THE OBAMA CRACK-UP?
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s Obama
Agonistes:
The debonair Mr. Tyrrell, a clear eyed chronicler of the Clinton
foibles, in a scant two weeks is agape at the stumbling Boy
Prophet. I prefer to envision Mr. Tyrrell with his handsome face
upturned.
If one reflects on the faux presidential seal of last summer, and
the Office of the President Elect bunting, it is obvious that
these poseurs will be playing West Wing for the duration. Perhaps
our friends at Fox News could play laugh tracks with reportage of
Obama, lest we all become gargoyles.
— Robert P. Yatto
Crossville, Tennessee
Let’s face it (if anyone is mature enough to do in this woebegone
culture) Obama is the worst kind of political hack who is not
only the country’s first affirmative action product who was
elected president, but who is also a graduate of ACORN and its
agenda to completely change our country for the worst in every
way. I first encountered ACORN thirty years ago as a young
attorney representing General Motors Corp in utility cases before
various state Public Service Commission hearings. In those
simpler days when GM was healthy we advocated so called rate
equity. That meant that if the PSC was going to grant the
utilities increases in electric and natural gas rates, GM and
other large users requested that the increases be allocated based
on the actual cost to serve that class of customers and that
the traditional subsidies by large users not be increased and in
fact move to the actual cost for each class eventually. ACORN and
other groups such as PIRGIM wanted the subsidies increased and
also advocated other gimmicks such well below rates for the
“poor” and senior citizens, rates known by various names one
being “lifeline” rates. We used to have regular customer meetings
with the utilities to discuss terms of service but of
course not the specific rate cases. The utilities as you
might imagine acknowledged the validity of our positions but of
course their main interest was getting increased rates so were
often sympathetic to these odious gimmicks. I remember we one
time asked this one specific utility if collecting payments from
its senior customers was problem. They answered no actually this
class was its very best and reliable customers in
paying for the energy. We next said why then are you flirting
with these non cost based rates? That was a rhetorical question
since everyone knew the answer. It was political. At that time
Michigan had a very effective and ardent Democrat in the Attorney
General’s office who tacitly worked with these groups that is
ACORN and PIRGIM. But to give him credit he did not actively
advocate more subsidies from the
large manufacturing class. In those far off days at least
some Democrats recognized who really created and maintained jobs
in our economy.
— Jack Wheatley
Royal Oak, Michigan
The tax, spend, and extort bilge spewing forth from the current
Congress and White House will overwhelm the mediocrities of the
malaise and scandal administrations of years gone by. At least
Jimmah Carter — whose foreign policy was as kind and good as the
American people are themselves — could claim executive
experience. It was a shame that you overlooked Mr. Obama’s
community activist career which would bolster an already deficit
ridden resume.
This paucity of talent and skill of the president — which was
ably documented in this editorial — will be no match for the
crises yet to unfold. Mr. Obama may have been able to deceive the
electorate and fool the immigration services regarding his
citizenship but he will not be able to skate by with a smile and
a sonorous speech with the likes of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah,
Russia, and China. He has been outclassed, outsmarted, and
outmaneuvered by foreigners in his first 2 weeks which is simply
a sneak preview of coming attractions after which he will morph
into the surly Carter of the disco '70s. Perhaps by then Bill
Clinton can show him how not to inhale. Some presidents can learn
on the job but there is no option for that this time — the
economic stench alone has not even been half reported — making
it a lesson in the game of chicken.
Obama’s loose lips already sunk the Chinese life raft whose
massive purchases of treasuries has propped up this decrepit
gasping American regime when scalawag Geithner accused them of
manipulating their currency. If ever the kettle was calling the
pot black we have heard it now. The treasuries auction sale this
month will be a colossal catastrophe which will sink this
administration regardless that it had its makings in the Bush
regime and regardless that the Chinese have few options for
recycling their dollars. Obama has continued Bush stimulus policy
which is a perfect recipe for continued economic destruction.
I predict that Obama will be shown the door just as soon as
someone equally incompetent, inept, and corrupt can be found to
replace him. I am shaken to the core over the crises we face and
the third rate senators who have ascended the apogee of power in
flight piloted by the American Icarus.
— David Bonn
He has not been in office a month, yet he has already made one
thing pretty close to certain: Barack Obama will not be
re-elected in 2012.
Really, this is like watching something along the lines of Back
to the Future, but with a younger, half-black (albeit smarter)
Jimmy Carter in the White House.
Not only has his administration demonstrated sheer political
ineptitude in the face of unprecedented public favor — I am
referring to the circus that is Obama’s efforts to put together
enough prospective cabinet members who can actually be confirmed
by the Senate — the president seems incapable of discerning just
how wasteful the so-called stimulus legislation crafted by his
fellow Democrats in Congress will prove if actually signed into
law by him. All this after he, the new kid on the block in D.C.,
convinced the majority of Americans that he, not John McCain,
possessed the judgment needed to steward our nation during some
very dark days.
Bill Clinton was right when he characterized the concept of an
Obama administration representing what America needs to be the
stuff of a “fairy tale.” Meantime, it is looking more like a
nightmare with every passing minute.
While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is singing “We’ve only
just begun…to live,” one thing’s certain: The game is already
over.
Oh, and for those pundits who thought the conservative movement
died when Republicans selected a guy who’d been campaigning for
eight years to eventually lose the election for their party,
here’s a question: If the conservative movement is dead, why is
it that within only a few days of his swearing in ceremony
President Obama has spent more time talking about Rush Limbaugh
than he has the lefty loonies in the media who helped him pull
the wool over voters’ eyes? Seems to me the Conservative movement
is still very much alive in the mind of America’s most popular
man today — Republicans thus have less to fear than some of
their “thought leaders” may assume.
— Michael S. Smith II
Charleston, South Carolina
While Mr. Tyrrell has his own reservations about Sarah Palin’s
overall ability to govern in an error-free manner, she possesses
one thing even John McCain manages to hide from view: an
instinctive sense of American Exceptionalism. To go even further,
she possess that instinctive sense to know what threatens liberty
at home and abroad, whether that threat is armed or legislative.
Her ability to handle oil execs in Alaska for her citizens, and
her obvious joy of life and existence are absent from any of
those lunk-heads currently careening the American car down the
hazardous mountainous pass of national and international
relations.
She also possesses a sense of humor…very important.
Obama doesn’t like being president anymore. The fun is already
over. Being decisive has consequences, and he can’t take
criticism. His allies have noticed, so have America’s
enemies.
— P. Aaron Jones
Michigan
ONE THING IN MIND
Re: Matthew Vadum’s No
Justice, No Peace:
Wade Rathke and the other members of the ACORN 8 being at war
with the main body of ACORN is no surprise. These people are not
out for the “little guy.” The little guy is a means to an ends
for them and their ilk. What interests them is power. Raw.
Unadulterated power. Those who are neither part of this modern
day mafia nor part of The Fellowship of the One are best served
by staying out of this donnybrook and cheering for complete and
utter implosion. Revolutions have started with less firepower
than this.
— Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York
The Feds and IRS are taking too long to uncover the
wrongdoing of Wade Rathke who is the mastermind of
financial corruption in ACORN. ACORN 8 is a great
example of members taking charge of demanding truth and
transparency.
— Roslyn Dodge
NEGATIVE ACTION
Re: Ralph R. Reiland’s Isn’t It
Reich?
This is rich! The labor unions were forced on construction (and
mining and manufacturing) by the Democrats during the New Deal.
Roosevelt knew they would directly and immediately throw black
men out of work, but decided it was a price worth paying.
If you’re old enough to remember the early days of affirmative
action, you know it was practically designed for labor unions
(and local and state government in the old South). When I was
young you couldn’t get into a union unless you had a relative in
it, so black men had to use their Uncle Sam.
— D.M. Duggan
