Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 96: Lowering the Bar to New and Unprecedented Depths

Cause I got friends in low places,
Where the Whiskey drowns,
And the Beer chases my blues away,
But I'll be okay,
Now I'm not big on social graces,
Think I'll slip on down to the Oasis,
Oh I got friends,
In low places.
Friends in Low Places, Garth Brooks

President Obama and his cadre of fellow political hacks in the White House have sure enough lowered the expectations bar and the definition of success and victory to new and unprecedented depths. The Federal trial of Islamic Jihadist terrorist Ahmed Ghailani that concluded in New York City this week for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania is the most recent example of this Administration’s delusionary reckoning when it comes to establishing expectations.

According to our “Constitutional Scholar Slick Yankee Lawyer-in-Chief”,Veep Uncle Joe “Truly Dumber Than a Bag of Hammers” Biden and Senior Political Hack/Terrorist Sympathizer Attorney General Eric Holder Ghailani’s conviction on one count of Conspiracy and acquittal on over 280 mostly more serious charges was a legal victory of Koranic, we mean Biblical, proportions. Reckon all those Murder, Attempted Murder, and Acts of Terror charges weren’t that important after all.

Strictly adhering to his philosophy for a happy, healthy and productive life – “Ignorance is Bliss” - Uncle Joe remarked:

• “The single Ahmed Ghailani guilty verdict was a victory and the outcome of this first-of-its-kind trial is better than if Ghailani had been tried in a military tribunal. He's getting a longer sentence. He'll be in jail longer than if any other method were tried. Same thing George Bush did with the shoe bomber. Same thing he did with the 24th hijacker,"

Only the Obama Administration would consider one guilty verdict out of 280 charges as a victory. This arrogant and elitist viewpoint is certainly consistent with their “Barackasswards” way of thinking for the last 96 weeks.

Following are several additional examples of further lowering the bar and failed policy initiatives touted as grand victories and successes by the “Yes We Can Lie Our Way to Victory Because the Public is Too Ignorant to Know the Difference” gang:

• One Trillion Dollar Stimulus – Promised it would keep unemployment under 8%. We’re at 9.5-10% for as far as the eye can see. No new jobs, increase in consumer spending or shovel ready projects. According to our President saved the economy from slipping into depression and has been an unqualified success. Truth be told has added a Trillion to national debt, saved some public sector union jobs and paid back mostly other labor union constituencies but not even a frog hair’s worth of any real private sector economic growth
• Auto Industry Bailout – In spite of GM’s successful IPO this week the chances of we the taxpaying public getting paid back on this one are slim to none. Proclaimed as a great victory by the White House the only real beneficiaries are the labor union pension funds
• Scott Brown election – Breaking out in a bad case of wishful thinking the Obama propaganda machine claimed Brown’s victory in the race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat was by no means a repudiation of the Administration but more of the folks desire for Change carrying over from 08 election. A serious miscalculation and an omen for the pending disaster of the mid-term elections
• Mid-term Elections – In their own words a historical political shellacking. Perpetually suspended in a classic case of denial the Obamanites refuse to accept and/or acknowledge defeat. With the bar for victory set so low they are claiming a win citing their majority (slim as it may be) in the Senate and control of the Executive Branch. True believers and revolutionaries all a course correction to the right is seriously doubtful
• Nobel Peace Prize – The Obama “How low can we go” philosophy even further contaminated the already rotting Nobel Prize evaluation process by selecting him as their 2009 Peace Prize recipient. Awarding this once prestiges honor to such an undeserving and unqualified individual hit a new low even surpassing the 1994 winner PLO Terrorist Yasser Arafat, whose brother Nawsir accepted the Award in Stockholm on his brother’s behalf.

President “Low Bar” Obama, VP Uncle Joe “Dumber Than a Bag of Rocks” Biden and most Senior of Political hacks AG Eric Holder have also openly and without shame proclaimed that the one successful conviction of Ghailani even with 280 acquittals, only Yankee lawyers with no experience in the private sector would consider a .00357% hit rate as a favorable outcome, proves Islamic enemy combatants will receive swifter and more severe justice in our Civil/Federal Courts as opposed to Military Tribunals or Commissions.

In our humble opinion anyone agreeing with this totally baseless; irrational; illogical; absolutely absurd conclusion is not only one can short of a six pack but also crazier than an outhouse rat. In fact, when you consider the one conviction and 280 acquittals Ghailani is the new poster child for Military Tribunals/Commissions.

A brief summary of the advantages of conducting Military Tribunals or Commissions for Islamic Jihadist enemy combatants follows:

• George Washington was the first and used military tribunals during the American Revolution
• The Union used military tribunals during and in the immediate aftermath of the War for Southern Independence
• A military tribunal/commission is an inquisitorial system. Charges are brought by military authorities, prosecuted by a military authority, judged by military officers, and sentenced by military officers against an adversarial force.
• Defendants are typically offered fewer legal protections in military commissions than civilian courts, such as the right to public proceedings and a trial by jury.
• The standard for admitting evidence is more rigorous in civilian court
• As it is with many war powers, the Constitution is vague about the scope of military commissions allowing for a high degree of Presidential discretion when using this option.

Ain’t no never mind about it the Obama Administration’s policy of treating Islamic Jihadist terrorist like common criminals is an abject failure. No matter how far they lower the bar on what constitutes success or a victory the Ahmed Ghailani conviction on one count of Conspiracy and acquittal on over 280 more serious charges in a Civil Court is a major political defeat and serious setback for all the terrorist sympathizers in the White House.

Anyone that tries to tell us otherwise is either dumber than a bag of hammers, crazier than a run over dog or as dishonest as the day is long. In Vice President Uncle Joe Biden’s case all three.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama, (9-2) 63 – Georgia State 7