Obama
opened his speech at the Annual Press Roast, by apologizing for the weak endings
of his stories. He explained that jokes were telephoned in and laughter, from eavesdropping
NSA agents, drowned out many of the punchlines.
The
new faction in the Democratic Party is the “degrowth movement”. They want Obama to follow Pope Francis by
living humbly and work for the people.
Their first demand is to move the “accommodations” in Guantanamo to the White House lawn and have
the President live in them. He must eat only food from the White House
Garden must desist from
political fund raising activity. Obama was game but only if the Members of
Congress lived in the Camp as well. White
House Legal Counsel is seeking clarification of “for the people”.
The Pope,
the Queen and Nelson Mandela walk into a bar. Mandela says “I say, that chap
Obama tried to use us as the start of a joke, but true to form, he couldn’t
finish, just like he said hope and change, immigration
legislation by the end of the first year, eliminate waste from government, build an economy on solid
foundations, tax reforms, he would not run for
re-election for sake of running, close Guantanamo in a year…”
The Transportation Department admitted
that the administration’s only completed high speed rail project, in Vermont, recorded speeds
of 47 mph, lower than the promised high speed of 52 mph. The 120 mph trains
roared off the tracks.
Obama had said his administration would
hit the ground running. Most of his legislation is still in the starting blocks,
6 years later.
The GOP
has shelved plans to impeach Obama. Results,
of focus group studies, conclude that the public would blame the GOP for the
decline of America
because of Joe Biden screw-ups, if Obama’s impeachment succeeded.
Is this
joke is on Robert Gates and Bin Laden?
The CIA
reported that Russian sleeper agents had infiltrated the senior ranks of the
Treasury Department and American Banks. The then, President Medvedev had denied
Russian infiltration. He said “The policy of socialism for the big banks and
capitalism for blue collar Americans was a made in America
policy.” The CIA alleges that Russian planted policy makers arranged the
bailout of AIG and made sure that Tarp funds did not
help ordinary Americans whose homes went underwater.
It is
well known that President Putin was obsessed with restoring Russia to a world power and schemed for the demise of the US.
He is overjoyed for the rise of the 1% and lower standard of living
for everyday Americans. To help Putin, Obama and Congress passed a
Farm Bill that subsidizes large agricultural companies and rich farmers while
reducing the distribution of Foodstamps to needy Americans. The Obama Presidency failed to amend the Farm
Bill, the two occasions it came up for renewal during his watch. The KGB has agents
in the Occupy movement. Their next step
is to fuel Chicago and Stockton
ghetto insurgencies to class revolts of the scale of Watts
riots.”
In 1914, exactly
100 years ago, the war in the Crimea led to WW
I.
In 1980 Russia held the Olympics and invaded Afghanistan.
In 2014 Russia held the Olympics and invaded Crimea.
Obama’s
team lacks wise elders who have lived the history.
President Carter and Paul
Volcker publicly lament that Obama hasn’t given them a minute yet Obama chooses
to meet historians to influence how his record will be viewed.
Obama has mentioned that he
had studied Ronald Reagan, who said “Trust but verify”.
Obama never
appreciated Reagan’s wisdom. He never sought negative feedback about staff
performance to foster good management and thence “smart government”. Obamacare was off the rails, and Obama didn’t have a
clue because of the failure to verify. Obama doesn’t verify activities of
high risk agencies, such as NSA or CIA and has paid the cost. Instead of meeting with historians, Obama
would be well advised to meet with Inspector Generals of key departments such
as Treasury, Justice, Health and Defense, to value their service as
watchdogs. They surely signaled concerns
about Obamacare and NSA activity. Obama has handed the Republicans a convincing
political platform – “Obama’s dumb government.”
Part of
the job of Chief of Staff is to assess staff performance to make sure they make
the grade and realize policies. The churning of Chief of Staffs throughout
Obama’s Presidency has resulted in failure to protect Obama’s back. Howard
Baker and Jim Baker made their boss look good.
The
Justice Department failed to protect the backs of Americans by failing to
nominate judges for a whole year and failing to criminally prosecute bankers
who caused so much misery for home owners with homes underwater. Obama failed to revise anti-trust legislation
to attack the harm caused by too big to fail oligarchies by legally defining a
competitive market. Obama failed to
listen to the voices who pointed how weak and wasteful Geithner was – Americans,
with homes underwater, are still suffering and that wage czar is still burning
a hole in tax payer pockets.
Former
President Carter cites that two American institutions, the Military and
Universities have rates of rape charges that are only 25% of the rate of
charges in the American society because it is in the interest of their
leadership to suppress rape charges.He didn’t
mention that S. Bair, E. Warren
and C. Romer were replaced by inferior male candidates because Obama was
running a men’s club. Obama never came to terms with the abuse of power in
removing S. Sherrod. Despite his
criticism of Bush’s “group think”, Obama’s Office is a bunch of yes men,
The greatest similarity between G. W.
Bush and B. H. Obama is their lack of problem solving skills. Bush – “the Decider” was helpless when Iraq collapsed,
Obama – “in Charge” while oil was spilling into the Gulf. In retirement, both men fade into
obscurity. Carter and Clinton take on
challenges, Carter - the peace accord between Israel
and Egypt and the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown and Clinton - the
Dayton Peace Agreement and personal indiscretions. To this day, they tackle problems. Obama didn’t recognize the problem solving
skills of S. Bair and E. Warren. He failed to understand that H. Clinton is a
problem solver and could contribute to “smart government” as VP. Obama couldn’t solve the Gulf oil spill, Israeli
settlement expansion, the humanitarian atrocities in Syria, redress the too big to fail
issue, curb the excessive cost of University education and the sense of
survival of so many Americans. He had no
plan for his re-election – just dumb luck.
The rollout of Obamacare was a disaster, temporarily reprieved by dumb
luck. The number one problem is to rejuvenate America to economic prosperity yet
Obama will be known for assembling the most mediocre economic teams, preferring
V. Jarrett to L. Summers.
Obama’s
dumb, shallow government and inability to persuade swing Republicans have made
Americans tired, poor, homeless - huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
