Amused Cynic

First of all, unlike Obama, Bush can read Spanish. He certainly wouldn’t have thanked him for Eduardo Galeano’s book on the United States as exploiter, grinned, and held it up for the camera.  I suspect he would have handed it back, or dropped it to the floor. Perhaps he would have put it on the table, and then handed Chavez a copy of Mark Levin’s best-seller Liberty and Tyranny. No, our relationships with Latin America haven’t been perfect, but South America’s Mussolinis have no business lecturing our presidents on political morality, whether by verbal tirade or pantomime.  

Presenting that book wasn’t a friendly gift, it was an aggressive statement, an in-your-face insult, gratuitously given, and imbecilically accepted by our commander-in-chief.  As with so many of his supposed “gaffes” over the last week, one wonders when the laws of probability take over, and we have to realize that this isn’t the accidental flounderings of  state senator/community activist trying to play president.  I think the humiliation which he, as our president, now accepts on our behalf, is as deliberately deflected by him onto us,  as the Chavez’s and the Ortegas of the world intended it to be.  Public humiliation of the opponent is key to the fascist program…remember?

Speaking of public humiliation, the MSM spent a great deal of time last week trying to humiliate those average Americans who dared to defy the Obama/Pelosi putsch with the “tea parties”—peaceful, spontaneous public protests conducted the way the should have been in a truly democratic society.  Will it backfire on them (or, more accurately, will their slow but thorough self-imolation continue apace?)  Andrew Breitbart thinks so.

So does American Thinker’s Kyle-Anne Shiver, in a piece that reaches a crescendo reminiscent of the Declaration of Independence’s list of grievances against King George III:

In all my years of watching news coverage in America, I don’t believe I have ever witnessed more condescending, amateurish, purely politicized reporting than what just transpired among the liberal MSM covering America’s Tax Day Tea Parties.[...]
Perfectly akin to candidate Barack Obama’s exchange with now-famous Joe the Plumber, these liberal Statists, who see government as more loving than God, more able than Superman and more necessary than drinking water, simply have no genuine understanding of liberty or the individual spirit that kindles and keeps its fires burning from generation to generation. They are so out of touch with the American productive class that they honestly believe no honest-to-goodness patriots even exist in the current day.

Our media have convinced themselves — as has the entire Democratic Party cabal of power-wielders now in charge — that the November election really was a landslide of historic proportions (which it certainly was not), that the “change” moderates really wanted was what they are now getting (out-of-control profligate spending), and that they are now free as “reporters” to finally come out of the closet as the socialist elitists they’ve always been.

Many posed the questions, during their Tea Party coverage, “Why all this anger now? Why are these people protesting now, when they weren’t out in the streets during GW’s eight years?”

Why indeed. The ordinary American — normally quite-silent majority — will take an awful lot of malfeasance and wasteful spending from our federal government. Most of the time, we are just too darned busy to protest anything. We are not getting paid to protest, unlike the anti-war and anti-poverty protesters our media covers in never-ending flurries of fury. We don’t get federal tax dollars to protest, as does ACORN, and we have no sugar-daddy like Soros paying us stipends to lend a deceitful public-protest face to his personal views.

We’re the productive class, the vast middle. We’re busy living our own lives, busy building the businesses and earning our livings, busy raising our children and doing the host of volunteer services that infuse life into our Churches, Synagogues and civic organizations. We’re the citizens doing the lion’s share of those things which have made America the great and exceptional Nation she has been for the past 2-1/3 centuries.

Much of the anger now boiling over in protest has been building for the past 20 years, since the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidential tenure. Much of it is aimed at Republicans, not just Democrats. And it goes to the heart of the size, scope and fundamental duties of the federal government as enumerated by our U.S. Constitution.

This mounting anger, aimed at the tyranny of a federal government — completely off-the-rails of its Constitutionally-framed limited scope and power — may be surfacing now due to a tipping in the fragile balance that was upheld during the G.W. Bush presidency. What was that fragile balance between our quietly continuing our personal business and our taking to the streets?

One thing and one thing only, in my opinion. As long as the federal government is doing the one job of protecting our national security and standing up for us in the face of the world’s sleights, we will take a great deal of folderol from our elected officials. We will suffer the profligate spending and invasions on our personal freedoms when we – at the very least – believe our leaders are stridently bent on protecting our interests and our children from harm.

When a president cuts both those legs off at the knees, as President Obama has shamelessly done for 100 days, then frustration boils over into national protest.

Obama’s first 100 days has been the last straw.

Not only has this president pompously promised the wages of our children and grandchildren in a profligate spending spree that guarantees serfdom for the productive class, he has bowed, scraped, fawned and apologized his way across the entire continent of Europe.

He has planned huge and irresponsible cuts in our defense spending, promised to do away with missile defense systems and heralded the day he will disarm our nuclear arsenal, so as to set a nice example for the resurgent Russian Bear. Obama has obsequiously bowed to the Saudi King, some of whose own subjects blew more than 3,000 of our fellow Americans to kingdom come a mere 7 years ago. Obama has called off the Global War on Terror, yet has no surrender treaties to accompany this juvenile exercise in hating all things Bush. He has welcomed Castro, Chavez, Ortega, Ahmadinejad and Hamas with open arms, salivating grins and friendly warmth, while dissing our heretofore friends and allies, even making a rude point of telling Israel’s PM, Netanyahu, that there will be no face-to-face meeting with him next month in D.C.

So, when our liberal MSM confronts middle America, now on the march, and demands to know what there is not to like about this new Administration, they demonstrate the most out-of-touch elitism ever to disgrace American media. It is cognitive dissonance on steroids. And what’s worse, their liberal Statist myopia prevents their even realizing it.

Never in the history of this grand Republic of ours, has a group so demanded massive intervention as this media does now. And I think they may be about to get it from the folks they most hate – genuine American patriots.

Thank God for the Internet, that’s all I’m thinking right now.

RELATED: Neo-neocon points out that Obama’s behavior would make him the Left’s ideal UN ambassador.

Aren’t they the ones who are supposed to be good at listening to hateful diatribes against the US and all its evils, sitting there looking bored while taking notes, and then pretending the whole thing never happened?

Presidents, on the other hand, are not supposed to do that. They are supposed to respond, to point out the good things about their own country and its history. They are supposed to…but hey, wait a minute, isn’t this the man who not only silently listened to ferocious America-bashing for twenty long and admiring years spent in the pews of his Chicago church, but who indulges quite regularly in the practice himself?