Barack Hussein Obama is our first affirmative action president, that’s about it when his “historic achievement” is concerned. There’s no politician in American history is more overrated than he is. While his resume is embarrassingly thin, his ambition and rhetoric are mind-bogglingly full-of-it and yet he was rarely called out on it and put in his real spot (and please spare me from the asinine Abe Lincoln’s comparison, that just because he was inexprienced and yet became an icon it would necessarily follow that BO would be the next Lincoln simply on the basis of INEXPERIENCE. We had an equal neophythe in Bush after all and where did it take us? And where is the comparison between the two?). Nobody dared to because he was “black” and criticizing him would be racist.
Being Black is not just about the color of one’s skin. Being black is also about experience.
Had it not been because of the color of his skin, he wouldn’t have come near enough to be seriously considered as a presidential candidate, and much less winning the election. Someone like him with white or yellow skin or a different set of reproduction organs and the mounting questionable background and very little accomplishment under his belt, not to mention the half-baked policies lacking in details he proposed, would have been sneered at at a mere mention of wanting to run. But rules were changed and standard was lowered to accommodate a “first black president.” Screw a first female president, we can always wait for that or never, and by the way, who the fuck cares?
The inauguration, in this time of deep recession, will cost $150 millions -allegedly borrowed from China-, the most in history (Bush’s was only $42.3 millions, Clinton’s $33 millions), the amount of which the US media is too embarrassed or timid to report and takes foreign press to say it as it is. Wake me up when Obama has his priority straight. Andy Martin says, “The Obamas are the most vulgar, uncouth, rude nouveau riche family to ever occupy the White House. Our long national hangover is now beginning: we just don’t realize it yet.”
So what kind of a president do we need? Lincoln? Yes. Lincoln was a sparse, simple man. He brought a sense of dignity and restraint, and even a touch of melancholy, to the White House at a time when the nation was sundered. There was no time for partying.
The vulgar Obamas are so out of touch they can’t even make up their minds which “designer dog” to bring into their household. Please.
A combination of the superficial star-struck culture, white guilt and romanticism of “a first black president” imbued with boyish charm and snake-oil-salesman knack of a charismatic (read: slick) personality allows someone like BHO to be where he is now: someone who based his entire candidacy on 2 memoirs, a beguiling narrative with little detail which is the only thing that is “known” about him (and even that’s not supported by comprehensive evidence), and the “anti-war” speech he made on 2002 deluding average Joes and Janes into thinking that he voted against the war (never mind that he wasn’t even in the senate then), the speech he had to reenact because it wasn’t on footage -yep there surely is a stench of reality TV, very befitting for a celebrity candidate who is famous for being famous. His rhetoric doesn’t match his achievements, and in fact contradicts his track records, and is borderline narcissistic. Yet with the outstanding corruption, cover-ups and a series of ridiculously softball interviews -while the total oposite is reserved for his opponents- our nation has enabled this light-weight underachieving man, out of the blue, to be the most powerful man on the planet. Yet many Obots (what’s an Obot? Find the most elaborate definition(s) here) think how great a man he is, how “he won fair and square” for running a “brilliant campaign.” Not so fast, bozos, it wasn’t him who ran the campaign, it was the mainstream media with its tingled-up legs upon his mere radiantly divine presence.
Barry says he is a “Lincoln president.” Well, as Senator Lloyd Bentsen would have said, “I knew Abe Lincoln and you’re no Abe Lincoln. You’re an African-American Bernie Madoff, a sweet and likeable con man that is likely to leave the nation with a historic hangover.”
If it was up to me, I wouldn’t give that honorable title “First African-American President in history” to him. No, please reserve that special title to someone more deserving. A “true” and “real” African American, not the one who used that heritage to the hilt because he knew that was his ONLY pass to the White House, and looked down to his other heritage that raised him because it suit him to gloss over his “half-baked” blackness. The one who really earns that honorable spot in history. Not an empty suit that has never shown any leadership by shaking things up when he knew it wasn’t a popular thing to do but he did it anyway because his conscience told him so. The one who really climbed from the ground and rose to an exalted position by merit and hard work, dedicating his life and efforts for the the people he represented. The one whose wife didn’t get triple salary for the $1 million earmark her employer got upon his election to the senate (that’s “Blago’s style” pay-for-play, folks). The one that hasn’t immersed himself with a throng of people of shady characters and the one who is not slick enough to actively participate in a corrupt system, fine tuned his snake-oil salesman skills to allow him a meteoric rise based on “politicking as usual” and the power of branding/marketing. Noam Chomsky didn’t blink when he flat out said that Obama is a brand name, there is a serious gap between Obama the brand and Obama the man. Simply put, Obama is a media creation. People fall in love with the Obama the brand. Obama the man doesn’t truly exist.
Obama Water: When drinking the koolaid is no longer a metaphor. Only $1.50 plus tax, just in time for the $150 million worth of inauguration, sponsored by the Communist Government of China. It comes in a handy size with pictures of Obama (Obama in cool sunglasses or smiley Obama waving) or he and his family on the bottles. Keep them in proper care ’cause they might be worth thousands of dollars a piece 100 years from now. Like Obama, you can commercialize his selection as President, too. Like Obama, you too can be rich by doing very little.
BE KOOL, DRINK THE KOOLAID OBAMA WATER.
). Both are extremely popular, but neither has any substance. And neither is good for you. Obama doesn’t deserve that title. So save it for someone who truly represents the fight and struggle of the African-American community. Someone who has actually done something for the African-American community.
There are but a few times I would agree with a neocon like Ann Coulter but she was so apt when she said on Matt Lauer: “Sarah Palin was memorizing the last six kings of Swaziland for her media interviews, but Obama only needed to say something nice about his parents to be considered presidential material.”
I still don’t get the fascination people have about him and perhaps I never will. I am so defiantly and irrevocably unimpressed by this man. I think, he’s everything that is wrong abut the celeb-worshipping culture of America. The process of dumbing down of this nation is complete with this man’s election. I am still aching for the way it could/should have been come January 20. We could (should) have a first female president, who though her path was made easy thanks to her name, was actually brilliant in every sense of the word and had proven herself to be a “person of her own.”
How can I be impressed by a man who had a chance to stand up against corruption and showed leadership but refused to be inconvenienced by taking the road less traveled? A man who employed all dirty tricks in the book to win elections? A man who through his persistent refusal of being transparent shows his profound lack of character and integrity?
A woman who is not heart-broken by this fact is perhaps a woman by genitalia only or is ignorant of what truly happened. But sadly, it’s been shown time and again women are often their own worst enemies. We constitute 51% of the population, yet we are less of a value than being black and are so woefully underrepresented in politics. We are still the 2nd class citizens. Bring the race card to any discussion then everything is fixed (see Burris’s case, even though in some weird way I am rooting for him and Blagojevich in his defiance against the caricature by the useless media that he’s solely or uniquely corrupt in the very machine that gave birth to BHO). It’s a no-no to be racist but it’s hip to be sexist. To those “feminists” who supported a lightweight tanned man first before a brilliant woman, I’d say with gusto: Fuck you! Fuck you all! Thanks for setting back women’s struggle by a few decades. Have your honeymoon with your hero while it lasts and before he throws you under the bus like everyone else whose usefulness to him has expired. Probably one day when the koolaid’s effects have all but faded you will realize that it takes a woman twice as much hard work and talent, at least, to be at the same position a man is, and it’s so totally unpardonable not to give your own kind a chance at that for the rest of us to one day achieve equality.
I’m not celebrating and spare me from the drunk and third-worldly cheesy worship of this man whose first instinct is to lie when faced by inquiring minds and who has done nothing worthy of mention in his political career that deems him of any value of being my leader. I stand by that conviction. Recent shenanigans surrounding him only affirm that notion.
Obama leaves no fingerprints. That has been his whole life’s story. He neither confirms nor denies; he releases no records, and those that he cannot lock he scrubs; he expresses sadness or sympathy or denial or whatever, but he does not actually take a position; he tests the water first before taking a stance: what’s in it for him instead for the people he works for (hence it’s so totally naive to think that he would have voted against the war had he been in the position to do so) but then that doesn’t guarantee he won’t flip to the other side when he sees fit; he encourges decision-taking, but speaks of them in platitudes. He’d like to call himself a pragmatic progressive, I’d give him pragmatic OPPORTUNIST.
Alan Keyes: “Particularly telling is the fact that not one single person has come forward, not a doctor, not a nurse, not a hospital administrator, nor anyone else, to state that he or she was present during this birth, except for Obama’s paternal grandmother, who affirmed that she “was in the delivery room in Kenya when he was born Aug. 4, 1961.” Additionally, when Mr. Berg served subpoenas on the hospitals mentioned above, Senator Obama refused to sign a consent form that would allow the hospitals to release any of his information. Instead, Senator Obama has hired three law firms to defend himself, and has challenged the action by Mr. Berg on a technicality, claiming that an ordinary citizen does not have standing to bring the suit.”
He has mastered the act of effacing himself while standing out in front. He is appointing a savvy and competent cabinet who will make and broadcast the decisions, but who will also be discarded immediately upon anything significantly controversial that arises.
I, too, have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. You can get away with this self-effacement as long as things go reasonably well. But when this nation and this world has a crisis which will truly exemplify the “loneliness of command”, his emptiness will be revealed at a the worst possible time. Where does he go when there is no one else left to blame? He has never experienced that, and I fear what he will become when he does.
Lack of leadership (especially moral) has a trickle down effect upon the whole nation. It changes the whole scenery. It’s impacts are devastating and takes years or even generations to cure. Caroline Kennedy’s inevitable appointment is evidence of this. No one seems to care anymore because they have put their faith into a seemingly liberal POTUS that gives them a go ahead to disregard certain moral positions. Just look at what happened to the lack of democratic porcess at the convention — no one seemed to care because they believed that the happenings of kicking out delegates who didn’t support Obama and the near dismissal of a roll call vote was SOP. It is more dangerous to have a leader with shifting moral positions than ones we don’t agree with.
But, then again, what else one might expect from a product of Chicago politics where using public means for private gain is the natural order of things?
What we needed for 2009 was a president who said simply and truthfully, “At a time of economic distress, when Americans are suffering, and when current indications are the economy will get worse before it gets better (Obama’s own words), we need to cut spending, starting with the White House, and starting with my own inauguration.
“I have asked President Bush to cut back on plans to spend large sums for my inauguration. We will scale down the security and pull in our perimeter. I have asked my friends and supporters to plan for a modest celebration. January 20th should be a day of prayer and supplication, not crass celebration and contempt for financial reality.
“We will begin out austerity program at the White House, where Michele and I will carefully scrutinize every expense and seek to reduce the cost of the presidency. We will use Air Force One less often, and cut back on lavish entertaining and unnecessary pomp.”
Obama isn’t making that speech. He is, sadly, going in the direction of the African-American stereotype that acts “enriched” by nonexistent and illusory wealth. At a time when we need modesty and restraint, he is pulling out all the stops. For himself.
One thing I know for sure: it’s going to be a fucking looooong 4 years! (Sigh). And when it comes from someone who seems to always lament about the fleeting nature of time, you’ll know how serious that is.
YET due to my PR status.
