Posted by
Tony Hubble on Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:07:00 AM
So, things are not as bad NOW as people think they are and things were not as good THEN as people thought? Does anyone but me feel like we’re playing a game of three card monte?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/12/obama-declares-economic-crisis-bad-think/
I don’t necessarily have a problem with the President delivering an optimistic message to the country. It’s in my nature to be one of those annoyingly upbeat guys. People ask me how I’m doing and I usually say “Fabulous! Couldn’t be better if I were twins.” And the market/economy being driven by consumer confidence, I believe it is the president’s job to stay positive and deliver a positive message.
But how convenient for the president that things “aren’t as bad NOW, and weren’t as good THEN.” I’m sure if we were in the campaign season still it would be doom and gloom 24/7. Things wouldn’t be “bad”, they’d be CATASTROPHIC! And when the Consumer Index, GNP, and the market were up, it wasn’t as good as we thought.
I’ve been paying attention to Barrack Obama’s rise in politics since the buzz started about this “charismatic state senator”. The one universal thing that has bothered me since then and continues to bother me still is how I feel like I’m constantly being hustled by this guy.
Worse yet, I’ve watched him ascend to the presidency by running on a campaign of bromides and platitudes completely lacking in substance that people simply swoon over. Or get “tingles running up their legs”. I still don’t know how he got there. Scratch that, I know how he got there but it’s still staggering to me how we elected someone with no record to speak of, a highly questionable past and unresolved doubts about qualifications.
I’m not bitter. My attitude with this guy is the same as it was with Clinton. Okay, you got in, now get your arse to work. So Clinton’s first windmill was ensuring gays could serve openly in the military. Obama can’t seem to staff his administration and the stock market has plunged faster in this new administration than it has in 90 years! Not that he cares about that, since he believes the stock market ups and downs are just a thang. He’s spending my money like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
He has gone back on most of his major campaign promises. Not that I have a problem with that as I thought they were insane, but those were the things his base used as justification for his election (or coronation as it were). Unless you were black. Then you just elected him because he was black. Okay, so did some white people.
It doesn’t seem to matter what he says or does, he still gets a pass from the MSM. Not surprisingly so since they carry the lion’s share of the credit for getting him elected. They’d have to admit that they’d been bamboozled if they want to go after him.
As much as I detested everything Clinton stood for I used to admire his Teflon coating. Nothing seemed to stick to him. It seems I gave him too much credit. It wasn’t Clinton necessarily, but the generosity of the media that ascended him to bulletproof status. The reason I say this is because as soon as his wife started running against the newly anointed one, Bill couldn’t seem to get anything right. He went from Superman to Bozo the clown. He was the same guy, but now everything he said or did seemed to be a major faux pas. I even remember reading somewhere an analysis of Bill during the campaign that seemed to wonder what happened to him. It even floated the theory that his quadruple bypass had affected his judgment somehow. How convenient. Wish I could remember the reporter and the source.
In the art of the plausible, subterfuge and sleight of hand are most often the modus operandi. I get that. I have a healthy dose of skeptical cynicism. But is it too much to ask though that these people refrain from insulting my intelligence? I mean c’mon, really. I’m not that smart.