Hypocrisy accomplished.

It has been a year since O and his band of Navy Seals took down the tall Arab guy with the long beard. Of course, as is to be expected, Flipper and company do not like to be reminded about it. "Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order". Oh stop it! Flipper is so classless. Just days after the guy (Carter) gives him a compliment, he makes fun of the former President for making a courageous call (albeit a failed one) to save American citizens who were being held hostage in a foreign country.

Republicans are claiming that O is politicizing the killing of OBL and are outraged that an American president would politicize the war on terror. ---That sound you hear is me throwing up. I would like to take you back to the year 2003, and I want you to picture a certain president standing on an aircraft carrier and declaring that our mission in Iraq has been "accomplished".

How about a certain Mayor of a city that was attacked on September 11, 2001? He is a man who actually ran for president and based his entire campaign on his actions during that tragic time in the nation's history? And yet, republicans cry a river over O taking credit for killing OBL. Unbelievable!

But that's republicans for ya. I loved the oped in the Washington Post that I read about them:

"Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West’s comment — right out of the McCarthyite playbook of the 1950s — so striking was the almost complete lack of condemnation from Republican congressional leaders or other major party figures, including the remaining presidential candidates.

It’s not that the GOP leadership agrees with West; it is that such extreme remarks and views are now taken for granted.

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges." [More] 

Yes, even something as simple as acknowledging the killing of the most wanted terrorist in the world becomes a problem.

This is not "dysfunctional", this is delusional.









        

The real deal?

I was reading an article by Eve Fairbanks in "Politics Magazine" about authenticity. It was an interesting article from a writer who I have a fair amount of respect for. Ms. Fairbanks took issue with A-merry-cans and their insatiable appetite for an authentic President.

Fairbanks takes aim at the three main players in this primary season's run for the Presidency. She calls out Hillary Clinton for making millions of dollars in the past few years, and yet casting herself as a woman of the people. A regular blue collar girl. To her millions of followers, that made her authentic, and to the A-merry-can voter, that made her more than electable.

John McCain is seen as authentic because he can't "control his mouth", and the whole independent maverick thing is a label that was given to him by a fawning press, led by writers such as E.J. Dionne, who were spurred on by the "straight talk express" dog and pony show.

So because of this love of authenticity by the A-merry-can electorate, the "O" man had a problem. Because, unlike Hillary and McCain, he was not seen as authentic. Too "chilly", too "polished", and his speeches were too "egg-heady" (hey, those were her words, not mine). Fairbanks suggested at the time, that Obama could not compete with Hillary's "blue collar" persona, or John McCain's "loud mouth" authenticity; so he was starting behind the eight ball from the get go.

Now Obamaholics will tell you that their man was and is the most authentic, and Fairbanks acknowledges this in her piece. She says that Obamaholics claim their man is the most authentic because he is the most cool, polished, and the most at ease in his skin. But careful Obamaholics, the frat boy was seen by many A-merry-cans as the most at ease in his skin, and the most cool. And of course you all see where that got us. I mean why should we trade competence for authenticity? Still, that seems to be what the A-mery-can electorate craves; authenticity over all else. They loved that Reagan didn't they? They thought he was a real cowboy, when in truth, he was nothing but a damn second rate actor, and one of the worse Presidents, ever. Right up there with the frat boy. Why the "O" man is trying to go back to that, I will never know.

Yes folks, even your beloved "O" man is trying to seem authentic. He is trying to become more patriotic (somehow A-merry-cans associate being patriotic with being authentic), more down to earth, more middle A-merry-ca, more...well, authentic. He is trying to get elected by seeming authentic to folks who value such things, and cool and comfortable to the Obamaholics. It's a tough trick, but if anybody can pull it off, I think he can.

Still, I don't know. The very thought of an authentic politician just doesn't sit right with me. That's kind of like a whore calling herself shy, don't you think? In this day an age most politicians seem to have the ability to lie to their opponents, their supporters, and most of all, to themselves. Because politics is totally antithetical to authenticity, yet A-merry-cans try to connect the two.

Authenticity, I guess, is like beauty, it's in the eyes of the beholder. And right about now the "O" man and Mr. Morton are hoping that A-merry-cans will look at them and see their soul mate.

With the "O" man, of course, that will be literal.

LETS PLAY HARDBALL!!

It seems the dems are all over frat boy because of his little 911 speech on Monday night. Too much politics from the bully pulpit, and too much phony unity spin they say. When the real reason for the speech was to rally the country behind the red elephant for the November elections. Well, the fields position is going to surprise you, because I have no problem with frat boy mixing a little politics in his speech. Hey, he has the bully pulpit, and his party is in power; so have at it Mr. Commander In Thief, as far as I am concerned, he de man right now! First, there is about thirty percent of the American voting public who wouldn't leave frat boy's side if they saw him cut the head off of a little baby. ~~~That baby was hiding weapons of mass destruction ~~~ And there are, maybe fifty percent of the people in this country, who will never believe a word that little weasel says again. [Put the field in that number] So that fifteen percent of undecideds is who everyone is trying to reach. Including frat boy with this new support the war speaking tour. And in the field's opinion, those people will be smart enough to decide if he is keeping it real or not. So let frat boy go at it with his speeches, and his flag waving Presidential rock tour. He will get a bump for now. But later, as always, those fifteen percent will see the war, they will see the angst in the country, and they will tune out all the well written speeches that frat boy is delivering like they have been doing for the past three years.

Honestly, the dems ought to toughen up and play hardball a little more. Get a little more Machiavellian and cut throat like my man Karl Rove. Hey, I come from a place where people literally lost their lives if they belonged to the wrong political camp. Ask any Jamaican and they will tell you about the violent election seasons in Jamaica, where wearing the wrong colors like the green of the JLP, or red of the PNP, would guarantee that you would never live to see who finally got elected. Politicians on the rock don't arm their poll workers with leaflets and talking points, they arm them with AK47's and M-16's. Entire voting blocks and neighborhoods are often terrorized by political gangs who are paid well for their reign of terror. So we have it good here in America, where all we do is shout across the Internet, the radio waves, and the T.V. at each other. Hey, I would rather harsh words than bullets any day.

So my advise to the dems, and the repubs for that matter; is to shout and scream for what you believe in, and do every thing you can [within the legal limits of course] to influence the elections. Because the stakes this year are just too high to play nice. People like Camel Neck Coulter, Glen Beck, Bill Oliely, and Rush Limp boy, shouldn't scare you. They are just screaming at you, and you don't need a bullet proof vest for a scream. So my advice; scream back. Get Michael Moore to make another film, start listening to Air America, and other liberal outlets, stop watching FAUX NEWS for all the news bimbos, and try to even the playing field with these republican haters a little. Politics is a contact sport, and you should not be playing nice.

It is not by accident of course that I think like this. Picture my political upbringing. Besides my aforementioned childhood, I went to law school in Louisiana, where politics is the biggest sport in the state behind football. And I have settled professionally in Philadelphia, where Lincoln Steffens once said of my fair city; that we are "corrupt and content". And honestly, only Chicago has a worse big city reputation when it comes to politics. So that's my political background, and I am proud of it. I make no apologies about being passionate about my beliefs, and my win at all cost mentality when it comes to politics. ~ Vote early and vote often~ This is why I hate to see wimpy politicians crying about equal time for a television address, or crying for censorship of a movie. My God people, grow some, and start smacking that little b#$%h Karl Rove right back in his four eyed mug. Trust me, given the chance, he will smack you. This is about high stakes and billion dollar contracts, so yo can believe that civility crap and "we the people" bu#* s%#t all you want, but this is political war!

Now if you will excuse me, I see a Santurom sign on one of my neighbor's lawn. Shhhhhh