Obama In A Word

I grabbed this graphic from Pew Research via Town Hall. It blows my mind that people think of the compulsively-lying thug as "good." He is a bad president and a rotten human being. Rotten to the core.

My word of choice, one that is even more significant than "Dishonest" is "Narcissist." Once more, it all comes down to Barry's addiction to adulation. The SOTU was just a prelude for yet another series of pep rallies where "The One" will be cheered on by adoring worshipers. Yep, the latter day Jim Jones will take his new proposals on the road. I called that one. 

Personally, I see his childish need for praise (and yes, even worship) as pathetic. There is no part of him that sees himself as we see him: a political version of Spinal Tap. The buffoon who does not accept that his day is long gone. It is crystal clear that the most important drive in this empty suit's life is his constant pursuit of attention. It used to be funny. Now it is collectively embarrassing.

I bet there are a lot of words the Pew people did not list as options. 

 

Ted Cruz's Rebuttals

2015 (Ted Needs A Jump Start at :40)

2014. STILL PERTINENT

Ted Nugent vs. Roseanne Barr

This vid came on after I watched the Cruz video.  Had to include it.

Belaboring A Point About The State Of The Union Speech

As we saw two months ago, Barack Obama is an incredibly shallow and vain human being.  When it seemed that he could not find an audience anywhere, he managed a few pep rallies promoting his immigration order. Anything, anything, anything for an adoring audience, something that is harder and harder to find these days.

 Barry has never performed the duties of the office in the traditional sense. Instead of locking horns with Congress on the budget he always took to the road to read his teleprompter to a room of sycophants. There might be one or two gigs left where he can fill half the house with Occupy types and bemoan the unfairness of all things American. Milking a few more Obamafests. That is what the SOTU is all about.

Obama has had six years to tweak the tax code. Why play with it now? These are the last gasps of a has been rock star. The once pompous is now the pathetic. Is it 2017 yet?

The Flip Side Of Insider Trading Laws

For a multitude of reasons I oppose insider trading laws.  Mostly they are used for witch hunts, to convict people who aren't really criminals. A Disneyland for Nazis and prosecutors.

Last week we saw a meteoric rise in the Swiss Franc. The usual malcontents complained of the Swiss Ambush. What do you think happens when news in NOT leaked out. Whatever else can be said about the Swiss, they did not play favorites last week.

Leftists hate it when people make money. They don't mind people losing money especially when the losers can be used as political pawns. Rest assured Elizabeth Warren is searching for victims as we sleep. Somehow, some way, the spinmasters will blame this on greedy speculators. But they won't be able to blame this one on insider trading.

What's Up, Franc?

The Swiss Franc rose by 39% in one day earlier this week. It later fell back to about a 15% gain against all other currencies for one day. A 1% daily change would represent high volatility. A 15% spike upwards is as far as I know, unprecedented.

Currencies are like has been celebrities. They only make the news when they crash and burn. A double digit daily decline is not unheard of but a double digit increase? It's like Gabe Kaplan coming back from obscurity to announce that he has cured cancer and will be awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. This sort of thing just does not happen.

This sudden spike is profound. The ripples are yet to be felt. This is certainly bad news for  PIIGS  and European unity is in deep trouble. Germany will probably stop carrying the fraudulent countries on their backs. In the short term this is bad for Germany but if it means they jettison the dead weight, the Euro might be yet be the second coming of the Mark.

Snapshot Of A Presidency

No matter how bad things might get or how long I might live, I cannot imagine ever being nostalgic about the Obama era. Still it might be fun to stroll down memory lane and have a chuckle someday. The president has not provided many opportunities to laugh with him but he has provided opportunity to laugh at him.

Don't ask me why I think about this trivial event so frequently except that it is, as far as I know, unprecedented and it is perhaps the snapshot that most clearly captures this man's essence. It happened right after the 2014 midterms when the president flew to Vegas to sell his executive order.

Stop and think about it. Has anyone in any walk of life ever sold an order? By its definition, an order is a mandate, not an offer. Has anyone ever placed an order at Amazon and then drove to their warehouse to make sure the shipping guys were OK with the plan? Has anyone ever ordered shrimp scampi and then followed the waiter into the kitchen to sell the order to the cook? Then again, if the dinner companions were sick of one's company and tuned out the tiresome dinner host and the host really, really, really wanted an audience...

The snapshot is a portrait of a vain and shallow man desperate to rekindle yesterday's glory. Barack Obama is hooked on adulation. What once flowed freely is now much harder to find. But as long as there is an appreciative audience somewhere, Obama will find it. If none is readily available, he will do whatever it takes to create one. If it means pandering to a select audience by issuing an executive order affecting millions of Spanish people to coincide with the Latin Grammies, Yes He Can.

When we think of the labels that have been applied to this guy, they are usually ominous or sinister or both. There might be something to those labels but this snapshot suggests a vapid figure who will do anything to stay in the spotlight. The aging starlet doing dinner theater in Saginaw bowing to what might be her last receptive audience. The one time diva no longer looks so menacing. Cue up Sondheim. "Don't bother, they're here."