Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Weeks 86: Meet the Press

Take the government to court
Is the Mayor really bought?
Who went to the Hockney show?
Michael Cain, Brigitte Bardot
Ol' Lee Harvey will never die
CIA or the FBI?
Feed sir Santa's nose a tissue
Centerfold, the x-mas issue
She's such a good reporter - workin' for a magazine
She's such a good reporter - got a big editorial dream
She's such a good reporter - watchin' from the trampoline
She's such a good reporter - keepin' her desk very clean
She's such a good reporter P Gessle

Our Orator of Soaring Empty Rhetoric- in - Chief conducted his eighth Propaganda, we mean Press Conference during Week 86 of the Socialist regime adoringly referred to as the Obama Transformational Presidency by his loyal dominions in the main stream media elite. With few exceptions the stunningly Obama biased White House press corps gave what is quickly shaping up to be the most disastrous Presidency in US history a pass on his unprecedented number of failed policy initiatives, foreign and domestic.

Standing right on up behind the Presidential podium just like he had good sense our Propagandist-in-Chief held court in the East Room of the White for one hour and fifteen minutes or there abouts. He spent most of the time during his opening remarks lying about how his economic policies saved us from a financial catastrophe of biblical proportions.

He also kept rambling on incoherently about digging, ditches, driving, cars keys and such. Talking points that seem to have infected every boneheaded left wing radical liberal who keep repeating this ridiculous dribble add nauseam.

When all was said and done the White House scribes asked the enlightened one a grand total of thirteen questions about a variety of topics including healthcare cost, tax cuts and Gitmo. In all likelihood breaking a Presidential record our Master of Stall/Filibuster/Obsfucationor-in-Chief responded in 9,050 words. An astonishing long winded; empty suit; blow hard; evasive; deceitful; low down lying cheaten and misleading 696 words per reply.

That equates to almost three single spaced typed pages per answer. Sure enough some serious bloviating even for our He/Who/Loves / the / Sound / of / His/Own/Voice-in-Chief.

Following are selected excerpts from this propagandafest along with some extremely astute and profound editorial comments:

Opening Remarks

• THE PRESIDENT: Have a seat, everybody. Good morning. Before I take your questions, I just want to talk a little bit about our continuing efforts to dig ourselves out of this recession and to grow our economy.
• This bonehead is obsessed with this dig metaphor. The thought of Mr. Harvard Law Constitutional Scholar liberal elitist actually commandeering a shovel and subjecting himself to manual labor is ludicrous.
• As I said in Cleveland on Wednesday, I ran for President because I believed the policies of the previous decade had left our economy weaker and our middle class struggling. They were policies that cut taxes, especially for millionaires and billionaires, cut regulations for corporations and for special interests, and left everyone else pretty much fending for themselves. They were policies that ultimately culminated in a financial crisis and a terrible recession that we're still digging out of today.
• Hey bonehead, ever hear mention of the bursting of the housing bubble brought on by liberal social engineering and a handful of greedy Wall Street bankers. Try digging on the truth for a change as opposed to that diatribe of lies in your comments above.
• We also announced a six-year plan to rebuild America's roads and railways and runways. Already our investments in infrastructure are putting folks in the construction industry back to work. And this plan would put thousands more back to work, and it would help us remain competitive with countries in Europe and Asia that have already invested heavily in projects like high-speed railroads.
• More shovel ready projects and that psychotic obsession with digging. The same policies that led to 9.5 – 10 % unemployment, no growth and unsustainable debt. Great plan bonehead

Q & A

• And now I'd be happy to take some questions, and I'm going to start with Darlene Superville of AP.
• Q - Thank you, Mr. President. You said this week that Democrats wouldn't do well in the November elections if it turns out to be a referendum on the economy. But with millions of people out of work and millions of people losing their homes, how could it not be a referendum on the economy and your handling of it, and why would you not welcome that? Oh great anointed one.
• THE PRESIDENT: Well Darlene darlin, the -- what I said was that if it was just a referendum on whether we've made the kind of progress that we need to, then people around the country would say we're not there yet. If the election is about the policies that are going to move us forward versus the policies that will get us back into a mess, then I think the Democrats will do very well. Besides, the Republicans drove us into this ditch and now they want the keys to the car back. We can’t afford to go in reverse back to their failed policies. We need to put it in drive a move forward.
• The Democrats are on their way to the woodshed for a whooping usually reserved for a red headed stepchild.
• Caren, Sweet britches. Q - Thank you, Mr. President. You're looking for Republican help on the economic proposals that you unveiled this week, and you also mentioned the small business bill. But you're at odds with them over tax cuts. Is there room for a middle ground whereby, for example, the tax cuts on the wealthy could be extended for a period of time, and then allowed to expire?
• THE PRESIDENT: Well, certainly there is going to be room for discussion but the GOP yahoos aren’t ever gonna get me to agree to extending W’s tax cuts for their rich friends. That’s just too contrary to my Marxist/Socialist nature.
• Chip “The Chipper” Reid. - Q Thank you, Mr. President. On the economic package that you rolled out earlier this week, first on the business tax cuts. Why did you wait until this superheated campaign season to roll it out? A lot of your critics and even some Democrats say, well, clearly he's just using this for political purposes, he doesn't have any expectation it's actually going to be passed, it's a political weapon. Why did you wait so long to bring that out?
• And on the stimulus part, we can't get people in the White House to say it is a stimulus -- $50 billion for roads and other infrastructure, but they avoid the word "stimulus" like the plague. Is that because the original stimulus is so deeply unpopular? And if so, why is it so unpopular?
• THE PRESIDENT: Well, let me -- let me go back to when I first came into office. We had an immediate task, which was to rescue an economy that was tipping over a cliff. And we put in place an economic plan that 95 percent of economists say substantially helped us avoid a depression.
• How about naming 5 of those mystery Economist bonehead.
• Hans “The Yodeler” Nichols. - Q Thank you, Mr. President. I'll ask my real question. It's now been more than two months since the financial reg reform bill has passed. A centerpiece of that was what you talked about as a consumer financial protection bureau. And yet you haven't named a head. Is Elizabeth Warren still a leading candidate? And if not, are you worried about some sort of Senate hurdle for her confirmation? Thank you.
• THE PRESIDENT: So this agency I think has the capacity to really provide middle-class families the kind of protection that's been lacking for too long.
• Who is gonna protect all of us from you and your oppressive Communist Regime?
• All right. Chuck “The Truck” Todd. Q - Given the theme, I think, of all of your answers, I've just got a short question for you. How have you changed Washington?
• THE PRESIDENT: Well, I'll tell you how we've changed Washington. In less than two years we are well on our way to transitioning to Socialism, bankruptcy, and an international joke.
• Anne “Baby Cakes” Kornblut. - Q - Thank you, Mr. President. Nine years after the September 11th attacks, why do you think it is that we are now seeing such an increase in suspicion and outright resentment of Islam, especially given that it has been one of your priorities to increase -- to improve relations with the Muslim world?
• THE PRESIDENT: I think that at a time when the country is anxious generally and going through a tough time, then fears can surface, suspicions, divisions can surface in a society. Being a Muslim myself, I mean a friend of Islam, me and all my Jihadist brethren down at the Ground Zero Mosque have been burning some holes in the ole prayer rugs on this one.
• Natasha “Brown Eyed” Mozgovaya of Haaretz. Q - Mr. President, back in the region, the Palestinian and Israeli leaders, they sound a bit less ready for this historic compromise. President Abbas, for example, said the Palestinians won't recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The question is, if these talks fail at an early stage, will this administration disengage? Or maybe you're ready to step up and deepen your personal involvement.
• THE PRESIDENT: President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu were here last week, and they came with a sense of purpose and seriousness and cordiality that, frankly, exceeded a lot of people's expectations. Combine that with my undeniable winning personality and powers of persuasion and this almost a done deal.
• Maybe when pigs fly and Hillary quits wearing a butt ugly pants suit.
• Jake “The Snake” Tapper.Q - Thank you, Mr. President. A couple questions. First, were you concerned at all when you -- when the administration had Secretary of Defense Gates call this pastor in Florida that you were elevating somebody who is clearly from the fringe?
• THE PRESIDENT: With respect to the individual down in Florida, let me just say -- let me repeat what I said a couple of days ago. The idea that we would burn the sacred texts of someone else's religion is contrary to what this country stands for. It's contrary to what this country -- this nation was founded on. And my hope is, is that this individual prays on it and refrains from doing it.
• What do you mean “we” Kemosabi? You got a frog in your pocket?
• Helene ”Sweet Cheeks” Cooper. Q - Thank you, Mr. President. Two questions. One on Afghanistan. How can you lecture Hamid Karzai about corruption when so many of these corrupt people are on the U.S. payroll?
• THE PRESIDENT: So what we have done is to say we are going to, after seven years of drift, after seven years of policies in which, for example, we weren't even effectively training Afghan security forces, what we've done is to say we're going to work with the Afghan government to train Afghan security forces so they can be responsible for their own security.
• Hey bonehead, not one attack on the mainland for those seven years of “drift”. Sure wish we could say the same about the last 86 weeks
• Wendell “Token Black Uncle Tom from the evil Fox News” Goler . Q - Thank you, Mr. President. I wonder if I can get you to weigh in on the wisdom of building a mosque a couple of blocks from Ground Zero. We know that the organizers have the constitutional right. What would it say about this country if they were somehow talked out of doing that? And hasn't the Florida minister's threat to burn a couple hundred copies of the Koran, hasn't the threat itself put American lives in danger, sir?
• THE PRESIDENT: With respect to the mosque in New York, I think I've been pretty clear on my position here, and that is, is that this country stands for the proposition that all men and women are created equal; that they have certain inalienable rights -- one of those inalienable rights is to practice their religion freely. And what that means is that if you could build a church on a site, you could build a synagogue on a site, if you could build a Hindu temple on a site, then you should be able to build a mosque on the site.
• If we’re not mistaken the 9/11 sneak attack wasn’t conducted by radical Jews; Hindus; Catholics; Methodist or Christian Scientist. It weren’t Southern Baptist, a fringe sect of Mormons or Reformed Druids (worship shrubs and bushes as opposed to trees) neither. It was radical Islamic Jihadist. From our way of reckoning and for anybody with half a brain a mighty powerful distinction.

On that note the President thanked everyone for coming and was ushered out of the East Room mumbling incoherently to himself about digging, ditches, driving, car keys, Islam and Victory Mosques. The letter W and tax cuts were also over heard several times.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama, (2-0) 24 – Penn State, 3

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Weeks 85: “Those who can – do. Those who can’t – teach” HL Menckenn

Fly down to Miami
Get yourself a boat
Fill it full of suntan oil
And rent yourself a goat

Ain't no registration
Ain't no student loan
You may not learn to read or write
But you will surely learn to roll dem bones

Get on back to school
Domino college, back to school
Boneyard full of knowledge
W-w-w-orking vacation in a third world nation
Back to school “Domino College”, Jimmy Buffett

Diverse backgrounds, experience, skill sets, and perspectives typically add value to any endeavor. Private sector businesses, nonprofits, academia and government agencies can all benefit from this approach when staffing their respective organization.

What’s also required to be great is a backward and forward knowledge of your core business. A combination of practical experience, education, core competency skills and a common/shared vision.

Our current Administration led by the most unqualified and inexperienced “CEO” to ever hold court in the Oval Office lacks any diversity or expertise and shares a common vision with the likes of Castro, Chavez, Mao and Islamic Arab despots throughout the Middle East. With few exceptions the entire West Wing is infested with pointy headed academics, (mostly with a Harvard connection) Socialist and tax cheats without a lick of executive leadership experience in government or the private sector.

All these academic geniuses, including our Harvard Scholar and Mr. Law Review-in-Chief, view governing, the economy and business as one big ole theoretical experiment or educational seminar. Having spent most of their careers in the pampered and sheltered confines of the world’s most elitist institutions of higher education meeting a payroll; negotiating a line of credit; creating wealth; developing strategies to infiltrate a new market; dominating the competition; leading through innovation; and maximizing productivity are literally foreign concepts to these folks.

So what we have at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a bunch of Ivey League yahoos with not much more than a frog’s hair of practical business or governing experience running the world’s largest economy and only super power. These academic egg heads with absolutely zero relevant experience are also in the process of nationalizing a big chunk of our private sector economy including the healthcare, financial, energy, and auto industries.

Certainly not the first Administration to staff up with a “those who can’t – teach” gang of tenured PhD types possessing more useless book smarts than white on rice while at the same time so deficient in street smarts/common sense a lot of these academic wizards would forget to put on their britches in the morning if somebody didn’t hang um up on the front door knob the night before.

True to form for the Harvard /Chicago /Socialist/ Hope /Change/ Believe/ Yes We Can Run the Government and Wall Street without any experience or qualifications for the job because it’s our fate, burden, and destiny to rule the world bunch their the first to take it to such extreme and unprecedented levels. A comparison with previous Administration’s staffing strategies sure enough reveals cause for great heartache, misery, consternation and alarm.

Following is the percentage of the past eighteen President's cabinet members who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet:

1. Eisenhower............57%
2. Reagan...................56%
3. W..............................55%
4. Nixon.......................53%
5. Wilson ....................52%
6. GH Bush.................51%
7. F. Roosevelt..........50%
8. Truman...................50%
9. Harding...................49%
10. Coolidge..................48%
11. Johnson..................47%
12. Hoover.................... 42%
13. Ford..........................42%
14. Taft............................40%
15. Clinton ...................39%
16. T Roosevelt………..38%
17. Carter........................32%
18. Kennedy...................30%
19. And the winner, winner, chicken dinner is the Obama Administration with a 22 point spread between 2cd to last and last and 49 points between first and last coming in at a truly astonishing 8%.

A whopping 92% of Obama’s senior leadership group wouldn’t recognize a private sector business enterprise if one crawled up behind them and bit um on the ass. This lack of real world business experience xplains a lot.

For instance:

• The President is not only anti-business but hostile towards the private sector. His remarks and actions towards oil companies, BP in particular; Insurance companies; Doctors; Wall Street banks and financial services firms; Auto industry management; open shop non union manufacturers; non green energy companies; and even news channels that question his policies have been irresponsible, in many cases unsubstantiated, and detrimental to stock values adversely impacting millions of middle class stockholders.
• Their bullheaded insistence the Fed can spend us out of a recession. To an egg headed academic it looks good in theory but it’s never worked before and it ain’t gonna work now.
• Their obsession with Marxist/Socialist Utopian theory.
• Their hankering towards the redistribution of wealth
• A propensity to over evaluate everything leading to indecision, uncertainty and inaction
• Total indifference and lack of knowledge of the importance of Returns on Investments and Cost/Benefit Analysis
• Inability to and no interest in balancing a budget
• Clueless about the adverse consequences of deficit spending and the accumulation of unsustainable debt

What are these academicians good at?

• Achieving tenure
• Advocating every extreme leftwing cause known to man
• Enjoying themselves on paid leave for every holiday and long breaks including summer vacations that folks in the private sector that actually work for a living would never be granted. With the exception of Union members, Federal and other government workers of course
• Conducting so called research funded by our hard earned tax dollars on such pressing issues including “Why college freshman tend to gain weight?” – Might be the beer and pizza but let’s spend a $100 grand to be sure; “Does sexual activity decline as we age?”; “Do video games contribute to child obesity?”
• For the sake of argument lets accept the Administration’s numbers that their One Trillion Stimulus/Spending Bill saved or created three million jobs. That equates to around $330,000 or there abouts per job. These pointy headed academics think that’s one hell of a good deal. A CEO in the private sector reporting these figures to their Board would be fired on the spot
• Publishing papers and articles on subjects nobody cares about, have no practical applications and that typically appeal to only fellow academic boneheads

President Obama has surrounded himself with a bunch of over educated anti-business academics whose abstract economic theories combined with the Administration’s Socialist program initiatives have led to an anemic, jobless and painfully slow recovery. It’s high time we sent these eggheads back to school before this slow recovery transforms into a double dip recession.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Alabama, (1-0) 48 – San Jose State, 3

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Weeks 83 & 84: The Summer of Recovery

“The business of America is business” Calvin Coolidge

Sure enough hope all y’all are enjoying what the “Hope/Change/Believe” political hacks are referring to as “The Summer of Recovery”. A mythological economic recovery created in the White House propaganda office probably by the likes of comrades Gibbs, Press Secretary; Axelrod, Chief Political Hack; Emanuel, the Enforcer; and Economic Czar, Larry “Pointy Headed Harvard Academic” Sumners.

Under the incompetent and even hostile view of free markets and capitalism the Obama Administration has redefined President Coolidge’s pro-business maxim quoted above to something more akin to the following:

• “The business of America is big Government”
• “The business of America is creating a Socialist Nanny State”
• “The business of America is creating a secular progressive Marxist/Socialist Utopia”

Our Economist-in-Chief has been so hell bent on pursuing his Marxist/Socialist dreams of grandeur his so called “Summer of Recovery” has been nothing but an abject failure across the boards. Any hint of real economic recovery has been few and far between.

Truth be told, following are the only things we’ve observed having anything at all to do with recovery coming from the “Change” gang this summer:

• President Obama’s recovery from his addiction to Kools. We have it on good authority he’s backed off from three packs a day down to two.
• Veep Biden’s recovery from his addiction to high octane Irish whiskey. Giving Uncle Joe the benefit of the doubt that he must be really slanted and/or wasted as opposed to being dumber than a bag of hammers considering his almost daily completely asinine comments on any variety of topics
• Madam Secretary of State Hillary “Expert ducker from enemy sniper fire extraordinaire” Clinton’s recovery from her addiction to shaved butt ugly pants suits.
• Eric “Member of the New Black Panther Party” Holder, Attorney General, is rumored to be working hard with his recovery from his addiction to appease Islamic terrorist.
• Madam Speaker of the House Nancy “Who truly is dumber than a bag full of hammers” Pelosi’s recovery from her addiction to Socialism which is beating her like a red headed stepchild.
• And last but by no means never least Senate Majority Leader Harry “Soon to be X Senator” Reid’s recovery from his addiction of looking and acting like a clueless bonehead. Considering recent comments and TV appearances that loud thump we keep hearing is ole Harry falling off the wagon.

It might be high time to change Mr. Obama’s “The Summer of Recovery” to a more accurate description of the actual status of the Country’s precarious fiscal position. We are tickled pink to provide two alternatives that achieve this objective.

“The Summer of Uncertainty” and “The Summer of Absurdity”

• “The Summer of Uncertainty” – The only certainty American business has towards the Obama Administration is their recognition of Obama’s anti-business agenda. The uncertainty created by the ambiguity of Obama’s Socialist policy positions puts the private sector in a state of inaction, apprehension and caution. In other words, small business owners from coast to coast don’t know if they should scratch their watch or wind their butt.

Following are a few of Obama’s policies and regs currently stifling growth, killing job growth and discouraging risk taking:

1. Obamacare/Socialized Medicine – This hostile takeover of 1/5th of our economy is the biggest manmade disaster to hit this country in our 234 year history. This deficit/debt exploding Socialist nightmare just might be the catalyst that ultimately transforms this great nation from a free market capitalist society to a Marxist/Socialist Nanny State. With our capitalist economy in peril it’s no wonder the business community is in a state of shock and paralysis.
2. New Financial Reform Legislation – Another humongous piece of Socialist legislation with untold innovation and risk taking adverse regs and intrusive fines, fees and taxes that will cost trillions of dollars and millions of jobs.
3. Cap and Trade – Another massive Marxist/Socialist legislative initiative that will not only nationalize the US energy industry but also cause prices to sky rocket and the loss of millions of jobs.

• “The Summer of Absurdity” – Some of the policies, positions and remarks advocated by this Administration are not only leftwing dribble they are also strange, foreign, bizarre and in many instances just downright absurd. If the main stream media elite had even a frog hair’s worth of journalistic integrity and reported on half of the insanity perpetrated by this bunch Mr. Obama would have been run out of town on a rail months ago.

Following are a few examples of the absurdities we’ve all been
subjected to by the head cases currently occupying the White
House.

1. Taking credit for the success “victory” achieved in Iraq under the leadership and policies of W’s Administration.
2. Blaming W for our current economic meltdown citing the cost of both wars as major factors causing the recession. Aside from the total lack of honesty do any of these yahoos remember what happened on 9/11.
3. Blaming the GOP for obstructing economic recovery in Congress when the President and his Democrat comrades have super majorities in both Houses.
4. Having Hillary Clinton’s State Department submit a report to the UN claiming Arizona’s new Immigration law is in violation with global human rights standards. Claiming a moral equivalency between Arizona’s law and human rights violations by the likes of Iran, North Korea, Russia and every Islamic governed country is not only absurd it’s lunacy and possibly treason’s.
5. Supporting the construction of a “Victory” mosque that will cast its Jihadist shadow over the sacred battle field of Ground Zero. The fact this is getting serious consideration goes way beyond absurd and into the realm of crazier than an outhouse rat.

President Obama’s so called “Summer of Recovery” is more empty rhetoric intended to divert attention from the uncertainties and absurbities emblematic of his failed Administration. We can only hope the “Summer of Recovery” transforms into the “Fall of Obama”.

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

Ron W. Garikes

Author/Columnist Note: as the President was on vacation most of the summer we felt so inclined to take a little time off ourselves and combined Weeks 83 & 84. Good Lord willing and the crick don’t rise we’ll be back on schedule next week.

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 82: “Your either with us or aginst us”

"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction”, Barack Huisan Obama, The Audacity of Hope.

During a dinner to honor the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan, a time of fasting; extensive prayer; no sex; and excessive rug burns observed by Muslims world wide( just what we need, hundreds of millions of hungry; tired; horny; wild eyed Jihadist on the loose) at the White House Friday night of Week 82 of the Obama Administration our Islamic Sympathizer-in-Chief done took a stand.

Making it abundantly clear he’s “aginst us”, two-thirds of us there abouts, President Obama made his support of the construction of a $100 Million Mosque overlooking Ground Zero unequivocal. In an obviously prepared, deliberate and considered declaration the same man who for no apparent reason boycotted his own Country’s National Prayer Day told a room full of mostly Muslim dignitaries it’s just fine by him to desecrate the hallowed ground of 9/11 by allowing a symbol of Islamic aggression, oppression, and conquest to be constructed within a sand wedge of this sacred battle field.

Standing right on up there just like he had good sense the President assured his Muslim guest that the folks in New York behind the Mosque’s development had a Constitutional right to build it right smack dab in the middle of Ground Zero if that location struck their fancy. He further stated this is a religious freedom issue and anyone opposed is a racist, Muslim hating, yahoo who clings to their bibles, religion and guns.

Truth be told most folks wouldn’t argue with the legal or Constitutional authority these people have to build their Mosque where ever they want. That being said, just because it might be technically legal sure enough don’t make it right.

In the words of Mammy scolding Scarlet for some indiscretion from Gone With the Wind – “It ain’t fittin, it ain’t fittin, it just ain’t fittin.” In fact, the entire notion of building a Mosque overlooking Ground Zero is absurd and anyone supporting this project is crazier than an outhouse rat.

Can you imagine how these boneheaded liberal terrorist sympathizers would react to the following comparably insane gestures that might also be legal but would never be allowed because as ole Mammy so eloquently put it – “It just ain’t fitten”:

• The Japanese putting a Buddhist Temple over looking Pearl Harbor
• A Nazi Recruitment Center across the street from the Holocaust Museum
• Constructing a KKK Memorial for the recently deceased Democrat Senator and Grand Dragon Robert Byrd across from the hotel in Memphis where Martin Luther King was assassinated
• Erecting a forty foot statue of Crazy Horse in full Warrior regalia at the site of Custer’s Last Stand Little Big Horn
• The University of Alabama displaying their thirteen NCAA National Football Championship trophies at Auburn’s Jordan Hare football stadium

A little digging around looking for information about the alleged moderate Imam leading the efforts to build this vile and insulting shrine to Islam reveals some seriously disconcerting facts. Following are a few examples of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s radical extremist views and actions:

• Just days after the 9/11 attacks, Ralf said in a television interview that US policies in Muslim countries were “an accessory to the crime”
• His thoughts on OBL - “In the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden was made in the USA,”
• He has refused to label Hamas as a terrorist organization
• To date he has refused to reveal the sources of funding for this project raising concerns about potential ties to terrorist regimes
• He has repeatedly refused to denounce the barbaric practice of Sharia Law

To add insult to injury Hillary “Of the traveling butt ugly pants suit tribe” Clinton’s State Department plans to send Feisal Abdul Rauf to the Middle East as part of a public diplomacy mission to explain how Islam is perceived in America. Sending this more radical than moderate Imam on a fund raising trip to the Middle East for his victory Mosque at US tax payer expense is a sad commentary on the sadder state of affairs of the Obama apologist, appeasement and down right cowardly foreign policy agenda.

Finally, Imam Rauf and his secret Muslim Brotherhood have a hidden agenda, at least to us infidels, of a most nefarious and disturbing nature regarding their true intentions for this Mosque. Consider this - the new $100 million structure was initially intended to be known as the Cordoba House.

Cordoba is a Spanish city where a victorious Muslim army destroyed a church, building a mosque in its place. On May 18, writing for Atlas Shrugs, Iraqi-American Khudhayr Taher explained: “We must note that a hostile and provocative name [Cordoba] has been chosen for this mosque. Choosing the name ‘Cordoba House’ for the mosque to be constructed in New York was not coincidental or random and innocent. It bears within it significance and dreams of expansion and invasion of the other, striving to change his religion and to subjugate him.”

Instead of building a mult-istory $100 Million dollar symbol of Islamic extremism, aggression and Jihad at Ground Zero Imam Rauf might want to give some serious thought about the goodwill that might be obtained by redirecting this substantial amount of money to some truly worthy mutually beneficial causes. Consider the following:

• Wounded Warrior Foundation
• 9/11 Victims and Survivor’s Charities
• Victim’s memorial funds
• Donation to create Ground Zero Park and Green Space ( Thanks to CGG for this contribution)
• Victim’s children scholarship fund
• $50 million to the GOP, $50 million for the Tea Party or how about the entire $100 million for the Impeach Obama Now Committee

As for the question is our President with us or aginst us when it comes to our Country’s relationship with the Islamic world sadly he hasn’t exactly been on our fightin side when it counts:

1. Victory over radical Islam in Iraq
2. Victory over radical Islam in Afghanistan
3. Victory over radical Islam in Iran
4. Victory over radical Islam world wide
5. Convicting and executing the war criminals responsible for 9/11
6. Keeping terrorist locked up safe and sound at Gitmo and not pushing to relocate these POW’S in middle America
7. Apologizing to the world of Islam for his absolutely ludicrous belief that the United States has exploited, oppressed, and acted like a conquering imperialist occupation force in our dealings with his Muslim brethren
8. His claim that the US is not a Christian nation
9. His tendency to bow down to despot Muslim world leaders
10. His support of building a Mosque over looking Ground Zero knowing it is a symbol of radical Islamic Jihads victory and triumph.

Thoughts of Obama From Bama has never accused our President of being a Muslim. We can say if he ain’t one he sure as hell has missed a good opportunity.

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

Ron W Garikes

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 81: Happy Birthday Mr. President

"I promise not to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience." Ronald Reagan, 1984 Presidential Debate with Walter Mondale

Ronald Wilson Reagan put a whippin of monumental proportions on Democrat challenger Walter Mondale in the1984 Presidential election. His memorable and most effective response to a question about his advanced years possibly adversely impacting his ability to serve as Commander-in-Chief was put to rest once and for all after delivering the classic line quoted above during their final debate.

Our 44th President, Barack Husein Obama, celebrated his 49th birthday this week. His youth and inexperience along with a mess of character flaws combined with his Marxist/Socialist agenda have resulted in nothing less than a national tragedy.

Right smack dab in the middle of all this heartache and calamity caused in large part by our wet behind the ears President our Birthday Boy-in-Chief headed home to Chicago last weekend for his 49th birthday festivities. The consummate family man, model husband and father, at least according to the pointy headed mainstream media elite press corps, welcomed in his 49th year surrounded by his loving and adoring family, close friends and an entourage of thousands all in Chicago for the weekend at taxpayer's expense.

This little shindig appeared to be the ideal birthday weekend for our Husband and Father of the Year-in-Chief with the exception of one small hitch in the proceedings, the loving first wife and adoring first youngins were nowhere to be found. Turns out Lady Michelle with the youngest first daughter in tow were taking a little sojourn in the South of Spain while the oldest first daughter was staying with friends.

Putting aside for now the absolute arrogance, elitism, and insensitivity to the economic train wreck millions of poor pilgrims all over the country are currently dealing with, primarily created by her husband's wild eyed spending and Socialist initiatives, demonstrated by Lady Michelle's poor judgement to vacation in Europe as a prelude to the First Family's upcoming holiday in Martha's Vineyard if the kin folks absence at the Presidential birthday bash was an isolated incident we'd certainly be more than happy to let it ride.

Truth be told, this Administration's consistent pattern of behavior of empty rhetoric so frequently expressed by and/or about the First Couple that so infrequently has any basis in reality. Consider the following:

• After reluctantly throwing his spiritual mentor and senior advisor under the bus, the always good for a hate whitie remark the effervescent Pastor Jeremiah Wright, and quitting their racist church after twenty years the Obamas announced to the world openly and without shame their intent to join a church in DC as soon as they settled in at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. 81 weeks later they have yet to venture sticking even a big toe into one of our Capital's thousands of Churches let alone commit to membership with a new congregation.


• We all recall the President and all his political hacks promising all the healthcare deliberations would be open and televised on CSPAN. In reality one of the most stealth, corrupt and partisan approaches ever employed to pass a piece of Congressional legislation


• Lady Michelle has become the country's leading advocate in the fight against child obesity. In addition to just raising awareness, educating and promoting good nutrition the First Lady has asked Congress for six billion and federal mandates to enforce her pet project. For a couple that gives a heapen helpen of lip service to the virtues of the private sector and capitalism they sure enough always seem to have a Socialist Nanny State solution for every issue


• The Obama Administration promised their Trillion dollar plus so called Stimulus Package would create millions of jobs, keep unemployment under eight percent, serve as the catalyst for an economic renaissance and provide financial security for untold millions for decades to come.


• Contrary to their frequent claims of devout faith in Christianity the Obamas are the first First Couple to not participate in National Prayer Day or attend some manner of Christian religious services on Christmas

To borrow a phrase from our good friends from the great state of Texas in each instance listed above the "Change/Believe/Yes We Can" gang turns out to be all hat and no cattle. In other words this gang's rhetoric seldom matches up with their true intentions.

Knowing this could explain why our young First Husband and Father-in-Chief was batching it in Chicago for his 49th. Contrary to the countless interviews and articles depicting the devoted husband and father there's a strong possibility our Model Family Man-in-Chief is a two timing cheating scoundrel who is following in the footsteps of his political heroes the philander brothers Jack, Bobby and Teddy.

In fact, Thoughts of Obama From Bama has it on good authority our Party Time Commander-in-Chief personally made the arrangements for his 49th bachelor weekend in Chi Town. Poker, bball, chain smoking, golf and an evening out at an undisclosed location with the likes of Bill Clinton, Michael Jordan, and Tiger Woods for a serious "male bonding" session.

We don't have a shred of proof to support any of these claims but niether does the Obama Administration for all of their boneheaded and outlandish statements. Any way that's our story and we are sticking to it.

Our investigation of our young 44th President's 49th birthday also uncovered several interesting and disturbing occurrences. Coincidence or a top secret diabolical Marxist/Soviet plot? We don't know but after a thorough review of the evidence certainly can't rule out a serious and high level breach in our National Security.

1961 was not only the year the Anointed One was allegedly born in Hawaii but also the same year when the following historical events occurred:

• •US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
  •1,200 US-sponsored anti-Castro exiles invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs
  •East Germany erects the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin to halt flood of refugees
  •USSR detonates 50-megaton hydrogen bomb in the largest man-made explosion in history
  •Moscow announces putting first man in orbit around earth, Major Yuri A. Gagarin
• Barack H Obama born in unknown/undisclosed location to Soviet nationals. Raised by Marxist/Soviet handlers and instructed in the fine arts of politics, propaganda, deceit, and Communist philosophy. Slated for high level infiltration in US Government with the singular mission to destroy the Country from within
• Gherman Stepanovich Titov is launched in Soviet spaceship Vostok II: makes 17 1/2 orbits in 25 hours, covering 434,960 miles before landing safely

1961 was a banner year for Communist/Soviet achievements and success. As for our yarn about young Barack we again don't have even a frog hair's worth of evidence to support this outrageous claim but neither did the President when he assured us his Stimulus, Healthcare, and Trillion dollar bailouts would work.

Happy birthday Mr President and thank the lord for your youth and inexperience. If you actually knew what the hell you were doing there is no telling how screwed up things might be by now.

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

Ron W Garikes

Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 80: The View From the Top

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
"Son of a Son of a Sailor" Jimmy Buffett

On Thursday of Week 80 of the Bolshevik nightmare otherwise known as the Obama Administration our Made for TV-in-Chief broke new and unchartered ground becoming the first sitting President to make an appearance on a day time talk show. Joining the ladies of ABC's The View the leader of the free world spent a hour further demeaning himself and the Office of the Presidency.

Sitting right up smack dab in the middle of their famous couch just like he had good sense Mr Obama basked in the adoration of four of the show's ultra liberal co host, Ba Ba Walters; Whoopi Goldberg; Joy Behar; Sherri Sheperd and one lone conservative and voice of reason, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Not a serious journalist amongst them including Ba Ba who confessed in her recent autobiography too spending a lot of time on her back during her rise to the top as opposed to any hard work, study or merit.

Led by dumber than a bag of rocks ultra liberal buffoon Joy Behar the view gals exceeded White House expectations providing our TV Spokesperson-in-Chief with an unchallenged platform to spew his lies, misrepresentations and Marxist propaganda. The softball questions came fast and furious along with an abundance of love, awe and worship at the altar of Obama.

Typical to form all questions about the tanking economy, exploding deficits, and high unemployment were blamed on W and the GOP party of no. The View gals mindlessly clapped and nodded in approval with the exception of Ms. Hasselbeck who had been tied up and gagged by her four co host to eliminate any chance the Anointed One would actually be held accountable for any of his tall tales or misrepresentations of the truth.

After about thirty to forty minutes of this unabated Obama love fest the champion of every left wing, extremist, radical, boneheaded cause, Ms Behar, changed the subject and decided the world is in dire need to know the depth of the most powerful person in the world knowledge of pop culture. As if Mr Obama's familiarity with Lindsey Lohan's incarceration, Snookies run for Mayor or what he had for breakfast will provide some great insight about what motivates and inspires our Socialist-in-Chief.

Watching this fiasco with mild amusement does beg the question - why in the hell is the President of the most powerful nation in the history of the civilized world wasting even a minute let alone an hour on a day time talk show discussing irrelevant issues with one has been; one ain't made it yet; one talented and accomplished and fairly reasonable for a liberal; one loud mouthed obnoxious dumber than a bag of hammers left wing head case; and one fairly intelligent and attractive conservative thought leader? Surely this man must have more important and pressing issues that require his time, energy and resources.

In a gesture of pure bipartisanship and in adherence to our patriotic duty Thoughts of Obama From Bama is tickled pink to offer our Top Ten List of More Productive and Important Issues Demanding an Hour of the President's Time:

10. Visit the US / Mexican border, witness firsthand the unbridled carnage, grow a backbone, put the constitution before politics and close down the border

9. Get down on your hands and knees and beg for forgiveness from the US business community for demonizing capitalism and extending our economic down turn

8. Get some golf lessons. You should be scratch as much as you play. Rumor has it you can't even break 100

7. Use the words victory, radical Islam and Jihad during a speech explaining your strategy for winning in Afghanistan

6. Read the Constitution

5. Use one of your daily TV appearances to apologize to the millions of poor dumb pilgrims you have put and kept out of work

4. Cancel your memberships in the Socialist and Communist parties

3. Burn your political bible, the Communist Manifesto

2. Take down the autographed pictures of Stalin, Marx, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Malcom X, Blago, Chavez, FDR, and Snookie, your political heroes that were hung up in the Oval Office your first day on the job

1. Write out your Letter of Resignation

Lets hope the next time Mr Obama feels so compelled to waste an hour with frivolous chit chat that he schedules lunch with Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid and not subject the rest of us to another farce like the one we just witnessed on The View.

Better yet, pick one of the items from our Top Ten List and accomplish something productive for a change. From our point of view number 1 would be one humdinger of a choice.

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

Ron W Garikes

Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week 79: 2010 Midterm Election

“We are the people there isn't any doubt
We are the people they still can't figure out
We are the people who love to sing
"Twist and Shout"
SHAKE IT UP BABY
We are the people our parents warned us about”
Jimmy Buffett, “We are the People our Parents Warned us About”

“We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. We are the hope of those boys who have little; who've been told that they cannot have what they dream; that they cannot be what they imagine.
Yes they can."

"We are the hope of the father who goes to work before dawn and lies awake with doubts that tell him he cannot give his children the same opportunities that someone gave him.
Yes he can."

"We are the hope of the woman who hears that her city will not be rebuilt; that she cannot reclaim the life that was swept away in a terrible storm.
Yes she can."

"We are the hope of the future; the answer to the cynics who tell us our house must stand divided; that we cannot come together; that we cannot remake this world as it should be.” Senator/Candidate Barack H. Obama

Barack Hussein Obama got himself elected President of these here United States of America by motivating and inspiring millions with his extraordinary public speaking skills emphasizing a message of hope and change that the Country bought hook, line and sinker. Our Great Orator of Empty Rhetoric-In-Chief has sure as hell knocked down expectations a few notches for the Midterm Election this November.

Instead of:

• “We are the hope; Yes we can; Yes they can; Yes he can; Yes she can; Yes I am the anointed one who can walk on water who will affect transformational change; Peace, Love, Bobby Sherman; Allah the Great, Allah the Benevolent”;

The call to arms for the Midterms:

• "We know you're still suffering, but things could have been worse."
• ." Do we really want to go back to W’s policies that drove the economy in the ditch in the first place”

If this is the best the Obama political hacks and Congressional Democrats have to offer they surely are setting themselves up or a serious whippin in the midterm elections. For starters, these slogans are just downright boring, confusing and about as dull as VP Biden’s intellectual capacity. Secondly, the premise of both statements is misleading and factually inaccurate, standard operating procedure for the “Yes We Can Bankrupt Each and Every one of You” crowd.

Let’s take the first slogan - "We know you're still suffering, but things could have been worse."

Worst than:

1. Ten percent unemployment for the next year or so
2. Trillion dollar plus annual deficits for years to come
3. As we write this column the Obama fiscal policies pushing the National Debt over the thirteen trillion mark
4. Nationalized/Socialist takeovers of our Auto, Financial, and Healthcare industries with Energy, Education and the Internet currently in the Presidential cross hairs
5. Rampant corruption
6. The Country being run by a “Secret Shadow” government of Socialist, tax cheat Czars
7. And the worst offense all, justifiably being taken to the wood shed by the French for our out of control spending, unsustainable deficits and Socialist agenda. If this isn’t an impeachable offense it damn sure ought to be

As for their second slogan and strategy - " Do we really want to go back to W’s policies that drove the economy in the ditch in the first place” – we say not only yes but a big “Are you ready Alabama? Hell Yes!" Ain’t no never mind about it we’ll take W’s ditch over Barack’s cavernous sink hole every time.

Despite all the finger pointing and almost daily whining from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue supported by a hyper partisan leftwing pointy headed media elite press corps Obama’s totally irresponsible, Socialist, and counterproductive failed fiscal policies makes the W Administration look like a bunch of financial geniuses. Consider the following:

• W got the 2001 Economic Growth and Recovery Tax Act passed in response to the recession he inherited from Slick Willie. It cut tax rates, increased the child tax credit, increased the standard deduction for married couples, and increased contribution caps for a variety of savings programs. The recession ended in November of 2001.
• After September 11 the economy grew at an anemic rate. The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 goosed up the 2001 tax cut package and cut taxes again on dividends and capital gains.
• With W’s tax cuts the rich paid more in taxes in 2005 than any time in the prior 20 years. According to the Wall Street Journal with W’s tax cuts the richest one percent went from paying 25% of all income taxes in 1990 to 39% in 2005. The richest 5% went from paying 44% of all income taxes in 1990 to paying 60% of all income taxes in 2005.
• After the 2001 initial tax cuts, the annual growth rate went from 0.3% in 2001 to 2.5% in 2002. By 2004, GDP growth was the highest it had been in 20 years.
• Following the 2003 tax cuts, the unemployment rate fell to the lowest level since World War II.
• When W left office 145 million folks were employed, 8.9 million were looking and the unemployment rate was at 5.9%. 79 weeks into the Hope, Change and Believe gang’s reign of fiscal catastrophe we are down to 138.4 million working, 15.4 million poor pilgrims on the street and unemployment averaging 9.9% for the year
• W’s stimulative tax cuts and reasonable regulation policies helped increase total Federal revenues by 1 trillion dollars over eight years with income jumping from 3.7 to almost 4.8 trillion. Our current gang of financially challenged over educated Harvard boneheads have masterfully orchestrated a substantial dip in tax revenues while expenditures have exploded to totally irresponsible and unsustainable levels

Historically the party in power, especially the White House, take a beating like a red headed stepchild in a midterm election. The last Chief Executive to buck this trend was W in 2002.

Obama, Pelosi and Reid’s Socialist agenda; arrogance; incompetence; bend over and grab their ankles thank you sir may I have another foreign policy; has served as a catalyst in organizing a highly motivated, enthusiastic, majority coalition of conservatives, moderates and independents who adamantly oppose Comrade Obama’s Marxist Utopian dreams of grandeur for the good ole USA.

Their “Blame Bush” and “It could be worst” strategy is also a recipe for a political blood bath in November. When all is said and done a honest appraisal of W’s performance supports solid real gains in GDP, Jobs, tax revenue, and international respect, not popularity, respect.

And if W really did drive the economy into the ditch as the President has claimed, based on the economy’s performance during the first 79 weeks of the Obama Administration, it seems fair to say that the President and all of his financial advisors missed the ditch but pulled off a full-blown Thelma and Louise. Barack and Uncle Joe, punch drunk; giggling like school girls; throwing caution to the wind; and taking complete leave of rational thought and any semblance of fiscal sanity floored it and drove our economy right off the proverbial cliff and we continue in free fall today comparable to the President’s approval numbers.

As for their “It could be worse” strategy with all due respect Mr. President, ain’t no never mind about it, it just don’t get any worse than an American President with just cause being lectured; brow beat; taken to task; publically rebuked; and just downright told what for by a French President. To be lectured about fiscal responsibility by the French is truly a defining moment in the history of the American Presidency.

We certainly hope Mr. Obama will save us all from the humiliation and shame of an Impeachment trial in the Senate and look forward to his forthcoming resignation for cowardly and inexcusable pacifist conduct with our equally cowardly and inexcusable pacifist French allies.

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

Ron W. Garikes