Obama (and the media's) Inaugural Speech

Well...

I thought I could just ignore it, but of course it is pretty much in your face everywhere you look and go ever since. Even Farmer Channel had hours of extensive coverage and approving commentary to feed their home grown socialists and statists.

So I got the impassioned histronics - couldn't help but noticing that Reagan was an actor who became a politician and then a a president, while Obama is a president who became an actor (and apparently, an emperor unrestrained by constitutional restrictions). But, yes, I heard "collective" and "progress" all over the place, from the media even more than the president.

The Potemkin media isn't quite as much in the throes of hero worship as the first time around - none of them said anything about "a thrill going up my leg every time he speaks" this time. But they did a better than average job of pushing the message repeatedly for Obama ever since. Comparing that to the Gettysberg Address? Ha haaaaa.... And not a word about a republic with the supremacy of individual rights AND freedom. As in freedom from the government telling you what you can and can't do and how you must spend your money and what you must purchase. I guess that's just old fashioned thinking, a level of freedom nobody is entitled to anymore.

But here's a few things that weren't mentioned in the inaugural speech by Obama or the media serving as his public relations arm - or the RINO Republican afterwards, for that matter:

• We didn't hear anything about Obama creating more debt in his first four years than all the presidents who have come before him, including GW Bush who was an outrageous spender himself, lumped together.
  
  
• Nothing said about the fact the federal government now consumes approximately one quarter of all the goods and services produced in this country each year - a percentage that has dramatically risen each year of Obama's presidency.
  
  
• No mention of the fact that Obama's porkulous package was not a one time expenditure as so many assume, but has been quietly included in the annual baseline budget ever since.
  
  
• We didn't hear anything about the 1.7 TRILLION dollars now sucked each year out of the private sector's gross earnings by regulatory costs resulting from government red tape and meddling. Nor how many jobs in the private sector that costs (although it must create even more government workers for taxpayers to fund). Nor that the Obama presidency is creating regulatory law four times faster than any presidency before.
  
  
• Nothing was said about the EPA being on a jihad to close down coal mines and their related industries, nor their increasing stranglehold on both industry and agriculture (the country is better to have the EPA using UAV's to spy on farmers - really?).
  
  
• No mention of where food and gas prices are today compared to where they were just four years ago when he took office - shouldn't have gotten some credit for at least making good on one promise, that energy prices would necessarily double with him as president?
  
  
• Nothing said about the value of housing and savings nosediving in the last four years, despite all the hoopla of being in a "recovery".
  
  
• Silence on the fact that the Senate under Harry Reid has refused to present and pass a budget for just under four years now, while having spent $11 TRILLION dollars in the same time period - despite legislation they themselves passed that requires them to do so.
  
  
• No mention of Executive Branch gunrunning to arm drug cartels in Mexico, nor of the federal agents and hundreds of Mexicans who have since been murdered with those firearms.
  
  
• No mention of an Ambassador and Americans trying to protect him murdered despite warnings of insecurity and pleas for protection, or of a president going to war on his own in Libya and Yemen. Shouldn't he be congratulated for that - George Bush could never have gotten away with that with the media!
  
  
• Silence on a president who has regularly and unconstitutionally stepped well outside his defined and enumerated powers. Violating bankruptcy laws, making appointments without Congressional approval, going to war without Congressional approval, violating his oath of office by directing federal agencies not to enforce acts and regulations passed by Congress, using Executive Orders to legislate. Not a word.
  
  
• We didn't hear that there are currently 23 MILLION American citizens unemployed after four years of the spending he promised would solve that with "shovel ready jobs" among other things.
  
  
• No mention that the participation rate in new jobs is the lowest since 1948.
  
  
• Nothing said about the fact that, in total, over 2 MILLION more people are unemployed now than when Obama first took office.
  
  
• There was no mention that there are 48 MILLION American citizens on food stamps - four times more than when he took office.
  
  
• Nothing was said of the fact one in six people live in poverty while we give more and more of our income and GDP to government mandarins to spend - mostly on themselves and self-perpetuating their agencies.
  
  
• We didn't hear anything about the numbers pouring into the "disability" portion of federal unemployment programs on a massive scale, a mysterious, sudden rise in injury and disability that by chance just coincides with the government making it ridiculously easy to qualify as "disabled" indefinitely. When there are no jobs - or you just don't want to be employed - whatever does it for you, I guess.

And on, and on... but that's the real state of America under the Obama presidency today. And apparently, even as feckless as the Republican leadership of today is, they should just get behind Obama's program.

Now one can hardly expect Obama to make any mention of the reality that is America today. Why would he? First of all, it would make a pretty depressing Inaugural Speech, not to mention knock a little glitter off his halo. Second, it might knock the scales from the eyes of the bare majority of Americans who voted for Obama instead of Romney.

And third and perhaps most significantly, why should he mention a word of it when he knows with absolute certainty that the mainstream media that wouldn't ask him over the last four years about any of this certainly isn't going to start reporting and questioning him on it now.

So no, no surprise that the media makes no mention of any of this, instead continuing to fawn on Obama and compare this speech to the Gettysberg Address (once again, ha ha haaa, you mindless morons).

And absolute disgust that the RINO Republicans sit silently in the low ground, ensuring conservative representatives are ethnically cleansed from positions of power, while they debate what will play best to the media in their hopes of being the ones in power instead of Democrats. Absolute abdication of principle in exchange for dreams of power.

Awesome. This is "progress" in present day America. This is "collective" improvement of the state of the nation in America.

Wonder what the nation is going to look like four more years from now? Will we still be hearing that it's all Bush's fault as the excuse eight years later? That if only Republicans had just given Obama and his party what they wanted, all would have been well? Will Obama get a second Nobel Prize again - this time for economics?

A lot of people are in for a rough ride, and most of those ain't going to be people who voted against Obama. But, "collectively" and "progressively", we're all going to suffer to some extent.

So... you liked the speech then?

Jäger wrote:

Well...


A lot of people are in for a rough ride, and most of those ain't going to be people who voted against Obama. But, "collectively" and "progressively", we're all going to suffer to some extent.

Got nothing against your political opinion dude, but if your gonna display the Airborne Regiment's wings in your avatar make sure you don't taint us all with your brush. We are all suffering to some extent because of a few idiots that had the Regiment dismantled.

1CDO

Docman wrote:

Got nothing against your political opinion dude, but if your gonna display the Airborne Regiment's wings in your avatar make sure you don't taint us all with your brush.

First: where have you seen me anywhere here attempting to represent myself as speaking on behalf of any organization, official or otherwise? And related to that: "Us"... just who appointed you spokesman for "us"?

Actually dude, you do got something against my political opinion, because otherwise you wouldn't be here beaking off about the "Regiment's wings". And to help correct your ignorance, those wings didn't "belong" to us - they were worn by jumpers before the CAR existed, and they're worn by jumpers today who were riding tricycles in 1994.

Beyond that dude, I don't remember the CAR being particularly left wing, or sympathetic to a welfare state, or being all in favour of politicians pushing gun control. In fact, quite the opposite. In the Kyrenia Club, Obama would have been bluntly called a "Commie". Which is why I don't think you even begin to talk for "us". So what brush are you talking about, dude, because I don't recall much socialist sympathy among the troops? I think I could just as easily complain that you're tainting the CAR's memory with your brush.

But then, I wasn't with premier commando, so perhaps that's just a different space. I'm just trying to imagine how many votes an Obama would have gotten out of the Regiment... Feel free to correct my memories of the mindset, dude.

Wait... here's a better idea:
http://www.commando.org/forums/index.php

I'm a member over there as well. Unless you're a Walt, you'll recognize lots of the boys over there. Whaddya say you try your point of view regarding Obama and making comments on his performance over there... let's see what Mad Max and the others from the Regiment have to say, hmmmmmmmm?

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We are all suffering to some extent because of a few idiots that had the Regiment dismantled.

Actually, we're suffering because a French-Canadian prime minister who didn't much like the military disbanded the Regiment in an act of political correctness. And a few members of the military went along with that political correctness as well, instead of growing a pair and speaking truth to power. If acts of idiocy regularly resulted in disbandment, there wouldn't be a regiment left in the military, much less a police force still in existence. And Obama and political correctness go together like peanut butter and jam - but political correctness and the men of the CAR sure didn't. Or at least, with the great majority of us.

Now if you think anything I posted above regarding the state of the nation and what was and wasn't said by Obama and the media at his inauguration is factually wrong, then make your case against it. Don't go scrabbling around in your pocket searching for your coin while presuming to tell me you've been appointed to declare what the Regiment would and wouldn't approve of when it came to expressing views on a Marxist president.

[quote="Jäger"] I'm just trying to imagine how many votes an Obama would have gotten out of the Regiment... Feel free to correct my memories of the mindset, dude.

Told you that I agreed with your rant 100%. No votes is the answer. What I'm trying to explain to you is that protecting the image that we have left in the public eye is imperative after what happened in 94, calm down. And yes, I remember a lot of the brothers on the other site and a lot have died from my side that served with 1CDO. It's really sad to be identified because of your bumper sticker or your t-shirt or tatoo etc... by some civi and they say " oh so you were part of that scandal and dishonour thing?"

I'm really frustrated too man! And I get it... Just be careful on public sites is what I'm saying

Cheers

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ddvorak wrote:

Below is a direct quote posted by Shewolf regarding the rules for posting in the Off Topic section. Having read this rules section, it will be my decision to "not read" anything more posted here on this political forum. As a motorcycle enthusiast I would prefer to keep the conversations limited to motorcycles and I find no need for an Off Topic section here. There are plenty of other forums out there that are available for the ranting of strong political "opinions". I will not be clicking on Off Topic again. My mistake. My opinion.

The rules:
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I don't think the rules could have been more clear and relevant.

Though if you can't keep your responses in line, you should refrain from responding.
If reading a reply could be unbearable, then don't read responses.

I was qeued to go airborne myself, but chose a different path...I often question if it was a good choice.
Regardless, airborne is a particular point with me as well...and their disbandment was felt beyond the regiment.

My saviour is taking on new studies, which I havent done in a while...so, obvious shit like this thread barely gets my attention ;)

...Anywho, I'ld rather be studying...relax and enjoy when you can.

Docman wrote:

What I'm trying to explain to you is that protecting the image that we have left in the public eye is imperative after what happened in 94, calm down. And yes, I remember a lot of the brothers on the other site and a lot have died from my side that served with 1CDO. It's really sad to be identified because of your bumper sticker or your t-shirt or tatoo etc... by some civi and they say " oh so you were part of that scandal and dishonour thing?"

I'm really frustrated too man! And I get it... Just be careful on public sites is what I'm saying

I'd PM, but this might be what the Dear Leader would call a "teachable moment".

Aside from the fact it's 20 years ago in real world terms, the reality is most people today remember bugger all about the CAR - if at all.

Second - and here's the teachable moment - making nice with people who have that attitude isn't going to make one damned bit of difference to their mindset. Slip a gold brick in their pocket and they'll complain about the weight. They're the bitter bastards who believe all cops are crooked, all lawyers are scumbags, all soldiers are baby killers, all doctors are just money hungry, etc. My theory is that they have such pathetic, meaningless lives that anybody that might be doing something they can't just MUST be an even worse person than they are. So I don't put any particular effort in trying to placate them by hiding stuff; it ain't going to make any difference to them.

The good side of the coin is, of those who do remember, the vast majority will come up and say "Hey man, that was a crappy deal". And... invariably, they seem to be a better class of person anyways. In other words, the supporters outnumber the dickheads about four to one. And if a T-shirt, or wings, or the tat, or the shirt trolls up an airborne brother or just some friendly dude who had a relative in or wanting to pass on his best wishes, then that's well worth having to occasionally tell some left wing, limp wristed, bed-wetting libtard to go get stuffed.

And if they want to discuss the "scandal"... well, I'm more than happy to have an opportunity to educate them on that as well. After all, what can you expect when most people got their "facts" from CBC. You know, that impartial purveyor of news, Mother Corp who just got hit with a million dollars in damages for defaming a doctor and leaving his reputation in tatters - only the doctor had deep enough pockets to keep up with them all the way to the Supreme Court. So a chance to straighten that out isn't a bad thing either.

That is somewhat relevant here. The GOP keeps bending over and lifting their skirts for Obama, so afraid somebody will curl their lip at them or think they're not "nice". Well, where is that getting them? Even after a federal court ruled yesterday that Obama was acting in a completely unconstitutional manner in declaring Congress to be in recess so he could appoint three hacks outside the Appointments Clause, and even after the labour board said they didn't care what the federal circuit court said, those men were still going to sit on the board and still going to hear cases... the GOP does nothing but try and blend in and look "nice". They wouldn't start articles of impeachment if he was caught on surveillance video robbing a pizza parlour.

It doesn't work brother; never has, probably. Which doesn't mean you go out in public and carry on like you're in the Roz, but trying to disappear into the background doesn't help the memory of the CAR one iota, either way.

And it is an epic fail strategy for Republicans as well.

Totally agree on this one. Well said Jager!