Break-Ups and Splits, One Marital, One Philosophical

Break-ups and Splits, One Marital, One Philosophical

It is with a heavy heart that I report on a recent marital break-up amongst America’s celebrities and with an even heavier heart the dissolution of ties that once bound philosophical allies.

Actually, I’m not experiencing any compassion at all for either the celeb in question, L.A. Laker shooting guard Kobe Bean Bryant or for America’s president since both are getting their just desserts. Bryant’s dessert is especially sweet and Obama’s specially ironic.

Let’s start with the ironic rift which is pertinent to the upcoming election year and which must represent a crushing blow to President Barack Hussein Obama.

The bloom is off the Hugo-Barack rose.

As if he hadn’t noticed before, playing to America’s center-right electorate Obama dared criticize President Hugo Chavez’ dismal human rights record in Venezuela and the dictator’s chumminess with Cuba and Iran. An audacious attack made in a Caracas newspaper, his well-founded criticism proved incendiary and evoked a spirited rejoinder from the South American leader.

With both presidents up for re-election in 2012, Chavez shot back by characterizing his North American counterpart as a “clown,” admonishing his fellow socialist, “Now you want to win votes by attacking Venezuela. Don’t be irresponsible. You are a clown, a clown. Leave us in peace . . . Go after your votes by fulfilling that which you promised your people.”

As if that put-down were not harsh enough, Chavez added, “Focus on governing your country, which you’ve turned into a disaster.”

Of course, for those of us who have closely followed Obama’s meteoric, inexplicable rise to political stardom, the clown reference, the failed promises, and the national disaster comment aren’t revelations but, still, it’s awkward to witness birds of a feather getting so ruffled.

Chavez also threw in, “If I could be a candidate there in the United States, I’d sweep you away.”

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to be trashed by one of your own kind!

In less earth-shaking but more titillating news, accused rapist and notorious man-about-town Kobe Bryant will probably be taken to the financial cleaners by his estranged wife, Vanessa. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=11508.)