Thanks (for nothing) Obama!

This morning on the news I saw that Barbara Walters has Michelle Obama on some list of the ‘most interesting people’–  why is that?  What makes her ‘interesting’?  Yes, she fell for one of the best liars to hit the US since Bill Clinton, but you can say the same about a little over half of the people who voted in the last Presidential election!  It reminds me of Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize– an event that will forever lay bare the TRUE nature of that body of prize-givers.  Of course anybody watching the awards for the past couple decades already knows the politics of the Nobel committee, and the silly nature of the Peace prize awards process.   Jimmy Carter got himself one a number of years ago– for fixing the mideast conflict.  Did a bang-up job, didn’t he?  Thank heavens we never have any problems over THERE anymore! 

By the way, also on the news today was the announcement that Iran has perfected the solid-fuel, moderate-range ballistic missile.  Combined with their announcement a week ago that they are ramping up production of the material needed for nuclear weapons, and the discovery a few days ago of documents showing that they have perfected the technology to set off nuclear warheads, we now know that they are perhaps months away from having nuclear missiles that can strike Europe.  Maybe Norway feels a bit safer knowing that the fall-out will travel west, not north… but they shouldn’t find too much peace in that weather phenomenon (which ironically is much more relevant to their survival than any ‘global warming’!) since the long range missiles are only another year away.  For those who don’t understand the relevance of solid-fuel rockets, the liquid-fuel missiles must be filled before launching, a process that gives the world about a day of advance warning before mushroom clouds start sprouting up all over Israel and Europe.  Solid-fuel missiles just sit in underground silos until ‘Im-a-nut-job’ pushes the button, and the fireworks start in less than an hour.

Gotta love the way obama charmed that Iranian guy, don’t you think?!

I don’t watch much TV, and I watch even less news on TV, and so I don’t watch tons of Fox (although the few comments I receive tell me that I get all my info from Fox– which is sort of funny.  I don’t know… maybe they are getting THEIR ideas from ME!)  (that’s a joke, but the way).  Anyway, this AM I watched some Fox guy interview a Democrat member of Congress named Debbie Wasserman Schultz (I imagine there is supposed to be a hyphen in there somewhere, but I’m not certain).  The scene is worth writing about for two reasons– one because it is just so rare to see a Democrat on Fox, and second because of something related to the first reason–  she made a total ass of herself, because she was asked some real questions!  I must admit that I found myself wondering why any Dem would WANT to go on Fox–  why put yourself through real questions when you have a bunch of patsies in the ‘traditional media’ begging to give you puff airtime?  The Fox guy had the nerve to ask the question why the representative considers Medicare and Social Security to be ‘well-run programs’ when both are projected to be insolvent, Medicare in as short as 3 years?!!  The question came after she talked about all the money that government-run  health care will save, and the reporter asked her to give an example of something that government has taken over that saved money and runs well.

To her credit, the representative didn’t storm off, as Barney does whenever he is asked a real question.  Barney.  BARNEY.  Baaaarrrrrnnney.  Who names a kid Barney, anyway?  She didn’t storm off, but she did toss her head back and laugh, laugh, laugh– such a silly topic, after all, the bankrupting of a country.   THAT’S a good one– a real knee-slapper!  Who is worse here– the dems in Congress for avoiding the tough questions, or the media for not asking them anymore?   Not that it matters– they’re both out for the same thing anyway.

Another clueless 'commander in chief'

Then I flipped channels and heard a quick update on obama’s day.  Did you hear, by the way, about the helicopter crashes in Afghanistan that left a number of our servicemen dead?  The worst loss of life for our soldiers in Afghanistan in over 4 years.  It is a horrible thing when you have an indecisive, ego-driven commander in chief at a time when servicemen and women are dying in battle.  Horrible.  Us older folks remember the Iran hostages, under Carter– he finally tried a rescue, and our military was in such disarray that the rescue helicopters crashed before even getting to Iran!  Funny how getting obama is like coming full circle, to where carter left off.   Today, obama started with– get this– another MEETING about Afghanistan.  We were told a couple weeks ago he was done with the meeting stage and was in the thinking stage.  Now we are back to meetings again.  As I’ve said before, think about all of his ‘present’ votes– he cannot decide on a vote, so how will he decide as commander?  Could you imagine him in uniform, having to ACT– like, today?  He would need to hold a meeting to decide whether to shoot back!

He was to spend an hour at this ‘meeting’ about WAR, then off to Florida to talk up his policies to troops and citizens, and then to a big-wheeled dinner tonight to raise some bucks for the cause.  More campaigning tomorrow.  I suppose I should be grateful he found an hour to spend on the meeting!

So– for taking an hour to meet about a war where our men and women are dying, Thanks, obama!