Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Twenty-Two: Hurry Up and Wait

I'm in a hurry to get things done. Oh I rush and rush until life's no fun. All I really gotta do is live and die. But I'm in a hurry and don't why

Alabama - I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)

Barack Hussein Obama, our 44th President, is a man on a mission. He claims he has a mandate from “We the People” and aims to take full advantage of the situation. The Administration that has adopted the motto “Never Miss an Opportunity to Take Advantage of a Crisis” hasn’t missed an opportunity to create a crisis of biblical proportions and then ram their Socialist/Communist/Fascist solutions down the Country’s collective throat.

Seems our Commander-in-Chief has been in a mad dash for the finish line since day one. Thoughts of Obama from Bama has recently uncovered never seen before medical records which provide new insight and understanding of Mr.Obama’s early childhood, prepubescent and those most formative adolescent years that helped shaped the man we so admire and love today.

Although the exact location of his birth is in dispute, there is more and more evidence pointing away from his claim of Hawaii and more towards Moscow, Havana, or possibly Beijing. What is not in dispute, according to his recently discovered medical records, was his early arrival by 4 weeks on August 4, 1961 instead of early September as predicted by the OB/GYN Docs at Moscow General.

Maybe he just couldn’t wait to experience government controlled socialized medicine for the first time or was eager to feel the oppressive hand of Big Brother on his smooth little baby’s behind that compelled him to enter this brave new world back-asswards (Breach) and in one big hurry.

Perhaps this explains some aspects of the President’s personality and physical attributes. When confronted and threatened leftwing liberals do tend to show their ars first and frequently. As for any further damage the docs also put a vice grip with their forceps on his head thinking they had a hold of the other end. This may account for some of his more boneheaded ideas and the humongous ears that were violently tugged, twisted and turned during the delivery.

Young Barack continued to race through life becoming the youngest member in the history of the Hawaii Communist Youth League at age 6. He continued on the fast track smoking his first cigarette at 10; joint at 12; burning his first American flag in protest over some communist objections to US labor practices at 14; and back to smoking at 16 with his first hit of many to come of crack cocaine. (The latter of which might also help further explain his oh so many boneheaded ideas)

He then blew through undergraduate school at Columbia in New York City, with several notable long term absences rumored to have been alcohol and drug induced binges with fellow low lifes in New York’s militant leftwing underground. A quick stint at Harvard Law achieving prominence as the first black President of the Harvard Law Review. His meteoric political ascent was soon to follow.

Following a few years as a Community Organizer with the criminal and communist activist group ACORN, Mr. Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1997. He made an unsuccessful and what many considered a premature run for the US House of Representative in 2000. Then he was the unlikely victor in the 2004 US Senatorial race where many believed young State Senator Obama was too inexperienced and that he had not “paid his political dues” to the Chicago Democrat political machine. He somewhat unexpectedly threw his hat in the Presidential race in 2007 and as they say, the rest is his-tor-y.

“Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error” Moliere

Since taking the oath of office in January almost every one of the Administration’s major new policy initiatives have been described as urgent; crisis of unprecedented proportions; inherited from the evil W. Administration; with dire consequences if immediate, bold and audacious actions aren’t instigated – flood, famine, world ending, dogs and cats …. in the streets, all probable disastrous results if the enlightened one’s great and wise solutions aren’t implemented immediately.

In his first week of office the President signed an Executive Order declaring Gitmo would be closed in the next 12 months. 5 months later there are still hundreds of enemy terrorist combatants housed there and the Administration remains clueless. Effective leadership and governance is a lot more difficult it would seem than making empty campaign promises.

“Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure” Southern Proverb

Subsequently the President has sounded the alarm and declared a crisis/emergency status for most of the initiatives on his far over reaching and radically left leaning agenda. These alleged crises and emergencies include:

1. Withdrawing our troops from Iraq
2. Passage of Mr. Obama’s Trillion Dollar Stimulus Package
3. Energy Reform / Cap & Trade
4. Healthcare Reform
5. Confirmation of Supreme Court nominee - Sonia Sotomayor

A brief review of each of these initiatives is certainly warranted.

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty” Publius Cornelius Tacitus

1. Withdrawing our troops from Iraq – For no other reason than politically expediency, President Obama announced he would end combat operations in Iraq arbitrarily selecting Aug. 31, 2010, putting a halt to all U.S.-led counterinsurgency efforts. Without one mention of victory or winning, this rushed departure has been orchestrated for no other purpose than to appease his own anti-military, blame America first, pacifist beliefs and those of his bleeding heart, radical, leftwing comrades at home and in Paris, Caracas and Tehran.
2. Passage of Mr. Obama’s Trillion Dollar Stimulus Package – Remember the dire warnings from the bully pulpit about the urgency of the immediate passage of this legislation? Plague, petulance and famine if we failed to act with lightening speed. After Senate approval the President waited 3 days to sign the bill so it wouldn’t conflict with a long weekend with the fam.

5 months later less than 10% of the funds have been expended, all those shovel ready projects have mysteriously evaporated in thin air and we have 8.5% unemployment headed towards double digits like a runaway train. The only stimulative effect of this boneheaded bill is the outrage engendered from this massive $1Trillion government payback to the unions, ACORN and other loyal democrat support groups
3. Energy Reform / Cap & Trade – The President’s Energy policies that must be adopted now to save us all from cooking with Franklin Stoves and reading by candle light by year’s end are all included in the Markey-Henry “the Hobbit” Waxman Cap and Trade/Energy Tax Bill currently moving through Congress at warp speed. According to the Heritage Foundation this so called energy bill, which excludes any provisions for additional nuclear power, domestic drilling or clean coal development, will have a catastrophic economic impact over the next 20 years.

An example of social engineering at its self righteous best, or worst, depending on one’s perspective, our economy will experience a $9.6 trillion aggregate annual reduction in GDP. If that’s not enough mayhem and destruction, the bill will also destroy over 1 million American jobs per year and increase the average family’s annual energy bill by $1,500. A small price to pay to create Mr. Obama’s Green Utopian fantasy world.
4. Healthcare Reform – Now or never, do or die, the cornerstone of the President’s economic recovery plan. According to Mr. Obama if the Congress fails to pass his idea of Healthcare Reform legislation this summer, which basically would represent a government takeover of approximately 15% of our country’s GDP, we will surly experience economic Armageddon and a total financial meltdown.

Talk about a Chicken Little sky is falling strategy on an issue that truly deserves serious, fact based, considered deliberation. Maybe we should send our good President to Canada or England to attend Smoking Cessation classes so he can experience firsthand the mediocrity and frustration associated with government run healthcare.

5. Confirmation of Supreme Court nominee - Sonia Sotomayor – Elections have consequences and one of the most long lasting spoils of a presidential victory is the opportunity to shake up the makeup of the Supreme Court. President Obama’s nomination of a leftwing, liberal, socialist should come as no surprise. What is disconcerting is the lady judge has some extremely disturbing sexist and racist views and isn’t shy about applying these biases in her judicial decisions.

Our so called constitutional scholar of a President has declared that it is imperative to expedite the confirmation of Judge Sotomayor and his democrat comrades in the Senate are proceeding accordingly. Pushing for an abbreviated confirmation process under the false pretense of her need to be on the bench to review cases that will be heard at the court’s next session is a travesty of justice. One more example of a fabricated crisis to justify railroading another truly dangerous presidential mandate initiated by this Administration.

Good ideas, policy initiatives and people of character can stand the test of time. Those that require a false sense of urgency and artificial time constraints aren’t worthy of our consideration. Politicians that attempt to deceive us with such devious tactics, including our 44th President, should be run out of town on a rail (In jargon he can relate to) in a New York minute; post haste; without delay; with the utmost urgency; with extreme prejudice; and don’t let the door knob hit you in the ars on your way out.

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

Ron W. Garikes