Not to get Frank down or anything...

[black francis]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_war ... d_in_tears



Barack Obama inauguration: this Emperor has no clothes, it will all end in tears
Posted By: Gerald Warner at Jan 20, 2009 at 18:50:54 [General]
Posted in: Society , Eagle Eye
Tags:Barack Obama, Freedom of Choice Act, Neil Kinnock, stimulus package, Tony Blair

This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence - la trahison des clercs - in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night. It will not be all right.

We have been here before. In the spring of 1997, to be precise, when a charismatic, young prime minister entered Downing Street, cheered by children bussed in for the occasion waving plastic Union Jacks. A very few of us at that time incurred searing reproaches for denouncing the Great Charlatan (as I have always denominated Tony Blair) and dissenting from the public hysteria. Three times a deluded Britain elected that transparent fraud. Yesterday, when national bankruptcy became a formal reality, we reaped the bitter harvest of the Blair/Brown imposture.

The burnt child, contrary to conventional wisdom, does not fear the fire. After the Blair experience there is no excuse for anybody in Britain falling for Obama. Yet today, in this country, even some of those who remained sane during the emotional spasm of the Diana aberration are pumping the air for Princess Barack. At a time of gross economic and geopolitical instability throughout the Western world, this is beyond irresponsibility.

To anyone who kept his head, the string of Christmas cracker mottoes booming through the public address system on Washington's National Mall can only excite scepticism. It is crucial to recall the reality that lies behind the rhetoric. Denouncing "those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents" comes ill from a man whose flagship legislation, the Freedom of Choice Act, will impose abortion, including partial-birth abortion, on every state in the Union. It seems the era of Hope is to be inaugurated with a slaughter of the innocents.

Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan is like one of those toxic packages traded by bankers: it camouflages many unaffordable gifts to his client state. With a federal deficit already at $1.2 trillion, Obama wants to squander $825 billion (which will undoubtedly mushroom to more than $1 trillion) on creating 600,000 more government jobs and a further 459,000 in "green energy" (useless wind turbines and other Heath-Robinson contraptions favoured by Beltway environmentalists).

It is frightening to think there is a real possibility that the entire world economy could go into complete meltdown and famine kill millions. Yet Western - and British - commentators are cocooned in a warm comfort zone of infatuation with America's answer to Neil Kinnock. We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.

It is questionable whether the present political system can survive the coming crisis. Whatever the solution, teenage swooning sentimentality over a celebrity cult has no part in it. The most powerful nation on earth is confronting its worst economic crisis under the leadership of its most extremely liberal politician, who has virtually no experience of federal politics. That is not an opportunity but a catastrophe.

These are frank, even ungracious, words: they have the one merit that, unlike almost everything else written today about Obama, they will not require to be eaten in the future.

[Kounelaki]

You read the Torygraph, BF? Are you 90 years old or something?

[Frank The Bunny]

What's that got to do with me, dick?

I have no expectations for the next 4-8 years, other than that they can't be worse than the last 8.

By the way, that's what is called an "opinion piece". You don't have to go to a UK news organization for that particular brand of "news".

[black francis]

I was looking for a speed metal song last night whilst drinking (like that use of "whilst" Jack?) and somehow came across the article.

You're close Kounelaki, I'm 32.

[Mr. Brian]

What's that got to do with me, dick?

Maybe it's because of this line...These are frank, even ungracious, words

I think bf must have skimmed the article before he did a copy/paste while consuming his 5th Red Hook Ale. The writer means frank as in, "characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion", not our Frank. You can tell by the lower case f and no use of a possessive. I can see the confusion because our Frank is sometimes characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion, by using the term "dick" quite often.

I'm glad I could help straighten this out.

[Kounelaki]

You're close Kounelaki, I'm 32.

Do you play cricket?

[Frank The Bunny]

our Frank is sometimes characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion, by using the term "dick" quite often.

In simpler terms:

[withahip]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/01/20/barack_obama_inauguration_this_emperor_has_no_clothes_it_will_all_end_in_tears

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After eight years of Bush, the worst terrorist attack in US history, an economy that looks to rival the Great Depression, hand out stimulus checks that did nothing, two wars going nowhere, and one started under false pretense

at worst Obama will just be more of the same.

And less substance than Bush? Funny.

"The executive order Obama signed Thursday orders the prison closed within one year, and a Cabinet-level panel named to review each case separately will have to spend its initial weeks and perhaps months scouring the corners of the federal government in search of relevant material.

Several former Bush administration officials agreed that the files are incomplete and that no single government entity was charged with pulling together all the facts and the range of options for each prisoner. They said that the CIA and other intelligence agencies were reluctant to share information, and that the Bush administration's focus on detention and interrogation made preparation of viable prosecutions a far lower priority. "

[black francis]

Do you play cricket?

Only on days ending in y

[black francis]

Oh and I found the song

"Force and the Fury" by Hightower

[Dr Evil]

The total abortion ban in certain Central American catholic states have led to a trail of dead women, so I have no problem with the new president's pro-choice views, particularly since the US, like other third world nations, has no affordable health care for disabled children brought to full term.

The solar energy potential of the US makes the replacement of oil entirely practical, bringing economic benefits and shutting down the flow of money to so-called Islamic states, which produce their own trail of dead women by other means.

[black francis]

Actually the U.S. (and California in particular) is pretty generous with disabled children.

[JackT]

The solar energy potential of the US makes the replacement of oil entirely practical,

This is a scientifically incorrect statement.

[Dr Evil]

This is a scientifically incorrect statement.

1. Green Energy
Incorrect. Solar concentrator heat + atmospheric CO2 + more solar concentrator heat +H2O =methanol and with further steps petroleum +related products, all without using productive land.


2. Abortion
Disregarding the fact that many terrible diseases such as cardiomyopathy would be cured by now were it not for Bush and the Zygote Worshipers, the black kid who died of a tooth abscess for lack of affordable treatment probably wished he had never been born. Being poor is either lethal or criminal in America, and if mothers wish not to bring a child into such an environment it is their choice.

[black francis]

Or maybe the kid would have wished he was born to another mother. As terrible as it is for a child to lose their life in any fashion, there are free dental clinics all over the country which would have pulled that kid's tooth out.