We mused in a Jan/19 sketch that Americas are generous with their leaders. They will forgive simple gaffs - 57 states, the "Austrian" language; they will even forgive outright lies - jobs "saved or created," Muslims inventing both the printing press and the Renaissance, "no more lobbyists in government," guaranteed transparency, Iran in compliance with the UN summit, the lie of airing the healthcare debate on C-SPAN, the phony deadlines on Gitmo, BO’s bribing of senators with taxpayers funds, making a lie of his promises to the contrary. Still, many folk simply looked the other way.
In that same sketch we continued: Americans will not forgive however Obama’s attempt to steam-roll their liberties, that drastic change in life style - the major insertion of government control of their lives, BO’s plans to remake the US using health, education and energy as vehicles - the unprecedented federal intrusion into American industry and commerce. That is something you just do not try on Americans. It will not work.
We predicted that Obama’s election would radically change the nature of the Democratic party.
We all know what happened. An element in control of the national party but never at the helm, gained the helm; the agent was Obama. Its agenda was/is radical. BO’s half color and a sick economy provided the propellent. Now that most Americans who pulled the trigger understand the implications of that foolishness, never again. The party will encounter reality Nov/3.
If the Democratic party intends to survive, it must obviously shed its radical ways. Look for such a change over the near term.
Robert Craven
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
GIRLY MAN
Where we grew up (cattle ranch) most males are men. We’re strong. We’re virile. We’re capable. We’re not feminized.
How may saw BO toss out the first pitch?
Enough said.
We know some pretty whimpy lefties (most, Eastern transplants). But then we know some pretty masculine lefties too - the nursery guys make the grade. These guys are fit, certainly they’re capable. And yet they continue to maintain that voting for this girly guy was not a mistake. What?
Obama is a gossamer creature - light, sheer, delicate and empty. He and Axelrod and Emanuel could no more see to things physical than walk on water. Turn a bolt, wield a chain saw, drive a tractor, mow the lawn, fix a dishwasher? You kidding? First to rescue a stricken woman and babe under an overturned car? Come on. Intervene with sheer physical strength, thwart a thug? Build something from nothing? Build a business? Build a campfire even? Ride a horse? Chop wood? Backpack the Muir? Handle a car, change the oil, change the tire. Defend their family from physical harm? Punch the bully in the nose when he insulted your sister, or, especially in Obama's case, your country?
America was not made from the likes of Axelrod and Obama. They and their kind have had zero input to the greatest of America. It was made from the likes of Lincoln, Teddy and Reagan, from the likes of Charley Goodnight, Henry Miller and Joshua Craven, my great grand father.
Of course the left responds in Pavlovian fashion - “So what if he can’t do stuff real men do? He doesn't have to. He’s bright.”
How many times must we re-learn this lesson. A high SAT does not hack it, especially when one is suddenly Commander-In-Chief.
As Vic reminds us, “If Bush was a supposed ‘cowboy,’ there at least was never doubt that his first and foremost interest was the U.S, not the ‘international community.’” But now we have a girly man president who is embarrassed about our history and culture (well, not quite embarrassed enough not to enjoy its material bounty) and who crosses his hands over his ??? while the national anthem is played.
Who would you seek out?
From Vic: “Americans would prefer to be in a foxhole with George Bush, who would swagger and announce as decider-in-chief at H-hour, ‘OK, pard, we’re going over the top together on this one.’ They wouldn’t want to be with Obama, who would stutter and give a long-drawn out exegesis why race and class had condemned us to such an unfair predicament, whose only solution is to go into a fetal position and condemn ‘them’ who did this awful thing to us.”
Robert Craven
How may saw BO toss out the first pitch?
Enough said.
We know some pretty whimpy lefties (most, Eastern transplants). But then we know some pretty masculine lefties too - the nursery guys make the grade. These guys are fit, certainly they’re capable. And yet they continue to maintain that voting for this girly guy was not a mistake. What?
Obama is a gossamer creature - light, sheer, delicate and empty. He and Axelrod and Emanuel could no more see to things physical than walk on water. Turn a bolt, wield a chain saw, drive a tractor, mow the lawn, fix a dishwasher? You kidding? First to rescue a stricken woman and babe under an overturned car? Come on. Intervene with sheer physical strength, thwart a thug? Build something from nothing? Build a business? Build a campfire even? Ride a horse? Chop wood? Backpack the Muir? Handle a car, change the oil, change the tire. Defend their family from physical harm? Punch the bully in the nose when he insulted your sister, or, especially in Obama's case, your country?
America was not made from the likes of Axelrod and Obama. They and their kind have had zero input to the greatest of America. It was made from the likes of Lincoln, Teddy and Reagan, from the likes of Charley Goodnight, Henry Miller and Joshua Craven, my great grand father.
Of course the left responds in Pavlovian fashion - “So what if he can’t do stuff real men do? He doesn't have to. He’s bright.”
How many times must we re-learn this lesson. A high SAT does not hack it, especially when one is suddenly Commander-In-Chief.
As Vic reminds us, “If Bush was a supposed ‘cowboy,’ there at least was never doubt that his first and foremost interest was the U.S, not the ‘international community.’” But now we have a girly man president who is embarrassed about our history and culture (well, not quite embarrassed enough not to enjoy its material bounty) and who crosses his hands over his ??? while the national anthem is played.
Who would you seek out?
From Vic: “Americans would prefer to be in a foxhole with George Bush, who would swagger and announce as decider-in-chief at H-hour, ‘OK, pard, we’re going over the top together on this one.’ They wouldn’t want to be with Obama, who would stutter and give a long-drawn out exegesis why race and class had condemned us to such an unfair predicament, whose only solution is to go into a fetal position and condemn ‘them’ who did this awful thing to us.”
Robert Craven
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Fun In The Archives
Save these blogs! Put ‘em in away with your jewels and most treasured documents.
Holy mackerel but we’ve been on a roll.
For example, just happened to land on INCEST this evening, the sketch of 2/12/10. Naturally you all remember it but just in case: We begin (quoting ourselves, offending the Eng dept) “Most of the left try to fathom the destruction of their party, acted out right in front of them. Literary types, the media, legals, academics, the nursery class - all in a state of despair. The far left is wondering why Americans are so stupid; the average Democrat is wondering just why Obama will not move to center.”
“Our readers know the answer and thus have an anchor - elitist types associating only with other elitist types - A CLOSED SYSTEM. It really borders on incest does it not? The result, as is usually the case with incest, is a dumbing down. BO is such a product; he is a run-of-the-mill ideologue who regularly postures as a saint while insisting his opponents are sleazy. He feels he is the chosen one, perched high above the unwashed. To him it’s all about his kind directing the herd. This is all very boring.”
We move in the piece to Noemie Emery, contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, who reveals that BO has misjudged both the times and the country and that in his ignorance, "he has created a nightmare for most in his party..." And this elitist class? "It is full of itself, and values too highly its skill sets, which are entertaining, but not on the optimum level of consequence. This class fooled itself, and much of the country, for which the country will not soon forgive it."
Ah but it’s lovely to witness this demise. Just lovely.
Readers will recall that in an even earlier sketch we predicted the end of the modern Democratic party, that which for 30 years has been controlled on the national level by the far left, those extremists who finally gained traction in the person of BO.
What came along? Consequences. These have sickened most Americans.
Don’t believe us? Better. BO has been nothing less than the agent to the end of his party. You will see that in November.
Robert Craven
Holy mackerel but we’ve been on a roll.
For example, just happened to land on INCEST this evening, the sketch of 2/12/10. Naturally you all remember it but just in case: We begin (quoting ourselves, offending the Eng dept) “Most of the left try to fathom the destruction of their party, acted out right in front of them. Literary types, the media, legals, academics, the nursery class - all in a state of despair. The far left is wondering why Americans are so stupid; the average Democrat is wondering just why Obama will not move to center.”
“Our readers know the answer and thus have an anchor - elitist types associating only with other elitist types - A CLOSED SYSTEM. It really borders on incest does it not? The result, as is usually the case with incest, is a dumbing down. BO is such a product; he is a run-of-the-mill ideologue who regularly postures as a saint while insisting his opponents are sleazy. He feels he is the chosen one, perched high above the unwashed. To him it’s all about his kind directing the herd. This is all very boring.”
We move in the piece to Noemie Emery, contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, who reveals that BO has misjudged both the times and the country and that in his ignorance, "he has created a nightmare for most in his party..." And this elitist class? "It is full of itself, and values too highly its skill sets, which are entertaining, but not on the optimum level of consequence. This class fooled itself, and much of the country, for which the country will not soon forgive it."
Ah but it’s lovely to witness this demise. Just lovely.
Readers will recall that in an even earlier sketch we predicted the end of the modern Democratic party, that which for 30 years has been controlled on the national level by the far left, those extremists who finally gained traction in the person of BO.
What came along? Consequences. These have sickened most Americans.
Don’t believe us? Better. BO has been nothing less than the agent to the end of his party. You will see that in November.
Robert Craven
Monday, August 30, 2010
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
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
Friday, August 27, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Embarrassing
OK, if you are a professional race baiter, a community organizer, union boss, felon or univ “genders study” prof, we can understand the Democrat party registration. Why would anyone else bother? It’s a wonder.
If subjected to scrutiny, how can these types define themselves as patriots? By reverting to the “old party” values, those of Truman and Kennedy? Sorry. No such party or values exist any longer, at least not in the national organization of the party.
Do you even know my good lefty friends anything whatsoever about what your party has become? We doubt it.
American Muslims have been fairly criticized for their lack of zeal in looking to cast out those members who profess violence. Why have not American Democrats been taken to task for their lack of zeal in looking to exile the extremists of their party; that is, the group now in control? Are these folk content, or just embarrassed?
Where do we begin? Embarrassing is it not that so many still look, zombie-like, to blame Bush when Bush is long gone. Did Bush force BO to borrow $3 trillion? Did Bush force BO to nationalize health care? Did Bush force BO to scare the daylights out of every employer with talk of burden after burden - income, FICA, health tax increases, all the rest? Did Bush force BO to protect those responsible for the crash? As Vic Hansen reminds us, Bush did not daily blame Clinton for Clinton’s appeasing of radical Islam, as Bush went about his business of taking on the Taliban and passing the Patriot Act after 9-11.
This applies to our lefty pals in Marin as it does to BO - “Nothing so diminished a president as the trait of scapegoating a predecessor, nothing so erodes his stature as the teen-age habit of blaming someone else for one’s self-inflicted problems,” notes Hansen.
Embarrassing to Democrats is it not that the party with a dark racial past lays blame of racism on that party founded on anti-slavery, when in fact the left craftily lever the black community by convincing the same of a handicap? Embarrassing is it not, the slanderous claim that a protestor called John Lewis the N-word 15 times turns out to be a lie, “but is promoted endlessly by teary-eyed reporters, most of whom cannot count to 15,” as Ann Coulter notes.
Obama plays right along. Two big-time lefties (but both honorable gents, rare) note that, “Obama's divisive approach to governance has weakened us as a people and paralyzed our political culture.” Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, pollsters for Carter and Clinton respectively, continue: “Obama has also cynically divided the country on class lines. He has taken to playing the populist card time and time again. He bashes Wall Street and insurance companies whenever convenient to advance his programs, yet he has been eager to accept campaign contributions and negotiate with these very same banks and corporations behind closed doors in order to advance his political agenda.”
This is embarrassing stuff for any Democrat, even our nursery pals.
Embarrassing is it not that violence resides primarily with the left, the left’s proclivity for the same documented in the form of mountains of arrest records. “Liberal protesters at the 2008 Republican National Convention were arrested for smashing police cars, slashing tires, breaking store windows, and for possessing Molotov cocktails, napalm bombs and assorted firearms. (If only they could muster up that kind of fighting spirit on foreign battlefields.) There
were no arrests of conservatives at Democratic conventions,” notes Coulter.
Embarrassing is in not that in the fall of 2008 Obama supporters mace'd elderly volunteers in a McCain campaign office in Galax, Va. In separate attacks, a half-dozen liberals threw Molotov cocktails at McCain signs on families' front yards in and around Portland, Ore. One Obama supporter broke a McCain sign being held by a small middle-aged woman in midtown Manhattan before hitting her in the face with the stick.
Do you party types identify with this stuff?
On a broader scope, embarrassing is it not that most registered Democrats are ignorant of history. Not just a tad unaware. Ignorant. And that they still believe in, or go along with central planning when most of us know it can only lead to dictatorship (because it always has)? As our friend Thomas Sowell notes, “What is remarkable is that, after a few decades of experience with central planning in some countries, or a few generations in others, even Communists and socialists began to repudiate this approach. As liberals replaced central planning with more reliance on markets, their countries’ economic-growth rates almost invariably increased, often dramatically. In the largest and most recent examples — China and India — people by the millions have risen above these countries’ official poverty rates, after they freed their economies from many of their suffocating government controls.”
We’re tired and going to bed. It’s endless.
Robert Craven
If subjected to scrutiny, how can these types define themselves as patriots? By reverting to the “old party” values, those of Truman and Kennedy? Sorry. No such party or values exist any longer, at least not in the national organization of the party.
Do you even know my good lefty friends anything whatsoever about what your party has become? We doubt it.
American Muslims have been fairly criticized for their lack of zeal in looking to cast out those members who profess violence. Why have not American Democrats been taken to task for their lack of zeal in looking to exile the extremists of their party; that is, the group now in control? Are these folk content, or just embarrassed?
Where do we begin? Embarrassing is it not that so many still look, zombie-like, to blame Bush when Bush is long gone. Did Bush force BO to borrow $3 trillion? Did Bush force BO to nationalize health care? Did Bush force BO to scare the daylights out of every employer with talk of burden after burden - income, FICA, health tax increases, all the rest? Did Bush force BO to protect those responsible for the crash? As Vic Hansen reminds us, Bush did not daily blame Clinton for Clinton’s appeasing of radical Islam, as Bush went about his business of taking on the Taliban and passing the Patriot Act after 9-11.
This applies to our lefty pals in Marin as it does to BO - “Nothing so diminished a president as the trait of scapegoating a predecessor, nothing so erodes his stature as the teen-age habit of blaming someone else for one’s self-inflicted problems,” notes Hansen.
Embarrassing to Democrats is it not that the party with a dark racial past lays blame of racism on that party founded on anti-slavery, when in fact the left craftily lever the black community by convincing the same of a handicap? Embarrassing is it not, the slanderous claim that a protestor called John Lewis the N-word 15 times turns out to be a lie, “but is promoted endlessly by teary-eyed reporters, most of whom cannot count to 15,” as Ann Coulter notes.
Obama plays right along. Two big-time lefties (but both honorable gents, rare) note that, “Obama's divisive approach to governance has weakened us as a people and paralyzed our political culture.” Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, pollsters for Carter and Clinton respectively, continue: “Obama has also cynically divided the country on class lines. He has taken to playing the populist card time and time again. He bashes Wall Street and insurance companies whenever convenient to advance his programs, yet he has been eager to accept campaign contributions and negotiate with these very same banks and corporations behind closed doors in order to advance his political agenda.”
This is embarrassing stuff for any Democrat, even our nursery pals.
Embarrassing is it not that violence resides primarily with the left, the left’s proclivity for the same documented in the form of mountains of arrest records. “Liberal protesters at the 2008 Republican National Convention were arrested for smashing police cars, slashing tires, breaking store windows, and for possessing Molotov cocktails, napalm bombs and assorted firearms. (If only they could muster up that kind of fighting spirit on foreign battlefields.) There
were no arrests of conservatives at Democratic conventions,” notes Coulter.
Embarrassing is in not that in the fall of 2008 Obama supporters mace'd elderly volunteers in a McCain campaign office in Galax, Va. In separate attacks, a half-dozen liberals threw Molotov cocktails at McCain signs on families' front yards in and around Portland, Ore. One Obama supporter broke a McCain sign being held by a small middle-aged woman in midtown Manhattan before hitting her in the face with the stick.
Do you party types identify with this stuff?
On a broader scope, embarrassing is it not that most registered Democrats are ignorant of history. Not just a tad unaware. Ignorant. And that they still believe in, or go along with central planning when most of us know it can only lead to dictatorship (because it always has)? As our friend Thomas Sowell notes, “What is remarkable is that, after a few decades of experience with central planning in some countries, or a few generations in others, even Communists and socialists began to repudiate this approach. As liberals replaced central planning with more reliance on markets, their countries’ economic-growth rates almost invariably increased, often dramatically. In the largest and most recent examples — China and India — people by the millions have risen above these countries’ official poverty rates, after they freed their economies from many of their suffocating government controls.”
We’re tired and going to bed. It’s endless.
Robert Craven
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