Thoughts on Obama From Bama

Week 153: “2011 Highs, Lows and a Few Tweeners”

I took off for a weekend last month
Just to try and recall the whole year
All of the faces and all of the places
Wonderin' where they all disappeared
I didn't ponder the question too long
I was hungry and went out for a bite
Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum
And we wound up drinkin all night

It's these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

Reading departure signs in some big airport
Reminds me of the places I've been
Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure
Makes me want to go back again
If it suddenly ended tomorrow
I could somehow adjust to the fall
Good times and riches and son of a bitches
I've seen more than I can recall
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes, Jimmy Buffett

2011 was another record breaking, world shaking, and historical train wreck of a year for the corrupt and incompetent Socialist Obama Regime. The last 52 weeks have been chock full of enough racial, class and generational warfare; wealth redistribution; irresponsible spending of other people’s money; unsustainable debt; big ass government; Socialist initiatives; lying; corruption; golf; hip hop rap thugs in the Eastroom; and sure enough abject incompetence to choke a full grown mule.

Following is a summary of the mostly lows, the few and far between highs, and a couple of tweeners representing the events that shaped the last 52 of 153 weeks to date of what is most likely the worst Presidency in our nation’s history. Considering that list includes the likes of Jimmy ”Peanut” Carter is sure as hell cause for great consternation and heart ache:

• UNEMPLOYMENT – December 2008, 7.8%. December 2011, 8.6%, Averaged over 9% for his first 3 years in office
• NATIONAL DEBT
• 1950 - $257.3 Billion
• 1980 - $907.7 Billion
• 2000 - $5.8 Trillion
• 2008 - $10.07 Trillion
• Current - $16 Trillion plus
• NATIONAL DEBT BY PRESIDENT STARTING WITH REAGAN
• Reagan – $1.7 Trillion increase
• George H.W. Bush’s One Term – $1.6 trillion increase
• Clinton – $1.5 Trillion increase
• W – $4 Trillion increase
• Obama’s first three years – $6 Trillion increase
• Obama’s remaining year - $2 Trillion additional for the truly criminal grand total $8 Trillion increase
• FEDERAL REVENUES
• 1950 - $39.4 Billion
• 1980 - $517.1 Billion
• 2000 - $2 Trillion
• 2008 - $2.5 Trillion
• Current - $2.2 Trillion
• FEDERAL SPENDING
• 1950 - $42.6 Billion
• 1980 - $591 Billion
• 2000 - $1.8 Trillion
• 2008 - $2.9 Trillion
• Current - $3.8 Trillion
• LARGEST ANNUAL FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICITS
• 2011, Obama - $1.65 Trillion, EST.
• 2009, Obama - $1.4 Trillion
• 2010, Obama - $1.3 Trillion
• 2012, Obama - $1.25 Trillion, EST.
• IDENTITY CRISIS - Their latest absurd propaganda initiative is an attempt to position our 44th President, Barack Husain Obama, as our 40th President, Ronald Reagan, incarnate. They have unsuccessfully tried for months to portray President Obama as Abe Lincoln’s second coming which never caught on because the American people would never confuse a truly great man of substance, vision, courage, and integrity with a Bolshevik, light weight, empty suit full of empty rhetoric of questionable character. In a recent interview our Egomaniac-in-Chief ranked himself as our country’s 4th most successful president. The man truly is crazier than a runt over dog
• THE GIBBS RESIGNATION - Departure of one Robert Lane Gibbs. Obama Propaganda Czar, White House Press Secretary, long time senior Presidential suck buddy and ultra liberal arrogant elitist political hack.
• AN ALL OUT ASSAULT ON US ENERGY INDEPENDENCE - TAPS - the largest pipeline in America— is currently not using two-third of its capacity. Alaska could send 1.4 million barrels more per day to the lower forty-eight but Obama won’t permit development of new resources.
• The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska has millions of barrels that the Obama administration is prohibiting drilling. No coherent explanation for this decision has been forthcoming
• ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, has at least 10.4 billion barrels of oil but domestic exploration is currently considered a crime against nature by the eco head cases. It just don’t make no never mind what so ever to these boneheads that 95% of ANWR is a frozen tundra and the only life that can be found in this frozen wasteland is half frozen bark eating tree humping eco extremist and Sarah Palin filming an episode of her realty TV show
• After the BP disaster in the Gulf the Obamanites didn’t waste any time exploiting the crisis to further advance their extreme green agenda by imposing an illegal moratorium on drilling that for all practical purposes is still in effect today in defiance of a Federal Judge’s orders costing literally tens of thousands of jobs.
• The economic and energy wizards in the Obama Administration have blocked the exploration for and production of shale oil in the Rockies and all over the Western US even as we sit atop enough shale oil reserves to meet all of our domestic oil needs for the next 100 years. Anyone opposed to pursuing this opportunity should be tried for treason.
• THE OBAMA DOCTRINE - So far based on word and deed blame America first; apology; appeasement; indecisiveness; passivism; incompetent; confused; and boneheaded all accurately describe the Obama Doctrine. “Bend over, grab our ankles, thank you sir may I have another, pucker up buttercup” also sure enough truly captures the spirit of our National Security challenged so called Commander-in-Chief’s limp wristed Foreign Policy.
• AN IRONY OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS- The most bleeding heart, pacifist, terrorist appeasing, jihadist sympathizer Commander-in-Chief ever to lead US forces after 8 months of indecision finally gave the order to take out Bin Laden. Thank the good Lord our military leaders and SEAL Team 6 prevailed in spite of a typical absence of leadership from the Obama Administration
• THE GOLF SUMMIT,OBAMA & BOEHNER LIGHT UP THE COURSE- No partisan breakthroughs but the President chain smokes 3packs of Camel no filters and VP Biden gets his typical Saturday drunk on
• LEAD FROM BEHIND- A Barackasswards strategy exemplified by the abdication of the fiasco in Libya to NATO which greatly extended the time frame of this conflict resulting in thousands more killed and wounded, billions of additional expense, and further erosion of our standing in the world
• TUCKING TAIL AND GETTING THE HELL OUT OF DODGE - Deferring to political expediency instead of military requirements in Afghanistan compromising the mission, endangering our troops and providing aid and comfort to the enemy publically announcing a date certain when our forces will be withdrawn including winning the war but losing the peace in Iraq
• ARAB SPRING - Refusing to publically support Democracy movements in Syria, Jordan and Iran and leaving the barn door wide open for Islamist extremities in these pro US interest revolutions
• MARXIST/SOCIALIST TACTICS - Totally AWOL on any serious efforts to reform Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid choosing instead to conduct class and generational warfare leaving it to the GOP to lead and provide solutions to assure the viability of these massive entitlement programs
• LEADING FROM BEHIND PART II, (This has nothing at all to do with Barnie Freddie in the Fanny Mac Frank’s perv love life) Avoiding direct involvement in Congressional negotiations on the Federal debt ceiling and balancing the budget deferring leadership on this pending financial catastrophe to the House and Senate resulting in the first downgrade of our sterling credit rating in US history
• CORRUPTION AND SCANDLE-Instead of Fast Furious, the scandalous and sure enough most likely criminal gun running fiasco conducted by the boneheads at the Obama Department of Justice, “Slow & Silent” is without any doubt a more accurate description of the Administration’s response to this most unfortunate incident. And just like most of the crimes and/or unethical acts of gross incompetence or political corruption committed by our noble public servants, including the Solindra catastrophe, the obligatory cover up is what ultimately lands their happy asses in the jailhouse.
• BLESS THEIR HEARTS THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOB IS TRULY “A REVOLUTION IN DIRE NEED OF A CAUSE”. Truth be told this totally misguided and unorganized gang of boneheaded liberal head cases couldn’t find their ass with two hands and a flashlight in a locked closet let alone a legitimate grievance worth all the ruckus and media attention they have generated to date.
• WE CAN’T WAIT- is in reality the same Chicken Little the sky is falling or face dire consequences of Koranic, and um Biblically, proportions strategy the Obama fear mongers used to pass the trillion dollar stimulus package, Obamacare, Dodd/Freddy In the Fanny Mac Frank, bank bailouts and the government confiscation of the US auto industry. All of which turning out to be unmitigated disasters resulting in 9 plus percent unemployment, the doubling of gas prices, more new debt than white on rice and frozen credit that is killing economic growth.
• LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS-Our most recent sneak preview of Mr. Obama’s true and unfiltered views was an incident that occurred at the G20 summit in France, where President Obama and French president Nicolas Sarkozy made derogatory remarks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu they thought were private but were actually over heard by a live mike.

52 more weeks of pure D, unadulterated, unprecedented chaos, ineptitude, malfeasance, anti-American, blame America first, and blatant efforts to fundamentally transform our great nation into a Socialist nanny state have come to a merciful conclusion and it’s high time we the people put a permanent end to all this foolishness. A resolution to achieve this objective in the new year should be endorsed by all patriots by standing with glass in hand, facing south, and toasting our hard fought victory in 2012 at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve.

Cheers!

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

Ron W. Garikes

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Thoughts on Obama From Bama

Week 152: “Merry, Merry Christmas”

It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Snowbirds fill the air
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Lots of presents everywhere
We don’t live in a hurry
Send away for mistletoe
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Got everything but snow

Lights are blowing in the palm trees
Stockings hanging from the mast
Santa riding on a dolphin
Don’t you want to make it
Don’t you want to make it last

It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Snowbirds fill the air
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Lots of presents everywhere
We don’t live in a hurry
Send away for mistletoe
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Got everything but snow
Snow?

Suntanned children sleeping
Hoping Santa will come true
Christmas morning marlin leaping
Oh it’s papa’s birthday
Mister buffet’s birthday too!

It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Snowbirds fill the air
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Good feelings everywhere
We don’t live in a hurry
Send away for mistletoe
It’s Christmas in the Caribbean
Got everything but snow

Christmas in the Caribbean
Got everything but snow
Christmas in the Caribbean, Jimmy Buffett

Instead of addressing one of the many calamities brought on our great nation by the Socialist Obama Regime including this seemingly never ending financial disaster; class warfare tactics out the yazoo; wiping out the Social Security trust fund with this irresponsible so called payroll tax holiday; winning the war but losing the peace in Iraq; claims by the anointed one that he is one of our top 5 presidents of all time; a declaration that the Taliban ain’t our enemy; and giving Iran a highly intelligence intensive drone (a sure enough banner week) in the spirit of the holiday season we’re just tickled pink to offer our rendition of “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer”.

It may be moronic, sophomoric, and idiotic but so is the Obama Administration:

President Obama done got runt over by a reindeer
Walking home from VP Biden’s house Christmas Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Uncle Joe, we believe.

He'd been drinkin' too much eggnog,
And we'd begged him not to go.
But he'd left his Communist Manifesto,
So he stumbled out the door into the snow.

When they found him Christmas mornin',
At the scene of the attack,
There were hoof prints on his forehead,
And incriminatin' Claus marks on his back.

President Obama done got runt over by a reindeer
Walking home from VP Biden’s house Christmas Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Uncle Joe, we believe.

Now we're all so proud of Michelle,
She's been takin' this so well.
See her in there with her sleeveless dress,
Blaming W, House Republicans and giving the Secret Service hell.

It's not Christmas without Barack.
Holidaying in Hawaii all dressed in black.
And we just can't help but wonder:
Should we keep his new set of golf clubs or send them back?

President Obama done got runt over by a reindeer
Walking home from VP Biden’s house Christmas Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Uncle Joe, we believe.

Now the goose is on the table
And the pudding made of fig.
We’ll sure enough miss his daily speeches
All of his futile attempts to put lipstick on a pig.

I've warned all my friends and neighbors.
"Better watch out for your own happy asses and yourself.
They should never give a license,
To a man named Newt who drives a sleigh and resembles an evil elf."

President Obama done got runt over by a reindeer
Walking home from VP Biden’s house Christmas Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Uncle Joe, we believe.

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

Ron W. Garikes

BEST WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND JOYOUS HOLIDAY SEASON

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Thoughts on Obama From Bama

Week 151: “Captain Barack, Edward Smith, Obama”

Now away in the near future
Southeast of disorder
You can shake the hand of the mango man
As he greats you at the border

Haul the sheet in as we ride on the wind
That our forefathers harnessed before us
Hear the bells ring as the tight rigging sings
It's a son of a gun of a chorus

Where it all ends I can't fathom my friends
If I knew I might toss out my anchor
So I cruise along always searchin' for songs
Not a lawyer a thief or a banker

But a son of a son, son of a son
Son of a son of a sailor
Son of a gun, load the last ton
One step ahead of the jailer

I'm just a son of a son, son of a son
Son of a son of a sailor
The sea's in my veins, my tradition remains
I'm just glad I don't live in a trailer Son of a Son of a Sailor, Jimmy Buffett

During our Campaigner-in-Chief’s most recent media propaganda fest on CBS’s 60 Minutes with left wing extremist head case Steve Croft, who really should make a little effort to hide his man crush on the President, Mr. Obama used a nautical analogy to describe his ship wreck of a presidency. Captain Obama said the following:

• You know, sometimes when I'm talkin' to my team, I describe us as, you know, I'm the captain and they're the crew on a ship, goin' through really bad storms. And no matter how well we're steerin' the ship, if the boat's rockin' back and forth and people are gettin' sick and, you know, they're bein' buffeted by the winds and the rain and you know, at a certain point if you're askin', 'Are you enjoying the ride right now?' Folks are gonna say, 'No.' And are they gonna say, 'Do you think the captain's doing a good job?' People are gonna say, 'You know what? A good captain would have had us in some smooth waters and sunny skies, at this point.' And I don't control the weather. What I can control are the policies we're putting in place to make a difference in people's lives.

We agree with the nautical analogy but would suggest a comparison with the Titanic and its arrogant and reckless Captain, Edward Smith, by far more accurately describes this Administration’s failed first and hopefully only term of office. Truth be told the Titanic is the perfect metaphor to describe the entire Obama presidency.

All of the following are sure enough applicable:

• Arrogant disregard of reality
• Gross/criminal negligence
• Unbelievable incompetence
• Blame others (the iceberg)
• Sunk and still sinking – the economy
• Lost at sea – VP Biden
• Man the life boats – Obama’s foreign policy
• SOS – our country’s desperate call for help
• Full speed ahead – the President’s Marxist/Socialist agenda

True to form Croft didn’t challenge the President’s ridiculous analogy including his blaming the weather for the turbulent voyage. Consistent with previous interviews Croft just let our Great Orator of Empty Rhetoric–in-Chief dribble on with his lies, race baiting, class warfare, and wealth redistribution diatribes.

In our relentless pursuit to educate and inform our fellow citizens we retained the public watchdog group Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire (LLPF) to rank the truthfulness and veracity of the President’s remarks. On a scale of 1- the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth to 10 – lying like a cheap rug, the president scored a 52.

Following are a few examples of his most outrageous comments and the LLPF rating:

• Kroft: But they're not happy with the way you're doing your job. You've got 75 percent of the people in the country think it's headed in the wrong direction. Seventy-five percent. And 54 percent don't think that you deserve to be re-elected. I mean, those are not good numbers with 11 months to go before the election.
• Obama: Well, look. We've gone through an incredibly difficult time in this country. And I would be surprised if the American people felt satisfied right now. They shouldn't feel satisfied. We've got a lot more work to do in order to get this country and the economy moving in a way that benefits everybody, as opposed to just a few. LLPF-5. FIRST CLASS WARFARE SALVO
• Obama - This is a make or break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. Because what's at stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement Their philosophy is simple: we are better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules. I am here to say they are wrong. LLPF- 43.
• Kroft: I mean, you were really talking about income inequality, which suggests redistribution of wealth. There are gonna be people who say, 'This is the socialist Obama and he's come out of the closet.'
• Obama: Look, the-- everybody's at-- concerned about inequality. LLPF-57. Those folks in there, who were listenin' to the speech, those are teachers and small business people, and probably some small town bankers, who are in there thinking to themselves, 'How is it that I, we're workin' so hard,' and meanwhile, they know that corporate profits are at a record level, that a lot of folks are doin' very well. What's happened to the bargain? What's happened to the American deal that says, you know, we are focused on building a strong middle class? PURE D SOCIALIST DOCTRINE
• Kroft: Look, we're getting close to the start of the presidential campaign. Does this mean no more governing for the next year until next November? I don't mean just for you, I mean, for Congress. Do you have any hope that anything is gonna get accomplished between now and the next election?
• Obama: If I have anything to do about it, absolutely. LLPF-73. We're gonna keep on pushing to get things done. I want to work with Congress. LLPF-95. I want to work with both parties in Congress. LLPF- 107. I think that we can still make progress on a balanced approach to deficit reduction. LLPF- 78
• Kroft: Since the midterm elections, you made an effort at bipartisanship. LLPF- 54. It hasn't worked out that way. And it seems to me, it appears, watching you the last month or so, that you're-- stopped reaching out to Republicans. That you're being-- that you're going on the offensive.
• Obama: I think that when I came into office in 2008, it was my firm belief that at such an important moment in our history, there was no reason why Democrats and Republicans couldn't put some of the old ideological baggage aside and focus on common sense, what works, practical solutions to the tough problems we were facing. And I think the Republicans made a different calculation, which was, 'You know what? We really screwed up the economy. Obama seems popular. Our best bet is to stand on the sidelines, 'cause we think the economy's gonna get worse, and at some point, just blame him.' And so we haven't gotten the kind of engagement from them that I would have liked. LLPF-32
• Kroft: They don't like you much better. It's only seven percent approval rating.
• Obama: Yeah, no, I understand. But I think that they like the ideas that we put forward. I mean, the interesting thing is the majority of Republicans actually think we should have a balanced approach to deficit reduction, including tax increases for the wealthy. The majority of Republicans do think that we should make investments in roads and bridges and improving our airports and investing in basic research and medical research. LLPF-79
• Kroft: There's a general perception that the stimulus was not enough. That it really didn't work
• Obama: Let me stop you there, Steve. First of all, there's not a general perception that the stimulus didn't work. You've got John McCain's former economist and a whole series of prominent economists, who say that it created or saved three million jobs and prevented us from goin' into a Great Depression. That works. So that's not true. LLPF- OFF THE CHARTS
• Kroft: Why do you think you deserve to be re-elected? What have you accomplished?
• Obama: Not only saving this country from a Great Depression. Not only saving the auto industry. But putting in place a system in which we're gonna start lowering health care costs and you're never gonna go bankrupt because you get sick or somebody in your family gets sick. Makin' sure that we have reformed the financial system, so we never again have taxpayer-funded bailouts and the system is more stable and secure. LLPF-48. PRESIDENT SMITH IS CRAZIER THAN A RUNT OVER DOG
• Kroft: You're being judged now on your performance.
• Obama: No, no, no. I'm being judged against the ideal. And, you know, Joe Biden has a good expression. He says-- "Don't judge me against the Almighty, judge me against the alternative." THE ANOINTED ONE SURE ENOUGH HAS A BONA FIDE GOD COMPLEX

Sticking with the nautical theme Captain Obama has been busier than a one legged man at an ass kicking contest bailing water trying to keep his presidency afloat. Hopefully like Captain Smith before him President Obama’s Administration is sailing into an electoral shipwreck of Titanic proportions.

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

Ron W. Garikes

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Thoughts on Obama From Bama

Week 150: “Desperately In Search of a Kindred Spirit”

Then it's flat top, dirty bob, coppin' a feel
Grubbin' on the livin' room floor (so sore)
Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge,
But all you want to do is learn how to score

Yeah, but now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear
I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair
But I can go to movies and see it all there
Just the way that it used to be

That's why I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
The "Boston Blackie" kind
A two-toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of Andy Devine

Oh, I could be anyone I wanted to be
Maybe suave Errol Flynn or the Sheik of Araby
If I only had a pencil thin mustache
Then I could do some cruisin' too

Yeah, Bryl-cream, a little dab'll do yah
Oh, I could do some cruisin' too I Wish I Had a Pencil Thin Mustache, Jimmy Buffett

Reckon when one realize he sure enough just might be the worst president in the history of the Union it’s only natural to attempt to conjure up positive comparisons with successful predecessors. Lord knows the current occupant of the Oval Office has made a desperate attempt and miserably failed to establish a kindred spirit with several truly great former presidents.

Bless his deceitful little bleeding liberal heart Mr. Obama’s propaganda machine is making an all out effort advancing the absolutely absurd notion he is the collective reincarnation of Washington, Jefferson, Honest Abe, TR, FDR, Give um Hell Harry, We Like Ike, Kennedy, Reagan, and Saturday Night Bill Clinton. Truth be told any similarities with these men of courage, leadership, vision, patriotism, and real substance, with the exception of Saturday Night Bill, are few and far between.

A one on one comparison of our young, inept, incompetent, corrupt, dishonest, unethical, hyper partisan and criminally negligent Identity Crisis-in-Chief is illuminating to say the least. Consider the following:

• Washington – A man of great physical courage; moral courage; conviction; integrity; a true leader; an ardent patriot.
• Similarities with Obama – None; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• Jefferson – A true patriot; advocate of American exceptionalism; champion of limited government; and leader of men
• Similarities with Obama – Both are hyper partisan even devious politicians. Otherwise none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• Honest Abe – Truly a visionary leader. A patriot, inspirational, decisive Commander-in-Chief
• Similarities with Obama – Both from Illinois and long, lanky builds and humongous floppy ears. Other than that none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; and a person with class and no count white trash
• TR, Teddy Roosevelt – A real force of nature, war hero, and a man of true convictions
• Similarities with Obama – some populist and socialist leanings but when it comes to substance none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• FDR – A brilliant and effective war time president who provided inspired leadership during the most challenging of times
• Similarities with Obama – Some agreement on socialist entitlement initiatives but as for real leadership none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• Give um Hell Harry – Hardnosed, direct, honest, responsible leader
• Similarities with Obama – Absolutely nothing; none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• We Like Ike – Led most important military operation of WWII, D Day. One of history’s greatest military figures compared to Mr Obama who views our armed forces as nothing more than a photo opp
• Similarities with Obama – Not even a frog’s hair worth, none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• Kennedy – Genuine war hero, inspired millions, a man of vision
• Similarities with Obama – hankering to associate with a certain criminal element but for issues of any real consequence none; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash
• Reagan – Conservative thought leader, passionate advocate of liberty, freedom, and democratic agenda, victorious cold warrior
• Similarities with Obama – None; nada; zero; goose egg; night and day; coke and pepsi; southern gentlemen and tacky Yankee; a person with class and no count white trash. As different as lightening and a lightening bug

Mr. Obama’s actual presidential kindred spirits consist of a bunch of incompetent and/or corrupt Chief Executives that most historians consider the bottom of the barrel. Folks on this dubious list typically include the likes of Warren G. Harding, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, William Henry Harrison, Millard Fillmore, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and probably Mr Obama’s closest kindred spirit and we’re powerfully hesitant to admit fellow Southerner, Jimmy “Peanut“ Carter.

We don’t expect the Obama propaganda team will be advancing the similarities with the list of malcontents above anytime soon but hopefully the ludicrous comparisons to our greatest Commander-in-Chiefs will come to an abrupt halt. It’s embarrassing, just downright absurd, and the thought of including the name Obama in the same sentence with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln is as crazy as an outhouse rat.

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

Ron W. Garikes

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Week 149: “Abandon Ship”

Boys in the band ordered boat drinks
Visitors scored on the home rink
Everything seems to be wrong

Lately, newspaper mentioned cheap air fare
I gotta to fly to saint somewhere
I’m close to bodily harm

Twenty degrees and the hockey games on
Nobody cares they are way too far gone
Screamin boat drinks, something to keep em all warm

This mornin, I shot six holes in my freezer
I think I got cabin fever
Somebody sound the alarm
Boat Drinks, Jimmy Buffett

Sound the alarm, Katie bar the door, somebody alert the media, friends and allies of our Pariah-in-Chief are abandoning ship faster than a scalded dog running home to Momma. Folks that less than three short years ago worshiped the ground the great anointed one walked on our running for cover and avoiding Mr Obama as if he was inflicted with the mad cow, leprosy or a raging case of the clap.

A long list of disenchanted former friends and supporters is spreading faster than a patch of kudzu. Most are giving the Chief Executive the cold shoulder for reasons of political expediency, a few because incarceration and several have been actually thrown under the bus by the President after their unethical, perverted and/or unscrupulous conduct went public.

His radical leftwing circle of friends is shrinking faster than George’s manhood of Seinfeld fame after a frigid late night swim. Notable recent examples include:

• Prominent Democratic Senators McCaskill, Casey, Manchin, Nelson, Pryor and, Webb who were all where abouts unknown during recent taxpayer funded Obama campaign trips to their respective states
• Saturday Night Bill Clinton who ain’t really ever particularly cared for the junior Senator from Illinois anyhow
• Ole fellow corrupt Chicago political hacks and convicted felons the one and only Governor Blogo and bagman Tony Resko who arranged the Obama’s illegal sweetheart mortgage for their North shore mansion both of which are currently guest of the Illinois Department of Prisons and Corrections
• Congressmen’s Anthony Weiner’s resignation after his perv sex texting was publically exposed
• Prominent business folks including liberal New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman who have grown weary of his incompetence and class warfare rhetoric

A devastating blow to the American Liberal movement was Representative Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac“Frank’s announcement this week he will be retiring at the end of his current term. Truly a wild eyed, left wing, radical extremist he will be greatly missed by his political soul mate and BFF in the White House.

Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac“Frank’s liberal legacy rivals the likes of his Massachusetts comrades Tip O’Neil and Teddy “the Lady Killer, literally“Kennedy. His thirty plus year controversial and at times just downright strange political career is definitely worth a quick review:

• Born March 31, 1940 and raised in New Jersey. As a teenager said to spent summers touring Moscow, Beijing, Havana, San Francisco and Key West
• Graduated from Harvard College and just like his good bud Barack Harvard Law School
• U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district (1981–present). Former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee 2007–2011
• Officially came out of the closet in 1987 becoming the first member of Congress to do so voluntarily
• In 1985 Frank hired Steve Gobie for sex, a male prostitute. Gobie moved in and ran a male escort service out of Barn’s DC home. The House voted 408–18 to reprimand Frank for his criminal and despicable conduct
• Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac“Frank’s current life companion was recently busted for growing his own private stash of weed in Barn’s backyard. Of course ole Barn is pleading ignorance and claimed he wouldn’t recognize a marijuana plant if it snuck up and bit him on his cute little tushy

Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac“Frank’s most grievous public policy debacle was his fervent advocacy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In 2003, while the ranking minority member on the Financial Services Committee Frank opposed the Bush administration in response to transferring oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from Congress to the Treasury Department..

Frank stated, "These two entities ...are not facing any kind of financial crisis ... The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing." In 2003, Frank also stated "I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness [in the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] that we have in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing.”

At Barn’s insistence Fannie and Freddie made trillions in bad loans leading to the housing bubble and the financial crash in 2008. Along with Senator Chris “Sweetheart Deal Countrywide Boy” Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac“Frank is one of two individuals most responsible for our current fiscal calamity.

In light of these revelations retirement is far too generous for this arrogant; belligerent; criminal; deviant; nasty; ultra liberal; Marxist/Socialist; elitist; bonehead. Ole Barn deserves to be run out of town on a rail and hung up by his lavender color painted toe nails.

For good measure he should also be banned from ever attending another Broadway Musical or visiting Key West and San Francisco again. This may seem like cruel and unusual punishment but little Barney is most deserving of this and actually much worse.

Barney “Freddy in the Fanny Mac “Frank is abandoning ship and his departure can’t come soon enough. Let’s hope Mr Obama walks hand in hand with the boy into an early retirement.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama –42/ Auburn–14

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Week 148: “Veto This Mr. President”

I'm a piece of work, I'm iron and lace I'm shy, I'm right up in your face
I'm all dumbfounded, stubborn as an ass
Sharp as an arrow in a pile of glass.

I'm a sweetheart, genius, reckless jerk.
Lord, have mercy, I'm a piece of work
I'm a piece of work, Jimmy Buffett

With the abject failure of the so called Congressional “Super Committee”, the twelve poor dumb pilgrims charged with finding a paltry $1.2 trillion in debt reduction over the next ten years as part of the debt ceiling deal, our Record Breaking Spender of Other People’s Money-In-Chief wasted no time at all firing up the ole tele-prompter, hitting the airwaves blaming the GOP and advancing his racist, generational and class warfare campaign agenda. His only chance at reelection as running on his dismal economic and bend over, grab his ankles, thank you sir may I have another citizen of the world failed foreign policy record will surely lead to untold heart-ache and calamity for the Obama faithful.

In a particularly mean spirited and belligerent address Mr. Obama really took Congressional Republicans to the proverbial political woodshed repeatedly accusing them of putting party ahead of Country in their deliberations. Of course he conveniently forgot to mention there were also 6 Democrats on the set up for failure “Super Committee“ and last time we checked former boxer and currently punch drunk Harry Reid still heads up the Democrat Majority in the US Senate.

From a series of typical ludicrous remarks following are a few examples of his most ridiculous and misleading comments:

• Good afternoon. As you all know, last summer I signed a law that will cut nearly $1 trillion of spending over the next 10 years. Part of that law also required Congress to reduce the deficit by an additional $1.2 trillion by the end of this year. (to cut spending $2.2 trillion over the next 10 years represents a 2% reduction or there abouts. Anybody who thinks tax increases are necessary to achieve this objective is crazier than an outhouse rat)
• In September, I sent them a detailed plan that would have gone above and beyond that goal. It’s a plan that would reduce the deficit by an additional $3 trillion, by cutting spending, slowing the growth of Medicare and Medicaid, and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share. (fair share-code phrase for tax high wage earners and massive wealth redistribution)
• In addition to my plan, there were a number of other bipartisan plans for them to consider from both Democrats and Republicans, all of which promoted a balanced approach. This kind of balanced approach to reducing our deficit — an approach where everybody gives a little bit, and everyone does their fair share — is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans — Democrats, independents, and Republicans. It’s supported by experts and economists from all across the political spectrum. And to their credit, many Democrats in Congress were willing to put politics aside and commit to reasonable adjustments that would have reduced the cost of Medicare, as long as they were part of a balanced approach. (he used the words fair share 4,545 times in a 4 minute speech-code phrase for tax high wage earners and massive wealth redistribution)
• So when everybody gets back from Thanksgiving and I complete another tax payer funded cross country campaign swing and a few dozen rounds of golf it ‘will be time to appear to get some work done for the American people. All around the country, Americans are working hard to live within their means and meet their responsibilities. And I know they expect Washington to do the same.

In addition to this same ole, chock full of lies, boring, boring, boring rhetoric the President did make one new just downright troubling remark about the automatic triggers that will kick in with the Committee’s failure to reach an agreement. $1.2 trillion of mandatory spending cuts, half from across the boards domestic programs and half from an already decimated defense budget.

This is what our reluctant Commander-in-Chief had to say about these reckless, irresponsible, unprecedented and dangerous spending cuts to the defense budget:

• Now, the question right now is whether we can reduce the deficit in a way that helps the economy grow, that operates with a scalpel, not with a hatchet, and if not, whether Congress is willing to stick to the painful deal that we made in August for the automatic cuts. Already, some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts.
• My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

Barack Husain Obama has already committed several boneheaded and most likely impeachable acts since taking the Oath of Office including:

1. Taking justified what for from a French President about his negligent and Socialist fiscal policies
2. Running up just south of $5 trillion in additional debt in just 148 weeks
3. Giving our enemy a date certain troop withdrawal schedule
4. Passing state secrets to his comrades in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana (if he actually hasn’t done this he sure as hell been thinking about it)

Now he’s threatening to veto any bill that would maintain our national defense and security because he doesn’t want to give Republicans any political advantage. Ain’t no never mind about it Mr. Obama’s most impeachable infraction to date.

President Obama’s veto threat is the epitome of irresponsible, reckless, blatant political expediency. The only veto we should be thinking about is vetoing his happy ass out of office.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama –45/ Georgia Southern–21

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Week 147: “Barack Douglas C. Neidermeyer Obama”

I've been lazy most all of my life
Writing songs and sleeping late
Any manual labor I've done purely by mistake
If street sweepers can smile then
I've got no right to feel upset
But sometimes I still forget
Till the lights go on and the stage is set
And the song hits home and you feel that sweat

It's my job to be different than the rest
and that's enough reason to go for me
It's my job to be better than the best
and that's a tough break for me
It's my job to be cleaning up this mess
and that's enough reason to go for me
It's my job to be better than the best
and that makes the day for me “It’s My Job”, Jimmy Buffett

“You’re all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty” Douglas C. Neidermeyer, Animal House

Our CEO/Advocate-in-Chief seems too done lost his mind and is totally ignoring one of the primary responsibilities of the President of these here United States of America. Instead of aggressively and enthusiastically promoting the virtues of our great nation for some strange reason Mr. Obama is hell bent on accusing the very same country he swore on a Koran, um Bible, to lead and protect of all manner of bad behavior resulting in our current dismal financial condition.

It sure enough is damn sure difficult to determine if our Critic of Mom, Baseball and Apple Pie-in-Chief is truly on our fightin side. Based on recent comments it sure doesn’t seem so.

• “Dress that line. Dress that line, mister! Dress that line, soldier. Mister, hold my mount. [to Kent] You fat, disgusting slob! You're a damned disgrace! … Redo those buttons! Dress that belt buckle! Straighten that cap! And damn it, tuck up those pajamas! Attention! Eyes front! What's that on your chest, mister? Kent: It's a pledge pin, sir. A pledge pin! On your uniform? Just tell me, mister, what fraternity would pledge a man like you? Kent: It's a Delta pin, sir”

Following are a few disturbing examples of our President’s low opinion of the country he leads:

• "We've been a bit lazy over the last couple of decades. We've kind of taken for granted-well, people would want to come here - and we aren't that hungry, selling America and attracting new business,"
• “America has grown “a little soft”
• “We have lost our ambition, our imagination and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge,”
• “We suck, we are bunch of greedy imperialist capitalist that should follow the lead of our French and Cuban comrades” (Even if he didn’t exactly say it he damn sure is thinking it)

American Exceptionalism, the Shining City on a Hill, promoting worldwide democracy and using American influence to advance our strategic interest just ain’t included in this President’s DNA. He truly is a secular progressive, ultra left wing, hopeless liberal, citizen of the world who views America as an oppressive tyrannical super power instead of the world’s beacon of hope and freedom.

During this seemingly endless economic tsunami and dangerous international challenges the kind of inspired leadership we need like Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell need another double chocolate cream filled doughnut. If only our young and so misguided President would follow the lead of a few of his predecessors and several other political and business thought leaders:

• "America is too great for small dreams."
-Ronald Reagan
• "Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction."
-George H.W. Bush
• Ronald Reagan- The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
• Theodore Roosevelt- It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
• Harry S. Truman- America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
• "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." –Abraham Lincoln
• “The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.” –George Washington
• “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein
• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. Winston Churchill

Ain’t no never mind about it that’s some serious, uplifting, motivational, truly inspirational words of hope, promise and opportunity. Sure enough beats hell out of being called worthless and weak; fat; slobs; disgraces; lazy; soft; unimaginitive; uninventive; poor dumb pilgrims by the current occupant of the Oval Office.

• Otter: Point of parliamentary procedure!
Hoover: Don't screw around, they're serious this time!
Otter: Take it easy, I'm pre-law.
Boon: I thought you were pre-med.
Otter: What's the difference
Otter: Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did.
Otter: But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!

We're not going to sit here niether and listen to Barack Husain Obama badmouth the United States of America. Ladies and Gentlemen!

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 24/ Miss State–7

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Week 146: “Truth Be Told”

I'm just an old truth teller
I'm your candid friend
I'm not some daydream seller
I do not pretend
I've a sense of survival
And screwing my rivals
That's labeled me crossed and uncouth
But I can't help it I just tell the truth
He can't help it, he just tells the truth Just an Old Truth Teller, Jimmy Buffett

Not often, but on sure enough truly rare occasions, we get a glance at the real nature and character of our 44th President. Truth Be Told the unvarnished, no tele-prompter, unscripted reality about Barack Husain Obama’s genuine view of the grand scheme of things is so ugly it would scare a dog off a meat wagon.

Our most recent sneak preview of Mr. Obama’s true and unfiltered views was an incident that occurred this week at the G20 summit in France. President Obama and French president Nicolas Sarkozy made derogatory remarks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu they thought were private but were actually over heard by a live mike.

According to extremely reluctant left wing media elite reporters who stalled the story for several days not wanting to embarrass either one of their favorite so called enlightened presidents Sarkozy declared:

• "I cannot stand him. He is a liar."

To which our BFF of Israel-in-Chief Mr. Obama replied:

• "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!"

Not that these remarks come as any breaking news flash as the President has treated Netanyahu like a red headed stepchild since day one. Truly a travesty when you compare the backgrounds of these two world leaders and their contrasting rise to power. Consider the following:

• Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel.
• Netanyahu joined the Israeli Defense Forces in 1967 where he served as a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit, taking part in many missions including Operation Gift and the hostage rescue mission from the hijacked Sabena Flight 571 in 1972, where he was seriously wounded.
• He fought on the front lines in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and achieved the rank of captain.
• Netanyahu served as the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988
• Prime Minister from June 1996 to July 1999.

During the same time period the future leader of the free world, young Barack Husain Obama, was in hot pursuit of far less noble endeavors:

• Attending Islamic school in Indonesia
• Snorting coke and fully participating in Hawaii’s underground drug culture
• Snorting coke and fully participating in Columbia University’s underground drug culture
• Snorting coke and fully participating in Harvard’s underground drug culture
• Working as a community/labor agitator for the criminal socialist front group ACORN
• Voting present on every important issue while amassing the most extremist left wing record in the history of first the Illinois state house and later the US Senate

Don’t know about y’all but it seems clear to us we got the wrong person leading the free world. The arrogance demonstrated by a man of such dubious achievements and absence of moral fortitude the likes of President Obama criticizing a person of substance, courage and wisdom and the stature of Mr Netanyahu is unforgivable.

President Obama’s advocacy and support of Palestine and by fiat the international Islamic terrorist group Hamas has never been more obvious. A most disturbing and dangerous Obama foreign policy initiative.

Of course this sure as hell ain’t the first “hot mike” incident Mr. Obama has experienced as his political career is chock full of similar revealing moments when his genuine real feelings have been exposed. A few of the most notable include:

• Confirmation of his Socialist core values when he was overheard telling Joe the Plumber the need to redistribute wealth in this country
• A blatant act of his racist viewpoint based on the false accusations he made about the Cambridge Police Department in the Gates affair
• His elitist attitude and disdain for We the People when he remarked about the need for all of us ignorant yahoos to cling to our guns and Bibles during these trying times

Truth be told President Obama owes Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Israeli and American people a sincere apology for his cowardly remarks and lack of support for one of our most critical and strongest allies. Truth also sadly be told the man doesn’t have the class, character, or courage to ever express any regret for his arrogant and despicable conduct.

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

Ron W. Garikes

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Week 145: “We Can’t Wait”

From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
There was old men with beer guts and dominoes
Lying 'bout their lives while they played
I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick"
Just like desperados waitin' for a train
Like desperados waitin' for a train “Like Desperados Waitin' For a Train,” Jerry Jeff Walker

For the last several months our “Political Hack-in-Chief” has completely abandoned even any pretense of actually governing and has been traveling around the country in full campaign mode on our dime. All things considered not a bad return on investment if it keeps this incompetent, Socialist, left wing, egomaniac too preoccupied with his reelection instead of forcing his Marxist dreams of grandeur down our collective throats.

Demonstrating the traits of a corrupt Chicago political district ward chief as opposed to the leader of the free world whom we’d hope would occasionally show a little class and decorum Mr. Obama transforms into a hyper-partisan; race baiting; class warfare advocate; elitist false populist that would sure enough make the likes of George C. Wallace, Bull Conner and Uncle Joe Stalin his self proud. Bless his tiny bleeding liberal heart reckon you can take the Communist community organizer out of Chicago but you’ll never take the tyrannical Bolshevik ways out of Barack Husain Obama.

Out on the stump promoting his sham of a jobs bill our “Blamer of Everyone but Himself-in-Chief “ has pointed his boney little finger from everybody from W to ATM’S to cover for his massive failures resulting from their attempts to convert the world’s most productive and largest free market economy into a cradle to grave Socialist Nanny State. Most lately the evil GOP Congress has been his political whipping boy guilty of all manner of nefarious deeds including higher murder and rape rates, starving the old and poor folks, and unexplainable massive new incidents of Restless Leg Syndrome.

His newest political tactic, “We Can’t Wait”, is in reality the same Chicken Little the sky is falling or face dire consequences of Koranic, and um Biblically, proportions strategy the Obama fear mongers used to pass the trillion dollar stimulus package, Obamacare, Dodd/Freddy In the Fanny Mac Frank, bank bailouts and the government confiscation of the US auto industry. All of which turning out to be unmitigated disasters resulting in 9 plus percent unemployment, the doubling of gas prices, more new debt than white on rice and frozen credit that is killing economic growth.

During his Saturday web/radio address our hurried CEO used a derivative of his new “We Can’t Wait “call to arms 948 times. Rumor has it the infamous Presidential teleprompter done blowed up due to the truly mind numbing repetition.

According to our signer of unconstitutional and illegal Executive Orders the following world shaking policy initiatives just can’t wait for Congressional approval:

• Complete takeover of the student loan program by Uncle Sammy resulting in no consequences defaults and free money compliments of the American tax payer
• Home financing mortgage relief loan program by Uncle Sammy resulting in no consequences defaults and free money compliments of the American tax payer
• To fix No Child Left Behind, the President directed his administration to move forward with a plan to give states the flexibility they need to help students meet higher standards.
• The Administration acted to cut dramatically the time it takes for small businesses that contract with the federal government to get paid.
• Eliminated outdated regulations that will save hospitals and patients billions of dollars in the years ahead. Specifics on how this would be accomplished as usual are few and far between

Independently and collectively these measures won’t amount to a bucket of warm spit. Nothing more than additional examples of wealth redistribution to the President’s victim class constituencies.

In the spirit of “We Can’t Wait” Thoughts of Obama From Bama would like to add a few items to the list:

1. “We Can’t Wait” to see the door knob hit Mr. Obama in the arse on his way out the door of the White House after losing the election next fall
2. “We Can’t Wait “till VP Biden permanently retires to the nearest Irish pub and stops embarrassing the Country every time he opens that cavernous mouth
3. “We Can’t Wait” for She of the Shaved Butt Ugly Pants Suit Klan, Madame Secretary of State Hillary Rohdam-Clinton, to slip off into political has been status with faithful husband Saturday Night Bill never to duck enemy sniper fire again
4. “We Can’t Wait” to watch senior political hack, terrorist sympathizer, liar, and racist bonehead, AG Eric Holder hauled off to jail with all the other criminals

We also can’t wait to watch college football’s National Championship Saturday night at Bryant/Denny in Tuscaloosa when the Alabama Crimson Tide knock off the number one ranked LSU Tigers.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 144: “Reports Confirm 40%-50% of American People Are Missing Half Their Brain”

When the telephone woke me this morning, I'm
sorry was the first thing I said
From that point it get's a bit fuzzy, thinking with half a head
Putting the pieces together, it's shocking to flash on the past
'Cause when you are known as a rascal, you can bet you showed off your ass “I Was So Bad Last Night “ Jerry Jeff Walker

Best take care out there children. There sure enough seems to be an insidious and nefarious plot a foot in the home of the brave and none of us are immune.

Considering the Country’s absolutely dismal financial status and diminished standing in the world President Obama’s current poll numbers are truly remarkable. So remarkable something truly sinister must be spreading across this great nation faster than kudzu.

After exhausting all the other options it’s obvious to us 40% to 50% of our fellow citizens are the victims of an unspeakable heinous act. Somebody slowly and stealthily has done snuck up on each and every one of these individuals, stuck a straw in their ear, and sucked out half their brain.

In our way of reckoning that’s the only credible explanation for these radical left wing head cases that continue to support not only the worst but also the most dangerous President in the history of the Union. It’s almost like watching an episode of AMC’s “Walking Dead“ just on a much grander scale.

Following is a summary of the current polling according to Real Clear Politics.com averages that should have all of us as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs:

• Obama Approval 44 – Disapproval 51
• Obama 46 – Romney 45
• Obama 48 – Cain 40
• Obama 50 – Perry 39
• Obama 49 – Gingrich 36
• Obama 41 – Generic Republican 43
• Direction of Country, Right 19 – Wrong 75

It ain’t like he’s exactly walking in high cotton but almost unbelievably President “All Manner of Disaster “ Obama is polling between 41 and 50 in every match up. Considering the complete and abject failure of the Obama Socialist regime these numbers are more frightening than being stranded on a disserted island with Nancy Pelosi.

The world’s greatest nation ever is rapidly approaching a tipping point and Barack Obama and his half brained faithful are about to spill us over into the mediocrity of a Marxist/Socialist abyss. Dr. Adrian Rogers astutely described our pending downfall when he wrote the following almost 30 years ago:

• “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

With Halloween rapidly approaching best take care not to become the next victim of Obama’s army of straw carrying, half brained, wild eyed, left wing, radical extremist, liberal boneheads. Observing VP Biden, Representative Pelosi and Senator Reid surely provides inspiration for us all too diligently stand watch for Obamaites lurking in the shadows armed with brain sucking straws.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 37/ Tenn Vols– 6

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Week 143: “A Revolution in Dire Need of a Cause”

Down to the Banana Republics
Down to the tropical sun
Go the expatriated American
Hopin' to find some fun

Some of them go for the sailing
Brought by the lure of the sea
Tryin' to find what is ailing
Living in the land of the free
Some of them are running to lovers
Leaving no forward address
Some of them are running tons of ganja
Some are running from the IRS

Late at night you will find them
In the cheap hotels and bars
Hustling the senioritas
While they dance beneath the stars
Spending those renegade pesos
on a bottle of rum and a lime
Singin' give me some words I can dance to
Or a melody that rhymes Banana Republic, Jimmy Buffett

Bless their hearts the Occupy Wall Street mob is truly “A Revolution in Dire Need of a Cause”. Truth be told this totally misguided and unorganized gang of boneheaded liberal head cases couldn’t find their ass with two hands and a flashlight in a locked closet let alone a legitimate grievance worth all the ruckus and media attention they have generated to date.

Responses to press inquires about what’s got um so riled up in the first place seem to vary as much as the excuses and other folks to blame President Obama proclaims when defending his untold and self inflicted failures as our first Socialist-in-Chief. Following is representative list of these yahoo’s stated mission and objectives:

• Anger about greed on Wall Street
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Abolish capitalism
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Redistribute the wealth
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Create a Socialist Nanny state
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Free healthcare
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Free education
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Bring home the troops
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Stick it to the man
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Shorter work week, higher wages, more benefits
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Government paid retirement
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Tax the rich out the yazoo
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Elimination of all fossil fuels
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Free lunch, prophylactics and Wi-Fi all paid for with other people’s money.
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• America sucks
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible
• Why can’t we be more like the Marxist Utopian Banana Republics Castro’s Cuba and Chavez’s Venezuela?
• Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible

Now that we’ve established this mindless mob doesn’t have anything that even remotely resembles a logical or rational reason to assemble and raise their collective voices in protest naturally almost every liberal nut job celebrity has unabashedly stood right on up just like they had good sense in support of these nimrods. All the usual suspects including the likes of the following radical leftwing elitist have enthusiastically proclaimed their support:

• Some millionaire hip hop thug Shane West
• Alec Baldwin, who’s just tickled pink to take millions from Capital One for his goofy commercials
• Tim Robbins and his his ex-life partner Susan the Pope’s a Nazi Sarandon
• Michael chocolate double cream filled Moore
• Roseanne scratch her crotch Barr
• Rosie dumber than a bag of hammers O’Donnell

In addition to this liberal brain trust some of the country’s leading progressive organizations have announced their solidarity with this “Revolution in Dire Need of a Cause”. Labor Unions, the ACLU, NOW, NAG, Code Pink, the American Communist and Socialist parties, for good measure the US Nazis and of course the radical left wing media elite have all committed vast resources in support of the “cause“.

Not one to miss out on any Marxist/Socialist/Commie revolution our Protestor-in-Chief has also thrown in with this directionless, confused, inept, and irrelevant mob. The perfect match with the Obama Administration, sure enough an ideal example of the blind leading the blind.

At least this mob does have one worthy objective - Score as much booze, weed, other narcotics and sex as humanly possible. Not exactly comparable to the American Revolution but considering the alternatives a most worthwhile endeavor.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 52/ Ole Miss– 7

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Week 142: “Slow & Silent”

I'd love to get you
On a slow boat to China
All to myself alone

Get you and keep you
In my arms ever more
Leave all your lovers
Weepin' on a far away shore

Out on the briny
With the moon big and shiny
Melting your heart of stone

Honey I'd love to get you
On a slow boat to China
All by myself alone Slow Boat to China, Jimmy Buffett

Instead of Fast and Furious, the scandalous and sure enough most likely criminal gun running fiasco conducted by the boneheads at the Obama Department of Justice, “Slow & Silent” is without any doubt a more accurate description of the Administration’s response to this most unfortunate incident. And just like most of the crimes and/or unethical acts of gross incompetence or political corruption committed by our noble public servants the obligatory cover up is what ultimately lands their happy asses in the jailhouse.

From the reaction so far from the Obama Regime Fast and Furious/ “Slow & Silent” ain’t gonna be the exception to this far too frequent political reality. To make matters worse senior political hack, appeaser of Islamic Jihadist terrorist, incompetent, racist, President Obama’s political soul mate, the Attorney General of these here United States, Eric Himpton Holder, Jr., is up to his eyeballs in this controversy and the entire sordid affair is fixen to cover him up like white on rice.

Before we explore racist, lying like a cheap rug, political hack AG Holder’s central role in this extraordinarily boneheaded gun walking catastrophe a review of the facts surrounding this unlawful federal sting operation might help shed some light on this travesty of justice perpetrated by the “Hope, Change, Believe” gang:

• The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), who report directly to the DOJ and senior political hack, racist, AG Holder, operated Fast and Furious in 2009 as an attempt to track the sale of thousands of guns on the U.S. side of the border to Mexican drug rings. It wasn’t exposed until some of the same weapons turned up at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Arizona
• President Barack Obama says he has “complete confidence” in his AG, and that neither of them was aware of the “Fast and Furious” operation that allowed the flow of firearms in the U.S. across the border to Mexican drug cartels.

“I have been very clear that I have complete confidence in Attorney General Holder and how he handles his office,” Obama said during a Thursday press conference. “He has been very aggressive in going after gun running and cash transactions that are going to these transnational drug cartels in Mexico. He’s indicated that he was not aware what was happening in Fast and Furious.”

“Certainly I was not, and I think both he and I would have been very unhappy if somebody had suggested that guns were allowed to pass through, that could have been prevented by the United States of America,” Obama said. The President also said he has “complete confidence” that Holder will “figure out who in fact was responsible for that decision and how it got made.”
• Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa and Rep. Darrell Issa of California, who are leading the congressional investigation, released five memos that were addressed to racist political hack Holder as far back as July 2010 describing the boneheaded gun walking scheme. Holder told Congress during a May hearing this year he had just learned of the operation weeks before. The memos written by Michael Walther, director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, said the bogus gun buyers were “responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels.”
• The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed racist political hack AG Holder to answer the simple questions he claims to have found so confusing during his previous appearances
"When did they know it wasn't the right way to do it and why (did) they keep doing it?" asked committee chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
• Issa also told "Fox News Sunday" this week that "people in the top" of the Justice Department knew about the operation, were "well-briefed about it, and seemed to be the command and control and funding for this program."

Senior political hack, racist, AG Holder got caught with his britches down lying to a Congressional Oversight Committee. Not that any of this should by any means surprise any of us when you consider his unethical, dishonest, most likely criminal and unequivocally ungentlemanly conduct displayed during his disgraceful career as a political hack willing to expedite almost any despicable act on behalf of his unscrupulous bosses Saturday Night Bill Clinton and Barack Husain Obama.

A brief review of senior political hack, racist, AG Holder’s notorious career is a sad commentary on the Marxist scoundrels, liars and low lifes currently running things in DC. Following is a most disconcerting profile of our nation’s morally bankrupt Chief Legal Officer:

• In his final days with the Clinton administration, Holder was involved with Clinton's last-minute pardon of fugitive and a FBI Top Ten Most Wanted tax cheat and Democratic contributor Marc Rich. According to Rich's attorney, Holder advised to circumvent standard procedures and to submit the pardon petition directly to the White House. Saturday Night Bill was also having relations with Rich’s Mrs’s which provided additional incentive to do the deal
• Holder was also involved in Clinton's decision to reduce the criminal sentences of 16 members of the Boricua Popular Army, an organization that has been categorized by the FBI as a terrorist organization. We don’t exactly know who Saturday Night Bill was receiving sexual favors from that secured theses wild eyed terrorist release
• Holder gave a speech on race relations on February 18, 2008 in which he called the United States "a nation of cowards" on racial issues. "Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we average Americans simply do not talk enough with each other about race," he said.
• In May 2010 racist political hack Holder expressed "concerns" about "Arizona’s tough new immigration law", saying that it might "lead to racial profiling". Holder was criticized for his testimony during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, when he said that he had "not even read" the Arizona law
• In May 2009, racist political hack Holder's DOJ ended a civil suit originally brought by the Bush administration against the New Black Panther Party, its chairman, and two of its members for voter intimidation due to their conduct during the 2008 election. Two members of the party had stood outside a polling station during the election in paramilitary uniforms, one of them carrying a billy club, and both shouted racial insults at white voters. Although none of the defendants appeared in court to contest the charges, the department of justice voluntarily dismissed the case contending that the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence even though their blatant acts of intimidation were filmed by a local news station.

During a meeting with a House subcommittee discussing this and other issues, Holder has argued that the behavior from the New Black Panther Party was not comparable to historical voter intimidation against minorities, stating "When you compare what people endured in the South in the ’60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia… I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people.” My people? As AG of the entire United States and not just our fellow black Americans aren’t we all suppose to be his people?

Our Nation’s Attorney General has repeatedly demonstrated his hyper-partisan, corrupt, unethical, criminal, racist, incompetent, dishonest character flaws in the execution of his duties as the Country’s chief legal officer. His conduct in the Fast and Furious/ “Slow & Silent” debacle is just the latest example of this man’s arrogant disregard for the rule law and the Constitution.

His claim of ignorance about Fast Furious/ “Slow & Silent” is sure enough gonna backfire to his boss’s chagrin and the Country’s great benefit. He's either a no count lying dog or an incompetent hack.

In the case of our racist political hack AG, Eric Holder, both are more than likely applicable.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 34/ Vandy– 0

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Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 141: “Lets Move ”

I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and french fried potatoes
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
Well, good god Almighty which way do I steer

For my cheeseburger in paradise
Makin' the best of every virtue and vice.
Worth every damn bit of sacrifice
To get a cheeseburger in paradise;
To be a cheeseburger in paradise.
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise. Cheeseburger In Paradise, Jimmy Buffett

Week 141 of the Obama regime was chock full of political, military, and economic news and events some good, mostly bad and a few too early to tell. Some of the more notable events included:

• The American-born radical Islamic cleric Anwar al Awlaki who was the operational leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was killed by a US predator drone in Yemen. Another major victory for our reluctant Commander-in-Chief in his Overseas Contingency Operations or what most of us would refer to as the War on Islamic Jihadist Terrorist
• Chris Christi said no sir, no way, no how once again
• 700 radical left wing throw back to the 60’s protester wannabes were hauled off to jail in New York chanting “What do want-we don’t know. When do we want it-right now.” This bunch of yahoos are sure enough gonna achieve some serious world shaken with that clarity of focus
• Email and other written evidence emerged confirming the White House’s new clean energy poster child Solyndra was a financial disaster in waiting but gave them a half billion dollars anyway so the President’s photo opp at their shop wouldn’t have to be cancelled
• Evidence emerged senior political hack, terrorist sympathizer and US Attorney General, Eric Holder, lied like a cheap rug to a Congressional Committee about his knowledge about a US led gun running fiasco known as “Fast and Furious”.
• Amanda Knox won her appeal
• After 23 years ESPN fired Bosephus, Hank Jr, for using a Hitler/Obama analogy on FOX News. Considering the literally thousands of acts of public excess and debauchery committed by old Hank over the last 2 decades seems a might silly and PC to send the voice of “Are you ready for some football” packing for such a minor infraction
• President Obama admitted openly and without shame on ABC the Country is worse off than we were when his change gang infested the White House. A shockingly candid admission although the Tea Party, W, or maybe Hank Jr. will surely get the blame during his next speech.
• The Alabama Crimson Tide put a major hurting on the Florida Gators under the lights in the Swamp, RTR

Mean while as all of this craziness along with the economy’s continued piss poor performance the Obama Administration remains hell bent on implementing their real/hidden agenda as proudly proclaimed back during the anointed one’s historic campaign. Fundamentally transforming our great nation from the leader of the free world to just one more half ass secular progressive European style Socialist republic.

In other words a Marxist/Socialist utopia that would make the likes of Mau, Stalin, Castro and even Karl Marx his self proud. The success of the “two, four, six, eight, we want a Socialist Nanny State” crowd can’t be denied or ignored.

Following is a list of their many achievements:

• Obamacare/Socialized medicine
• Nationalization of the US Auto Industry
• The appointment of a National Salary Czar
• Hostile government takeover of the Financial Industry
• Federal seizure of US Energy Industry
• Most massive redistribution of wealth in the history of the civilized world
• The addition to the First Family of Bolshevik the Portuguese Water Dog

One of the most annoying, oppressive, and insidious Socialist Nanny State initiatives is the First Lady’s pet project the innocuous sounding Let’s Move campaign. A seemingly noble endeavor targeting childhood obesity.

Promoted with brain numbing Brady Bunch style Public Service Announcements depicting mostly thin, smiling, running, jumping, jump roping, happy, happy, happy cute little Latino and black kids (fat little white kids must not be their target audience) extolling the virtues of exercise and a healthy diet. They also have an add out with the first lady shooting hoops with some Disney kid show cast members.
Don’t know about y’all but seeing the First lady of the most powerful country on earth dunkin on some mickey mouse commercial ain’t exactly dignified in our way of reckoning. Can’t rightly imagine Jackie, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary (she got plenty of exercise ducking enemy sniper fire), or Laura Bush hitting the court and rattling the net on national TV.

Bless her heart she is a tacky Yankee lawyer and just can’t help herself. Regardless, it ain’t fitten it just ain’t fitten.

Then there’s the stealth, nefarious, hardcore oppressive Socialist aspect of this initiative that’s nowhere to be found on their pastel colored website or moronic commercials. Consider the following:

• Billions of our hard earned tax dollars have been committed to this effort from several different federal agencies with no public accounting for the money
• McDonalds and other fast food chains were only granted waivers to Obamacare after they agreed to offer nutritional alternatives the likes of apple slices for French fries. No self respecting Southerner would ever opt for such a bland low fat alternative but they might get a few econut Yankee soccer moms to give it a whirl
• State and local school districts were threatened with severe funding cuts for noncompliance to federally mandated menus
• The ultimate goal is to control and dictate children’s diets in the public sector and the kitchen table initially by public advocacy and eventually by oppressive legislation. Classic strong arm tactics right out this regimes political bible the Communist Manifesto

The Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

If Billy Bob and Betty Lou Thelma Liz’s idea of true happiness is stuffing Bubba Jr. and Sister with fried chicken, sweet tea, pecan pie, and moonpies it just ain’t any of Michelle Obama’s damn business. With freedom and liberty comes personal responsibility and the right to raise our youngins as we see fit.

In the words of the great Texan humorist and philosopher Ron “Tater Salad” White sometimes “you just can’t fix stupid”. So…

I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and french fried potatoes
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
Well, good god Almighty which way do I steer

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 38/ Florida– 10

ROLL TIDE!

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 140: “Mano-a-Mano Obama Takes a Cainin ”

This song was first by Ray Wylie Hubbard

He was born in Oklahoma,
His wife's name is Betty Lou Thelma Liz
He's not responsible for what he's doing
Cause his mother made him what he is.

And it's up against the wall Redneck Mother,
Mother, who has raised her son so well.
He's thirty-four and drinking in a honky tonk.
Just kicking hippies asses and raising hell. Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother, Jerry Jeff Walker

To the amazement of the GOP establishment, radical leftwing liberal media elite, and in particular Governors Rick Perry and Mitt Romney Herman Cain was the big winner in the Florida Republican’s Presidential straw poll last Saturday. Self described as the only nonpolitician/businessman in the overcrowded field of GOP presidential hopefuls the charismatic former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza scored a major victory accumulating a higher percentage of the overall vote count than the two media anointed front runners, Perry and Romney, combined.

Too early to tell if this unexpected “Cainin” of his fellow Republican rivals will raise him from the obscurity of a second tier unknown candidate to a legitimate bona fide contender for the nomination of the Grand Old Party. Considering the man’s truly remarkable personal life story and professional accomplishments Thoughts of Obama From Bama certainly wouldn’t be surprised at all if this world shaker private sector over achiever not only wins his own Party’s nomination but also gives the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Barack Huisan Obama, the political “Cainin” of his short, undistinguished, corrupt, inept, criminally incompetent, and disastrous career as an elected public official.

A Mano-a-Mano comparison of these two polar opposite individuals both seeking our Nation’s highest office is a study of human dynamics worthy of a PhD in Sociology, Advanced Political Theory, the Economics of Dependence and Poverty, Class Warfare, and President Obama’ favorite subjects Establishing Marxist/Socialist Utopian Communes and Effective Propaganda Strategies and Tactics.

Following is a detailed comparison of the diverse and almost diametrically opposite upbringings and socialization of two black Americans. Herman Cain’s inspirational and motivational American success story and Barack Obama’s secretive, strong armed, and nefarious rise to power:

• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, born December 13, 1945 in Memphis,TN. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, Father an alcoholic, Muslim, academic. Mother a free spirited child of the 60’s. Both abandoned young Barack at an early age. Children sure enough don’t pick their parents but it does explain the basis of his many character flaws including his lying, unethical, pathological narcissism, unmoral, aversion to responsibility, pathetic golf swing and blaming others for his failures ways. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, mother was a cleaning woman and his father was a chauffeur. He grew up in Georgia where his parents lived the American dream saving and sacrificing to buy their own home and send their boys to college. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, raised by white grandparents in Hawaii after spending 4 years in Indonesia where he attended Islamic schools. Dove into low life Hawaiian criminal drug culture. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, an associate minister at Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta, which he joined at the age of 10. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, attended Columbia and Harvard Law where according to his own book sought out the company of fellow Socialist and radical feminist. Student Obama’s transcripts or method of financing his education have never been disclosed. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, graduated from Morehouse College in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and received a Master of Science degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1971. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, Community Organizer, criminal Socialist group, ACORN. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, worked in ballistics for the U.S. Department of the Navy. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, Coca-Cola Company as a business analyst. In 1977, he joined Pillsbury where he rose to the position of Vice President. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, Illinois Senate. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, President and CEO of Godfather's Pizza. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, 2004 U.S. Senate. Radical Marxist/Socialist Bolshevik
• HERMAN CAIN, CEO of the National Restaurant Association – a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry – where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather's. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• HERMAN CAIN, member of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot
• HERMAN CAIN, board of directors of Aquila, Inc. from 1992 to 2008, and also served as a board member for Nabisco, Whirlpool, Reader's Digest and AGCO, Inc. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Patriot

Ain’t no never mind about it Herman Cain has forgot more about leadership, management, problem solving, and providing genuine inspiration to folks in need than Barack Obama ever learned in his woefully short, shallow and undistinguished career before his accent to Commander-in-Chief on totally false pretenses . A Mano-a-Mano comparison of their personal and professional accomplishments leaves no room for doubt.

Mr. Obama will experience a political “Cainin” of historic proportions in November, 2012 if Herman Cain can defy conventional wisdom by winning the GOP nomination. In our humble opinion anyone who thinks otherwise is crazier than an outhouse rat.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 38/ Arkansas– 14

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Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 139: “The Obama Regime Attacks an American Icon”

Traveled with me always
through the alleys and bars
songs I sang and friends I knew
were part of that guitar
some nights it was my pillow
resting underneath the stars
day and night I stayed alive
with that old beat up guitar.

Didn't look like too much
just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe
but a lady she never faired as well
who'd traveled through so much That Old Beat Up Guitar, Jerry Jeff Walker

• 9% plus unemployment for as far as the eye can see
• Energy cost higher than VP Uncle Joe Biden after polishing off a bottle of Irish whiskey on a typical Saturday night
• Continued criminal deficit spending of other people’s money faster than a one eyed scalded dog running home to momma
• Economic growth slower than malasis and seemingly getting downgraded weekly
• Debt piling up faster than the BS at an Obama campaign rally
• More new government regulations than white on rice literally snuffing out job creation and investment in business ventures
• The influence, intrusion, oppression and power of the Federal Government spreading faster than kudzu
• Amount of folks receiving food stamps at record levels
• Number of our fellow citizens living in poverty at Great Depression levels
• Housing market rode hard and put up wet
• A 3 front war suffering from indecisive leadership, waffling and strategies and tactics based on political expediency instead of military necessity
• Iran hell bent and well on their way to getting their grubby little jihadist hands on a nuclear bomb
• This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

With all of this, the Country and most of the civilized world facing financial Armageddon, and all manner of other catastrophe what’s taking priority at the train wreck known as the Obama Administration? Even though the entire notion of it is crazier than a runt over dog the most powerful country ever known to man has set its sights on taking out the Gibson Guitar Company of Nashville, Tennessee.

That’s right, the 130 year old iconic American corporation has been declared public enemy number one by our terrorist sympathizer Attorney General Eric Holder and his boss Barack “Barney Fife“Obama. Reckon the master craftsman that have provided many of the legends of modern day music with what many consider the most righteous guitars of the rock and roll era including the ground breaking and gifted artist -

• Slash of Guns N’ Roses’ fame; Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page; Randy Rhoads, guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne; KISS’s Ace Frehley; Reggae legend Bob Marley mon; Areosmith’s Joe Perry; Mr. Eric “She’s alright, She’s alright, She’s alright, She’s alright, Cocaine” Clapton; and Duane Allman’s Southern-fueled brand of rock which was partially due to the Gibson Les Paul’s unique tone and his most famous solos, such as “Whipping Post”

have done breached some mighty high national security top secret programs or some other major infraction cause there sure enough got the full and undivided attention of Uncle Sammy.

At least one would think so. Turns out Gibson committed the most heinous and nefarious of crimes of not complying with the restrictions and regulations of the Lacey Act. A violation that sure enough calls for every available resource of the Federal Government to ensure the safety of the public from the mad dog lunatic low life scoundrels at the Gibson Guitar Company of Nashville, Tennessee.

According to public records following is a summary of events surrounding this truly extraordinary miscarriage of justice:

• Gibson offices in Nashville and Memphis were raided by federal agents, for the second time within two years.
• The Custom and Border Protection agency, and the Fish and Wildlife Service raided the buildings, and declined to comment about the ongoing investigation.
• The raids were conducted by over 24 armed Federal Marshalls
• Facilities were shut down, employees sent home, millions worth of product confiscated, and visiting tourist were escorted from the premises
• Gibson CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, blasted the authorities for the effect it was taking on the company and potentially its reputation: “We believe the arrogance of federal power is impacting me personally, our company personally and the employees here in Tennessee, and it’s just plain wrong.”
• The Lacey Act makes it a crime to import plants or wildlife into the U.S. if those goods were obtained in a way that violated the laws of another country.
• According to Indian officials, the country of origin where the rosewood in question was purchased, no laws were violated
• A number of other US manufactures including several other guitar companies have confirmed purchases of the exact same wood from Indian sources

This entire affair stinks to high heaven. Ain’t no never mind about it a blatant criminal abuse of Government power.

There’s only three reasons the Obama Administration went after Gibson and it ain’t got nothing to do with some obscure trade law called the Lacey Act.

1. Gibson CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, is a generous supporter of the GOP and an outspoken critic of President Stalin, um, Obama
2. Gibson is a nonunion open shop
3. The Obama Administration is confident his adoring followers in the media elite press won’t hold him accountable

Armed paramilitary soldiers raiding a legitimate US company citing bogus trumped up charges is classic Marxist/Socialist tactics right out of the Communist Manifesto. Considering the total disregard for the law and arrogance of this bunch we all best protect our own happy asses and keep a close watch for Ivan coming to knock down our own doors.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama – 41/ North Texas – 0

ROLL TIDE!