Listened to the president's address to congress tonight. Seems pretty much like all his other campaign speeches. I'm not impressed.
He seems like a good salesman, that's all -- and selling some pretty used merchandise: high-spending social programs recycled from the 1930s. What a yawn. They didn't work then; they won't work now.
I listened to the speech on ABC Radio. Am I hearing things, or is reporter Anne Compton in l-o-o-o-o-o-v-e? Good grief, I thought she would positively swoon describing poor Barack and the heavy-duty challenges he faces. Michelle Obama, beware! Don't let this woman sit in the front row at any presidential news conferences. She may not be able to keep her hands off him.
I almost never listen to network news, and when I do, the bias really stands out. It's really shocking. Like, I went on a salt-free diet for a couple days, and when I started eating normal food again, everything tasted so incredibly salty. You're not aware of how much junk people dump into your food or media until you stay away from it for a few days.
Anyway, I don't know why, but I always want to smack Pelosi across her silly face. At least she managed to stand up and sit down a couple times tonight without tripping over her own feet or toppling off the podium. I'll bet she practiced that all afternoon. Is she constantly smiling, or is it simply that her front teeth don't fit inside her mouth? Hard to tell. Didn't that hairstyle go out with the old Dick Van Dyke Show? She's wearing pants suits, though: Hilary Clinton's contribution to American politics.
On a more serious note, does anyone remember the Reichstag Fire? A guy named Adolf Hitler had been elected as chancellor of Germany. Then one night the Reichstag burned down. That was the German capitol building.
Hitler was quick to blame the fire on the communists. He claimed they were trying to start a revolution, and he seized more or less totalitarian command of the German nation to protect it and keep it safe. However, curiously enough, Hitler marched the German army not against the communists, but into Austria and then Poland. He said the Germans needed "liebesraum," and I'm probably not spelling that right, but it means the equivalent of "elbow room." In reality, it was probably the Nazis -- that's short for National Socialists, Hitler's political party -- who set the fire.
And... the rest is history. For the uninformed with earbuds permanently impairing their intelligence, Hitler went on to destroy nearly the whole world, including frying 11 million people in death chambers carefully designed to optimize murder, make it quick, easy, efficient. Half of those who perished were Jews, only because they were Jews; the rest were mainly political enemies, or anyone who didn't comply with Hitler's executive orders.
Somehow the Reichstag Fire reminds me of Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanual, saying that a crisis presents a wonderful political opportunity.
Looks like Obama's making as much hay out of this economic crisis as he possibly can. He's apparently going to nationalize and socialize and redistribute every Goddamn thing he can get his hands on. And all by the end of this year, probably. Before the American public wakes up and discovers that not only does the Emperor have no clothes, but neither do they anymore.
And it's all for our own good. And he's going to make sure there's no corruption. (Sorry, I'm rolling on the floor laughing, Diet Pepsi shooting out my nose.) He really does believe he's magic. Yeah, President Rock Star. But it's dangerous to surrender your grip on reality and begin believing your own press releases.
Actually, though, isn't Rahm Emanual Jewish? Or isn't his family Jewish? Man, you think he'd be extra careful about seizing upon a crisis the magnitude of the Reichstag Fire and jamming through a bunch of bullshit programs to "fix" it. Maybe he doesn't know history.
Haven't we seen this all before?
Another quote: "Those who refuse to heed the lessons of history are condemned to relive it." That's from Santayana (no, not the musician.)
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