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The most puzzling thing about the presidency of Barack Obama has been how unpopular most of his policies are and how popular he is. At end of the Academy Awards Jack Nicolson trotted out Michelle Obama to make a speech and announce the winner for best picture and then suddenly everything came into focus. The Obamas have become full fledged celebrities in the classic Hollywood tradition. Hollywood was simply having one of their own participate in the industries most important evening and they were rubbing our noses in it.

The Obamas have transcended the pedestrian world of politics and have become part of mythmaking dreamscape of Hollywood where image is everything and substance is irrelevant. Obama isn’t really President in the here and now that real people have to live in. Instead he plays being the President on TV in a reality show that frees him from any blame or responsibility for the crises he sets into motion and the harm they do in the world far away from the fantasy world in southern California.
When we ask ourselves the next time why he is once again manufacturing another crisis, the answer will be that crisis is good drama and drama is interesting and generates great ratings. In short we have entered a kind of Rod Serling like “Twilight Zone” where fiction has become fact and the fact is that Obama is always cast as the hero.

EVERYBODY KNOWS

ON TUESDAY OF THIS WEEK THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN FULL FEAR MONGERING MODE WENT ON ALL THE NETWORKS TO WARN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THE SKY ONCE AGAIN WAS GOING TO FALL. THIS TIME THE CRISIS INVOLVED THE JOBS AND SERVICES HE CLAIMED THAT WOULD BE LOST IF THE SEQUESTRATION CUTS WENT INTO EFFECT ON MARCH 1ST 2013. ONCE AGAIN HE NEGLECTED TO REMIND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HE WAS THE AUTHOR AND PRIME PROMOTER OF THIS INSANE WAY OF OPERATING A GOVERNMENT. INSTEAD HE ONCE AGAIN BLAMED THE CONGRESS AND THE REPUBLICANS IN PARTICULAR.

BEHIND HIM LINED UP LIKE ROBOTS WAS THE “VICTIM GROUP” DE JOUR WHO WOULD BE DEVASTATED IF THESE CUTS WENT THROUGH. IN THIS INSTANCE THEY WERE "FIRST RESPONDERS" IN FULL DRESS UNIFORM. THE PRESENCE OF BACK DROP GROUPS LIKE THIS BY NOW SHOULD BE AN INDICATOR THAT WHAT HE WAS ABOUT TO TELL US WAS PURE POLITICS AND NOT RELATED TO REALITY.

PREDICTABLY HE PROPHESIZED THAT “air-traffic controllers and air port security will see cutbacks"…( I WONDER …DOES THIS MEAN THAT 4 YEAR OLD DISABLED LITTLE GIRLS IN WHEELCHAIRS WILL NOW NOT BE PATTED DOWN OR THAT ONLY THEY WILL BE PATTED DOWN ?)…HE TOLD US “thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off"( DOES THIS MEAN THAT DISTRIBUTION OF BTRTH CONTROL PILLS AND THE MORNING AFTER PILL ALONG WITH GRAPHIC SEX EDUCATION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS WILL BE SUSPENDED OR DOES IT MEAN THAT ONLY THAT WILL BE TAUGHT?)…

EDWARD I. KOCH 1924-2013

EDWARD I. KOCH 1924-2013

MAYOR EDWARD IRVING KOCH DIED RECENTLY AT THE AGE OF 88. HE WAS THE 105TH MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO THOSE OF US WHO SERVED UNDER HIM, HE WAS A LARGER THAN LIFE INSPIRATION WHO TAUGHT US TO ENGAGE THE WORLDS OF POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT WITH GUSTO AND MORAL COURAGE. TRAITS THAT HE DEMONSTRATED DAILY PERFORMING THE SECOND HARDEST JOB IN AMERICA.

AFTER HE LEFT OFFICE I SENT A NOTE TO HIM WHICH SIMPLY SAID “YOU HAD LAGUARDIA …ALL OF THOSE WHO COME AFTER YOU, WILL HAVE HAD KOCH”. HE WAS A TRANSFORMATIVE MAYOR WHO SAVED THE CITY FROM FISCAL RUIN AND MADE IT BETTER FOR EVERYONE DURING THE TUMULTUOUS 70s AND 80s. HE LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR HIS SUCCESSORS TO MAKE THE CITY PROSPEROUS, SAFE AND LIVABLE ON A LONG TERM BASIS.

MY JOB IN ALL THREE OF HIS TERMS FOCUSED ON THE NEEDS AND RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. ED KOCH PIONEERED NUMEROUS PROGRAMS IN THIS ARENA AND NEVER TOOK PUBLIC CREDIT FOR THEM.

NEW YORK CITY UNDER HIS WATCH PUT 1500 DISABLED YOUTH TO WORK EVERY SUMMER AND SET UP JOB TRAINING AND PLACEMENT PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS USING FEDERAL MONIES IN NOVEL WAYS NOT FOUND ANYWHERE IN THE REST OF THE NATION. HE MADE APRTMENTS FOR DISABLED PEOPLE AND STARTED NYC ON THE PATH TO ALMOST 100% ACCESSIBILITY FOR VOTING SITES, UNIVERSAL CURB CUTS AND ACCESSIBLE MASS TRANSIT. HE PASSED LANDMARK HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION AND INITIATED THE FIRST PROGRAMS FOR ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN DISASTER SITUATIONS. HE DID ALL OF THIS AND MORE AND AGAIN HE NEVER TOOK ANY CREDIT.

SNAKE OIL ON THE POTOMAC

WHEN BARACK OBAMA GAVE HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. AS THESE EVENTS GO, IT WAS FILLED WITH ALL THE INCREASINGLY ADOLESCENT BACKSLAPPING BEHAVIOR THAT HAVE COME TO ADD AN AURA OF TEEN AGE THEATRICS TO WHAT SHOULD BE A SOLEMN EVENT CONCERNING A COUNTRY GOING DOWN THE DRAIN!

OBAMA BEGAN BY INVOKING THE GHOST OF JFK…THEN ASKED HIS COUNTRYMEN TO NOT HESITATE TO ASK THEIR COUNTRY TO DO VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING FOR THEM IT COULD DO. HE SOARED RHETORICALLY WITH A DAZZLING DISPLAY OF DELUSIONAL DUPLICITY BY INTRODUCING A CORNUCOPIA OF PLANS, PROJECTS AND FANTASIES THAT WERE ALL DESIGNED TO MAKE THE STATE THE MASTER OF US ALL IN THE NAME OF GOOD WORKS WHILE ASSURING US THAT IT WON’T COST US AN ADDITIONAL DIME. APPARENTLY HOWEVER ALL OF HIS GRANDIOSE PROPOSALS WILL COST US AT MOST RECENT COUNT, AN ESTIMATED $83 BILLION!.

HE SPOKE OF SIX MILLION NEW JOBS” THAT DON’T EXIST! …OF REDUCING THE DEFICIT BY $2.5 TRILLION WHICH DIDN‘T HAPPEN IN THE REAL WORLD OF REAL PEOPLE AND ADDITIONALLY TRIES TO CONFUSE PEOPLE WITH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DEFICIT AND THE DEBT…

...OF REFORMING MEDICARE VIA A NEW PANEL TO LIMIT ALTERNATIVE CARE TO THE OLD, DISABLED AND TERMINALLY ILL AND WHICH CREEPILY FOCUSES OMINOUSLY ON CARE FOR SUB POPULATIONS… WHOEVER THEY ARE.

HE ALSO TOLD US THAT OBAMACARE HAS ALREADY CUT COSTS WHILE IGNORING THE REALITY OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO ARE PAYING HIGHER PREMIUMS AND CO-PAYS AND 7 MILLION WHO ON THE VERGE OF LOSING THE PLANS THEY HAVE NOW.

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE

ASK YOUSELF WHAT IS IT THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS ATTEMPTING TO ACHIEVE?

FROM 2009 T0 2012 OBAMA IGNORED THE ECONOMY, THE BUDGET, THE DEFICIT, UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE DEBT TO PASS HUGE ENTITLEMENTS LIKE OBAMACARE. CONSEQUENTLY THE MIDDLECLASS IS POORER HAVING LOST 23% OF THEIR WEALTH, OUR UNEMPLOYMENT IS HIGHER THAN WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE AND OF THE 8.8 MILLION JOBS WE LOST WE HAVE ONLY RECOVERED 5.5 MILLION AND MOST OF THOSE ARE LOW PAYING JOBS UNLIKE THE ONES THAT LEFT. HE CONTINUES TO RAISE TAXES AND SPEND AND SPEND AND SPEND TO ALLEGEDLY STIMULATE THE ECONOMY WHILE USING BORROWED MONIES AND MERELY ENLARGING THE WORLD OF GOVERNMENT. .

THE CBO SEES TOTAL FEDERAL BORROWING HITTING 77% OF THE GDP BY 2020 AND 53% OF FEDERAL SPENDING IS NOW COMPRISED OF ENTITLEMENTS AND OBAMACARE. THE ECONOMY SHRUNK FOR THE LAST QUARTER OF 2012 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2007.

7 MILLION MIDDLECLASS WORKERS WILL LOSE THE HEALTH INSURANCE OBAMA PROMISED THEY COULD KEEP AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL SPEND 127,602,371 MAN HOURS COMPLYING WITH OBAMACARE THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF CONSTRUCTING MOUNT RUSHMORE , WHICH TOOK 14 YEARS TO BUILD…1040 TIMES.