Reflections From a Murky Pond

No American with a shred of reason has any doubts that Obama learned politics in Chicago. So much of his political history and methodology are testament to that unsavory school of applied political science.

Part of the problem we’re facing though is that he apparently learned math in Chicago as well…

Back in July, 2009, Obama spoke in Cape Coast, Ghana about the problems facing businesses there:

No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top.

That’s Chicago math. It’s bad when the goons in Africa shakedown businesses for 20% but it’s good when his boys shakedown businesses for 35%. In Ghana it’s corruption and confiscatory taxes; in the US under the Obama Posse it’s just “good bidnez.”

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The ranting Liberals and the wailing and jabbering minorities who serve as their political sharecroppers are ever-eager to shout that any problem that Americans have with President Obama and his agenda is based solely or largely upon racism – a term that they cannot even properly define. These enemies of America are, of course, wrong in the vast majority of instances. Very little of the opposition to America’s First Black President is based upon the race he identifies as being part of.

The vast bulk of the opposition to President Obama is that the majority of Americans – including a growing number of those duped into voting for him and now suffering well-deserved “buyer’s remorse” – is actually an opposition to his Leftist agenda that places the needs of his supporters, the labor union thugs, over those of Americans.

In a very sense it’s not that President Obama is Black; it’s that he’s Purple, SEIU Purple.

Obama: SEIU’s Agenda Is My Agenda

The Liberals and their minority tenants, with active and overt collusion of much of the MSM, elected an operative and organizer for SEIU and ACORN to the office of POTUS, and that’s exactly what was inflicted upon America – a hate-filled, filthy organizer for SEIU and ACORN, who has put their pernicious, destructive, anti-American, and vile agenda above the needs of the entire nation that he has been granted titular leadership of.

Obama: We Are Going To Paint The Nation Purple With SEIU

Yes, Americans are angered by President Obama’s union-driven attempt at a second Reconstruction of the United States. Since Americans would be equally outraged if a White POTUS did this, they’re not racists; they’re patriots seeking a way to end a threat to their nation.

Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down.

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President Obama and his family, and a large retinue – with Oprah Winfrey and Chicago’s Mayor, Richard Daley, tagging along – put critical foreign and domestic issues on hold to travel to Copenhagen, Denmark to convince, cajole, or coerce the International Olympic Committee (IOC) into granting the 2016 Summer Olympic Games to the crime-ridden and economically depressed city of Chicago, IL.  They failed.

From the St. Louis Business Journal:

Chicago is out as a host city for the summer Olympics in 2016.

The International Olympic Committee gave Chicago the boot in its first round of voting Friday in Copenhagen.

My fellow Americans, the Ego has landed – face down and in failure.

The IOC voted Chicago out of the running mere hours after President Obama’s plea, which the 100-plus committee members sat through in silence.  Air Force One was actually still in the air when OIC’s verdict against the Obamas’ adopted home was rendered.

Apparently the First Lady, Michelle Obama’s delegation to the IOC had been doing quite well and things were looking good for Chicago … and then her husband put aside supposedly leading the Free World and flew across the Atlantic Ocean to give yet another self-involved speech.

The president anchored the U.S. charm offensive.

He referenced his own election as a moment when people from around the world gathered in Chicago to see the results last November and celebrate that “our diversity could be a source of strength.”

“There is nothing I would like more than to step just a few blocks from my family’s home and with Michelle and our two girls welcome the world back to our neighborhood,” Obama said. “At the beginning of this new century, the nation that has been shaped by people from around the world wants a chance to inspire it once more.”

After the Obamas’ comments, the U.S. delegation fielded questions from committee members, and at one point the president jumped in. He said he envisioned that the Chicago games would allow the United States to restore its image as a place that, at its best, is “open to the world.”

Perhaps President Obama should have stayed at work and let the First Lady handle things in Denmark; Chicago might have gotten the 2016 Summer Games then. Obviously a speech and commentary that boiled down to something disturbingly close to, “My election made America good again,” and “Give a Brotha a Chance!” didn’t work out so well for America this time.

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