater than is necessary to protect its national interests and foreign defense responsibilities [of which it has virtually none], a resurgence of military chest beating by Russia and the close alliance of both with Iran, a destabilizing nation in the Middle East who is making moves to give it a strategic advantage in that region, and you get a picture of the world in the 1930's.
Hopefully, steps can be taken to forestall a repeat of history from the 1940's. But, the prior and current administrations and their Congressional allies are not doing it.
Appleby| 1.26.09 @ 1:02PM
On the day when the world, including Kanukistan, as playing 14 year old girl to King O's Jonas Brothers imitation, I took time off from work to do a bunch of things I needed to do and keep away from any of the relentless shrieking, fainting, throwing up and seizures going on all around me including at my office. I walked into a pub I had been wanting to try, at lunch time. I was the only person in the place, and the teevee was filled with shrieking and fainting and falling about. When the waitress came up I asked, "Can we turn that off?" She refused, and I told her that I could not eat in a situation that made me nauseous and walked away.
About 3/4 of my church believe that this sock puppet is the antichrist and he proves it every time he opens his mouth. Now they aer publishing his Little Book of Quotes to go along with it.
I hope when the shrieking, fainting and seizures are over, the people who discover what they have done will repent and turn away. Anybody who does, see you at Galt's Gulch.
ruth| 1.26.09 @ 7:40PM
Mr. Broker, do you have compassion for the millions and millions of perfectly healthy babies who have been aborted since Roe v Wade became law? They didn't get to choose, someone else chose for them.
Alan Brooks| 1.26.09 @ 10:43PM
Jeb or Neil Bush
Joe Heathen| 1.27.09 @ 12:10AM
Palin - Blagojevich 2012! Because you know they're already mavericks!
David Govett| 1.27.09 @ 12:18AM
Move the White House to the precise demographic center of the U.S. Since that point moves continually, better make it the Mobile White House.
jhhg| 11.19.09 @ 10:22PM
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