Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 157: The Four Pillars of Obama's Socialist Agenda - American Manufacturing, American Energy, Skills for American Workers, and a Renewal of American Values

Last night I said goodbye to a dear old friend of mine
Just a throw back shell beach party, nothin' really asinine
Rum and cooked animals and bullshit by the ton
That party lasted way too long and I had too much fun

Bank of bad habits
The price of vice foretold
One by one they'll do you in
They're bound to take their toll

The wrong thing is the right thing until you lose control
I've got this bank of bad habits in a corner of my soul
That bank of bad habits is worth its weight in gold
Bank of Bad Habits, Jimmy Buffett

If there truly is a merciful God the world endured Barack Husein Obama's last State of the Union speech Monday evening of Week 157 of the seemingly never ending nightmare at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Another command performance chock full of lies, socialist propaganda, blatant hypocrisy, and tons of sanctimonious empty rhetoric.

Another ultra partisan campaign speech advocating class warfare and Marxist/Socialist doctrine that would makes the likes of Comrades Castro, Stalin, and Chavez proud. Standing right up behind that podium just as if he had good sense Comrade Obama laid out the four pillars of his socialist agenda.

Following is a brief description of our Bolshevik-in-Chief's socialists dreams of grander:

• American Manufacturing- enormous redistribution of wealth to favored Obama supporters the labor unions


• American Energy- massive redistribution of wealth to Obama's green energy compadres


• American Skills Development- outrageous redistribution of wealth to major Obama contributors the teacher's unions


• American Values- humongous redistribution of wealth to every left wing, radical, secular progressive, head case gang in the country

Just like his first three years the president plans to rob our most productive citizens blind and give all our money to his supporters and the victim class. One of his few and far between redeeming virtues at least the man is consistent.

He spent the rest of his address wearing himself plum out patting himself on the back for phantom achievements and his favorite tactic blaming others for his failures. Our political watch dog group, Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire (LLPOF), conducted their usual truth rating and on a scale of 1-right as rain to 10- lying like a low down dirty rotten dog, the president scored a chart shattering 147.

Following are several of his most audacious comments and departures from the truth:

• Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans. LLPOF Rating - 7, he actually despises at least half of his fellow Americans and every Republican in Congress


• We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world. For the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country. Most of al Qaeda's top lieutenants have been defeated. The Taliban's momentum has been broken, and some troops in Afghanistan have begun to come home. LLPOF Rating - 22, we left Iraq in a world of hurt, al Qaeda remains a significant threat


• No challenge is more urgent. No debate is more important. We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. What's at stake are not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them. LLPOF Rating - 42, classic class warfare tactics, the only values he's worried about are his Marxist/Socialist delusions


• The state of our Union is getting stronger. And we've come too far to turn back now. As long as I'm President, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum. But I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place. LLPOF Rating - 400, Stronger my happy skinny white ass, criminal levels of debt, spending, and our diminished standing in the world


• No, we will not go back to an economy weakened by outsourcing, bad debt, and phony financial profits. Tonight, I want to speak about how we move forward, and lay out a blueprint for an economy that's built to last - an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values. LLPOF Rating - 306, a government blueprint for the private sector economy is crazier than a runt over dog


• On the day I took office, our auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Some even said we should let it die. With a million jobs at stake, I refused to let that happen. In exchange for help, we demanded responsibility. We got workers and automakers to settle their differences. We got the industry to retool and restructure. Today, General Motors is back on top as the world's number one automaker. Chrysler has grown faster in the U.S. than any major car company. Ford is investing billions in U.S. plants and factories. And together, the entire industry added nearly 160,000 jobs. LLPOF Rating - 274, his political cash cow, the labor unions, got bailed out with our hard earned money and there were net job losses with dealer and supply chain closings


• So we have a huge opportunity, at this moment, to bring manufacturing back. But we have to seize it. Tonight, my message to business leaders is simple: Ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country, and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed. LLPOF Rating- 222, help you succeed by taxing cradle to grave and smothering you in oppressive regulation


• Tonight, I'm announcing the creation of a Trade Enforcement Unit that will be charged with investigating unfair trade practices in countries like China. There will be more inspections to prevent counterfeit or unsafe goods from crossing our borders. We're on the verge of economic calamity and Money Bags Obama wants more wasteful government


• I also hear from many business leaders who want to hire in the United States but can't find workers with the right skills. Growing industries in science and technology have twice as many openings as we have workers who can do the job. Think about that - openings at a time when millions of Americans are looking for work. LLPOF Rating- 378, for every job opening there are 5 qualified applicants


• Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let's offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn. LLPOF Rating- 100, Obama actually supporting replacing teachers, no sir, no way, no how


• I believe as strongly as ever that we should take on illegal immigration. That's why my Administration has put more boots on the border than ever before. That's why there are fewer illegal crossings than when I took office. LLPOF Rating - 525, possibly more boots on the border void of any feet attached to actual border patrol agents


• Nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in American-made energy. Over the last three years, we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I'm directing my Administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. Right now, American oil production is the highest that it's been in eight years. That's right - eight years. Not only that - last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past sixteen years. LLPOF Rating-500, we won't even dignify these lies with any commentary


• That's why I'm sending this Congress a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates. No more red tape. No more runaround from the banks. A small fee on the largest financial institutions will ensure that it won't add to the deficit, and will give banks that were rescued by taxpayers a chance to repay a deficit of trust. LLPOF RATING-74, ever hear of Dodd/Framk


• A return to the American values of fair play and shared responsibility will help us protect our people and our economy. But it should also guide us as we look to pay down our debt and invest in our future. LLPOF Rating-283, this malarkey from a man who's added 6 trillion to the national debt in 3 short years


• The executive branch also needs to change. Too often, it's inefficient, outdated and remote. That's why I've asked this Congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our Government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the American people. LLPOF Rating- 225, the blind leading the blind


• I'm a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That Government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more. That's why my education reform offers more competition, and more control for schools and States. That's why we're getting rid of regulations that don't work. That's why our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a Government program. LLPOF Rating-475, the man actually said this with a straight face, truly remarkable
  


• And we will safeguard America's own security against those who threaten our citizens, our friends, and our interests. Look at Iran. Through the power of our diplomacy, a world that was once divided about how to deal with Iran's nuclear program now stands as one. LLPOF Rating-392, last time we checked Russia and China ain't exactly on our fighting side


• Anyone who tells you otherwise, anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn't know what they're talking about. LLPOF Rating- 975, the bend over, grab our ankles, thank you sir may i have another diplomacy ain't exactly striking fear in the hearts of our enemies


• Thank you, Allah the Great Allah the Benevolent, i mean God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America

Reckon Mr. Obama's infamous teleprompter would malfunction under the weight of so much BS. As for his 4 pillars of Socialism we best all hope they all fail as badly as the rest of his train wreck of a presidency.

I am, American by birth and Southern by the grace of God.

Ron W Garikes

Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 156: "MLK Legacy Destroyed by Obama's Racist; Class/Generational Warfare; Hate Speech; Divide, deceive, and Antagonistic Political Strategy"

I knew a man Bojangles and he danced for you, in worn out shoes.
With silver hair a ragged shirt and baggy pants,
He did the old soft shoe.
He jumped so high, jumped so high,
Then he lightly touched down.
Mister Bojangles, Mister Bojangles,
Mister Bojangles, dance.

He danced for those at minstrel shows and county fairs throughout the south.
He spoke with tears of fifteen years how his dog and he traveled about.
His dog up and died, up and died,
After twenty years he still grieved

He said, "I dance now at every chance in honky tonks for drinks and tips.
But most of the time I spend behind these county bars, and I drinks a bit."
He shook his head and as he shook his head,
I heard someone ask him please,

Mister Bojangles, Mister Bojangles,
oh Mister Bojangles, oh dance.
"Mister Bojangles", Jerry Jeff Walker

On Monday of week 156 of the Obama socialist regime we celebrated and paid tribute to one of our country's greatest leaders and patriots, Dr. Martin Luther King. Sure enough a man of true vision, courage, conviction, and an agent of change that led us all to the mountain top to view a future of equality for all of God's children.

A man of peace who advocated nonviolent civil disobedience to unite and lift up all Americans to realize the promise that all men truly are created equal. His legacy as a consensus builder, peaceful revolution, and inspired leadership setting the standard for future generations advocating fundamental social change.

In comparison Barack Husein Obama is nothing more than a corrupt, race baiting, political hack hell bent on dividing our country along racial, economic and generational lines to divert attention from his train wreck of presidency. A man with the same agenda as infamous racist and creators of the victim class the good reverends Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton.

A review of Dr. King's inspirational words of wisdom and Mr Obama and friends racist hate speech follows:

MLK

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.” “There is no gain without struggle.”
“A right delayed is a right denied.”
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
“A lie cannot live.”
“What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.”
“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. ”
“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
“I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality”
“The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
“Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.”
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”
“There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.”

Mr Obama and friends had this to say.

• "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites


• "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."


• "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."


• "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."


• "I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela."




• Democratic Senator Al Franken of Minnesota peddled a book entitled Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat, Stupid Idiot, viciously ridiculing a person struggling with obesity and deafness.
  • In 2007, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow announced his cancer had returned. Commentators on the left-wing Daily Kos website remarked, "the world would be better off without him".
  • Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid said America would vote for Barack Obama because he was a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
  • U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been the relentless target of the most vile liberal hatred since his appointment, being viewed as a "race traitor" on account of his conservative views. In 2011, a group of white liberal protesters said on camera that they wanted to "hang him" and "send him back to the fields".
  • Colin Powell is a respected and popular statesman. In an interview, liberal activist Harry Belafonte, who is also African-American, stated, "There are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master to exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. That gave you privilege. Colin Powell is permitted to come into the house of the master, as long as he will serve the master according to the master's dictates."
  • Condoleezza Rice was the first African-American woman to be Secretary of State. Liberal columnist Ted Rall made a racist cartoon stating her "punishment" was to be sent to a racial re-education camp, and in the process calls her Bush's "house n****".
  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton referred to a subordinate as a Jew bastard


• Ward Churchill was referring to the victims of the 9/11 attacks as "little Eichmann’s", comparing them to the infamous Nazi leader.
  • Barack Obama's pastor and mentor Jeremiah Wright, being asked a question about Obama, said, "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me."

President Obama and company have made a mockery of Dr. King's inspirational legacy. These racist, hate speech spewing, arrogant liberal boneheads need to climb to that mountain top, join hands, raise their voice proclaiming "keep hope alive", and do us all a favor by taking one final giant step for mankind.

I am American by birth and Southern by the grace of God.

Ron W Garikes

Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 155: "Mystery Man"

Stashed his trash in ecuador Bought a good suit of clothes
Flew on up to mexico Standin' by the shore
Waitin' for some mystery man To pay him for his time
But thinkin' about all the money he'd made Couldn't help to ease his mind
Havana daydreamin' Boy he's just dreamin' His life away
JIMMY BUFFETT - HAVANA DAYDREAMIN'

Technical difficulty and an on going celebratory binge for Alabama's thumping of LSU in the BCS has forced us to deviate from our typical thought provoking, inspired, astute, satirical weekly political commentary. Instead we offer a recent article from the Washington Post about our Mystery Man-in-Chief.


Obama: The Affirmative Action President
by Matt Patterson
(columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as
an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria
akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder,
did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into
thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's
most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered
into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores
along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career
as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly
devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present") ; and finally an
unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of
which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy
in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator.

And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the
white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's
"spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's
colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian
looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected
president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz
addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:

To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken
hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like
Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was
black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out
with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a
bit extreme, he was given a pass.

Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass -- held to a lower standard --
because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:

And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so
articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all
of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and
thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama
phenomenon -- affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But
certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws
and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and
especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on
the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are
not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor
performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if
these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the
emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist
policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.

Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his
skin -- that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism,
then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.

True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why
would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for
Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was
good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was
told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the
Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good
enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What
could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time
Obama speaks?

In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications
nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool
character. Those people -- conservatives included -- ought now to be deeply
embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and
that's when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is
absent he can barely think or speak at all.***Not one original idea has
ever issued from his mouth -- it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that
has failed over and over again for 100 years.*

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and
everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited
this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise
his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But
really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for
anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the
temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. *When you understand that,
and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and
prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in
the Oval Office.*

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Thoughts on Obama From Bama

Week 154: “Chrystal Balling 2012”

From all I've seen of politics,
It's just a greasy big money stick
That's geared to run on tongues
So slick to make you think this is all there is
Boy you're lucky (You're stuck with Humphrey)

How they con the little middle man
Into thinkin' he has got a hand
To play in the future of the Promised Land,
he owes himself to the destiny of man
Gets ridiculous

A cheap gangster hires someone
To do his dirty work with a tommy gun
While the President just points at anyone
And says "I, your country needs some killing done
Go do it now boy, Ballad of the Hulk, Jerry Jeff Walker

There is sure enough about as much of a future predicting the future as a smart ass Yankee will experience making insulting remarks about a good ole boy’s pickup truck, brand of beer, and/or hunting dog’s tracking ability in the local watering hole. Their short and long term prospects ain’t exactly looking too promising.

That being said we’re gonna throw caution to the wind and do some serious 2012 Chrystal Balling. And by that we mean predictions and prognostication about our political fortunes for the next 52 weeks and not a visit to Belle’s brothel down on the corner of Elm.

Starting with several partners in crime from congress and the private sector we’ll work our way down to the Socialist-in-Chief:

• Barney Freddy in the Fannie Mac Frank – becomes famous gay porn star. Movie debut, “Leading From Behind”, costarring CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper
• Harry Reid – retires from Senate and becomes motivational speaker. Bankrupt, homeless and destitute 6 months later
• Nancy Pelosi – convicted on Insider Trading charges. Takes to prison like a fish to water becoming leader of notorious Air Heads prison gang
• Robert Gibbs, former Obama Propaganda Czar – beat senseless by fellow employees at Google who quickly tired of his endless lying and blaming of others for his screw ups
• Warren Buffett – billionaire Obama advisor and higher taxes advocate convicted on Tax Evasion charges. The president appoints him as new Commerce Secretary
• David Axelrod – goes crazier than a runt over dog after defeat in presidential election lands job as new Editor in Chief of New York Times
• GOP keeps control of House and wins Senate
• Timmy Turbo Tax Guitner – impeached from Treasury Secretary post for gross incompetence. Named CFO of the Teamster Union
• AG Eric Holder – caught on hidden camera making an unconditional deal to release Islamic Jihadist terrorist. Keeps job with full support of president
• Hillary of the Butt Ugly Pants Suit Clan – stepped down as Sec. State to start her 2016 presidential run
• VP Biden – gets knee walking crying about your daddy drunk election night. Where abouts unknown ever since
• Surprise late entrant Jeb Bush with VP running mate Chris Christie win historical record breaking presidential election
• Barack Obama leaves country immediately following election defeat to take position of El Presedente of Communist Cuba. Truly a match made in Heaven

Here’s to a happy by damn 2012.

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

Ron W. Garikes

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