“Reach Higher!” Hell, Why Not Go For The White House?

I guess I’ve been a little off my game lately, butt in my defense, I hadn’t even noticed until Little Mo pointed out that I’ve been wasting a lot of valuable Ethernet time/space yacking about racist topics like ISIS/ISIL/IS/ISZ, Benghazi, IRS, Fast & Furious and how Putin is rebuilding the Soviet Union one country at a time. As a result, he reminded me that I’ve been giving short shrift to the more important issues facing our country, like renegade schools that are dumping Lady M’s “Healthy Lunch & Snack Programs.” Because kids just won’t eat them. So they’re hungry all the time.

So today, I’m covering one of MO’s public service appearances in a sincere attempt to apologize for my lapse.

This time she was in Atlanta at the Booker T. Washington school where she and Education Secretary Arne Duncan teamed up to promote their “Reach Higher” program which is aimed at maintaining full employment for tenured college professors.

Lady M was the star of the pep rally designed to get kids fired up to “reach higher” than high school.

As you see, they’re mesmerized, and fired up.

She shared her personal story, as she always does, and encouraged the kids to go ahead and take out $200k in loans in order to spend 4-6 years in undergraduate school taking remedial courses that will qualify them to, well, you know, reach higher. Or something.

Come on! Lean in! I’m really reaching as high as I can!

Of course, that kind of debt can be quite burdensome, as Lady M has explained many times in the past:

Mrs. Obama complains about the lasting burden of student loans dating from her days at Princeton and Harvard Law School. She talks about people who end up taking years and years, until middle age, to pay off their debts. “The salaries don’t keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you’re in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids,” she says.

Butt despite that nagging concern, she also advises that they reject those big, lucrative corporate jobs in order to pursue their true bliss in one of the “helping” professions - like she and Barry did.

Obama explains that she and her husband made the choice to give up lucrative jobs in favor of community service. “We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do,” she tells the women. “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.”

 

A member of one of the “helping” professions, reaching higher!

And after you “give up” that big corporate job, get into one of those “helping” professions, your salary, indeed will “respond.” Or something. Of course, if you choose the right “helping” profession, the perks are awesome!

 

Date night! New York City here we come!

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Optics, Theater: Stage Left

Good Morning: I’ve got the Chucky Cheese interview; abridged and annotated. You’re welcome.

President Obama in an interview broadcast Sunday said he “should have anticipated the optics” of golfing after a statement condemning the execution of American journalist James Foley.

Someone else who never quite understood the importance of optics: Chucky’s MTP predecessor

Yes he was upset with himself, he’s usually so good with the optics.

“It is always a challenge when you’re supposed to be President on vacation,” Obama said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

I KNOW! Between the fundraising, the concerts, the golf, the parties, the date nights, the golf, the sleepovers, and the flyovers, it’s hard to know where the work ends and the vacation begins.

The Mrs. though, she doesn’t have that problem

"There's no doubt that — after having talked to the families, where it was hard for me to hold back tears listening to the pain that they were going through,

See? See? I know how to do optics!

after the statement that I made, that you know, I should've anticipated the optics" he added. "You know, that's part of the job.”

Got it; it’s hard anticipating optics when you’re on vacation, unlike when you’re working and constantly thinking of the optics. Come to think of it, in Barry’s case, it’s not just “part of the job,” it IS the job.

Obama also said “theater” is part of the presidency.

Again, no; not part of the presidency; it’s the whole Megillah.

"It's not something that always comes naturally to me.”

 

Really?

But it matters. And I'm mindful of that," Obama said.

Well, that’s good. And being mindful, now, of the importance of the theatre of the absurd, he told Chuck he’s going to take another crack at defining his position on ISIS on Wednesday:

President Obama said he plans to address the nation on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Wednesday, vowing to "hunt down" the terrorists who beheaded Foley.

And no golf this time! As he told Chuck:

“What I'm going to be asking the American people to understand is, number one, this is a serious threat,”

So, congrats going out to the ISIS team: you’ve officially been kicked up from JV to Varsity!

“Number two, we have the capacity to deal with it.”

What he means is that he’ll make it “a manageable threat.” That way Big Guy won’t be responsible for putting any boots on the ground, like that old war-monger cowboy before him – who knew nothing about presidential optics or theater. Hayseed. 

BO, in case you’ve forgotten, won a Nobel Peace Prize. So there will be no war; only “manageable problems” addressed by “kinetic military action.” Because his handlers promised that he could end Bush’s wars, butt it was understood that he wouldn’t be allowed to start any. On purpose any way.

“It was my understanding there would be no wars.”

Unfortunately, ISIS didn’t get the memo.

Stay tuned, optics and theater to follow.

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Promises Made; Promises Unkept.

 

“Hey, I’m doing the best I can; if you think you have a better strategery, let’s hear it.”

So here’s the deal, Dreamers; you can’t hold it against el Presidente for not being able to keep his June promise of amnesty comprehensive immigration reform:

In a Rose Garden statement June 30, Obama said he had given up on congressional action and had instructed top aides to deliver recommendations to him about what steps he could take to remake border control policies on his own.

"If Congress will not do their job, at least we can do ours," the president said that day. "I expect their recommendations before the end of summer and I intend to adopt those recommendations without further delay." – WaPo

Butt, gosh, have you seen all the blow back we’ve been getting? From those haters who think Congress IS doing its job by NOT passing amnesty comprehensive immigration reform?

Bowing to political concerns, President Obama will not announce any plans to take executive action to change immigration policy until after the November elections, despite promising in June he would act before the end of summer.

And the incoming is not just from haters, butt from Democrats too! Their polls are awful and that makes this a “serious political concern.”

Senate Democrats have warned that any bold executive action ran the risk of upending the chances of several Democratic incumbents running for reelection in southern states, where Obama is unpopular and the issue of immigration reform isn't as urgent.

So, my fellow Progressive Democrats, remember this: Big Guy’s inability to keep his promise to ignore the wishes of the (temporary) majority of the United States of America is all…the Republican’s fault? Yes, you’ve got it right.

"The reality the president has had to weigh is that we’re in the midst of the political season and because of the Republicans’ extreme politicization of this issue, the president believes it would be harmful to the policy itself and to the long-term prospects for comprehensive immigration reform to announce administrative action before the elections." – White House Official, speaking off the record, on behalf of the Administration,

Because of those pesky members of the loyal opposition, Barry’s team has determined that an Executive Order of Amnesty would be unsustainable at this time, and since el Presidente has made it perfectly clear that “when I take executive action I want to make sure that it’s sustainable.”

So we’ve giving the Presidential pen a rest and sending it off to play a little golf.

And once again, thanks to the stinkin’ Republicans, there’s yet another one of Big Guy’s “Promises Unkept.”

“Okay then, Mr. President, let’s move on to a different topic…another one that you didn’t lie about…”

 

h/t Gateway Pundit

 

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The Sun God Cometh

I have to catch an early flight so I leave you to figure out on your own: why did Big Guy really go to Stonehenge yesterday? He said it was because it was on his bucket list.

Butt it seems an odd bucket list item for a man of the modern world, if you know what I mean:

Butt shoot, he was right around the corner so why not?

Still, it made a rather odd photo op, what was he doing? Checking his celestial calendar? Calculating the incalculable pi?

Wait, wait! I think I’ve it!

Worshipping the sun god?

Solstice worshipper

Your guess is as good as mine, so have at it.

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Too Funny. Or Die.

Today’s post is dedicated to Joan Rivers. Because she was funny and she made you laugh, on purpose. Yes, she could be crude, mean, non-politically correct; everything we need as antidotes to the touchy-feely world crafted by our politically correct betters. Oh, they’re funny too, only not on purpose;- and they make you laugh not in a “funny ha ha” way, butt more of a “Funny or Die” way. Which sounds a little like the way those pesky Islamic extremists win people to their side: “convert or die.”

For example, Barry on the Funny or Die network’s “Between Two Ferns” show last March.

Or Lady M who appeared on Funny or Die’s Snackpocalypse! Public Service Propaganda just this week, eating a carrot:

SNACKPOCALYPSE with Chloe Grace Moretz, Tyler Posey, and First Lady Michelle Obama from Funny Or Die

Lady M’s key line in the bit: “Don’t you hate when trailers give away the whole movie?” as she crunches on carrots. The funny part happened so fast you might have missed it so I did a screenshot for you: here’s the part where she missed her mouth with the carrot and hit her lip-glossed lip instead. And I swear, that wasn’t even in the script – she ad libbed (ad lipped?) the whole thing!

Wouldn’t you think that pie hole would be big enough for a skinny little carrot to find it’s way into without a special guidance system?

And about her line,  “Don’t you hate when trailers give away the whole movie?”  Why yes, yes we do.

Barry, 2009

h/t Dewey From Detroit’s Flatsimile Theater

Butt Joanie, she was intentionally funny, to her core; her wicked, mean-girl, politically incorrect core. And she did it for 6 decades.

Joannie, 1965

Joan, Las Vegas 1974: with Sonny Bono, Tom Jones, Debbie Reynolds and Liberace

Joan, 1984 with Nancy Reagan (!) who is hugging Pearl Baily (!). That’s future First Lady Barbara Bush in the back row.

Joan liked to quote Winston Churchill’s comment that “when you make someone laugh you give them a little vacation.” Thanks for all the mini-vacays, Joanie. We’ll all miss them.

Joan, circa forevermore. R.I.P Joanie

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Islamic State Zombies: 3 Strategies Revealed

This is not a drill, we have a situation here; the Islamic State Zombies (ISZ) present an existential threat to Western Civilization and you must choose a leader to follow. Which one would you choose?

1. Our Prezzy, who thinks we can shrink the ISZ to a “manageable problem.”

“We know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISIL’s sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem.”

As far as I know Barry can’t manage his way out of a brown paper bag (racist alert).

“What we’ve got to do is make sure that we are organizing the Arab world, the Middle East, the Muslim world, along with the international community to isolate this cancer,”

Butt if No-Drama-Obama thinks he can somehow manage a ruthless band of Islamo-facists with techniques he learned in community organizing school who am I to question him?

2. Our Vice-Prezzy, who would at least have us follow the ISZ to the gates of hell:

I admire the rhetoric as well as his emotional patriotism; however I am not 100% certain what he means by “follow them to the gates of Hell.” I mean, what if he finds the ISIS leader to be “clean and articulate?”  The last time that happened Joey followed him to the gates of Hell too.

“Because Hell is where they will reside.” I’m right behind you chief!

3. Potentially our next President:

“Bomb them back to the stone age”

And when Senator Cruz draws a line in the sand, somehow I don’t think it’s metaphorical. 

Make your voice heard Chicago style:

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Dr. Pangloss, I Presume?

Are you familiar with Candide - Voltaire’s satirical treatise on the foolhardiness of perpetual optimism at the expense of reality?

The truth is, we really can’t afford much more optimism in the Age of Obama. There comes a point when not allowing reality to intrude on your version of the world, when preferring the unfounded optimism of Voltaire’s Dr. Pangloss borders on absolute delusion. It seems our own Dr. Krauthammer - a Doctor of Psychiatry not Philosophy – agrees. He has diagnosed our semi-retired President as suffering from just that:

“The image of a man in denial on the verge of delusion. This is a man who is narrowly redefining the threat essentially saying a drone strike here and a drone strike there and that’s all that we have to do. The Global War on Terror he declared to be over or an exaggeration or something that was intolerable in a speech he made in which he said the tide of war is receding and we can’t tolerate it, this war. And, here’s a man who comes into office and denies the existence of a war on terror… It is everywhere. A global war and Obama persistently calling them extremists as if they are extremists for what reason, they’re very upset about a lot of stuff. He will not call it by its name, Islamic radicalism. He will not explain or concede that it is a worldwide movement. And he will not concede that what he’s done for five years… has now beginning to bear fruit everywhere in the world.”

 

 

What is it, again, you call optimism that’s utterly absurd and out of touch with reality ? Oh, that’s right – Audacity:

Dr. Pangloss, I presume?

In Candide Dr. Pangloss, like Big Guy, is a tutor and propagandist for impractical metaphysical speculations on unknown topics, or as Voltaire called it, “metaphysico-theologico-cosmolo-nigology.” I know what you’re thinking – don’t go there:

It’s just the study of nothing; I’m not sure if that is satire or irony.

Late Lament: Moody Blues

“We decide which is right. And which is an illusion?”

November 4, 2014

Please discuss.

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“Ich bin ein Berliner” and I have emigration rights!

Labor Day: very confusing.

Joey B was in Detroit with Big Labor telling them that “it’s time to take back America!” From whom? And hasn’t that sort of hate speech been deemed to be racist by our Attorney General? 

Also at the event, Teamsters’ President James Hoffa told the Labor Day crowd to get off their butts and head to the polls:

“If we stay home, we lose. We’ve got to have turnout. That’s how we turn this country around.”

Turn the country around? Haven’t you and your team been running it for the past 6 years? As I said, it was confusing.

Meanwhile Big Guy was in Milwaukee, pitching “HOPE” and “rights” – for everybody!

“Hope is what gives us courage; hope is what gave soldiers courage to storm a beach. Hope is what gives young people the strength to march for women’s rights and workers’ rights and civil rights and voting rights and gay rights and immigration rights.”

“I look around this room, and I see nothing but untapped potential.”

I’m not sure what HOPE or “Immigration Rights” has to do with Organized Labor. Maybe the unions are supposed to HOPE that amnesty and an open border doesn’t provide millions of aliens willing to do the work Americans union members are willing to do, only for less money.

And while talking up “immigration rights” on the one hand, I see that the other hand is simultaneously making “emigration rights” much more expensive: 

Americans who are abandoning their citizenship in droves are due to be charged five times more to surrender their passport under government plans announced yesterday.

It looks like you can come here for free, butt it’s going to cost you dearly if you wish to leave. Isn’t that the way it always starts? First, a charge for being an expat, later a huge penalty tax, and eventually you’re not allowed to leave at all.

Berlin Wall circa 1961

John F. Kennedy spoke of such things 1963:

“Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in—to prevent them from leaving us.” – JFK, 1963 “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech

I suppose we could look at the bright side: that’s one way to get a border fence built.

Did you know that Pinocchio was a terrible motivational speaker?

“You have… oh boy.”

Oh yeah, as it turned out, he was.

“Oh boy,” indeed

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