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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
The local marine life has yet to begin to digest the rotting carcass of the now officially deceased arch-enemy of Murka, Osama bin Laden but the bottom-feeders of the American political system and it's media support system are in full feeding frenzy. USA! USA! USA! is being chanted at sporting events following the rendition of the bloody good nationalist anthem the Star Spangled Banner or the song to the incestuous breeding of war religion and nationalist frenzy "God Bless America" as well as in smaller gatherings across the fruited plain. In the third day of orgasmic national euphoria following the coming out party of one Barack Hussein Obama, a man who was born in the USA and now has bagged the mother of all trophies much to the enduring shame of the swine, vermin and useful idiots that used to be the force of nature called the Tea Party. You almost have to feel for the poor Republican fascists who bet the entire house on their ability to infiltrate, hijack and then manipulate that now pitiable mass of angry, low information white folk into a re-branding of the same old God n' guns racist garbage that had been their ultimate trump card for decades. The Tea Party, not that long ago heralded as real change you can believe in by the propaganda organs of the oligarchy such as the Wall Street Journal has suffered monumental and irreversible damage in less than a fortnight. It is almost surreal that the full throated roar of the corporate media propaganda machine and their newest celebrity avenger, the Donald, were closing in on the wounded and feckless Obama, a man nearly equally detested by the pigs who hide their vitriolic bigotry under the cover of the Republican party banner as well as his own base for his callous and endless series of betrayals. Then lightning struck, the storms rolled in like ravenous destructive tornadoes through the very heart of peckerwood nation in Alabama and Obama emerged forever changed, brandishing the bloody scalp of the villain of all villains, Osama bin Laden like a powerful talisman.
I have personally been on record on a consistent basis throughout the years as believing that Osama bin Laden was dead, somehow it was hard to imagine a prolonged period of longevity for a man accused of heading up the greatest "terrorist' attack in U.S. history who was dragging around a dialysis machine though the Afghan mountains. Who knows, maybe he did survive in order to be hunted down and have a couple of caps busted into his skull over the weekend by U.S. Navy Seals. But that really brings about far more troubling questions, for example why was he still alive, living in pretty nice digs in a Pakistani military town? That the United States would NOT have known about this sooner and taken him out for his alleged crimes would lead a skeptic to believe that just maybe he was alive for a reason. A reason like maybe he was still an intelligence asset, laying low and under protection from an ally in Pakistan until he outlived his usefulness or perhaps he was going to go rogue. This would explain the killing and subsequent dumping of the body, after all, dead men tell no tales but the absence of a body also begs the question of whether any of it is real at all, I always keep thinking about what a son of a b*tch it must have been to lug around that dialysis machine though the Hindu Kush.
But I Digress.....
All that George W. Bush ever had was Saddam's gun, now Mr. Obama has the mojo and has grabbed a ride upon the back of the raging beast of a new nationalism while the Republicans and their hideously botched and badly whupped angry white male teabaggers slinked away with nary a fig leaf to provide cover for their now embarrassingly inadequate pee pees that have once and forever been exposed as the bald-faced lie that they always were. Newt Gingrich? Please, get the f*ck out of here. The Donald? Like his pet birthers, his sorry ass is yesterday's garbage. Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann? You gotta be kidding, the Thelma and Louise of the neoconservatives are so yesterday now, shorn of their Obama the Muslim and Sharia law cant, whatever remains of the GOP isn't about to let those two dizzy, crazed b*tches drive it over the cliff? Mike Huckabee? Even Mr. fascism wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross has turned on the falling star Glenn Beck. Mitt Romney? The smartest of the bunch from the get go, he has announced that he is skipping the gathering of loons and closet Nazis that is the Republican party debate later this week. Ron Paul? His anti-interventionist, pro-civil liberties stance is anathema to the party of the plutocrats and blood drinkers. With a wave of Ayn Rand worshipping Koch Brothers owned governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Florida taking flak and alienating more non-dead-enders by the minute, their Republican state legislatures eschewing their once promised work on jobs and economic rejuvenation to instead focus on revoking women's rights, busting unions, cutting budgets for all but their crony projects and destroying education as we know it are about as popular as genital herpes.
This is the metaphorical perfect storm for the Republican party, a collection of America hating, fascist fifth columnists that should have been eradicated when George W. Bush's helicopter lifted off the White House lawn but survived only because they could appeal to the emotions of those whose gullibility knows no bounds are now facing their Götterdämmerung. And it's got to be sweet justice to see them hoisted on their own petard of 9/11 and the War on Terror. With the only card left to play, the coming holy war over the raising of the debt ceiling, the GOP is on the brink of suicide, failing to raise the bar is only going to drive away the moneychangers who will side with the now heroic Obama. The exodus of plutocrats other than the Bircher Koch Brothers whose family fortune came from their daddy building oil refineries for Stalin will leave the party rather than face the prospect of a limit be placed on the national credit card that funds their addictions. In the end, which is coming soon, the Republicans who through decades of sociopathic and cocksure, ruthless Mayberry Machievellian cynicism along with ideological perversion courtesy of a symbiosis with the delusional tent preachers who hit it big off their ability to mobilize Rapture freaks and neo-confederates has ensured that it would carry within it's pustulent, sweating belly the self-destruct mechanism that will soon be triggered.
Any sane Republican (and that is pretty much an oxymoron these days is like Ripley heading for the escape pod on the Nostromo. There has never in the history of this country been an entity that is so desperately in need of a purge, a massive makeover and a mange dip than the GOP. Once a legitimate entity with much to offer it shed itself of those who were rational but were deemed to be heretics by the neocon utopians, loyal Americans like economist and former Reagan Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, now a prolific writer who has spent the better part of the last decade trying to fight the brownshirts that took over his party, rudely casting out the rational in favor of the greed-crazed monsters and the war freaks. A good deal of what ails America today is due to a failed political system, an opposition party that lives in a reality based world and has more at stake than a lust for power backed by a deranged mob of berserkers seeking to use the power of the state to punish their enemies and erect their perfect society has no future. That is going to become very apparent to all but the dumbest of the dumb, the purebred haters sequestered behind the cornbread curtain who were I a religious man would venture to suggest just reaped the wrath of God when the tornadoes came.
Certainly Looks More Real than the Other Fake Videos and Pictures of "UBL"
Sweet Serendipity: Little more than a week ago Obama was little more than the exemplification of failure at every level, the economy is horrible, gas prices are spiking, joblessness is rampant, an out of control Federal Reserve continues to shovel more and more counterfeit money into the maw of a crack ho economy, the wars are multiple, costly and unwinnable, his enemies smell blood and are closing in for the kill. Then, in some sort of though the looking glass Horatio Alger story he sweeps from the outhouse to the penthouse and in an act of blasphemy in a culture of celebrity evicts reality television star and real estate swindler Donald Trump from it.
Obama, now ironically eight years to the day that his predecessor George W. Bush landed on the deck of the USS Lincoln in a Top Gun style that boasted a codpiece that had John Holmes rolling over in his grave, has the nation eating out of his hand. In a nation of dangerous freaks whose basic understanding of life can be summed up by their basic ability to comprehend an us versus them, cinematic, fantasy view of the world as it has been spoonfed to them by John Wayne, Dirty Harry, Rambo, Jack Bauer or any other renegade,bad assed, rule-breaking tough guy has at least for the moment united in support of Obama for his successful slaying of the evildoer. Were he a serious man with serious solutions he would use this rare opportunity to seize the controls of the good ship America and drive it out of the rancid wormhole that it plummeted into after 9/11 thanks to the political exploitation of the horror of that day. First and foremost, get the U.S. the f*ck out of Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires. Now is the time to declare victory in the phony war on terror and come home. Maybe it's just bullshit and fantasy that Obama can claim to have won the GWOT but it is just a different spin on the Reagan won the Cold War myth, and Christ knows that Obama has been open in his admiration of The Gipper. It will be hard to not do the rational and right thing for the country and just leave that sucking black hole of money, drugs and death, especially if the early reviews from the sycophants in the media carry any currency with our newest Murkan hero, here is a sampling:
From Dana 'Skull and Bones' Milbank over at the Washington Post
The White House advance team put the presidential podium at an odd angle in the East Room, so that an oil painting showing George Washington would be in the shot behind President Obama. This made it appear from a certain view that Washington was patting Obama on the back.It's not such a stretch to think that the first president would join the backslapping over Sunday's killing of Osama bin Laden. Heck, even Dick Cheney was congratulating Obama.
From David Frum, former Bush speechwriter responsible for coining the phrase 'The Axis of Evil"
Now, stop questioning Obama's legitimacySo much to say about the long-awaited visiting of justice upon Osama bin Laden.But there's one effect on U.S. domestic politics that deserves a thought:Here's hoping that we have at last seen the end of this ugly insinuation that there is something less than fully American about the black president with the exotic name.On Wednesday came the release of the long-form birth certificate that provided the final decisive refutation of the birther lie that the President Obama was born elsewhere than the United States.On Saturday at the White House Correspondents Dinner, the most visible proponent of that lie, the blowhard TV tycoon Donald Trump, was publicly ridiculed in front of an audience of 3,000 people, without a voice to excuse or defend him.And then late Sunday, the president told the nation of the execution of his order to shoot and kill bin Laden.The success of the bin Laden operation is a great moment for the United States -- and not only for the United States.But it is also a deservedly bad moment for some of the destructive forces in American public life, for those who have substituted for ordinary politics a sustained campaign to brand Obama as an outsider, as un-American, as non-American.
From Haaretz:
When Obama yesterday called former President George W. Bush to inform him of the end of the decade of the exhausting hunt, both knew that without Bush's wars in Asia, Obama would not have been elected president, and that after being elected, he continued on his predecessor's path in fighting terror and interrogating prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. He used the same secretary of defense, Robert Gates, and the same commander, Gen. David Petraeus.But since everything is personal and everything is a matter of timing, Commander in Chief Obama will get all the glory and will hope that Petraeus doesn't give in to Republican wooing to retire from the military and run against Obama. To judge by the outburst of public enthusiasm, bin Laden's end has put to rest doubts about Obama's devotion to his homeland and to concerns that he is soft and sympathizes with Islam. More than his birth certificate, his speech in which he waved bin Laden's scalp has crowned Obama head of the American tribe.
It is hard to now imagine something as
borderline retarded as demanding Obama's college transcripts to show
that he unfairly benefited from Affirmative Action being taken with any
seriousness outside of FOX or any other gaggle of cyber idiots; and so
much for the now neutered storyline about Obama's father being kicked out of Harvard. In a land where George W. Bush can brag that he was a "C" student at Yale and whose grandfather Prescott Bush's Union Banking Corporation was actually shut down by
FDR for laundering money for the Nazis under the Trading With the
Enemies Act such hypocrisy only serves to further illustrate the
infantile willful ignorance of the public at large as well as the
enduring success of a bought and paid for corporate media that ensures
that huge demographic segments remain electronically lobotomized.
In the land of America in the New American
Century there is no shortage of idiots, the system needs them to remain
that way in order to exist. Barack Hussein Obama stared into the jaws of
the monster and through a combination of luck, cunning, hubris of the
opposition or something else has survived.
Barring the Mayan predictions of the 2012
end of the planet Mr. Obama is assured of another four years in charge
of the armed madhouse.
Book it Don-O!
