Political Effects

         June 15, 2010 Volume 7-No 6 Issue

 More that 100 Days...more like 1 Year

   by K-R Staff

Is it me or does it seem like President Obama’s election happened sometime way in the distant past?  I know since that day in November of 2008, it seems like a year in our mind when it’s really only seven months ago.

Recently, Mr. Obama passed his 100^th day in office.  Jesus Christ!  I swear it seems as though this man has been in office serving as our president over a year. 

 Maybe it’s because he never had a transition period. He is the first president in my lifetime that was actually making presidential decisions, all while vetting, interviewing and selecting potential Agency head appointees.

Not only was the economy in the tank manned by the previous administration. They had no clue and were primarily responsible for letting it drift so far.  The accounting principles for the entire government, well almost, was subscribing to the Bush White House method of making the balance sheet look like there was no problem and the cost of two wars were being paid by….???????????

 Oh yeah! That money came in a different appropriation later on after the government’s normal fiscal budget was debated (or argued by congress), passed and signed.  So the incoming president had to return the accounting process back to its natural order of procedure.  But let us not get to far off track.

All I am saying here is repeating what the then President Elect was saying. Before you can make hard decisions to move the economy in the right direction, you had to really know, I repeat, really, really know how much debt the country was in.

Yeah, I guess that’s it. It seems like President Obama has been in office more than he has actually served because he has been acting prudential since he won the Iowa primary back in early 2008.

He has literally been a target for some ever since. Here we are in June of 2009 and the list of unsatisfied keep growing, liberals on the left, Conservatives on the right, and some Democrats in the center are unset with our president for one thing or another.

That must mean the man is doing a credible job to have that many people dissatisfied. It probably means that he is making decisions based upon what is best for the country and not a select few.

The fact of the matter is that is quite a change from the last 8 years.   You fell me.       

                            Stick to your Day Job

Angelina Jolie’s daddy, Jon Voight, a pretty good actor himself put his views out for the public for public consumption.  He did so as the emcee of a June 8^th GOP fundraiser on and shared the dais with such notable Republicans as Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.

 The words that caught our attention were the following little ditty. “Obama thinks he is a soft spoken Julius Caesar. He thinks he is going to conquer the world with his sweet talk. He really thinks he is going to bring all the enemies’ of the world into a little playground where they will swing each other. We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from Obama’s oppression. “  

 Je…sus Christ! We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from Obama’s oppression? And he is speaking at a Republican fund raiser. Um…whoa!

 We have never said a kind word about Bill O’Reilly, another conservative blow hart.  That changes today. Voight was a guest on his show.  We watched an internet clip of Bill acting as a reporter should by asking pertinent questions such as,

“What is your essential beef with President Obama?”  Voight went into the standard conservative line…not qualified to be president in the beginning. So we are getting what was advertised. Obama is weak and leading us into chaos and socialism he muttered.

To his credit, O’Reilly pursued an answer for this man’s opinions of Obama.

“When Obama was elected, were you willing to give him a chance?” he asked.

Voight replied with the canned charges we heard during the presidential campaign.  “He was associated with the wrong people, Bill Ayers, ACORN, and Rev Wright”. Etc. etc. etc.

Doesn’t this sound familiar?

“What turned you off?” O’Reilly asked Voight.  The Stimulus Package. We are leaving our grandchildren a mountain of debt, Voight replied.

O’Reilly asked if Voight listen to Rush Limbaugh. Voight said no, he doesn’t have time and to my amazement, O’Reilly stated the Voight sounded just like him.

 It was clear that when all is said and done, Mr. Voight is a good actor and should continue to provide us with good acting in various roles. In our opinion, he should not go the Sarah Palin route of throwing a lot of charges against the wall to see what would stick route.  Come to think of it, some of the charges she threw against the wall were believed as gospel by Jon Voight as evidenced by his answers to Bill O’Reilly’s questions.