Man of His Word

You know, as far as I'm concerned our president gave us all the information we needed to make good voting choices prior to the election, and the mainstream media was kind enough to sweep it all under the rug and beautify the situation.  His wife even told us prior to the election that Barrack wasn't going to let us go back to our lives as usual.  Along the way he's been kind enough to tell us that he just wants to spread the wealth around, doesn't want his daughters punished with a baby, informed us that he has no interest in a free market, and attended a church for years that has a total crazy person for a preacher.  But I don't want to make this post all about Obama because quite frankly, I'm sick of hearing his name all the time.  I'm sick of knowing that our president is an amoral postmodernist Marxist with short term tactics designed to build long term empowerment of the federal government but an all around good golfer and a great dad.  Plus I don't want to hear anyone gripe about how I came down on their precious Obama, savior of the poor and downtrodden, forgiver of debt, and healer of the world.  Obama is a symptom of a nation with a fever.  He believes what he believes, and no one can fault him for having strong convictions.  It's just that they're completely off base.  I hope America starts working out and taking its meds.

This story (you can watch the video by clicking the link) is a little old, I guess, but it's a good illustration of my main point in this post.  In his own words:

"For some reason people keep being surprised when I do what I said I was going to do. So, I say I’m going to reform our HCR [health care reform], and people say well gosh that’s not smart politics maybe we should hold off. Or I say we’re going to move forward on DADT [don't ask don't tell] and somehow people say well why are you doing that, I’m not sure that’s good politics. I’m doing it because I said I was going to do it, and I think it’s the right thing to do. And people should learn that lesson about me, because next year when I start presenting some very difficult choices to the country I hope some of these folks who are hollering about deficit and debt step up cause I’m calling their bluff."

I don't think anyone is the least bit surprised that you've been able to get done what you said you were going to do, Mr. Obama.  After all, you've had the media eating sugar cubes out of your hands for a couple years and both houses of Congress have been prostituting themselves out to you from the beginning.  No, people are continually surprised that you ought to know better than sell out your nation, and yet you do it anyway. Yes, that does keep surprising people.  Liberals, like fire ants, all crawl up your pants in pretty much the same way, and it's never pretty when they get to their final destination.

"And people should learn that lesson about me, because next year when I START presenting some DIFFICULT choices for the country..."  What exactly does that mean?  When you start presenting difficult choices?  As if an unresolvable national debt, increasing the probability of hyper-inflation, boosting support for immoral activities, catering to fundamentalist Islam, and talking down to everyone in your preachy self-righteous voice isn't difficult enough.

What's this "step up" business you keep talking about?  Why don't you step up, sir, and quit being an appeaser?  Why don't you step up and explain how government run health care will ultimately lead to shortages and a decline in the quality of health care?  Why don't you step up and explain how bureaucracy causes waste and slows progress?  Why don't you step up and tell people that making babies and then taking their lives is wrong?  Why don't you tell people we fight wars to win with a purpose, not just to fart around or dominate the globe?  Why don't you step up and tell people they can't have everything they want unless they work for it?  Why don't you tell people that America has bought too much on credit and now needs to starting paying its bill like a big boy or girl?  Why don't you explain how stealing from one fellow American to pay for another is still stealing?  I wonder what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would think about benevolent theft?  You know what's funny about "big government" people...you're always trying to help people get things in the short term, but you leave waste in your path and make the country poorer in the long term.  Of course you're 4 to 8 year tenure would be over by the time that happens. 

Take housing for one example.  You, big government, helped bring about the current financial meltdown.  You know it.  People are beginning to learn about it and understand it a little bit.  But you'll still probably get away with it for another few years because you're so good and retelling history the way you want it to be heard.  But people are getting more and more educated despite what you do to keep them stupid by taking over public education.  People are wising up despite what you do to confuse them in the mire of legalese.  The People are going to take back this country from you, the dictators, and you'll be lucky to fly a cargo plane full of rubber dog [crap] out of Hong Kong (little Top Gun reference there). 

That's about all I've got to say about that.  For now.