February 8, 2009

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Two - The Company We Keep

“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends”
Japanese Proverb

We are all judged by the company we keep. Considering some of the low life hooligans, yahoos, sandbaggers and poker cheats I’ve cavorted with over the years (and loved every minute of it) it’s no wonder your humble author is held in low esteem by some who just don’t appreciate the socially redeeming qualities, as hard as they may be to find, of the somewhat rowdy crowd I’ve had the honor to hang with most of my life.

For those of us who are parents, regrettably far too many of us have endured loud and heated discussions with our teenagers stressing the importance of the quality of the company one keeps. Hanging with the gothics decked out in black with red streaked hair, the potheads, smokers, or dating the pimply faced kid who looks like he fell head first in a tackle box tends to label one with a rep, deserved or not.

So how should we judge our new president based on the company he keeps? We are all well acquainted with his old pals from Chicago, Rev. “Captain America” Wright; Bill “BFF Bomb Thrower” Ayers; Tony “Felonious, Let’s Make a Deal” Rezko and Illinois’s’ X Governor Blago, “The Enlightened One”. The President’s association with this group, unfortunately, has rendered irreversible damage and their impact on molding his character has regrettably already been realized. It is interesting to note and more than a little ironic to say the least that we the people have just elected to the highest office in the land a man who probably couldn’t obtain a federal security clearance because of his past associations with known terrorist, convicted felons and radical left wing zealots.

All that being said and in the spirit of bipartisanship ushered in by the new administration, you know, my way or the highway, let’s give our new leader the benefit of the doubt and judge him not on his past associations but on his new circle of friends currently gathering in our nation’s capital.

Following is a partial list of President Obama’s handpicked group of visionaries who will lead us out of the financial wilderness and save us from all threats, foreign and domest

• Vice President Joe Biden – A national joke. Would somebody please shut “Mr. Plagiarize When in Doubt” up. Talk about the gift that keeps on giving.
• Madame Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – Pathological liar and gallant avoider of enemy sniper fire.
• Attorney General Eric Holder – Pardoner of Tax Cheats and Terrorist
• Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner – Tax Cheat and according to his supporters the only individual in a country of 300 million + qualified for the job.
• Health Czar and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Daschle – Big Time Tax Cheat and according to the Prez the only person in a country of 300 million + qualified for this job.
• Chief White House Performance Officer Nancy Killefer – Tax cheat, as Chief Performance Officer I imagine she was hired to help the rest of the group improve their tax cheating skills.
• Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis – Married to a tax cheat

So, what’s the final tally: 1 confirmed plagiarizer; 1 confirmed pathological liar and several more suspected; 5 admitted tax cheats and/or tax cheat sympathizers; one terrorist sympathizer and at least two senior level appointees that according to our new Commander in Chief are the only ones qualified for the position he chose them for in a country of 300 million plus. This is the epitome of arrogance and elitism, which so far seems to be two of this administration’s more redeeming qualities.

Every new administration makes a couple of mistakes with appointments, but this group has in more in common with the FBI’s top ten most wanted list than U.S. cabinet members. In addition to this travesty, the President’s nomination of two senior level officials, Deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn and Mark Patterson, a former lobbyist with the financial firm Goldman Sachs, for Chief of Staff for the Treasury Secretary both fail to meet the President’s less than a week old Executive Order placing restrictions on lobbyist working in his administration. Are these people just too lazy, incompetent, or both to find qualified individuals (I personally think no tax cheats, ex cons, or lawyers would be a good start) in a country of 300 million plus to fill these positions?

I can highly recommend several scoundrels, sandbaggers and poker cheats (all of southern heritage of course) I’ve known for years that would serve the president well and certainly much better than this group of highly questionable character currently being assembled. Unfortunately, he seems to have a powerful attraction for these unsavory types, kinda like white on rice, and if our president’s choice of friends doesn’t improve soon we could all be in a world of hurt for years to come.

I am, “America by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W Garikes