Obama Speaks: Pablum and Bullshit August 8, 2011

Obama just finished his latest little speech, his pep talk aimed at… well, maybe at the people living on Mars. For ten minutes, nine of them on the economy, he spewed pablum and drool, saying he was hopeful our economic problems could be solved.

No mention of the people who brought us to this condition. No mention of the Republicrazies in the House who jammed the country into a deeper hole. No attempt to actually embrace and address the realities of the paralytic, divisive, ideological madness driving Washington politics.

Nope, nothing of substance. Just blither about the United States being the greatest country on earth blah blah blah.

The man has gone from being a great candidate to being a pathetic President.

And that ninth minute – more pablum about the dead soldiers in the helicopter some Afghans shot down over the weekend in a senseless war. More useless deaths of Americans, and Afghans. More wasted lives, their substance and future spent on the political bullshit of Washington politicians who don’t mind killing American soldiers in the political quest for votes and re-election.  (See Ray McGovern’s article on this waste of lives.)

Of course the media is now blithering about the speech and devoting their considerable intellectual skills to pretending that the empty rhetoric Obama just spewed held any meaning at all.

Ten minutes of worthless bullshit. Of pablum for empty minds.

He should pull a Lyndon Johnson and announce he’s not going to run in 2012. The country can’t take much more of this failure of leadership, this cozying up to the destructive elements in the corporate world, this constant licking of the Republitea boots.

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Imus, Oh Imus! April 7, 2007

I noticed in today’s MSNBC story on the Imus racial slur that they left out that producer Bernard McGurk, who shares Imus’ racist proclivity, called the women ‘jigaboos’. Maybe these two should just pull out their Klan costumes and wear them on air. They’ve certainly encouraged all the Kreepy Krawling Klanners out there, along with the Kloset Klanners.

And there’s this from the MSNBC promos: “He can be grouchy and mean. He says exactly what he feels and means what he says… no matter who he pisses off!” That’s from an April 2 promo. So, gee whiz, I guess he really meant it about those Rutgers women.

Imus should be fired. He hasn’t the grace or wit to step down voluntarily. If he were a lesser radio personality he’d be through. But money talks, and he makes money for the broadcast stations. So it must be okay to call people ‘nappy headed hos’ and ‘jigaboos’ if you’ve got enough star power and money. Of course, if he’s gone that far, he might as well reveal the depth of his mind and call some blacks ‘niggers’ on the air. Not that much difference, is there?

All his apologies can’t put the emperor’s clothes back on, can’t put the jigaboo back in the closet.

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