An excellent smack down...

Debating the Obama's Yasser Arafat Peace prize:

LoafingOaf:
Maybe they wanted to show, say, Iran, that Obama has the backing of the international community, and it will strengthen Obama's hand in diplomacy with Iran.


Pogo:
Yup, because Iran is all about issues that have 'the backing of the international community'. It's like in their DNA.

Obama's peace prize makes sense....

As we all know, because of Obama's clumsy actions, Israel, the staunchest US ally now solidly believes that the US president hates her and is supporting the anti-american islamo-fascists. I guess this was enough for the Nobel peace committee to celebrate Obama's achievements.

Surely, if Obama nukes Israel, he will get all Nobel prizes in one sitting, and IOC will declare him the winner of all Olympic events now and forever. Of course, Obama is now in competition with Iran and Al Qaeda, so he better act fast.

A tale in quotes and comments...

As a classic tragedy, it starts very optimistically, when the main character is happy and naive, and the world looks very promising...

“In 2016, I’ll be wrapping up my second term as president,” Obama told a rally in Chicago in June 2008. “So I can’t think of a better way than to be marching into Washington Park … as president of the United States and announcing to the world: Let the Games begin!”…

Even later, when the destiny was starting to suck the main character into its dark and smelly place, his top advisor and executioner (officially the Chief of Important Stuff and tax-evading Staff) Rahm Emanuel played down the expectations of the public: “They [right-wing mobsters and evil-mongers] shouldn’t try to make politics of this. I think they [right-wing mobsters and evil-mongers] should take some pride in the U.S.’s win, and you know, we’ll make sure they [right-wing mobsters and evil-mongers] get some good seats once Chicago does host the games.” I am not sure about you, but Emma's promise to provide good seats to the right-wing mobsters and evil-mongers does not sound too reassuring. But alas, Emma did not get a chance to fullfil his promise (threat)....

Now, the introduction is over, and the stage is ready for the main character to enter and change the world forever. President Obama makes an eloquent speech to the IOC committee, a humble speech of a humble man - a speech containing sentences with four Is:
“I’ve come here today to urge you to choose Chicago for the same reasons I chose Chicago nearly twenty-five years ago – the reasons I fell in love with the city I still call home.”

Michele Obama, not to be over-shied by her modest husband, had this to say:

"But I never dreamed that the Olympic flame might one day light up lives in my neighborhood. But today, I can dream, and I am dreaming of an Olympic and Paralympic Games in Chicago that will light up lives in neighborhoods all across America and all across the world."

This surely was enough to silence all the nay-sayers in the IOC. After all, can Rio fulfill Michele's dream, let alone Tokyo? No freaking way! Case closed, right?

But the First Lady in Chief did not stop there. She also reminded the world of how much personal sacrifice she had to go through for the Olympic movement: "Some of my ... memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection." If one remembers that Michele was 20 years old when Carl Lewis participated in the Olympics, it's clear that the First Lady was tearfully reciting the tale of abuse and humiliation by her late father. I presume the IOC could also imagine how many 20 year old girls would be forced to sit on their Daddy's laps through the entire Olympic Games if Chicago wins the bid - and that surely made them think twice about their choice. After all, some of those Chicago Daddie could be quite accomodating and may well share those nice girls, if you know what I mean.

If this heartbreaking testimony were not enough, Michele noted to her supporters: "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home."

And indeed, it was a sacrifice. Not only the president, the first lady, and their 100 top advisors had to fly to Copenhagen, a place where all those rednecks clinging to guns and religion live in - a much worse thing happened there - a disgruntled American general leading the US military efforts in Afghanistan was able to sneak through the Obama security service into the Airforce One and bore his Excelency with tales of war and suffering in the far away lands of Afghanistan for a whole of 30 25 minutes. As if president Obama does not have any more burning issues than the war in Afghanistan! What a douchebag! Notice though that this failure of security would not have occurred had Mr.President stayed in the White House, and the general would continue to converse with Obama via the pigeon mail and whine about the failure of the Afgan war Overseas Contingency Operation during the talk shows on Oprah.

After all this hard work and unbearable sacrifice - the thunder struck - (think about the steps of the Commodore from the Pushkin's tragedy) - the IOC committee decided that Chicago, a place where Obama grew up from a smallish community organizer to the Top Olympic Games Salesman, and where Michele sat on the lap of her father, was not a suitable avenue for the Olympic games.

When the IOC announced its decision, the NYT was puzzled tothe point it actually wrote something honest: “A sense of stunned bewilderment suffused Air Force One and the White House.”

Senator Burris immediately confirmed what every liberal knew - that Chicago lost the bid “…due to the animosity against the US created by the policies of the last eight years.”

HoosierHawk though is willing to give the president some slack: "I don’t think that you can blame the President for the decision of the Olympic Commitee. My understanding is that the IOC actually visited Chicago. That’s pretty difficult to overcome."

A response from the extreme right was quite predictable - let me quote Hogarth whose response was quite typical for the right-wing mobsters and evil-mongers: "For the first time in my adult life, I’m proud of the Olympic Committee." For some reason this sounds like a quote, but my memory is failing me, and I cannot identify who is being mocked by this right-wing mobster and evil-monger... Wait, don't tell me...

Another writer, Mark Buehner dryly observes: "I’m just really glad to see this new era of humility and diplomacy is paying such startling dividends."

I believe Alex Bensky summarizes the views of many with his astute comment: "Personally, I’m at a loss to understand this. The president went there, gave a talk illustrating why it would be a recognition of his charisma and specialness to grant Chicago the games. He even brought his wife who also talked about how special she is and how she would personally find it gratifying if they gave Chicago the games. And yet…the IOC immediately voted otherwise. I can’t figure it out."

Honestly, I am too quite puzzled by this result. Aren't you too?

Is there a resemblance between Obama and Gorbachev?

An interesting article was published about Obama here. The author says that Obama is an American version of Gorbachev. I disagree with this view. Gorbachev took a sclerotic communist system and tried to fine tune its apparatus by giving a little bit of freedom and democracy. As to be expected, communism could not withstand this and the USSR went down in flames.

Obama on the other side took control of a relatively free country, and is trying to drastically decrease its freedom and democracy, while claiming it would make it a better place. In all reality, Obama is a mix of Jimmy Carter, FDR and Peron. Another person to keep in mind is Egypt's dictator Nasser. All in all, Obama intends to make things worse in this country for all freedom loving progressive people, and most surely he will achieve it - and he will hurt whole more folks in the process.

The only positive thing is that he has only 4 years - after that the people will send him a pink slip, and we can start rebuilding America.

A challenge to liberals...

Obama's plan requires insurance plans to accept all people with pre-conditions, cover regular check ups (free of charge) and, moreover, they cannot drop anyone from the plan.

Here are a couple of questions for you - what do you surmise this would do to the insurance premiums, will they go up or down? Will the medical insurance be more or less affordable to the people who is now covered?

Obama is becoming an easy target for mockery.

Comrade Obama is getting ready to make a speech to American school children. This is an unprecedented move - the economy is in ruins, his medical care reform is on the ropes, America still fighting two wars (and the war in Afghanistan is getting really hot) - and at that precious time, president Obama decides to make a sweet speech to the kids. Ahm! This is just so similar to what other marxists (think Castro) would do...

Personally, I believe this is perfect. After a while, American people will puke everytime they hear the voice of the annointed one. Another win for critical thinking - moreover Americans could lose some weight too.

Republicans, don't forget to instruct your kids to laugh and boo and make funny faces during the Obama speech. Also, don't forget to buy funny teeshirts that mock Obama. Maybe get the Obama ears to wear.

I've heard on the radio, that one time Alinsky (Obama's left-wing Godfather) organized a protest at the local opera theatre. How did he do it? He got his supporters eat a lot of beans and then they all went to the same opera performance. Alinsky recalls that the effects were hillarious and the "establishment" was very upset.

So, why not learn from the best? Rebellion is fun, really. Lets see how the liberal establishment reacts to mockery. Don't forget to feed your kids a lot of beans before the Obama speech. We cannot let his speech go to waste.

Obama becomes a religious zelot...

That's pretty funny. In order to promote the government takeover of medical care, Obama is now channelling Jesus and other religious figures. He even claimed he was his brother's keeper.

It's funny though that Obama's own brother lives in utter poverty in a hut in Africa, and the president is unwilling to spend a dime to help him. So, what exactly does Obama mean, when he claims he is his brother's keeper?

Nice quote from C.S. Lewis

"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

Obama should provide legal protection for liberal activists

The Obama administration recently announced that it would be collecting information about people’s views on the proposed health care reform. American citizens are asked to report emails, personal conversations and blogs that criticize Obama’s plan to overtake the medical insurance. It’s all good and dandy, and the civil rights groups that went ballistic when president Bush proposed same methods to combat terrorism are quiet now. It also looks unlikely that the media and the courts will attempt to stop Obama from getting American citizens to spy on his opponents. But what is going to happen if a republican wins the 2012 elections, and the new president decides to make the citizens’ reports public? Imagine how would a freedom loving civil activist feel if it is revealed to the nation that he informed the authorities that his neighbor had questioned the Obama care? I mean, we are all progressive people here, but there may be still some reactionaries among us who for some reason hold outmoded and racist prejudices against telling on your friends. I believe Obama must propose a law that would absolutely protect the anonymity of his informants. After all, we know that light is the best disinfectant - so it's only reasonable for the Obama administration to turn off as many lights as possible...

Who could have doubted this?

According to Moscow Komsomoletz, Russian president Medvedev is saying that he found it much easier to talk to Obama than Bush.
http://www.mk.ru/politics/317480.html

Nice...

Concerning American Jews...

A. Miller wrote an interesting article about American Jews and their suicidal devotion to the Democratic party in general and Obama in particular. Surely, I could not let it pass without my comment. Here it goes...

As a Russian Jew who immigrated to America I am dumbfounded by the utter stupidity of American Jews. What the hell is wrong with them?! Can they not see with their eyes, can they not hear with their ears?! Obama's soulmate and spiritual father Wright openly hates Israel and "them Jews" - and they cannot put two and two together?! Obama drops on his knees in front of a moslem tyrant, and then farts at a democratically elected prime-minister of Israel - and they don't see anything wrong with this? These people are pathetic, the blood of the slaves is still flowing through their veins. We should have left those cocksuckers in Egypt.

Shalom, comrades!

As a Russian immigrant, I can only sigh...

I am looking at what is happening in America, and I have a deep feeling of sorrow. Where is this country going? Is the American experiment over? Is this beautiful country joining the rest of the world in its futile quest for human perfection through Nanny-statism and inevitable fascism? America is turning into the evil Empire - literally, not figuratively. American president bowing before the Saudi tyrant, befriending the marxist dictator in Venesuela, while denigrating Britain, Israel and supporting the marxist take over of Honduras? What the fuck?! And this same child-king is taking over American industries, attacking the productive members of society and is ready close opposition media, and increase government corruption ten-fold. And his cohorts marching around with the photos of the Cuban chief of Gestapo, Che Guevara.

These will be long 4 years, comrades, long 4 years for all who love freedom. But fear not, I remember same emotions expressed by the Russian dissidents in the 1970ies during the Carter administration. The same feeling that everything was over for this beautiful country that saved the world from communism.

And all my immigrant brothers and sisters - lets remember one thing. America is the last refuge! There is nowhere to run. There is nowhere to hide. If we don't defend freedom in America, the entire mankind is doomed. Lets organize and fight back. 2010 elections will determine if this country lives or dies. Blood, sweat and tears.

If we are lucky, US will be a neutral country...

It pains me to say this - but with B. Hussein Obama in power, the best scenario for the world is America becoming a neutral country. I am sure we all remember how Iranian revolution humbled comrade Obama - he could hardly comment on the slaughter of students on the streets of Tehran. But when the people of Honduras followed the orders of the Supreme Court and the Congress and ousted the would-be dictator and personal friend of Castro and Chavez, Manuel Zelaya, our dear president could not pause for a minute and published a speech filled with open threats and denouncements.

And now, our dear supreme leader is trying to torpedo the sanctions against the Iranian mullahs

As I said in the title - if we are lucky, US will be a neutral country for the next 4 years. What a disgrace!

Did Obama make the economy much worse?

A few months ago, Obama said that his economists analyzed the economy and decided that without the stimulus package, the unemployment will go up to 8.7%, with his stimulus package passed it would top at 7.9%. Today, we already see 9.4%, and it is especulated that unemployment will go above 10%.

Assuming that Obama hired the top economists, and their analysis AT THE TIME was correct, we can conclude that Obama's policies added 2.1% unemployment.

Of course, one could say that Obama's economists are idiots, who could easily miss a 25% increase in the number of unemployed - but then, who hired them? One could also claim that Obama knew the real numbers, but he lied so his programs could pass. That's another view.

BTW, in my posts on Slate, months and months ago I predicted 10% unemployment. I wonder if I am better than Obama's economists. I also wonder why right-wingers were able to predict that Obama would try to raise taxes on the middle class. I mean, the guy swore on his mother's grave that he won't do so. How coud they know? It's magic, I tell you.

When you see a liberal, ask him this question...

Barack Obama swore on his mother's grave that he would not raise taxes on people who earn more than 250,000 dollars. Mainstream conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh, publicly mocked Obama's promise as completely unrealistic, based on the analysis of his political views. So, next time Obama makes promises on taxes - wouldn't it be prudent to find out what Rush Limbaugh thinks about them?