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Obama More Like Buchanan Than Lincoln
By Frank Diamond, For The Bulletin
Sorry, man, but I just can’t get all goosebumpy about this hope and change jive. In fact, I’m nervous. We, the people, have handed the reins to a man who’s major accomplishment, up until about four years ago, was writing about himself.
President Barack Obama seems to be an affable chap, but that’s no reason why he should be running the planet. My accountant is a nice enough fellow and my mechanic is a saint. Yet, I’d rather not hear “Hail to the Chief” when they come into the room. Still, it is what it is — at least for another four years.
My liberal friends enjoin me to swing with the moment, much like that erstwhile comic book hero of my boyhood, Spider-Man, who, in a special issue, helps our new president. No surprise there. Peter Parker is part of the vast left-wing conspiracy known as the media, after all.
Next, Marvel Comics should develop a storyline that features Mr. Parker being groomed as the host of “Hardball” to replace the doddering apparatnik who currently runs that show.
The Obamacans and even cowed conservatives say, “If he succeeds, the country succeeds.” That does not compute.
History is replete with political leaders who successfully achieved their goals, much to the horror of their countrymen. It would be churlish of me today to name names, but then again, I probably don’t have to. I hope our country succeeds. If that happens because of President Obama, then I am fine with that. If that happens despite him, then I can live with that as well.
The airy language of inaugurals filters down to me like the music of a high school marching band. It sounds a bit tinny and then there’s the scoreboard. Liberals: $850 billion; Conservatives: Banishment.
The Beatles were wrong, money can buy you love, at least in the short term. I’ll be first in line for the bailout of middle-age, white guys who really want to make more than you can in the publishing biz. Beats carrying around a sign that says, “Will Edit Fore Food.”
Comparisons are made between President Obama and President Lincoln. Please. For one thing, Mr. Lincoln would not have called the interrogation techniques authorized by George Bush No. 43 torture. He would have considered Gitmo a luxury resort. Since we’re playing this game, then I’ll vote that the former White House occupant President Obama most reminds me of is James Buchanan.
Now there was a successful politician. No mess on his watch. No war. No rocking the boat. The slaves would have been freed, in due time. Things could have continued like that for another decade or so, but noooooo. Mr. Lincoln had to come along and ruin it all.
Mr. Lincoln, of course, always did things the hard way. We’ve progressed since then. President Obama and congressional Democrats will show us that there’s no problem that we can’t buy ourselves out of.
Some conservatives were angered when former President George W. Bush championed the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. However, at least there was the suggestion that all or part of that money would be paid back by the banks. Who do you think is going to pay back the $850 billion? Meanwhile, there’s the bailout of the auto industry and a $100 billion cash infusion for Medicaid being discussed. Let’s not overlook the groundswell for socializing medicine, sure to make us poorer and sicker.
Douglas A. McIntyre wrote in the Wall Street Journal that, “If most of the things the government has already committed to in one form or another get funded, it is a $2 trillion bailout.” The problem with that statement is that it was made in October. What a quaint, old-fashioned time. Author and researcher Barry Ritholtz estimates that the entire cost of the bailout, as of late November, is more like $4.6 trillion. Tut-tut, says Bloomberg News, who estimates that it’ll be $7.7 trillion.
This prefigures a boom for the makers of printing presses, which will spit out a Niagara of greenbacks. These numbers don’t just invite inflation, they swing the front doors wide open and beg it to come in, raid the fridge, grab a beer, put its feet up, belch, and take a snooze on the soon-to-be-repossessed couch. During the hyperinflation of Germany’s Weimar Republic in the 1920s, a dollar was worth 4,200,000,000,000 marks. A loaf of bread cost 200,000,000,000 marks. Look at all those zeros. Must have been some bread.
Frank Diamond can be reached at fpdiamond@yahoo.com.
President Barack Obama seems to be an affable chap, but that’s no reason why he should be running the planet. My accountant is a nice enough fellow and my mechanic is a saint. Yet, I’d rather not hear “Hail to the Chief” when they come into the room. Still, it is what it is — at least for another four years.
My liberal friends enjoin me to swing with the moment, much like that erstwhile comic book hero of my boyhood, Spider-Man, who, in a special issue, helps our new president. No surprise there. Peter Parker is part of the vast left-wing conspiracy known as the media, after all.
Next, Marvel Comics should develop a storyline that features Mr. Parker being groomed as the host of “Hardball” to replace the doddering apparatnik who currently runs that show.
The Obamacans and even cowed conservatives say, “If he succeeds, the country succeeds.” That does not compute.
History is replete with political leaders who successfully achieved their goals, much to the horror of their countrymen. It would be churlish of me today to name names, but then again, I probably don’t have to. I hope our country succeeds. If that happens because of President Obama, then I am fine with that. If that happens despite him, then I can live with that as well.
The airy language of inaugurals filters down to me like the music of a high school marching band. It sounds a bit tinny and then there’s the scoreboard. Liberals: $850 billion; Conservatives: Banishment.
The Beatles were wrong, money can buy you love, at least in the short term. I’ll be first in line for the bailout of middle-age, white guys who really want to make more than you can in the publishing biz. Beats carrying around a sign that says, “Will Edit Fore Food.”
Comparisons are made between President Obama and President Lincoln. Please. For one thing, Mr. Lincoln would not have called the interrogation techniques authorized by George Bush No. 43 torture. He would have considered Gitmo a luxury resort. Since we’re playing this game, then I’ll vote that the former White House occupant President Obama most reminds me of is James Buchanan.
Now there was a successful politician. No mess on his watch. No war. No rocking the boat. The slaves would have been freed, in due time. Things could have continued like that for another decade or so, but noooooo. Mr. Lincoln had to come along and ruin it all.
Mr. Lincoln, of course, always did things the hard way. We’ve progressed since then. President Obama and congressional Democrats will show us that there’s no problem that we can’t buy ourselves out of.
Some conservatives were angered when former President George W. Bush championed the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. However, at least there was the suggestion that all or part of that money would be paid back by the banks. Who do you think is going to pay back the $850 billion? Meanwhile, there’s the bailout of the auto industry and a $100 billion cash infusion for Medicaid being discussed. Let’s not overlook the groundswell for socializing medicine, sure to make us poorer and sicker.
Douglas A. McIntyre wrote in the Wall Street Journal that, “If most of the things the government has already committed to in one form or another get funded, it is a $2 trillion bailout.” The problem with that statement is that it was made in October. What a quaint, old-fashioned time. Author and researcher Barry Ritholtz estimates that the entire cost of the bailout, as of late November, is more like $4.6 trillion. Tut-tut, says Bloomberg News, who estimates that it’ll be $7.7 trillion.
This prefigures a boom for the makers of printing presses, which will spit out a Niagara of greenbacks. These numbers don’t just invite inflation, they swing the front doors wide open and beg it to come in, raid the fridge, grab a beer, put its feet up, belch, and take a snooze on the soon-to-be-repossessed couch. During the hyperinflation of Germany’s Weimar Republic in the 1920s, a dollar was worth 4,200,000,000,000 marks. A loaf of bread cost 200,000,000,000 marks. Look at all those zeros. Must have been some bread.
Frank Diamond can be reached at fpdiamond@yahoo.com.
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