Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week 70: Sestakinski

There's a little hotel called the Shady Rest at the junction.
(Petticoat Junction)
It is run by Kate, come and be her guest at the junction.
(Petticaot Junction)
And that's Uncle Joe, he's a movin' kind of slow at the junction,
Petticoat Junction.

Ever since the third rate burglary at Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate Complex in Washington DC which marked the beginning of the end for the Nixon Administration almost every Presidential scandal and/or potential Impeachable offense has been coined “Whatever/Gate”.

All manner of examples abound, especially those originating from the Clinton’s eight tumultuous, lying, cheating, obstructing justice and sexually harassing years in office. (Considered by many as the good ole days when compared to the current gang infesting the White House”

So called previous “Gate” incidents include:

• Nannygate
• Whitewatergate
• Vince Fostergate
• Bimbogate
• Monica “Blue Dress” gate
• Depends on what the definition of is, is gate?
• Missing billing records under Hillary’s bed gate
• Hillary Tammy Wynett never bake cookies or stand by my man gate
• Al Gore makes outlandish claim he invented the Internet gate
• WMDGate
• Irangate
• Iraqgate
• National Guard gate
• Katrinagate
• Hillary backs up a big ass truck to the White House and steals everything not nailed down securely when departing gate
• White House Interngate

The problem with using Watergate as the global Presidential sign word for White House shenanigans and high crimes and misdemeanors that potentially rise to the level of impeachable offenses is Nixon was never actually impeached for any of his numerous criminal violations. On the other hand, Slick Willie was Impeached, and in our humble opinion is abundantly more deserving of assuming this dubious honor.

New taglines for presidential indiscretions henceforth should be revised accordingly in remembrance of President Clinton’s dalliance with 21 year old intern Monica Lewinski. An episode that brought the Clinton Administration to its knees, figuratively speaking, and in Ms. Lewinski case, quite literally.

Following are a few examples:

• White Waterinski
• Rose Law Firminski
• Bimboinski
• Monica Blue Dressinski

Which brings us to the most current White House scandal, Sestakinski. To the Hope/Change/Believe gang’s utter dismay the Honorable Congressman from Pennsylvania, Joe Sestak, just won the Democrat Senatorial Primary beating GOP Turncoat and the consummate arrogant, clueless, and narcissistic politician, Arlen Specter. Bless his heart, a progressive who served 30 years in the Navy achieving the rank of Admiral, Sestak acknowledged he was offered a high ranking Administration position by the White House if he’d drop out the race clearing the way for Obama’s handpicked boy Specter.

Turns out that any attempt to influence/bribe any candidate for Congress with a job, cash or other item of value is a felony. One of the exact same charges currently pending against the President’s old friend the former Governor of Illinois Blogo of the Butt Ugly Hair Clan.

So far both Sestak and the White House have kept their mouths shut tighter than a tick but with pressure building from both sides of the isle someone is bound to spill the beans soon. We can all be comforted that White House senior political hack, Press Secretary and Propaganda Czar, Robert Gibbs, has assured us nothing inappropriate was said. Damn glad he cleared that up, had us worried there for a minute.

Considering political hack Gibb’s reliability and credibility ain’t worth a bucket of warm spit it’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility Sestakinski could be a fatal blow to the Obama Administration. In the unlikely event it can proved our Political Hack-in-Chief was involved or new about the bribe impeachment proceedings would have to be seriously contemplated by Congress.

As absolutely wonderful as Mr. Obama’s potential impeachment initially sounds there is a concern that the Country would be leaping from the proverbial frying pan into the fire with Uncle Joe Biden waiting in the wings. It does beg the question who’s worse or more dangerous?

On one hand we’ve got us a genuine Marxist/Socialist revolutionary hell bent on transforming our great nation into a European style Communist State. On the other an ultra liberal corrupt Connecticut Yankee who from all indications is dumber than a bag of hammers.

There are literally hundreds of boneheaded misstatements and verbal calamities that have rolled off this man’s tongue in support of this conclusion. Following are several examples compiled mostly by FOX News:

• On May 6, 2010, Vice President Biden said in an address to the European Parliament in Belgium that Brussels could be the "capital of the free world." The comment came at the top of a speech used to discuss the threats of nuclear proliferation, climate change and international terrorism. "As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, D.C. as the 'capital of the free world,'" Biden said. "But it seems to me that in this great city, which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title."
• On March 23, 2010, Biden stated the obvious when he told President Obama, "This is a big f---ing deal," during the bill-signing ceremony for the health insurance overhaul. Biden apparently thought the exchange was private, but the television microphones picked it up. The president must have realized what happened -- Biden later said in an interview that Obama was "laughing like the devil" after the event.
• On March 17, 2010, Biden used a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House to honor the memory of the Irish prime minister's mother -- though she was alive. "God rest her soul," Biden said as he introduced Brian Cowen and Obama. Biden quickly corrected his mistake, noting that Cowen's father, not mother, was dead. "Wait ... your mom's still, your mom is still alive. It was your dad (who) passed. God bless her soul. I gotta get this straight," Biden said.
• On July 16, 2009, Biden gave a blunt summation of the administration's approach to stimulus spending. "People, when I say that, look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?" he said at a stop in Virginia. "The answer is yes."
• On July 5, 2009, in an interview with ABC's "This Week," Biden conceded that the White House team "misread how bad the economy was." His confession came as unemployment hit 9.5 percent, despite the administration's insistence that it would hold to 8 percent with the stimulus plan.
• On April 30, 2009, Biden gave advice on dealing with swine flu that seemed to contradict President Obama's warning not to panic. Speaking on NBC's "Today," Biden, a longtime Amtrak rider who has commuted for decades daily from Delaware to Washington, D.C., said he wouldn't advise family necessarily against going to Mexico, the source of the H1N1 outbreak, but he wouldn't tell them to get into any small area like a subway car, automobile, classroom or airplane. "I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places right now," Biden said. "It's not that its going to Mexico, it's that you are in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes, it goes everywhere through the aircraft. That's me."
• On March 13, 2009, Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, "An hour late, oh give me a f----ing break," after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught on a live microphone.
• During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's "number." "You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?" he asked an aide standing out of view. "I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed."
• At a Jan. 30, 2009, swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day. "Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff -- and not cabinet members -- the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge from Obama.
• On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- swore Biden in as vice president.
• When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."
• In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened," he said. Herbert Hoover -- not Roosevelt -- was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented in 1929.
• During a Sept. 12, 2008, speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up." "Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I talking about?"
• At a Sept. 10, 2008, town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Biden said, "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."
• - Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the "lieutenant governor" of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4, 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Va. "I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate," Biden said.
• Biden said he was running for president -- not vice president -- during a Sept. 1, 2008, roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa. "Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what's happening down there," Biden said.
• Biden referred to John McCain as "George" during his vice presidential acceptance speech on Aug. 27, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Co. "Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip," he explained.
• Biden confused army brigades with battalions when speaking about Obama's plan for sending troops to Afghanistan. "Or should we trust Barack Obama, who more than a year ago called for sending two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan?"
• During his first campaign rally with Obama as his vice presidential running mate on Aug. 23, 2008, Biden introduced Obama by saying, "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States -- Barack America!"
• On Jan. 31, 2007 -- the day Biden announced his presidential bid -- the Delaware Senator was roundly criticized for calling Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking”

An impressive body of work. Uncle Joe would certainly give Our Appeaser-in-Chief a run for his money in the national embarrassment category.

In the extraordinarily unlikely event Sestakinski does bring down the Obama Regime a grateful nation should award Congressman Sestak with a Medal of Honor for service well above and beyond the call of duty. Given the choice of a Marxist/Socialist revolutionary or dumber than a bag of hammers we say – “And that's Uncle Joe, he's a movin' kind of slow at the junction, Petticoat Junction.”

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

Ron W. Garikes