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Amateur hour at the Orchid Office

Posted by Tomás Aquinas on Friday, July 24, 2009 9:17:26 AM

Amateur hour in the Orchid Office

It's amateur hour in the Orchid Office.

The Obamessiah is expressing 'surprise' at the controversy over his asinine remarks about Cambridge PD:

Obama surprised

Obama just doesn't get it.

It isn't the president's place to be up there, on prime-time TV, taking shots at the cops when he is basically clueless as to what went on. He assumed that because the 'victim' was black, and a pal of his, and cops were involved, that it was another one of those examples of racism on the part of the Po-Po.

We all know what 'assume' does.

It did.

Who's the racist here?

Further exacerbating his monumental presidential stupidity, Obama continues to stick his foot in his pie hole:

"I have to say I am surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement," Obama said in an interview with ABC News, "because I think it was a pretty straightforward comment that you probably don't need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane, who's in his own home."

Obama remains unconfused by fact. Gates was not 'in his own home' when he was arrested. He was outside, and he was highly agitated, and he was unresponsive to the officers. Any cop who has been on the streets more than a couple of months will tell you this is a recipe for disaster. The cane becomes a weapon. The agitation escalates to violence. It happens every day in this country, and cops get hurt over it. The fact that the escalatee is a Pillar of the Community is beside the point. Social position is no exemption to erratic or irrational or violent behavior. I could write a book about members of the Great, the Near-great, and the merely self-important of La Juntan society who had and who have the same attitude as Gates. No manners, no class, and showing their *sses all over the place. Leece saw that as Clerk of the Court, and that's where the title of her book comes from: "Who You Are is What You Get".

Obama needs to stick to his teleprompter.

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"Acting boldly and swiftly ..." ... and stupidly...

Posted by Tomás Aquinas on Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:36:24 PM
That's our President, Barack "Shoot from the Lip" Obama ...

Here are Cambridge PD's Sergeant Crowley's reports:

"I'll speak to your mama ..."

Now it looks like Gates is the racist, and a hater besides. We have a police officer responding to a burglary in progress call, wherein a neighbor has reported two black men shouldering open the door. The neighbor also knows a black man lives in the place. It is the suspicious behavior, the shouldering of the door, that prompted her to call the police.

How does Gates respond to this? By becoming abusive and shooting off his mouth. According to the report, the officer behaved reasonably. I would have asked similar questions. First, ID the guy who is there. Black suspect, black man in the house. So who is he? If he is legit, then perhaps he doesn't even know may have intruders in the house. So ask the question - is anyone else in the house with you? Reasonable question.

But no ...Gates has to show his *ss and play the race card. And Barack "Boldly and Swiftly" Obama, also shows his presidential *ss and plays the same card. So much for "post-racial" America.

So far, none of the witnesses who were gathering as the result of Gates' "tumultuous behavior" are backing Gates.

The prosecutor has already dropped the case. From the report, there's quite enough to proceed, to bring it before an impartial trier-of-fact... like, you know, a judge. But the prosecutor, like Obama, also apparently likes to shoot from the lip.

The problem with that is, the prosecutor only trashed a misdemeanor charge.

Obama wants to spend another trillion and a half of our tax dollars. Given his judgment on the Gates' thing, I really don't trust him on that. Not a bit. Add to that Porculus Americanus. No, I don't trust Obama one bit with our money.

Oh ... here's more. It turns out that Gates' is one of Obama's pals:

Police officer wants Obama to butt out of arrest

Facts do not confuse our president. He makes up his mind in spite of them.

Asked about the incident, Obama, who is friends with the professor and documentary filmmaker, told reporters at a Wednesday night press conference that he didn't know all the facts. But he said, "the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home."

Gates wasn't arrested for being in his own home. He wasn't arrested in his home. He was arrested outside his home, for being a disorderly jerk.
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Obama's fallacious moral reasoning

Posted by Tomás Aquinas on Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:32:24 PM
Here's a pretty good article on Barack "Smoke and Mirrors" Obama's Obamacare song and dance:

Obama's fallacious moral reasoning on health care

Yeah, it's written by Father Jonathan Morris, a priest. Nonetheless, Morris makes some excellent points, and at least he has not made getting into heaven a political issue. Not directly, anyway.

Here are some excerpts:


President Obama doesn't seem to be aware of any conditions or circumstances that may alter our "moral imperative" to pass his bill and to pass it right now.


We should be aware of many.


1) President Obama's argument that our choice is between a) his bill right now and b) no reform for another forty years is fallacious.

2) His refusal to answer basic questions about how we are going to pay for his bill (refusing to take off the table the massive surtax option while also refusing to say he plans on using it if he can) is not fair.

3) Independent budgetary analysts disagree with the President about what this reform bill will do to minimize overall government health expenditures (the president says we "can't afford" not to pass his bill) and about the impact of the 1 trillion dollar cost on other parts of our economy.

4) Under the proposed legislation individuals will be required to have health care coverage that meets minimum benefits standards. These standards will be established by the Obama administration. There is very good reason to believe these minimum benefits that health insurance companies must provide will include abortion on demand. Obama has said reproductive care is essential care, basic care" and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has added, reproductive health includes access to abortion. Congressman Joe Pitts (PA) recently warned in a written statement that any individual who does not have a plan that meets the minimum benefit standards will be forced to pay a 2.5 percent tax penalty. And any employer who does not provide coverage that meets these standards will pay up to an 8 percent tax penalty,"

5) This week the president himself admitted he cannot guarantee tax money will not be used for abortions under his plan. Why can't he guarantee that? Because he wants it in his plan and will mandate it if he can.

6) Euthanasia is not explicitly excluded from the category of basic health care either. If it is not excluded, eventually it will be demanded, and we will pay for it.

For President Obama to continue to use moral arguments to demand immediate passage of his bill, without also putting to rest the conditions and circumstances I outline above, is ethically reprehensible and politically unacceptable.
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"The stars are aligned ..."

Posted by Tomás Aquinas on Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:31:21 PM
Yep. That's what The Obamessiah says. That's why we have to get his Obamacare signed right now. Boldly and quickly.

Next time I go for a colonoscopy, will it be with a government-assigned astrologer?

Will I have Sistah Cleo shoving a tube up my poop chute, aligning those stars I usually see when undergoing that wonderful process every five years? Will I even be able to get a colonoscopy? Or will it be too much money to waste on a curmudgeonly old fart that ain't gonna vote for The One no matter what?

Obama got up there in front of the country on the telly and prattled on, and said nothing. It was his usual smooth, glib, smoke and mirrors.

Here's one:

He rejected the notion that his administration only wants to "spend and spend." In an odd boast, the president said his administration has already reduced the 10-year deficit projection from $9.3 trillion to $7.1 trillion.

"An odd boast"? Are you kidding? This guy keeps bringing up those ten year projections like he's going to be around then. Is he going to take a cue from The Honduran or The Venezualan, both pals of his, and simply appoint himself Leader for Life? Besides ... he can't support that statement. Worse, none of the fawning, simpering panderers of the press even questioned that statement. Or any other, for that matter.

Then The One popped this jewel:

"You haven't seen me out there blaming the Republicans."

Really? How about this:

"Now, that's not good, but it's $2.2 trillion less than it would have been if we had the same policies in place when we came in," Obama said, blaming the Bush administration for the scope of the deficit.

Got news for ya, brutha Prez ... it ain't Bush's fault any more. Wake up, take a wander to the Rose Garden, and take a whiff. It's your bag, dude. And check out his opening statement, where he wields the tar brush mightily:

"I've heard that one Republican strategist told his party that even though they may want to compromise, it's better politics to 'go for the kill.' Another Republican senator said that defeating health reform is about 'breaking' me."

So it's personal now, is it?

Speaking of blaming Bush and the Repubs ... American GI's are checking out in Afghanistan in increasing numbers. That's not Bush's deal either. The One has bought into Afghanistan. That's his bag, too. No hard question from the fawning, simpering, panderers of the press on that one, either.

Meanwhile, Obama has already concluded his own investigation into the Cambridge Po-Po dustup over Henry Gates, the black Harvard professor. He has determined that the Cambridge police "acted stupidly". Maybe they did. But the mayor of Cambridge - black female, BTW - has said she doesn't have enough facts yet to make that determination. You gotta remember, the cops were responding to a break-in in progress call, wherein the suspect(s) was/were described as black men. And Gates was being less than cooperative. Maybe that was because the cops were being jerks. Could be. Who knows? Apparently, only Obama. And perhaps Jetstream Jackson and Al "Jewbaiter" Sharpton.

We're poised to blow another trillion-and-a-half, but not really, because "Smoke and Mirrors" Obama tells us he's really reducing the deficit.

Meanwhile, I have an appointment with Sistah Cleo, up at AVRMC.
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Your new doctor

Posted by Tomás Aquinas on Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:29:34 PM
Michael Ramirez has one up about Your New Doctor under Obamacare:

I'm your new doctor ...

and on the efficiency of government when applied to health care:

Take a number

Meanwhile, as Ramirez points out in today's cartoon, the government is going at it hammers and tongs to cut that wasteful $1.75 billion F-22 program, while trying to ram through a $1.5 TRILLION Obamacare bill.

Of course, the F-22 cut is one of the few sensible things this administration has done, as Rich Galen points out in his column today.
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Obama Was Against Compulsory Health Insurance, Before He Was For It

Posted by Tomás Aquinas on Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:28:48 PM
Bill Jacobson over on Legal Insurrection has a kinda sorta funny post about Obamanian flipfloppery on 'compulsory health insurance':

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Obama Was Against Compulsory Health Insurance, Before He Was For It

Back during the campaign, when he and Hillary were ripping each other's political guts out, The One lost no opportunity to point out The Hill was pretty much incompetent. Come to think on it, now that she is The One's Secretary of State, nothing much has changed, other than instead of pointing out her ineptitude, he just ignores her.

But we wander afield. Here's the video. Listen to what he said then about mandates and fines for people who did not comply with the 'compulsoriness":

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Obamacare: How to "die with dignity" ...

Posted by Tomás Aquinas on Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:27:50 PM
... and in the process, save the government money:

Democrats want to teach you to die with dignity

and

Kennedy lives; grandma dies

Our President Who Cries Wolf now insists that we 'act boldly and swiftly' over health care. He wants a complete reform out of Congress by August. Are we going to have yet another whopper of a bill, costing trillions, that no one reads?

I don't know about you, but I've had quite enough of this Obamanian nonsense where everything is a 'crisis'. Everything has to be done 'right now'. Since January 20, we have been in a continual crisis state. Does he think if he keeps us in a state of continual crisis, we won't notice that he is really incompetent? You can only go so far with smooth glibness. Then some substance is required, and our President Who Cries Wolf is sorely lacking in that area.

Do you think the articles linked above are a bit of hysteria?

Then how about this:

Obama's science czar considered forced abortions and sterilization as population growth solutions

Yep. I can see it now. Will we have a panel, kind of like a draft board of years gone past, a panel of 'friends and neighbors', making the decision as to whether or not your life is worth the costs to the health care system?

And Obama is not taking the surcharge off the table. He's looking at that additional fee to fund all this. Bill "Land of the Fee" Ritter must be salivating over that one.
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