November 21, 2008
Obama Upsets French, Arabs; Everyone Else To Follow As ‘Work’
Commences
Up until Barack Obama’s
victory, much of America – and the rest of
the world – was deeply in love with the idea
of being in love. The problem with any such
relationship is always that, one day, the
spell wears off, and you start getting
annoyed at little things like your soulmate
(in this case, Barack Obama – America’s
soulmate) leaving the toilet seat up. Some
media people won’t care – they’ll blame
George W. Bush for having used the same
bathroom months earlier. Others, like the
mainstream media, will fall into Obama’s
toilet and splash around like it’s holy
water.
Last week, French
philosopher Andre Glucksmann lamented in
France’s Le Figaro newspaper that
Barack Obama’s election victory was already
a big letdown, if only because he’s not
leftist enough – and with center-right
leaders now in France, Germany, Italy and
likely soon in the UK, Eurolibs were
desperate for a victory, anywhere.
Translated from the
article’s original French: “(It was) as if
the Messiah had appeared, not in Washington
but between Paris and Rome, Berlin and
Brussels, as if he extended his conciliatory
wing over the planet. We Europeans have
blithely erased all asperities of the
candidate. He supports the death penalty
which we are so proud to have abolished. He
does not prohibit the free sale of weapons
which seemed to us, up until yesterday, the
fateful sign American barbarism and this
cowboy mentality which we, refined people of
quality, vomit.”
Obama hasn’t even done
anything yet – except name a Jewish Chief of
Staff, upsetting a bunch of Arabs – and
disappointment is already setting in. And
the problem with having to do work is that
it risks generating even more
disappointment.
The Democrats were
elected to a congressional majority in 2006,
and subsequently proceeded to whittle their
approval rating down to almost single digits
when it came time to start doing something
besides criticizing President Bush. Not that
many have noticed this ineptitude recently,
because they’ve been distracted by the
phenomenon of a black guy running for
president.
Obama knows that “doing
things” could make him less popular, which
is why he wants George W. Bush to save him
the trouble and get a few more “failures”
under his belt while still in office – like
bailing out the auto industry. Bush pinned
the tail right back on the donkeys, saying
that any new bailout can’t come out of the
$700 billion he orchestrated for the
financial industry.
Liberal Democrats, now
keen to throw a bone to their auto worker
union pals who risk getting sacked, got
their comrades into this mess in the first
place. That’s often what happens when
liberals get down to “work”. Government
regulations mandating things like
environmental controls as a result of
liberal pet-cause lobbying have accounted
for one-third of U.S. vehicle price
increases, according to a study at the
University of California, Davis. Another
study, by the Brookings Institution, found
that regulatory costs are absorbed by the
manufacturers. Meanwhile, foreign auto
companies are allowed to slap high tariffs
on competing foreign imports. It really
isn’t Bush’s mess to fix.
The New York Times
knows that it will soon come time for Obama
to get things done, and that means there’s
more than a fair chance of disappointment.
So they’re inoculating their boy, in case he
changes his mind about closing Gitmo: “You
can’t be a purist and say there’s never any
circumstance in which a democratic society
can preventively detain someone,” says a
Georgetown law professor “who has been a
critic of the Bush Administration,” in a
Times piece.
Obama may find it
easier to just get a permission slip from
the Democratic Congress to keep Gitmo open.
No matter how much your liberal friends
count on you to be true to your leftist
record now, it’s still far more appealing to
maintain the liberal default position of
“doing nothing” – especially when the
alternative isn’t palatable to anyone except
radical leftists who have a tenuous
relationship with reality.
Imagine Jihad Johnny in
the U.S. court system! The soldiers who
pulled these suspects over for running while
jihading in the Afghan desert can testify to
what they saw, and have their procedures and
methods from the heat of battle held up
against those used to bust potheads in
California. The various spook agencies could
testify about how they failed to inform the
suspects of their right to remain silent
before shooting water up their nose for the
purpose of extracting information.
When the judge closes
his eyes and picks a technicality as the
basis for acquittal from a hat, they would
be free to roam the streets of America with
full access to backpacks, fertilizer and
“social networking” www.JihadIsSoRad.com-type
websites. It would be like springing Charles
Manson into a room full of yuppies.
It’s not like they
could be deported! As we saw recently when
Chinese Muslims at Gitmo were released by
the federal court, officials couldn’t find a
country that would take them without wanting
to kill them. To Obama’s voting base, it
would be like sending puppies to slaughter.
Barack Obama is bound
to find out that George W. Bush’s job is a
lot easier when you’re not doing it.