This past Friday (2/20/09), ABC’s Terry Moran went on the record about White House reporting with mediabistro.com during their Morning Media Menu podcast. In an affront to every drop of blood ever shed in the creation and in the defense of this fair Republic, he actually had the cajones (or the lack of simple intelligence) to make the following statement:
“In some ways Barack Obama is the first president since George Washington to be taking a step down into the oval office. From visionary leader of a giant movement, now he’s got an executive position that he has to perform in, in a way, and I think the coverage reflects that,” he said.
Old George may not have been perfect; indeed, none of the Founding Fathers of this country would dare lay such claim, but they were far more visionary than Barack Hussein Obama could ever possibly dream of being. And I’m quite sure they kissed the mirror a whole lot less. The President’s not-so-secret wish to turn the Republic of the United States of America into a socialist state, or worse, a fascist regime, likely finds those wise old souls spinning in their graves at 50,000 rpms. Their intention was never that one man – one man who has never held a real job in his entire life – would presume to tell the people of this country how they should live.
Yet such is the mantra of Barack Hussein Obama. You became wealthy by working hard and fairly to deliver a quality product or service? No, no; bad business owner! You must share the gains of your sweat with those who don’t have enough sense to come in out of the rain. To those senseless and therefore rather damp types, he’s taking on the role of the father they never had; promising them a bright future as long as they heed his always-knows-better Ivy League advice.
In a word, it’s bullshit. Certainly Terry Moran is entitled to his opinion, however, those in the public eye and therefore in a position of influence really ought to be very, very careful just how they wield it. Barack Hussein Obama is no Abraham Lincoln, and he’s no George Washington, either. Having no real and tangible achievements on his resume, he then only aspires to greatness and, if we must be so bold as to write it out loud, is less honestly qualified to be president than it is that he merely put himself in the right place at the right time. When he won the presidential election, I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but his lack of qualifications are evidenced by the unending revolving door of lying, cheating cabinet candidates, by the fact that he did not read the $787 billion stimulus bill, by the fact that there was no promised transparency with that bill, either; and that after a mere 3 weeks in office – despite his gloom and doom admonitions about the grave situation with the American economy and the urgency of the “fix” of that stimulus bill – instead of focusing on critical matters, like, say, actually reading the bill, he simply had to jet away from the overheated Orchid office on the American taxpayers’ dime to wine and dine his wife back home in Chicago in order to gird his loins for the oh-so-stress-filled, Herculean task of signing that pork-laden monstrosity into law.
Call me a conservative. Call me tough. Call me anything but late for that Wagu-beef dinner, but by no stretch of the imagination is that the definition of a leader, let alone a GREAT leader. It’s the definition of a sub-par employee who needs to be put on a performance improvement plan and someone else put in charge of the Kool-Aid.
On a real roll with this one, the other half was on the floor laughing.