Barack Obama's Total Eclipse for America (O the Great Deliverer)

The American Spectator ^ | June 9, 2010 | Peter Ferrara

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Barack Obama's Total Eclipse for America

By Peter Ferrara on 6.9.10

In a seminal speech last week at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama gave a stunning performance of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. In the novel of that name written by Mark Twain over a century ago, a 19th century American entrepreneur drawn into a barroom brawl is knocked over the head with a crowbar all the way back to the 6th century. Literally.

He awakens sprawled on an English field on June 20, 528, with an English knight pointing a lance straight at his nose. Taken prisoner and hauled off to King Arthur's court, he is pronounced the sentence of death by burning at the stake the next day at noon, for the pleasure of the capturing knight. But the Boss, as the Yankee is called in the book, remembers that a total eclipse of the sun occurs the next day, June 21, 538, at precisely 12:03 pm. The Boss proclaims to the court that he is a great magician, and rattles his captors by threatening to blot out the sun if they try to harm him. But Merlin assures King Arthur it is an idle threat.

The next day, around noon, the Boss stood in the open courtyard of King Arthur's castle, before the assembled multitude come to watch the spectacle, chained to a stake surrounded by kindling. The executioner raised a blazing torch, but suddenly froze, petrified. The crowd rose to its feet, gasping. The Boss recounts, in the words of Twain,

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"It has now been a little over 16 months since I took office amid one of the worst economic storms in our history. And to navigate that storm, my administration was forced to take some dramatic and unpopular steps. These steps have succeeded in breaking the freefall. We're again moving in the right direction. An economy that was shrinking at an alarming rate when I became President has now been growing for three consecutive quarters." - Barack Hussein Obama

Anyone who believes this is either smoking crack or in dire need of a brain transplant.

[gaijin]

ICE-COOL BALLER, ELITE FRESH PRINCE

[bareford101]

to quote one of the comments:

“Obama was sent to destroy his real enemy: America. He is the face the hard core leftists are using to do the ultimate damage to this once great country.”

[IncPen]

Empty suit.

Failure.

Now the real question is, can we beat the clock and save America?

[Newton]

Oboingo the magnificent. The magnificent failure.

[bootless]

Good post. ping!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

There is a lot of ruin in a country. - Adam Smith