Monday, July 28, 2008

Backbencher to World Leader in Just 5 Days

Most all of the reporters on the Sunday morning talking head shows pronounced Obama’s world tour a great success. Excuse me while I feign surprise. I think there was a reporter from Weehauken who had one or two negative thoughts while on the trip but the MSM has been pretty successful in covering that up and the guy will soon be working at Burger King. One of the first spots in a reeducation camp has been reserved for this slimeball as soon as Obama approves the results of the November elections and inaugurates himself in January.
Yes, it was a monumentally successful trip. The man who thinks there are more than 57 states in the United States learned everything needed to become a world leader in 5 days. Very impressive considering he even took time off for basketball and working out in the gym. It is a good thing he didn’t visit the troops in Germany since that would have deprived Barack and the benighted world of the time necessary for the great transformation. Legend has it that it took FDR months to become a great world leader. Winston Churchill had to spend seven weeks learning what it takes to be a great conquering hero. But these are mere mortals and everyone know I’m just being silly comparing them to a real leader like Barack. They are such sad creatures by comparison. Barack would have understood that the real focus of WW II was Pearl Harbor. He would not have been duped into sending troops much beyond Honolulu .
Sarcasm aside, what was so great and wonderful about Obama’s trip? Someone else booked all of the reservations and did most of the packing. Someone else told him it was time to leave and lead him by the hand to the airplane. Other people lead him by the hand to the meetings and events that someone other than him had scheduled and arranged. Now if the guy could have done all of the planning himself and flown coach from the regular terminal and gone through the same security as everyone else, I might get ready to be impressed. But I can’t muster respect for someone who wants to be POTUS but avoids reporters, avoids answering honest questions about real issues and avoids debate. What is he trying to hide? (You might get an idea of some answers to this by reading this blog a couple of months ago, when I first started writing about him.) When he does talk to reporters he doesn’t answer the questions they ask.: he keeps repeating talking points with little relation to the questions. Robert Novak recently wondered why Obama can’t get to 50% in spite of all of the forces working for him. Maybe it is because Americans look at the interviews and say, “I’m not going to vote for someone who won’t give a straight answer to an honest and important question.” Just maybe.

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