Meaner than a Junkyard Dog?

Obama is just finishing up his second “Apology Tour” and sometimes I just shake my head in disbelief at the behavior of this man and his administration. The head-shaking is because I’m really not sure if the behavior is due to malevolence or naiveté. Let me try to explain.

First of all, Obama claims that these United States should be classified as having one of the world’s largest Muslim populations. That is patently wrong. Not just mistaken, wrong! In the last census, the number of Muslim in the US was 2.3 million. Even accepting the most generous estimate of 8 million that wouldn’t place the US in the top 40-odd Muslim countries. So why lie about something that is so easily verifiable and so trivial? Surely, if you’re going to lie make it about something worthwhile. But there’s more.

While on the campaign trail he talked a lot about his family including his Grandmother and Father. Then he claimed they were Christian but earlier this week they seem to have undergone a sudden conversion because now he says they are Muslim. Also, while on the campaign he referred to his Uncle who had helped to liberate Auschwitz. When it was pointed out that to do so the Uncle would have to have been serving in the Red Army he hastily changed the story and said that his Uncle had told him about the liberation of Buchenwald.

Earlier this week two interviews of Obama family members were published in the British “Daily Telegraph” and the German “Der Spiegel” and here the plot becomes even more confusing. According to the former, the Uncle says he has never had such a conversation with Obama and then added that “he (Obama) must have said it for political reasons”. Now that’s the first believable snippet of the whole sorry saga. Then the second publication said it wasn’t the Uncle at all but a Grandfather.

Make of all that whatever you will but note again that, if you are prepared to concoct stuff as trivial as that, just imagine what you'll do about something that really counts.

Anyway, then there was the speech at the University of Cairo where Obama lambasted Israel for their continued settlement in disputed areas. As a sidebar to that, the Israelis are calling the newly constructed dwellings, “Obama Huts” although they are somewhat larger than the 8 by 9 foot shack where his brother lives in Kenya.

For decades now, Israel has traded “land for peace” or, perhaps more accurately the slogan should read “Actual Land for More War”. The bottom line for the Palestinians and for the Muslim nations that fund their terrorism is that there shall be no land for any Jew. Fortunately, Netanyahu knows that but, regrettably, Obama does not.

Now is the Obama presence on the domestic scene any better? This week Biden decided to enter the fray. Perhaps he felt that with Obama out of the country he could sneak in some of his own wisdom. The guy reminds me of the drunken uncle at the wedding who just won’t shut up but he announced that their stimulus plan was not working as anticipated. No kidding Joe! In May more than 300,000 jobs were lost and that number does not include those who have simply given up the seemingly unequal struggle to look for work. And that comes out to over 16,000 pink slips every day since the “stimulus” went into effect. It’s also interesting to note that back in January as the “Dream Team” were coming in the unemployment rate was 8% and we were warned that without the prompt implementation of the stimulus package it could go to 9. Well the Team got their way and now the rate is 9.4! Hmmm!

And now Obama is heading up Govenment Motors or rather he put in place a 31-year old law student to do the job. Fat chance. No wonder that Hugo Chavez gleefully proclaimed that soon Obama would be to the left of him and Castro.

But we can’t leave the auto industry just yet without relating this item about a county in one of the Southern states where there used to be 7 Chrysler dealerships. Under the Obama plan 6 have or will close. Each of those had previously made donations to the Republican cause. The one that will remain had some interesting principals in its boardroom including a former Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton and a founder of “Black Entertainment Television”. And, you’ve guessed it; the company had donated to the Obama cause.

Impossible to prove either way of course but the empirical evidence is chilling which is why I include malevolence in my list of alternatives. Straight out of the Chicago Street Thug playbook. Leroy Brown would be so pleased.