28 April 2009

With showers of praise...

...the president has still managed to muck things up...

The much celebrated "100 Days" of a new presidential administration is upon us. Though none have mattered as much as President Obama's. Upon taking his inauguration, he began reversing many of his predecessor's policies, from lifting the ban on federal funding on embryonic stem cell research, closing GITMO , without coming up with a plan to house them, announcing a withdrawal date for our forces in Iraq, and increasing the deficit by signing into law a bill that gambled our future away, instead of trying to shrink it. The deficit was approximately $8.45B before the Democrats took the majority in Congress on 4 Jan 2007, and is expected to increase to $16.17B by the end of 2012, the final year of President Obama's first term. This article, from Yahoo News, seems to forget this, as well as many of Obama's missteps, during his first 100 Days.

Believing this as some event worthy of a national holiday, President Obama has requested the networks to grant him a primetime slot to celebrate. All but one has granted the request, the holdout being Fox, not FNC. I'm not too keen on TV programming, but many shows are coming to an end for the season and I would think the networks would be very reluctant to have him preempt their shows, especially since they've bent over backwards to give him more positive coverage than his two predecessors. Our president obviously believes that the media will continue to cover for him, but like Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, Scott Ritter, and Richard Clarke, the media will move on, he's not the brand new toy anymore.

Unlike the crappola that the media, and his acolytes, are claiming, President Obama has proven that he is just as divisive, if not more, than former President Bush. As Ann Coulter mentioned in her CPAC speech, the media acts as if every move made by the president is unprecedented and everyone must know about it. There aren't many accomplishments made by President Obama in his first 100 Days, as noted here, but that hasn't prevented the spin doctors from claiming that Obama's achieved more than others at similar points in their presidency. Or, as in Eric Boehlert's case, believing that Bush was treated more favorably by the Obamedia than Oprompter (stop laughing...).

Left out of many descriptions of President Obama's first 100 Days, will be how he's confirmed Osama bin Laden's thoughts about Amurica, in that we are "paper tigers." He has apologized to the world for the aggressive foreign policy of the Bush 43 Years, dismissing it as "arrogant." Unlike former President Bush, Oprompter has at least expressed a desire to jail his political opponents for having an opinion different than his, while shaking the hands of a dictator, who referred to a sitting US president as "the devil." He "dissed" our biggest ally, Britain, by giving both the Prime Minister and the Queen, gifts that didn't reflect the long history between the two nations, and instead made nice with the "petro-dictators" of the Middle East. It seems that those who oppose Obamessiah's dictates are given short-shrift, while he sacrifices our safety by ponying up to people who salivate at a wounded United States.

Of course some are going to compare President Bush to Obama's 100 Days, and you can count me among them. Media Matters has a posting claiming that the media had set a low bar for Bushitler, and praised him for having cleared them. That may be true, but the media made up for their apostasy by hammering the president eight months after he took office. Something makes me doubt they'll do the same for Obama. President Bush was not doggedly trying to change his predecessor's policies, nor did he constantly blame President Clinton for handing him a recession, a dangerous world ruled by terrorism, and former Vice President Al Gore still being a sore loser. Did I mention that Bush's tax cuts stimulated the economy, while Obama's tax increase will threaten it? That'll surely be left out of the media salivating over Obama's "successful" 100Days.

I just wonder if history will rate it the same...

Have a great day...

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