Biden, the Bumbling Booby

Biden, the Bumbling Booby

At the risk of insulting those tropical sea birds of the gannet family, America’s Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden is a booby of the first order, a master of the gaffe and exemplar of the inane second only to his boss, President Barack Hussein Obama.

Biden’s staff may be even boobier.

After Obama ripped into Americans as “lazy,” he took off on one of his frequent jaunts ending up Down Under where he told Australian students that American school kids had “fallen behind,” an inappropriate though true admission no president should concede to foreigners.

That knock on his own country followed his amazing gaffe while standing on U.S. soil in the reputed land of his birth, Hawaii, and thought he was in Asia and preceded a Bush-like episode in Bali when he couldn’t open a door to a conference room.

Don’t expect to hear much about those stories on Obama’s MSM anymore than you heard much about the 57 states he said he campaigned in, his reference to Navy “corpsemen” when he meant “corps men” or the fact he pays $30,000 each for his kids to attend private school in lieu of the American public schools he badmouthed.

Still, the man a heartbeat away from the presidency, with an able assist from the VP’s staff, gives Obama a run for his money when it comes to screwing things up.

Take that “transparency” the administration had touted as a hallmark and which has become one of its biggest jokes on the American people.

When Politico.com ridicules Biden’s ”closed-door transparency chat” on Thursday, what it termed the “irony in Vice President Biden’s schedule,” it’s pretty clear more than irony was involved. Stupidity might be a better word. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5991.)

Transparent Secrecy in D.C.

Transparent Secrecy in D.C.

The president may be committed to an “unprecedented level of openness in Government” but it is unprecedented only because few administrations have been so opaque.

The expectation of transparency created by President Barack Hussein Obama has morphed into a veil of secrecy which threatens to make the Obama administration the most clandestine government in America’s history made even more secretive by media acolytes which aid and abet the administration’s shrouded activities.

It seems that virtually everything of consequence Obama does is cloaked in mystery and hidden from the public eye or restricted to carefully-selected witnesses such as his immigration reform summit. Inexplicably, Al Sharpton was invited to that confab. Even more inexplicably, governors of every border state were not.

Last month, Obama added an almost-comical touch to his secretiveness by accepting a transparency award behind closed White House doors. This week, Press Secretary Jay Carney added to the comedy but telling reporter Jay Kinsolving at a news briefing, “I’m not going to take your questions.” Kinsolving had planned to ask about Obama’s openness.

Aside from the entertainment value of those incidents, the administration’s lack of transparency is unsettling to say the least.

From the outset of the Obama administration, it seems Democrats led by the president have acted overtly and covertly to conceal the inner workings and information available to the federal government, that “national asset,” from the scrutiny of the public eye. . .
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Tom, Jesus, Barack, and Elton

Tom, Jesus, Barack, and Elton

Updates on recent articles, two of which are sickening, two of which are pathetic, all of which are indicative of a world in dire need of a reality check-up:

BABY TOM IS DEAD. He didn’t have to die. Well, yes he did. You see, Baby Tom Godwin missed the cut. He was born 12 days too soon according to the British National Health Service’s minimum requisite of 24 weeks gestation and so NHS doctors at Southend Hospital, Southend, Essex, England, left him unattended, untreated, and uncared-for.

Baby Tom lived for 46 minutes.

His mum, Tracy Godwin, age 31, had just given birth to her first child and was bewildered. “We couldn’t understand why no one was helping him,” she said. Her confusion was somewhat remarkable considering that she–and Tom, briefly– lived in England where the NHS–the model for Obamacare–provided “universal health care,” except for people like Tom and any others it deems unworthy of care or treatment.

Poor little Tom didn’t even get the benefit of a death panel, those decision-making bodies of experts which, we’re told, will not be a feature of Obamacare. Or, maybe, unknowingly, he did. Either way, the verdict was death.

Read Tracy’s account of her and Tom’s ordeal here: http://tiny.cc/7isni

JESUS IS UNCOMFORTABLE. At least to a Minnesota lawmaker He is. “State Sen. Terri Bonoff, who is Jewish, said she feels uncomfortable when ministers mention Jesus and Christianity during prayers.” Eighty-one percent of Minnesotans are Christians but Sen. Bonoff ”said she feels uncomfortable when ministers mention Jesus and Christianity during prayers.”

When the senate Baptist chaplain, Dennis Campbell, offered a prayer mentioning Jesus Christ not once, not twice, but three times and uttered the words, “And we pray, Lord, that you help us to show reverence to the Lord Jesus Christ and the word of God today,” Bonoff was beside herself.

In high dudgeon following those offensive–if not seditious–words, Bonoff objected, demanding Campbell not be invited back and that, in the future, chaplains be required to deliver “non-denominational prayers:” http://bit.ly/ePs9tr

Something along the lines of, “Oh, Great Someone, have mercy on us” or, “Dear Mother Earth, please oversee our endeavors” might placate the good senator, and might not.

BARACK IS TRANSPARENT. In what could be, but isn’t, a satirical item from TheOnion.com . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3897)

Socialized Medicine and Presidential Intrigue

Socialized Medicine and Presidential Intrigue

As Republicans in the House struggle to scuttle, scrap, de-fund the national health care plan that 59% of Americans didn’t want in the first place, Democrats aren’t exactly sitting still and waiting for the ax to fall.

One Democrat, Rep. John Conyers (MI), Mr. Black Reparations, has obviously been deep in thought over Obamacare, so deep that he must have been barely conscious when he let slip what Democrats have been denying ever since the Obamanation was conceived. Usually more circumspect, the doddering Democrat Conyers must have been overcome by all the attention at the National Press Club when he conceded that, in fact, Obamacare was socialized medicine.

Conyers admitted that “Obamacare is just a ‘platform,’ or a step, toward an eventual government takeover of health care.” Asked if he ultimately envisioned a single-payer health care system, another term avoided like the plague and denied repeatedly by congressional Dems during the great debate of 2009, he said, “Of course. Universal health care–well, every industrial country on the planet already has a universal system of health care.”

What Conyers failed to mention was that the primary model for Obamacare, and it’s not Massachusetts’ Romneycare–although that’s bad enough–was Britain’s NHS which is going broke and systems in the other industrialized nations are in a similar pickle.

Nevertheless, kudos to Rep. Conyers even if his fleeting moment of honesty was a fluke. See his moment here: http://tiny.cc/5a1u0

No fluke is President Transparency’s latest attack of opaqueness.

Our vacationing, partying, golfing, basketball-playing, NCAA-tournament handicapping president is playing it very close to the executive vest when it comes to clandestine health care–don’t dare call it Obamacare to him!–meetings. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3895)

Barry Obama, Party Animal

Barry Obama, Party Animal

No one can ever say that anything really bothers our president.

With two wars raging, with our ally, Japan, in catastrophic upheaval, with chaos reigning in our Midwest and in the Mideast, with an economy still mired in unremitted recession, with various other monumental issues facing the nation, Barack Hussein Obama just does his favorite things–partying and playing golf, and he’s reportedly not very good at the latter.

After bemoaning his sad plight as president of the United States and demeaning China and its government, (“Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. . . ‘No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square,’ ” he said according to the New York Times), the Playboy of the American World partied at the Gridiron Club on Saturday.

As a warm-up to those festivities, Obama hit the links for the 61st time since becoming president. Each of those golfing excursions, while he worked on his swing, consumes some five hours of precious presidential time, including motorcading to and fro.

Hey! We shouldn’t expect him to take a bus or to wait in line with other duffers for a tee-time, now could we? Of course not. But we could expect him to put more time in on the job. After all, America didn’t elect some nitwit to lead us, like Joe Biden. Or, did we?

The much-abused George W. Bush was routinely castigated for virtually everything he did and didn’t do during his presidential tenure especially when he retreated to Crawford for working vacations. But Bush stopped playing golf in 2003 saying, ”I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”

Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t concern himself with such trivia as wars or signals . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3880)

Much Ado About a Lot

Much Ado About a Lot
Pertinent and telling news of late:

It seems our president is something less than confident in suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous reporters.

When bolstered by his trusty teleprompter in prepared speeches, he’s just fine and oh, so articulate.

Faced with the prospect of speaking sans script, as in interviews and press conferences, he either puts his foot in his mouth at the interviews, such as comparing his bowling expertise with those of Special Olympians, or at press conferences where he called Cambridge, MA. cops stupid, he now limits interviews to good buddies and has suspended press conferences entirely.

Of course, ABC covered for him with “Obama had five news conferences at the White House last year, one more than President George W. Bush had in his first year in office.”

His last scheduled meeting with the press was held almost 6 months ago when, unscripted and uninformed, he ripped into Sgt. Joe Crowley for “acting stupidly” by doing his job and arresting Black race-baiter Prof. Louis Gates and then had to make amends by hosting a White House beer blast for the two antagonists: http://bit.ly/6tuaUJ

Talk about acting stupidly!

Here your president shows his true colors by strutting ahead to meet the press after that tete-a-tete while the stupid sergeant escorts the disabled Gates down the White House steps: . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1426)

ABC, Exemplar of the Media that Once Was

ABC, Exemplar of the Media that Once Was

The Constitutional guaranty of freedom of speech is contained in the First Amendment and is but one of six guarantees spelled out in that amendment. The section relating to free speech is actually limited to 10 words, “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.”

As with most rights, free speech has limitations and those limits go far beyond the old example of yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater when there is no fire, a very reasonable restriction.

However, it’s worth remembering that the First Amendment and, indeed, the Constitution itself relates to the government “abridging” free speech, also called censorship. The non-governmental private sector suffers from no comparable inhibitions when it comes to such abridgement although voluntary censorship is common. That becomes bias, for example, with the media.

If and when government censorship becomes so intertwined with media bias that they are indistinguishable, with a supposedly independent media acting as government surrogates, we then have a state-run media for all intents and purposes.

In large part, that is what America has deteriorated into today, and it’s far from a healthy situation in our former free democratic republic.

That is the precise situation on June 24th, 2009 with the extended inf0mercial being staged by ABC, an allegedly independent media outlet telecasting “news” from within the United States’ executive mansion, the White House, promoting a government plan for “health care reform” while denying any dissent or opposition.

What was that comment Obama made about “transparency?”

Adolph Hitler, Joe Stalin, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad couldn’t be . . .

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Meet the Press--Obama Style

MEET THE PRESS–Obama Style II

President Barack Hussein Transparency Obama,who had promised a “a new level of transparency” in public life is rapidly retreating to a new level of opaqueness within all of three days into his four year reign.

For those maleducated in American public schools, the word “transparency” in a political context means clarity, openness, honesty, candidness, and visibility as opposed to deceit, artfulness, concealment, secrecy, and opaqueness.

Why anyone would expect Obama to follow through on a pledge of transparency when his entire campaign, from questionable fund raising to his smarmy associations was cloaked in subterfuge and deception is beyond me but a majority of voters still bought into his baloney and voted for the guy.

Go figure but the baloney won’t last the test of time until 2012.

You can take a politician out of Chicago but you can’t take the seamy world of Chicago intrigue and crime out of the politician. Of all Obama’s camp followers, the mainstream media, the MSM, is the first that’s quickly coming to realize that the man is not what he seemed. More precisely, the man is all that he seemed to objective critics, though not to his media lapdogs and therein lay the shocker to them. That media, which never bothered to vet him or insist he serve some meat with his political pap, may be coming to realize he is the ultimate charlatan.

BHM may have been able to fool a press more than willing to be fooled but when he starts messing with their bread and butter, accessibility, the White House Press Corps tends to get downright ornery.

And he has begun messing with that accessibility.

Way back in November, 2007, when Barack Obama was still a “presidential hopeful,” the transparency issue had raised its ugly head with regard to his fund raising secretiveness: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/11/sweet_web_column_obamas_transp.html. That should have been a tipoff but the MSM never ran with it. Lapdogs by definition don’t run with much.

Media-types are somewhat less than pleased when they feel shut out. White House media-types can become all but rabid but instead of frothing in public, they tend to politely vent and save their foamy mouths for more intimate venues and circumstances, such as over a martini at The Reliable Source Bar at the National Press Club in D.C.

They vented at Robert Gibbs,...

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