Nursery Pals

And then our nursery pals. Their sales are in the tank. Why? Plants can wait. New plants are not a leaky roof or tooth ache. And since BO’s policies have scared the pants off employers, most are upset and won’t hire. No trickle down. No discretionary buying.

That was easy.

No problem. Our nursery pals (hard core lefties) are simply being asked to pay, out of their own pockets, for the social-democracy BO intends for this country. That’s the way they see it because they voted for the guy. They knew exactly who he was. And, they are happy to oblige!

I couldn’t be prouder of these guys.

It gives me the chills sometimes. I know they’ll hold their heads high as they walk the walk - and encounter the Fall sale for example.

Safe in the “right” urban neighborhood, they used to just pontificate in the abstract (about the sort of life they studiously avoided in the concrete). Now they’re getting traction, coming alive!

Talk about role models.

Robert Craven

Blame The Agent?

We’ve expended plenty of venom on BO and his extremist associates, past sketches. (They’ve wasted a heck of lot of $ and tanked the economy in the bargain, for starters.) And yet aren't they really just being themselves? They’re not counterfeits; some aren’t even crooks. They’re who they’ve always been - propeller heads who know perfectly well that only government should control society, that only world planners can achieve equality and that they, the gifted, the anointed are burdened with the task of stewarding the rest of us towards ends that they know are best.

This is all nonsense and most of us know it. Well, maybe 45% of us knew it before the election. Perhaps 65% realize it now, after application.

Problem - a good portion of the population is just lazy, never bothering to inquire; Obama didn’t hide a darn thing. He wore a sandwich poster. Anyone who could read and did so, knew who he was. He for example made no secret of his belief that there is nothing particularly special about America. From our own Vic Hansen: “There were other instances throughout the campaign and first months in office suggesting that for Obama, multiculturalism trumps national unity and moral relativism supersedes cultural confidence. His serial apologies for America, embrace of America-hating Hugo Chávez, and supplication to foreign thugs are consistent with a ‘blame America first’ mentality that may be unremarkable for a political science professor but is toxic for the leader of the greatest nation in history.”

None of this was news. So?

So a whole lot of Americans, in abandoning good scholarship abandoned good citizenship. Now our country is in serious trouble.

The guy is half black. He was a slick speaker. The rest is history.

Just like Clinton, BO woke up election day as surprised as anyone. Why were these guys surprised? They both gave too much credit to the electorate.

So ongoing the serial embarrassments of bo will continue. He is not the real problem however. Some can look in the mirror for that.


Robert Craven

INSIGHT

The far left - that minority of registered Democrats who remain in control of the national party organization are upset that Obama hasn’t done enough.

That larger number of earlier supporters, those moderates and independents who pulled the trigger are upset because, as lefty Maureen Dowd noted, what they see now is an “incoherent president.”

None of the above would be upset if they had only ditched their fawning behavior for scholarship.

Obama is simply being Obama.

To have correctly anticipated reality relating to Obama’s presidency one needed only two tools, both offered in earlier blogs.

All of us knew in the primary that BO lacked experience; all of us knew then that his pals and preferred professors in school were Marxists (because he said so in his book); we all knew he refused to wear a US flag lapel pin, that he stood with hands over his crotch as our Anthem was played; all of us knew of his close friendship with a convicted terrorist; all of us knew that he had the most partisan voting record in the Senate (some healer).This and much more - disregarded by the Kool Aid crowd as a form of forgivable adolescent behavior.

To understand his failure as president we must go beyond this background, subsurface. First, there was / is what some observers call a “disconnect” or “the alien in the WH.” We explained this much earlier - Obama did not / does not understand America or Americans. His is incapable of doing so. He has so far demonstrated that in his presidency. This insight was available to all certainly but because of its subtlety, its retrieval took some work, something beyond TV.

Second, and more glaring, he remains for some odd reason incapable of good judgement; this was clear from his past associations and has been abundantly clear during his presidency. It is a chronic disorder, apparently incurable.

If we are interested in insight, that’s all we need to know. Given the combination of these two ailments, he can only fail as America’s leader.

Robert Craven