Thanks (for nothing) Obama!

A quick thought this morning as I watched the rescue crews in Baghdad, 136 dead and rising from two horrible car-bomb attacks. This will be another chance, of course, for obama to blame what he ‘inherited’. Likewise on the Sunday shows there will be calls from the sane people of the country and world to do something about Afghanistan– DO SOMETHING– something that is WAY out of obama’s comfort zone. He likes to plan. He would have been a great planner. But instead he is a shitty president, because Presidents must ACT. Even on his favorite gig, health reform– he plans, but has a hard time making up his mind or committing to anything. There is a word for those people, but I just see them as cowards. They love to blame other people for things, so they just plan. Plan and blame. We can look back at all of his votes at the state level as ‘present’, afraid to go so far down the ‘acting’ path as even deciding yes or no! How can we expect him to DO something, when he couldn’t even make a call on a VOTE?!

Obama thinks he was promised a Rose Garden

But I digress, as usual.  My point today is about this ‘inherited’ thing.  Bush started running for President (back when it deserved a capital  P) while the Nasdaq was running to 5000, and Clinton was basking in the glow of a balanced budget– mostly thanks to the fiscal responsibility forced on him by Newt et al., but also thanks to inflated government revenue from the dot com madness.  By the time Bush took office, the Nasdaq bubble had burst and we were two months into a recession (most people don’t remember all of this– of course, the press hardly mentioned it the first time!  No press writing about poor Bush, inheriting a recession!).  The media, instead of saying ‘poor Bush’, were immediately blaming him for an ‘unbalanced budget’.  His first budget had lots of red ink– the press blamed Bush policies, which would be like going after obama in February of this year for HIS economy– instead of being sorry for what he inherited, as they in fact did.

Still with me?  Bush inherited the crash of the Nasdaq (and all markets to a lesser extent) and a recession, but was BLAMED for ‘converting a surplus into a deficit’.  NOW you remember– who could forget what the press repeated over and over and over…  took a surplus, turned it into a deficit…. repeat… repeat….  They rarely if ever clarified that the surplus was PROJECTED for ten years, assuming the stock market kept growing and bringing in tax receipts– a silly notion, now.  The bubble burst– the money is gone– and Bush is blamed.  He never explained it to people all that well, because Bush was a lousy politician.  Planning wasn’t his thing– he left that to others.  He liked to act, perhaps to a fault.

Then he inherited 911, and he acted, and the people loved it.  At some point the libs used the tough times to destroy Bush, who was like a puppy fighting with a bunch of snakes.  Men of honor have a hard time trying to do battle with evil people;  sort of like a US trying to fight within a set of rules that the Taliban does not follow.  US versus Taliban is a lot like Bush vs. liberals.  That will sound silly out of context, but if you use your brain you will see how true it is.  Anyway, we heard very little from Bush about ‘inheriting all this crap’– he had too much work to do.  And people can cry about Iraq–  it was never about the straw man that the media created, but rather about changing course in the Middle East.  For those who cry now, picture the middle east if Saddam was still in power.  What would it be like?  If you are being honest, the answer is that you have no idea.  It likely, though, would not have gone away.  Saddam would have done more to cause problems– it wouldn’t have been a sea of peace.  THIS is one ‘thought mistake’ that all liberals make– they take the worst case and picture a ‘best case’ in it’s place.  If Bush had NOT gone into Iraq, IT WOULD NOT BE A SEA OF PEACE.  We would have gone in two years later.  Or six years later.  OR IF WE HAD NOT GONE IN, SOME DEM WOULD HAVE GOTTEN ELECTED IN 2004 RUNNING ON THE FACT THAT BUSH DID NOTHING IN IRAQ.

Getting into obama’s thought mistake… if none of the above had happened, obama never would have gotten elected.. but if he had still gotten elected, he would be complaining about this guy named Saddam in Iraq that Bush never dealt with, who has all these chemical weapons, who has viol0ated all of these UN agreements, and that he now has INHERITED.  That is the thing about complaining about what one inherited–  there are always things to complain about!  And obama has done just that– the recession?  Bush’s fault– never mind the fact that it is a global phenomenon, never mind that the dems pushed companies to loan money to people who couldn’t afford homes for the sake of ‘fairness’.  The wars?  Bush’s fault– never mind that he saw the same intelligence as everyone else, and that the Dems in Congress voted YES to both of them!  Medicare going broke?  Bush’s fault– even though when Bush took it on early in his presidency, the dems used it to destroy him, telling old folks that he was trying to destroy their benefits.  No wonder obama hates Fox news– they dare to remind people of what REALLY happened.  They don’t speak ‘obama-speak’.

His thought mistake if you haven’t gotten there on your own is that he speaks about a presidency that is just ‘fun’, and complains about the work  he has to do.   Remember a time  when we liked comments such as ‘the buck stops here’?  How much you want to bet that obama doesn’t have THAT paperweight in his office!  Obama seems to feel ‘entitled’ to a nice, fun presidency.  Bush didn’t get one.  No president does.  It is time for obama to quit whining about what he inherited and realize that the presidency is a tough job.  When any other man was President, even Clinton, they recognized that it is a tough job– no sarcasm here:  but someone had to do it.  For obama, the presidency is like his fake nobel prize– a neat thing to swing around, to use to beat people about the head, a chance to WIN!  But it is more than that, obama– you arrogant clown.  Decisions from the white house are important– they cost lives.  They create or lose freedom in the world.  You should spend less time on Letterman and Leno and the Sunday morning shows, and more time getting to know the families of the kids who are waiting for you– STILL WAITING– in Afghanistan.

While obama has been taking the easy life, the Taliban has grown back.  While obama did the ‘bro’ thing with castro and chavez, the dollar has fallen.  While obama did his ‘date night’, al qaeda has grown back in Iraq.  While obama has been throwing money to his supporters in unions and government, the real economy has shed jobs by the millions– since his policies took effect and because of them- mot as part of some corrective process to what he inherited.

As I watched the bloody rescuers in Iraq this morning I wondered if obama will EVER get it. Will he realize that he is the one who must ACT?  That sometimes you have to actually make a decision that might make you unpopular?  Or will he continue to strut like a modern-day Shaft, disco-balls filling his imagination, pissed off that one media outlet isn’t grooving to the same tune?  Get to work, obama–  and get a clue.

As always, thanks for nothing.

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