Those of us from “back in THE DAY” (no, young Rappites and haters alike, not the ‘80s) well remember the smell of burning ROTC buildings, police dogs, cops bludgeoning U.K. coeds in their tender breasts and the stench of teargas. I saw, at the venerable University of Virginia, a moving van that was converted into a “paddie” (sorry, Irish) wagon. Into it was shoved a WEDDING PARTY!
The Guess Who, that radical Canadian Revolutionary band – you know, the guys that don’t like American Woman (women), had a song with the dreaded prescience that once we Smash the State, what next?
George Bush. Barack Obama. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Let me count the ways ...
THE WAR, FOR GOD’S SAKE. We were betrayed on the war. Duffus Biden even gives the administration credit for “winning in Iraq” (Right. We put sunshine enemies on the payroll so they would not kill us. Gotta love capitalism.) Now, Obama’s SURGE in Afghanistan. Where do you think the touted withdrawal of 50,000 Combat Troops FROM IRAQ went, guys? Not back to husbands, wives, lovers and children. No, they just walked across an invisible line in the sand and woke up in Afghanistan. Only one man ever, EVER, conquered the Afghanis.
Name was Ghengis Khan. No Southern Gentleman ...
And to add idiocy to stupidity, Obama says we are OUT in August 2011. That’s no way to win a war. Catch-22. General Petreus apparently thinks otherwise.
If not NOW, when?
China loans America the money to run this travesty of a war.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM. John McCain and Barrack Obama agreed to accept public funding. Obama changed his mind and spent (something like) $300,000,000, while McCain was self-hobbled. Hell, I could elect Charlie Manson with that cash.
THIS IS A CRITICAL ISSUE. If we do not have meaningful campaign finance reform thanks to my Ancient Enemy, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, we have neither a Republic nor a Democracy. In Kentucky, we think an honest politician is one who stays bought. If the Special Interests don’t own Congress, they at least rent them. The game is fixed. The system broken. Yes, the United States Supreme Court agreed with named Plaintiff Mitch McConnell’s “money is speech” bullshit. Yeah, it’s speech. Obscene speech.
THE GULF SPILL. The Obama administration delayed weeks before letting other countries weigh in. This should have been treated like America’s Dunkirk. Iran, our enemy, offered to supply state-of-the-art, mile-deep plugging. They do it over there all the time.
So, after the First Lady takes the lavish and totally out-of-touch trip to Spain, they go to St. Petersburg, which did not take the punishment of the shoreline to its west. POTUS shoots a hole-in-one at a miniature golf course, buys ice cream, goes out on a ship, and The Official White House (controlling the news) photo shows a Presidential left shoulder in, by the way, a nearby bay. His skin never touched actual Gulf waters ...
GITMO. Need I say more?
THE MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO. News accounts put it two blocks away from Ground Zero, sacred ground to Americans, like Pearl Harbor and Gettysburg. Remember this: wheels from one of the Kamikaze Islamic Radical’s planes hit the damn building in question ... Then came the Obama backpedaling and redefining. Listen up: How would you like to be one of the construction workers trying to build the Mosque? Do you think the survivors of the victims might act up? Molotov cocktails and bombs and vandalism will curse this accused plan. Till the end of time. And one day it will go: BOOM. As my mama would say: “Mark my words.”
Yeah, I know about the First Amendment, but they taught me at Vanderbilt Law School that one does not have the right to cry “FIRE” in a crowded theater.
The Gentle Danes burned mosques after the great-grandnephew of Vincent Van Gogh did his expose documentary on how Islam, such a lovely “religion,” treats women. Did you see the picture on the cover of Time Magazine of the pretty young woman sans ears and nose?
An Islamic Terrorist murdered Van Gogh; shot him, then drew his blade and came within two inches or so of decapitating the hero of truth.
No, sometimes we are forced to resort to common sense. Seventy percent of Americans oppose the “Twin Towers Mosque” at this location. You know, from time to time, we the people get it right.
WARRANTLESS ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE CONTINUES. When the F.B.I. imprisoned me in 1986 and 2000 for my political crime of running for office those particular years (what a coincidence), at least some Federal Judge signed off.
But NOW, one F.B.I. agent literally signs the warrant his F.B.I. comrade slides onto his desk. Outrage! History teaches that once the government takes away a right, it never gives it back.
How ‘bout them Military Tribunals. Another broken promise.
THE ECONOMY. Too big to cover in the words Mary Jean “Boss” Kirtley allots this Rap, but let me drop this on you. The Dems brag they paid for the Teachers’ Bailout – a good idea – by closing tax loopholes for companies who ship American jobs offshore and by “cuts in spending.”
Guess one of the programs cut? FOOD STAMPS! Need I say more?
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