Eyes Wide Shut ..........

We don’t seem to have learned much in the last 2000 years do we? Back in the first century of the Common Era, Roman emperors like Caligula and Nero were elevated to the status of deity by themselves and by the adulation of the populace.

Now take a look at last Monday’s edition of the Arizona Republic which, for those from Lake Havasu, is the principal newspaper in this state. This bastion of liberal sycophancy decided to confer a similar status on Obama and his family on the occasion of their visit to the Grand Canyon and with this immortal prose.

“Natural Wonder cedes spotlight to the first family”. And then, if that were not enough, followed up with this near blasphemy. “For tourists at the Grand Canyon on Sunday, the political star power of President Barack Obama and the first family eclipsed the landmark’s majestic natural beauty”.

I’ll spare you any further excerpts but, I for one, almost gagged when I read that and it is bound to make one wonder where on earth does the Fourth Estate find the morons who can write this drivel and what lame-brained editor Okayed it go into print?

And while we’re on the subject of the press, I’m sure that many view the exit of President Bush from the political scene with mixed feelings. On the one hand, they now have to paper over the cracks in the rapidly disintegrating Obama presidency whereas before they could latch onto every mispronounced word and cite every grim statistic about the war casualties.

But, on the other hand, they don’t have to follow the previous president to Crawford, Texas every summer. I think it is more than possible that Cindy Sheehan got as much coverage as she did because “the bitch in the ditch” was effectively the only game in town.

How certain am I about this hypothesis? Well it has been little reported that Ms. Sheehan hasn’t given up her useless vigil but this year she gets to do it at Martha’s Vineyard and that’s much more to the taste of the press corps and their expense accounts. After all, who wouldn’t prefer lobsters to barbecued beef ribs and beans?

Or, could the lack of focus on Cindy’s efforts be because the death toll she now bemoans is on Obama’s watch. Now it’s his war and not just in Iraq which he swore we’d be out of more than three months ago but also the increased presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Where is Katy Couric cataloging the success of the Grim Reaper every night on the news? Where are the strident demands to see the flag-draped caskets being unloaded at Andrews Air Force Base? Where is Code Pink? Where are Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and why are they not denouncing this President at every turn?

Harry Reid, at least, has an excuse. It’s not an honest one because it’s self-serving but to a politician, I’m sure it makes all the sense in the world. You see Good Old Harry is up for election next year and the polls already show that he’s running 6 points behind his likely rival and so he dare not run to the left. Obama showed this during the last campaign when he tried to portray himself as a moderate.

Right?

Still believe that?

Now, it’s true that Pelosi has to face the electorate as well but all she has to worry about are the ultra-liberal fanatics in San Francisco. Not really tough when compared with the hard asses of Nevada which are not that dissimilar from the hard asses of Arizona.

So Ms. Pelosi can go into 2010 unafraid in a local sense but she’d better be ready for a fire storm nationally. It’s a good job she can’t close her eyes because, Nancy, they’re going to be coming from all sides. Thank G-d for Botox!

And now it’s time to go back to religion as ordained by Obama.

In a meeting yesterday, Obama, quoted words from scripture that are very precious to Jews and he quoted them to rabbis, Actually Obama misquote but to use his words, “

"We are G-d’s partners in life and death”.

What an appalling presumption for a Community Activist Lawyer from Thug Chicago Politics who embraces Abortion on Demand.

Elections do indeed have consequences.

And there are no Mulligans