Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week 49: I, Barack Husain Obama, Do Hereby Resolve…

“New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual” Mark Twain

New Years, that most dangerous of Holidays when amateur drunks get crying about your daddy walking with a slant inebriated and terrorize the nation’s highways, byways and seedy hotel bars. Tis also the time of the year when tens of millions resolve to quit drinking, smoking, and lusting in their hearts and all manner of other vices and with equal conviction vow to pursue seemingly unobtainable virtues.

According to national surveys the top five New Year’s resolutions are:

1. Spend more time with family and friends
2. Lose weight
3. Get in shape
4. Stop smoking
5. Get out of debt

Thoughts of Obama from Bama has it on good authority that our Celebrator of the New Year in Hawaii-in-Chief, many of the senior members of his Administration and comrades in Congress are prolific makers of Resolutions including the top five most popular listed above. We have obtained a Top Secret Memo listing the New Year’s Resolutions of our Don’t Bother Me With News About a Petty Little Crime Committed by a Isolated Extremist Nigerian Attempting to Blow Up an Airplane Over Detroit I’m on Vacation-in Chief and the rest of the Yes We Can Criminalize the War on Terror Gang compiled by the White House Propaganda Czar.

The exact purpose of this Memo remains a mystery but in the spirit of transparency we are pleased to disclose the contents of this document in this week’s Column:

· Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House
1. Resolves to cutback from twelve to six facelifts in 2010
2. Resolves to reduce by half the number of times she will spring out of her chair clapping like a love sick teenage schoolgirl at an Elvis concert during one of the many Presidential addresses to Joint Sessions of Congress in 2010 3. Resolves to throw a coming out of the closet party publically acknowledging her Marxist/Socialist agenda and forty year extramarital affairs with Fidel Castro, North Korea’s Kim Jong-il, and Barbara Streisand
· Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader
1. Resolves to continue to sell the Country out buying votes for Socialized medicine, energy and the financial industries
2. Resolves to fade away quietly into a forced early retirement settling in a cozy jungle bungalow in Venezuela near his dear Socialist comrade Hugo Chavez after losing his reelection bid to a GOP challenger in next fall’s election
· Barney “Freddie in the Fannie Mac” Frank, Chairman, House Finance Committee
1. Resolves to remain the most belligerent; arrogant; combative; misguided; pointy headed liberal nut job; and goofiest member of the US Congress
2. Resolves to find a new boyfriend, lover, and significant other, whatever the PC term is these days, who doesn’t grow his own private stash of pot in the good Congressman’s backyard. When asked by police about the pot growing amongst his pansies Frank replied “I wouldn’t know what a pot plant looked like if it crawled up behind me and bit me on my cute little tushy”.
· Senator Barbara Boxer, California
1. Resolves to prohibit anyone from ever calling her Mam again, especially military personnel during a Senate Hearing. Senator, hey you, dumb arse and silly bitch are all acceptable alternatives
· Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary
1. Resolves to absolutely, under no circumstances, to ever make news at the daily White House News/Press Conference
· Tim Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury
1. Resolves to borrow and print enough money to choke an entire heard of bull elephants
· Eric Holder, Attorney General
1. Resolves to continue reading Miranda Rights to Islamic Jihadist enemy combatants giving aid and comfort to the terrorist hell bent on destroying Western civilization
· Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State
1. Resolves to continue dodging enemy sniper fire as she travels the globe in her legendary butt ugly pants suits
2. Resolves to forgive Bill once again for his recent indiscretions in Vegas where he used the alibi he was just spending the evening with Tiger Woods the All American kid prior to the disclosure of his Clintonian like behavior with the ladies
· Joe Biden, Vice President
1. Resolves to avoid having his picture taken hugging illegal gate crashers at White House dinner parties
2. Resolves to duct tape his mouth shut to avoid embarrassing the Country, himself, and the office he occupies
3. Resolves to restricting himself to ten lies a day about the alleged success of their stimulus/massive deficit spending bill
· Our Prolific Maker of Resolutions-in-Chief
1. Resolves to realize his grandiose dreams of a Socialistic American society and economy
2. Resolves to cut back from three to two packs of smokes a day
3. Resolves to continue to apologize for America and pucker up to our enemies every time his big flat feet touch foreign soil
4. Resolves to quit going home and kicking Bolshevik the First Pooch after a bad day at the office
5. Resolves to continue to refuse to call our enemy by their name, Islamic Jihadist Terrorist
6. Resolves to blame W for Global Warming; H1N1; The Civil War; World hunger; Coastal erosion; The sinking of the Titanic; The Great Depression; Teen STD’s; and African Killer Bees invading the US in 2010
7. Resolves to refuse to advocate American exceptionalism and continue to promote our equality with inferior nations

Research studies indicate that most folks only achieve success with around 12% of their Resolutions. Hopefully Our Blamer of W-in-Chief will realize similar results and most of his Resolutions, as so eloquently put by Mr. Twain, will be used for paving Hell as early as next week.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy, productive and joyous New Year

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

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week 48: Size Matters

“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together”.
Josh Billings, 19th Century American Humorist

Our Author of Long, Socialist, Incomprehensible Bills-in-Chief in cooperation with his comrade in the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have conspired to create a colossal piece of legislation only a boneheaded bleeding heart liberal elitist could love. What the Senate’s Healthcare Reform/Socialized Medicine Act lacks in real reform; cost savings; better quality; cross state insurance competition; tort reform; patient choice; and keeping Uncle Sammy from rationing and controlling access to care it definitely makes up for in size; weight; length; girth; and width.

This legislative train wreck initially came in at 2,074 pages. With Leader Reid’s 383 page Manager’s Amendment, which includes all the backroom sleazy deals he made to buy off gutless so called Blue Dog Democrats, who really are more akin to yellow dogs considering their cowardly behavior, including the $300 million Louisiana Purchase of Senator Mary Landrieu; Nebraska’s Ben Nelson $100 million dollar annual bribe for Medicaid; Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders $10 and $14 billion for community health centers; Connecticut receiving $100 million for a "health care facility" affiliated with an academic health center in gratitude for Senator Dodd’s support; this big ass honking bill now totals 2.457 pages.

When you add it all up this mammoth piece of legislation comes in at:

· 24 pounds
· 3’ feet – 4’’ inches tall
· 2,457 pages
· Approximately 626,535 words
· 305 million Tons of BS, 1 Ton for each and every American who are all about to find out how expensive free Healthcare really is.

Abraham Lincoln once said before beginning a speech to supporters that if he had more time to prepare his comments would be much briefer. Point being, content; logic; clarity; readability; and brevity are far better measures of a document’s true value than a high word and page count.

Viewed from this perspective our Long Winded Master of Empty Rhetoric-in-Chief and Harry “Lets Make a Deal” Reid’s Government Takeover of Healthcare Bill just might be the most ill conceived; poorly written; confusing; irrational; misleading; and dangerous legislation ever created by our genius wordsmiths in Congress. A quick comparison to several of the world’s most important and influential written documents emphasizes the total lack of substance, coherency, and clarity contained in this bill.

1. Magna Carta – 25 pages, 6,435 words
2. Declaration of Independence - 5 pages, 1,320 words
3. US Constitution - 17 pages, 4,418 words
4. Bill of Rights – 2.5 pages, 580 words
5. Emancipation Proclamation - 3 pages, 621 words
6. Gettysburg Address – 1 page, 281 words
7. Ten Commandments – 2 stone tablets, 135 words

It only takes 135 words to establish the moral standards for all of mankind, 621 to free millions of slaves, 4,418 to govern the most powerful and freest nation on earth. Why does it take a 626,535 word bill to reform the best Healthcare system in the world? Simple answer, in the spirit of brevity, it doesn’t.

3 words – Kill the Bill!

Best wishes for a safe, joyous, and very Merry Christmas.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week 47: Global Warming – Maybe When Hell Freezes Over



1,000's Protest Global Warming in Copenhagen

Pointy headed bleeding heart liberals, secular progressive boneheads, and radical leftwing head cases all seem to be natural born expert propagandist. Our Propagandist-in-Chief, Barack Husain Obama, is a master at the art of deceit and seems to have absolutely no problem what so ever with lying like a cheap rug to advance his Marxist/Socialist agenda.

A frequent and effective tactic used by the liberal elite is to repeat a lie so many times and often with greater volume knowing that eventually a surprising number of folks will ultimately believe it. Examples of this mass propagandist tactic abound with the “Yes We Can” crowd currently infesting the White House including their claims that they inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression; their Trillion dollar Stimulus/Spending Bill saved us from financial calamity; the same complete waste of tax payer dollars saved and created millions of new jobs (the fact unemployment has jumped from 7.65% to over 10% be damned); our country is currently facing a Healthcare crisis; the President really doesn’t have big ears, just a small head; and every evil and problem we are currently facing was created by the incompetence and malice of the W Administration.

Possibly the most insidious initiative our Meteorologist-in-Chief is attempting to shove down our collective thoughts is the alleged Global Warming, or as it’s been renamed for “consumer” acceptance purposes, the Climate Change Crisis. Without a doubt one of the most audacious and dangerous Ho Ax’s ever perpetrated on “We the People”.

Just so happens several hundred Global Warming propagandists, Eco-Nazis, and bark eating/tree hugging/green crazed/environmental zealots are gathering in Copenhagen this week for a Climate Change Summit in an effort to advance this myth. Naturally our Climatologist-in-Chief will be attending and Thoughts of Obama from Bama has it on good authority he has every intention of giving away the proverbial farm.

After blaming America for all manner of past transgressions including our crime of being the world’s biggest polluter and spreaders of the the poisonous gas carbon dioxide that the Eco-Nazis would have us believe is the root cause of Global Warming, you know the stuff we exhale and trees turn into oxygen, don’t be surprised when our Blamer of America First-in-Chief commits us to astronomical reductions in carbon emissions and Billions in bribes for third world countries to follow our lead.

Our illustrious House of Representatives has already passed legislations that if approved by the Senate and signed by our Carbon Reducer-in-Chief, Cap and Trade/Tax, that will tax every carbon emission of organic; inorganic; manmade; mechanical; and/or natural origin. Draconian emission standards will be imposed, energy prices will sky rocket (even candidate Obama admitted this in a rare moment of candor and honesty during the campaign), millions of jobs will disappear in thin air like so many particles of earth killing carbon gases, and US Companies will be running for the boarders faster than a scalded dog to set up shop on more business friendly foreign shores.

All this financial destruction and unprecedented Government intrusion/control is certainly justified in the sacred cause to save our planet and the human race from catastrophic natural disasters brought about by manmade Global Warming. After all our Savior From Global Warming-in-Chief, all his Eco-Nazi comrades in Congress and fellow delegates at the ongoing Climate Summit , especially the Poster Boy of this entire movement and how to profit from it, former Vice President Al “Mr. Inconvenient Lie” Gore hisself, have all frequently and loudly propagandized the veracity of the Settled Science Global Warming myth.

Only problem the facts don’t exactly support the Global Warming Warriors’ theories or their false claims that the issue is already settled by overwhelming scientific consensus. To the contrary, a brief review of conflicting scientific views suggest the Climate Change alarmist theories have about as much credibility as an Obama campaign promise.

For starters, a big problem with the Global Warmer’s apocolyptic prophecies is their reliance on long term forecasting, especially when we consider the rampant inaccuracies of short term weather forecasting. According to ForecastAdvisor, which tracks the accuracy of predictions, industry averages when predicting highs for the following day were off by about three degrees; when forecasting nine days out, they missed by nearly seven degrees.

Doug Young, performance branch chief at the National Weather Service, says his organization’s precipitation forecast for seven days out is only 55% accurate. “You’re almost flipping a coin at that point,” he concludes.

Sounds like our smiling, perpetually happy and obnoxiously perky local weather Dude/Babes might be better off ditching all the heavy artillery – radar, Doppler, triple lindey Doppler – and pick up a weather dog instead. Send the pooch out and he comes back wet we got rain; sweaty and panting, hot; milk bone froze to his tongue, snow; doesn’t come back at all, windy.

Our Weatherman-in-Chief, the Poster Boy Al Gore and their seriously disturbed Global Warmer dominions all base their doomsday predictions on 25, 50 and 100 year plus forecast. If the National Weather Service only gets it right half the time 7 days out President Obama and “Never Will be President” Gore’s 100 year forecast ain’t worth a warm bucket of recycled spit.

Led by our Prophesier-in-Chief and Al “Protector of the Planet” Gore the Global Warming faithful has made the following claims about the imminent horrific demise of our planet:

· “Inconvenient Lie” - Man made hydrocarbons are the root cause of planet killing Global Warming.
“Inconvenient Truth”- The changing rate of Solar Activity almost perfectly parallels the entire rise in arctic air temperature and is a much more likely cause of Global Climate Change than any man made hydrocarbons.
· “Inconvenient Lie” - Arctic ice pack & northern hemisphere sea ice levels have been shrinking for a great many years (until 1998 to be exact)
“Inconvenient Truth”- One of the less known aspects of our planet’s climate cycles, is the fact that the balance of ice frequently switches back and forth between the north and south poles. The ice in the Antarctic has been growing at a record pace to the point that in 2007 it reached its highest level ever recorded.
· “Inconvenient Lie”- There is a growing incidence of dangerous weather, including Katrina, that can be attributed to manmade global warming.
“Inconvenient Truth”There is not a shred of scientific evidence to support this claim. In fact the frequency of hurricanes is currently lower than it’s been in 30 years.
· “Inconvenient Lie”- The endangered polar bears will soon reach extinction because of Global Warming.
”Inconvenient Truth”- In 1940 their total population was a meager 5,000. Today their total population has increased by an astonishing 400 percent to over 25,000.
· “Inconvenient Lie”- Our Global Savior-in-Chief and his fellow General in the universal struggle to save the planet from the catastrophic consequences of Climate Change, Al Gargantuan Carbon Footprint Gore, hearts are true; intentions beyond approach; motives pure; and actions truly selfless
“Inconvenient Truth” – Lots of folks will make a fortune from the trumped up Global Warming Crisis and Mr. Gore and Obama are at the front of the line. Gore is chairman and founder of a private equity firm called Generation Investment Management and hopes to make billions by creating a new market for carbon emissions trading here in the United States. Mr. Obama’s pockets will also be bulging with all the cash donated by Gore in appreciation of the president’s leadership in pulling off this con/scam/ho ax of unprecedented size and consequence.

Man made Global Warming/Climate Change will cause catastrophic, world ending natural disasters, and the end of civilization as we know it when hell does freeze over; pigs fly; Auburn wins a NCAA National Football Championship; and our Creator of False Crisis and Perpetrator of Ho Ax’s-in-Chief gets through one day without telling at least 10 lies, doesn’t make a national TV address, and forgets to blame W for at least one disaster of biblical proportions that he inherited.

As we await the highly unlikely probability of any of the above listed occurrence ever being realized we highly recommend the services of a weather dog be secured to conduct long term Global Warming/Climate Change forecast. A good Weather Pooch can surly be counted on for more accurate and honest predictions than the two scoundrels and charlatans Obama and Gore who seek only fame, financial gain and political advantage.

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

\Ron W. Garikes

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week 46: Get a Job

“Sha na na na, sha na na na na, Get a job

Sha na na na, sha na na na na, Get a job

Sha na na na, sha na na na na, Get a job

Sha na na na, sha na na na na,

Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip

Mum mum mum mum mum mum

Get a job, Sha na na na, sha na na na na”

The Silhouettes

Forty-Six weeks ago our Human Resources Director-in-Chief, Barack “According to the White House WebsiteThe Creator and Savior of 1.6 Million Jobs (Maybe in China)” Obama, made the audaciously false claim that if Congress failed to pass his Trillion dollar plus so called Economic Stimulus Package life on earth as we know it would cease to exist. He also confidently informed us passage of this humongous spending bill was the only way to keep rising unemployment under 8 percent.

Forty-Six weeks and a Trillion dollars of tax payers hard earned money later our Stimulator-in-Chief’s Socialist economic policies have been an abject failure. Unemployment has jumped from 7.65% last January when our Killer of Jobs-in-Chief took the Oath of Office to current levels of 10% plus.

Since infesting the White House the “Yes We Can Plunge the Economy Down to the 9th Level of Hell” gang’s policies have forced an additional 3.2 million of our fellow Americans to the unemployment lines with a total of almost 16 million looking for work. That equates to 70,000 wage earners a week getting a pink slip, or the entire population of the cities of Dothan, Alabama; Lake Charles, Louisiana; and/or College Station, Texas getting the boot every 7 days.

Untold heartache, carnage and devastation has been heaped upon millions of American families as a result of our Marxist-in-Chief’s efforts to transform the world’s largest and most successful free market/capitalistic economy into a Government run Socialist Nanny State. As with any “Revolution” collateral damage is an expected necessary evil, in this instance historically high unemployment and unprecedented deficit spending, because from the wild eyed true believer Revolutionary’s radical way of reckoning the ends always justify the means.

Our Socialist Revolutionary-in-Chief has achieved the dubious honor of reaching unemployment levels of truly historic proportions. A review of US Employment since WW2 compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the severity of our current situation into perspective:

· Our Employer-in-Chief’s first year in office, 2009, will result in an annualized Unemployment rate of 9.3%ish
· Since 1948 Unemployment has exceeded 9.3% on only 2 occasions, 1982 and 1983, 9.7% and 9.6% respectively, during Ronald Reagan’s first term in office
· Reagan’s 8 year annual Unemployment average resulted in a slightly high but respectable 7.5%
· The lowest Unemployment rates of the last 60 years occurred during the Truman, 1951- 3.3%, 1952 – 3% and Eisenhower years, 1953 – 2.9%
· The lowest average Unemployment rates for a President who served at least one full term: 1. Truman – 4% 2. LBJ – 4.9% 3. Slick Willie Give Me Another Lewinski Clinton – 5.2% 4. W – 5.3%
· The highest average Unemployment rates for a President who served at least one full term: 1. Ronald Wilson Reagan – 7.5% 2. Jimmy Peanut, just plain ole nuts, flake, the most infamous embarrassment to the Southern Gentry of the 20th and 21st century, Carter – 6.5% 3. Daddy Bush – 6.3%
· It is interesting to note that during the 4 Presidencies with the lowest Unemployment, with the exception of LBJ, the GOP held a majority in one or both Chambers of Congress for at least half of their terms in office.
· For example, during the 16 years of the Clinton and W years Republicans held majorities in both Chambers for 12 years. Unemployment averaged around 5.1% accompanied with significant job growth. Lesson learned – boneheaded liberal Democrat economic policies the likes of big Government; high taxes; wealth redistribution; intrusive regulation; and Socialist welfare programs kill US Jobs and send them overseas faster than a scalded dog

Watching his job approval numbers drop like a led balloon it finally dawned on our Lowest First Year Presidential Job Approval in the History of Gallup Polling -in-Chief that he best stop spending all his time dithering on his Afghanistan strategy and propagandanizing about his Marxist dreams of Socialized medicine and pay a little attention to a real crisis, 16 – 20 million fellow Americans in dire need of a steady paycheck.

In typical fashion the White House’s response to this crisis was to quickly organize a made for TV event; fire up our Great Orator of Empty Rhetoric-in-Chief’s tele-prompter; invite a couple hundred supporters and CEO’S from companies with too much Federal Government work to risk publicly criticizing the President’s policies to the White House; and alert the media that our Financial Wizard-in-Chief will be holding court at a White House Jobs Summit.

All the usually suspects showed up standing tall and grinning from ear to ear like they had good sense for an afternoon of liberal bloviating and diatribes of Marxist doctrine. Attendees included folks from all the President’s Labor Union faithful; pointy headed academics who never made a dime in the private sector; Government bureaucrats; Obama political hacks; Media elite the likes of liberal extremist head case New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman; CEO’s from Google, Disney, and Fedex for appearances sake; and representatives from the President’s good friends at ACORN and the American Socialist, Communist, and Fascist Parties.

Glaringly missing from this august gathering were representatives from the US Chamber of Commerce, several manufacturing related associations and business trade groups who have been publically critical of the Administration. Considering these groups represent millions of small businesses that actually create most of the jobs in this country their exclusion from the process by our thin skinned fearless leader is a sure sign of his lack of conviction to seriously address this issue.

Five days later our Speech Maker-in-Chief made what seems like his 300th national address advocating 3 new job creation initiatives:

1. The temporary elimination of the capital gains tax for small businesses
2. Tax credits for small businesses
3. Use of Billions left over from the TARP Fund, a W initiative to keep the banks open that actually worked with money to spare, for so called shovel ready infrastructure projects

At first glance certainly sounds reasonable but with the same restrictions and strings attached the first massive Obama spending/political payback bill contained – eligibility contingent upon utilizing Union labor, millions for ACORN and other Socialist Community Organization activist, and rampant political patronage – there ain’t a snowball’s chance in hell of stimulating even a frog hair’s worth of real job growth.

As for shovel ready projects, the only shoveling this President is doing is the load of BS he’s been spreading since the first day he entered public service.

President Obama’s Socialist economic policies have put millions of hard working Americans out of work. Socialized medicine; Cap and Trade; exploding deficit spending; a massive redistribution of wealth; and enough debt to choke a herd of elephants will most likely force employers to show millions more to the curb.

In closing, anyone currently seeking employment should seriously consider a position as a Presidential Czar.

1. The White House is one of a very few employers still hiring
2. Great pay and benefits
3. No specific skill set or qualifications required
4. Communist; Socialist; Fascist; Eco-Nazis; terrorist sympathizers; tax cheats; blame America firsters; pacifist wimps not only welcome but strongly encouraged to apply

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

Ron W. Garikes

Week 13 – Alabama 32: Florida 13
Roll Tide, Roll Tide, Roll on Mighty Tide

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week 45: Obama’s Bend Over, Grab His Ankles, Thank you Sir May I Have Another Foreign Policy

“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.” Margaret Thatcher

In addition to Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Castro our Appeaser-in-Chief also seems to be a disciple of former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. PM of Great Britain leading up to WW2, Chamberlain along with other European leaders thought the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, WW1’s terms of surrender, placed unfair restrictions on Germany and that Hitler’s defiance was justifiable.

This bunch of European pacifist led by Chamberlain were convinced that giving in to Hitler’s demands would prevent another war. To the contrary, their Policy of Appeasement encouraged Hitler’s expansionist dreams of grandeur and ultimately to the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Poland and the 2cd World War of the 20th century.

President Obama’s Bend Over, Grab His Ankles, Thank you Sir May I Have Another approach to Foreign Policy will surly lead to similar disastrous consequences. Traveling the globe bowing to foreign Monarchs; acting like a citizen of the world first and the President of the United States as a distant second; apologizing for America’s past transgressions and arrogance; and appeasing the likes of our Russian friends, Ahmadinejad in Iran, Chavez and other Fascist 3rd world Despots and the Islamic Jihadist Terrorist hell bent on destroying our way of life, the President is ignoring the lessons of history including the abject failure of Chamberlain’s Policy of Appeasement.

On the last day of Week 45 of the “Yes We Can and Will Ignore the Advice of our Expert Military Leadership Because we Egghead Academics and Political Hack White House Staffers Know What’s Best” gang our Expert Reader of the Tele-Prompter-in-Chief finally publically announced his policy/strategy for prosecuting the war against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Addressing the “Long Grey Line” of Cadets at the hallowed halls of West Point Mr. Obama unequivocally made the most bizarre speech of his Presidency.

Following are some of the highlights from his address:

· Conspicuously but not surprisingly the words victory or win failed to roll off our Setter of Low Expectations-in-Chief’s tongue even one time. If we are not there to win, achieve victory, putting our soldiers in harm’s way knowing many will endure injury and that others will make the ultimate sacrifice, is unforgivable

The President’s apprehension to seek and when warranted claim military victory is truly troubling. Back in July in a Nightline interview, President Obama was asked to define “victory” in Afghanistan. He answered, “I'm always worried about using the word "victory" because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur”

This aversion to the word victory in an obvious attempt to avoid offending his Muslim brethren is cause for serious consternation. It’s also interesting to note Hirohito never signed surrender to MacArthur. Young Barack and his juvenile delinquent playmates must have skipped History class to smoke crack and snort a few lines of cocaine on the days they covered the failure of Chamberlain’s Policy of Appeasement and Japan’s surrender to Allied Forces ending WW2.

Actor Robert Duvall, “Colonel Kilgore” made the most repeated victory quote of a generation in the classic Vietnam War epic, Apocalypse Now – to paraphrase, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning, smells like victory”. Our Great Orator of Empty Rhetoric-in-Chief would be well served to coin a similar phrase to motivate and inspire the troops. Thoughts of Obama from Bama is tickled pink to provide the following suggestions:

1. “I love the smell of fried al-Qaeda in the morning, smells like victory”
2. “I love the smell of burnt Talibon in the morning, smells like victory”
3. “I love the smell of missile ignited and bomb baked Usama in the morning, smells like victory”

· Our Early Troop Withdrawer-in-Chief did make a strong and convincing case for sending in more troops and why containing/destroying al-Qaeda is vital to our National Security. Why he subsequently declared a surge of 30,000 troops and in the same breath proclaimed troop withdrawal would begin in July 2011, 18 months from now, certainly leaves one scratching their head in wonder.

General Stanley McChrystal, our Military Strategy Challenged Commander-in-Chief’s handpicked Commander for the Afghan Theatre, made a formal request for 60,000 troops, 40,000 minimum back in August. He also noted the situation in Afghanistan was deteriorating quickly.

After over 3 months of silence and indecision, sending a message of weakness to our enemies and friends around the globe, our Ditherer-in-Chief announced his purely political compromise of 30,000 troops in an obvious effort to appease his leftwing base and maintain GOP support. As we discussed earlier, war plans and appeasement are a recipe for disaster.

Announcing a date for retreat before one boot from the surge hits the ground is just plumb crazy. Another ridiculous attempt to appease his leftwing comrades in Congress and maintain his high rankings in popularity polls in Paris, Riyadh, Havana, Mumbai and Moscow.

This strategy also puts our troops at unnecessary risk and gives the Islamic Jihadist fanatics a strategic advantage without having fired a single shot. It makes about as much sense as before leaving on a vacation putting a neon sign in the front yard telling the whole world how long you’ll be gone; the key is under the matt at the back entrance; the alarm code; combination to the safe; beer’s in the fridge and moon pies in the cupboard.

· Our Appeaser-in-Chief’s final main talking point was his insistence that the Pakistanis and Afghans stand up and take the lead so we can stand down and get the hell out of Dodge. Certainly a nice thought but in reality nothing but a pipe dream.

Making idle threats about our imminent withdrawal and leaving them to deal with the Taliban and al-Qaeda has absolutely no impact on these folks what so ever.

Why?

1. It’s not their fight. We were the ones attacked on 9/11.
2. They know we are leaving soon, the President has certainly made this fact abundantly clear, and they will have to co-exist with these fanatics for years to come and will act accordingly.
3. We are viewed as foreign imperialist and an army of occupation. The boys from the Taliban and al-Qeada are for the most part home grown kindred. Even considering their brutality and barbaric ways they still have the sympathy of the locals.

Bottom line, if we tuck tail and run before achieving victory, completely decimating the al-Qaeda scum and setting the Talibon barbarians back for decades, we do so at our own peril.

When asked his strategy for the Cold War Ronald Reagan kept it short and sweet- “We win, they lose”. Mr. President, your choice, either follow the example of President Reagan to victory or the failed Policy of Appeasement of Neville Chamberlain to defeat and destruction.

We all hope and pray you choose wisely.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Week 12 – Alabama 26: Auburn 21
Roll Tide, Roll Tide, Roll on Mighty Tide