Barack Obama And Same Sex Marriage: A Portrait In Cowardice

Seldom has a supposed leader given a more lackluster, deflated, less than impressive and all around pathetic endorsement to something he supposedly holds as an ideal than Barack Obama did this past week in timidly declaring he “personally” supports same sex marriage.  Barely skipping a beat he went into full CYA (cover your ass) mode by adding the caveat that he feels legalizing same sex marriage should nonetheless be left to the individual states.  If ever there was a “WTF” moment in politics there you have it!  Suddenly the champion of the Leftist ideal of centralized big government is a champion for States Rights?  President Obama’s position on the legalization of same sex marriage is suddenly indistinguishable from Rick Perry’s?

There are those who will say that as I myself am not homosexual I cannot understand nor appreciate the excitement and sheer joy the President’s words evoked from the homosexual community, but what I am is not blind and what I can understand and appreciate is that in terms of substance there is nothing to be excited about for anyone.  To be excited over the President’s pronouncement is akin to being excited over someone giving you a million dollar check drawn on an account with no funds. Is the homosexual community's vote so cheaply bought?  Clearly the President and the Democratic Party think so.  These masterful manipulators of identity politics have shown time and again that they think only in terms of the group, never the individual and certainly no one as an American but only as a special interest.  To people like the President, David Axelrod and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz if you are homosexual there is no other issue that concerns you other than same sex marriage, but even were the political calculation true the cynical and vacuous pandering we saw this week gains the proponents of same sex marriage nothing!  The President’s pronouncement of being “personally” in favor of same sex marriage is much like being “personally” in favor of keeping your neighbor's house from burning down but you won't be the one to call 911 nor even lend your hose to help put out the fire. 

Mr. President, what kind of "support" is it to be in favor of something that you will leave for others to allow or disallow?  If you believe that marriage, regardless of sexual orientation, is a basic Right and to prevent people from marrying who they choose because they are of the same sex is wrong then it is wrong EVERYWHERE and standing idly by doing nothing puts you in the wrong as well.  Where is your conviction, Mr. President? Would you have taken the same stance on laws which once banned interracial marriage? Leave it to the States? Would you have taken the same stance in 1860 on slavery and said "leave it to the States"? And this is the man they want to portray as the modern day Lincoln?  How would history remember Lincoln today had he not written the Emancipation Proclamation but rather the Emancipation Suggestion? 

I know from personal observation that there are actually many even among the Left who are less than impressed by this cynical political ploy, but even among those there are too many willing to forgive and jump on the Obama bandwagon because, as someone wrote in response to me on facebook, “Some hope is better than no hope which is what you get from the other Party”.  No ma’am, I heartily disagree.  No hope is your dollar today worth a penny tomorrow. No hope is an ever decreasing workforce in the face of an ever increasing entitlement state.  No hope is stoking the flames of class and racial warfare.  No hope is a gutted military. No hope is an exponential increase of those on food stamps. No hope is changing the First Amendment of theConstitution to regulate speech. No hope is being beholding to our greatest enemies. No hope is the supremacy of the State over the God given rights of the individual. That is what the Democrat Party has to offer. Stalin was a "Progressive" too.

Cupcakes, Cookies and Liberal Hypocrisy

Want to hear a riddle?  When does preferential treatment for minorities and women, a hallmark of modern American Liberalism, become offensive to those very same Liberals to the point of condemnation?  When the preferential treatment occurs at a bake sale put on by the Berkley College Republicans.

On Tuesday, September 27^th these college Republicans exercised their right of assembly and speech by holding their own Affirmative Action Bake Sale entitled “Increase Diversity Bake Sale”.  The concept of this particular type of protest using delicious treats is quite simple: a multi-tiered pricing system for the sale of baked goods is employed to demonstrate the inherently discriminatory, immoral and frankly unconstitutional nature of using race and or gender as criteria in considering a potential student’s application for admission to the University of California (as proposed by SB 185).  Specifically the price list was:

White:  $2.00

Asian:  $1.50

Latino:  $1.00

Black:   $0.75

Native American: $0.25

$0.25 off for all women

And then campus Democrats, assorted Liberals, Progressives, silver spoon Socialists, Mercedes driving Marxists, Che Guevarra t-shirt wearers and other assorted Leftists rabble rousers fell all over themselves to see who could be the biggest hypocrite.  Consider the student government of UC Berkeley: the Associated Students of the University of California.

Vishalli Loomba, ASUC President, said “As a woman of color, when I first saw the event, I was appalled someone would post something like this on the Internet -- not only a different pay structure, but also to rank the races.” 

Really, Miss Loomba, can you not see both the contradiction and inherent hypocrisy in denouncing a bake sale which gives preferential treatment based on race and or gender while mobilizing the masses to support a new state law which would institutionalize the exact same kind of discrimination? 

So horrified, so distraught, so overwhelmed with civic duty to right this impending wrong the student government held an emergency senate meeting Sunday to discuss the issue which resulted in the passing a resolution which “condemns the use of discrimination whether it is in satire or in seriousness by any student group.”  The ASUC has come out in full support of SB 185 to the point that they hosted a phone bank, yards from the now infamous bake sale, to flood the governor’s office with calls urging him to sign this regressive legislation.  Clearly the message the ASUC wishes to convey is that discrimination in satire by a student group is strictly verboten but potential discrimination by the admissions board of UC Berkeley to increase “diversity” is obviously peachy keen!

Since most of us could not attend the bake sale and yet are probably hungering from the thought of it here is some final food for thought: Considering that of the 9,300 students admitted for the Fall semester at UC Berkeley 4,096 were asian while black and latinos numbered 332 and 1,530 respectively what would Miss Loomba’s tune be had SB 185 been in affect when she applied and her spot been given to someone else to bump up those lagging numbers and increase diversity?  Cover that in all the frosting you want, but I dare say it would have left a bitter taste in her mouth.

WARNING: Performing The Song "Kung Fu Fighting" May Be A Hate Crime

Western civilization’s ever increasing self loathing as evidenced by the rise of political correctness over the last twenty years struck one of its lowest points this past weekend in the Isle of Wight, the United Kingdom with the arrest of singer Simon Ledger for publicly performing the 1974 Carl Douglas #1 hit song “Kung Fu Fighting”. To the reasonable and sane it boggles the mind how a performance of any top 40 song could lead to an arrest, but apparently Mr. Ledger had the misfortune of performing this crowd favorite as two people of Chinese origin were walking by, and of course how else could this performance be construed but as a form of racial abuse. Having been faced with this supposedly racially motivated musical assault a complaint was filed with the police and Mr. Ledger and his offensive voice were promptly arrested that very evening. No doubt the racial and ethnic minority communities of the United Kingdom gave a collective sigh of relief to know that this dangerous vocalist and his vitriolic lyrics were placed behind bars even if only until he made bail.


Friends in case you have not said it already, allow me to say it for you: WTF?!

In my short lifetime I have witnessed the Western World devolve from a people proud of our collective contributions to humanity over the last two thousand years to a people raised instead to focus on every real or imagined sin committed by our ancestors. So ashamed are we now supposed to be that we can only make amends by groveling at the feet of the rest of the world and loudly crying “mea culpa”; the results are not surprising. The West no longer commands the respect of the world and has invited instead the disdain and hostility of peoples who once aspired to either live among us or bring the best we had to offer to their own people. It is a sad truth about humanity that if you give an inch people will take a mile. Now that we shun the hard earned laurels of our ancestors is it any surprise that there are those people who wish to press the advantage and overtake us?

Simon Ledger’s arrest, though simultaneously comical and sad, is a warning signal. It is, as he himself said, “political correctness gone potty”, but the fact is that political correctness has always been only worthy of the toilet. It is one thing to be sensitive to the feelings of people and quite another to encourage people to be oversensitive to the point where they seek out personal slights. As Americans we most likely laugh at this incident confident that it could never happen here, but are we not seeing variations of that every day in the media? In a time and place where just the act of dissenting with President Obama can earn one the label of racist are we perhaps not even more far gone than what happened to Simon Ledger? Before anyone in this country thinks with smug certainness “that could never happen here” I would suggest it already is.

Donald Trump: Big, Brass Teflon Coated Balls

For those who wonder what the clanging sound coming from New Hampshire was today, it was the sound of Donald Trump’s humungous brass balls.

When confronted by a derisive and hostile press with the news that Barack Obama had finally released his birth certificate “The Donald”, rather than be embarrassed or admit any kind of defeat confounded the Obama-mania media by holding his head high and declaring “Today I am very proud of myself because I have accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish”. The man with his name on everything went on further to say how honored he was “to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully, getting rid of this issue. Now, we have to look at it, we have to see, is it real”.  As they say, now that's balls!

Anyone else in politics , and I do mean virtually anyone else, would have been dealt a major, humiliating defeat today. After trumpeting the “birther” issue for weeks Donald Trump was supposed to have been dealt a major smack down today and yet rather then come away tarnished those big brass ones are shinier than ever. 

One must marvel, even admire the audacity and cool under fire that Mr. Trump demonstrated today. To take what should have been a losing moment and so brashly turn it into a win is absolutely remarkable.   Certainly it is not so unexpected to have heard him say the issue has hopefully been put to rest, but to take credit for it and beat his chest in pride, that is unexpected to say the least. (Considering that people, starting with the Clinton Campaign in 2008, have been raising questions about Obama's birth certificate Trump may very well be justified in taking credit today.) 

As the public digests these new sound bites two major camps most likely will arise: those who find it amusing and those skeptics who are now given pause to consider what kind of steady, steel nerves this man must have. More than that it boldly declares that he is not a lifelong politician and as such refuses to play by the established rules of politics.  In today's cynical, disenchanted political environment that alone could win him thousands of votes.  Whatever the case Mr. Trump's audacity certainly gives his supporters hope that he is a serious contender for the 2012 Republican nomination and it most likely gives the White House pause as they consider how to confront him next.

Still there is a very serious side to all this as one cannot help but wonder about the timing of today’s announcement from the White House. Was it purely an attempt to put Trump in his place or was it an attempt to dominate the headlines and thereby crowding out the first ever press conference held by a Federal Reserve Chairman (Ben Bernanke). If the answer is the former the White House lost; if it is the latter it is a victory for the floundering administration. If you can keep all eyes off the rising water on the sinking ship the captain may very well get people to book a second cruise.

Barack Obama: Outlaw!

With all eyes currently on the megalomaniac in Tripoli it has gone mostly unnoticed and unreported by the predominantly Leftist media in the United States the most recent assault upon the Constitution by the megalomaniac currently residing in the White House. President Obama, sworn to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States, has once again circumvented Congress and the Courts as his administration decrees it will not defend the Defense of Marriage Act passed during the Clinton administration. This in intent and in outcome has our chief defender of law and order unilaterally declaring a law which he personally finds to be distasteful and wrong invalid. This action is a blatant violation of his oath of office; more to the point, it is the equivalent of the President of the United State ruling by decree as though he were Hosni Mubarak or Muammar Qadaffi.

It may surprise you to read this, but I myself believe the Defense of Marriage Act to be at best wrong headed and at worst truly un-Constitutional, but this is a nation of laws in which a framework exists by which laws thought to be un-Constitutional may be repealed or overturned. Whether or not President Obama is correct in his opinion that DOMA is un-Constitutional is irrelevant in the face of the precedent this action sets and the way it continues to grow the power of the Executive at the cost of the Legislature, the Courts and every citizen. Generation after generation of American children have been taught to cherish and be proud of the system of checks and balances our founders created. A system with the express goal of preventing the kind of authoritarian rule which has plagued mankind since before the Pharoahs!

Today the Left rejoices at the President’s decision; it is a very short sighted celebration. Consider the implications of a President picking and choosing which laws to enforce or not. Consider how it may very well affect you personally. What of the day when a President decides Miranda Rights need not be enforced? What of the day when a President decides property Rights have no validity? What of the day when a President decides protecting your freedom of speech is no longer something he wishes to do? This action by President Obama is not about civil rights in any way except to the degree that it creates a precedent by which ALL civil rights may be de-facto suspended by a future President who decides he will not enforce the laws guaranteeing your right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It is sad that a floundering Presidency would resort to this kind of cheap politicking to pander to its base at the cost of eroding the very Constitution upon which this nation was built and grew to be the greatest of all nations. It would be my hope that Left, Right or Center all Americans can agree that no President is above the law. Americans have always prided themselves on being immune to the cult of personality where our elected leaders our concerned and giving our first allegiance to the Constitution above all else. Those who willfully ignore this gross violation of the oath of office, or worse yet support it, give their first allegiance either to the man Obama or their own ideology; that is not the American way and it is surely the road to ruin and despotism.

Scott Brown, Obama and the Suspension of Disbelief

“Just remember it’s not a lie if you believe it.” This was the advice given by the now iconic character George Costanza to Jerry Seinfeld as the latter attempted to beat a lie detecting machine in an episode of the now classic 90s sitcom “Seinfeld”. I bring this quotable quote to you because I’ve found myself thinking of this phrase time and again over the course of the last year every time I see the Democrats and their apologists on TV. Quite frankly in light of the current political atmosphere among Democrats it occurs to me that George Costanza’s words may be their new mantra. To take the comedic spin off of it, what we’ve observed over the last year is truly Orwellian as truths are manipulated or ignored outright. If you need any proof of this just look two weeks back to the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts and the reaction of President Obama and his Minister of Propaganda Robert Gibbs.

In what is sure to go down in history as one of the most infamous examples of sheer delusion or bald faced lying, President Obama sat down with George Stephanopoulos shortly after Scott Brown’s victory to offer an interesting explanation as to why the bluest of blue states would choose a Republican to succeed Ted Kennedy: “Here’s my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts but the mood around the country: the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry and they’re frustrated. Not just because of that’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.” Doubling down on his boss’ unique political analysis White House Press Secretary and stand up comedian in training Robert Gibbs told Chris Wallace in an interview that in electing Scott Brown “More people voted to express their support for Barack Obama than to oppose him.” (I personally think that Mr. Gibbs will make an excellent stand up comedian because time and again he’s able to say such outrageous things with a straight face.)

Friends, if you’ve recovered from your raucous laughter let us consider seriously what the President and his comic sidekick are telling us and his nervous Congressional majority: the political tsunami that was Scott Brown’s victory was not a repudiation of the Obama agenda, even though Mr. Brown campaigned explicitly on that, but rather it was continued anger over George Bush and evidence of continued support for “change we can believe in”. This is not surprising, however, when one sees the way in which the White House and the Congressional Democrats derided and dismissed the Tea Party protests throughout the Spring and Summer. This self deception is a continuation of a pattern by Congressional Democrats who sat through packed town hall meetings where their constituents begged them not to vote for Obamacare only to return to Washington and do exactly that. These are the people attempting to re-write history by saying it was the failure to pass Healthcare reform that swept them out of power in 1994 and so now more than ever they must stay the course no matter what the polls, pundits and people say! Among people for whom re-election is the Holy Grail one must wonder what kind of ideologue extremists we have in Washington such that they are willing to risk their careers to pass the President’s agenda.

I appreciate that in the wake of such an unexpected and devastating defeat as is Scott Brown’s win the President has to reassure his Congressional allies in order to move his agenda forward, but the suspension of disbelief is better suited for science fiction novels than Party platforms.

Martha Stewart Serves Up Anti-Palin Hatred For Thanksgiving

It becomes more and more apparent that feminism has ceased to be about equality of opportunity for women and or their empowerment but rather an extension of the Democratic Party and the Liberal agenda. Where were the accolades from feminists for Condoleeza Rice? Did NOW stand behind President Bush when he liberated the women of Afghanistan from the most oppressive misogynist regime in history? The cold shoulder given to Secretary Rice by feminists and President Bush’s un-credited historic act of literal women’s liberation were mostly sins of omission. Silence, however, is not the hard and fast rule when it comes to feminist hypocrisy. Most recently an odd yet obvious phenomena has occurred since Sarah Palin took the national stage which is that among her hateful detractors it is women most of all who seem to be falling all over themselves to see who can spew the most venom against arguably the most prolific renaissance woman of our time. The most recent shrew to add her shrill voice to the rabid pack of anti-Palin women is the usually soft spoken, multi-millionaire, ex-con hypocrite Martha Stewart.

I’ll make a confession right up front: it was not my intention to write about Sarah Palin again so soon, but coming right on the heels of my unfortunate experience listening to NPR stoke the flames of anti-Palin hysteria last week I could not remain silent when I once again heard such absurdist hatred coming from yet another feminine voice.

Interviewed while walking another red carpet last week, egalitarian in name only Martha Stewart was asked about Sarah Palin. As dispassionately as she reads recipes off her studio teleprompter the former prison inmate didn’t miss a beat in spewing her unsubstantiated criticism and hate against the former Alaska governor, beauty queen, homemaker, sportswoman, author and all around American sweetheart. Asked “why do you think she’s polarizing to so many people?” the compassionate ex-con first tried to feign disinterest by saying “She’s, uh, very boring to me. Very boring.” Okay, fair enough. I am sure lying to Federal investigators and ending up in prison is much more interesting than watching Sarah Palin connect with America’s working men and women; had that been the end of it I wouldn’t have a thing to say, but Mizz Stewart, who claims to be bored by Mrs. Palin had more to say.

“To me (She’s) kind of a dangerous person. I mean, to, uh, she’s dangerous.” Asked to clarify the loquacious Stewart explained “She speaks. She’s so confused, and anyone like that in government is a real problem.” The interviewer, obviously finding Sarah Palin more interesting than the woman who rode her ex-husband’s coattails to fame and fortune, pressed ahead wondering if Stewart had caught any of Governor Palin’s interviews on television. Stewart, who had only seconds before claimed she found Sarah Palin so “very boring” responded “I wouldn’t watch her if you paid me!” As a simple human being I was not aware that blue blood gifted people with such transcendental powers as being able to be bored by someone I supposedly pay no attention to, not to mention find them dangerous! So which is it, Martha? Do you pay her attention and hence become bored and frightened or are you pulling all this out of your oven mitts?



Stepping away from my sarcastic fury for a moment let me leave you with this thought: we are not even one hundred years from the day women won the right to vote in this country and yet we are on the very cusp of seeing a woman become President of the United States (whoever she may finally be). What service does it provide women or humanity itself to deride, mock, and make non-substantive fear mongering attacks on a self made, American success story such as Sarah Palin? One does not need to walk lock step politically with Governor Palin to recognize that her accomplishments have indeed made her perhaps the greatest renaissance woman of our time. Consider that whether you agree with her politics or not her story can prove to be an inspiration for millions of our daughters who daily have to struggle with the poisonous pop culture, hip hop generation, music video message that they are only worth as much as their sex appeal.

Martha Stewart is today worth $638 million and would have you believe she is a self made woman; yet she owes it all to the doors her ex-husband first opened for her three decades ago. Sarah Palin may very well become President of the United States and she owes all her success to the doors she kicked open on her own, never forgetting that her husband and family were and are by her side. That is the American woman who embodies the Spirit of this nation. Martha, keep walking the red carpets and stay in your kitchen because out in the real world you can’t take the heat from a rising sun like Sarah Palin.