The Presidential First 100 Days….
So….Barack Obama at 100 days. Now, they say this has been a historically productive 100 days. I have just put a list here together in no particular order, just off the top of my head, of the things in this administration that have stood out to me since it began. We have Admiral Blair admitting the CIA received high value, lifesaving information from terrorists, while President Obama is condemning the same interrogations as immoral and counterproductive. And you’ll note that he has made absolutely no effort to have the results reports published showing the actual success of the so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques”. President Obama is throwing and has thrown grand White House parties with Kobe beef, a hundred bucks a pound, while telling the nation to cut back in order to survive the greatest economic downturn supposedly since the Great Depression. His wife Michelle wears French designer sneakers with a $540.00 price tag while handing out food and clothes at a poor folks home. Bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia, listening patiently and respectfully while a two-bit dictator lectures Obama, it was Daniel Ortega, with false charges for 50 minutes about the criminal country he leads, and Obama doesn’t say one word to object, one word in disagreement, does not stand up for his country at one point during the Summit of the Americas.
He has run around the world and apologized for the greatest, the most compassionate, the most innovative and freedom-loving country in world history. Now we’ve got Fidel Castro setting Obama straight about how Cuba handles political prisoners and its economy. Fidel Castro, calling him superficial. We had the nomination of tax cheats to his cabinet, including the man who oversees the IRS, five tax cheats in the Obama administration. We have Obama’s joke of a press spokesman, who makes a complete idiot of himself on a daily basis. He sends back a symbol of freedom, that bust of Sir Winston Churchill to Great Britain just after moving into the White House. He wants nothing to do with it. He did of his own volition. They said you can keep it. He said no, we don’t want it here. They said put it in a different room in the White House. We don’t want it here, and sent it back to the British embassy. It was given to us, President Bush, after 9/11, by the Brits. He insulted the prime minister of England, the queen of England, with embarrassing, thoughtless gifts.
We have the French president Sarkozy ridiculing Obama’s messianic complex, inviting him to walk on water at Normandy beach. We have Iran taking a hostage, an American journalist, as Obama promises better relations. We have North Korea humiliating Obama with their missile launch. We have Obama putting the country in debt for generations to come while promising fiscal responsibility, offering up laughable budget cuts, banning lobbyists from his administration, while appointing them left and right. Openly lying that Caterpillar would hire up with the passage of his stimulus bill, then watching while that company lays off thousands after the stimulus bill passes. He pledges to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. But then he keeps it open with no plan for its future. Proclaiming total transparency, while keeping secret who got the TARP funds, when, where, why. Being incapable of communicating without a teleprompter, while the press declares him a Reaganesque, Great Communicator.
He attacks a private citizen broadcaster from the White House as part of an orchestrated plan to distract the country from legislation and policies we don’t want, which thus touched off a political firestorm, all of this while claiming to be a unifier. He makes a ham-handed attempt to nationalize the banks preventing financial institutions from paying back TARP money they don’t need or want. We got a column in the Wall Street Journal by Holman Jenkins that General Motors is a debacle; it is an absolute debacle and mess, and soon Wall Street is going to be the same thing. He has made bad situations worse with car manufacturers, and the worst is yet to come as he’ll soon become car dealer in chief. He has sparked hundreds of protests involving hundreds of thousands of Americans at tea parties regarding irresponsible government spending while his Homeland Security chief labels peacefully demonstrating Americans and veterans as security risks. Now, that’s just the things I could think up the top of my head. Oh, yeah, moving the census over to the Commerce department to politicize that. I mean, this administration has been one part joke, one part unbelievable, and many parts scary. Because while all this has gone on, this man is reported upon and reported to be the best president we’ve ever had, a shining light, a beacon, historical figure.
I don’t think that those descriptions will last for much more than another year. The release of the interrogation reports disturb me. He’s virtually given our enemies an open book into what we do. Now….at the terrorist training camps, while taking classes in “enhanced interrogation techniques-101″, they be teaching that if you’re caught, this is just how you can beat the system. The Americans are weak, are sissies, and you’ll get through it just fine.
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of The House, holding the third most powerful job in this country, who along with the president has pledged total transparency, has openly lied to this country about her knowledge of the use of “water-boarding”. Or rather…her non-knowledge. We have Obama sensory overload with constant news about every little thing he does, his continuing of prime time televised press conferences where only 13 questions are asked and none of them any tougher than has the White House been enchanting. He is one continual campaign trailer. You’re president already for cryin’ out loud!
First 100 days? So far I’d call them rather scary. I think that we’re heading into some big trouble. Most calculations are showing that starting today, once you reach the ripe young age of 20….you’ll be almost $150,000 in debt to the government! Latest deficit numbers indicating that before all is done we’ll be at around 9 trillion dollars. That’s what I call scary!
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Unless it is a state dinner or something like that, the President pays for the food they eat in the White House. They select things from a menu, but the cost of the meals is expensive and the first family billed. As for Michelle wearing nice clothes, I have no problem with that – she respresents our country. Most times I opt for less expensive clothing, but when I’m going to be attending something important I spend the money to look as good as I can.
Global opinion about our country, its policies, etc. has gone way down in recent years. I think the Obama administration is trying to rectify that. I do believe we live in a great country, but I also believe we need friends and allies that respect us – not fear us.
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Oh Deej…wearing expensive sneakers to a poor folks home I just don’t think is all that appropriate. There’s a time and place. And when you’re the president calling for us to cut back…what’s wrong with starting there?
I know they pay for personal food, and I think that’s a good thing.
Apologizing for your own country on foreign soil is also not a good thing. When was the last time you heard another leader do that? Anywhere from anyone? Huh? Huh? HuuuuHH?? Deejweeji!
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Welllll, I am a fan of truth, and if someone wbo I KNOW is super rich shows up at my poor folks home wearing cheap clothes, I might feel just a tad insulted and patronised.