More Ironies in the News
Teri O'Brien on Jan 23 2008 at 6:52 pm | Filed under: Clinton Watch, Election 2008, Feature Article
Bill Clinton gets $20 million to go away. There’s a switch. Isn’t he usually the one paying someone to go away, as in “Honey, I left your present on the dresser. Please let yourself out.”
Speaking of Bill Clinton, yesterday on “Good Morning America” Barack Hussein Obama lamented the fact that Bubba sometimes doesn’t tell the truth. Barry–you just noticed this propensity on the part of the former president? Isn’t that like just noticing that Tom Cruise is insane?
And speaking of He Who Walks on Water, last night in the CNN debate, Hillary ripped him for praising Ronald Reagan, claiming, falsely (there they go again) that Barry said that the Republicans had better ideas than Democrats over the last 15 years. Barack Obama didn’t say that. He doesn’t have the sense to believe it, and even if he did, he has too much ambition to say it. Here’s what he actually said:
I don’t want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what’s different are the times. I do think that, for example, that 1980 was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. (emphasis mine) I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn’t much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.
You bet your big ears, Barry, the country was ready for Reagan. You’re right about that, but then a stopped clock is right twice and a day, and you’re no exception. You’re wrong about the reason. The reason can be summed up in two words: Jimmy Carter. And–show of hands–who can tell me how we ended up with Jimmy Carter? Because liberal elitists in the media and other positions of power finally succeeded in their quarter-century long quest to destroy Richard Nixon, thanks to his helpful cooperation in the project. They never got over Alger Hiss, after all, and the Watergate scandal was the perfect means to accomplish two of their important objectives: get rid of Nixon and insure an American defeat in Vietnam. It was a crypto-commie win-win! It also left an opening for Carter to ride his “honest outsider eager for change and to bring us together” mantra to victory. Never mind that this peanut-growing bonehead didn’t have a clue about the economy or foreign policy. He was new! He was fresh! He would bring us together! And he did, in gas lines that stretched for miles, or in front of the tv, watching this doofus in a cardigan sweater whining about our national malaise over 23% interest rates and 12% inflation. Like that stopped clock, the media, who are engaged in a never-ending slobberfest over Obama, are right. He is the 2nd coming, but not the way they think. Not the 2nd coming of Christ, or even the 2nd coming of John Kennedy. This empty suit is the 2nd coming of Jimmy Carter. How ironic, then, that he would be the one to pontificate about the country being ready for the man who cleaned up the mess left by his political predecessor/ideological soul mate. It reminds of the joke that a friend told me about the New Zealand sheep farmer who had a few too many at the local pub and then walked into the kitchen with a sheep under his arm. His wife was sitting at the kitchen table. The farmer says “This is the pig I have sex with when you have a headache.” The disgusted wife rolls her eyes and says “You seem to be under the impression that you’re holding a pig, but in fact it’s a sheep.” He looks at her and replies “You seem to be under the impression that I’m talking to you.” In Obama’s little lecture, he seems to be under the impression that he’s Ronald Reagan, when in fact, he’s Jimmy Carter. At least he’s not a sheep or a pig, though. He’s got that going for him.
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