Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Fourteen –New CIA Torture Photos Prove W’s Guilt!

“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians”.

Henrik Ibsen

In a major scoop “Thoughts of Obama from Bama” has obtained classified CIA photos and support documentation indisputably placing W and his administration smack dab in the middle of the enemy combatant torture controversy. This evidence proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the Bush Administration’s unlawful policies and use of cruel, inhumane, and unspeakable horrifying forms of torture on Jihadist warriors being illegally detained by Uncle Sammy.

In total disregard to the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, UN and Geneva Convention as well as protest from the French, ACLU, and the patriots at Code Pink and ACORN W and his jackbooted “Secret Army” went mid-evil on 100’s of innocent victims of our Overseas Contingency Operations.

In their criminal efforts to obtain intelligence from this unlawfully detained Islamic guests of our country the Bush/Cheney Administration’s war crimes have provided fodder for terrorists worldwide especially in support of their fundraising and recruitment activities.

As horrific, repulsive and appalling as these criminal acts of torture are “Thoughts of Obama from Bama” feels obligated and compelled to publish this information in the spirit of the public’s right to know. Hopefully by shinning a light on this travesty of justice future administrations will never again so flagrantly or arrogantly abuse the power entrusted to them by We the People.

Dastardly and sadistic methods of torture uncovered by our investigation that greatly exceed the concept of so called advanced interrogation techniques have included the use of mind altering drugs that effectively brainwash any aspiring young suicide bomber/martyr into believing their reward of 70 virgins awaiting them in heaven will all look like Madeline Albright or Janet Reno. This technique was so successful would be Jihadist martyrs were known to start healthy diets and exercise regimes in an effort to prolong their lives here on earth to postpone the possibility of this dreadful fate for as long as possible.

Sleep deprivation was also extensively used with a new sadistic twist sure to soften up the most fanatical of Islamic extremist. After being kept up for up to 48 hours victims of this most vicious forms of torture were allowed to fall into a deep slumber only to be rudely awakened by surround sound Rap music and images of Hillary Clinton, Helen Thomas, Maxine Waters, Barbara Boxer, Joy Behar and Madame Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, flashing before their eyes

In many cases recipients of this method took to gouging out their own eyes and puncturing their eardrums to eliminate any possibility of ever experiencing such inhumane treatment again.

For some of the most obstinate sons of Muhammad a more personal touch was required. These falsely accused men of Arab accent were condemned to spend 24 hours alone in a 10x10 cell with the likes of Michael Jackson, who is just downright creepy, especially when adorning one glove for no apparent reason and accompanied by his pet chimp; Janeane Garofalo, babbling on endlessly about innate leftwing, socialist dogma, using racist hate speech with great venom but not one iota of logic or reason; Rosie O’Donnell, the poster child of ignorant, loudmouth celebrities, who in most instances are better seen than heard, unfortunately neither of which applies in Rosie’s case. Her antics as frequently displayed during her stint on “The View” proved especially difficult for the detainees to cope with compelling several to blow themselves up to take their chances with Albright and Reno in the afterlife; The infamous Michael Moore who has produced several socialist/communist works of fiction he has labeled as documentaries was recruited to indoctrinate the captives in the fine art of consuming a dozen cream filled Krispy Cream doughnuts at one sitting. Witnessing this grotesque spectacle made several observers convert to veganism and into American sympathizers and informers on the spot;

Those strong willed few who didn’t succumb to the agony of prolonged one on one interaction with one or more of the previously mentioned interrogators were subjected to listening to Al Gore reading his fictional novel, “An Inconvenient Truth” while strapped to a chair and jolted with a “green” powered cattle prod for each unauthorized carbon emission.

Even after this unprecedented barrage of terror, torture and illegal criminal acts perpetrated by the Bush/Cheney storm troopers several falsely accused enemy combatant detainees held steadfast and refused to spill the beans about their alleged terrorist activities. For this small group of Jihadist hard cases the evil Bush/Cheney torture apparatus had reserved the most cruel and unusual of punishment and torture to turn these most dangerous and fanatical holdouts.

Forced to play Nekked, (Most of y’all have heard this one, naked means you ain’t got any cloths on. Nekked means you ain’t got any clothes on and you are up to something) Blindfolded, Pin the Tail on the Camel with Barney “Freddie in the Fannie Mac” Frank the remaining holdouts folded like a cheap lawn chair after one game with the competitive, combative, and as most described as frisky, Frank. A few were so moved by the experience they signed allegiance to America Oaths and volunteered to seek out and destroy members of al Qaeda as long as we swore to never expose them, under any circumstances, to Barney and his camel ever again.

One last form of illegal torture secretly ordered by W that initially showed great promise but resulted in unforeseen and to some extent counterproductive outcomes was locking up Abdul in a small container and dropping in a tiny visitor of the insect variety to keep the poor soul company. The hope was that after being left alone a few hours with his new, what was thought to be harmless, little friend he might be more forthcoming with information that might prove to be of value in what was once know as our War on Terror. If only our interrogators had know that a dung beetle can eat up to 10 thousand times of its own body weight of dung in a couple of hours they surely would have avoided using this approach.

After returning from a long lunch ready for 12 -14 hours of inflicting unlawful criminal interrogations on mostly innocent, moderate members of the Taliban all that was left of Omar Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed “the Ground to Air Missile Maker” Salem was a small pile of dust, a diaper/turban like piece of clothing that seems to be the well dressed terrorist preferred choice of head ware, and a small but bloated dung beetle, fuller than a tick, fat and happy sleeping in the corner. Maybe a lost intelligence gathering opportunity but an honest mistake they only repeated a dozen or so more times while their small inventory of dung beetles lasted.

The evidence is unequivocally clear, The Bush/Cheney Administration is guilty, guilty of effectively executing a successful war against lunatic, Islamic Jihadist hell bent on systematically destroying our free and democratic way of life. Their use of enhanced interrogation techniques was constitutional, legal, appropriate and most important of all, successful.

On the other hand, President Obama is also guilty, guilty of weakening our great nation by advocating a foreign policy of apology, appeasement, and blame America first. Releasing Top Secret confidential CIA documents compromising our intelligence capabilities and putting our troops and citizens at greater risk comes within a frog hair of making our new Commander and Chief also guilty of providing aid and comfort to the enemy.

Maybe the President could use 24 hours alone in a room with Rosie, Michael Moore, and/or Janeane Garofalo to help him realize the error of his ways. Definitely cruel and unusual punishment, enhanced interrogation techniques on steroids, but certainly justified during these most dangerous and challenging of times.

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

Ron W. Garikes

April 22, 2009

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Thirteen – Is There a Method Behind All This Madness?

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.
Albert Einstein

President Barack Hussein Obama and his “Yes We Can Secretly and Successfully Transform This Country Into a Socialist Utopia” crowd have truly been busier than the proverbial one legged man at an ass kicking contest during Week Thirteen of the “Change You Can Believe In Especially if You Are a Communist; Facist; Elitist; Historical Revisionist; NBC/MSNBC/CNBC On Air Personality; Dixie Chick (Who?); Liberal Hollywood Head Case; and/or ACCORN Community Activist;” administration. Week thirteen was truly remarkable as the President reached new heights and plunged to unprecedented lows, depending on one’s point of view.

Politically the President remained in full throttle campaign mode eat up with a bad case of W schezophrenia while adding more radical leftist to his team and demonstrating a level of hubris towards conservative leaning Americans usually reserved for a Nancy Pelosi “bipartisan” prayer breakfast.

On the economic front efforts continue in earnest to divert our attention while the groundwork is laid for the socialist/nationalist takeover of our economy. As for our Foreign Policy initiatives, the President’s personal popularity continues to grow in leaps and bounds while our actual security and prestige in the world are severely compromised. And speaking of security, those charged with protecting the borders and homeland may have metaphorically crossed the border of sanity and reason with a seemingly outside chance of making their way back to reality anytime soon.

Week 13’s political bombshell, the release of W’s CIA’s enhanced Interrogation documentation and the President’s reversal regarding prosecuting former Bush administration staffers in an effort to embarass his predecessor, is a dangerous and grossly irresponsible action that unnecessarily places our country deeper in harms way. Calling this a dark chapter in our nation’s history the President conveniently forgets to mention that W’s tactics worked, the homeland has avoided a direct attack since 9/11 and that his democrat comrades in Congress on the Intelligence Committee were fully briefed on the subject and made no formal objections. If this group spent as much time attacking al Qaeda and bin Laden as they do W the war in Afghanistan would be won and OBL would be sharing a jail cell with Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Charlie Rangel and half of the President’s tax cheating cabinet.

Also on the political front was the appointment of Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks as an adviser to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michelle Fluornoy A former Special Counsel for George Soros's Open Society Institute in New York, she was also an advisor to Harold Koh, the hugely controversial nominee for Legal Adviser to the State Department. Brooks has publicly described W as our “Torturer in Chief” and compared his justification for the Iraq war to Hitler’s use of political propaganda.

Speaking of Harold Koh, as the chief legal adviser to American diplomats in the State Department, he would give powerful influence to foreign legal opinions, perhaps limiting American options in matters of national security. His support of various systems of international adjudication, including Islamic Shariah law, in his own opinion would limit our nation’s own sovereignty. Maybe the President figures he will fair better under Shariah law after we all wise up and finally get around to impeaching him for aiding and abetting the enemy for high crimes and misdemeanors like releasing classified CIA documents describing our country’s Top – Secret anti-terrorist interrogation techniques.

The President’s claim to having no knowledge of a quarter of a million of his fellow citizens protesting his policies at 100’s of Tea Parties held on Tax day from New York to California was an interesting political development. His surrogates accusing these patriots of being whining, racist, cry babies would have made a great story if anybody in the leftwing media elite would have bothered to investigate the truly grass root origins of this movement instead of making snide remarks and crude gay related jokes describing the whole affair.

The President presented another major diversion to his sky is falling, crisis driven fiscal policy, boldly challenging his cabinet to collectively find and cut $100 million dollars from his $4 trillion dollar budget. Relatively speaking, that is equivalent to a family of four with an income of $100 thousand dollars cutting less than a penny from their annual budget. Sure hope all those tax cheat financial wizards don’t have to sacrifice too much when making such deep cuts to their multi – billion dollar personal check books, I mean, agency operating budgets.

Our Commander in Chef also proudly adorned his “Pucker Up, Buttercup” lapel button again and played grab butt with his good friends and comrades, the pride of socialist/communist Nicaragua and Venezuela, Danny Ortega and Hue Chavez, at the Trinidad Conference last week. Mr. Obama’s blame America first, apologies, glad handing, sharing books with his socialist pals and words of appeasement were so well received his popularity soared among the delegates and he was elected Ms. Congeniality by all his fellow heads of state. A feat not accomplished by an American President since Jimmy “Peanut” Carter’s eked out a thin margin of victory over Fidel Castro back in 1978 at the same conference. Again, no pledges for additional troops in Afghanistan or real financial assistant to help the worldwide recession from our allies and friends but the President did score a lot of points for being just one hell of a nice guy.

The truly most bizarre event of the week was the proclamation from our Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, warning us about the propensity of Iraq vets towards domestic terrorism. Can you imagine the absolute media hysteria if W’s administration had made a similar claim? Let alone the reaction from dems in Congress, cries for impeachment and his head on a platter would have rained down from Capitol Hill. Considering several of Madame Secretary Napolitano previous comments including her reference to a terrorist attack on US soil as a manmade disaster and illegal aliens crossing our borders not being guilty of committing a crime she is certainly worthy of our full and undivided attention.

Is there a method behind all this madness? Damn straight there is, the diversion of an exaggerated financial crisis of alleged Great Depression proportions while a covert Marxist/Socialist takeover of our free market open society is perpetrated on we the people. But, if history is truly a credible predictor of future events and Dr. Einstein’s definition of insanity holds water, most of these boneheaded ideas and initiatives don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of succeeding in the land of the free and home, of the, brave….Roll Tide!!!

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God"

Ron W. Garikes

April 15, 2009

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Twelve – Water Dog

“I see you clinging to the cottonwood trunk You lose your grip, fall off and hit the ground, clunk Water dog, water dog The water got high and left you high and dry, water dog”

The Late, Great,” King of the Road”, Roger Miller

There is a widely held belief that dog owners often share physical and behavioral characteristics with their darlin little pooches. Many notable owner- pet relationships support this phenomenon, especially those among some of our most powerful political leaders. A few of the most high profile examples include:



Hillary and her two pet bulldogs, Monica and Slick Willie. Bulldogs, known for their tenacity, persistence, and loyalty, all traits Mrs. Clinton has stoically exemplified throughout her political career. Rumor also has it she frequently goes home and kicks hell out of them after a bad day at the office kissing up to foreign despots, rogue nuclear nations and dodging enemy sniper fire.

Our next example, Madame Speaker of the House, Nancy San Francisco Socialist Pelosi, and her pet poodle, Carl Marx. Poodles are widely reputed to be the most conniving, pretentious, manipulative, and untrustworthy breeds of the canine world, especially the bitch of the species. The physical resemblance is also truly uncanny.

The Vice President and his pet Weimaraner, Plagiarizer, share many similar traits. Well groomed but with a tendency to frequently yap and bark loudly for no apparent reason. The Weimaraner is also blessed with great dexterity and is often observed placing all four paws in its gapping jaws at the same time. A rare talent the VEEP also frequently displays.

Barney, Freddie in the Fannie Mac, Frank, our esteemed Chair of the House Finance Committee, shares extraordinary similarities with his little pug AIG. A gift from the recently bailed out addicted to huge bonus pay outs insurance conglomerate. Little AIG like most Pugs is loyal and lovable to family and friends but capable of truly mischievous and even devious behavior if not closely monitored. The breed also tends to bark/yap with a distinct lisp and blame all the other dogs for their misdeeds and bad behavior.

Billed by the main stream, pointy headed, left wing media elite as a major event for this White House, the First Family are now proud new owners of a Portuguese Water Dog puppy. Christened Bo, short for Bolshevik, the similarities between the new First Pooch and the President, especially if our previous examples are any indication, may just possibly reveal some closely held secrets about our fearless leader’s true personality and character.

Physically they have a lot in common both being lean, dark, handsome and athletic. Temperamentally, the Portuguese Water Dog is an animal of spirited disposition, self-willed, brave, and very resistant to fatigue. They also tend to be dogs of exceptional intelligence and a loyal companion. All certainly characteristics and attributes we would hope for and welcome in a President.

On the other hand, the Water Dog is often vicious and demonstrates a strong hankering for unsound and unsavory behavior. It tends to obey it’s owner with facility and apparent pleasure and is obedient with those who look after it. Attributes we have all witnessed the “Yes We Can Break Every Campaign Promise With Impunity as Our Comrades in the Left Wing Press Surely Won’t Hold Us Responsible” crowd arrogantly demonstrate on a regular basis.

And as for being obedient with those who look after him, the leader of the free world has already shown a great beholding to radical left wing ideologues, (George Soros, Jimmy “Peanut” Carter, Ted “The lady killer, literally” Kennedy and George Clooney) and fringe organizations including the likes of ACORN, Code Pink and NAG.

The Water Dog is also world renown for empty, long winded, meaningless and misleading barking; hanging with unsavory, communist leaning dogs of questionable character; a member of the blame America’s dogs first crowd; an appeaser and apologizer of unparalleled caliber; and a great admirer with a strong attraction to French Bulldogs and Mexican Chihuahuas; at least so I’ve been told.

Week Twelve of the “Change You Can Believe In Like Appointing Another Tax Cheat and Extremist Abortion Advocate for HHS Secretary” ended in a truly shocking but definitely encouraging fashion with the President actually showing a little backbone in resolving a relatively small but symbolically significant foreign affairs conflict. By authorizing lethal force to save Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama who had been held hostage by Somalian pirates after negotiating a trade of his incarceration for his crews’ release the President demonstrated the ability to act deliberately, decisively and with a measured response to a difficult situation.

Let’s hope this type of behavior is infectious and will be more frequently pursued when dealing with the so called moderate members of the Taliban, enemy combatants housed at Gitmo, criminal illegal aliens and in our ongoing Global War on Terror.

As for the President’s Overseas Contingency Operations, maybe the Commander in Chief himself along with his fellow West Wing and State Department Ivey league pacifist will take up arms and lead the charge since it really isn’t a shooting and killing war anymore since the president personally downgraded this conflict to a Contingency Operation. Sure hope they informed the Islamic Jihadist of this minor change in policy so they have a ample time to change their signs and propaganda slogans from “Kill the Running Dog, Infidel, Great Satin, American Imperialist Swine in their Global War on Terror to Overseas Contingency Operation”. Sure as hell probably won’t slow down their cowardly acts of terrorism but at least they might sound and look more PC when cutting innocent westerners’ and Europeans’ heads off on Al Jaheera TV.

Having not made a formal appearance on national TV in the last 24 hours, the president made yet another of what seems like 100’s of made for TV events on Tuesday hard selling we the people once again on his almost 4 trillion dollar socialist takeover of our free market, free enterprise economy. Spouting the same old blame W, extreme crisis sky is falling warning, playing the victim card, taking full credit for the few and far between economic glimmers of hope and proclaiming his false truth that our recovery is solely dependent and contingent upon the implementation of his visionary policies:

1. Dr. Obama’s, MD, nationalized, socialized, government controlled healthcare program
2. Great Environmental Scientist and Ghost author Obama of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” green energy policy and climate control Thought and Compliance Police Enforcement Initiatives
3. Professor Obama’s new age of enlightenment Education Plan using the progressive teaching principals and techniques created by Obama confidant and world famous educator, domestic terrorist and pipe bomber Bill Ayers

“I say one, two, three, six, seven, nineteen You beat any dad gum thing I ever seen Water dog, water dog The water got high and left you high and dry, water dog”

Roger Miller

Bolshevik the Portuguese Water Dog will hopefully bring great joy and blessings to the first family during their time in the White House (hopefully ending abruptly and in a landslide in 2012) and for many additional years as the Ex. President lives happily in exile in Cuba, Venezuela or possibly even the motherland, Communist Russia or Socialist France. In the mean time let’s hope he acquires Bo’s socially and political redeeming qualities and doesn’t leave We the People “…high and dry, water dog”

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

Ron W. Garikes

April 8, 2009

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Eleven – Obamaism

“Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people”.
Ferris Bueller, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”

Ever notice as Ferris, one of the most sage philosophers of the baby boom generation along with Jerry Jeff Walker, Buffett, Lyle Lovett and the gone but not forgotten Lewis Grizzard, so astutely points out in his words of wisdom quoted above almost all isms truly are not ideals folks with a lick of sense have any interest at all in supporting. With a few exceptions, most notably capitalism, conservatism and southernisms, most isms refer to oppressive and tyrannical forms of government and self centered and secular personal beliefs.

Unfortunately, again with the notable exceptions mentioned above, our new President and the “Yes We Can Not Only Triple the National Debt in Ten Years or Less and Also Dismantle Over 230 Years of Democratic and Republic Form of Government Before the Unwashed Masses Even Have a Hankering of What’s Really Going On” crowd at the White House have yet to meet an ism they haven’t welcomed with open arms and a big ole sloppy wet kiss. With a big warm embrace like the one our First Lady recently laid on the Queen, and the submissive bow our President greeted the King from Saudi Arabia with at last week’s G20 Summit, the gang from the West Wing are accepting policies with origins and values based on the dogma and doctrines of isms that litter the historical social and political landscapes of failed empires, civilizations and countries who have naively pursued the idea of an unattainable utopian society.

It’s interesting to note that most of the core ideals this country was founded on don’t fall under the umbrella of the ism genre. Freedom, liberty, and democracy being the most prominent examples. In stark contrast our new Socialist in Chief, Barak H. Obama, embodies the spirit and inherent fallacies of the ism philosophy.

In his first eleven weeks in office President Obama has embraced and advocated the benefits and advantages of socialism, communism and fascism. Behind the cloak of an alleged crisis (Sensationalism) the new administration has trumpeted our imminent economic ruin while at the same time proclaiming a strategy to never miss an opportunity to exploit a crisis (Crisisism) for political advantage.

Socialism, first introduced in a big way into American politics by the New Dealer hiself, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was implemented with similar stealth tactics used by Mr. Obama today. Blame your predecessor, Herbert Hoover in FDR’s case (W-ism in the vernacular of the current administration); greatly exaggerate the nature of the problem (Crisisism and Sensationalism); promote the idea of class warfare positioning yourself on the side of the poor and downtrodden taking on the great industrialist and financiers like Rockefeller and Mellon, in FDR’s case, and Mr. Obama’s current favorite targets, AIG execs, all corporate CEO’s, Wall Street, Small Business, and Mrs. Gaines 4th Grade Future Enterprisers Club (Progressivism); and finally, one of the most important tenants of Socialism, the redistribution of wealth aka (Legalized Theftism).

To date, President Obama has successfully socialized/nationalized (Nationalism) the banks and financial institutions, the U.S. Auto industry (Designating his own self as Mr. Goodwrench, guaranteeing warranties and offering a $19.95 Lube Job and Tune Up Special for all non English speaking criminal illegal aliens). His sights are now set on the world’s best healthcare and education systems and our domestic energy industry which are all prominent and high priority initiatives in the President’s communist manifesto, I mean, proposed budget “blueprint” currently in Conference Committee in Congress. Having already passed both houses on a straight party vote or by virtue of extreme (Partisanshipism), which so far has been a hallmark of “The Change You Can Believe In Like Using a Relatively Slim Margin of Victory as a Mandate to Force Momentous, Unprecedented, Cultural and Economic Socialist Initiatives” the White House’s legislative strategy.

Contrary to popular belief, historically, most major groundbreaking and world shaking legislation and new policy initiatives adopted in this country have enjoyed bipartisan support. Going back to the Continental Congress, passage of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights were all ultimately approved with a fairly impressive majority consensus.

More recently, even FDR’s New Deal legislation; Reagan’s defense spending and tax cuts; Bush 1’s authorization for Operation Desert Storm; Slick Willy’s Welfare Reform; and W’s permission to use force in Iraq and across the board tax cuts all passed with varying degrees of bipartisan support. In contrast, Mr. Obama’s Stimulus/Massive Socialist Spending Bill passed on a straight party line vote with the exception of three in name only GOP Senators, Specter, Snow and Collins, all inflicted with a bad case of extreme (boneheadedism).

The President’s proposed $3.5 trillion dollar plus stealth budget bill passed both houses without one GOP vote. This legislation will serve as the catalyst plunging our nation into the realm of Obamaism, a new form of governance and culture based on all the tyrannical and oppressive isms Mr. Obama so readily embraces, including socialism; communism; fascism; nationalism; collectivism; and for good measure a healthy dose of Secularism; Atheism; Plagiarism (frequently practiced by both the President and Veep); pessimism; sensationalism; and absurdism, an ism that certainly accurately describes our current predicament in Washington.

We the people and the so called free press should be sounding the alarms, shouting from the mountain tops and marching on DC in effort to stop the bloodless coup currently taking place in our nation’s capital.

The President proudly touted his new Obamaism based foreign and domestic policy initiatives during his European Apology and Appeasement Tour last week. With blame America first being one of the central tenants of Obamaism, standing on foreign soil while addressing a mostly French audience, the very man elected to lead and defend our great nation, blamed our past strained relations with his European Socialist comrades on the arrogance, dismissive and derisive behavior of his own country. Another thinly veiled jab at his predecessor, W, who he also blamed for America’s low standing in the world.

Wearing a “pucker up butter cup” lapel pin the President’s efforts to kiss up to his fellow G20 leaders failed miserably. His two primary objectives for the summit, secure promises of increased stimulus spending and a commitment of additional troops in Afghanistan, were both summarily rejected. Thankfully, even our socialist European allies seemingly maintain reservations about Obamaism doctrine. Although, it would be nice if they pulled their weight in the Global War on Terrorism. Maybe they are just opposed to committing troops to an Overseas Contingency Operation.

Finally, while doing a town hall in Turkey, presumably in an effort to appease their Muslim population, standing up on stage just as happy as if he had good sense, the President of the United States claimed our country was neither a Christian, Jewish or Muslim nation. This declaration, surly based on two of Obamaism’s core principles, Secularism and Atheisms, is another prime example of our fearless leader’s propensity towards revisionist history, another Obamaism core principal. He must of missed class the day, probably out smoking some weed or snorting a few lines again with his future weather underground pals, when they covered “In God We Trust”, “One Nation Under God”, and “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.

We can only hope Obamaism ends up in the trash heap of history alongside all the other failed political and cultural isms that advocated oppressive, tyrannical, and false utopian philosophies. On the other hand, as I’m sure Mr. Bueller would agree, there are a few isms truly worthy of our support and none are more deserving than Yogi-sms:

· " It ain't over 'til it's over "
· "Never answer an anonymous letter"
· " I usually take a two hour nap from one to four"
· " It's deja vu all over again"
· " When you come to a fork in the road....Take it”
· " I didn't really say everything I said "
· " You can observe a lot by watching "
· " The future ain't what it used to be "
· " It gets late early out here"

Now those are isms we all can believe in!

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

April 1, 2009

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Ten – Words Really Do Matter

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Rudyard Kipling

“Dear Mr. and Mrs. Bueller,

I regret to inform you that your son, Captain Ferris Bueller, was killed during a reconnaissance mission seeking out friendly members of the Taliban in our ongoing Overseas Contingency Operation in Afghanistan. Captain Bueller deserves our gratitude and….”

During the Democrat primary candidates Obama and Clinton vigorously argued about the importance of words accusing each other of constantly expressing shallow, meaningless rhetoric, empty promises and lofty platitudes. Clinton accused Obama of being an empty suit gifted with superb oratory skills but lacking any real substance, in other words a lot of chopping with no chips flying, while Obama pointed out Clinton’s wonkish, stale and shrieky style of speaking and propensity for taking liberties with the truth. Spinning a good yarn, telling tall tales and talking out of both sides of her mouth and such as she merrily dodged sniper fire during campaign stops across America.

Turns out both were right, as most if not all politicians will say almost anything and usually do, to get elected and Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton are no exception. In the final vote tally the words they chose as part of the banter of a heated campaign really didn’t matter as much as their personal charisma (Or lack thereof in Hillary’s case), perceived leadership capabilities, and likability.

In comparison, words spoken by the President of the United States most definitely matter. Presidential proclamations have global ripple effects and can immediately influence worldwide financial markets, international trade and in President Obama’s case, even the Sweet Sixteen and Final Four. Words that address the circumstances involving placing our men and woman of the armed services in harm’s way have special significance as the consequences of presidential oratory in this context has a powerful impact on life and death decisions, war and/or peace initiatives and our ultimate victory or defeat in military engagements.

Considering the power and influence of presidential rhetoric the Commander in Chief’s downgrading of the Global War on Terror to an Overseas Contingency Operation is truly inexplicable, especially in light of our great successes including, for all practical purposes, a victory in Iraq, significant setbacks in Al Qaeda’s global operations and reach and most importantly not one additional terrorist attack on the homeland since the tragedy of 9/11. Could be the Obama Administration’s schizophrenic paranoia about anything Bush, which is not only childish but dangerous, as their doesn’t seem to be any apparent political, strategic, or military justification to support this change in wording and in effect U.S. policy towards terrorism.

Overseas Contingency Operation. What do these new focus group tested and PR driven words carefully chosen by the spin doctors in the West Wing and their Madison Avenue buds really mean and what message do they hope to relay? Surely the genius wordsmiths at the White House could have come up with something more original and memorable. Maybe a sports metaphor in the tradition of the great Muhammad Ali fights, Thriller in Manila or Rumble in the Jungle, would surely better serve their purpose. How about the Massacre in Mosul, the Great Head Towel Flap, the Terrorist Turban Take Down Derby, Cleaning Out Omar’s Carpet and Sheet Head Shake Down as viable alternatives that could very possibly spice up the “Change We Can Believe In Although it’s Hard to Believe We Are Even Talking About This Absurd Idea” Administration's message trumpeting our full scale retreat in the Global War on Terrorism.

A closer examination of our new call to arms, the President’s Overseas Contingency Operation, reveals troubling and even dangerous implications if this silly and truly assinine policy is implemented. The words Overseas and Operation are at least seemingly self explanatory, no harm no foul here. They do raise the question, however, if we have another attack or incident on the US mainland will it be called a Domestic Contingency Operation? Or maybe just a Man Made Disaster as our new Director of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, recently described it during a Congressional Hearing when sharing her views about the potential of future domestic terrorist attacks.

Contingency seems to be the operative word in the President’s new “phrase” describing our War on Global Terrorism referring to an unforeseen event, emergency, incident or possible eventuality. With all due respect Mr. President, since the tragedy of 9/11 when radical Muslim terrorist extremists having declared a Jihad, Holy War, on the United States of America, turned commercial airplanes into ballistic missiles which ultimately resulted in the cold blooded murder of almost 3000 innocent fellow citizens, there has been absolutely nothing unforeseen, incidental or a considered possible eventuality about our Global War on Terrorism.

In fact, until the “Yes We Can Snatch Defeat Out of the Jaws of Victory in the Global War on Terrorism” gang started giving new orders our mission had been crystal clear - seek out and destroy insurgents and Al Qaeda in Iraq and contain and ultimately kill or capture OBL (kill, preferably) and his zealot head case Taliban followers in Afghanistan and Pakistan. With the exception of the recent resurgence of the Taliban after experiencing an almost insurmountable initial defeat inflicted by US forces right after 9/11, our War on Global Terror, which has cost dearly in blood and treasure, has sent a clear and unequivocal message to our enemies reinforcing our commitment to eradicate the scourge of cowardly Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth.


The Presidents new name for our country’s ongoing War on Terror, his Overseas Contingency Operation, also sends a clear message to our enemies as well to so called friends and allies. Sadly, a message of retreat, concession and surrender. Truly a sign of weakness and appeasement to our terrorist enemies which can only serve to encourage and embolden their sinister efforts against us. With the intent of serving as a good will gesture to our so called friends the French, Germans, Brits, the rest of the EU and assorted Arab allies and adversaries. With the exception of the Brits, none of the others can be counted on to cover our back in this or future conflicts, so what’s the point?

We can only hope the disgrace of this cowardly policy helps our new fearless leader maintain his high poll numbers with his adoring European communist and socialist supporters. As for the Russians and Chinese, to borrow a phrase from the Honorable Governor of California, Arnold, I reckon they are thinking that we are just acting like a bunch of "girly men".

The most tragic consequences of President Obama’s downgrading of the War on Terror to an Overseas Contingency Operation is the total disregard and disrespect this policy has for all of those that so proudly wear the uniform and who have suffered and sacrificed so much to protect our liberties and freedoms in this vicious war against Islamic Jihadist. To diminish our military’s hard earned victories and accomplishments to appease our enemy and the Commander in Chief’s leftwing socialist friends back home and abroad is unforgivable and unworthy of the office with which Mr. Obama has been entrusted. For those that have made the ultimate sacrifice or who have been physically and/or mentally scarred for life this politically expedient and callus policy change represents the ultimate insult and gesture of disrespect.

Unlike our Commander in Chief and his leftwing, socialist, pacifist, terrorist appeasing comrades, I for one believe words do matter and am proud to stand with a majority of we the people that are most appreciative and grateful for the service and sacrifice of the members of our Armed Services in our ongoing Global War on Terrorism and Islamic Jihadist Extremism.

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