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Climbing Mount Obama
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A PORK BARREL PROJECT
Re: The Prowler’s Obama’s
Olympic Spirit:
Barack Obama is to America what Governor Jennifer Granholm has been for Michigan; a superficial presence voting present, offering only utopian platitudes of what should be. Constantly trying, and failing miserably to pick economic winners that only have fractional benefits, backed by heavy subsidies from…government!
They both show up at local events extolling the “new” energy plant that will employ dozens, while the state they represent is laying off thousands.
Obama pursues the Olympic bid while abandoning our troops in Afghanistan. Granholm lets legislators publicly slug out a budget and make the difficult choices, and then swoops in at the last minute to veto it, offering no input except that the cuts were: “too drastic.”
With this Olympic bid, Obama acts like he’s still in the Senate….simply delivering a pork barrel project for the hometown. Yet like many of our ostensible representatives, he is bereft of the actual geography of his own region, infused with a sense of self-importance that he alone can deliver. In Michigan, Granholm is phoning it in, casually serving out her last year of 8 solid years of declining growth, continued private sector layoffs, and a family leaving the state every 22 minutes.
The Olympics deal was probably wrapped up a week ago, and he’s
just going to mug for the cameras. Meanwhile, he votes present on
all his socialist proposals, and the electorate, now feeling
betrayed, seethes. In Michigan, we are anxiously awaiting the
Governor’s naming of an appointee to turn off the lights.
— P. Aaron Jones
Huntington Woods, Michigan
Does this really surprise anyone? More to the point, should it
surprise anyone? The whole thing has a decidedly vulpine aroma
about it.
— Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia
Of course President Obama wants to bring the Olympics to America.
He has already given the people bread (The Porkulus Package) and
soon he will bring the circus. The question is will he somehow
find a way to still be in the White House when the circus comes
to town?
-I.M. Kessel
Endless-campaigner indecisive Barack Obama’s got any spirit, worldly or otherwise, except American patriotic spirit. But, then, how could or why would he have what appears to repulse him?
Having never worn a uniform, he understands nothing about command and troops’ morale. But he’s crushing the morale of our men and women in uniform, at least in Afghanistan, I hear.
Recently, the mother of a chaplain stationed in Afghanistan told
me she’s been hearing that the troops’ morale there is not good.
“How could it be, with this president?” I asked. She nodded that
she agreed.
Being the good chaplain he is, her son asked her to ask our
church members to pray for the troops.
Wonder how many times filled-with-the-Olympic-spirit Barack and
Michelle have done that?
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.
NONSENSE
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s
Freedom From Foreign Oil:
Please read what your own Angelo Codevilla has written about
“energy independence” — what good is it for? Why should anyone
pay more for alternative sources when oil is cheaper? The only
reason would be national security — but if the U.S. is not
serious about fighting foreign wars (and it is not), what
possible good is it to anyone to have “energy independence”? If
the Saudis are our enemies, we should treat them as such, not
grumble because we have to buy their oil. We don’t fear to fight
because the oil will get cut off — we fear to fight because we
don’t understand war.
— Michael Schwenk
America has coal reserves equal or greater than all of Saudi Arabia. The Germans in WWll invented a process of turning coal into diesel.
America has over one trillion (TRILLION) barrels of oil in coal shale, which cost about $50 per barrel to extract.
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Big J| 10.2.09 @ 8:23AM
To Dan Martin above:
If your comment was made tongue in cheek, you failed miserably.
If you were attempting humor, you failed miserably.
None of the above? You are simply disgusting, and in serious need of calibration for your moral compass.
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Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : Climbing Mount Obama [spectator.org] links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
PolishKnight| 10.2.09 @ 10:42AM
Gretchen, did I read correctly? Did you just cheer on rapists?
Indeed, most rape in this country is performed in prison, probably mostly against weaker prisoners, with the quiet approval of the populace putting us on level with, or perhaps even below, Saudi Arabia. If rape is "ok" sometimes, there goes our moral superiority...
Indeed, the horrid prison conditions in the states may be used as an argument at Polanski's extradition hearing.
Richard L.A. Schaefer| 10.2.09 @ 11:34AM
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Reply to Polish Knight
The Top Ten Stupid Dave Tricks
10. He had sex with a subordinate employee.
9. He had sex with a subordinate while in a committed relationship and/or marriage.
8. He had sex with more than one subordinate employee.
7. His self-described creepy behavior was revealed by him as if part of a comedy routine.
6. The confession in “So what?” form was preceded by a typical joke critical of unfaithful politicians.
5. He manipulated the audience into laughing about his self-described terrible behavior.
4. After he made the laughter disappear with his confession, he made it reappear with a mock self-mocking about his sex partners having their reputation hurt by the revelation they’d had sex with him, as if it were less attractive rather than more attractive to have sex with such a powerful boss.
3. On a national comedy show, he hurt his mother and son and wife, who is also a former subordinate employee sex partner.
2. He pulled the curtain back on the fact that his regular self-deprecating remarks are even more justified than people realized.
1. He hadn’t booked for the night the former employee sex partner who once came back to the show and made embarrassing references to their former sex life.
Richard L.A. Schaefer
Michael L. Hauschild| 10.3.09 @ 2:15PM
First of all Gretchen never said anything of the kind. Second, most of the rapes in the USA are perpetrated on women and of those it is estimated that only sixteen percent are reported.
As far as what will happen to Polanski, if and when he is incarcerated, he will be isolated from the general prison population, not because he will be raped but because he would be killed.
Two point four percent of women attending a University or College report being raped; not counting the assaults that go unreported, that small segment of our citizenry alone accounts for far a far greater number of rapes than occurs in the entire prison population of the USA.
In one short post you have proved to us that you cannot comprehend what you read, you know nothing of the subject to which you speak, and you sure do not know anything about prisons.
Tim| 10.2.09 @ 12:26PM
How do you spell courage?
I.O.C.
IMKessel| 10.2.09 @ 12:47PM
Mr. Edwards makes some excellent points.
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twolaneflash| 10.4.09 @ 12:43PM
Roman Polanski. You can't spell RaPe without RP.
Ask OPRAH about rape. I read she got her Polanski at 9 years old, was a runaway and pregnant at 13 , baby at 14, and her baby died an infant. So, I guess being Polanskied doesn't mean your whole life is ruined. OPRAH? Comments?
e.m. mason| 10.4.09 @ 5:58PM
I don't have loads of time to read so excuse me if I missed it, but has The American Spectator retracted the false remark that Patrick Gaspard was employed by ACORN? If so, please tell me where I can read that.
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