Who Died and Made Obama President?

From the Washington(DC) Examiner. I couldn't have said it better...

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R e-entry after a longish vacation is always a disorienting time. You turn the key and have to push the door hard to get past the drifts of unopened mail. Most of the mail is bills, of course, and that brings on its own sense of delirium.

But for me what’s made the past few days especially bizarre is to find that, after two weeks of
avoiding the news cycle, I return to discover that Barack Obama has become my president, prophet, and anointed philosopher king — all without an election!

While dumping out heaps of sandy vacation laundry, I learn from NPR that “Barack Obama
has left Jordan and is on his way to Israel,” as if his movements are already of such national importance that we all need to know what he said before he got on the plane, at what time he’ll be airborne, and what he’s expected to say when he lands. NPR believes I wish to know these things. I don’t - really.

What I would like to know is why nobody makes a fuss when John McCain goes overseas. We are a politically divided country, after all; half of us, give or take, vote Republican, and you’d think that broadcasters might remember those of us in the Other America. In the past few days I’ve been repeatedly assured that our new leader-apparent is “burnishing his foreign policy credentials” (rather than creating them) on his fly-by of exotic distant locations.

And that is so much more interesting than the boring fact that Obama’s unsung rival already has
foreign policy credentials. When Barack Obama was a callow teenager, John McCain had already
seen the world; over 30 years he’s repeatedly visited Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. If any candidate knows foreign affairs, McCain does. And the world knows him — and likes him, too. Even McCain’s old torturers in Vietnam are so impressed by his mettle that the chief Hanoi Hilton hotelier told the BBC he’d vote for him if he could. I guess we’d hear more about that if he weren’t merely an aging pretender to the throne.

I’m chopping tomatoes for dinner the fi rst night back when CSPAN tells me that Barack Obama
has decided to give his coronation speech in an outdoor Denver venue vast enough to seat 81,000. Why? One reason is, of course, to remind us all of the similarities between the dauphin and Camelot’s venerated dead king. JFK also gave such a speech, in such a place. Another more cunning reason: The dauphin knows that he has only a few more courtier-delegates than the still-dangerous usurped Queen Hillary.

Put all their courtiers in one room, and the people might notice just how narrow his victory was.
Drown the queen’s minions in a sea of tens of thousands of Obamaniacs, however, and the optics will delude.

Obama is the man who will be king, he is a foregone conclusion — and his noble visage is everywhere. As I’m throwing shoes into bins in our mud room, Obama’s face looks out from seemingly every one of the newspapers piled high in our absence. He’s always shot slightly
from below, his eyes narrowing under the weight of his intelligence and his jaw jutting handsomely.

Having been away from Obama’s images in the media and the image making around him for two weeks, I’m struck afresh with the way it all looks like propaganda. His photos seem straight from the pages of Pravda, as reprinted by The Washington Post and The New York Times. Even that astonishing New Yorker cover, which came out while we were at the beach, seems not to have dented Obama’s pixilated halo.

At last, though, some prominent journalists are getting queasy. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell expressed disquiet this week with the controlled footage from Obama’s trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he gave what she said “what some would call fake interviews,” to
non-journalists. Of Obama’s message management, Mitchell said, “We’ve not seen a presidential candidate do this in my recollection ever before.”

But surely only a docile press lets a candidate get away with tactics like these. Is it any wonder
that in a Rasmussen poll earlier this week, 49 percent of voters said they think reporters favor Obama in their coverage, and only 24 percent trust the press to report the election without bias?

Obama - The Fast Food President

I don't know about You, but I am much relieved. Relieved because though I am undergoing rare, delicate eye surgery tomorrow, my doctor has never been to medical school. He knows nothing about eyes other than he has two. However, this past weekend, he visited the campus of Harvard Medical School. Whew!!

I am also relieved because though I will stand trial for murder this week, and could face execution upon my conviction, my attorney has never before tried a capital case, never been in a courtroom - but he has been watching "The Firm" on TBS, and re-runs of "L.A. Law". Excellent!!

Relieved because you and I, my family and yours, my country and the civilized world are at war with Islamic Jihadists, and my prospective President has absolutely zero experience with international relations, terrorism or military matters.

Barack Hussein Obama is this week playing soldier and statesman. Democrat
Obama is dabbling in Terror Tourism, flirting with disaster, dancing with doom, by taking a six day summer vacation to visit war zones he cannot locate on a map, never mind command and control. All better, right?

Yes, an unqualified, excuse me, Disqualified - left wing fool (make that Tool), a socialist(make that a communist), a pacifist, an appeaser, an Islamic Jihadist apologist with no remote ability to be Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States, is making everything alright by playing Accidental Tourist in the world's most dangerous (for Americans) places. Great.

And while nobody - not even journalists - would even pretend to buy the notion that a raw rookie - who, 2 years ago, was still fixing local Chicago parking tickets - should operate on their child, defend their life in court, or command the world's
greatest military power...But yet, they are trying to sell you exactly that.

Who would, could - never mind should - accept that someone utterly devoid
of experience for the world's most demanding job should suddenly qualify by virtue of a six day foreign junket, which was an obvious media circus?

Answer:

Obama and his getaway drivers. The establishment news media, are absolutely confident that you will buy this radical shiite that they are selling to us, right now.

Barack Hussein Obama, military and foreign policy moron and left wing puppet - and racist - gets on an airplane, visits some hot zones, shakes some hands, conducts a few photo ops, and returns one week later qualified to be President?

In what fairy tale? In the headlines and editorials of the Boston Globe, New York Times, Washington Post, CBS News, et. al., that's where.

Not in your dreams, but our collective national nightmare.

You are witnessing Instant World Leader - the wildest phenomenon since Shake N' Bake, the Big Mac and Hamburger Helper.

Leave the airport a military and foreign policy ignoramus - return one week
later - a cross between Henry Kissinger and General Patton, ready to lead! A seven day wonder! Obama comes home, his foreign policy ticket punched, an expert. Our Fast-food President.

Who would believe this? Who would trust this? Who would permit this? As of today, at least 51% of your fellow citizens.

This is sickness.

This is madness.

This is Obamerica.