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THE BLAMER-IN-CHIEF RANT
We have all encountered people who continually and constantly blame everyone else but themselves for their own failures, mistakes, and foibles. I’m sure we’re all guilty of this at some point because it’s really rather difficult and at times excruciatingly painful to look in the mirror and admit that, “Yeah, I really screwed that up big time and I’ve got no one to blame but myself!” This is not at all unusual in children because of an obvious and natural immaturity and the desire not to disappoint the adults in their lives. The young ‘uns need and seek acceptance and approval and to be honest, open, and up front about their mistakes is simply beyond their youthful capabilities. We’ve all heard the classic exchange between, for example, teacher and student. “Well, Johnny,” asks the teacher, “do you have your homework for me to check?” Johnny replies, “No miss. You see, my dog ate it.” Johnny knows he’s lying, the teacher knows he’s lying, and he knows that the teacher knows he’s lying, but he puts it out there anyway. Perhaps you may remember your mother yelling up at you while she’s preparing dinner, “Are you studying for that math test yet?” The child replies, “No, ‘cause Jaimie keeps bothering me and I can’t concentrate with the little brat making so much noise!”
Any of this sound familiar? Sure it does because at some point in our young lives we’ve all been there and done that. The vast majority of us, however, were taught that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and simply won’t do as we approach adulthood. The consequences of not accepting responsibility for our actions were graphically explained and illustrated. You either straighten up and fly right or you’re going to have some very negative and unflattering labels attached to you. People on both a personal and professional level will know that you cannot be trusted, that you are completely and hopelessly unreliable, and that you constantly lie, deceive, and dissemble. In the long run, if not the short term, you end up hurting not only yourself which, of course, is your choice and your right. You are also, however, hurting others from family to close friends, to those you work with, and even casual acquaintances. This is not your right and most of the time – but not always – it’ll come back at you and take a huge chunk right out of your ass!
To engage in this form of pathology is, of course, your decision but by the time we become mature adults, most of us absolutely and consciously go out of our way to avoid this behavior for we understand that it is purely self-destructive, completely unproductive, and in fact will bring us nothing but grief, pain, and misery. But hey, if that’s an experience you must absolutely have, then go for it! It’s quite another matter, however, when our elected leaders on the local, state, or national levels behave in this fashion for the consequences can be absolutely devastating for the entire country. They are not merely affecting their own lives but those of literally hundreds of millions of people. When the majority of the populace becomes convinced that they can no longer place even a minimal amount of trust in those they choose to govern the very existence of our representative republic is literally threatened. In a system such as ours, trust between governed and governor is the cement that binds our country and people together.
In the past and right up to the present, a lack of faith and trust in those who govern has led to large-scale death, destruction, and utter chaos. I give you, for example, our own American Revolution followed by the one in France only a few years later. Moving on, we witness the bloody upheavals in Latin America which ended imperial Spain’s presence in the western hemisphere. Look at the revolutions that occurred in Russia and China in the Twentieth Century and we’ll not even go near that total cluster fuck of the continent of Africa! Over the last number of centuries, a literal ocean of blood has been spilled because people lost all trust and faith in those who governed and indeed in the very system of government they were forced to endure. That is not to say that these revolutions were not justified because they were. Certainly, however, the vast excesses that accompanied them were not.
Over the course of just my lifetime, I’ve noticed a growing and very disturbing increase in the lack of trust and confidence more and more Americans place in our elected officials. And no, I’m not suggesting that the rift between those who govern and those who are governed is even remotely close to what was going on in Russia in 1917 or China in 1949. I’m not completely paranoid – yet. The lack of trust, however, definitely exists and is, in fact, palpable. It is also growing and simmering. What do you think gave rise to the modern-day militia movement or those Tea Party folks (see the Tea Party Movement Rant of 8/19/11 or the Oath Keepers Rant of 11/30/09)? Americans know that government in fact can’t be trusted but constitutes nothing more than a necessary evil that must be monitored ever so vigilantly. Our Founding Fathers knew and were extremely conscious of the fact that by its very nature government – all government at all times – tends to gather ever more power unto itself thereby leaving the people less and less freedom and liberty. This enduring feature of government must be guarded against and kept at bay.
Unfortunately for America, our 44th President simply cannot be trusted. As suggested above, anyone who constantly and consistently blames others for their own improvident decisions and actions and who lies as easily as he knots his tie is just not to be trusted! He can’t be trusted to fulfill his promises or uphold the Constitution he is sworn to defend. He can’t be trusted to lead this nation through the dire and perilous economic horror show which he and no one else (no, not even old G.W.) created and he certainly can’t be trusted to guide our Ship of State in an increasingly dangerous and troubled world. Yet, for all the damage he has done all he can manage to do is blame others for his own utter failures and then continually lie about his own culpability. He blames others and lies as naturally as a cat purrs or a dog barks. They can’t help it. It is in their nature and their DNA. It is exactly the same with our Blamer-In-Chief. He can’t help it. It’s in his nature. It’s no different than little Johnny and his homework eating hound! I don’t give a tinker’s damn if you are a Republican or a Democrat, a Conservative or Liberal, gay or straight, naughty or nice, a Yankee fan or a Red Sox fan – the man must not and cannot be trusted! To do so would be akin to trusting a guy enrolled in flight school but shows absolutely no interest in learning how to land the damned plane!
One John Lott penned an article entitled, “Obama blames everyone but himself for everything that goes wrong (http://johnrlott.com).” He asks how, “can Obama blame Bush for the deficits when the deficits are now four times higher than the highest that they ever got under his administration?” He continues that, “Then again, Obama seems to blame everyone else for everything. Nothing is Obama’s responsibility.” He then goes on to get Rush Limbaugh’s (yeah, yeah, I know – he’s the guy everyone loves to hate but the fact remains that the Nation’s Talker is rarely wrong or mistaken) take which gets right to the heart of the matter. The Champion of Conservatism runs through a list of headlines that proclaim, “Obama Blames Arab Spring and Japan’s Earthquake on Struggling Economy and Job Situation,” or that, “Obama Blames Messy Democracy for His Failed Policies.”(see related video) Additionally, “Obama Blames Congress for US Debt Mess,” and, “Obama Blames Republicans for Slow Pace on Immigration Reform,” as well as, “Obama Blames Media for Lack of Compromise in Washington.” Are you beginning to see a trend or a pattern emerging here? Let’s continue from the same source with, “Obama Blames Technology for Struggling Economy, “ and “Obama Blames Oil Speculators for High Oil Prices,” to, “Obama Blames Reagan for America’s Out Of Control Debt and Spending.”
I realize that this may be getting just a tad bit tedious here, but I’m starting to wonder about the Blamer-In-Chief’s mental state and it only gets worse. Let’s valiantly forge ahead for a few more examples of Obama’s lack of responsibility for his own actions and his more than obvious lack of maturity. Additional examples of the leader of the free world’s refusal to look inward and reflect honestly on his own overwhelming responsibility for the God awful mess our nation finds itself in include: “Obama Blames Bush and Congress for Lack of Fiscal Discipline; Obama Blames Bush-Congress for Putting Off Tough Decisions; Obama Blames Bush for Tax Cuts, Deficits; Obama Blames Bush for Deficits; Obama Blames GOP for Events That Led To Oil Spill; Obama Blames Republicans for America Not Being Able To Solve Problems; Obama Blames Corporations for Everybody’s Problems; Obama Blames Bush for Overall Standing of American Economy; Obama Blames Bush for Regulatory Policies; Obama Blames Wall Street Fat Cats for Economic Disaster; Obama Blames Bush for Stifling Unions; Obama Blames Bush for Failure to Recognize Europe’s Leading Role in the World; Candidate Obama Blames Fox News for His Elitist Label; Obama Blames Washington for High Gas Prices.” Okey Dokey, then. I heartily congratulate you if you actually read this seemingly endless list. Take a break and go enjoy your favorite adult beverage. I’m sure as Hell going to!
Welcome back. I hope you are sufficiently refreshed! The aforementioned list of who the Liar-In-Chief blames for America’s current and seemingly endless list of woes is in many ways quite instructive. The ills he mentioned serves to tell us that he is indeed cognizant of what’s happening in and to our country but he absolutely can’t admit publicly that he and his policies are more than anything and anybody else responsible for the plethora of woes we face as a nation and as a people. Why? Because he absolutely loves and cherishes the destruction he has wrought! He desperately and delightedly revels in the chaos he has purposely created . If he gets another term, then our Muslim fanatical enemies won’t have to worry about destroying the Great Satan for Obama will have handed them our nation on a silver platter!
I’ve made this statement numerous times in previous screeds and it has become more than just a little bit obvious that our Socialist-In-Chief despises our Free Market Economy and Capitalism itself. He despises traditional American values like rugged individualism and self-reliance. He wants us completely dependent on a huge, centralized Nanny State that will dole out to us dolts down here exactly what THEY feel we deserve and nothing more. If you keep these goals at the forefront of your mind, you’ll have no difficulty in completely understanding where this guy is coming from. In his own mind, he is succeeding in his purposefully destructive policies beyond his wildest dreams. Just keep that in mind. The more destruction he causes, the more havoc he wreaks on our country, our traditions, and our institutions the more ecstatic he becomes. He simply can’t admit this out loud in front of God and everybody else!
There are now, however, too many of us out here who recognize the nature and consequences of his evil machinations. One Jerry Pappe wrote a piece entitled, “Obama blames everyone but himself (www.heraldandnews.com),” where he acknowledges that Obama and the Democratic Party, “and their members of Congress have spent years blaming former President George W. Bush for the nation’s current economic woes.” He explains that, “nobody in the left-dominated media bothers to note that in the last two years of the Bush presidency, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and thus had a death grip on the nation’s economy, having complete control over the nation’s purse strings.” Yeah, what about that overlooked and pesky little factoid?
Republicans did not have the power or the votes to block even one of Obama’s Socialist proposals. He set the agenda, his Congress came up with the bills, and the Pretender-in-Chief gladly and gleefully signed them into law. If for some inexplicable reason, his Socialist agenda was blocked, he simply fell back on the old Executive Order Gambit. He literally had his boot on the throat of the Republican Party and could do any damned thing he pleased. And boy, did he ever! I give you but two examples: the moratorium on all offshore oil drilling and, of course, Obamacare. The American people were overwhelmingly opposed to both measures but we got them rammed down our throats anyway. Representative government and the will of the people my sorry old ass!!
In a web piece by one Amy Proctor entitled, “As Economy Crashes, Obama Blames Everyone But Himself (http://amyproctor.squarespace.com),” we are reminded that, “The first principle in being President of the United States is that the buck stops with him.” She goes on to say, “Not so for this floundering destroyer in chief,” and she also points to some relevant headlines of the day. Some examples include: U.S. Credit Rating Downgraded for First Time in History; Worldwide Credit Rating Lost; U.S. Downgraded to AA+; S&P Chief – U.S. Must Stop Spending; Second U.S. Recession Could Be Worse Than First; Dems Blame Tea Party For Economic Woes; Dem Barney Frank Blames Credit Downgrade on Military!; Obama and David Axelrod Blame Tea Party for Downgrade!; Sec of Treasury Tax Cheat Tim Geitner Blames Downgrade on S&P Rating Organization. The author goes on to remind us that, “Obama has tripled the U.S. debt in his first 18 months in office, along with the Democratically controlled Senate and Congress before the 2010 shellacking at the polls in which the GOP took back the House.” She correctly concludes that, “Obama has been a COMPLETE DISASTER on the economy. Utter failure. Total catastrophe.” Amen, Sister, Amen.
Unfortunately, it is far worse than that. Our first 43 Presidents from Washington through “W” were collectively responsible for amassing 53% of our national debt-deficit. This means, of course, that the current occupant of the White House is singlehandedly and solely responsible for amassing 47% of the total debt-deficit all by his lonesome! The Court Jester-in-Chief has literally redistributed trillions away from the private sector to the government sector to be given to his cronies and supporters. That money, obviously, can no longer be used to hire more employees, expand existing businesses, or start new ones. It is only the private sector that can pull this country out of our government caused recession-depression and rev up our moribund economy. Additionally, all on his own our 44th President has added something like $4,000,000,000,000 to the national debt-deficit! Yet he and his minions continually and unceasingly blame everyone else but themselves! It is pathetic in the extreme and could be the death knell of the greatest nation God ever gave mankind. I am utterly convinced that Obama and his sycophants, toadies, and lackeys are exhibiting rather telling signs of some form of mental disease or disorder.
I am absolutely serious here and I am just as seriously totally and completely unqualified to make this kind of pronouncement. I have absolutely no training or background in psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, or anything else related to disturbed minds or aberrant behavior. I am a total layman here so take what follows with many grains of salt. Take what’s coming for exactly what it’s worth and if it’s worth nothing then so be it. I can handle it. Let’s take a look at a web piece entitled, “Projection, Blaming, Grudge Holding, Doomsday Thinking, Revenge Thoughts, Black and White Thinking: Irrational Ways of Thinking Which Keep You Angry (http://angriestout.com).” The author, one Lynne Namka, Ed. D., describes various personality disorders including projection. She notes that, “Projection is a common defense mechanism where a person gets upset with a trait in someone else that he wishes to deny in himself.”
She goes on to say that, “much of their internal thought or words during an argument is focused on blaming the other person.” She informs us that while everyone has some of this going on, “some people have the need to blame others big time, thus obstructing their own growth and learning.” Namka also posits that for, “some people, the first reaction to a problem is to find someone else to blame. Blaming is a defense mechanism to avoid taking personal responsibility for the situation. The blamer rapidly finds fault in the other person and criticizes them.” Hmmmm, sound familiar?
Others have described Projection as a symptom of people suffering from something called Bi-Polar Disorder. An article entitled, “Common Games Between BPs and Non-BPs (http://bpdcentral.com),” explains that, “people with BPD usually lack a clear sense of who they are, and feel empty and inherently defective.” Furthermore, “Projection is denying one’s own unpleasant traits, behaviors, or feelings by attributing them (often in an accusing way) to someone else.” Additionally, “The BPs unconscious hope is that by projecting this unpleasant stuff onto another person . . . the person with BPD will feel better about themselves.” Let’s see, personality disorder? Projection? Bi-Polar Disorder? This doesn’t actually inspire confidence in our Fearless Leader’s ability to make clear, competent, or even rational decisions. For most of us out here issues like these may cause problems in our personal or professional lives. We can deal with it or not. The President of the United States, however, is never more than a few feet away from a soldier who carries with him the “football”, a satchel containing all of our nuclear launch codes. Hey, I’m just sayin’.
What’s all this psycho-babble and jargon have to do with the price of beans as it relates to our daily lives and existence? Well, let’s take a look at something that is crucial to the way we lives our lives – oil. One of our nation’s most serious, debilitating, and dangerous problems remains our dependency on foreign sources for our energy needs. Oil remains the single most abundant, most efficient, and, yes, cleanest source for fulfilling our energy requirements for well into the foreseeable future. There’s just no getting around it, through it, over it, or under it. Oil is it. Yes, all the recent talk and hype about alternative energy sources and fuels sounds fine and maybe one day far into the future they can replace fossil fuels as a dependable source of energy. At present, however, they simply can’t.
With current technologies in solar and wind power, for example, those two sources can’t even provide five percent of our energy needs. It just isn’t possible and yet those on the Far Left insist that we shut down oil production, stop exploration for new sources, and cease and desist from any and all kinds of drilling. They say that they are only trying to save the environment and the planet by their anti-oil stance and hysteria but that’s just a giant load of Bullshit and Bombast and they know it. Like everything else, they’ve politicized oil and charge anyone who still favors the use of fossil fuels as an enemy and a traitor to Dear Old Mother Earth! Obama and the Boys placed a moratorium on all offshore drilling in the Gulf Coast and the Pacific. They refuse to allow the oil guys from operating in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the Deccan Plateau ( see the Energy Independence Rant of 6/23/09). Old Barry Boy then turns around and solemnly swears that he is somehow moving us toward energy independence!
Once again, it appears that Black Man Speak With Forked Tongue! He’s doing everything he can to keep us dependent on foreigners for our energy needs and some of those guys really, really hate us! Remember, Obama and his Socialist minions absolutely love the concept of keeping people ever more dependent on government. To them, anything even remotely related to the concept of independence in any area of our lives, including energy, is anathema and must be cast out! Not surprisingly, then, while he recognizes that his non-energy policies are helping him bring the United States to its knees, he characteristically blames anything and anybody but himself! In a piece for the American Thinker entitled, “Obama Blames Everyone But Himself For High Gas Prices (www.americanthinker.com),” author Rick Moran informs us that the, “president’s energy non-policy of funding solar, wind, and God-knows-what- other kind of power while doing everything to prevent opening new oil fields to exploration and development is not to blame for high prices, says the president.” This is not merely the death of common sense being displayed by the Anointed One, it is another example of his out and out lying.
Instead, our Oil Expert-in-Chief blames the evil oil speculators but swears that, “We’re now in a position to investigate if there’s unfair speculation. We’re going to be monitoring gas stations to make sure there isn’t any price gauging that’s taking advantage of consumers.” Utterly Fucking Brilliant, I tell you!! It just takes one’s breath away. That’s just what America needs. More and more Federal interference in the lives of private citizens and even more Federal Inspectors nosing into the business of some poor shlub who owns the corner gas station and is just trying to make a living. Yeah, I’m really relieved and grateful that Big Brother is watching over me! Those evil damned speculators – we’ll really stick it to them all right just as we will to those immoral and sinful price gauging Bastards! The President insists that since oil is a world commodity that when, “prices spike up like this there aren’t a lot of short-term solutions.” Rick Moran, however, correctly counters that there, “would have been short term solutions if one of Obama’s first acts as president would have been to open up every available oil field for drilling.” So simple. So true. Does our Fearless Leader step up to the plate and take ownership of his failure and responsibility and then put corrective measures in place? No, of course not. Far better to blame someone else!
An outfit called Right Wing News (www.rightwingnews.com), published a piece entitled, “Obama Blames Everyone Else on Oil Prices.” Author Brian Garst notes that, “Despite public demand for increasing domestic oil production, the current White House has sent a clear signal that the U.S. will not be increasing production into the future, despite growing demand.” He continues that while, “simply one of many factors impacting the price of oil, it is a factor.” However, “Rather than acknowledge that the price of oil reflects the realities of supply and demand, including anticipated changes in the future, Obama is lashing out at anyone and everyone in an attempt to distract from his failed and misguided leadership on energy.” Better be careful what you say here Mr. Garst, or you’re likely to get a visit from those friendly folks from the New Black Panther Party!
The author also explains that Old Barry Boy is blaming those evil speculators but correctly asserts that they are merely reflecting the reality that demand will in the near future far outpace our oil supplies. They are not, as El Jefe and his Hordes maintain, creating our reality. The Far Left must be fully credited for this particular dilemma. Garst explains that the, “same cannot be said of the President whose policies are sending a clear signal that U.S. domestic production will be curtailed or at least not allowed to grow fast enough to match future demands.” The Saboteur-in-Chief fully realizes that without enough oil this nation comes to a grinding, screeching, and disastrous halt! As alluded to earlier, this is exactly and precisely what he wants. He and his mob want nothing more than the destruction of the United States and purposely denying us the crucial ability to acquire as much oil as we can as quickly as we can from our own abundant resources might very well be the key element in his plans for America’s demise. Who would think it? An American President duly elected by American citizens wants to utterly bring this nation to ruin! Nah, that can’t be. It’s got to be my delusional paranoia kicking in again. Maybe I should call the shrink and get my “scripts” refilled.
Obama, however, is not merely content to blame oil speculators but instead goes right to the source: Big Oil Companies who as we all know are evil incarnate and must be destroyed and then, of course, nationalized. Can we all say Hugo Chavez five times fast? The same source notes that the, “President is also picking on another bogeyman, those dastardly oil companies.” The Exalted One himself proclaimed that, “Four billion dollars of your money are going to these companies at a time when they’re making record profits and you’re paying record prices at the pump.” The Liar-in-Chief sounds really mad now and he threatened that, “it has to stop.” Yessirree! Tough talk from the Bamster. I’ve noticed something about this guy. He never, absolutely never backs up his generalizations and simplistic blatherings with facts, numbers, and sources. We’re simply supposed to take this crap at face value and never question his all-knowing and all-encompassing wisdom. He is, after all, the Great Leader who will lovingly take care of all of us little people out here. Not to worry – just do as the Great One dictates and trust him without doubt or question!
The last I read, the average business in America, both large and small, maintains a profit margin of between eight and ten percent so let’s split the difference and call it nine percent. Does that nine percent sound so outrageous to you? No, me either. Well, guess what? That’s right about where the oil companies come in. Did you know that for every dollar you spend at the pump the evil oil companies rake in a whopping, grotesque eight cents? Let’s tar and feather those Bastards and then string them up by their, uh, thumbs! Oh yeah, what about all those gazillions of dollars they rake in!?! Yeah, what about it? Have you ever heard of research, development, and exploration? Do you know how many billions upon billions of dollars those greedy oil mongers shell out in taxes? What about the tremendous expense involved in actually drilling and extracting the crude and the cost of transporting and refining the stuff? What about the additional expense of transporting the gas to your local station or the oil to the home heating company? Yeah, without these nefarious capitalists, you know what? We’d freeze our asses off during the winter months and we could all turn our automobiles into giant planters to adorn our front yards as they sit up on blocks!
I’m always amazed at the constant anger and hatred directed at people who bring us products and services without which our lives would become unlivable and untenable. The folks involved with these crucial industries should be thanked, cheered, and applauded. Instead President Barry Boy and the rest of the Braying Jackasses vilify them with lies, falsehoods, and shameful smears! Author Garst correctly notes that, “reducing oil production relative to demand, or adopting disruptive cap-and-trade regulations, will ensure that prices continue to rise.” The author also has a refreshingly honest and upbeat message about one of Socialism’s most despised and feared enemies: the entire concept of profits and the profit motive. He explains that if Obama, “means record profits have to stop, he’s just being demagogic.” After all, “profits simply serve to encourage more production and investment in a sector, thus providing more of what the public has voted for with their wallets that they want.” That doesn’t even rise to the level of Economics 101 – it’s simply common sense. The writer concludes on what I believe is a hopeful note. He explains that the, “President is clearly exploiting popular ignorance in hopes of distracting from his own economic failures. But he can blame speculators, oil companies, or anyone else all he wants. If prices continue to rise, and the economy continues to struggle, he will be very vulnerable in 2012.” From your mouth to God’s ear, my friend!
That our Anointed One will not accept even the slightest iota of blame but continually deflects it off onto others is telling in the extreme. Lately, however, he’s elevated that juvenile behavior to even greater and more dizzying heights. Who is ultimately guilty in his warped, Socialist, tiny little mind? Well, you are. I am. We all are. He, of course isn’t but the American citizen, the American consumer, is the ultimate and consummate culprit, the evil villain behind our nation’s woes and ills. It is our fault. Why, you may ask yourself is it our fault? The answer is simplicity itself. Obama is obviously all knowing and all seeing. He is the Truth Giver, the Great Seer, and God-King all rolled up neatly into his Divine Presence. All wisdom emanates from Him and Him alone. He, therefore, can never be wrong and can be blamed for nothing. I am sure that this megalomaniac truly believes this and in his head he is sure he was sent to us from On High to lead us out of the desert and into the Promised Land of Socialism, fewer and fewer freedoms and liberties, bigger and more intrusive government, and a drastic reduction in personal wealth and prosperity.
This is his warped and purposeful game plan and goal. Unfortunately, I am forced to conclude that huge numbers of my fellow citizens seriously and ardently agree with above assessment of our Brother-in-Chief. After all, over 52% of America’s electorate gave Him the presidency. How is it possible to reach any other conclusion? Well if you are one of those deluded and delusional folks, and you damned well know who you are, I just hope you’re as happy as the proverbial pig in shit! You deserve the Bastard and the mayhem and misery he is directly responsible for. The rest of us, however, emphatically do not! So how do you guys feel now? You are his faithful and faithfully blind followers and he blames you, along with the rest of us, for the economic debacle we are forced to endure based at least partly on outrageous fuel prices because of his outrageous and wrong-headed policies. I sure hope you’re still as ecstatic as you were on the day Old Barry Boy received his crown and scepter!
An article entitled, “President Obama Blames You for High Gas Prices (http://blog.heritage.org),” opines that, “President Barrack Obama deflected blame for high gas prices yesterday by blaming American consumers for their automobile choices.” At a wind turbine boondoggle – uh, I mean plant, “Obama needled one questioner who asked about gas prices.” According to author Rory Cooper, Obama said, “If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know . . . you might to want think about a trade-in.” There you go, you poor besotted, befuddled, ignorant Bastards. It’s your fault for buying that huge gas-guzzling beast! It’s obvious that YOU are artificially pumping up current inflated fuel prices so shut up and go out and buy what amounts to no more than a coffin on wheels!
Yeah, it’s all about you and your selfish choices! Forget about the fact that you’re a family of six and need the space or the fact that you need a large vehicle to keep your business afloat. It doesn’t matter that you’re concerned with your family’s safety on the road and a large heavier vehicle gives you the peace of mind that those tiny little “rice burners” simply can’t provide. How about the concept that you as an American consumer just damned well WANT one!?! It matters not a whit. In addition to obviously hating the planet and your desire to wantonly pollute and destroy it, you have committed a far greater sin. You have failed to follow the directives from His Highness and for this you must obviously burn in Hell!
According to the Socialist-in-Chief, you shouldn’t have the choice to purchase the car or truck you desire and can afford. These high gas prices are your fault and for your brazen disobedience you must be severely chastised, ridiculed, and punished! How dare you exercise your right to choose?!? The author goes on to explain that for, “most Americans, however, high gas prices are no laughing matter. And for the president to suggest that a taxpayer’s inability to buy a new $40,000+ hybrid vehicle (that still requires gas) is the root problem, rather than his price-increasing oil policies is shameful.” True, but then we are talking about a guy who is utterly and totally shameless. In addition, our thoroughly clueless leader has no idea how ludicrous is his demand that we all rush out and purchase a tiny death trap that has all the power of your average lawn mower as it relates to the price of gas. Even if all of us did his bidding, it wouldn’t reduce our price at the pump. It would simply reduce our cost by virtue of having to fill much smaller gas tanks. The price per gallon, however, would remain just as high as ever. That the leader of the free world should be so utterly ignorant and/or duplicitous does not bode well for this nation’s future.
The piece goes on to inform us that before, “President Obama took office, his personal vehicle of choice was the Chrysler 3000 sporting a V8 engine averaging 17 miles per gallon in the city. The President’s campaign vehicle was a GMC Yukon, which was flex-fuel averaging . . . 17 MPG. But, of course, this is a do as we say, not as we do activist administration. You must live by a different set of rules.” How absolutely typical. This is the way all those on the Far Left view us little people. They will tell us how to live and attempt to control and regulate every aspect of our lives while they do exactly whatever the Hell they please. In their own overblown egos, that is their due and our current pathetic excuse of a leader is only the most visible example of that attitude. The author of the piece understands that the, “president knows his anti-drilling policies and costly regulations are contributing to high gas prices. Normally, we may expect him to deflect this onto his political opponents, or perhaps ‘evil’ corporate interests, but we must admit, blaming American consumers is at least . . . unique.”
The man is simply unable, totally incapable of taking responsibility for his own actions and mistakes. He seems to have a pathological need to blame others, everybody and anybody, for his own short comings, failures, and mistakes. This is obviously not healthy behavior and raises many serious questions about Obama’s ability to rationally lead and govern. Once again, I’ll throw in my previous cautionary note about my complete lack of knowledge dealing with matters psychological on anything but a layman’s level. Nevertheless, I’ve noticed what I regard as too many abnormalities in the man’s behavior and I feel compelled to point them out. My apologies to all those highly trained and educated professionals in the field. Well, here goes. We’re all familiar with that old expression that just because you’re paranoid it doesn’t mean that they’re not out to get you but I believe I detect more than just a little paranoia in the Anointed One’s behavior. Webster’s defines the term as, “a mental disorder characterized by delusions of grandeur,” and I believe the term fits our Bungler-in-Chief like a favorite old shoe.
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In a web piece entitled, “Personality Disorder Information (www.4degreez.com),” the term paranoid is described as, “characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion that people around you have sinister motives.” Additionally, these folks “tend to have excessive trust in their own knowledge and abilities and usually avoid close relationships with others.” Furthermore, they “usually shift blame to others and tend to carry long grudges.” I believe Obama’s penchant for constantly blaming others and ducking personal responsibility has been extremely well documented. We also know just from his public utterances that he possesses an ego at least the size of the Milky Way and I’m sure he sees himself as the last and most deserving likeness to be carved into Mount Rushmore. John Lott’s piece referenced earlier speaks to Obama’s opinion of himself. The article states the as a candidate he boasted, “I think I’m a better speech writer than my speech writers,” he reportedly told an aide in 2008. In addition, the Presidential hopeful claimed that, “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell right now . . . I’m a better political director than my political director.” Talk about an overdose of pure unadulterated Hubris, well I guess so! The article further notes that on, “Another occasion – at the 2004 Democratic Convention, Mr. Obama explained to a Chicago Tribune reporter that, “I’m LeBron baby. I can play at this level. I got game.” Is this really the kind of rhetoric we want and expect from serious, level-headed, responsible leaders?
Referring back to the piece entitled, “Personality Disorder Information,” we note one that is labeled Histrionic which is described as those, “people with histrionic personality disorder are constant attention seekers. They need to be the center of attention all the time,” and they, “use grandiose language to describe everyday events and seek constant praise.” I have noticed this trait about our President literally every time the Phony Bastard opens his mouth. Have you ever really listened and paid strict attention when he speaks? The language is always overly flowery and grand and he has rehearsed over and over again that peculiar and unnatural cadence when he speaks. He creates the purposeful impression that he is talking to us from on high and that his every utterance must be etched in stone.
Yet, if you’ve ever taken the time to actually read and analyze full transcripts of his speeches you will quickly realize that he has said nothing of any substance at all. There’s never any real substance – just symbolism, but he sure sounds ever so Presidential. The same article also describes Narcissism and explains that this personality disorder, “is characterized by self-centeredness,” and that people afflicted with it, “seek attention and praise. They exaggerate their achievements, expecting others to recognize them as being superior.” The man reeks of this trait. It literally oozes from his very pores! Perhaps most tellingly, “They tend to make good first impressions yet have difficulty maintaining long-lasting relationships.” As with the American people, you mean? Let’s face it, he came on like Gang-Busters but less than three years into his first term the bloom is definitely off that fucking rose! His youthful, vigorous, and energetic appearance certainly made a damned good impression on so many unthinking boobies out there that it appeared that we may have run across a new kind of politician who actually might make good on his promises. The American people really got excited about the prospect. Alas and alack, it was all just smoke and mirrors, just a cheap conjuror’s trick, and the nation seems to be on to him as the 2012 elections draw inexorably closer. Just take a look at his poll numbers lately.
Our Great Leader’s biggest problem seems to be his absolute and total inability to look inward and take personal responsibility for his actions such as, oh, I don’t know, fostering more destruction upon our country than could any foreign enemy. He has, I believe, purposely set out to destroy America and turn it into something it was never meant to be: a monument to the colossal failures as seen in every Socialist-Communist nation in planetary history. His policies and machinations are responsible for the utter mess we find ourselves in but he continues to blame everyone else but himself. In a piece entitled, “Accepting Personal Responsibility (www.livestrong.com),” author Jake Lawson asks, “What is Accepting Personal Responsibility?” His answers include: “Acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in your life; Accepting the fact that you choose the direction for your life; and Accepting that you cannot blame others for the choices you have made.” Additionally, Lawson notes that you must, “point the finger of responsibility back to yourself and away from others,” and that one must take, “an honest inventory of your strengths, abilities, talents, virtues, and positive points.” In other words, be honest about yourself for if you do not do that you can never be honest with anyone else and therefore cannot and must not be trusted.
If we as a nation do not realize in one big damned hurry that our child-like and childish “leader” is incapable of such mature, adult self-reflection this country is headed straight for the crapper! Just look at all the carnage he has wrought in less than one full term. If he is granted yet another term I fear this once great nation shall remain forever just that – once great!
Much Luv Y’all and Have a Great Day!
The Fifth Horseman
(Dr. David M. Rich, Ph.D.)
