Reflections From a Murky Pond

The Campaigner-in-Chief’s deficit might soon become a problem if it isn’t reined in very quickly and firmly.

No, not our nation’s deficit, which Obama has blithely hiked to previously unheard of and ruinously unsustainable levels in less than one term. His 2012 reelection campaign budget is his current problem, and it’s one deficit that he might actually care about.

The Obama Campaign spent more in May than it raised! The boy’s campaign and the Obama Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee with the Democratic National Committee, raised over $54 million last month, but they spent $69 million, creating a $15 million deficit.

It seems that Obama and his handlers run a campaign in the same way that they run a government. 😆

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This entry was posted on Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 11:12 am and is filed under 2012 Election, Humor. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

It’s been a couple of weeks, maybe even a bit longer, the Obamas must be tired from all the campaigning, even with Barack’s occasional breaks to “telesign” some legislation. It’s about time for them to take another vacation. I mean they’re entitled to it, aren’t they, as the First Black Family? It’s sort of like reparations by proxy. 😛

Personally, I’d suggest that the Obama’s take a European vacation. It’d be quite educational for Sasha and Malia.

The Obama’s Studying European Archeology

They could tour the historic ruins and Obama could teach his daughters about how Europe continues to influence the “America” that he wants to build. He could also explain how creative destruction is necessary when The One wants to fundamentally change something…

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This entry was posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 8:44 am and is filed under Humor, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

In any society that hopes to maintain its liberty and avoid tyranny it is necessary for its people to instill fear in its political leadership. In best case scenarios this needs only be the fear of the consequences of misbehavior. In other all too common situations it is necessary to fill the politicians with the fear of reprisals by the people.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

– Attributed to Thomas Jefferson

America is at a point where it is dealing with a middle case scenario where politicians need to be instilled with a combination of preventative and punitive fears.

Fortunately, Americans have exercised some of the means at their disposal to instill the needed fear in the political elite. They banded together as the TEA Parties and elected representatives to Congress who were of strong purpose and character.

In the degenerate system that America’s federal government has devolved into, honest and patriotic men an women who have chosen to shoulder the burden of providing correction to that system and who are willing to disregard the personal cost to themselves for doing so are an acute source of fear for all the professional politicians who are heavily invested, often literally, in maintaining the current broken status quo.

Nothing scares professional politicians more than actual statesmen, and nothing scares the Liberals and Progressives more than American statesmen, even though they whine and rant when their own sort don’t behave similarly.

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This entry was posted on Friday, August 12th, 2011 at 11:09 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

The wise man knows that, if you’re at the bottom of a hole and want to get out of it the first thing that you do is stop digging. Of course wisdom can come through experience and accountability, neither of which apply to Obama who has little or none of the former and who has never been subject to the latter.

Obama cares only about continuing to avoid being held accountable for his words and deeds and prefers to spin things so as to make such wisdom and those charitable enough to provide it to him the villains.

Obama – Hysterically “Spinning” Around

Not, of course, that Obama would ever say such things himself. He and his handlers have proxies for that so that they can even avoid accountability for even that and they use them in their attempt to “control the message”

Hmmm…Who’s the only one who threatened to withhold SSI checks if he didn’t get his way? Then, he did throw his own grandmother under a bus during his ’08 campaign.

Fortunately for Americans, fewer and fewer believe his lies, half-truths, obfuscations, and empty rhetoric. As is always the case in America, shucking and jiving will only get one so far; sooner or later one has to face the music and the lash or the proverbial noose.

Equally as fortunate for Americans is the fact the our domestic enemies, the Liberals and Progressives no longer seem to believe Obama’s lies, half-truths, obfuscations, and empty rhetoric either. Their hatred for America and Americans is so virulent that they’re more likely to metaphorically string him him up than Americans are, all because he has failed to be the messianic dictator that they longed for.

It seems that Obama and his overseers never learned that controlling the message only works when you’ve got at least a minimum level of credibility based upon the contents of your character and a proven track record of actual results.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 at 5:47 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Obama, having finished with both his 50th birthday party / fundraising gala and it’s unavoidable physical consequences, decided once again to read from his teleprompter for the American people and his Liberals.  In it he tried to brush off Standard & Poor’s downgrading of the US government’s credit rating and to reassure everyone about the basic soundness of the American economy.

The One had spoken! S & P was wrong and everything was really fine. America’s government was entitled to a AAA rating; Warren Buffett even said so.

And the people listened. The Dow plunged a total of approximately 630 points and the NASDAQ lost 80 points by close of trading in the wake of Obama’s predictably arrogant and empty mouthings.

If the boy doesn’t have the honor to suicide or the decency to resign his office, he could, at a bare minimum, keep his jabbering mouth shut about any and all issues of substance.

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This entry was posted on Monday, August 8th, 2011 at 6:00 pm and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.