News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Feb. 20, 2015: I was toying with various ideas for this episode.
One was a story about Obama texting after reading the other day that President Obama has the ability to text every cell phone in America all at once. That was tempting. Another was his latest trip across America last Friday at our expense whose real purpose was his golf game. But I don’t want to over play that theme. Then today I saw a columnist writing in my favorite source and partner The New York Times about President Obama’s TRANSFORMATIONAL Presidency. That’s right what he calls it.
I could not resist. Let me start with the last line from NY Times Op-Ed columnist Charles M. Blow, and work back from there.
“There is no doubt that the time of his presidency will be remembered as transformational.” THERE IS NO DOUBT. Do you understand?
NO doubt at all says Mr. Blow. Really? NO doubt. What planet is Mr. Blow living on? The scary part he appears to be living here in Fantasy Land.
That is one Possibility. The other more likely is that Charles Blow knows exactly what he is doing using words trying to deceive us. He does not believe Obama is Transformational President and I will prove it with his own words in a moment.
Or maybe he exist in another Dimension in which he responds to my desire to have a worthy subject for this weeks’ episode and he crossed over into this dimension to write his column for me to have to entertain you.
Or Charles Blow may be an experienced and accomplished Ass Kisser, and Washington Insider who is writing to curry favor with Barack Obama.
Or maybe we all live in a Multi-verse I like that and every one of these possibilities is true. No matter the fact this is great stuff to satirize.
So here we go enjoy the rhetorical ride!
I hope you like this week’s graphic above. I thought a transfiguration image is perfect for a story about Obama’s Transformational Presidency. If you don’t here is a definition: “A complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state: in this light the junk undergoes a transfiguration; it shines.” Did not make that up it is online from the exalted Oxford Dictionary. And they are the authority. I’d never call Barack junk. I have so many other ways that I describe him far better week after week.
Now finally let’s get to this commentary by Charles Blow that inspired me to uncontrollable laughter. I hope I can quote him here without rolling all over the floor and not being able to finish this episode.
Are you ready here is Blow’s opening…
“As the political parlor game increasingly turns to obsessions about the jockeying to become the next president, my thinking increasingly turns to how history will measure the current one.”
“While a truly comprehensive appraisal and historical contextualization of a presidency is the scope and scale of books more than columns, there are things that, from my perch and according to the peculiarities of my personal interests, stand out.”
So Mr. Blow tell us exactly what that is.
“Some of these are things for which the president can — in part or in whole — take personal responsibility, but others simply happened on this watch. And yet, I believe that they will all be somewhat associated with him and his stewardship.”
“In an interview broadcast earlier this month, the president told CNN, “I’m proud of saving the economy.” That may well be the most resounding mark of his presidency, even as people debate the quality of the recovery and his administration’s role in it.”
To begin with Blow actually believes Obama “saved” the economy. Exactly what does that even mean. And what would it have meant if he Obama both Obama and Blow are referring to the mortgage fraud I say FRAUD that took place that was second only to the Great Depression in its impact.
An organized well planned widespread calculated program by many major banks and others, a large number of senior executives and others to DEFRAUD millions upon millions of Americans and others. How many of these criminals were prosecuted by Obama’s JUSTICE Department and how many are in jail. NONE. How many of these criminals are still in senior positions and making more, money than ever. MOST.
So I guess that is one good reason Obama is a Transformational President.
I get it Mr. Blow. That is a good one. Good satire even though unintentional.
Let’s move on we’ve got lots of territory to cover before I lose it again.
So Blow then segues into the “recovery” following the FRAUD…
“But this recovery tends to feel more favorable for the wealthy than the working class. As the National Employment Law Project pointed out in an April policy paper, there is an imbalance between the kinds of jobs lost in the recession and the kinds experiencing the greatest growth in the recovery: High-wage industries accounted for 41 percent of the job losses but only 30 percent of the recent employment growth, while lower-wage industries accounted for 22 percent of the job losses but 44 percent of recent growth.”
“In 2010, the latest period available, the top 10 percent of Americans by net worth held 81 percent of all directly held or indirectly held stocks, according to Edward N. Wolff, an economics professor at New York University who specializes in inequality and Federal Reserve data.”
Another good point M. Blow. President Obama has been TRANSFORMATION for the rich. Never have they ever done better than the last 6 years while Barack Obama has been President.
The wealthiest Americans should worship Obama just like the figure above.
We have to move on I can’t spend all night on this. I don’t get paid enough.
What’s next from Charles Blow. Politics …
“The Obama years will also be remembered for the reshaping of our politics. There was the rise of the Tea Party and the demise of moderate voices. There were the unfathomable and indefensible rulings by the Supreme Court to bless dark money in the Citizens United case and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder. There is an ongoing voter effort to shrink and restrict the voting pool as minorities are beginning to feel their power at the polls.”
So what exactly is he crediting Barack Obama with doing and why is it Transformational. He obviously does not know and neither do I.
Time to move on again. Culture …
“The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural — and legal — tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court.”
Yes the all purpose issue so many politicians use as their claim to “greatness” their early support for equal rights. Well if Mr. Blow checked his facts in the middle of his euphoria he would know Obama was very late to this party. Then again who said Blow does not know the Truth!
Likewise same sex marriage which he devotes his next paragraph.
We have to move to the really BIG one finally yes indeed Obamacare!
“The Obama years will also be remembered for his signature legislation — the Affordable Care Act. This week, the president said that 11.4 million people had signed up for insurance or renewed coverage under the plan. Needless to say, the program is reducing the number of people who are uninsured but it also appears to be lowering medical costs.”
That’s right Obama’s Biggest Con is what Blow claims as Obama’s most TRANSFORMATIONAL aspect of all. Too bad its legitimate name is Obama’s Medical Industry Care Act. It is very well documented that our “transformational” President gave the medical industry veto power. That he would ONLY approve health care legislation they would accept.
And if Blow thinks that is good too bad he does not read the newspaper he works for. He should try “Insured but Not Covered” a lengthy detailed article in the NY Times, published very recently on February 7, 2015.
Then again who says Blow did not read it. His commentary is work of fiction. Factual material has no place in it. Anyway Blow mumbles on about other stuff for quite a few more paragraphs. It just gets more incomprehensible. I will not boar you. It is online if you want to read it.
I will conclude by reaffirming the idea that Barack Obama is a transformational President is LUDICROUS. It is time for Charles Blow to bend over and take a bow for his nonsense. Hilarious laughter please.
Oh I’m sorry Blow has been bent over since he began his commentary.
You can call it a Blow Job if you like I won’t.
