Reflections From a Murky Pond

The Liberals’ Porkulus, which Obama dutifully signed into law, has been weighing upon America for 28 months. Where is the recovery? Where are the jobs?

28 Months Later – The Obama Economic Zombie Apocalypse

Yet, even after all this time, Obama’s zombies are still staggering and shuffling around, seeking to devour Americans’ brain which is the only rationally conceivable way that anyone would vote to reelect this trumped up fool to office.

I suppose that there’s not much point in continuing much further in the post beyond remind to all Americans good and true that zombies are best dealt with by one or more bullets to the head.

President Obama has, in his ever-nuanced manner, weighed in on “Weinergate.” What would be surprising in anything other than an election year is that Obama didn’t come out in support of Rep. Anthony Weiner staying in office – though he was careful to mouth the right words about it being a decision that Rep. Weiner and his constituency must be the ones to make.

I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign. Because public service is exactly that, it’s a service to the public. And when you get to the point where, because of various personal distractions, you can’t serve as effectively as you need to at the time when people are worrying about jobs and their mortgages and paying the bills, then you should probably step back.

— President Barack Obama
NBC’s TODAY, Durham, NC, June 13, 2011

An interesting question, and one that Obama might actually be asking himself, is what should a politician do when he’s the distraction preventing effective service at the time when people are worrying about jobs and their mortgages and paying the bills?

Others in high office have asked themselves that hard question and answered it by placing their constituency before their self-interest. One wonders if Obama will do the same.

It may just be possible that Obama is resigned to being a One-Term President. Most incumbents actually seeking- and having some expectation of attaining reelection do not make public statements about how their families are “not invested” in their continuing in office past the next election, yet that is exactly what Obama has just done.

From AP via Yahoo News:

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says his wife and daughters aren’t “invested” in him being president and would have been fine had he decided against running for re-election. But he says they believe in what he’s doing for the country.

Asked about his family’s reaction to his wanting another term, Obama said: “Michelle and the kids are wonderful in that if I said, `You know, guys, I want to do something different,’ They’d be fine. They’re not invested in daddy being president or my husband being president.”

Of course, Americans could easily argue that Obama has no need – beyond any that his ego and narcissism might demand – to even attempt reelection, having already accomplished so much of what he set out to do.

It would certainly be an easier and less stressful life for the Obamas if he got out of the White House as soon as was feasible, especially since the more nightmarish components of ObamaCare are set to “go live” in 2014, taking whatever is left of America’s economy down the drain. It be even easier and less stressful them if they got out of the country before then – potentially safer as well.

Personally I’m a traditionalist. I’d suggest that the Obamas move to Mauritania where they could live out their lives in the manner and style that they’ve become accustomed to. 😉

It’s a common cry by incumbent politicians during election season – Don’t change horses in mid-stream!

Obama 2012- Don’t Change Horse In Mid-Stream

Of course, when the stream has run dry largely because the incumbents in question redistributed the flow elsewhere the situation – and the worth of these politicians’ cries – is more than a bit different. 😉

When your “horse” is actually a spavined and balky jackass and the stream has run dry it’s time to “trade up” if you can and change horses – and, at this sad point, even “shank’s mare” is a trade up.

One thing for all to remember about Obama is that judging by his words, deeds, and choice of those he surrounds himself with, is that he’s not American, not in his heart and soul. Or, at the very least, that is how he and his coterie have crafted his public image.

It may seem to be an odd course of action for someone who previously claimed to not accept partisan divisions and to hope for a unified America, but only if one was foolish and naive enough to believe anything that Obama says about his beliefs and goals.

One would also have to set aside the basic rules of realpolitik to find Obama’s “otherness,” real or portrayed with great skill, to be surprising. Divisiveness is far more effective as a political tactic than is “unifying” and Obama has always diligently and dutifully followed the rules of realpolitik.

One has to remember that this “otherness” of Obama is exactly what America’s domestic enemies, the oikophobic Liberals, love about him. It also lets them paint the American people as racist and xenophobic, which feeds their own preconceptions of America as a place of evil that must be brought low.

It’s fairly obvious that the upcoming 2012 elections are going to be a base vs. base war with, as happened in 2008, the “moderates” and “independents” split roughly down the middle. This means that Obama’s “otherness” is a useful political coin, but one that works to galvanize friend and enemy alike.

The question remains though of how long with the house that Obama’s Otherness divided continue to stand…