I Told You So

We all love an opportunity to say told ya so, some of us are just honest enuff to own up to it.
And so we turn now to all those north of the 49th who were swept up in the rapture of Obamessiahmania, sure that he would usher in a new golden age for all the world. Peace and prosperity for all, the Taliban holding hands with earnest young members of the new Barry Youth, everyone singing Kumbaya.

Well, he's already killed Afghan civilians with air strikes and we didn't hear anything about how Chris Matthews' (he of not a shred of credibility fame) various body parts reacted. (What's that, Chris? Tight against the seam? Oh, well, thanks for clearing that up, Buddy.)

Meanwhile, Barry's naive (to put it mildly) musings on the Middle East and the threat the world faces from Islam (about which he's clueless) have accomplished nothing more than generating amusement in some quarters, bemusement in others.

Ah, but now there's Buy American.

During the campaign, I would point out that from the point of view of those living in economies outside the US, a Repugnican, not a Demoprat, was to be preferred, as the latter, especially in tough times, pursue protectionist trade policies which harm economies such as BC's.
This was greeted with your correspondent being labeled right wing, a bigot, or someone who just didn't understand how wonderful Barry Obamessiah was.

Rallies in Vancouver full of weeping, cheering people (some of whom he'll be putting out of work) greeted the election of "he whom hath been dubbed "The One" (by Oprah no less. Wow!).
On election night I couldn't even escape by tuning in Sportstalk with Dan Russell (a longtime loyal listener) as Dan had to spend what seemed like half an hour enthusing 'bout Bama.

Blogger David Berner, whom I think the world of, nonetheless succumbed to Barrymania to such an extent, got himself so worked up at contrary views of his hero, that on election day, he simply refused to post comments that did anything but pour fawning adoration on our Saviour. Barry's not been in office a month now and if poor David isn't yet backpedalling as hard as he will be (heh, heh) he certainly comes across as someone who's hit the brakes hard and may just wind up with a skinned knee.
But then, he's got plenty of company.
Told ya so.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7854797.stm

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/World+finance+chiefs+line+against+American+plan/1241327/story.html

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/02/04/obamas_charm_offensive_and_the_global_jihad/

http://thebernermonologues.blogspot.com/2009/01/cooperation.html

Grasping At Straws

Some people insist on believing Barack Hussein Obama isn't 100% Made In the USA

Newsmax, who, it would seem fair to say, are really quite right wing, have been really running hard with the whole Does Barry O qualify to run for Pres? routine.
The latest development has them in a total tizzy, as apparently, despite the passing of a '30 day deadline' to do so, Obamessiah's lawyers have not yet produced the "original birth certificate" at the heart of a suit launched by former Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General Philip J. Berg — a self-avowed supporter of Hillary Clinton,.

The suit alleges that "Barack Obama was born in Kenya and is thus “ineligible” to run for president of the United States" and demands that Obama’s lawyers produce a copy of his original birth certificate to prove that he is a natural-born U.S. citizen.

Well down in the Newsmax story it is (oh so briefly) mentioned that this sort of deadline is routinely, in Shakespeare's (unattributed) phrase, "more honoured in the breach than the observance", by lawyers, yet this whole bit of nothing was nonetheless Newsmax's "Headline Story" (cue: flourish of strumpets, er, trumpets).
Pretty pathetic, guys.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_birth_certificate/2008/10/24/143882.html?s=al&promo_code=6E2D-1

Obama Snags Coveted Tehran Endorsement

I'madinnerjacket wants you to know he likes Barry O for Pres.

"Tehran wants Barack Obama in the White House, rules out war

DEBKAfile Special Report

October 23, 2008, 11:19 AM (GMT+02:00)

During a visit to Bahrain, Iran’s parliament speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday, Oct. 22, that Tehran would prefer Democratic senator Barack Obama in the White House next year. He also ruled out any US attack on his country. “The risk was low before, but now I am 100 percent certain that the United States will not unleash a war against Iran,” he said at a new conference in Manama.

“We lean more in favor of Obama,”, “because he is more flexible and rational, even through we know American policy will not change that much.”

DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources note that Larijani is one of the most powerful voices in Tehran’s conservative camp and a close confidant of supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He would not have spoken out in favor of Obama without top-level sanction.

The location Larijani chose for his statement is significant: Bahrain is one of America’s greatest friends in the Gulf region, host to the US 5th Fleet headquarters. Tehran was laying claim to a foothold in the Gulf region.

The argument he advanced against a US attack was arithmetical: “The economic crisis has cost America 1,400 billion dollars and Washington is working to resolve its internal problems and not a war.”

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5670

I predict Chris Matthews will lead with this tomorrow and he'll be getting that special Obamessiah feeling up his legs again.

Does It Really Matter?

Let's see, a breathtaking annual balance of trade deficit, the ongoing disaster of the subprime mortgage mess (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Bros., now rumblings about Merrill Lynch), the looming personal credit crunch (all those run up credit cards turned into "debt consolidation loans" so everyone could run up their cards some more) ...
The last couple of decades, as America's relative wealth in the world has diminished, they've maintained something like their accustomed standard of living by means of borrowing.
What's a President to do?
Tell Americans they must do without cheap consumer goods from Asia, no more flat screen LCD tvs cheap from China, that they'll gear up their own industries behind tariff walls a la Smoot Hawley? A tough sell, especially as it was a disaster last time.

Stretched thin by Iraq and their outposts worldwide, they're following the time-honored pattern of building an empire economically, and losing it militarily. The 21st century has already seen the US have to abandon the two war policy (being prepared to fight two major wars at the same time) ...
What's a President to do?
Tell Americans they must reintroduce the draft and accept a larger role for the "military-industrial complex"? Can you say "political suicide"?

No, I figure America's on the downside and sliding fast.
What's a President to do?
Not much to improve things, I'd say.

That said, I'm rooting for Obama. I figure he'll be even funnier than Jimmy Carter, lottsa yucks.