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Ever have a relative that continually embarassed you . . .
if not, you now have a President who can do the same thing.
First, he showers Gordon Brown, the partially blind Prime Minister of Great Britain, a set of DVDs that will not even work on European DVD players (setting aside the fact that, given his vision impairment, Mr. Brown does not watch movies).
Now, apparently, he has decided to really, really try to make a good impression. So, what gift did Obama present to Queen Elizabeth II? A book signed by one of the founders? A side table created from the wood of an early American whaling ship? Perhaps a uniquely styled paperweight crafted from metal salvaged from the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa, a heavy cruiser that participated in many of the key engagements in the Atlantic Ocean, was an escort for the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, and escorted Prime Minister Winston Churchill's ship on its way to North Africa for the Casablanca conference. You know, a gift that anyone with some sense of history, proportion, respect, and three minutes spare time could have thought up.
Instead, Obama gave Her Majesty a gift one can purchase at any Wal-Mart for a couple of hundred dollars an iPod.
Most American children received a more thoughtful and valuable gift from their aunts or uncles last Christmas.
Special relationship? Not for the Obamatron.
What a putz.
- posted by MrSpkr @ 16:01
But I thought the Anointed One was a gifted speaker . . .
Funnily enough, my wife and I discussed this Monday night during his speech. This was after, of course, my lovely, patient wife, for the first time in her life, yelled at the television during a political speech.
This President is an empty suit. It is terrifying to think of the damage he can do to this country, either through volitional actions or through ignorance of any need to undertake particular actions.
In his first three weeks of office, he has (a) indicated a willingness to close down the Guatanamo Bay Detention Facility, forcing us to either try the detainees in criminal courts (which is unprecedented in our history and would require the detainees receive all the constitutional protections of any criminal defendant) or let them go to attack us again; (b) signed off on the largest transfer of wealth in world history; and (c) signed off on legislation that socializes a portion of the healthcare industry.
God help us all.
- posted by MrSpkr @ 09:54
And his party represents environmentalists?
Not much to say here. This is a picture of the Capital Mall last week after the conclusion of the Obama coronation.
And this is the party that tells us we are trashing the planet.
Sigh.
- posted by MrSpkr @ 19:52
Well, this is a bleak take on things . . .
Dick Morris has a new column, The Obama presidency: Here comes socialism. In it, he predicts a wide variety of sweeping, negative changes that Obama will quickly enact in order to permanently change America and build a long term Democratic electoral majority.
Sigh. Any more good news out there?
- posted by MrSpkr @ 17:08
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MrSpkr's random thoughts . . .
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Ever have a relative that continually embarassed you . . .
if not, you now have a President who can do the same thing.
First, he showers Gordon Brown, the partially blind Prime Minister of Great Britain, a set of DVDs that will not even work on European DVD players (setting aside the fact that, given his vision impairment, Mr. Brown does not watch movies).
Now, apparently, he has decided to really, really try to make a good impression. So, what gift did Obama present to Queen Elizabeth II? A book signed by one of the founders? A side table created from the wood of an early American whaling ship? Perhaps a uniquely styled paperweight crafted from metal salvaged from the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa, a heavy cruiser that participated in many of the key engagements in the Atlantic Ocean, was an escort for the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, and escorted Prime Minister Winston Churchill's ship on its way to North Africa for the Casablanca conference. You know, a gift that anyone with some sense of history, proportion, respect, and three minutes spare time could have thought up.
Instead, Obama gave Her Majesty a gift one can purchase at any Wal-Mart for a couple of hundred dollars an iPod.
Most American children received a more thoughtful and valuable gift from their aunts or uncles last Christmas.
Special relationship? Not for the Obamatron.
What a putz.
Labels: Obama
- posted by MrSpkr @ 16:01
Thursday, February 12, 2009
But I thought the Anointed One was a gifted speaker . . .
Barack Obama Prescreens Reporters at Press-Conference - WSJ.com: "About half-way through President Obama's press conference Monday night, he had an unscripted question of his own. 'All, Chuck Todd,' the President said, referring to NBC's White House correspondent. 'Where's Chuck?' He had the same strange question about Fox News's Major Garrett: 'Where's Major?'
The problem wasn't the lighting in the East Room. The President was running down a list of reporters preselected to ask questions. The White House had decided in advance who would be allowed to question the President and who was left out."
Funnily enough, my wife and I discussed this Monday night during his speech. This was after, of course, my lovely, patient wife, for the first time in her life, yelled at the television during a political speech.
This President is an empty suit. It is terrifying to think of the damage he can do to this country, either through volitional actions or through ignorance of any need to undertake particular actions.
In his first three weeks of office, he has (a) indicated a willingness to close down the Guatanamo Bay Detention Facility, forcing us to either try the detainees in criminal courts (which is unprecedented in our history and would require the detainees receive all the constitutional protections of any criminal defendant) or let them go to attack us again; (b) signed off on the largest transfer of wealth in world history; and (c) signed off on legislation that socializes a portion of the healthcare industry.
God help us all.
Labels: Obama
- posted by MrSpkr @ 09:54
Thursday, January 29, 2009
And his party represents environmentalists?
Not much to say here. This is a picture of the Capital Mall last week after the conclusion of the Obama coronation.
And this is the party that tells us we are trashing the planet.
Sigh.
Labels: Obama
- posted by MrSpkr @ 19:52
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Well, this is a bleak take on things . . .
Dick Morris has a new column, The Obama presidency: Here comes socialism. In it, he predicts a wide variety of sweeping, negative changes that Obama will quickly enact in order to permanently change America and build a long term Democratic electoral majority.
Sigh. Any more good news out there?
Labels: Obama
- posted by MrSpkr @ 17:08
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