by Teri O'Brien
• Before the big televised event, C-SPAN was televising the “State of the Black Union” (very apropos, given that BHO is the Jed Clampett of white guilt and his wife proudly proclaimed embracing racism while a student at Princeton). One of the speakers used the phrase “dazzling deception.” Shouldn’t we add that—“Dazzling Deception” to our list of names for the man-god? (along with He Who Walks on Water, God’s Little Lamb, and 2nd Coming).
• It is reported that tomorrow when BHO and the Missus appear on “60 Minutes, she speaks to her widely-reported concerns for his safety.
Obama’s wife also addresses the race issue when asked by Kroft whether she fears for her husband’s life as a black candidate. “I don’t lose sleep over it because the realities are that… as a black man… Barack can get shot going to the gas station,” says Michelle Obama. “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
Wow, until I was enlightened by the brilliant Michelle, I didn’t realize that white people were immune from being shot, did you? And while I suppose she is technically right; that is, he could get shot going to the gas station, especially on the South Side of Chicago, aren’t the chances that if that were to happen, the perp would be another “black man?” Of course we know it couldn’t happen because guns are illegal within the city limits of Chicago.
• Here’s an interesting line from the speech:
But let us also understand that ultimate victory against our enemies will come only by rebuilding our alliances and exporting those ideals that bring hope and opportunity to millions around the globe.
Isn’t that exactly what the President is trying to do, Bonehead? You know establish democracy in a country where a brutal dictator slaughtered his own people and gave sanctuary to our terrorist enemies. How much “hope an opportunity” did those Iraqis have before they landed in their mass graves, or don’t you care?
• And how about this one:
Let's be the generation that ends poverty in America. Every single person willing to work should be able to get job training that leads to a job, and earn a living wage that can pay the bills, and afford child care so their kids have a safe place to go when they work. Let's do this.
Here we go. Open your wallet. Once again, another politician (think Clinton) who praises those who work hard and play by the rules, wants to punish those who do by putting a gun to their heads, confiscating their hard-earned money and throwing it down every social welfare rathole he can find.
• Or this:
I moved to Illinois over two decades ago. I was a young man then, just a year out of college; I knew no one in Chicago, was without money or family connections. But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for $13,000 a year. And I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea — that I might play a small part in building a better America.
Since when is it a glowing resume enhancer to be a paid troublemaker? The fact that this empty suit thinks being a “community organizer” is the best way to build a better America tells you everything you need to know. Any guy in a bad neighborhood who busts his butt to open a small business like a convenience store does more to help the “community” than some gasbag running around screaming about the need for more government programs.
Dazzling Deception is a complete media creation, more Jimmy Carter than Abe Lincoln, more Paris Hilton than John F. Kennedy (although JFK was known to enjoy the company of Paris Hiltons of his day). This speech was more of the same gauzy pap that appeals to the uninformed, the emotionally-driven and the just plain stupid.
