Posted on 11/09/2008 9:59:40 AM PST by Winged Hussar
The insane emperor Caligula made his horse, Incitatus, a Roman consul. In 2008, the people of the United States elected Barack Obama and Joseph Biden. The Romans got the better of the two arrangements, because Caligula appointed the ENTIRE horse. Within 72 hours of his election, Barack Obama has already turned the nation's highest office and the leadership of the Free World into a carnival sideshow.
Obama began his career as President-Elect by mocking former First Lady Nancy Reagan, whom he said held seances in the White House. It is an unspoken custom of the Presidency that one does not belittle a predecessor, much less his wife, but Obama lost no time in making jokes at the expense of an 87 year-old lady who tended her husband through the ravages of Alzheimer's Disease...
He also created a Web site, Change.gov, which bears the title, "Office of the President Elect." The site uses the Great Seal of the United States minus the cluster of stars above the eagle's head. (It might, in fact, be illegal for him to use the entire Great Seal because he is not yet President). He has set up this government-hosted Web site as if it was his personal campaign site, complete with a litany of attacks on President Bush: the man who congratulated him on his election, and who has at least an informal duty to assist him during the transition period.
We hoped that Barack Obama would prove us wrong in our expectations... He has instead used the first three days of his new status as President-Elect to demonstrate the maturity of an adolescent with a tinfoil crown on his head, a narcissistic megalomaniac with delusions of Messiah-hood.
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All Bush has to do is to before he leaves office is to install a giant mirror in the Oval Office, facing the President's desk. Then Obama will spend the next four years staring at his reflection (while being fed, bathed, and groomed in place by attendants, and occasionally repositioned to avoid pressure sores) and will thus be unable to cause any damage. He won't be able to sign any legislation either because he won't be able to direct his attention to anything but the image of himself behind the President's desk, but that would simply mean that Nancy Pelosi could not get anything done either. Does anyone see any downside here?
In retrospect, the Republicans could have shut down Obama's campaign by installing big mirrors in every hotel at which he stayed, because then he would never have shown up for any of his scheduled campaign events.
Say nothing.
Sign nothing.
Propose nothing.
Worry about...nothing.
This will leave every pile of $h!+, big and small, for Obama to deal with. He'll be so buried in these piles, he'll have no time for anything else on his twisted agenda. At least, for a while.
Hey that an insult to every buffoon. We know there are at least 64 million of them in the USA.
I’m sure the Left applauded his insult. Classless.
And don’t forget Caligula also thought he was the Messiah.
Obama, on the other hand, isn't stupid. Do not underestimate someone who believes he is here to "change the world."
“the man who congratulated him on his election”
Why would it make a difference. He is the “ONE”(evil one that is). And he will leave no man or woman standing who would oppose his plan. What President Bush should do now is , like 0 did with any controversy, is to make himself unavailable for questioning by the inquisitor.
The press corps present broke out in hilarious laughter.
It may be too much to hope that O becomes a national joke and is therefore, neutralized. However, I am not optimistic about that.
I predict that the right will have a hayday with the amount of comic material Obama and Biden will provide. His first press conference was laughable. Take the teleprompter and script away from this guy, wind him up, and watch him display to the world how hollow he actually is.
Even the left will be wishing for a third Bush term after this guy.
Obama’s a smug, condescending liberal elitist with one goal in mind -— undermine the enemy and hold onto power. Even a beloved figure like Mrs. Reagan isn’t off limits to the Messiah.
What goes around, comes around.
” It is an unspoken custom of the Presidency that one does not belittle a predecessor, much less his wife,”
Well, just one little thing here: “Change you can believe in!”
This is not the time for nasty rhetoric from conservatives. This is the time to espouse Godly virtues and wisdom. This is not the time to be what the left thinks we are but are not.
“It may be too much to hope that O becomes a national joke and is therefore, neutralized. However, I am not optimistic about that.”
Half-correct, I hope. He will be neutralized by a freshly energized, more conservative Republican Party. As for becoming a national joke, he will achieve that distinction in no time at all.
Yes, at least the Romans got the whole horse.
By the way, do we think Obama is really president unless he proves it by producing a REAL birth certificate?
I don’t think the courts or politicians will act on this, but there will always be doubts that he is a legitimate POTUS until he confirms it with solid proof.
Wow! He will need to put some ice on that one.
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