Category Archives: Barack Obama

UPDATE II: Bill Getting Brave

Barack Obama, Conservatism, Government, Healthcare, Intelligence, Private Property, Race, Racism, The State, Welfare

Black and white Americans are divided over President Obama, says Bill O’Reilly, pointing to a Gallop poll according to which 88% of Black Americans support Obama; but only 38% of whites.

“A fifty point differential.”

Whites, of course, are barred from expressing racial affinities; but not blacks. Although O’Reilly neglects the black-racism element (he knows that very many blacks are racists), he nevertheless zeroes in on another important reason blacks go with Obama. White Americans fear the expansion of government and the bankrupting of the nation. [I’m not so sure of the first.] This attitude was on display, says O’Reilly, in Missouri, where 71% of the voters rejected the individual mandate to purchase insurance that ObamaCare would have imposed on them.

O’Reilly goes on to clearly state that black America has a different view of politics, in particular, blacks want a bigger federal government for the purpose of imposing social justice and carrying out distributive policies.

Blacks want a central authority “to redistribute income from the white establishment to their precincts” is how O’Reilly, rather directly, describes what black support for “what BHO is doing” is all about.

Fifty four percent of Hispanics support Obama, down 9 points since April. Here too the social justice issue is in operation, says O’Reilly.

O’Reilly recognizes that there are two Americas. It’s hard to decipher his solution—not when he says he support “strict oversight and fair rules,” but not the imposition of entitlements. Oversight over what? To whom a private property owner rents, sells; and who he hires and fires?

And whose property is it anyway to dispense with?

And what about “Thou Shall Not Covet”?

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbor’s.” (THE 10th COMMANDMENT, Exodus 20:17)

UPDATE I (Aug. 6): We doffed a hat to Bill’s first show of whatever it was that rolled off Sarah’s word-salad producing tongue, HERE.

UPDATE II: With Bill it’s one step forward, two steps back. Why do African-Americans lag so far behind, asked one of O’Reilly’s viewers in a letter to The Factor today. Because of 100 years of slavery, replied The Sage. Pray tell, Bill, what is the reason Africa is centuries behind the West, China, Singapore, etc?

UPDATED II**: The Contradictions Of Palin

Barack Obama, IMMIGRATION, John McCain, Sarah Palin

She jumped on the opportunity to run on a ticket that supported legalizing 20 million of “God’s children,” John McCain’s misty-eyed moniker for illegal immigrants. While campaigning in 2008, Sarah Palin parroted the McCain position on immigration, still does in many respects.

Now, “Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has ‘the cojones’ that President Obama ‘does not have’ to take on illegal immigration.”

This is, first, a stupid statement, because untrue: Obama doesn’t lack for political audacity to pass his legislative agenda. This he has proven. Moreover, a lack of courage is more forgivable than an ideological, intentional refusal to allow the enforcement of immigration laws, which is Obama’s stance. BHO is purposefully preventing Arizona from doing the work he doesn’t want done.

That was the position Palin’s running mate held, before he got religion on enforcement and befriended the fabulous Sheriff Paul Babeu from Pinal County.

And for cowardice and cunning on the border look no further than Bush. Palin has had kind words to say about Genghis B.

UPDATE I ** (Aug. 4): (This update was written on the 2th, but did not update, for some reason. Read it.) A COUPLE OF POINTS: The fact that Palin picks winners matters not. The Flo-trained chimp from the Progressive Insurance ads produces winning combination too. What we need to look at is whether Palin picks principled candidates for office. Carly Fiorina and McCain may have been polite picks, but they were no good. She did well to endorse Rand Paul. So Sarah, a feminist by any other name, was calling BHO a metrosexual. Yes, BHO is not manly; he definitely qualifies as androgynous, a quality not many black men have assimilated, other than Don Lemon of CNN. Come to think of it, good for black men: they have certainly retained their secondary male characteristics: deep voices, confident stride, loud laugh, etc. Black men do not sound like the feminine, younger, white boys of the TV commentariat—liberal and conservative—with their high-pitched voices, fussy cadence, and fancy eye-wear. In their defense, a loss of testosterone is, partly, involuntary. Perhaps women like BHO b/c he is so soft and unmanly. But I digress. Myron was right all along about Sarah being political “cotton candy.” She’s a great personality as a mom, hunter, runner, oil and gas ace (expertise she has never “tapped”). But for the rest: nothing much at all.

UPDATE II (Aug. 4) : In my opinion, Nora makes a good point; Palin’s cojones coinage is tacky. But it goes with the Reality-show flavor her personal life is taking, what with the two, on-again; off again dimwit betrothed; and the neighbor she is always huffing about. Her silent steely husband (I like him); I still think he’s behind the laudable secessionist sentiments Sarah has disavowed. The Dude, btw, does not belong to the Party of Dumb Dames.

Public Prefers Obama To Bush Policies

America, Barack Obama, Bush, Economy, Government, Regulation, Socialism, The State

Yet more proof that Americans love a big government: “According to the latest Society for Human Resource Management/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, conducted with the Pew Research Center, 46 percent said Obama’s path would do more to improve economic conditions in the next few years, compared to 29 percent who said policies put in place by Bush would.”

Don’t take my statement vis-a-vis statism to mean that Bush was less one than is Obama. Not true. The two men exist on the same continuum of statism. Obama has picked up where his buddy Bush left off. My point is simply this: Americans have no aversion to the president who is perceived as more of a big government guy, and is certainly no less of a central planner than was Bush.

In a really strong column I covered the other day, Anne Applebaum encapsulated the singular statism from which Americans suffer:

“…When, through a series of flukes, a crazy person smuggled explosives onto a plane at Christmas, the public bayed for blood and held the White House responsible. When, thanks to bad luck and planning mistakes, an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the public bayed for blood and held the White House responsible again.

In fact, the crazy person was stopped by an alert passenger, not the federal government, and if the oil rig is ever fixed, it will be through the efforts of a private company. Nevertheless, each one of these kinds of events sets off a chain reaction: A new government program is created, experts are hired, new machines are ordered for the airports, and new monitors are sent beneath the ocean. This is how we got the Kafkaesque security network that an extraordinary Washington Post investigation this week calls, quite conservatively, ‘A hidden world, growing beyond control.'”

…this hidden world, with its 1,271 different government security and intelligence organizations and its 854,000 people with top-secret security clearance, is not the creation of a secretive totalitarian cabal; it has been set up in response to public demand. It’s true that the French want to retire early and that the British think health care should be free, but when things go wrong, Americans also write to their representatives in Congress and their commander in chief demanding action. And precisely because this is a democracy [when it was meant to be a republic], Congress and the president respond, pass a law, put up a building.”

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Applebaum’s position, it goes without saying, has been my own for as long as I can remember.

A View Of The Nation

Barack Obama, Celebrity, Feminism, Gender, Media, Pop-Culture

Must I cover the president playing figurative footsie with the nation’s Delphic dames? You already know how much I dislike these idiot women—even more than BHO, whom I find quite funny when he steers clear of things about which he knows nothing: economy, liberty, etc.

Nevertheless, the “charmer-in-chief” (Drudge’s moniker) prattling, as he did on “The View,” about family, race, and pop-culture to these friendly, foolish females (that includes harebrained Hasselbeck) made headlines today. So, it’s news.

One juicy tidbit I did find interesting was BHO’s disclosure that he was not invited to witness the Clinton wedding.