Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 170: “Follow the Leader”

Everclear is dumped into the wine sometimes
Then you add nachos and tacos, burritos you know
Here is how it usually goes, it goes

Whoa oh oh Woah oh oh I love Sangria wine
Whoa oh oh Woah oh oh I love Sangria wine

All that's left to do is drink the wine
Just lay back and watch the time go by
Old friends tell the truth when mixed with the wine
That's why I blend in all the lemons and limes

Yeah I love that Sangria wine
When I'm drink'n with old friends of mine
Yeah I love that Sangria wine
When I'm drink'n with old friends of mine

Whoa oh oh Woah oh oh I love Sangria wine
Whoa oh oh Woah oh oh I love Sangria wine                                                                                                                         
Jerry Jeff Walker, Sangria Wine

Companies, government entities, and almost any organization’s staff and employees reflect the values, work ethic, and business practices of their leadership. Examples of this natural and well documented pattern of behavior abound.

Several examples of such behavior include the following:

• Apple’s Steve Jobbs who by his example established a cool, hip, culture of innovation that spread thru the company faster than kudzu
• Jack Welch, former CEO at GE, was a tough, cost cutting, visionary executive who created the most efficient, productive, highest valued company in the world. His implementation of Six SIGMA and Lean practices created fanatical disciples within GE
• Bill Gates has created a brilliant geek techie culture at Microsoft with great success, profits, and breakthroughs in innovation
• Health South CEO, Richard Scrushy is a greedy, arrogant, thief who surrounded himself with likeminded folks who are all guest of the Feds these days at various prison camps around the country
• New Orleans Saints head coach, Sean Patton, condoned bounties on opposing team players and illegally bugged the visiting team locker rooms. With a few notable exceptions he has a current roster of low life, criminal, thugs who would make great hockey players, drug runners, and/or Democrat members of Congress.

Our Country’s current CEO, or Trend Setter-in-Chief, is sure as hell not immune from the impact of this tried and true rule of leadership. Once the smoke clears from all the empty rhetoric and demagoguery Mr. Obama’s actual deeds, actions and behavior have a profound impact on the Executive branch and even his Socialist comrades in Congress.

Sadly, following our Loser-in-Chief’s pathetic lead of humongous government; massive wealth distribution; criminal levels of spending; hidden agendas; corruption; deferment of responsibility; no accountability; gross incompetence; and arrogance towards we the people seemingly the entire Federal government is acting like a bunch of sophomoric yahoos. Truth be told the GSA and Secret Service are only following Barack and Michele’s lead when it comes to the inappropriate use of tax payer dollars and partying on our dime.

Examples of their arrogant elitist conduct are more abundant than white on rice. Since infesting the White House only 170 weeks ago the first couple have hosted at least 30 big name entertainers for band parties including:

• Justin Beiver – twice
• Stevie Wonder
• Patty LaBelle
• Brad Praisly
• Beyoncé - twice
• BB King
• Sir Paul McCartney
• 20 or so hip hop gangsta rapper thugs

In addition to all this home entertainment the Obama’s love road trips as much as the Grizzwalds. Exotic and highbrow vacation destinations, so far, include the following:

• 3 trips to Martha’s Vineyard
• 3 trips home for holidays in Hawaii – no home or relatives still there, but what the hell, we’re talking paradise here
• Spain
• New York City
• Wally World

Other abuses of power, reckless spending, and just plain ole boneheaded waste of time and money include:

• Friday date nights
• Over100 golf outings, not one with daughters or wife, interesting for a man who claims the GOP has declared a war on woman
• Multiple campaign trips paid for by our hard earned tax dollars
• A secretary of Defense that has piled up almost a million dollars in expenses flying home because he refused to move his family to DC

Our First Couple has created an atmosphere and tone of reckless spending of other people’s money and having a good ole time at our expense. The GSA, Secret Service and most likely a mess of other government agencies are just following the Obama’s lead of irresponsible spending and conduct.

Besides, the Secret Service boys deserve a little diversion and down time. We certainly would never question the actions of anyone who is willing to take a bullet for someone else, especially the likes of the Obamas.

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

Ron W Garikes