The Land of Obama Make-Believe
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The Land of Obama Make-Believe
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2012
Where did President Obama go after killing off thousands of Keystone XL pipeline construction and manufacturing jobs? Why, Disney World, of course. Sabotaging work is hard work for Goofy and his pals.
And where’d he head after that? Why, up to Manhattan for more high-priced campaign fundraisers charging up to $38,500 per partier. The business of wining and dining politically connected donors ain’t child’s play, you know.
Obama touted a White House foreign tourism initiative on Thursday with Cinderella’s castle as his backdrop. “America is open for business,” he proclaimed chirpily to the rest of the globe.
Tell that to the Keystone managers in Canada whom Obama and his State Department rebuffed — after years of planning and review — in order to appease militant environmentalists and Hollywood celebs. The Animatronic Divider robotically lambasted Republicans for pushing him to make a decision this week. But Senate and House Democrats issued the sharpest rebukes to White House obstructionism:
“President Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline is a major setback for the American economy, American workers, and America’s energy independence,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said.
“The rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline permit is a missed opportunity to drastically turn this economy around. This pipeline would have created thousands of new jobs and helped to ensure our energy independence,” Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., lamented.
“This delay is just playing politics with American jobs and American energy security,” Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, pointed out.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle scratched their heads as the job-snuffer-in-chief bolted to Orlando’s fantasyland to promote economic growth. But there’s no more fitting place on Earth for the man whose escapist administration occupies the land of make-believe and no consequences. (Bonus moment: Obama got to shake hands with Mickey Mouse, who infamously turned up on a Florida ACORN voter registration form in 2008. Constituent outreach at its most surreal.)
On the very same day he quashed Keystone, Obama released his first campaign ad of 2012 — hyping his stellar record on energy jobs. It’s Opposite Day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 365 days a year. Even more comically, the ad touted his exemplary ethics record by quoting a moldy three-year-old endorsement from left-leaning Politifact. And as bipartisan Capitol Hill outrage over the half-billion-dollar Solyndra solar stimulus bust mounts, Obama had the nerve to sprinkle his inaugural campaign spot with — wait for it — solar panels.
Instead of supporting new infrastructure jobs in America through an energy independence-enhancing project that has bipartisan legislative support on Capitol Hill, the president flew to Disney World to peddle looser visa restrictions in China and Brazil by executive order. He also will expand the Visa Waiver Program (a security loophole-ridden program that was suspended temporarily after the 9/11 terrorist attacks) to speed foreign travel.
In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers. Brazil is just the latest base for al-Qaida and other Islamic jihadi groups. It does not consider Hezbollah or Hamas terrorist groups, and it disbanded its anti-terrorism force in 2009.
The Visa Waiver Program and other efforts to expedite the tourist visa process also pose continuing security risks because — as the Government Accountability Office itself admitted last year — there is still no comprehensive, systematic way to track the 70 million-plus foreign visitors who enter the country on tourist and other short-term visas. Indeed, half of the nation’s estimated 20 million illegal aliens are visa overstayers.
How many of the new Disney foreign tourists whom Obama is touting as America’s economic salvation will fail to return to their home countries after their Obama World visas expire? We’ll likely never know. And Team Obama doesn’t care.
In his opening campaign ad salvo, Obama accuses his opponents of being “untethered to facts.” But this is an administration that believes lowering visa standards and risking homeland security to pump up Disney foreign tourism is a better path to economic recovery than supporting direct American job creation and enhancing energy security. Like the Disney characters he posed with this week, our cartoonish president is wholly untethered to reality.
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This meme that you think you’re the only conservative here is arrogant, insulting, disingenuous and just plain tedious, Mr Tea Party. Please consider FilAmWIguy’s post #196. Your condescending rhetoric only alienates people, and is divisive. I also agree a third party could be a very positive step, but in addition to Fil’s rantette,
A third party at this point with:
No credible leadership
No credible candidate
No conservative consensus
No platform
No plurality mandate
No money
Has zero substance and only mucks this mess up worse.
More to the point – your condescending “uber” conservative pseudo high ground is naught but hypocritical blather. Character still matters – Big time! Traditional family values, visionary leadership, morality, ethics, integrity, veracity, consistancy are more important now than ever. This crap that social conservatism and morality are passe is just brain dead. The president can’t do anything about Roe, but he/she needs to know abortion destroys a human life – marriage involves a man and a woman – and for God’s sake he needs to know there is a God. As critical as the deficit, the economy, free markets and borders are – THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY ISSUES.
That said, IMAO the best prospects out there were Palin, Bachmann and perhaps Cain – which is exactly why the libromedia brought their big guns to bear on them. Scares their socks off.
Real conservatives know that. You, not so much.
swede:
Your points are the same ones I’ve been trying to tell Phil for the last two weeks. Still no answer from him on how his mythical third party can somehow magically win in November 2012.
Looks like Obama has finally found something he is qualified to do (but still had to use a teleprompter). I look forward to him headlining his new gig in Vegas starting Jan 21, 2013.
I know, just reinforcing the obvious. Don’t confuse the boy with facts, his mind is made up!
“Phil, I respectfully disagree.”
“MONKEY PILE! Noseholders! Liberals! Idiots! Raiders fans!”
Guess I got carried away with the last one. Phil reminds me of The man who is alternately rude and polite.
Okay, You convinced me. No one here cares what I think. RIGHT! You people have so little to discuss that you obsess about anything I say. I OWN you people.
It really doesn’t make any difference how many of you join into the monkey pile. If even one of you had an argument to my points, you would be making it. But you don’t so, well trained by Saul Alinsky, you attack ME. Don’t you get it yet? You are phonies and hypocrites.
Like the dimwitted sheeple you are, you find comfort in numbers in your monkey piles and appeal to Michelle to kick me out. Why don’t even ONE of you sheeple break from the pack and dare to think for yourself. What exactly do you expect to be talking about from now until November? Hatred of Obama only goes so far.
Get a life.
PPhil – I just saw a pic of you. You are so calm on the other site. Why are you reluctant to relax a little over here?
I don’t think calling everyone here a bunch of names is the way to make any valid points.
Calm down. I am not a sheeple. I love the fact that we all have opinions.
But you know what? The field has been picked – go work on 2016 elections NOW. What we have is what we have. Calm down.
(red meat) Go Ron Paul! (snicker)
Several lies, as usual when you get hysterical.
Pasadena Phil:
I asked a question, and that’s a monkey pile? Please explain that one, because I’m confused.
I have never asked for your being kicked out. I’m not a sheeple. I can think for myself. Just because I’m not interested at charging at windmills it doesn’t follow that I’m an Alinskyite. So please calm down.
So again I ask you: How does your mythical third party is supposed to win in November 2012? And I want details, please.
Nobody ever has, as far as I know. Just one of the many lies in that particular rant. Of course tomorrow he’ll be back claiming he never lies and demanding that you prove otherwise.
I’m the one being asked to be tossed out, mostly by Phil fans.
Well, I’m so sorry – I thought this from my previous post might be addressing your third party recommendation. Maybe you could clarify what myself, HC, tv2 and others have asked you:
A third party at this point with:
No credible leadership – Who’s our chairman? Committee? Headquarters?
No credible candidate – Paul won’t even do it. Ross Perot is unavailable.
No conservative consensus – Witness present discourse.
No platform – Tea Party? What does that mean? Only smaller government?
No plurality mandate – No groundswell support and no traction with indies.
No money – As in, “No dough – No go.”
Help us sheeple out, O wise one. Or perhaps you could challenge me own tedious meme about social conservatism, values, character, morality, integrity and all that rot. Am I wrong? Why?
BTW, If anyone indeed called for your removal, I’ll email tonight to back you. I agree with most of your ideas. The rest helps me define and articulate what I believe. That’s how this works. May I offer that you are rather thin skinned, intransigent and take yourself too seriously. Much of what I post is intended as sparring jabs – not personal condemnation. FWIW. Lighten up.
I would be pissed if I saved up for my family to visit Disney World, only to learn the Magic Kingdom is closed so this clown could make a speech.
From another website..
“I am on vacation in Orlando at Disney World. We are celebrating the birthdays of two of our grandchildren. They love Disney World.
Recently, it was announced that our president would be making a speech at the Magic Kingdom on Thursday. Something about promoting tourism. Later, it was announced that the speech would be around 12:30 p.m. It was now just announced that the Magic Kingdom will be closed Thursday until 3 p.m. and all reservations will be canceled.
Lucky for us, our birthday celebration is not until Saturday. Others are not so fortunate. How would you like to have your little 4-year-old at Disney World for her birthday and have a reservation with her favorite princess at Cinderella’s castle? Too bad for you. Nice work Obama.
So, if you see the evening news and a picture of him giving a speech at the Magic Kingdom, you will now know that it was just a photo op. No “regular people” were even allowed into the park. It was all staged.
But what else would you expect from this president.”
Why? Because I read some of your posts? I also read ILMC’s posts. But do I care what she says? Nah, not so much. As has been said before, you are the “cut and paste poster”, just repeating the same mantra over and over. Boring.
Sally Kohn? I saw her on there one day but didn’t realize who she was. I only know that I couldn’t stand her from her very first word.
Keep it up, FoxNews and you too can have the same ratings as MSNBC.
There are a few shows I tune into. Fox and Friends in the a.m. as I wake up and catch up on the news. Then, Neil Cavuto, The Five, Bret Bair. Sometimes O’Reilly if he promises good guests. That’s it.
What a shame that the one station we had to rely on getting the truth is more and more going over to the dark side. They are probably trying to be “fair and balanced”. But why resort to the most disgusting pieces of regressive crap? Sally Kohn, Alan Colmes, Bob Beckel, Juan Williams, etc. Most of them are unwatchable. Bob Beckel is pretty much neutralized by the rest of The Five, so he is palatable.
Fox better wake up or they will be sorry when their fans leave in droves.
Hey, didn’t Disney get ObumerCare waivers
I am down to 2 shows on Fox – Cavuto and Bair. That is it. If they leave or turn all squishy then I will not watch any news on TV and will just get it from a few web sites and Rush. That is why there is such an effort to be able to control the content on the web and talk radio. I believe a lot of people are doing the same thing.
Heh. “Hey all you tourists who traveled half way around the planet to visit Disney – Sorry, we’re closed today so our Dear Leader can announce we’re OPEN FOR BUSINESS!! Isn’t that great!”
I am frankly quite floored by the audacity of this egomaniac to think no one would complain about this! Who the h does he think he is? However, the more people he pisses off, the better chance we have of tossing his sorry, skinny little ass out of our House in January!!
Glad everyone caught my heads up.
FOX… they used to be a conservative news network.
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Video: Canadian Talk Show Host Destroys Obama Over Keystone Decision
Ezra Levant hosts a show, The Source, for Canada’s Sun News. In a very well-researched presentation, he takes a comprehensive look at Obama’s idiocy over the Keystone Pipeline. Be sure to watch the whole thing and pay particular attention to the map of the alleged “pristine, environmentally sensitive area” through which the pipleline will pass. I don’t know who this guy is, but he certainly did his homework.
http://conservatives4palin.com/2012/01/video-canadian-talk-show-host-destroys-obama-over-keystone-decision.html
Ranks up there with Billy Jeff Clintoon shutting down LAX for two hours so he could get a haircut on Air Force One parked on the tarmac. No takeoffs or landings permitted when POTUS is onboard. What. A. Shmuck.
Oh how the mighty have fallen!
From a Greek God in front of marble pillars on Mount Olympus to
an ugly step-sister seeking relevance in front of Cinderella’s Castle.
Took me a minute to think….LOVE that movie. BTW I think AMC has had a marathon Nazi/French resistance movies. Timely, I think. Also, doesn’t part 2 of Atlas Shrugged come out April 15th?
That’ll be the day.
Tigerlady,
Allow me…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBQvt-t6NcA
Dear Michelle,
I joined this blog group thinking that because it was YOURS that it would have a lot of thoughtful and articulate conservative posters…especially since you had restricted the members and hand picked who would stay early on.
Frankly, it appears that there are only about 20 people that keep running dialog and diatribe arguments with each other filled with insults and petty disagreements….they might as well be twittering with each other or some group of high school kids texting.
I am leaving this thing out of disgust, and frankly, have to say that it taints my attitude toward the charisma that Hannidy and Fox have attributed to you as a intelligent outspoken conservative. I find most of your comments today to be small minded, highly abrasive and adversarial, and somewhat generally misinformed.
Have a nice life, and same to group.
Rufus Levin.
Sally ‘Jane Hathaway’ Kohn? With all of her laughing and smirking when any other opinion other than her’s is presented, she is unwatchable.
Damn it! Rufus will be missed.
sarc
On January 21st, 2012 at 10:38 pm, Rufus Levin said:
Why how condescending of you! Under the guise of a thoughtful observance, you masked then exposed your your true intention! Hell, the Trojan Horse has nothing on you slick. Now, back to Media matters or Huffy Puffy or where ever you climbed out from under.
Rufus,
DLTDHYWTGLSY
Buh
Bye
No, Dufus, please don’t go! We don’t have enough condescending, holier-than-thou, uber intellectual, arrogant and disingenuous commenters here. What will we ever do without your ultra-conservatism as a shining beacon to strive for? I think I’m gonna cry.
Also. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya. Putz.
Rufus Levin:
You will NOT be missed. Just take ILMC and the other trash out with you.
Disgusting
Looks like Rufus’ sourpuss opus failed to move us.
9-)
Woooo Rufus you’ve really hurt my feelings.
So let me see if this makes sense: Øbama swore to support and defend the Constitution, yet he routinely ignores it and disobeys the intent of it, not to mention weakening the country at every opportunity.
Why would anyone support this guy?
I guess you have to be a liberal/socialist/South American dictator to find this rational acceptable.
It’s “rationale”, by the way. I cut and pasted your tripe. My bad.
I believe that “The Land of Obama Make-Believe” includes the issue of
his (in)eligibility.
Thankfully, at least one Judge appears to care about about the truth and the Constitution.
And as a follow-up to my last comment,
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On January 23rd, 2012 at 9:19 am,
The order will be ignored, just like other orders of the court. He just won’t show up. There is no way this egotistical monster will lower himself to answer to The People.
happyscrapper,
I suspect that you are right. I will be shocked if he does show up. But if he doesn’t show up, he will be directly defying a Court order, and would essentially be challenging the Judge to find him in contempt of Court.
The ONLY coverage I can find of this in traditional media is the Augusta Chronicle:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-01-21/across-georgia
RedPill…there have been other Contempt of Court citations issued and it doesn’t seem to matter to anyone. The drilling moratorium, for example. The court orders and they ignore. They do not honor the laws of our country. And they get away with it. If our own leaders don’t respect the law, why should anyone else?
You’re right, happyscrapper.
A Republic is the Rule of Law.
Without the Rule of Law, our Republic is dead.
I’m praying for spiritual revival in our country, and believe that that is a prerequisite to true political revival and revival of our Republic.
Hopefully God will decide we are worth saving. Perhaps if there are still more than 1/2 of the country who are trying to do the right thing, God will have mercy on us.
OK all you Mouseketeers, let’s all sing along now…
When you wish upon a czar….
happyscrapper,
Leo Donofrio has filed an AMICUS BRIEF in the Georgia POTUS eligibility cases.
To be totally honest, my eyes glaze over when I start to read anything legal. After the first sentence, I am struck dumb!! It just makes no sense to me. I have to trust that these lawsuits are good ones and articulated well. When things are explained in layman’s terms, I am fine. But reading actual documents? Life is too short. I will be 70 this year, the day after the election! I just want to live to see who wins!!!
On January 23rd, 2012 at 1:18 pm, happyscrapper said:
And hopefully a few decades more…
Well, I’m pretty healthy, but I would die happy if I could just see this communist thrown out of the WH on his ass…into a giant mud puddle. And the missus right behind him. I don’t usually disrespect the POTUS, but this man is a usurper who is destroying us. He deserves no respect from me or any other Patriot.
Except it apparently wouldn’t be the judge issuing the order who would hold him in contempt. According to this piece, Malihi “presides at the Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings, which hears complaints against state agencies.” Since he’s an administrative judge, it’s likely his order would have to be referred to a superior court of record for the subpoena to be enforced. And they would then have the power to review its validity for themselves.