Sarcasm you can believe in

Speeches, speeches, speeches.

They bored me in high school. They put me to sleep in college. When stuck enduring one in a business meeting, I mentally write my grocery list. In networking schmooze-fests when trapped by a walking/talking company brochure, I feign choking on an ice cube.

Yet politicians still think speeches have value. Shrug. Good thing no one expects results from a President or he'd never break 80.

Since I may only be on this planet for 90-plus years or so and, therefore, simply don't have any extra time to spare listening to another Obama speech, I found this. It's the gist of O's brand new, revolutionary, never-before-tried-except-consistently-for-the-last-three-years-not-to-mention-during-several-other-liberal-presidencies jobs plan with enough salty sarcasm to cure pork.

Here's an excerpt that goes great with two eggs sunny side up.

Obama, whose Democratic spending priorities have pushed the national debt beyond $14,000,000,000,000, said it was important to curb spending and keep to the deficit reduction plan agreed to earlier this summer while also investing in, you know, many important things.

He then provided a joint session of Congress with a broadly ambitious list of goals that sounded to many people very much like a lot more spending, like, say, the $787 billion economic stimulus bill of 2009 that didn't stimulate much of anything except that national debt.

With the national debt already increasing $3 million every minute of every day, Obama wants to repair and modernize 35,000 schools. Obama wants $35 billion to go toward salaries for teachers, firefighters and police.

Obama wants $140 billion largely to update roads and bridges. Obama wants another $245 billion in business and individual tax relief. Obama also wants to extend unemployment benefits.

And Obama wants it all right now. Seriously. Now that his Martha's Vineyard vacation is over, this situation is urgent.

In the meantime, Americans should follow Obama's lead - take vacations, play golf, travel, talk, talk some more, and avoid responsibility.
If it's good enough for the President, it's good enough for me.

Quote Them: When Bradbury speaks, I listen

“I think our country is in need of a revolution. There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people and for the people.”

Ray Bradbury,
outspoken visionary, creative genius, and one of my favorite authors


PS If you haven't read Fahrenheit 451 yet, get to it. Or if you haven't read it since high school, it deserves a repeat. There are political parallels there, just like in Atlas Shrugged, that will send shivers all the way up your free-thought lovin' spine.

In the Los Angelos Times article which featured Bradbury's push for more space exploration, not Obama's less, for more books and less Kindle, and for more individual freedom and less government, the writer Susan King described the legendary author as "one of America's great dreamers, but his imagination takes him to some dark places when it comes to contemporary politics."

Dark places. People having more control over their lives is dark? Yes, I suppose so. Especially when you have bastions of honesty like Charlie Rangel to make those tough, mind-blowing decisions on which light bulb to buy.

The "contemporary politics" bit sounded like a jab on the man's age. What happened to honoring our elders? Listening to their wisdom? Not anymore. He's old and thus his commentary on current politics is placed in the "don't touch" cataloging of "contemporary politics." In other words, keep your opinions to life in the 50s old timer.

If he'd been wearing an "I heart Obama" shirt and flipping through pages of O Magazine, King would have changed her "American dreamer" title to "American icon" and drooled praise on the man's eternal voice. But since he believes in individual freedom, Bradbury's just an old man with a good imagination.

Your objective media at work, folks.