November 4, 2008
Like OMG, Is Michael Phelps Still Running
For President?
How might a President Barack Obama handle
captaining the world’s biggest superpower in
a time of war? The New York Times
recently set out to answer this question –
minus, naturally, any consideration for the
“war” part – by examining two of the most
prominent jobs on his resume – college
newspaper editor and community organizer.
The Times explains how he does
“meetings”, that he “prized order” and
“control”, and quotes a close friend as
saying: “The only time Mr. Obama slips from
his normal cool self is when something
surprises him.”
I guess that’s like saying pedophiles make
excellent babysitters, as long as there
aren’t any kids around.
Vladimir Putin, leader of the new post-Cold
War alliance between Communism and Islamic
states, prizes control, too. Former heads of
Russian intelligence tend to be that way. He
also happens to be fairly adept at dealing
with adversity. Just ask anyone who has been
treated to a Polonium facial courtesy of the
Kremlin Mobile Spa (serving the greater
planetarian region, on demand). And over the
summer, while his Russian troops were
battling Georgia in South Ossetia, Putin was
chilling out at the Olympics in China.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama, in one of the few
foreign policy pop quizzes he has faced,
changed his position on the issue
repeatedly, like he was at Baskin-Robbins
trying to nail down flavors for a take-home
pack.
And Putin isn’t even the most serious enemy
Obama would have to deal with. That
distinction goes to the same opponent The
New York Times and other liberal
entities routinely fail to acknowledge
because they don’t wear uniforms and abide
by the rules of engagement that we’re used
to seeing in Hollywood movies. No, our most
serious enemy, in this fourth-generation war
that swaps traditional geopolitical
boundaries for ideological ones, is right
next door.
It’s hard to speak of terrorism without
being accused by the left of seeing
jihadists under every rock. But that’s
precisely where they are.
This week in Toronto, Canada, a homegrown
29-year-old Muslim was convicted on five
charges of financing and plotting thwarted
terrorist attacks in the UK. He was a
contractor with the Federal Department of
Foreign Affairs who spent his downtime
hitting the monkey bars at terrorist
training camps in Pakistan and writing love
letters about Osama bin Laden.
That’s the enemy. But could Barack Obama
recognize it? Judging by his close
association with a terrorist like William
Ayers, apparently not.
Obama has said that he was only a boy when
Ayers and his Weather Underground domestic
terrorists bombed the Pentagon and the U.S.
Capitol. As proof that the war on terrorism
isn’t yet taken seriously enough, one only
has to imagine how the public might react if
we found out that John McCain was palling
around with a former Nazi war criminal, and
justifying it by pointing out that he was
just a kid when all that went down and he
wouldn’t have supported it had he been
around at the time. As though he couldn’t be
expected to pick up a history book and do a
bit of reading. That’s essentially Obama’s
argument vis-à-vis his association with
Ayers – and he gets a pass.
He also points to the fact that Ayers is now
a distinguished college professor. Yeah, so?
How many college campuses would recruit
Osama Bin Laden, if we could find him? We
already have the Taliban diversity program
at Yale for “distinguished” jihadists.
Obama’s numbers in the Middle East are even
higher than they are at the United Nations.
One thing upon which Palestinians and Jews
agree is apparently – and inexplicably – the
notion that Barack Obama would be best for
their welfare.
As the Associated Press reports, at least
one Palestinian is hunkered down at his
computer in a refugee camp making random
calls over the Internet to Americans,
imploring them to vote for Obama. Meanwhile,
a Gallup tracking poll has determined that
75-80 percent of Jews will vote for Obama
next week.
Clearly one, or both, of these parties is
delusional and projecting fantasies the
likes of which haven’t been seen on such a
massive scale since Pamela Anderson stuffed
her assets into that red Baywatch suit and
bounced along the beach. Why not just give
Obama the Nobel Peace Prize right now?
Because it’s all downhill from here, once
the fantasymobile revs up and burns out of
the garage.
The latest wakeup call – which will probably
be snooze-buttoned – comes courtesy of
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who
according to Israel’s oldest daily
newspaper, Ha’aretz, called Obama’s
positions on Iran “utterly immature” when
referring to Obama’s statement about wanting
to engage Iran without any preconditions.
Sarkozy also reportedly said that Obama’s
policies were “empty of all content”.
But who says people want content and
substance? Like OMG you guys, it’s totally
the American Idol election! Judging
by some of the brilliance and depth of
reasoning reflected in these polls, if
Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps had been in
the race and the election held at the end of
the Summer Olympic Games, the president
would be 23 years old, 6’4, and gearing up
to go toe-to-toe with Putin in workout video
sales.