OBAMA THROWS THE BOOMERANG...FORGETS TO DUCK!

Yesterday House Minority Leader, John Boehner, compared the bill to reform Wall Street to the likes of, "killing an ant with an atomic bomb." To any normal person that is a sound analogy to "overkill" in reference to government regulation in the financial industry. But not to President Obama and his liberal allies.  They have the ability to take what's obvious and turn it into the absurd!

Speaking before a friendly town hall group in Racine,Wisconsin, where the media was sure to get cheers and applause form the audience, ( all the protesters were cordoned off two blocks away), Obama said that Boehner was comparing the financial crisis of 2008 to an ant, implying that all the jobs lost during that time and the ensuing hardship on Americans was insignificant, no big deal, (cue the audience, shift to jeers, shouts and applause). Democrats were quick to point out they would be using that as political ammunition in the coming elections. Talk about out of context, but then again, everything Obama does is out of context with America.

The President obviously was pleased with himself for throwing what he took to be a spear into the evil Republican establishment but unfortunately what he thought to be a spear was in reality a boomerang and it came back to smack him squarely in the head.  As he spoke to the crowd on the economy and unemployment, it was either that nasty little piece of curved wood whacking him upside the head or the effects of having Joe Biden around him as VP that caused him to utter what was possibly one of the most ridiculous statements since he took office. (It's hard to qualify just one because there have been so many.)  Obama said, "unemployment is at 9.6 percent but at least it's not at 12 or 13".  What is he thinking?  This is the guy that said it wouldn't go past 8 percent tops if we just pass his stimulus and bailout package.  Unfortunately for the President the verdict is still out on the 12 to 13 percent unemployment rate.  Once his temporary stimulus jobs dry up and the census workers are no longer needed,  along with all the newly unemployed oil workers in the Gulf, that number will rise.  Then we can listen to him say, "well at least it's not at 14 or 15 percent. Right now the actual rate according to the Bureau Of Labor Statistics is 17.3 percent. This number accounts for marginally and part time workers attached to the percent of the overall civilian workforce. In Racine the unemployment rate is over 14 percent. No wonder they kept the protesters out of view from the cameras. 

What did the President offer for hope?  More of the tired old blame Bush and the Republican establishment.  Republicans are blocking all his efforts.  No one asked him, or for that matter, reminded him that they hold the majority in Congress and that he has the seat in the Oval Office. If all his efforts and ideas are so great for the country, why not just "deem" it so?  He was willing to do it with health care.  As for the national debt and deficit spending?  No mention that the resistance to his legislation in Congress by Republicans and by some Democrats is related to that.  It's purely the Republicans wanting to see him fail, the party of "no" to his ideas for change.

Make no mistake.  This was nothing but another campaign appearance for Obama and an attempt to bolster his image as well as that of liberal Democrats for the upcoming elections.  We can expect more of the same this summer.  Carefully selected sites and audiences to portray the false Messiah as something more than he is, trying in vain to boost his poll numbers and regain the lost luster and hope of his failing administration.  I suppose their new campaign platform will be, "HE KEPT UNEMPLOYMENT UNDER 15 PERCENT!"

I think John Boehner should send the President a large supply of boomerangs so the "hits can keep on coming" and then maybe we can end this absurdity. 

Edisto Joe