Eric Florack on January 26th, 2009

DALLAS -(AP)- The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize “for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity.”

Kyle Queal, the headmaster for Covenant School, said in The Dallas Morning News online edition that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of coach Micah Grimes’ e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout “shameful.”

(Editors note: There is vid at the link)

(Sigh)

Look, gang, sport is the last bastion of meritocracy. If even our private schools have decended so low as to start pushing this nonsense liberal version of ‘fairness’, we’re sunk as a people.

I say if the coach is the issue, the losing team should hire the man at double the salary.  The Headmaster of the school tells us that winning in this fashion isn’t ‘Christian’. So, is the Christian way supposed to be that his girls hold back, and let the other team score, and give them a false sense of talent? The team that lost did so because they suck. It’s that siple, that direct. It’s called ‘reality’. You’re not doing them any favors by sheilding them from it.

By the way, the coach called off the full press in the first quarter. So, he already DID cut back.

There’s a lesson, here, too. We’re in the financial shape we’re in just now because government came along and tried to enforce ‘fairness’, in terms of home ownership. Instead of maintaining standards they tried to allow people who had no business with a loan, get them.  We’ve broken ourselves trying to bail them out.

Ponder the lessons being taught in both cases, and their parallels.

 

 

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davidl on January 25th, 2009

As I am given  to understand it, when one declares that he has fixed a horse race, it’s taken for granted that the jockey has been paid-off.

Did Barack Obama garner the Kennedy family endorsement by making an illegal promise to have Caroline Kennedy Schlosberg appointed to the Senate, from New York, but not pay-off New York Governor David Paterson?   The inference from this Pajamas Media article is that the Kennedy’s, Ted and Carolyn received a quid pro quo to support The One.

How better do you explain Fat Teddy endorsement of a Senator who had stabbed him in the back.   The Kennedys are not noted for being forgiving.   So if Ted has put aside his grievance with BO, it is more indicative of pay-out on the part of The One and not a softening of Teddy’s heart.

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Eric Florack on January 25th, 2009

I’ve been seeing, of late, some back- chatter on my Pajamas Media piece of the 21st. Both confirmation, and complaint.  Let’s deal with the confirmation first, since it is the more obvio. I said on the 21st:

As President Obama and his people are briefed on what has been happening in the world these last eight years, the insider’s view has given them a completely new perspective on what to do about the situation, resulting in completely different actions as compared to the ones they were telling everyone they would take once they were given the power.

President Obama and his fellow Democrats are now responsible for the outcome of the next four years.  They are pragmatic enough to understand that they are the ones who will take it on the chin politically after the next terrorist attack or if the current economic problems continue for long. They’re beginning to understand how wrong they were in chastising Mr. Bush and his policies. Thus, they are adopting them. That, dear reader, is vindication.

So you can imagine the smile on my face, when I read in this story in the Washington Post this morning:

President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials — barred until the inauguration from examining classified material on the detainees — discovered that there were no comprehensive case files on many of them.

Several former Bush administration officials agreed that the files are incomplete and that no single government entity was charged with pulling together all the facts and the range of options for each prisoner. They said that the CIA and other intelligence agencies were reluctant to share information, and that the Bush administration’s focus on detention and interrogation made preparation of viable prosecutions a far lower priority.

Surber notes the story and quips:

Gosh, gee, you mean you cannot just text this stuff on your BlackBerry?

How — as this new staff said of the White House computers — Atari in an X-box world.

The reason is simple: Information is a commodity in a war. Far from being an oxymoron, military intelligence is expensive. It is won by guys like Mike Spann, who was not given a fair trial by a jury of his peers when he became the first U.S. military casualty in Afghanistan.

The Post cited unnamed Bush officials who said the records were messy and — in the Post’s words — “the Bush administration’s focus on detention and interrogation made preparation of viable prosecutions a far lower priority.”

As they should. Let KSM and company wait for their trials.

I have to say, that’s pretty much my attitude as well.  I grow very short on sympathy for the argument that there are innocent people mixed up in this.

One of the complaints I got from the mailbag, was slightly more interesting, and somewhat more complex.  Indeed, I’m not surprised at the comment, given the amount of smoke screen that Mr. Obama has provided himself.  Observe; I said on the 21st, same article:

For all the noise that Mr. Obama is making with regards to water boarding (a practice I should point out was already banned in 2006 under Mr. Bush), Obama has refused repeatedly to explicitly ban all interrogation methods not outlined in the Army Field Manual.

One feedback atuhor  with apparently more arrogance then brains, wrote me to point out that Obama had in fact written executive order barring such, as if this made my entire premise moot.

In response, I offer two points.  First of all, at the point that was written and published, he had not as yet done so.  Secondly, there clearly is a lack of understanding of just what constitutes an executive order, and what it takes to overturn an executive order.

Ron Radosh, at PJM a couple days after my post of the 21st offered this assessment… pay close attention, kids. It precisely explains why I said nothing of that executive order:

The executive orders he just signed both closed the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay within one year, and ended the CIA’s secret prisons and use of so-called “harsh interrogation methods;”  i.e., torture. According to the President’s order, all interrogations will have to follow the noncoercive methods outlined in the official U.S. Army Field Manual. Obama also issued an order for cessation of military trials already under way at Guantanamo.

But will these measures prove to be just symbolic?  Those who are complaining about Obama’s reversal of Bush Administration security policy have not paid attention to the wiggle-room he has left himself.  Certainly Obama does not want our nation hit again by a terrorist attack during his watch. What would the public say if one did occur, and it became clear that the United States had captured al-Qaeda or other terrorists who might have known about the operation before it took place, but that all efforts to get them to talk via Army Field Manual methods had produced only silence?

Should such a scenario occur, Americans would be up in arms about the Administration’s failure to do what was necessary to protect us. That is why, I think, Obama issued an Executive Order that can easily be replaced with another if he deems it necessary.

Obama said that “we can abide by a rule that says, We don’t torture, but we can effectively obtain the intelligence we need,” but in appointing two task forces, he makes it clear that he is covering all bases, so that if it is determined interrogators must  go further, he can squeak out of his first Executive Order and do so by saying he is taking the advice of his trusted appointees who have studied the situation.

Guantanobondi Bay

Guantánamo bay

(Emph is my own.)

Radosh goes on to say that Dennis Blair, who is the new intelligence director, (or will be as soon as the senate intelligence committee confirms him)  has according to the New York Times, left open the possibility that techniques beyond the nineteen currently approved for military Interrogations could be authorized.

We have been saying since Obama’s campaign started, long before he actually got the Democrat nomination: everything Obama says comes with an expiration date.  In this case, we just don’t know what that date is, but we do know that it’s going to take effect the moment there is an an attack on American interests.  Trust me, kids… that executive order will get turned over at the first need.  They won’t be tearing down the jail cells at Guantanamo  anytime soon.  The only outstanding question to my mind is whether not Mr. Obama will wait until Americans die before he reverses that order.

davidl on January 25th, 2009

An American hero, speaks little, says much, video:

Hat tip: Moe Lane.

Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, American hero.

Lesson  learned:  experience counts,  competency matters,  results trump promises.  DG Sully.

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davidl on January 25th, 2009
Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh

Barack Obama(BO) picks a fight he can not win, Byron York, National Review, quotes Rush Limbaugh:

Obama was angry that Merrill Lynch used $1.2 million of TARP money to remodel an executive suite. Excuse me, but didn’t Merrill have to hire a decorator and contractor? Didn’t they have to buy the new furnishings? What’s the difference in that and Merrill loaning that money to a decorator, contractor and goods supplier to remodel Warren Buffet’s office? Either way, stimulus in the private sector occurs. Are we really at the point where the bad PR of Merrill getting a redecorated office in the process is reason to smear them?

BO’s purported goal of his, Mrs, Pelosi’s stimulus package is to revive the economy.  It would seem to me that spending on interior decor, would be as least as stimulative as spending on contraception.    So is BO trying to revive the economy to produce the growth seen during the Reagan Era as is trying to exercise total control like the late Fidel Castro?   Does BO want growth like Reason or control like Castro?   I say the latter.   What say you?

Whenever a commander gets into a fight with a lieutenant. the superior loses.   Underlings are to dealt with, not debated as equals.

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davidl on January 24th, 2009

It has been said that great minds think alike. Well do great bloggers blog alike?

On November 5 last, I posted “Jimmy Carter Wins Re-election

Yesterday, Anchoress wrote:

While out and about, driving and listening to the news, one thing did occur to me…

I think absolutely everything President Obama has so far done or declared is pretty much exactly what Jimmy Carter would have done or declared.

The peanut farmer and the one combine two attributes, arrogance and ignorance.

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davidl on January 24th, 2009

The mainstream media treatment of the Kennedy clan as if they were somehow royalty irks me.   In the modern age, in civilized states, being treated a royal means comporting to actiing a manner befitting of royalty.    There is perious little the Kennedy’s have done that befits royalty.

So when Moe Lane, posted a link to this article, I was, to say the least, amused.   I just stumped on how to play it.  Then today Don Riehl, Riehl World View, asked:

Is America Finally Done With The Kennedys?

I realize Ted is ailing so I won’t pile on him here, though I will confess to disliking and disrespecting him as a man and politician perhaps more than any other politician over the years.

[…]

While it’s doubtful they will ever squander the full measure of their financial inheritance from an anti-semite and bootlegger, one can hope that with Caroline dispatched and Ted likely to be gone from public service before too long, they have finally squandered the capital of their heritage they’ve traded upon and few if any of them ever truly earned.

I submit,that if you read the comments on the Boston Herald article, not onlyare Americzn done with the Kennedy’s, they have been.

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davidl on January 24th, 2009

Kirsten Gillibrand has been appointed to the Senate and Carolyn McCarthy is upset, Reid J. Epstien, Newsday:

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy said Thursday Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand’s gun control views make her unacceptable for the U.S. Senate and threatened a primary challenge in 2010 if Gov. David A. Paterson selects the Hudson Democrat to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Question for Representative McCarthy,  your late husband, Dennis, obeyed New City draconian and asinine Sullivan Laws, and it got him murdered.  If New York’s gun control laws could not be trusted to save the life of your late husband, why should I, or any law abiding citizen,  be expected to trust my law to either existing or future gun control?

Free men  are free to carry arms whwrever they travel.   Serfs are not.

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davidl on January 23rd, 2009

Bit rambled earlier:

Donna writes me yesterday;

Nancy PelosiPelosi said one of her favorite moments from Inauguration Day was when Marine One lifted off the Capitol grounds, signifying former President George W. Bush’s exit from Washington. “It felt like a 10-pound anvil was lifted off my head,” she said.First of all, from what little I know, anvils weigh in the hundreds of pounds – not “10 pounds”.

Yeah

Bit, I just don’t know how you are going to break this to Donna, but the Speaker in a Tablecloth (pictured) is wrong, yet again.   No aircraft with the call sign Marine One took of the afternoon of January 20 carrying our forty-third president.     The  call sign Air Force/Marine/Executive One does not refer any particular aircraft    In the case of call sign Marine One, it refers to any Marine Corps aircraft with the Presidnet of the United States on Board.    When Forty-Three flow a Navy jet to the famous “Mission Accomplised” carrier, the bird’s callsign was Navy One.  So unless the one had accompanied Forty-Three, the Marine  Corps aircraft could not have used the call sign Marine One.

Not that any of this makes any difference, but I feel like snarking on Mrs. Pelosi today.   Then I feel like tha everday.

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2009

ramble-truckingWelcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere..Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

No matter what, we keep on truckin’.

Gonna get cold up where again this weekend, though it’s nearly 40 at the moment, , in Ontario, NY which is east of Rochester by some 30 miles.

  • James Joyner at OTB notes a mini scandal brewing:

    Taking a page from the Communist Chinese Olympics, the Obama inauguration featured truthy music.  Daniel Wakin blows the doors off this travesty in a NYT exclusive:

    It was not precisely lip-synching, but pretty close.The somber, elegiac tones before President Obama’s oath of office at the inauguration on Tuesday came from the instruments of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues. But what the millions on the Mall and watching on television heard was in fact a recording, made two days earlier by the quartet and matched tone for tone by the musicians playing along.The players and the inauguration organizing committee said the arrangement was necessary because of the extreme cold and wind during Tuesday’s ceremony. The conditions raised the possibility of broken piano strings, cracked instruments and wacky intonation minutes before the president’s swearing in (which had problems of its own).

    1960s Fidelity Playmaster Tape RecorderJames is correct in that it’s hard to get excited about this one; there was certainly technical reasons for doing it this way… but hell, if you’ve gotta go to these lengths, why do it at all, save for a serious case of ego? And if it’s no big deal, perhaps we owe Jeff Lynne an apology? His band, ELO, was the first, back in 1978 to be accused of lip sync in concerts.  With all that said, I must say additionally, that there is something eminently satisfying in seeing the Obama Coronation being compared to a Milli Vanilli Album.

  •  Message to The Chosen One: Closing Gitmo is a bad idea. Lesson number 73:

    A Saudi man who was released from Guantanamo after spending six years inside the U.S. prison camp has joined Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen and is now the terror group’s No. 2 in the country, according to a purported Internet statement from Al Qaeda.The announcement, made this week on a Web site commonly used by militants, came as President Barack Obama ordered the detention facility closed within a year.

    Any questions, class?

  • If anyone still works on the assumption Iran isn’t behind Hamas… try actually thinking.
  • Trust me, Glenn, in my neck of the woods that place wouldn’t get above $110k.
  • We’re still waiting for Chris Dodd to release those mortgage documents he told us he’s release last July. Could he be stonewalling us on Countrywide? Yes, he can.
  • So, there are political payoffs involved with the bailout money? Could our Democrats be doing this? Yes, they can.
  • All while giving a pass to what can only be labeled criminal behavior within it’s ranks? Yes, they can.
  • Donna writes me yesterday;

    Pelosi said one of her favorite moments from Inauguration Day was when Marine One lifted off the Capitol grounds, signifying former President George W. Bush’s exit from Washington. “It felt like a 10-pound anvil was lifted off my head,” she said.First of all, from what little I know, anvils weigh in the hundreds of pounds – not “10 pounds”.

    Yeah, I know. I also see Boortz on this today.  Like we needed any further proof her perceptions are out of whack.  And Nancy? That 10lb dead weight on top of your neck? That’s called a head. You’re welcome.

  • Oh and Neal? Like hell, I don’t want to see Solidad OBrien with her Irish up.  I’ve got a news flash for ya, hoss… that’s the best exposure for the nation to how petty the primadonnas in the MSM, CNN among them,  have become. Sorry, what it is.
  • Another example… of that vanity; Does anyone honestly think the arguments inside the beltway over the second pass on the oath of office not being covered by all the wannabees, is anything more than liberal vanity among the Dinosaurs?  Granted, there’s a lot of chatter just now that the honemoon is already over for Obama. On the whole, I don’t think so, though. What we’re dealing with here, is ego. The press, acording to some, is already all over Obama… but look. when there’s a Democrat in the WH, there are seldom hard questions asked so long as the egos of the press aren’t trampled, as they were in this case. They’ll give him all the breathing room he wants so long as that condition is met. It wasn’t, so they start being investigative. Trust me, it’s one of the few times we’ll see such press investigation. Why? Their egos weren’t being stroked on this. It’s that simple.
  • Again: Just shut up and go away, John. You’re neither needed nor wanted. Same goes for yor buddy Kyl.
  • Carbon trading a scam? Say it ain’t so, Al!!!
  • This is multi-culturalism in action.

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davidl on January 23rd, 2009

Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post asks:

Does a Glass Ceiling Persist in Politics?
Kennedy’s Withdrawal Illustrates a Double Standard, Some Say

With her abrupt exit this week from consideration for the Senate, Caroline Kennedy added her name to a growing list: women who have sought the nation’s highest offices only to face insurmountable hurdles.

No Mrs. Schlossberg, a/k/a Carolyn Kennedy, was not selected because even a blind governor could see err hear,  the Schlossberg is an incompetent boob.  From the incomparable Cuffy Meigs, Perfunction, video:

 

 

Mrs. Schlossberg  could not win the appointment with having to open her mouth, and every time she did, she revealed herself to an empty suit.    To hear Mrs. Schlossberg attempt explain her rational for running is anple reason to support her.

Hat tip to the very competent Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review.

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davidl on January 23rd, 2009

Carolyn McCarthy is many things.  McCarthy is a widow, bitter,  and Congressional Representative for New York’s Fourth Congressional District.   However above everything else, Mrs. McCarthy is profoundly stupid.

Mrs. McCarthy’s husband Dennis was murdered by Colin Ferguson December 7, 1993.    Ferguson has a black with a hatred of white.   This was before the age of the one.     Ferguson hated whites and wanted to kill as many of them as he could.   As Ferguson could not get a gun in New York City due the city’s draconian Sullivan Act, Ferguson traveled to California to buy his guns.

Wanting to kill and not be killed, much like the Virginia Tech shooter, Ferguson sought a killing field where his victims would disarmed.   He choose a Long Island Rail Road coach car.   Dennis McCarthy was on the train because he was going home.   Ferguson was there because he good reason to believe the McCarthy and his fellow passenger would unarmed, and they were.

In short, Mrs. McCarthy is a widow because of the asinine gun control laws of New York State and City.   Yet despite being a widow because of gun control, McCarthy has made her cause to fight for more gun control   Go figure.    Danny Hakim, New York Times:

ALBANY – Representative Carolyn McCarthy of Long Island, a staunch supporter of gun-control laws, said in an interview Thursday that she would challenge a fellow Democrat, Representative Kirsten E. Gillibrand, if Gov. David A. Paterson names Ms. Gillibrand to the Senate.

Mrs. McCarthy started her career in Congress after she got mad at her then  representative for not voting for gun control.    So Mrs. :McCarthy ran, won and has been in Congress ever since.   Mrs. McCarthy might, I can’t say, have reason to get mad yet again.   Can she duplicate her House feat in the Senate?   I think not.    Then she will always have stupid.

Mrs. McCarthy should not have become a widow.   Colin Ferguson should have been hung and be rotting under six feet of New York State dirt, instead of eating food for which I am paying.   Hail the heros Kevin Blum, Mark McEntee, and Mike O’Connor.

It is fundamental right of free men to carry arms wherever they travel.    Free men are free to bear arms.   Serfs are not.   Mrs. McCarthy would have us all be serfs.

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2009

Fox News, this monring:

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Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, in a picture taken by USA TODAY when she was a freshmen congresswoman

New York Gov. David Paterson will name Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, an upstate Democrat, to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate, a Democratic official with knowledge of the governor’s decision told FOX News on Thursday night.
Gillibrand, elected in 2006, represents the state’s 20th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the first Democrat to represent the district since 1978 — and the first female representative of the district.

Paterson is scheduled to formally announce his pick Friday.

Hmmm. Something totally out of left field, and running against the CW in several ways.

Now, there’s the usual game of claiming she’s from ‘Upstate’… a typical ploy from people who are under the laughable misconception that ‘upstate’ NY is anything north of Nyack. The fact is, Gillibrand is an insider of the first order. It’s unclear what motivates Patterson, here, but it seems reasonable that he figures Gillibrand will soften the screaming that’s been coming from the real upstate types… myself included… about his constantly bending over forward for anything SOUTH of Nyack. She’s from the Albany area, her district basically hugs 87, NYC to Albany. She’s an NRA supporter, is against Homosexual “Marriage”, and is a mother of two. She also had serious problems with Eliot (Number 9) Spitzer on the issue of giving drivers licenses to illegals.

When we look into her work during the Clinton misadministration, however, we see Hillary Clinton and/or Andrew Cuomo may will have had a hand in her appointment.  My memory is admittedly fuzzy, but I seem to recall she served as a Special Counsel to the Cuomo when he was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton years. There was some speculation at the time she caught that appointment because she was hand picked by Hillary Clinton.

You’ll recall, also that we mentioned Cuomo was the odds on favorite for the position… and that was certainly the CW… so that may also be a connection. Patterson may be thinking it’s going to annoy both Hillary and Cuomo equally, thus keeping him out of the soup somewhat. A very politic move.

That said, there seems enough to annoy the liberal downstaters, here, this being a move to the right for the seat…and I fully expect the screaming among the Obamatons to start before the end of the day.

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davidl on January 22nd, 2009

Great quotes:

Said by many after Nine-Eleven:  We are all Americans.

Said by  Dubya and  many Americans after the Soviet invasion of Georgia:   We are all Georgians.

What should be said after Charlies Rangel and Robert Reich a/k/a Shorty, write the stimulus package:  We are all niggers now.

Well Brother Bit, we are now niggers.  Brother Charlie just  ‘plained that only us brothers can get federal stimulus money, video:

Hat tip to Ed Morrissey, Hot Air, who as a white guy is too busy working to notice the racial shafting.

Now yesterday, I’d have called both Charlies Rangel and Robert Reich a bigot.  But I’ll be too busy now spending my welfare stimulus check.

For Acme Widget to lay off on the basis of race is a federal crime.   Yet Charlie and Shorty want to mandate that Acme hire by race.    Sounds good to me.

More:  Michelle and  Gateway Pundit.

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Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2009

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Welcome one and all, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

  • An absolutely amazing day yesterday.  As you will be aware, my newest Pajamas Media Piece went up during the overnight hours.  The comments section when absolutely crazy almost immediately, with comments coming hot and heavy from both sides, with only a slight spurring by myself.   Add to that the usual effects of an Insta-lanche, and all I’m left with is rough guesses as to how much traffic that piece of mine actually generated. My iinitial guess is that at a dollar a pageview, I’d be blogging from a campground in Southern New Mexico, somewhere, right now.  (Nice to know you’re reading, Glenn)   I won’t hide from you that I’m having a blast writing for PJM. Frankly, after eight years of slaving away here, (good as this place has always been…labor of love that it is) and however many years that the various other venues that I’ve been through, it’s something I never thought I’d get the chance to do, writing for the big leaugues.  BBCT, Rick Moran. I owe ya one.
  • I’ll tell you this;  If the comments flowing back and forth on that piece of mine are of any indication, the mistrust of Obama and company is running quite high, indeed.  If anything, the elecion of Obama, far from being a source of unity, has instead served to even more sharply divide us. That, I suspect is at least part of the reason that as Moran points out, Obama’s speech failed to inspire. The speech itself wasn’t bad, as for it’s content of theatre,  but as for his words matching his actions and engendering trust…. not so much. The shadows of mistrust were already hanging over Obama while he made it. It’s hard to be inspired while you’re parsing every word. We just got out of having to do that with Clinton a short while ago, remember?   While Obama has enough (mostly blind, race-based) support just now, even with that sharper split, I fully expect that support to fall off the cliff at some point soon… at the least, prior to the mid-terms of next year.  I further expect that he knows this, too, and so will be in something of a hurry to tug us to the left as much as possible over the next year.
  • IMG_1361That skeptisism of Obama and his words v his intentions did nothing but get amped up when after talking tough to terrorists, then countered his words with his very first move as President; Closing Gitmo, regardless of the consequences.  His words send one message, his actions another. This does not engender trust… either internationally, or among the electorate. As I said to a reader mail last night, on his very first action, he’s already walking dangerously close to the fire.
  • I remarked in the PJM article  about the running claim that Bush was leaving with the lowest approval numbers in many years… and some say in history. Boortz mentions this one today, suggesting  as I did that Nixon and Truman both left with lower, but also brings up the idea that Kennedy’s numbers were crashing, as well. But look, Dinosaurs… don’t let the facts get in the way of a nice backhanded slap at a Republican, huh?
  • Speaking of Neal, he links Variety, who reports that American Idol turned in higher numbers than did the Chosen One’s Inauguration. This in spite of the fact that Obama’s ceremony caught 35 times the coverage Bush’s did. Do you understand this? That amount of effort and he can’t even hold their attention.  Look, gang… I don’t ever want to hear from readers again how Obama got elected because the voters are making informed choices. We are as Neal suggests, and as I and David have said in the past, dealing with a celebrity mentality.. and a cult of personality. That the not-yet celebs drew bigger numbers is perhaps indicative of something Democrats don’t want to talk about at parties, though.
  • I think Jules has this one right.  It would strike me as funny, if it were not so tragic, that these people think they can run my life without mucking it up. And that’s leaving aiside the issue if they should run my life,  even on the assumption they could possibly do it right. As it is, I have no faith at all that they can.
  • You want examples? OK… You may have heard Obama went through the swearing in again, just to make sure there was no legal issues from it being screwed up the first time. Only one problem… nobody had a bible. I’m firmly convinced these morons could screw up a wet dream.
  • Limbaugh is right, gang. If the policy is socialism, it MUST fail, if we are to survive as a country. Understand, this is not about Obama succeeding or failing. It’s about the country succeeding or failing. Socialism has failed eveywhere it’s been tried. As to the chances that hihs policies will not be socialist, Castro ‘believes in Obama’… what do you suppose he’s thinking the chances are? Dick Morris brings the same idea to the table as well.
  • If I’m Turbotax, I’m suing Geithner. Hey, Republicans, why is this tax cheat getting a pass? Time to stand up and be counted. Remember… McCain lost because he wanted to be ‘bipartisan’ and ‘cooperative’.
  • Oh, speaking of tax mess keeping Democrats from political power, shall we discss the tax mess surrounding Caroline Kennedy? Why does it prevent her and not Geithner?

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