Obamaland
What a nice place, this Obamaland– at least for the sacred cows of the Democratic Party. Union bosses have struggled for years with those darn secret ballots that allow employees to decide whether or not to sign away their rights; it was so frustrating for the unions, not knowing which employees to to harass! Imagine how hard it was under Bush– they had no idea which employees to call in the middle of the night with threatening messages…. they would have to call all of them! But Obama can fix that– in Obamaland we simply make the ballots public! Why didn’t anyone think of this before, he says! Secret ballots? Crazy! Especially since these union guys give us so much money… The new, non-private ballots even have a catchy name– the ‘freedom of choice act’. Cool! Problem solved– just find the ballots that are against us, and beat the crap out of the sucka’– this governing stuff is a piece of cake!
In Obamaland there are no gaffs; everything is forgiven. Air Force One flies over Manhattan in a photo-op– can you imagine if that occurred during the Bush era? But the press in Obamaland don’t mind– after all, he is The One. His heart is in the right place. He is ‘intelligent’– not one of those ‘dumb Republicans’.
The gaffs fall like rain; a teleprompter malfunctions, and The One suddenly becomes tongue-tied. Pretty amazing stuff, watching someone who is a great orator lose his gift of gab– sort of like watching a trophy wife age in fast-motion. Suddenly a thought becomes impossible to avoid– how did THIS guy become president?!
Those of us who aren’t mesmerized by the show (any more than watching any train wreck) can find comfort in knowing how this will end. Crazy love affairs always look silly in retrospect. The gaffs are recorded indelibly– The One bending over in front of foreign Kings, his butt pointing toward the camera, mooning the heroism of all who have made this country great over the years. The tripling of the debt of the country in three years under Obama’s watch– at some point even the press will remember how they criticized Bush for deficits one tenth as large as those in Obamaland! At some point someone will remember the old US, when entrepeneurial spirit was rewarded– not criticized.
Obamaland has been a bit of a surprise, even to pessimists– who would have thought that America’s newspapers would ignore stories of a president’s strong-arm tactics?! The One doesn’t even have to hire ‘plumbers’, as Nixon did– Obama is allowed to threaten others in broad daylight. The GM bondholders for example– he has taken ordinary investors who took the safe road, who loaned money at a lower rate in return for being the first to be repaid in bankrupcy– and turned them into ‘greedy rich people’. Why? For expecting to have their life savings returned, according to the rule of law– at a time when Obama wants to reward the unions! How dare they?! So The One threatens to turn them into social pariahs, and releases a few names… followed by the death threats that have become so common in Obamaland.
How does the US press sleep at night? The president encouraging death threats against private citizens– not worth reporting?
Obamaland has been a surprise. But there is value in surprises, because now we can see how things really are. True colors are everywhere in bold display. Right now half the country can see them; eventually the glare will be unavoidable even to those with sunglasses.
