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