If the murderous bloodshed of September 11, 2001 had taken place while Barack Obama were President of the United States, and his reaction and subsequent retaliation had followed precisely the path that George W. Bush had taken, undoubtedly he would not only have been branded the greatest wartime commander in the history of all humankind by the mainstream media, but he would have garnered my support without a scintilla of equivocation.

If, however, under the same scenario, with the rubble in lower Manhattan still smoldering, President Obama would have called for an immediate summit of Muslim leaders (and a task force or two to boot) to figure out not only why such a "tragedy" occurred, but exactly what the United States would need to change in its foreign policy to keep the peace, I would have said – adamantly and ferociously – that I did not support the President.

Therefore, using this example, I submit that to claim support for the President without supporting his policies is exactly the same as saying that one supports the troops without supporting the war. It is a nonsensical statement. It is not possible.

I've shaken my head so many times since last Tuesday, I'm getting threatening mail from my cerebrum. Coupled with the already lib-heavy tone set forth by The One over the first week of his reign will apparently be the obligatory need to inject race into every nook and cranny of the Obama experience. It's already been a great big melanin-level lovefest in less than a week of Obama-Nation - from the Reverend Joseph Lowery's rainbow-flavored mumblings to the economic mighty-mo Robert Reich's condemnation of caucasian show-offs - and it just keeps getting better.

Now, the First lady is being criticized by the Black Artists Association for not choosing an inaugural outfit designed by African-American designers.

How she will be distinguished from the likes of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong come the Judgement Day is unclear.

No propaganda. No partisan smoke screens. Just cold hard reality.

The President of the United States is not sure what will be happening with the detainees who currently reside at the detention center in Guanatanamo Bay once it closes next year.

He said so.

He just doesn't know.

There is no plan.

He'll figure it out.

Pinch me, Mabel, I'm dreaming, right?

He knows enough to be able to say with certitude that the closing of Gitmo is the right thing to do - just as he knew that "a woman's right to choose" an abortion was the correct position to take, despite not being able to say when human life actually begins - but other than that, he's just not able to speculate with any confidence where these examples of societal excrement will wind up.

For instance, prior to 1902, when Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill a cornered American Black Bear on a hunting trip, which spawned the creation of the adorable and cuddly “teddy-bear,” what would the reaction have been if someone suggested that a loveable bedtime comfort toy for children be made in the likeness of an often ferocious wild animal?

Or what about the animated movie Ratatouille? That one particularly stands out in my mind because I live in New York City, and as one who frequents the subway tunnels here, I can assure you there is nothing - repeat nothing - appealing, attractive or even remotely charismatic about rats. Yet, the movie succeeded in making rats likable.

How about the female reproductive system?

Can a uterus be cuddly? Can fallopian tubes actually reach out and hug you?

Apparently.

A company called I Heart Guts has a toy called the Plush Uterus. It is a soft, pink, oddly-shaped doll with a smiley face on front and fallopian tubes (which serve as arms) stretching out to the sides. Each arm is “holding” a purple ovary.

Now, to be fair, the company creates soft snuggly body organ dolls for almost the whole body, including lungs, brains, kidneys, etc.

They are quite popular.

The entire problem could be taken care of if Representative John Murtha from Pennsylvania simply switched districts with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi - that way, Murtha's offer to bring the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay to his district could mean the re-opening of Alcatraz (currently located in Pelosi's district). Pelosi, however, is not exactly warm to the idea of bringing terrorists to her district, no matter who represents it - not necessarily because they are cold-blooded murdering pond scum, or because they might have to be wrongly afforded the rights of Americans - but because it is a tourist attraction ... and a park, sort of.

That this "odd suggestion" is even a matter of discussion at all can be credited - at least in part - to House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, who appeared on Meet The Press Sunday. Boehner was echoing earlier suggestions that "The Rock" be used an alternative prison for the Gitmo detainees now that President Obama has signed an Executive Order closing the facility in Cuba.

Republican Rep. Bill Young ... suggested to White House counsel Greg Craig that the prisoners who could not be released back to their home countries or sent to a third country be put up in "the Rock," the famous military installation and prison that closed down in 1963 and is now part of the National Park Service.

Asked whether that was a serious proposal, (Nancy) Pelosi said, "It is -- no."

 

 

Dignity, wherefore art thou?

The President sure is making friends off the bat, isn't he? His silly glove across the face of Rush Limbaugh is already filling up blog space everywhere tonight - and rightly so. It's been a while since we've seen this kind of pettiness coming from the White House. This is just the latest in what has been nearly four days of yanking away the so-called olive branch Barack Obama spent the better part of his campaign promising to extend to the other side and shoving it into the nether regions of his opponents.

After all, in his own words, "I won." (I'll get to that in a moment).

Let's run through a quick checklist ...

He has already endeared himself to the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by announcing the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. He's reached out to pro-lifers by lifting the ban on overseas abortion funding. His economic advisor has decided the white professionals are not good enough for the rebuilding of America's infrastructure. The benediction at his inauguration was, arguably, the most racist prayer I have heard this side of Jeremiah Wright. And he's already proven what a ray of sunshine he is in dealing with questions he doesn't wish to answer.

Has confusion set in yet?

Maybe George W. Bush is really still in charge.

It just doesn't make sense otherwise.

Those aren't birds or locusts ... those are question marks flying from the spinning craniums of peace-symbol wearing twenty-somethings (and their sixty-something grey-haired pony-tailed mentors) trying to figure out how such a Bush-like move comes from such a savior.

Et, tu baseball?

Since Election Day, 2008, there have been streets and schools renamed for our new President, flags redesigned and desecrated with his image, holidays created for him, and a plethora of blabbering television newscasters gushing like bobby soxers over him. Rumor has it we could even see an Executive Order signed by President Obama – with White House counsel Gregory Craig by his side ready to wind him up for the Q&A – renaming a state or two after him (one of those forgettable fly-over states where the corn is).

The borough of Brooklyn, here in New York City – where voters went for Barack Obama by a margin of 4 to 1 – is home to the single-A minor-league baseball team, the Brooklyn Cyclones. They have a beautiful facility by the famed Coney Island boardwalk called Key Span Park.

On June 23rd, the Cyclones are renaming their team – for one night only – the BARACKLYN Cyclones. They will be issuing jerseys with “Baracklyn” across the front in a red, white and blue color scheme, along with Obama bobbleheads and other goodies such as:

• Universal Health Care: Free Band-Aids to the first 1,000 fans

• Naming Rights: Anyone named Barack gets in for free

• Joe the Plumber special: any plumber named Joe gets two free tickets – one for himself, and one to “spread the wealth” with a friend

Opponents say becoming an English-only city could have given Nashville a "bad reputation."

Business leaders, academics, religious leaders, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and Gov. Phil Bredesen argued the measure would tarnish the city's welcoming image, harm tourism and business recruitment and endanger federal funding for many city services.

...

Supporter Glenda Paul, 35, said having one language is an important part of keeping government small as she exited a voting precinct Thursday.

"If I moved to France to start a business, I would be expected to speak French and that doesn't mean that I am not welcome there. It just means I need to respect the language."

There will probably be some who don’t pick up on the reference to the classic Mel Brook’s movie Blazing Saddles, but today’s signing of the Executive Order by President Barack Obama calling for the close of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay was not unlike watching a scene from what is one of the funniest motion pictures ever made.

The President reminded me of Governor William J. Lepetomane (Mel Brooks), the man in charge who is far more focused on the buoyant breasts of the lady in his office than the matters at hand. By his side is Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman), the informed, conniving side-kick with all the answers, diligently (frantically) keeping Lepetomane in the loop. That role was played today by Gregory Craig, the man who defended President Bill Clinton during his impeachment proceedings, now White House counsel.

Indeed, the President seemed a bit lost, not exactly sure of what it was he was signing – although, oddly enough, he is the President of the United States. (It was in all the papers).

With the stirring, heartfelt words of Reverend Joseph Lowery still resonating across the multicultural divide that (according to liberals) defines America's greatness, comes further revelation that the white people of America have had it too good for too long - particularly professionals.

Gather around for just a moment, if you would.

I'd like to try a little exercise in reverse racism you might find interesting. Just for grins and giggles, substitute the word "white" for "black" in following passages. (If you'd rather use "hispanic" or "oriental," feel free).

Just beginning to make the rounds now across the blogosphere are comments made on January 7th by Obama economic advisor Robert Reich at an Economic Recovery Plan Meeting in which he said:

"Now let me say something about infrastructure. It seems to me that infrastructure spending is a very important and good way of stimulating the conomy. The challenge will be to do it quickly - to find projects that can be done, that have a high social return, that also can be done with the greatest speed possible. I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high skilled people who are already professionals, or to white male construction workers."

"I have nothing against white male construction workers. I'm just saying that there are a lot of other people who have needs as well, and therefore, in my remarks I have suggested to you - and I'm certainly happy to talk about it more - ways in which the money can be - uh, the criteria can be set so that the money does go to others: the long-term unemployed, minorities, women, people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals."

Did you substitute "white" with any other racial and cultural designation?

He's already frozen the pay of the White House staff.

For those keeping score at home, Barack Obama's second full day as President looks to be at least as eventful.

This is, indeed, the portion of the program where the new President not only starts to rearrange the furniture and hang up vacation plates in his new Pennsylvania Avenue diggs, but where he begins putting his own stamp on the Presidency.

Today, if he sticks to the docket, he'll be slipping on his "Executive Order" shoes early, breaking out his ball point pen and signing the death warrant of the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, granting it one more year of feeble existence before it closes forever.

According to Fox News:

Under a scenario foreshadowed in the draft orders, some detainees being held at Guantanamo would be released, while others would be transferred elsewhere and later put on trial under terms to be determined. Closing Guantanamo could potentially mean moving the remaining detainees to federal prisons in the U.S., such as the Leavenworth prison in Kansas.

That's no misprint.

Daddy’s little girl will not make like Uncle Teddy and Uncle Bobby (and Daddy too). Caroline says no. And now that Hillary is officially Secretary of State, there is an empty Senate seat to fill.

From the New York Post via Fox News:

 

Caroline Kennedy has told Gov. David Paterson that she is withdrawing her name from consideration to replace outgoing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the U.S. Senate, The Post has learned.

 

Kennedy cited "personal reasons," according to sources.

 

 

 

 

At the great Vocal Minority website, ETR follows up on a story that both he and I have written about in the past few days - namely, the desecration of the American flag by ardent Obama supporters in the name of patriotism.

A couple days ago I posted on a Baltimore Sun article that exposed Obama fans parading through Baltimore with American flags with Barack Obama's face and name on them. I wondered whether these flags, which are illegal, would appear inauguration day in D.C. And sure enough, they did: