Thursday, January 27, 2011

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 105: “Lollygagger

Skip: You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Larry: Lollygaggers!
Skip: Lollygaggers.
“Bull Durham”

Defining our 44th President, Barack Husain Obama:

• You nationalize the US Auto industry. You nationalize the US Financial industry. You nationalize the US Energy industry. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Larry: Socialist!
Skip: Socialist.

• You redistribute wealth from productive folk to the victim class. You spend other people’s money with reckless abandon. You accumulate more debt than white on rice. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Larry: Socialist!
Skip: Socialist.

• You appoint open self described Socialist and Communist as Czars in your “Secret Shadow Government”. You publicly praise and promote Marxist/Socialist doctrine. You ease travel restrictions to your beloved Cuba supporting your hero Castro. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Larry: Socialist!
Skip: Socialist.

• You never stray too far from your Socialist indoctrination at Columbia and from your radical Earth Mom and renegade Muslim Father. You blindly follow teachings of political socialist mentors Bill Ayers and the always effervescing Rev. Wright. As President you show preferential treatment for your old Socialist employer ACORN. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Larry: Socialist!
Skip: Socialist.

On the last day of “Week 105” of the Obama Regime our “Great Orator of Empty Rhetoric-in-Chief” delivered his annual State of the Union Address. According to most of the notoriously just flat out plumb wrong media elite the President would surely continue his alleged pivot to the center with an olive branch clinched between his teeth and whiskey and cigars tucked under each arm as a gesture of goodwill towards his new GOP political soul mates.

Only problem with the media boneheads bipartisan new era of civility and expectations of Presidential moderation is the cold harsh reality that Barack Husain Obama is a hardcore extreme left wing Marxist Socialist who openly and without shame has no inclination what so ever to shift and govern from the middle. The very thought of such an action strikes this revolutionary as hateful and repugnant.

Truth be told Comrade Obama’s devout and passionate Socialist beliefs are more akin to:

• Putting lipstick on a pig, it’s still just a pig - Putting lipstick on a Socialist – it’s still just a Socialist
• Plant a tater, get a tater – Elect Socialist - Get a Socialist
• Walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, looks like a duck, must be a duck - Walks like a Socialist, sounds like a Socialist, looks like a Socialist, must be a Socialist


Our Bolshevik-in-Chief did make several thinly veiled attempts to look and sound like a capitalist during his address but each and every proposal reeked with the stench of massive additional deficit spending; intrusive government; wealth redistribution; and Marxist/Socialist doctrine. This Obama head fake to the center was nothing but high political theatre designed to give his liberal media elite fan club ammunition for their next round of propaganda columns and commentaries.

A few examples from the President’s The State of the Union is Socialist Speech include:

1. The President’s bogus proposal to freeze discretionary spending at current levels. Considering discretionary spending has increased 84% since Mr. Obama took office two years go capping spending at this level represents an annualized increase of 18% over five years. Gross arrogance and the epitome of fiscal irresponsibility.
2. “Investments” in Education – Deficit busting spending on Teacher’s unions for political payback
3. “Investments” in infrastructure – Fiscally irresponsible deficit exploding political payback to labor unions
4. “Investments” in clean energy – Nationalize energy industry causing cost to consumers to skyrocket as we unsuccessfully wean us off foreign oil while leaving an almost endless reserve of domestic crude untapped.
5. “Investments” in government selected innovation that meet political/PC agendas as opposed to the tried and true approach of getting the hell out of the private sector’s way allowing risk taking and profits to dictate success instead of intrusive government and social engineering


Considering the mind boggling amount of new “Investments”, a euphemism for recklessly spending other people’s money and extorting/redistributing our most productive pilgrim’s wealth, our “Socialist-in-Chief” pivot to the right ain’t nothing more than some main stream media elites political fantasy. In the final analysis any dumb SOB who truly believes President Obama has or will moderate his views and intends to govern from the center is crazier than an outhouse rat.

Skip: You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Larry: Lollygaggers!
Skip: Lollygaggers.

President Obama: You advocate classic Marxist/Socialist policy initiatives. You conduct wealth distribution with the ease a duck takes to water. You represent the most serious national security threat to our great nation since the Cold War. You know what that makes you? Larry!
Larry: Socialist!

Skip: Socialist.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 104: “Halfway Home”

And of the whole damn lot, the only friend I've got
is a smoke and a cheap guitar.
My mind keeps roamin', my heart keeps longin'
to be home in a Texas bar
I wanna go home with the arma dillo
Good country music from Ama rillo and Abi lene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever
seen
“London Home Sick Blues,” Jerry Jeff Walker

Week 104 marks the “Halfway Home“ point of the most destructive; dangerous; subversive; anti-democratic; Socialist; ethically deficient; corrupt; intellectually dishonest; elitist; narcissistic; just downright Un-American Presidential Administration to ever occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Led, or to be more precise hoodwinked, by a charismatic visionary revolutionary, one Barack Husain Obama, our great Nation is experiencing unprecedented, genuine, fundamental, transformational change.

Nurturing a seed planted by his Marxist father; encouraged by a "Turn on, tune in, drop out” 70’s earth mother; brainwashed to be a gifted and ambitious student by domestic terrorist Bill Ayers; a loyal, passionate, fervent, convert to Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s communist based racist spiritual/hate doctrine; and as promised by candidate Obama our young new President has laid the foundation for some sure enough “Change We Can Believe In.” The creation of a Socialist nanny state for starters and the pillars of a Communist Utopia for good measure.

Fundamental world shaking change is far closer at hand than most of us poor dumb pilgrims would have ever thought possible. In a relatively short period of time, two years; twenty-four months; 104 weeks; or 730 days our “Achiever of Dubious Accomplishments and Achievements-in-Chief” sure enough has compiled a most impressive list of dubious accomplishments and achievements.

As we reach the “Halfway Home” point of Obama’s first and praying there is a merciful God only term in office is an ideal time to review and reflect on the “Change Gang’s” success implementing their Marxist agenda. Best we put a stop too all this insanity soon before we are all speaking Chinese and developing a strong hankering for Peking Duck.

Obama’s “Halfway Home” List of Dubious Accomplishments & Achievements:

1. Unemployment – December 2008, 7.8%. December 2010, 9.4%, a 20% increase two years after we were promised their Trillion dollar spending bill would keep it under 8%.
2. December 31, 2010, the "Total public debt outstanding" was $14.03 trillion. The national debt has grown by $3.4 trillion since Obama took office. The public debt is now about 62 percent of our economy, the highest percentage since shortly after World War II
3. Interest on the debt was $414 billion in Fiscal Year 2010, higher than the $383 billion in FY 2009
4. 2008 annual deficit - $455 Billion. 2010- $1,350 Trillion. A historical record breaking $895 Billion 196% increase in 2 years.
5. 2008 spending -$ 2,982.6. 2010 spending - $3,720.7. another record shattering spending increase of $738 Billion
6. Ordered all federal agencies to undertake a study and make recommendations for ways to cut spending and a review of all federal operations to identify and cut wasteful spending and practices. Zero, the big goose egg, nada so far for this sham effort
7. Instituted enforcement for equal pay for women
8. President declares his own birthday National Take a Bolshevik to a Commune Day
9. Continued W’s withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
10. Issued a Directive limiting lobbyist’s access to the White House and White House aides working for lobbyists after their tenure in the administration. Policy totally ignored with new Chief of Staff, Daily, the most recent example.
11. Removed restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research and goosed Federal support for stem-cell and new biomedical research
12. Increased infrastructure spending (roads, bridges, power plants
13. Funds for high-speed, broadband Internet access to K-12 school.
14. Directive to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. In Obama’s terrorist appeasing dreams.
15. Nationalization of US Auto industry.
16. Communist Manifesto declared mandatory reading by Education Czar.
17. Housing take over plan
18. $789 billion economic stimulus / Unions payback/ colossal waste of the tax payer’s money plan
19. Continues W’s successful financial and banking rescue plan, TARP
20. The secret detention facilities in Eastern Europe and elsewhere are being closed. . In Obama’s terrorist appeasing dreams
21. Ended the previous policy; the US now has a no torture policy and is in compliance with the Geneva Convention standards. Please see Rendition and item 18 above.
22. The missile defense program is being cut by $1.4 billion greatly compromising national security.
23. Giving the farm away on nuclear nonproliferation
24. Caving on the treaties/agreements to protect the Antarctic.
25. Selling us out in the agreements/talks on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions
26. Visited more countries and bowed down and puckered up butter cup to more world leaders than any president in his first two years in office.
27. Vodka designated as National Drink.
28. Social engineering by giving tax write-offs for those who buy over priced poor performing hybrid automobiles
29. Cash for clunkers program offers vouchers to trade in fuel inefficient, polluting old cars for new cars; adversely impacting used car market for months to come.
30. Ended the previous policy of not regulating and labeling carbon dioxide emissions as he continues to plot and scheme a secrete takeover of the domestic energy industry.
31. Sent envoys to Middle East and other parts of the world reengaging in multilateral and bilateral talks and diplomacy with Radical Islamics as part of his world wide apology tour.
32. The FDA is now regulating tobacco, child obesity, ham sandwiches, and neighborhood lemonade stands.
33. Appointment of two ultra left wing Socialist activist judges including the first woman Latina to the Supreme Court.
34. Forced to change the military command in Afghanistan because the generals in charge viewed the President as weak and an embarrassment.
35. Deployed additional troops to Afghanistan and in the same breath announced their date of departure.
36. Passed Obamacare ruining the best healthcare system in the world and ultimately resulting in a government run single payer plan.
37. Passed far over reaching financial regulations further restricting the recovery, job growth and tightening their strangle hold on the private sector.
38. Declared war with boarder States by refusing to control illegal immigration and in realty supporting it.
39. Repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell allowing gays to openly serve in the military striking fear in the hearts and minds of our enemies.
40. Per Presidential Proclamation declared Castro’s, Marx’s, Mao’s, Stalin’s; Lenin’s; and Che’s birthdays as National Holidays.


With the full cooperation of wild eyed democrat Congressional leaders Pelosi and Reid the President has made alarming progress expanding government’s control in all aspects of our lives; bankrupting the national treasury; accumulating debt at unprecedented and unsustainable levels; and diminishing our standing in the world to a new and pathetic low where the French justifiably lecture our President about fiscal responsibility. Hopefully the new GOP majority in the House will reverse this most unfortunate chain of events.

Speaking of the new GOP majority the President’s newly found willingness to compromise; concern about spending and deficits; worries about unemployment; and commitment to fiscal responsibility are nothing but another Obama ho ax perpetrated on We the People. He was a devout Socialist revolutionary 104 weeks ago when he took the oath of office and now that we are “Halfway Home” his commitment to advancing a radical Socialist agenda remains priority number one.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 103: “Shameless Liberal Political Exploitation”

Carried away by the wind
You carried away by the wind
this life
Carried away by the wind
Your carried away by the wind
this life

Oh its a shame you cannot stay by my side
Oh its a shame now you’re gone
Oh it’s a shame you cannot stay by my side
Oh it’s a shame now you’re gone
“The Wind”, Jerry Jeff Walker

A seriously disturbed; obviously mentally disabled; most likely insane although not necessarily criminally insane; unremorseful cold blooded murderer; a coward who viciously gunned down innocent men, woman and children committed a crime in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday of the 103rd week of the Obama Administration that cries out for swift and severe justice. The psychopath that carried out this unprovoked massacre can’t be hung, given the chair, exterminated by a chemical cocktail, shot, beheaded, burned at the stake and/or stoned to death soon enough.

Less than three hours later a seriously disturbed; obviously mentally disabled; most likely insane although not necessarily criminally insane; unremorseful cold blooded New York Times left wing elitist head case; a coward who viciously exploited gunned down innocent men, woman and children; a man who committed a journalistic crime against good sense, common decency and intellectual integrity Paul Krugman, Socialist NYT’s Economist, accused the right wing conservative echo chamber of having responsibility for this mayhem and for specifically inciting the lunatic that carried out the Saturday attack in Tucson.

Krugman’s victim of conservative hate speech and right wing violence advocating propaganda is twenty-two year old Jared Loughner who opened fire on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' Saturday political event in Tucson, killing six people, wounding 14 more and leaving the lawmaker clinging to life in an Arizona hospital. The fact Comrade Krugman doesn’t even have a frog’s hair worth of evidence to support his wild eyed accusations doesn’t even phase this arrogant, hyper-partisan, left wing, low life, verbal bomb thrower.

In his own words – “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before. And for those wondering why a Blue Dog Democrat, the kind Republicans might be able to work with, might be a target, the answer is that she’s a Democrat who survived what was otherwise a GOP sweep in Arizona, precisely because the Republicans nominated a Tea Party activist. And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous “crosshairs” list”.

Twenty innocent fellow citizens were gunned downed in Tucson Saturday by a twenty-two year old criminally insane white male who according to friends and his own blog postings considered himself a liberal pot head. Six died including a Federal Judge and a precious nine year old girl who’s all too tragically short life was violently bookended by her birth on 9/11 2001 and last Saturday.

Jared Loughner’s only political preferences seem to be his favorable opinion of the “Communist Manifesto”, a doctrine shared with President Obama, and Hitler’s political vision as described in “Mien Kempf”. Nothing, lets repeat that, absolutely nothing suggesting this psychopath has any ties to conservatism or right wing philosophy.

Mr. Krugman and fellow media propagandist along with unscrupulous extreme left wing politicians irresponsibly continue to blame conservatives and their alleged incendiary rhetoric for Loughner’s insane behavior. Following are additional remarks by Krugman and comrades advocating their insane agenda:

• Krugman, in his blog post on the Times website, mentioned Giffords' presence last year on Sarah Palin's "infamous crosshairs list." This was a map with the districts of 20 vulnerable House Democrats with images of crosshairs overlaid on each. The map was accompanied by a caption saying:” IT'S TIME TO TAKE A STAND”
• In his NYT’s editorial Krugman dribbles on, “When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised?” Krugman begins. “Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen?” After he approvingly cites Bill Clinton’s disgusting attempt to pin the Oklahoma City bombings on Rush Limbaugh, he says “you could see, just by watching the crowds at the McCain-Palin rallies, that it was ready to happen again.”
• Krugman concedes “the shooter in Arizona appears to have been mentally troubled,” but “that doesn’t mean his act can or should be treated as an isolated event, having nothing to do with the national climate.”
• Liberal Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, also found a political element in Saturday's bloodshed. Dupnik argued that the "vitriol" of the country's harshly polarized political climate was partly to blame, arguing that unbalanced individuals are uniquely "susceptible" to vitriol.
• Democrat Congressman Bill Pascrell of N.J. said conservative lawmakers and Fox News are at fault. He told the Bergen Record Saturday: "There's an aura of hate, and elected politicians feed it; certain people on Fox News feed it."
• The number three ranked House Democrat, Rep. James Clyburn, S.C. had this to say, "The sheriff out there in Tucson, I think he's got it right. Words do have consequences. And I think that we have to really -- this is nothing new. I've been saying this for a long time now."
• Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, the number-two Democrat in the Senate invoked "don't retreat, reload," a phrase from a well publicized message once used by Sarah Palin, as the kind of "violent" sentiment that can provoke incidents like Saturday's. Durbin stated over the weekend "These sorts of things, I think, invite the kind of toxic rhetoric that can lead unstable people to believe this is an acceptable response,"
• Democrat Steney Hoyer of Maryland, the House’s number two said, “It’s been a much angrier, confrontational environment over the last two or three years than we have experienced in the past. Far too many broadcasts now have the intent of inciting people to opposition, to anger to thinking the other side is less than moral. And I think that is a context in which someone who is mentally unbalanced can somehow feel justified in taking this kind of action. . We all need to take cognizance of that and be aware that what we say can, in fact, have consequences.”


Krugman and company’s favorite violence inciting targets seems to be the Tea Party, Fox News, Glenn Beck and the Great Conservative She Devil herself, Sarah Palin. The only problem with their position is the total absence of any evidence in support of their delusionary accusations.

Truth be told abusive and incendiary remarks are actually few and far between from the right and more abundant than white on rice from the left. Consider the following:

• House Minority Leader Pelosi’s frequent references to the Tea Party as a bunch of racist, tea bagging, ignorant, white trash yahoos.
• Majority Leader Reid’s remarks about conservatives being Nazis, W a loser and the GOP’s anti Latino bias.
• Our “Pontificator of Fighting Words-in-Chief” frequent outburst including his accusation about the Cambridge Police being stupid racist and…
• “ If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” And…
• “I want you to go out and talk to your neighbors… I want you to argue with them, get in their faces”. And…
• “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry. I’m angry.” And…
• “If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, “We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,” if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder, and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on November 2 “


Sure enough safe to say those of a liberal persuasion don’t have any moral upper hand when it comes to political rhetoric. Especially when one considers the source of the quotes above literally come from the top three liberals/Democrats in the nation.

Paul Krugman and his liberal brethren’s shameless attempts to exploit the murder and maiming of twenty fellow Americans is a cowardly, pathetic act of desperation attempting to maintain some degree of relevance. The Country’s growing rejection of Obama’s Socialist agenda, the midterm shellacking, and Krugman and Company’s loss of credibility on the Tucson tragedy has very possibly already diminished their relevancy to unrecoverable levels.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and the family and friends whose lives were so abruptly and dramatically changed by a lone seriously disturbed lunatic who killed six individuals and wounded fourteen with extreme prejudice during what started off as such a typical Saturday political event at a Tucson shopping center on a warm January morning. We also commend President Obama and the other speakers for their words of comfort, hope and inspiration at Wednesday evening’s Memorial Service.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 102: “Tee it Up”

Well I'm on the eighteenth in seven, my knees began to shake
I'm praying I can one putt, try to save an eight
It's a forty dollar nassau, if I sink this I'm a lock
I'll be sitting in the club house, sippin' bourbon on the rocks

Oh Lord....what am I gonna do, Help me keep my head down
Save me from these double bogey blues
Oh oh oh Lord....I can't afford to lose, I'll be in church next Sunday
Just save me from those Double Bogey Blues

Double Bogey Blues, Mickey Jones

Our “Golf Enthusiast“-in-Chief packed up the little woman and youngins and a thousand or so other folks and flew Air Force One out to Hawaii for twelve days of family fun in paradise. Allegedly the hallowed site of our inspirational and visionary charismatic leader’s birth although any kin folk or family friends seem about as scarce as hen’s teeth.

Certainly entitled to some well deserved R and R after a whirlwind Lame Duck session of Congress where the President and his Democrat comrades approved bills allowing gays to openly serve in the military which has absolutely nothing to do with enhancing combat readiness and is really just another example of PC insanity; giving away the farm on missile defense by approving a lopsided treaty with the Ruskies; further exploding the deficit by billions by extending unemployment benefits by a ludicrous and unprecedented twenty four months; and trying but failing to pass another bloated Socialist budget chock full of billions in earmarks the first family got in some serious vacation time in the sun, surf and sand.

President Obama also made time to get in five plus rounds of golf bringing the grand total for his second year in office to an estimated 60-65 outing. If these estimates are accurate that places “Lefty Links Obama, a nick name reflecting his radical extreme political pedigree and the fact he’s a southpaw, in a solid second only trailing Ike for rounds played by Presidents their first two years in office who got in far north of 200 during his first 104 weeks of holding court in the Oval Office.

For the record Thoughts of Obama From Bama strongly supports and advocates frequent, recreational, social, business related, and or political Presidential golf. Few venues offer a better opportunity to build relationships, evaluate the true character of allies and adversaries, and win a few greenbacks from playing partners.

Our problem and concerns with President Obama’s golfing escapades is the cloud of secrecy that seems to block out every aspect of his frequent days on the links. Playing partners, scores, wagers, teams, individual handicaps, and how many packs of Luckys he chain smokes are all treated like highly classified State secrets.

This secret evasive approach to his golf game is inconsistent, contrary and troubling in comparison to his Presidential predecessors. Maybe a brief review of the history Presidential golf will provide some badly needed illumination on the subject:

• William McKinley, the 25th Commander-in-Chief, expressed an interest in this new game that some Scot had brought to America, but his advisers convinced him that the public wouldn't like to see their leader wasting his time on something called a golf course when there was an Industrial Revolution going on. McKinley, as we know, got assassinated anyhow.
• Taft was the first president of the United States who enthusiastically played the game and wasn't ashamed to admit it.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper. On Eisenhower's frequent afternoon golf forays to Burning Tree, when he wasn't practicing on the South Lawn of the White House, playing guests included generals, representatives, senators, businessmen, visiting dignitaries and, occasionally, Vice President Richard Nixon. Ike's daily itineraries also include tantalizing references like "hosted off-the-record stag party," but with no details.
• Both Bush 41 and 43 were low double digit handicaps. Their most notable contribution to Presidential play was a commitment to end slow play. A two to three hour round was typical for the Bush boys
• Hearing the president of the United States shouting, "Oh, don't leak! Please don't leak!" as his golf ball flies into the rough sounds like any other weekend hacker. Most of us would have a hard time getting used to having Bill Clinton as a playing partner, especially when he is mercilessly trash talking one of our opponents, who could be anyone from another head of state, famous pro golfer or Hooters Girl.
• JFK had a smooth swing and could effortlessly shoot in the high 70’s; Nixon once shot a 79; Ford was actually a single digit handicap but was a threat to pick off spectators in the gallery; Reagan didn’t play very often which was reflected in his high scores; LBJ’s game improved with every bourbon and branch.


These gentlemen were all tickled pink, like most red blooded American male golfers, to provide hole by hole commentary with details including wind speed, club selection and the direction of the grain for each shot. Playing partners, the nature, amount, and outcome of any wager, and the groups longest drive, sunk putt and greens in regulation were also divulged to any interested parties.

In stark contrast Mr. Obama’s paranoid secretive silence is another of many character flaws this President displays that are seemingly more abundant than white on rice. Following are several examples of disconcerting experiences one might encounter spending a day on the links with our first golfer:

• President Obama averages more than one round a week and refuses to record his scores to establish an official USGA handicap. Published reports estimate Mr. Obama’s handicap ranges between a 16 and 25. The absence of an official handicap makes it much easier for the President to take unfair advantage of an opponent. This and the confidentiality of Presidential scores is not only odd it’s also just ain’t fittin.
• President Obama seems to have a tendency to only play with subordinates. Combining business with pleasure to solidify a relationship or build one with an adversary apparently holds no interest for him. Sounds like a man with serious control, insecurity and inferiority complex issues.
• Smoke um if you got um. Mr. “I haven’t had a smoke in nine months“is rumored to go through a pack a round.
• Isn’t it interesting that the progressive, equal rights, break the glass ceiling guy has never been seen once with either daughter on a golf course? Reckon that might put a damper on the chain smoking and sandbagging/cheating opponents.
• A pair of cargo shorts, faded polo, and White Sox baseball cap ain’t exactly the fashion statement we expect from the leader of the free world. He looks like some yahoo playing a Muni in Chili Dip, Michigan.


We did catch wind the President had scheduled an actual business related match while vacationing in Hawaii with Governor Neil Abercrombie. When he returned back to the compound after their round the First Lady asked if the Governor had enjoyed their game.


When the President informed her he had canceled their game she was understandably curious as to why. Before providing an explanation he asked her the following questions:

• Would you like to play golf with someone who constantly talks and swears during other player’s backswings?
• How about someone who’s best shot is a “foot wedge” to advance his ball from behind trees, rocks and all manner of obstructions when no one else is looking?
• A person who’s best scoring club is the eraser on his pencil?
• Someone who has a hole in the side pocket of his britches so he can stealthily drop a ball into play rolling it down his pants leg after losing his in the forest, again, again and again?
• A cheap SOB who never has enough cash to cover his betting losses
?

“Of course not”, the First Lady responded. “Neither does the Governor”, replied the President.

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

Ron W. Garikes