February 25, 2009

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Five – Hi Bob!

“It only takes one drink to get me drunk, but I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth.”
George Burns

Most of us remember the drinking game millions of viewers played when watching the Bob Newhart Show. Every time one of the characters said “Hi Bob” millions chugged, took a shot or swig of their favorite adult beverage usually resulting in a serious buzz by the time the closing credits hit the screen.

Rumor has it millions of our fellow Americans played a similar game during President Obama’s recent so called Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan Speech in Arizona last week. Participants allegedly knocked one back every time the president used the word crisis. Twenty six shots of courage later had millions staggering around like god’s own drunk having just endured what was truly one of the most negative messages delivered by a sitting president since Peanut’s infamous malaise speech back in the 70’s.

The president’s “Crisis We Can Believe In” speech was a new low, which is really saying a lot, when considering his practice of the politics of fear mongering, class warfare, the financial sky is falling and victimization. Continuing his gloom and doom apocalyptic financial message of the last two years our commander in chief referred to three different crises in the first paragraph alone of his remarks.

According to Mr. Audacity of Hope our country is facing the most difficult challenges in the history of the union. He must have cut history class to hang with his terrorist buds and snort a few lines the day they covered World Wars 1 & 2, the War for Southern Independence (Civil War for all you Yankees), the Great Depression, Jimmy Carter, the Revolutionary War and Alabama’s loss to Florida in last year’s SEC Championship. Mr. Obama passionately warned us, and I quote:

“we are faced with crisis unlike any we’ve ever known; a home mortgage crisis; crisis that strikes at the heart of the middle class; crisis is vast, it begins just one house – and one family – at a time; we learn that acting responsibly often isn’t enough to escape this crisis; The effects of this crisis have also reverberated across the financial markets; all of us are paying a price for this home mortgage crisis; if we allow this crisis to deepen – a crisis which is unraveling homeownership, the middle class, and the American Dream itself; the home mortgage crisis, the financial crisis, and this broader economic crisis are interconnected; It will prevent the worst consequences of this crisis from wreaking even greater havoc on the economy; especially now as we grapple with a crisis that would only worsen if we were to allow further disruptions; Communities have shown a lot of initiative, taking responsibility for this crisis; Taken together, the provisions of this plan will help us end this crisis; Our housing crisis was born of eroding home values and by leaders in our nation’s capital who failed to act amidst a deepening crisis; So solving this crisis will require more than resources; accountable for ending the practices that got us into this crisis in the first place; I am confident we will overcome this crisis.”

Don’t know about y’all but after reading that list of unadulterated crisis destroying life as we know it I’m thinking we all would greatly benefit from a couple of shots of Jack with a long neck Bud chaser.

The political reality is this tale of economic hardship, chaos and crisis has several purposes. First and foremost, the continuation of the great American Ho Ax, misleading and frightening we the people about the reality of our current fiscal situation and this administrations’ true intentions. Second, the advocacy of his recently passed Economic Stimulus/Socialist Spending Bill. Next, the promotion of his Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan and finally his highest priority, securing the future funds required for the hostile government takeover of the country’s healthcare, financial, energy, and educational industries and ultimately even little league baseball, the Girl Scouts and Junior League (They best be careful with that last group, those gals will overwhelm the White House with thank you notes for any perceived act of kindness disrupting the mail service for weeks).

President Obama started week five of his administration with the “Crisis We can Believe In” speech and wrapped it up with an address to a joint session of congress still professing financial ruin unless his divine vision for fiscal renaissance is implemented immediately. In between speeches the president conducted several made for TV events and photo opps including an Economic Stimulus Summit and speeches to the nation’s mayors and governors. Lets also not forget about his Secretary of State’s first trip abroad either where she bravely dodged Chinese sniper fire (that explains all the bowing) while walking down the red carpet and receiving line greeting officials and dignitaries at the airport.

His primetime congressional speech was well delivered, excellent in style points and at times even inspirational and motivational. Unfortunately, as usual, his remarks were also chalk full of empty rhetoric and I’m truly sad to say, out and out lies. Mr. President, every economist in the civilized world does not agree with your plans for economic recovery. You didn’t inherit this train wreck, you spent over two years and almost a billion dollars seeking this responsibility. And finally, whining and blaming W for your woes is both another lie and extremely unbecoming. As I’ve said before, the leader of the free world playing the victim card on national TV demeans the office and prestige of the presidency. Especially when you and your socialist democrat majority in congress the last two years with a big shout out to Madame Speaker & Chair of the Commune Pelosi, Senator Chris Countrywide VIP mortgage boy Dodd and Barney “Freddie in the Fannie Mac” Frank for your outstanding leadership and who share equally in the blame for our current dilema.

On a positive note the speech to congress did reveal President Obama’s real agenda and I do give him credit for this most unusual lapse of honesty in revealing his real intentions. That’s the good news. The bad news is he plans to spend trillions more of our hard earned dollars on creating a big government, socialized, universal healthcare system that will compromise and lower the standard of care for all of us. He is also pushing for a fully government funded tree hugging, bark eating, and inconvenient truth of an energy policy restricting our freedoms and choices regarding the consumption and use of our natural resources. Finally, his hope to provide a free post high school education for college, community college or trade school certainly has merit and is a most worthy endeavor. I just wish I could find where in the U.S. constitution it states that the citizen tax payers are responsible for such massive social spending.

Tuesday night’s speech did have a more positive tone but still frequently evoked the crisis, catastrophe, and the financial sky is falling rhetoric of previous addresses. One thing this crowd does well is stay on message. “Hi Bob / Crisis” drinking game participants had ample opportunity to knock a few more back as the word crisis was generously sprinkled throughout the president’s remarks. Sadly, game player hangovers will pale in comparison to the financial hangover we are all about to suffer through if the president’s socialist and massive new government programs are enacted.

Cheers!

I am, “America by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”
Ron W. Garikes