Wasn't there something about her being on the youngish side?
Mr. Obama, the dirty old man--oh, right the dirty old post ideological man, eh, Sophist-in-Chief.
As an avowed fan of your website, I feel it is within my rights to offer fraternal correction.
The video feed of the very incident for which you have given the photograph makes ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that the latter does indeed create a gross MISIMPRESSION of what exactly **OUR** President was and was NOT doing.
Which leads me to a larger point: any amount of frustration or rightful ire we feel towards OUR President's ideology, politics or (so it argued) UNUSUALLY deceptive practices, DOES NOT GIVE **ANYONE** - least of all those still avowedly loyal citizens of the Unites States of America -- THE RIGHT TO IMPLICITLY ACCUSE HIM OF WHAT HE DID *NOT* DO.
I, too, am obviously against his pro-death, pro-gay, pro-religious persecution policies (just as I have been for previous presidents and elected leaders). Am I, therefore, going to waste *precious time* on what is at best a questionable use of humor and, furthermore, what comes across as gravely lacking in proportion to the anxiety OBJECTIVELY WARRANTED apropos of Obama's Presidency VERSUS past electoral setbacks? (Note that I say this with all due inclusion for the intellectually HONEST, epistemically WARRANTED appraisals of justhow much "danger" he might portend. (And, actually, it cuts both ways -- if he REALLY *is* more dangerous than I suppose, all the more reason to put away childish things and get down on our knees -- out of love for the persecuted and the murdered (and those soon-to-be), and out of love for our nation and for OUR PRESIDENT. (N.B. In Christ, we are ALL brothers -- whether in potentia or in re,... In Christ, the President is more our "family" than our natural family is our "family"! DO WE ACT/SPEAK/THINK as such?!?)
FURTHER, whatever his "demons", the President strikes me as someone with the sort of intellectual acumen and curiosity that can serve as the raw material for the kind of moral miracle of conversion that for which we SHOULD be spending our time praying, having Masses said, praying novenas.
Or perhaps we can go along with those, ahem, "less than intellectually stable" among us, those who (God forbid) would desire to take the "Obama problem" into their own hands! I hardly think so.
INDEED, I think we have a MUCH better chance of seeing the kind of moral miracle of conversion to the GOSPEL OF LIFE with regard to our CURRENT -- perhaps "extreme" but certainly intellectually curious -- President, than anything CLOSE to what we are likely to find in terms of raw material apropos of that refugee of the post-Vatican II conflagration, Vice-President Joe Biden (Bless his heart, nevertheless.)
Food for thought...
Pax,
Jordan
As American citizens it is our right and responsibility to beware of those who have extreme power and make plain their sights on abusing it. WHY? This protects against tyranny. HOW? It is amazing how politicians’ behavior is reined in when the citizens whom they serve keep a close watch on them. Their opportunity to serve, whether domestically or in foreign formats is not for their edification/moments of great personal learning--it is to serve the citizens of the United States. This implies their moral bearing being at least present.
Continue to note: American politicians are not royalty, nor do they personally hold the power to dictate what it is citizens do or say either in support or in check of them. Mr. Obama is no deft intellect. He is a clumsy and largely uninformed person. His information has been drummed into him over his life in reading socialist, even communist to anarchist literature. Outside of this ideology he is an empty man. When he is forced by this recurring unseemly public opinion, to come up with a resounding statement of serious import, he staggers between his beliefs and his will to power—hence, his first comments on Iran were for the people of that nation to stand down as he endorsed the regime. In being caught flatfooted on Iran, he spoke out too soon on Honduras, backing the communist wannabe-dictator rather than the Honduran people and their constitution which led to that nation’s events. In Russia, Mr. Obama staggered over the role of Mr. Putin aside from Mr. Medvedev. This role has been viewed with some concern over recent times, but has certainly not escaped the humorous edge either. On the topic of embryonic stem cell use, he appears unmoved by moral argument but presses his agenda using “scientific” argument. Which argument, ideological or scientific can be said to be seriously directing his path? On his healthcare plan, what is his strategy? He gains support for any plan apparently from the unemployed--though not all by any means, of whom under his watch, the numbers have greatly increased. Any plan that is declared to “assist” or “solve” this dilemma is hailed as overdue, necessary, even as a right of the people. And so now rights are those things imposed by the state and are no longer unalienable? Do not get me wrong, healthcare is a genuine problem. It is a genuine problem to serve 300 + million citizens plus tourists plus illegal migrants. It is a genuine problem that medical liability insurance costs range in the area of housing prices. It is a problem that insurance, including the current government Medicare/Medicaid systems’ medical allowances for patients are said, on one hand, to be decided by physicians, only to be seen, in reality, to be decided by secretaries rattling off codes from their computer screens to the physicians treating patients. That is a practice not only immoral but illegal. It is the practice of medicine without license. But what directs any organized in
Cont.--But what directs any organized insurance system, free market or government, to limit and even enforce what healthcare a citizen might have? Is it simply money or is it more?
And so, I fully agree that citizens should take the current state of affairs very seriously. Simply watching the course of events is enough to inform people that something very traumatic is occurring in this country. It is foreign for the government to own American business or banking or the medical field. This is a form of socialism—incompatible with the Constitution. Still, one has to allow time for a couple of laughs lest they lose the music that prefers to play in their souls. One could read through the above noted stories and cry or grow enraged OR find time to laugh at the idiosyncrasy by those who say and have taken oaths to serve and instead prefer to rule. I hope that his visit to the Pope will introduce him to the value of human life. I agree that this might open better possibilities. However, one’s hopes cannot throw caution to the wind.
The French dude on the right is showing OUR nitwit on the left how IT is done.
Mr. Luong,
Thanks for your caveats. I found the video feed for the piece above, which purportedly vindicates the President. On second viewing, I'm not sure it avoids the ambiguity of a convenient pretext. I have not been able to find a similar vindication of the "La Republica" piece linked at the bottom of our post. Has anyone. We're interested in getting these stories straight too, for the same interest in truth are.
In any case, it is certainly true that the abortion holocaust and other problems of this administration dwarf these misdemeanors, if that's what they are. Yet they can serve in the form of what poker players call a 'tell' ...
God bless.
P.P.
I don't quite get this idea that Mr. Obama is a tired old liberal. He seems to take a liberal stand on abortion, but I don't exactly see him taking any Walter Reuther positions on any other issues. His vision on health care reforms places him well to the right of, say, Margaret Thatcher.
As far as his ideas being predictable -- they may be bad ideas, but their predictability isn't the problem. I'm happy keeping glibertarians and clever school boys as far from the halls of power as possible. I think the problem here may be the veneration of Chesterton by Catholics of Anglo-Saxon background, it allows some people to think clever zingers have something to do with wisdom, when they usually do not.
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