The events of the last few days have brought the situation that we are in into sharp relief, and it’s not a pretty picture. The narcissistic, inexperienced, elitist, empty suit with a history of cocaine use, a shadowy past and a collection of unsavory friends and associates that is masquerading as the guardian of our Constitution repeated once again that he is not interested in “victory” in Afghanistan, but rather in “solving the problem,” thereby displaying a stunning and terrifying naiveté. Forgive me, man-god, but there is no solution to this problem without victory. If you don’t understand that, you are even more clueless than even I previously believed. Don’t you worry about it, though. You’ve got to get to Copenhagen to do a favor for Mayor Daley. Priorities are priorities. 

    Thanks to the hoards of celebrity-obsessed, ignorant teenyboppers and Oprah acolytes encouraged by ostensibly serious journalists who shared their squealing schoolgirl crush, this is where is where we find ourselves. The following is the reality:

What’s Important to B. Hussein

    The “crisis” of man-made global warming

    Incessantly appearing on television, magazine covers, and any other vehicle he and David Axelrod can find to insure that he is constantly in the face of every sentient creature on earth

    Squiring Michelle Antoinette (aka the First Klingon)  all over the planet on glamourous “date nights” and shopping sprees

    Destroying our health care system through his government takeover scheme

    Redressing the unfairness of this “mean country,” by redistributing income from the serfs who exist merely to submit to his dictates to his mascot groups and political cronies

    Apologizing for the many sins racist imperialistic Amerika has committed against the rest of the world, Including destroying the planet through its greed and consumerism (see above, re global warming) so that the members of that international insane asylum with frequent open mic nights, the U.N., will love him

    Payback to Mayor Daley and the rest of the Chicago Machine for their help foisting him on our country

    The continued existence of the cult of personality that catapulted him into office, including the covert stoking of white guilt, the tsunami-like wave of which he surfed right into the Oval Office

    His belief in his own preternatural talent and super-specialness

What’s Important to Normal Americans

    Victory over al-Qaeda and similar head-chopping Islamic fanatics determined to murder as many Americans as possible, so that we can be safe and secure in our homes, workplaces and schools

    Winning the war in Afghanistan

    Peace through strength, as putting the national interest of the United States of America ahead of every other nation on earth, even if that means we must take actions that might not pass the “global test” or otherwise please the U.N.

    Preventing totalitarian lunatics from obtaining nuclear weapons

    The protection of our brave, selfless troops putting their lives on the line to keep us safe

    The continued existence of America as that “shining city of a hill” Ronald Reagan so eloquently described

    Passing to future generations the freedom that we were fortunate to inherit from our ancestors, who worked tirelessly, fought, and even died, to give us this precious legacy

    Individual responsibility

    Individual liberty, facilitated by limited government, confident that if left alone in an economy with a robust free market we can take care of our families just fine, thank you, and help the less fortunate, too, without the federal government putting a gun to our heads

    Belief in God, and the strength that we draw from faith

    Once again I find myself disagreeing with Hugo Chavez. (I guess he won’t be winking at me the way he did at Courtney Love.) Where he smells hope, I smell the stench of appeasement, incompetence and arrogance, none of which bodes well for our country. Courage, but pray.

The Liberal Death Star  (that would be the New York Times for those of you who don’t listen to the Teri O’Brien show, or who are new to this blog) Reports:

Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency asked President Obama on Friday to shut down the new Justice Department inquiry into past abuses during interrogations of terrorism suspects, arguing that it “will seriously damage” the nation’s ability to protect itself.

In a letter to Mr. Obama, the former C.I.A. chiefs said the cases under study had already been examined by career prosecutors who found that no criminal charges were warranted. To reopen cases based on a change in which political party controls the government, they wrote, will make it harder for intelligence officers to take risks without worrying that some future attorney general might investigate them.

“Those men and women who undertake difficult intelligence assignments in the aftermath of an attack such as September 11 must believe there is permanence in the legal rules that govern their actions,” the men said in their letter.

They argued that the new inquiry would result in the disclosure of information about past operations that “can only help Al Qaeda” elude capture, and would convince foreign intelligence agencies that they could not trust the United States to protect secrets.

    First of all, it’s distressing to learn that obvious racists (otherwise why would they criticize an Obama administration policy?) were in charge of the CIA, including two who worked for our first black president Bill Clinton. Second, who do these guys think they are, questioning the decisions the One’s hand-picked Attorney General makes? As if! As if they know more about national security than Eric Holder and B. Hussein Obama, two guys who understand that, sure national security is sort of important, but that the rights of guys named Abdul and Mohammed, not to mention this generation’s Bill Ayers are paramount. What if someone eavesdrops on them without the ACLU and some SoSo (as in Sonia “Affirmative Action Baby” Sotomayor) type federal judge’s approval? Is that what you want? Do you want some poor former cave-dwelling, previously lice-infested, rag-head wearing guy taken away from his orange peel chicken and rice pilaf so that some cruel interrogator can splash him with water? I didn’t think so. 

Jimmy “King of the Useful Idiots” Carter understood that. He was horrified by the excesses committed by the CIA. Sure, his policies of emasculating and demoralizing our intelligence agencies probably led directly to 9/11, but I’m sure that, like Mary Jo Kopechne, who no doubt would have volunteered to give her life to ensure that Ted Kennedy could spend 47 years in the Senate, those who perished on 9/11 would have been happy to be incinerated to make sure that none of our country’s enemies rights were infringed or even threatened. 

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One of the most hilarious memes circulated among the clueless clownish newsreaders on ABS, NBS and CBS (BS, as in “Barry Soetoro”), currently in full head scratch mode, trying to figure out why their guy is having such a tough time accomplishing his mission of “remaking” America. Let me explain it you, and, being cognizant of your obvious intellectual limitations, I’ll speak slowly. 

B. Hussein Obama was elected in a year when the democrat would have had to rape his mom on a pile of dead puppies, which he personally shot on live tv, to not be successful. The incumbent was a two-termer of the opposite party who had presided over an increasingly unpopular war. Concerns about the scheming Islamic fanatics who murdered 3000 Americans on 9/11 had faded into oblivion, and the economy appeared to be sinking. Couple those things with the fact that, as previously noted, the Obama campaign managed to make the election about personality, not ideas. In the latter, conservative ideas win every time. In the former, particularly when it’s the grumpy old man with no commitment to any particular ideology v. the super cool, mixed-race hipster, concealing his decades-long commitment to radical beliefs at war with the values of most Americans behind a smiling demeanor, liberals prevail. 

If you really want to split your sides laughing, tune in when they begin to speculate that the reason He Who Used to Walk on Water (but who is now like some of those mortgages that Barney Frank helped facilitate--underwater), is encountering a teensy weensy bit of opposition to his plan to destroy our health care system. The reason--get ready, and please swallow any liquid that you may have in your mouth, lest you spew it all of yourself--they say, is that “Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have pulled him to the left.” Oh, of course! This guy, who hung out with Billy Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, and who admits being influenced by an admitted communist as a youngster and choosing to hang out with Marxists in college, he needed to be coaxed over to the Left. I want some of what they’re smoking.

Speaking of the passel of pinkos surrounding B. Hussein, by now, unless you get your news from one of the afore-mentioned BS networks, you know about Van Jones, the self-avowed Marxist, defender of cop killer Abu Mamia Jamal, and believer that the Bush administration was behind 9/11, who our Dear Leader put in charge of “green jobs.” That’s a perfect gig for a guy who has openly vowed to use the environmental movement to bring on a socialist revolution. 

Some had speculated that Mr. Jones would be canned by now, but so far from the adminstration--crickets. Does Van Jones have something on Barack Obama or his Mrs.? Time will tell.

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    As I noted in my tweet, which was featured on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Mr. Hope and Change is nothing but a Chicago machine politician. Now, increasing numbers of Americans are waking up to the fact that they probably should have expressed a teensy weensy bit more skepticism when a pompous, narcissistic empty suit with almost zero accomplishments, unless you count voting “present” over 100 times in the state Senate or stoking a sense of victimhood and entitlement in the poor people he was using as rungs on his career ladder, presented himself as a “post-partisan” “post-racial” savior. Gee, a Chicago politician says he’s going to bring unparalleled ethics and transparency to Washington. What could possibly go wrong? It makes more sense to believe in the tooth fairy, for crying out loud. Granted, a huge part of the Obama campaign’s effective electoral strategy was to involve millions of people in the presidential election whose only previous votes had been cast on their cell phones during a hotly-contested “American Idol” season. They still haven’t gotten over the fact that Oprah got them to buy a phony yarn about drug abuse and recovery cooked up by a creative writer as a true story. 

    Speaking of moronic and insufferably boring collections of fairy tales concocted by a fevered, dope-influenced brain, in his book “Dreams from My Father,” B. Hussein wrote how he decided to join a church, while a “community organizer” in Chicago, something he hasn’t yet done in Washington. I’ll spare you the details. Here’s the bottom line: the young agitator soon discovered that it was bad for business to not be able to provide an answer when he was asked by the ministers and church-loving people in the community that he was trying to incite “Where do you go to church?” Political expediency dictated that he get an answer to that question STAT, and he found the perfect one in the racist, anti-Semitic, screeching lunatic Jeremiah Wright, who was less about spirituality and more about race-based victimhood and payback from Whitey. Perfect! Now that his political fortunes have turned South, Barry is now turning spiritual, lecturing us on the “moral imperative” that is socialism and government-controlled, rationed health care. It’s difficult for me to focus on this moral imperative stuff because I’m still trying to figure out how someone with Barack Obama’s deep Christian faith still hasn’t found a church in his new home town after almost 8 months. 

    The former man-god may have left Rev. Wright behind, but it turns out that when the future Pres. Sham WOW (Walks on Water) slithered out of the stinking slough of corruption that is Cook County democrat politics, he was dragging a huge collection of alums from Chicago City Hall, not the least of which is his big-mouthed wife Michelle, who is a second-generation patronage soldier of Daley’s army.  Not surprisingly, they have brought Chicago-style politics to Washington. Consider the following stories:

    $4B of stimulus funds to create rental housing

    It hasn’t escaped the attention of many that the “stimulus” bill, which absolutely, positively had to be signed IMMEDIATELY, even before any of that collection of self-important, self-interested weasels masquerading as statesmen that we call “Congress” had a chance to read it, hasn’t prevented unemployment from rising above 8%, as promised. Now perhaps we know why. The good news is that, in the grand tradition of Chicago cronyism, it will no doubt stimulate some of Obama’s pals, just as this “affordable housing” project back in Chicago did for Mayor Daley’s friends.

    Democratic investigators target health insurers

From Politico:

House Democrats are probing the nation’s largest insurance companies for lavish spending, demanding reams of compensation data and schedules of retreats and conferences.

Letters sent to 52 insurance companies by Democratic leaders demand extensive documents for an examination of ‘extensive compensation and other business practices in the health insurance industry.” The letters set a deadline of Sept. 14 for the documents.

    Just in case some of the remaining hopelessly besotted Obama cult members have wandered over here and don’t recognize that, let me spell it out for you. It’s called the Chicago way. Like Tony Soprano having a friendly conversation with someone he thinks may have crossed him, these democrats just want to talk to you, Mr. Insurance Executive. Don’t you worry about it.

    As the Gorebot famously said “A leopard never changes his stripes.”

    We have discovered yet another important issue with which President Sham WOW (Walks on Water) claims to be “unfamiliar,” Section 102 of the “health care (rationing) reform” bill he’s trying to foist on us. That is the section that end private health insurance as we know it and herd everyone into a government plan with the efficiency of FEMA and the compassion of the IRS. In B. Hussein’s world, compassion and empathy have their place, of course. that would be in making law from the bench, when a liberal judge rips the blindfold off Lady Justice and replaces it with grievance googles allowing her to tip the scales in favor of favored mascot groups. When it comes to medicine, though, doctors can’t make treatment decisions based on individual evaluations of things like a person’s heart or spirit. Instead, they need to comply with the requirements of “comparative efficiency.”

    Recall the previous list of revelations that stunned this brilliant former “constitutional law professor” (actually a part-time lecturer, but what’s a little resume inflation when a man-god is describing himself?): 

    Jeremiah Wright’s lunatic racist, anti-American beliefs, despite spending 20 years listening to his raving

    Traitor Bill Ayers never-ending commitment and on-going to the values the led him to commit terrorism against our country

    The felonious activities of his former client/patron/mansion fairy Tony Rezko, despite a relationship spanning more than a decade and the fact that he could not have purchased his house without assistance from Mr. Rezko

    Apparently, this bill is not the health care bill he knew and the specifics are above his pay grade. I guess now I can understand why my congressman and Mark Kirk (R-RINO) don’t read any of this stuff before voting for it. Why should they? They trust the Pied Piper like the rest of the rats. 

    Perhaps the man-god will get a question about this provision in his upcoming lie fest, scheduled for 7 pm this evening, allowing him to repeat his second biggest lie (here’s the first biggest), the mantra that “if you like your insurance and like your doctor, you can keep them. Period. End of story.” The way he does his patented two-step, he should go on “Dancing with the Stars.”

        Never forget that all that matters is the ultimate result, taking over every aspect of our lives and making everyone beholden to the ruling elite, and your health care is the key. 

    I would love to hear the questions you’d like to see the Dear Reader asked tonight, so please post them below. Here are a few of mine:

    You claim that the objective of the bill is to reduce costs, yet last Thursday the Director of the Congressional Budget Office said that none of the bills he has seen would reduce health care costs.

    Is Mr. Elmendorf wrong? If so, what is he missing?

    You have repeatedly cited the Mayo clinic as a model for excellent health care at reduced cost. Yet this is what the Mayo Clinic said about the health care reform bill that you and the democrats in Congress are promoting:

    Do you think it’s disingenuous to use the Mayo Clinic to promote a bill that they don’t support? 

    You admitted that you are unfamiliar with the bill. Who wrote it, and can we meet that person so we can ask him or her our questions?

    Will you insist that any government health care plan pay for abortion? 

    Will you veto any plan that requires covering illegal aliens? If not, why do you believe that U.S. taxpayers should provide health care to those in violation of U.S. law?

    Speaking of illegal aliens, I’d also like to know how, given the inevitable reduction in the number of primary care physicians that will come from lower incomes and their continuing risk of lawsuits, we’ll be able to add 40 or 50 million new patients without increasing wait times to see a doctor. Perhaps he plans to perform the medical equivalent of the miracle of the loaves and fishes. 

    I plan to live blog the lie fest tonight. perhaps in a chat room. If you’re up for that, please comment below, or drop me a note at teri@detoxaliberal.com. One thing I’m hoping to see tonight is another peek behind the Cool Dude mask to see the real Barack, the thin-skinned, in over his head, celebutard narcissist who does not suffer being asked challenging questions, or being told “no.” Recall the last time the mask slipped, when he was asked whether he broke his silence about the brutal repression of protestors in Iraq after being shamed into it by a speech from Sen. John McCain. He snapped “What do you think?” I think you’re cute when you’re mad, Sham WOW.

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    Of all the risible myths about Barack and Michelle Obama is the one about their selfless sacrifice in giving up their “high paying careers” for “public service,” repeated yet again yesterday when the First Klingon kicked off yet another pointless exercise in stagecraft called “United We Serve.” Like nearly everything else about this couple of narcissistic, affirmative action dependent parasites, this PR construct about their devotion to “public service” is designed to perpetuate the cult of the personality about them and is completely phony. First of all, the guy who has the drive and moxie to operate a convenience market in a poor neighborhood does more for its residents than a busload of “community organizers,” stoking a sense of victimhood and entitlement to promote their own political careers, who arrives when things are bad and moves on leaving things no better than when he got there. Second, most normal Americans do their “public service” as volunteers for their churches or synagogues or other charitable organizations. I realize that was a little tough for the Obamas, given their spiritual adviser of 20+ years, the guy who performed their marriage ceremony and baptized their children, Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright. What sort of “public service” opportunities might he suggest for his parishioners? Taking children to help Black Panther thugs intimidate voters outside polling places? Apparently, the Obamas thought giving to the Congressional Black Caucus was a charitable contribution, so you can see they are very confused about not only “public service,” but also charity.

    For Michelle Obama to suggest that because she left Sidley & Austin, one of Chicago’s largest corporate law firms, she forfeited her future material comfort, and did so out of a selfless desire to serve others, is absurd. Granted, she may have seen her salary reduced for a couple of years after she left private practice to work in the office of the mayor of the City of Chicago, but that was a small price to pay to become a member of the political class with all the rich rewards, financial and otherwise, it offers. To quote one of Hillary’s hairdressers mentioned in this story about Michelle being the first First Lady in history to have a full-time makeup artist as part of her entourage, "You do it because you know you will have some prestige and you will be able to make money later.” Similarly, you go into government because you know (1) you won’t have to work very hard and (2) while the salary may seem small, when you factor in the perqs and the power over other people, the pay can’t be beat. 

    In addition, it’s not entirely clear that Michelle Antoinette was the superstar in private practice that she later became after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate and was therefore able to obtain a $1 million earmark for the hospital that gave her the no-show, PC mandated “community relations” job. In fact, there is some evidence to the contrary. Not surprisingly, the same enormous sense of entitlement and resentment that has been on display   in the last couple of years afflicted her when she worked at Sidley, where she was a whiny, pushy malcontent with an inflated sense of her own importance. So, was she really “giving up” a great career with unlimited opportunity, or was she escaping from an arena in which she was destined to ultimately fail? After all, the guilty white liberals at the firm might not be able to run interference for her forever. In the private sector, people still have to produce something worthwhile. It’s not enough to just be of the correct race or gender, and have a big mouth, arrogance and a burning desire to change the world. 

    It’s clear that for the Obamas, politics was where it’s at, and not because of their altruism. (If you doubt that, consider their gaudy charitable contributions.)It’s paid off extremely well for them both. I’m sure that no partner at Sidley enjoys more luxurious “date nights” to New York City or Paris than they do, and even those who do have to pay for them themselves rather than jetsetting on the taxpayers’ dime. Would Michelle have the afore-mentioned full-time makeup artist, plus an army of assistants, chefs, cleaning people and other assorted minions even if she had managed to convince Sidley to overlook her deficiencies and make her a partner? 

        So, while Michelle Obama is able to sanctimoniously lecture others about the desirability of avoiding high-paying corporate jobs in favor of “public service,” she continues to enjoy every material luxury and opportunity to experience the best that life in America, “downright mean” country that it is, has to offer. Occupying the moral high ground wearing $540 sneakers, $775 boots, having her own resident makeup artist, and generally living it up. Does it get any better than that for a liberal charlatan than that? I don’t think so.

    So can we please have an end to Michelle portraying herself as the second coming of Mother Teresa because she chose to join the Chicago political machine shortly before marrying “community organizer” B. Hussein? No doubt both career moves were part of their strategy, pieces of the puzzle, by which this conniving pair would ascend to the pinnacle of power. 

    I couldn’t halp but notice this little tidbit from the article about this stupid “United We Serve” photo op: 

    “Among the cabinet secretaries scheduled to skip out of their day jobs Monday for street level toiling were: Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, who was to visit the La Mesita Homeless Shelter for Families in Mesa, Ariz; Attorney General Eric Holder, who planned to go to the Police Athletic league in Philadelphia; HUD secretary Shaun Donovan, who was scheduled to help two families move back into their homes in New Orleans; Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, who planned to help volunteer drivers transport patients at VA Medical Centers; Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who was to work with volunteers at Shenandoah National Park; Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who planned to work with Habitat for Humanity in Brooklyn, New York; Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, scheduled to work with the Los Angeles Communities Advocating for Unity Social Justice and Action YouthBuild program; and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, who was to work with the Orlando Citizen Corps Council and  volunteers.” (emphasis mine)

    From the Los Angeles Communities Advocating for Unity Social Justice website:

LA CAUSA engages disenfranchised young people and their families from East Los Angeles to take action against the injustices that impact low-income communities of color.

    Once again “public service” means something far different than most well-intentioned Americans believe. It is a not altruistic actions taken to help your fellow man. It is radical left wing activism designed to “remake” our country into something we won’t recognize and won’t want to live in, as in being a “community organizer.” For more examples of similar “public service,” see the felonious vote fraud factory and friend of Obama’s, ACORN, now renamed COI. 

    While protestors against the totalitarian regime in Iran are getting shot and beaten in the streets of Tehran, Mr. Hope and Change, Barack Hussein Obama, continues to vote present with his “nuanced” (read panty-waist) response. Imagine the conversation going on in Jeremiah Wright’s former parishioner’s head: “on the one hand, it’s a brutal dictatorship that promotes terrorism all over the world. On the other hand, America has no right to interfere, given our racist, imperialistic history, and our interference in Iran’s domestic leadership in 1953.” Once again, B. Hussein, votes present, and his apparatchiks in the politburo media justify it with reference to the afore-mentioned events in 1953, leaving most of his supporters extremely confused. “How could America get involved in Iran in 1953 when that’s when the American Civil War was going on?” they ask as they scratch their empty heads.

    He Who Walks on Water saved his ire for a a more worthy adversary, to the collective swoons, oohs and aahs of the propagandists in our version of Pravda over his “amazing athleticism.” We haven’t seen reporting like this since Kim Jong Il’s first golf game. Take that, you vicious, dangerous fly! I’m gonna get you, Sucka! No doubt the poor hapless insect was attracted by the reeking stench coming from the lies that issue with such ease and regularity from Barry’s mendacious mouth.

    Meanwhile here at home, the Lame Stream Media continues their approach to “objective reporting” about Barack and Michelle Obama, which means pretending that normal Americans consider them objects of worship and endless fascination rather than a couple of narcissistic beneficiaries of affirmative action who alternately bore and enrage us with their ostentatious displays of taxpayer-funded amusements. In the latest foray into “hard news,” as in fluffy feature stories promoting their already overpackaged images, they want us to believe that we are looking to them to help us get our fat, flabby bodies in shape. In Michelle’s case--how can I say this delicately?--no matter how many stories they write about her “buff arms,” I can’t help but notice that there’s a reason she is rarely photographed from the waist down, particularly from behind, so I’m not looking for her “perfect body” diet any time soon. As for Barry, I assumed that all supernatural beings were possessed of perfect physical bodies. Or it could be the cigarettes. 

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Last week, in the aftermath of the Obamas’ “Date Night in New York City,” I cautioned you not to be distracted by the obvious; that is, the blatant phoniness of these two affirmative-action beneficiary limousine liberals, who jet off on our dime to live it up while we sacrifice, enjoying our frozen pizzas and Net Flix movies. Instead, we need to realize that today it’s frozen pizza. Tomorrow it’s rationed health care, if any at all.

Now, as the unemployment rate is at a 25-year high, HWWOW (He Who Walks on Water) and the Godmother of Soul, Michelle give us the finger again, saying in effect, “You liked our trip to New York City so much, now we’re taking the kids to Paris for vacation!” I can’t wait to see the woman who looks like James Brown in drag doing her patented Farmer-Brown-behind-a-plow stomp around the City of Lights, and to hear Chris “the Screamer” Matthews try to convince people without impaired vision that she is the second coming of Jackie Kennedy.

Remember all those stories and late night jokes about how President Bush was constantly on vacation? Will our Lame Stream Media friends be questioning why after 136 days this arrogant, inexperienced Chicago political hack needs another vacation? Apparently bankrupting future generations is hard work!

I had another thought. Back during the campaign, the Empty-Suit-in-Chief suggested that he might support the concept of reparations; specifically, saying at UNITY ’08, a meeting of minority “journalists” aka cheerleaders for the Obama campaign: "I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged," the Democratic presidential hopeful said. "I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds." and adding: “You know, I have said in the past, and I’ll repeat again, that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed. And I think that strategies that invest in lifting people out of the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, but that have brought applicability and allow us to build coalitions to actually get these things done, that, I think, is the best strategy.”

I know what your are thinking, you bitter-clinging typical white person, you; that is, but for the Jim Crow definition of what it means to be black, the infamous “one drop rule,” Barack Hussein would be significantly less “historic,” as in not historic period. As for good schools in the inner city, I’m with you, bro. Does this mean that you’re now supporting school choice, so that poor children can get the sort of education you provide for your daughters and that you touted when introducing your Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor? No, but you sure talk pretty, man-god.

When you see the drooling, slobbering reports about the Obamas in Paris, look at it this way. Barack and Michelle “First Klingon” Obama, who has lamented what a mean, rotten country this is, are just doing their part to allow our tragic history acknowledged by being the first to accept well deserved reparations, in the form of private jets trips, fancy dinners, family vacations to Paris, and all the other glittering aspects of their glamorous lives.

After all, didn’t Michelle, despite having had a white-guilt generated no-work gig for which she got a $200,000+ raise after her husband was elected to Senate, whine that she and her husband had barely paid off their college loans, and say “give us something!” ? Now I realize why she stomps around. Her sense of entitlement is even larger than her substantial caboose. And don’t forget. Times are hard, and we all, with some notable tax-funded exceptions, need to “sacrifice.”

Last night I had the extreme pleasure of speaking at the town hall meeting of an awesome group of high achieving, high energy patriots, all part of a new group Patriots United. I woke up this morning energized, excited, but also aware that the last six months may have left me more demoralized than I previously realized. I can’t thank Maida Korte, her husband Andy, Brian Kelly, Bill Parrot, John (forgive me--I can’t remember your last name!), Michael Brown of Testimony Pictures (the fabulous videographer/producer, and creator of the “Dear Mr. Obama” who taped the event) enough. You guys are the greatest, and you have really started something!

A couple of those attending the event mentioned yesterday’s on-air water boarding of Chicago DJ-turned-”talk show host” (in quotes because when a show is scripted, I don’t consider that hosting, but rather acting) Mancow Mueller. I never miss Mancow’s show: I never hear it and I never miss it; however, didn’t mention that last night when Mr. Mueller’s name came up. I didn’t want to get distracted from our important mission to discuss the reasons, or to mention the fact that not only am I not a fan, but also that was I unimpressed with Mr. Mancow’s latest radio stunt. Like all shock jocks, Mancow loves radio stunts, such as the hilarious one in 1993 that shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for several hours and resulted in a $500 fine and 300 hours probation for him, and a great new job in a larger market.

In most industries, if a person costs his employer $342,000 in fines due to indecency, get repeatedly sued for defamation, and send a rival a box of fecal matter, that person won’t earn a much higher paying job in a much better office; however, traditional radio is not most industries. 

Having done a little work in traditional radio, I understand a bit about how it works. Management in radio is no different from management in other industries. They like what they know, and what they know is DJs. I’m not suggesting that ex-DJs can’t be smart, or that they don’t do terrifically entertaining and informative work on the air. One of the greatest talents in the history of radio, and the only guy who I listen to regularly on terrestrial radio, is an ex-DJ, the incomparable Rush Limbaugh. Rush is the rare exception in the industry, a highly intelligent, well-educated (albeit through his own reading and study) radio guy. We shouldn’t confuse a clown like Mancow with a serious commentator like Rush. No matter how many times he tries to “reinvent” himself, and no matter how many tea parties he attends, he’s still a silly doofus with a DJ puker voice thinking of “outrageous” ways to show he’s as “out of his mind” as any resident of a 1980’s radio morning zoo. 

Perhaps that’s one reason I found it so interesting to see both Rush and Mancow as subjects on the on-air train wreck on Idiot Central aka MS-NBC, Keith Olbermann’s show. The last segment, an episode of a feature called “WTF?” was devoted to mocking Rush. 

   On the other hand, Olbermann was over the moon because Mancow, a “conservative talk show host,” admitted that water boarding is “torture.” So now, because unimaginative program directors, many of them failed DJs, have given a shock jock the platform to masquerade as the next Bill Buckley, his ratings-chasing antics are being used to combat serious public policy arguments. It’s ridiculous, and serious people shouldn’t be part of it. Don’t get me wrong: I’m all for entertainment, but let’s not pretend that the court jester is really Thomas More. 

  If you were hoping that the Barack Hussein Obama’s latest TelePrompTer tennis match would mark the beginning of the end his incessant repetition of his insufferable, hackneyed whiny mantra “I inherited it!!”, you are as disappointed as I was last night when Kris bested Adam to become the new “American Idol.” Just as millions of swooning 12 year old girls are responsible for the latter, the panting, slobbering passel of bobbysoxers in the Lame Stream Media helped foist this inexperienced, arrogant jerk with a history of doing “a little blow”--and if that’s not a perfect summary of qualifications for the office, I can’t imagine what is--on our country, so we are sentenced to listen to him bloviate endlessly, pointing his bony finger at us, looking down his nose as his head rotates from side to side so he can see what Axelrod wrote, and lecturing us as if he were talking to a group of five year olds.

    This morning’s oration was no exception. All the same predictable yip yap about “our values”, “the rule of law,” and of course, the whopper about keeping us safe is the first thing he thinks about in the morning and the last thing he thinks about at night, which by the way lasted an hour. Geez, who is he--Hugo Chavez?

    He attacked President Bush’s decisions as “hasty.” MMM …you mean like the decision to close Gitmo with absolutely no plan for what you want to do with the head-chopping maniacs who are determined to murder as many Americans as possible?

    He also repeated the Left’s perfect response to the use of enhanced interrogations: we think they’re horrible, wrong and they upset the French, but that’s not really why we oppose their use. The reason is that enhanced interrogations don’t work. If we accept that as the truth, the argument is over. To that I say, my willingness to accept the truth that enhanced interrogations don’t work is like my willingness to accept the “truth” that human activity causes global warming or the “obvious brilliance of Barack Obama.” I’m not foreclosing the possibility, but I’m going to have to see A LOT more evidence. Speaking of evidence, can I see those other memos, you know, the ones that show the plots that the enhanced interrogations prevented? Does “transparency” only mean more pictures of the man-god in his swimming trunks, which I can seriously do without?

    Here’s the bottom line on this performance, and it came at the end: we can’t use national security as a political wedge issue. This cynical remark delivered by the man who bemoaned the creation of the policies of the previous administration that made us safe as “expedient.”  Fortunately, I hadn’t eaten at the time I watched this smarmy empty suit politician caution us against any serious consideration of whether the policies with “God damn, America!” as their underpinnings might be worth voting against. 

        Oh, and we’re back to thinking of these lunatics with filthy rags on their unwashed dirty heads as “criminals.”  But he’s making us safer. Just trust him. 

    Remember back in January, when Barack Hussein Obama, with Castro’s mouthpiece Greg Craig filling in for TOTUS (TelePrompTer of the United States), made a big show of signing his executive order to close Gitmo? Now that he’s decided to resume the military tribunals there, albeit while trying to make it more difficult to hold these murderous maniacs, in retrospect all that was missing from that photo op was the “Mission Accomplished” banner, no?

    Speaking of mouthpieces for the inexperienced empty suit/former community organizer, his primary puppet master, the guy that the unfailingly insightful and knowledgeable John Kass has called “the Karl Rove of the Left,” David Axelrod appeared on NPR’s “Wait …wait …don’t tell me” on Thursday night. Most Americans  probably never heard of Mr. Axelrod before he helped foist Obama on the country, and are therefore unfamiliar with his impressive career as an apologist for phony Chicago machine politicians, most notably the current mayor. Certainly the “new voters” who were “energized” by the candidacy of the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama (D-ACORN), aka the ignoranti who swallowed the dopey hopey-changey gibberish that Axelrod fed into the TelePrompter are not. If any members of the Oprah audience, who prior to the ascension of the One, couldn’t name the president, have wandered over here by accident, let me commend this piece by Mr. Kass, a short, but excellent description of the stinking slough of corruption that took a narcissistic, ambitious former street agitator and turned him into a skilled politician.

    Mr. Axelrod is a man who chooses words very carefully, so it was no accident when he said the following:

When Axelrod was asked if he had weighed in on the Obama family’s dog choice, "the Rasputin in this kingdom" (as Sagal jokingly refered to him) sassed back, “I was only called in for the final three, and one was Miss California.” 

I guess we can assume that the reason that he felt comfortable referring to a 21 year-old woman whose only crime was daring to assert her belief that the word “marriage” means what it has meant for 5000 years, thereby challenging the new rules imposed by the militant homosexual thugs who apparently have assumed control of our culture when we weren’t looking, is that he made this statement on NPR, where he figured no one would hear it. He also no doubt felt very comfortable making this snotty, petty remark on this show, which you know if you are one of the couple dozen people residing in Oak Park, Hyde Park or similar enclaves of liberal condescension who has heard it, is an elitist snob fest that is almost impossible to parody. 

    Ah, the tolerant, kind, diversity-loving Left. They feign moral outrage over “torture” while sporting t-shirts with the heroic image of blood-thirsty killer Che Guevara. They self-righteously proclaim that “our strength is our diversity” while mocking anyone who dares to disagree with their Stalinist speech codes, especially if that person is a--forgive my use of this obviously disgusting term--a Christian.

    On the other hand, perhaps it’s just that David Axelrod, who as everyone can see is quite a hottie, is offended that some people, few and far between I’m sure, think that Carrie Prejean is better looking than he.