Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 127: “If You Ain’t the Lead Dog the View Never Changes”

As the son of a son of a sailor
I went out on the sea for adventure
Expanding the view of the captain and crew
Like a man just released from indenture

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man
I have chalked up many a mile
Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks
And I learned much from both of their styles

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 “Son of the Son of a Sailor”, Jimmy Buffett

“If You Ain’t the Lead Dog the View Never Changes”, a quote attributable to the late Southern Humorist and author Lewis Grizzard, defines Barack Husain Obama’s approach and philosophy for governance much more accurately than all of his empty campaign slogans including the likes of “Yes We Can”, “Change We Can Believe In” and all manner of other lies he heaped upon us. The late Mr. Grizzard’s now famous quote truly captures and expresses the President’s boneheaded “Lead From Behind” philosophy to almost every issue confronting this Administration.

Examples of this absolutely absurd approach to management and governance abound including:

• Abdication of the fiasco in Libya to NATO which has 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
• 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our troops and providing aid and comfort to the enemy publically announcing a date certain when our forces will be withdrawn
• Refusing to publically support Democracy movements in Syria, Jordan and Iran
• 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
• 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
• The execution of a stealth, undercover, secret assault, “Leading From Behind”, on our capitalist, free market, open society with the ultimate objective of establishing a Marxist/Socialist nanny state.

Our “Leader From Behind-in-Chief” held court at a Press Conference this week further advancing his “Barackasswards” Governance philosophy. Following are several excerpts from this most recent Obama propaganda fest:

THE PRESIDENT: Opening Remarks – …Today, our administration is trying to take those steps, so we’re reviewing government regulations so that we can fix any rules in place that are an unnecessary burden on businesses

(Repealing Obamacare and calling off the EPA would be a great start Mr. President so anytime the spirit moves please proceed by all means)

Right now, Congress could send me a bill that puts construction workers back on the job rebuilding roads and such…

(All those shovel ready projects the President his self recently confessed didn’t work with the first stimulus and he proposing the same failed policies again)

There’s been a lot of discussion about revenues and raising taxes in recent weeks, so I want to be clear about what we’re proposing here. I spent the last two years cutting taxes for ordinary Americans, and I want to extend those middle-class tax cuts. The tax cuts I’m proposing we get rid of are tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires; tax breaks for oil companies and hedge fund managers and corporate jet owners.

(Classic class warfare tactics as described in this gang’s “Owner’s Manual” the Communist Manifesto)

Q They don’t want any tax increases, as they put it. And the House Speaker says not only that he doesn’t support that, but that plan won’t — will not pass the House. So my question is will you insist, ultimately, that a deal has to include those tax increases that you just laid out? Is that an absolute red line for you? And if it is, can you explain to us how that can possibly get through the Congress?

THE PRESIDENT: Look, I think that what we’ve seen in negotiations here in Washington is a lot of people say a lot of things to satisfy their base or to get on cable news, but that hopefully, leaders at a certain point rise to the occasion and they do the right thing for the American people. And that’s what I expect to happen this time. Call me naïve, but my expectation is that leaders are going to lead.

(The President and his Congressional comrades haven’t submitted a budget for the last two years. “Leading From Behind” in all its incompetent glory)

Now, I just want to be clear about what’s at stake here. The Republicans say they want to reduce the deficit. Every single observer who’s not an elected official, who’s not a politician, says we can’t reduce our deficit in the scale and scope that we need to without having a balanced approach that looks at everything.

(Every single observer? Reckon that just might be a little bit of a stretch. Actually it’s an absolutely ludicrous statement that cries out for condemnation and ridicule)

Q Thank you. Your administration has laid out four different dates by which you’ve said that the debt ceiling must be raised or the U.S. would face potential dire consequences. Three of those dates have come and gone and we haven’t faced financial calamity. Some of your critics have argued that these are then scare tactics to force a deal. So why should the American people believe that the August 2nd deadline is the final deadline by which a deal must be raised? And would you also spell out for us what you believe will happen if the debt ceiling is not raised by that date?

THE PRESIDENT: And last point I want to make about this. These are bills that Congress ran up. The money has been spent. The obligations have been made. So this isn’t a situation — I think the American people have to understand this — this is not a situation where Congress is going to say, okay, we won’t — we won’t buy this car or we won’t take this vacation. They took the vacation. They bought the car. And now they’re saying maybe we don’t have to pay, or we don’t have to pay as fast as we said we were going to, or — that’s not how responsible families act. And we’re the greatest nation on Earth, and we can’t act that way.

(Professor Obama’s lack of knowledge about Economics and Finance is truly appalling. So is his total disrespect for the truth. His analogy about Congress and spending, cars, vacations and such demonstrates a degree of ignorance on the subject never before seen in a US President)

THE PRESIDENT: talking about his daughters meeting deadlines - It is impressive. They don’t wait until the night before. They’re not pulling all-nighters. (Laughter.) They’re 13 and 10. Congress can do the same thing. If you know you’ve got to do something, just do it.

(Not only an extremely condescending remark but also chock full of mistakes. For the record the President’s oldest youngin is 12, not 13 years old. We can only imagine the left wing media elite’s response if a Republican misstated one of their yougin’s ages. If Sarah Palen, Newt, W, Michele Buchmann, Boehner, Cheney, and/or Mitt Romney similarly misspoke liberal anchors the likes of Chris Mathews, Anderson Cooper, Matt Lauer, Ba Ba Walters and Katie Couric would wet themselves on live TV in their enthusiasm to get the story out)

“If You Ain’t the Lead Dog the View Never Changes”. Mr. Obama’s “Lead From Behind” strategy assures his Socialist views ain’t gonna change any time soon.

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

Ron W. Garikes