Posted on 04/25/2008 4:42:06 PM PDT by Winged Hussar
We understand that Barack Obama wants Albert Gore to serve as his environmental advisor. All the carnival barkers, medicine show proprietors, and rainmakers seem to be getting together in the same circus tent, and the price of admission is more than the American people can afford.
For reference, a rainmaker was a charlatan who would visit desperate communities during droughts. He would display an impressive array of regalia, which might have included artifacts that he had supposedly obtained from Native American medicine men, and offer to make it rain–for a price. The desperate farmers would give him their money, and he would then perform a ritual or rain dance. Then he would get as far away from town as he could before the drought-stricken people realized that no rain was forthcoming. (This was in an era when the term “tar and feathers” was taken literally.) If by chance it did rain, though, he would return to claim the credit and ask for letters of recommendation from the town council.
Albert Gore now has a similar racket, in which he is going to stop global warming in exchange for millions of dollars in royalties for “Earth in the Balance” and “An Inconvenient Truth.” Any results are almost certain to occur well beyond Gore’s lifetime so he, like the rainmakers of old, will not be accountable for any deficiencies in his self-serving and fraudulent agenda. He is therefore an ideal partner to Barack Obama, a cross between Sinclair Lewis’ phony evangelist Elmer Gantry and Shakespeare’s Jack Cade.
Elmer Gantry was essentially a “Put your trust in JAYSUS and your money in MY POCKET, and you will go to the PROMISED LAND” evangelist who, while not preaching Jesus’ Word, engaged in non-Christian activities like adultery.
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They’re Isflamists. Everything they say is flam. The Grand Wallah of Isflam is Bill Clinton, intern be upon him. (Not the two-legged kind, the two-to-life kind.)
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