Thursday, April 29, 2010

Giving New Meaning To The Term "Bully Pulpit"

Yet another crack in the Obama devotion from many in the MSM is surfacing. My colleague, Linda Anselmi, came across this article recently, and passed it on. This time, the focus is Obama's bullying tendencies. This is not a new concept to me - I have been writing about what a bully Obama is since March of 2008. But the author of this piece works for CNBC. Yep - the Central Network (for) Barack Constantly. To see this headline come out of ANYTHING related to NBC is pretty startling, Obama is a Bully: Kneale.

Wowie zowie - no mincing words, just putting it out there. Welcome to the party, Mr. Kneale:
Will someone please rein in our relentlessly hectoring President? Barrack Hussein Obama has taken his gift for inspirational oratory—one of the traits that got him elected—and turned it into something darker and more insidious.


Oh, just stop right there. "Inspirational oratory"? You mean the vapid statements written for him that he read off TOTUS, or this:



I couldn't listen to it all, either. Hardly eloquent, though, by any stretch of the imagination. Back to the point at hand:
Bam is a bully. Bad enough that he bashes Wall Street, but this President has gone farther than any in modern history in putting the wrong kind of “bully” back into what Teddy Roosevelt had called the bully pulpit.

Obama’s latest broadside came over the weekend, when he vehemently criticized the state of Arizona and its (Republican) governor for passing a tough new law on illegal immigration.

The President called the measure “misguided” and all but labeled it un-American. He even ordered the Department of Justice, before the ink on this bill-signing has even dried, to examine the civil-rights “implications” of the new law. Seems like the courts and rights groups could handle that once any problem actually emerges.

Can you remember any other modern President, wagging a finger from on high, so directly and bitterly criticizing a new law passed by any state?

This is hubris at best and ignorance of the Constitution at worst. The U.S. was founded in part on the precept of states’ rights as an important counterweight to a rapacious federal government. Thus a President must step softly here, questioning gently but avoiding rancor and browbeating.

Hold the phone - are you saying this so-called(by himself and his image creators) Constitutional Scholar doesn't know the Constitution? Maybe it's because this is a trumped up title, especially according to those who actually had to work with him at Chicago Law School. You know, at the position he was given by a Board member because he couldn't get it on his own merits. That one. I know - a mere technicality, especially for his supporters.

Back to the article:
The new state law itself is disturbing, even detestable, and I don’t like it. It forces immigrants to carry with them proof of their legal status and lets cops demand to see the “papers” of anyone (read: any foreign-looking person) to make sure he didn’t sneak into the country. It smacks of Nazis in the Jewish ghetto in Poland.

HOW does this smack of Nazism? Legal immigrants in this country are REQUIRED to carry their Green Cards anyway. Why, if not to be able to produce them on demand? No one is talking about rounding up a bunch of people and putting them in ghettos or concentration camps. They are talking about, with probable cause, to ensure that someone who is engaging in questionable activities is an American citizen or LEGAL immigrant. This is a red herring, meant simply to distract from the issue. Sheesh.

Back to the Obama the Bully:
But it is the law, and Arizona’s people duly elected the legislators who voted for it. They acted, moreover, on an issue the feds clearly have botched—immigration—and are trying to protect the state’s citizens from an influx of drug-cartel violence from Mexico.

Rather than trash an entire state, Bam could have privately lobbied Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and urged her to veto the bill. Or he could have said, simply, that he hoped to pass better solutions at the federal level.

That would have been statesmanlike, but this President gets pouty whenever anyone dares to disagree with him. He seems to view dissension not as healthy public debate but as a suspicious, pernicious challenge to his omnipotence and popularity.

Obama the Bully, at his State of the Union address, had the temerity to criticize the Supreme Court of the United States for its new ruling that companies have a right to free speech in political campaign advertising (a right that unions already enjoyed, by the way). He did this as the justices themselves sat before him in the audience, paying their respects to a leader who showed them none.

Perhaps President Obama had forgotten an American civics lesson: The Supreme Court is the supreme law of the land. It is unseemly and disrespectful for a President to so bluntly and blatantly question the justices’ judgment and intent—especially right in front of their faces.

I can’t remember of any other President in my memory having done this. Nixon maybe? An unfortunate comparison, indeed.

Another civics lesson Obama seems to have missed is what is in the Constitution of the United States, and what is in the Declaration of Independence, again, not so great for an alleged scholar:



Right. I don't know why Kneale is so surprised by this lack of decorum from Obama. He has done nothing but demonstrate a complete and utter lack of regard for decorum, stepping lightly, or exhibiting any modicum of humility, despite his claim that he is humble (missing the point of the word):
Similarly, President Obama maligns Wall Street for trying to have a say in financial reform and lobbying for its interests, though this input is a vital ingredient in any democratic process. Yet Obama doesn’t criticize giant unions like the AFL-CIO and the SEIU when they similarly lobby on fin-reg.

Why? Because the unions agree with him. Even though Wall Street has a far more legitimate claim to get involved in this debate than do the unions, which represent only 7% of the private work force and essentially should have no dog in this fight at all.

Hmm, now that I think about it, nor can I recall any other modern President who has spent so much effort lambasting his immediate predecessor. Reagan didn’t do it to Carter. Clinton didn’t do it to the first George Bush.

And the worst part is, we’re barely calling out Obama the Bully on this behavior at all. We are becoming entirely too accustomed to it, failing to see it for what it really is: a striking lack of civility, and an overflow of divisiveness, from a President who had promised to give us precisely the opposite.

Great - more from SEIU, the union that represents about 2 million people. Someone tell me again why they are so powerful? Are they now taking over for their sister organization, ACORN, since ACORN has been disgraced? Regardless, it is obscene for them to wield as much power in this country as they do, especially with Obama.

Yes, Obama is a bully. Anyone who TRULY watched him throughout the Primary Campaigns, or the Election Campaigns, knew that.

If you continue to doubt the bullying nature of Obama, check out this article in which he and his team call out SWAT cops on a peaceful gathering of Tea Partiers in Quincy, IL, Team Obama Calls Out Swat Team on Tea Party Patriots!. As you can see from the photo below, there was real cause for concern on the part of Obama and his people:



Ooohhhh, scary grandmotherly-looking women singing patriotic songs as you can hear in this clip (H/t to Logistics Monster):



Quite a difference from this recent protest in Arizona:



Yep, there is no doubt that Obama is a bully. There is also no doubt we are living in Upside Down World when SWAT cops are brought in against peaceful protesters, yet there is not an overwhelming presence in AZ when people are completely out of control. It is simply astonishing. Don't you think?

5 comments:

Mary Ellen said...

Hi Rev. Amy- Did you read the comments that were left on the "Obama is a Bully" article? I just about died laughing. The Kool-Aiders were out in full force. Of course, calling the writer a racist for attacking Obama was in there. Honestly, the Obots are so predictable.

I burst out laughing when I was watching the video of the swat team marching in unison in front of all those protesters. They really looked stupid. Of course, I'm sure MSNBC wont show the protesters but just show close up shots of the SWAT Team to make it look as if they really needed to be there to control the "angry mob". They had to be sure to be packing heat just in case any of those angry grandmothers started throwing bingo chips and fully loaded "Depends" at the presidential motorcade.

Mary Ellen said...

Rev. Amy-
Just wait until all those undocumented aliens who are pissed off move from AZ to Nevada. Before you know it, Reid will be supporting the signing of an order that looks just like the one in AZ.

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy said...

Oh, no doubt, ME! Did you hear that the President of Mexico told his people not to go to AZ since it's so dangerous?

And guess who is paying for all of the additional services AZ (and other border states) require with all of these illegal immigrants? They do. Especially since Obama cut, yes, CUT, the Border Patrol resources.

Kinda makes you wonder why, doesn't it?

Oh, wow - I just love the idea of all of those folks moseying on to Nevada...

Anonymous said...

Hi Rev... I can't tell you how done I am with this Pretender and his Pretenderlings. It's just f'ing enough!

SWAT teams called out to control grandma and grandpa? I don't hear anyone complaining THAT's a little Nazi'ish. Nope, gotta control those violent, racist, rabid geriatrics.

And if one more person compares this AZ law to what the Nazi's did, I swear I'll start screaming and never stop. How anyone can compare the systematic murder of 11 million people to a state enforcing a law requiring non-citizens to enter this country legally is beyond me. Talk about fear-mongering and stirring up violence.

What the hell is wrong with people? Why can't anyone read that damn 16 page bill...not like it's 2400 pages of crap like the health care waste. 16 pages, and people will see it's the state version of the federal bill...which the feds are not enforcing.

What is it that people don't get about the word "illegal"??? If there are 11 million people here illegally, they need to be sent home. Period. If they want to be here, they can do it legally. Just like both sets of my grandparents did.

I think we should send all those illegals to the White House. Let BamBam and Mrs. BamBam redistribute some of their own wealth.

And a few in the media are just now figuring out BamBam is a bully? Where were they during the primaries? I honestly think the man is nuts. A sociopath. A danger to society. I truly don't understand people who still support him.

Oh, I'm ranting and raving. I'm just so fed up with this crap! And it's only been 16 months. The damage that sociopath will do over the next 32 months scares the hell out of me.

Please, can we go to Montserrat now? Raymond and I can sleep in a sleeping bag on the beach if need be.

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy said...

SF, you can rant away any ol' time, sister. And what an excellent rant it was!

You are so right, there is absolutely NO comparison between asking people for their ID and Nazi Germany, for heaven's sake. I might add,, there is a law on the books since 1940 that says "Legal Aliens" MUST carry their Green Cards at all times. So...Presumably, that means they should expect to be asked at any time to show their papers. ALL US citizens have to expect to be asked for ID at any time.

I'll be doing something more on the AZ law. It parallels the federal law. So, this is all smoke and mirrors, as well as the hate mongering of which you spoke.

Can you believe the sheer mob activity of these so-called Human Rights protesters?? There was one who claimed she was going to AXE Americans to death. WOW. Such a unifier that Obama...

And funny you mentioned that abt Montserrat. I was just looking at another real estate site right before I saw your comment!