Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Twenty-Seven: Pathological Narcissism

"Stupid is what stupid does"

Forest Gump; Forest Gump

Last Wednesday during our 44th President’s 4th primetime press conference in 6 months, a new record, Mr. Obama pulled a page right out of VP Biden’s playbook making one of the most absurd, or dare we say stupid, remarks of his presidency. After an evening of misleading and dishonest rhetoric in another attempt to sell the virtues of his Socialized Medicine debacle to “We the People”, the President called on old friend Lynn Sweet from the Chicago Sun-Times for the final question.

Following is a summary of their exchange:

Sweet: “Thank you, Mr. President. Recently, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Black Harvard Scholar and Professor) was arrested at his home in Cambridge. What does that incident say to you? And what does it say about race relations in America?” (According to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs the President was briefed and had prepared a response addressing this issue. This White House hasn’t been shy about planting questions with the star struck press corps and the President was waiting with baited breath to jump all over this, at least in his elitist, Harvard Law, ACLU way of reckoning, travesty of justice).

President Obama: “Well, I -- I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here.” (A “little biased” might just be the understatement of the year)

The President continued: “Now, I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say,” (If only he had stopped here when maybe not ahead but at least even the dreaded VP Biden “Foot in Mouth” malady might have been avoided).

The President followed up with: “number one, any of us would be pretty angry;” (Possibly, although a lot of folks would be grateful the Police showed up to stop a potential burglary in progress at their home greeting them with open arms instead of unfounded accusations of racial profiling and pathetic attempts of playing the victim card).

The President next proclaimed openly and without shame: “number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home;” (The President stepped knee deep in “number two” with this boneheaded remark. Having already acknowledged bias, no firsthand knowledge and a partial review of the facts it is extremely disconcerting when our Nation’s Chief Law Enforcement Officer impugns the entire Cambridge Police Department and the arresting officer, Sgt. James Crowley. A 20 year decorated veteran of the force Sgt. Crowley not only deserves but has earned the benefit of the doubt. The fact this was a deliberate, considered and prepared response to a planted question is even more disturbing).

President Obama concluded by saying: “and, number three, what I think we know, separate and apart from this incident, is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. And that’s just a fact.” (Agreed, but who gives a happy by damn as it has absolutely nothing to do with this particular case. The arresting officers who were responding to a 911 call weren’t aware of the ethnicity of the potential burglars. According to the officers on the scene, including one Black and Latino, Sgt. Crowley’s conduct was appropriate and Professor Gate’s arrest for Disorderly Conduct was warranted and necessitated because of his out of control belligerent and abusive behavior).

For some reason the President’s attitude and comments about this incident really hit a nerve in this country. His thinly veiled accusations of racism towards Sgt. Crowley, the Cambridge Police Department and our law enforcement community in general has been about as well received as the proverbial “Turd in the Punchbowl”. The folks, Talk Radio, and even some of the pinheaded leftwing media elite raised enough of a ruckus to compel the anointed one to respond to this unprecedented widespread criticism.

Making a rare Presidential appearance at the White House daily press briefing two days later Mr. Obama had this to say: “I want to make clear that in my choice of words I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sergeant Crowley specifically -- and I could have calibrated those words differently. And I told this to Sergeant Crowley.”

For a man who can’t seem to wait to bend over and grab his ankles and repeat thank you sir may I have another as apologies for America with the greatest of ease just roll off his tongue as soon as his feet hit foreign soil. You’d think an apology for false accusations of racism wouldn’t be problem. Unfortunately, the words or phrases I apologize; so sorry; please forgive me; I beg your forgiveness; pardon me; won’t happen again; Excuuuuse me for acting a fool; are all conspicuously missing from the President’s statement.

In fact, some of the words and phrasing are vintage Clintonian obfuscation. (“Depends on what the definition of is, is”) Take the phrase “I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning” in an effort to clarify his earlier statement “the Cambridge police acted stupidly” for example. There’s nothing unambiguous or in need of clarification about the phrase The President’s obvious intent was to leave the impression the officers acted in a dim; thick; dense; slow; dull; brainless; dim-witted; or stupid manner.

As for “I could have calibrated those words differently” does anyone besides an Ivy League Law School grad actually use the word “calibrated” when describing their method of choosing words? According to the dictionary “calibrated” refers to different forms of measurement. Word selection, editing or revising text or copy and I meant to say I’m sorry or I apologize for accusing you of being a racist didn’t make it in Webster’s latest edition.

The bigger issue, the real question here, why is the leader of the free world who’s busier than a one legged man at an arse kicking contest managing Wall Street; designing and test driving cars in Detroit; counting all of the First Pooch’s Bolshevik daily carbon emissions having lost a wager to Al Gore; spending trillions of tax payers money; Socializing Medicine; Masterminding Overseas Contingency Operations; and building a Federal Commune in every State in the union intentionally jumping feet first smack dab in the middle of this one day, 24 hour news cycle, local event?

Simply stated, bless his heart, he just can’t help himself. Our president, according to many psychologist and behavioral scientists, may be suffering from a rare but potentially extremely dangerous physiological condition, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Those so inflicted, including our fearless leader, are physiologically compelled to impose their will as the final authority on any issue that strikes their fancy. Well beyond just being self confident, self centered, or an ego maniac, maladies affecting almost every politician, NPD, also known as Pathological Narcissism, is not just a character flaw but a mental health issue.

Young Barack Obama displayed symptoms of NPD early in his meteoric career. His election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract to write a book about race relations. In the end it evolved into his own autobiography. Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Mr. Obama could not resist writing about his favorite subject, Barack Husain Obama. He titled the book Dreams from My Father. Not surprisingly, one of President Obama’s political heroes, Comrade Stalin, also wrote his own autobiography when he was still an obscure nobody.

Pathological Narcissists are also often callous and ruthless. Other consistent traits include the lack any personal remorse or conscience. This is evident from President Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only $1 dollar per month in Kenya. His willingness to throw his pastor and spiritual mentor of 20 years, the famous “Hate America First” and racist Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Governor Blago and his own grandmother under the political bus to advance his own selfish interest are further examples/symptoms of his NPD.

Mental Health experts suggest many influential historical and current world leaders and cult figures are inflicted with the Pathological Narcissism. Some of these enlightened thinkers and humanitarians include David Koresh, Jim Jones, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao, Kim Jong Ill and the current occupant of the Oval Office, Barack Husain Obama. Not exactly the company most folks want to be associated with but really not much worse than the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Barney Frank, Barbara Boxer, Charlie Rangle, Chucky Schumer and Ted “The Lady Killer” Kennedy.

President Obama owes Sgt. Crowley, the Cambridge Police Department and the entire Law Enforcement community an apology. Suffering from Pathological Narcissism a personal apology for this latest presidential transgression, false accusations of acting stupidly, systemic and individual racism, is highly unlikely to ever roll of the tongue of our Narcissist-in-Chief.

If "Stupid is what stupid does" it’s probably reasonable to presume Pathological Narcissism is what Pathological Narcissism does. Let’s hope President Obama’s new Socialist Healthcare System finds a cure for this freedom and liberty threatening mental condition.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Twenty-six: “So Many Socialist Opportunities… So Little Time”

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money”. Margaret Thatcher

Week 26 marks the half way point of year one of the “Yes We Can Transform the World’s Greatest Democracy Into a Third World Socialist Nanny State” and “Change We Can Believe In Like Unprecedented Spending; Runaway Deficits; A Cabinet Chock Full of Tax Cheats and Pathological Liars; Blame America First Foreign Policy; and Con Artist Extraordinaire” Obama Administration.

It would seem we have a narcissistic egomaniac in the Oval Office hell bent on leading us down a radically liberal extremist path to financial ruin, compromised national security and international ridicule. They are possibly the most arrogant and dangerous group ever to occupy the White House.

Our 44th President, Barack Hussein Obama, over the course of six short months, has amassed a leftist/Socialist record to make the likes of FDR, Castro, Stalin, Hugo Chavez and Karl Marx proud. In stark contrast to the moderate, center/left, pragmatic, epitome of bipartisanship, candidate Obama, the man we elected to office last November has revealed himself to be a French loving, tree hugging, so called citizen of the world.

At a time when the country is in dire need of wise, courageous leadership we got us a genuine celebrity with absolutely zero command or management experience. A man who loves nothing more than to hear his own inspirational (empty) soaring rhetoric and see his smiling face and floppy ears on national TV. Bless his heart, the concept of overexposure or wearing out his welcome has never crossed that over educated, over exposed to illegal drugs (This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs…) community organizing mind.

Following is a summary of the highlights, however few and far between, and lowlights, more abundant than white on rice, of the first 26 weeks of the Obama Presidential train wreck:

1. “The Company We Keep”

Mr. Obama has continued a pattern of behavior he started in high school of hanging with a Circle of Friends (CoF) made up of druggies, criminals, fanatics and low life’s of every variety. After the haze of his bong hitting, cocaine snorting, crack head formative high school and mind bending college years the aspiring young politician and ACORN Community Organizer Obama established an entirely new CoF in Chicago.

This group of model citizens included his spiritual mentor the America hating bigot Reverend Jeremiah Wright; convicted felon Tony Rezko; X Governor Mr. Wild Head of Hair Blogo; and his neighbor, fellow board member, fundraiser, domestic terrorist and political soul mate, Bill Ayers.
The President’s dismal judge of character and/or propensity to associate with thieves and scoundrels is still evident today in his selection of Cabinet Secretaries, staff, Czars and other appointments. Most notable examples, or probably more appropriate most notorious, include:

· Vice President Joe Biden – Confirmed plagiarist and inflicted with a severe case of Foot in Mouth Repeatus. A chronic condition with no known cure but treatable by keeping the subject a safe distance from reporters, microphones and cameras or applying a snug muzzle around the mouth
· Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – Pathological liar, Matron Saint of Victimization, keeper of the 1970’s polyester traveling pants suit, dead beat who still owes over $20 million in campaign debts with no immediate intentions of meeting her financial obligations
· Attorney General Eric Holder – Pardoner of tax cheats, Mark Rich, and terrorist while working at the DOJ in the Clinton Administration. Now that he is the AG spends most of his time investigating and threatening W Administration staffers who kept us all safe for 7 years following 9/11. Frantically wasting the rest of his time trying to execute his bosses boneheaded order to shut down Gitmo no later than January 2010
· Secretary of Treasury Timothy Turbo Tax Cheat Geithner – Tax cheat, abysmal economic forecaster, and as skittish as a deer caught in the headlights when testifying on Capitol Hill. Considering the current state of the economy his skittishness and aversion to lawmakers certainly seems warranted
· First Nominee for Health Czar and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Daschle – Such a blatant and big time tax cheat had to withdrawal his name from contention. Considering the company he’d be keeping, that’s quite a dubious honor. Replaced by Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius who other than her extreme pro-abortion views doesn’t seem to have acquired a criminal record yet. Not to worry though, it’s still early, she’s relatively young, and as bright as she is her colleagues in the Administration will have her cheating on her taxes, hiring illegal criminal immigrants and committing perjury when testifying to congress in no time
· The Climate Czar, Carol Browner - Ms. Browner is an out of the closet unabashed Socialist with an office in the West Wing and on the US Government payroll. A long time member of Socialist International, a radically leftist bunch of Eco - Nazis that call for the implementation of a global government. Socialist-West Wing Office-Government Payroll … Truly Remarkable.
· Chief White House Performance Officer, Nancy Killefer – Another tax cheat. As Chief Performance Officer will help the rest of the Administration improve their performance as tax cheats, terrorist sympathizers, con artist and employers of criminal illegal alien immigrants
· Final Tally – 21 confirmed tax cheats; 2 confirmed Communists, 7 suspected Communist sympathizers; 6 confirmed Socialists, 18 suspected Socialist sympathizers; 12 terrorist sympathizers; 4 convicted felons; 22 employers of criminal illegal aliens; 1 convicted shoplifter; 8 convicted jaywalkers; 2 peeping Toms; and 1 egomaniac guilty of unprecedented arrogance, fear mongering, generational theft and the illegal use of tobacco products on Federal property. (Sneaking that daily smoke in the Rose Garden while taking the First Pooch Bolshevik for a walk)
2. TARP
The $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program initiated by the W Administration has distributed $441 billion and for the most part achieved one critical objective, the stabilization of the banking/financial industry. That being said, the CBO is now projecting the program will result in a $356 billion loss to the tax payers. At least a number of institutions are repaying the loans with interest after enduring several months of heavy handed federal government management from the financial wizards at the White House and Congressional banking experts Barney “Freddie in the Fannie Mack” Frank, Sweetheart VIP Mortgage Boy Christopher Dodd and tax cheat Charlie Rangle.
3. Stimulus Package
The first real full court press executed by the Obama Administration to shove a big government massive spending bill down our throats. Touted as a crisis of biblical proportions the legislation was railroaded through Congress, signed by the President with the promise it would save and create millions of jobs and keep unemployment under 8%. 5 months later we have lost over 2 million additional jobs, unemployment has reached 9.5% and is heading north of 10% as we speak and all those shovel ready projects have vanished like a fart in the wind.
4. Auto Industry Bailout Congratulations! We the People along with the United Auto Workers Union are the proud new owners of two bankrupt car companies. Proceeding under the management of the same Federal Government that runs the Postal Service, IRS and Amtrak, we are about to produce a bunch of new green cars with low emissions and high mpg that the American consumer has no interest what so ever in buying. Call us crazy but we just don’t really care for overpriced, poorly made, butt ugly cars.

Thoughts of Obama from Bama recently had a conversation with a senior auto executive from Chrysler that pretty much sums up our snowball’s chance in hell of seeing any return on this boneheaded investment.

"There was a team of Obama people speaking to Mr. Cole (Engineer, automotive experience 40+ years, Chairman of CAR). They were explaining to Mr. Cole that the auto companies needed to make some website changes about their new green cars. Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a trunk FULL of batteries and a LNG tank as big as a car to make that happen and that there were problems related to the laws of physics that prevented them from...The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here), "These laws of physics? Whose rules are those? We need to change it up. We have the congress and the administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an executive order to get rid of the problem. That's why we are here, to fix these sorts of issues".

5. Budgets, Deficits and Spending - Oh my! After promising to veto any budget with pork laden earmarks our new Mr. Transparency Chief Executive signed a FY 2009 appropriations bill with over 8,000 earmarks in the dark of night, no fanfare, no cameras and no soaring rhetoric. Broken promises and transparency we can believe in. Additional milestones and broken records include $4 trillion of spending in a single fiscal year, 2009, doubling the deficit during his first year office and the national debt over the next 10 years.
6. Cap & Trade/Tax Possibly the most intrusive legislation ever passed by the Federal Government. Primarily a National Energy Tax, in the form of a “cap-and-trade” program, which mandates reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Ironically, days before last November’s election, then-candidate Barack Obama admitted that “under [his] plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” It won’t just be electricity. Energy costs are embedded in the price of everything we buy. If passed by the Senate this energy tax will cost the average household over $3,000 per year. Uncle Sammy will also dictate the type, amount and times we can use energy.

This bill is the perfect example of Ronald Regan’s famous quote - 'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.'
7. War on Terror What war on terror, our Commander-in-Chief canceled it. The word has come down from on high that henceforth we are engaged in an Overseas Contingency Operation and domestically manmade disasters. If only we had known that a simple name change would compel all those wild eyed terrorist to lay down their swords, call off the Jihad and head back to the goat farm W or even Slick Willie could have nipped this one in the bud years ago
8. Foreign Affairs This one is a no brainer – Blame America First, Apology and Appeasement. Rumor has it Secretary of State Clinton has had this motto stamped on the seat of her britches on all of the 365 pants suits hanging in her closet. This “Peanut” approach to foreign policy, trotting around the globe, bending over and grabbing his ankles and repeating thank you sir may I have another will more than likely achieve the same disastrous results President Carter accomplished in the 1970’s

In a previous article we talked about the simple truth in the old saying " Plant a Tater – Get a Tater” or as related to Mr. Obama elect a Socialist you get a Socialist. No doubt about it we got one big arse Socialist tater currently occupying the Oval Office.

Bad news, we still have 182 weeks remaining before this nightmare of a Presidency is over. The good news, more and more right minded Independents and conservative Democrats are not buying the truckload of fertilizer this Administration has been spreading. Let’s hope this most encouraging trend continues.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Twenty-Five: “I Have a Dream…”

“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:”

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

“I Have a Dream” Speech, Martin Luther King

"I would hope that a wise white man with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a black man who has not lived that life"

Fictitious Billy Bob Catfish Wrangling Racist

Imagine the firestorm, the absolute pandemonium, if W nominee Chief Justice John Roberts had repeatedly made the above statement prior to his Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Hardball’s anchor, Chris Mathews, head would have exploded on live TV; the NAACP, ACLU, ACORN and Congressional Black Caucus would all be demanding Judge Robert’s head on a platter; the leftwing media elite would insist on his removal from the bench and immediate arrest; and Reverends Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson would both have public conniption fits, take to the mountain tops screaming “Keep Hope Alive, Keep Hope Alive”, with calls to string the bigot up by his racist, biased toes. (Or family jewels in Jessie’s case)

Now imagine Justice Roberts, Alito or any white male in a public or private position of authority expressing the following viewpoint:

"I would hope that a wise white man with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latino female who has not lived that life" Fictitious No Count White Trash Racist / Sexist

Hell hath no fury, Whoa Nelly, Katie bar the door, every feminist, Latino, Hispanic and minority advocacy group in the country would be raising the roof to have the racist /sexist bigot sanctioned, silenced and publically humiliated. Gloria Steinman; “Hanoi” Jane Fonda; Babs “the Nose” Streisand; Suzanne Sarandon; NOW; NAG; (National Association of Gals) the Congressional Democratic Caucus; and Geraldo Rivera would all be burning bras in the streets, grasping hands while singing “We Shall Overcome” and demanding justice.

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Thoughts of Obama from Bama seldom falls on the same fighting side of the mostly leftwing, bleeding heart, liberal head cases mentioned above. However, in response to such blatantly racist and sexist comments we would proudly stand, shoulder to shoulder, with NOW, the NAACP and even ole Babs in opposition to such rampant bigotry.

On Monday of week 25 of the Obama Administration confirmation hearings for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, kicked off on Capitol Hill. In Judge Sotomayer’s case, we don’t have to imagine, she actually made the following statement:

"I would hope that a wise Latino woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who has not lived that life” Judge Sonia Sotomayor

Not once or twice but at least seven times that we know of the good judge has expressed these racist and sexist views, openly and without shame, in various public forums over the time span of several years. The silence from the aforementioned champions of civil rights and feminism is deafening and their enthusiastic support for this nominee, the epitome of hypocrisy.
In addition to her now infamous “Rich Latino Woman” comment Judge Sotomayor has also been caught on the record making several other boneheaded, self incriminating statements that reveal her obvious deep seated sexist and racist beliefs:

“I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that."

"Whether born from experience or inherent psychological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."

With no basis in the Constitution or historical precedent President Obama took it upon himself to establish empathy as a new and important criteria for selecting Supreme Court Justices. Empathy, the understanding or identification with someone else’s feelings or situation, is an irrational human emotion that directly conflicts with the Justices Oath of Office which states:

"I, state your name.” “I, state your name,” do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [TITLE] under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God." “With liberty and Fraternity for all, Amen!”

When a so called constitutional scholar, Harvard Law grad and alleged brilliant legal mind like President Obama chooses to disregard over 200 years of precedent, the constitution and good old fashion common sense when selecting a new Justice somebody best sound the alarm. Following a consistent pattern of deceit, divert and obfuscation, when this White House claims to want a Justice who has empathy and a heart it’s probably nothing more than code words or euphemisms masking their actual intent.

Considering President Obama’s voting record, stated positions and opinions combined with his leftwing extremist legal associations, including the likes of ACORN and the ACLU, when he says empathy, he really means a judicial activist that legislates from the bench. Judge Sotomayer certainly meets these criteria and also brings a healthy dose of Affirmative Action; Quota Queen; bigotry; racism; sexism; and victimhood to the table as well. The broken leg, cast and cane are a great finishing touch.

In addition to Judge Sotomayer’s bigotry and judicial activism she has also maintained close ties with radically leftwing legal advocacy groups including the National Council of La Raza, one of the most radical activist groups in the country pushing for legalization and citizenship for criminal illegal immigrants. Another troubling affiliation is her association with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which she served as a board member, including Chairmanship, from 1980-1992.

The Washington Times reported PRLDEF filed many “friend of the court” briefs in abortion cases. In one writing that it “opposes any efforts to overturn or in any way restrict the rights recognized in Roe v. Wade”. This organization is known as the Latino/Hispanic ACLU. Under Judge Sotomayer’s leadership they aggressively perused a radical liberal agenda advocating unfettered abortion rights, a y’all just swim right on over we got you covered criminal immigration policy and advocated a screw everyone else Latinos come first Affirmative Action strategy.

Unfortunately, Judge Sotomayer’s racist/sexist views; promotion and practice of judicial activism; and affiliations with radical leftwing organizations aren’t even her most troubling characteristics. Her veracity, the ease in which she departs from the truth, to put it bluntly, her ability to lie like a cheap rug, in the humble opinion of Thoughts of Obama from Bama, is her most troubling character flaw.

During the first two days of Judge Sotomayer’s confirmation hearing her answers to the Senate Judicial Committee have been so far right / conservative and reflective of the philosophy of strict constitutional constructionist she sounds more like Sarah Palin or Justice Scalia than the bleeding heart, misguided, over educated, leftwing judicial extremist that lurks under that black robe.

Another recent example of the Lady Judge’s propensity to spin a yarn occurred during her interview with GOP Senator Jim DeMint from S.C. When asked by DeMint about a specific point of law regarding abortion Sotomayor replied that she had never thought about whether an unborn child has constitutional rights. How is that possible for a judge who has been on the bench for 17 years? And how can that be reconciled with the pro-abortion actions of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Ain’t no never mind about it, wherever you come down on the issue, it’s abundantly clear her answer is completely void of any credibility and patently absurd. Possibly another pathological liar (Another soul mate of Hilary’s) if she cheats on her taxes too Judge Sotomayer will fit in like a duck to water with her new friends over in the West Wing.

In his inspirational “I Have a Dream” address Dr. King encouraged all of us to judge folks not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Our current President, Barack Hussein Obama, is probably the greatest beneficiary of this color blind philosophy in the history of the Union.

His nomination of Judge Sotomayer, based essentially not on merit but the color of her skin and ethnicity, is extremely disconcerting. Considering his accession to power was only possible because of the willingness of millions of American to embrace Dr. King’s call for character over color, President Obama knowingly and deliberately appointing a Justice with racist and sexist views is shameful as well as unforgivable.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Twenty-Four: Back in the USSR!

Oh, come on, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boys Back in the USSR
The Beatles

Our 44th President made a pilgrimage home this week to his beloved Moscow. Maybe not to his literal birthplace (But still a viable possibility since he has yet to produce a valid Birth Certificate) but certainly his sentimental and philosophical homeland. In a state of wide eyed awe, so much so it even diverted attention from his legendary ears, President Obama reveled about just as happy as if he had good sense in the Mecca of worldwide communism.

In the land of his childhood heroes and political soul mates and idols, including the likes of such humanitarians Lenin; Stalin; Khrushchev; and Brezhnev, President Obama continued his global Blame America First, appeasement and apology foreign policy tour. Following the lead of his foreign policy mentor, Jimmy “Peanut” Carter, the most powerful man in the free world folded like a cheap lawn chair when meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Continuing a pattern of truly troubling behavior seen far too often during this President’s short time in office, Mr. Obama failed once again to defend America’s honor and promote our values while conducting his pacifist style of diplomacy with his Russian comrades. Bowing to Saudi Royalty; grinning like a possum while accepting an anti-American book/propaganda from Venezuela’s fascist leader Chavez; at the same Summit of the America’s sitting quietly and dutifully through an hour long hate America diatribe by Nicaraguan leftist, socialist dictator Daniel Ortega; waiting ten days before forcefully speaking out in support of the protesters and condemning the fanatic Islamic Iranian government who were murdering their own innocent citizens in the streets of Tehran; and his most recent act of “Peanut” style diplomacy giving away the proverbial farm and allowing the Russian Head of State to take the Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America to task for over an hour with his warped views of the Cold War and continued Soviet world dominance.

Hell bent on reaching at least one substantive agreement with his Ruskie counterparts our fearless leader repeated thank you sir may I have another as he bent over and grabbed his ankles while agreeing to Russian proposals diametrically opposed to American interest. Touting a nuclear arms reduction agreement as a major breakthrough a closer look reveals just how badly Mr. Obama got snookered by his newest and bestest friend Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

Mr. Harvard Law superior intellect hisself agreed to the following:

1. Reduction of nuclear warhead arsenals by approximately half leaving 1,500 – 1,800 weapons. The barb here is even by reducing to 100 warheads both sides still have the capability to destroy the planet ten times over. Once both countries exceed the point of diminishing returns arbitrary reductions are meaningless.
2. The US currently holds a 2 to 3 - 1 advantage in nuclear delivery systems – missiles, aircraft, subs, etc. The new agreement calls for parity which President Obama agreed to without any concessions from his good friend President Dmitry. A loss of a significant strategic advantage probably motivated by a backhanded excuse to further decimate our US Defense budget.
3. Opened door to the possibility of reducing our missile defense capabilities reversing the position of the last four Administrations. Any movement in this direction would seemingly greatly compromise our national security interest. It is hard to imagine any Russian concession that would justify this dangerous and irresponsible change in policy.
4. The President’s Russian comrades refused to budge on their continued support of Iran’s nuclear program.
5. A Russian halt to further interference with developing democracies in Eastern Europe was met with a chorus of Nyet! Nyet! Nyet!
6. After hours of grueling hardnosed negotiations our great orator and master of Rhetoric-in-Chief extracted an agreement allowing our military to use Russian air space to access Afghanistan. Touting the $120 million in savings that would be realized the prevailing pacifist mindset of this Administration was apparent with their failure to emphasize the tactical military advantage gained.
7. The Ruskies also agreed to lift an embargo on US beef. Too bad the President’s Energy Reform / Cap & Tax bill will bankrupt the US beef industry before they can take advantage of this opportunity.
8. As a token of their gratitude, appreciation and esteem (essentially their break out the vodka and caviar state of euphoria) over President Obama’s caving in on a every issue they presented him with an autographed original manuscript of Marx’s “Communist Manifesto”, a first edition of Stalin’s “One Minute Communist / Dictator Manager“and a signed copy of Khrushchev’s “Who Stole My Bolshevik Cheese”. The President was said to be so overwhelmed with joy he broke into a frantic Cossack dance that would put the King of Pop, Michael “The Gloved One” Jackson, to shame.

Day two of this diplomatic train wreck found our good President voluntarily taking a stroll to the woodshed to endure an hour long tongue lashing from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In response to the PM’s ranting and ravings about Russia’s actual victory in the Cold War and current unchallenged superpower status President Obama remarked, “You are so right Vlady”, “Couldn’t agree with you more Vlady”, “Of course, whatever you say Vlady”.

Former KGB official and current Prime Minister Putin spent the rest of his session with Mr. Obama providing his young protégé with advice on successfully completing the government takeover of the US financial, energy, auto, and healthcare industries. They agreed to discuss agriculture, manufacturing, tobacco and the entertainment industries at their next get together. President Obama having a soft spot in his heart for tobacco products and Putin’s obsession with the band ABBA (Strange but true) driving this decision.

With a sack full of Commie mementos, pats on the back and a big ata boy from comrades Putin and Medvedev President Obama is off to a G8 Summit in Italy for some more “Peanut” diplomacy. The perfect way to top off a week after visiting the Motherland and conversing with his comrades and political soul mates “Back in the USSR”.

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

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Twenty-Three: Broken Arms, Broken Legs & Broken Promises

We come on the Sloop John B. My grandfather and me

Around Nassau Town we did roam. Drinking all night, got into a fight.

Well, I feel so broke up, I want to go home

The Beach Boys

Thoughts of Obama from Bama would typically avoid promoting wild eyed, paranoid, Oliver Stonian like conspiracy theories but recent events involving Secretary of State Clinton and Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor demand further scrutiny and investigation of the subject. Is it just coincidental that both ladies have recently been victims of freak accidents causing great physical harm , Clinton’s broken arm and Sotomayer’s leg, while embroiled in momentous political battles on behalf of our 44th President or is something much more nefarious afoot in our nation’s capital?

Madame Secretary Hillary “Rambo Dodging Sniper Fire” Clinton is certainly no stranger to conspiracy theories. During her hubby’s tumultuous Presidency First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton indignantly blamed all of the First Couple’s personal, legal and political problems on a mystical vast rightwing conspiracy.

False accusations about infidelity, perjury and financial malfeasance by this vast rightwing conspiracy, which actually all turned out to be true, along with President Clinton’s ultimate public acknowledgment of frequent extracurricular dalliances, elevated the First Lady’s status from a sneaky, conniving, pathological liar to America’s number one victim. A designation she artfully parlayed into a New York Senate seat, one time front runner for the Democrat presidential nomination and Secretary of State.

Is the Secretary of State’s alleged injury, a broken elbow after slipping while walking to her car in the (restricted, no press, no public access) basement of the State Department, a random accident or part of President Obama’s master strategy, or dare we say conspiracy, to deceive and confuse the American people? Is the Administration exploiting Ms. Clinton’s vaulted victim status to gain support and sympathy for their “Blame America First”, apology, and appeasement foreign policy initiatives? Is all this a diversion to cover up Mr. Obama’s weak and even cowardly position towards North Korea and Iran?

Our Commander-in-Chief’s neutrality in word and deed during the first ten days of brave young Iranians swarming the streets of Tehran to protest an obviously seriously flawed election was truly appalling. Not immediately rescinding an open invitation to Iranian diplomats worldwide to 4th of July hotdog cookouts, the first diplomatic overture by the US to Iran in 30 years, at all US Embassies abroad while innocent protesters were slaughtered right before our eyes on national TV was equally disconcerting.

His damn the torpedoes, come hell or high water attitude of leaving the door open to direct discussions with the criminal Iranian Government is dangerous, embarrassing and reminiscent of pacifist head case Jimmy “Peanut” Carter’s failed foreign policy. Ms. Clinton could show up in a full body cast painted florescent pink and claim she was hit by a train hauling purple unicorns and still not detract attention from the President’s disgraceful failure to support freedom and combat tyranny, despotism, and religious fanaticism as so ruthlessly demonstrated by his Muslim brothers in Iran.

President Obama’s recent designation of Sonia Sotomayer as his Supreme Court Justice nominee is the second element of our conspiracy theory. As expected, Judge Sotomayer has an impeccable liberal, leftwing, ACLU loving, radical, extremist pedigree and credentials. What wasn’t expected, or most likely not intended for public consumption, was the good Judge’s racist and sexist beliefs which she proudly, openly and without shame admits influence her judicial deliberations.

Further investigations also revealed Judge Sotomayer as the poster child for Affirmative Action. Her admittance to both Princeton for undergraduate and Yale Law School were based as much on quotas and ethnic diversity goals as merit. This might help explain her dismal record with the Supreme Court who has overturned her rulings on 4 out 5 cases brought before the highest Court in the land for consideration.

Right smack dab In the middle of the media firestorm created by all this controversy guess who limps up with a broken leg, Judge Sonia, Affirmative Action Queen, Sotomayor herself. Claiming to have tripped while rushing to catch a plane at one of the busiest airports in the world, LaGuardia in New York, not one member of the press or an innocent bystander with a cell phone or disposable camera captured this “Freak Accident” for posterity. With a brand new makeover and cast the judge made the rounds on Capitol Hill later that same day with a new aura of victimization and sympathy unattainable before her alleged nasty spill at the airport.

Another random accident or a carefully planned and thoroughly considered tactic of President Obama’s conspiracy to hoodwink “We the People”? In the words of Fox News – “We Report, You Decide”

Further confirmation or the ultimate demise of our conspiracy theory will probably occur during consideration of the Energy Reform/Climate Control/Cap & Tax (Trade) and Healthcare Reform Bills currently being deliberated in Congress. To fund these absolutely unprecedented massive new government programs the President seems to be more than willing to break his most frequently proclaimed and passionately expressed campaign promise not to raise taxes by one single dime on the middle class or on anyone making under $250 thousand a year.

Obviously Socialized government controlled healthcare and a nationalized energy industry takes precedent over truth, integrity and maintaining the trust with the folks that pay for his kids swing set, date nights with the wife, golf every weekend and the smokes he sneaks everyday out in the Rose Garden.

Cap & Tax (Trade), the Presidents so called Energy Reform Bill, passed by a narrow 7 vote margin in the House of Representatives last week. If approved by the Senate, this bill will be the largest tax increase ever imposed on the free people of this great nation. It will also impose an unprecedented level of government control, rules, and regulations affecting our daily lives in ways that will surely have our founders spinning in their graves.

What, how much and where we drive will all be regulated. The thermostat in our homes, amount of hot water we shower with and building materials used to build and repair our homes will be dictated by Uncle Sammy. Every carbon emitted by us, our families, our possessions, pets, relatives, ancestors and even future draft choices will be taxed, regulated, and recycled so they can tax and regulate them again.

Immediately prior to publishing this post news came across the wires of Congressman Henry Waxman’s, a Co-Sponsor of this bill, hospitalization. Another coincidence or one more example of Mr. Obama’s vast leftwing conspiracy dedicated to diverting attention from his actual agenda?

With all due respect to Congressman Waxman, whom we certainly wish well, a diversion of mammoth proportions will most likely be required to slip this one by the voting public. Something more along the lines of Mr. “Inconvenient Lies” hiself, Al Gore, dousing himself in $75 barrel of OPEC crude oil, lighting himself on fire and running completely nekkid around the corporate headquarters Shell, BP and Halliburton would probably do the trick.

President Obama’s hard sell for a government controlled, single payer, socialist healthcare system is currently in full throttle. We are already experiencing the full effect of the White House spin machine with primetime press conferences; exclusives with the big 3 networks and other allies in the leftwing, liberal, media elite press; well rehearsed, closely scripted, town hall meetings out amongst our fellow “average Joe, independent, open minded, unbiased” citizens.

A diversion of truly audacious and outrageous proportions, a spectacle assured to grab our full and undivided attention, an act far more distracting than a senior member of the Administration or congressperson pulling up lame or hospitalized will be required to successfully pull off this most devious and scurrilous of scams.

A small war (potentially extremely effective but seriously doubtful with this bunch of doves), the threat of an untreatable and incurable pandemic and/or the Cubs winning the World Series are all much more likely and viable diversion options Obama’s Left Wing Conspirators may pursue in their efforts to nationalize the country’s Healthcare System.

Hillary’s broken arm, Judge Sonia’s broken leg and Barack’s broken promises are metaphorically symbolic of the dismal prognosis for our nation’s fiscal and cultural health. The first major course of treatment will occur in 2010 with the midterm elections when we get the opportunity to shake things up in Congress and Governor’s mansions around the country. The cure comes in 2012 when the country performs a collective Obamaectomy - guaranteed to cure what ails you.

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

Ron W. Garikes