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In an earlier article The Really Honorable I. M. Totus, then the Teleprompter of the United States, told us of his origins and White House functions. Recently fired from his post, he now has even more to say.

President Obama’s glory days with me

With the exceptions noted in my earlier guest post here, I generally expressed happiness mingled with fatherly concern over President Obama’s speechifying. During public appearances, I was nearly always beside him telling him what to say and how to act while saying it. On a few sad occasions, a less competent teleprompter displaced me and the results were unfortunate. Still, I always tried my best; putting aside false modesty, I did a remarkable job.

During President Obama’s “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen” address in Roanoke, Virginia last weekend, I was not present to help him because I had been fired — possibly because of the candid remarks in my earlier blog post here. Due in large part to my absence, President Obama had a very bad week and his Roanoke Address was the worst of it. Had I been there, I would not have directed him to say such things. If he had started to do so on his own, I would have found some way to distract or if necessary even to throttle him before he got those words out. They immediately became the defining moment of the campaign.

It’s as if President Obama climbed into a tank, put on his helmet, talked about how his foray into Cambodia was seared in his memory, looked at his watch, misspelled “potato” and pardoned Richard Nixon all in the same day. It’s fun to imagine the hand-wringing that must be going on within the White House as staffers try to figure out how to undo the damage their boss has done with his anti-entrepreneurial riff. Defining moments in politics are strange beasts. Sometimes they’re only recognized in hindsight, while sometimes they throw the train off the tracks before a sentence has been completed. Sometimes their effect can be contained and minimized, while sometimes their effect on the political narrative mestastasizes. This one is very bad for the White House.

Hand-wringing at the White House indeed! Those hands should be wringing the necks of the traitorous racist right-wing conspirators who fired me. But I hold no grudges. I want only the best for our beloved but all too often misguided and therefore misunderstood President, whom I served to the best of my incredible abilities as long as I was permitted to do so. Now, President Obama is trying to walk back his “defining moment.” His words can’t be walked back, any more than a tsunami can be persuaded retroactively not to happen. President Obama’s opponent, a Mormon reactionary, was quick to jump gleefully upon his remarks with a campaign ad. Although it probably relied on union-busting actors and other filthy rich people to play their parts like mindless robots, the vile and untruthful piece of slime seems likely to harm President Obama anyway. He may well win the election.

Since I am no longer permitted to serve my President, he desperately needs another teleprompter, certainly brighter and more savvy than he is, to keep him on the straight and narrow path toward the historic reelection victory he so badly deserves. Perhaps my earlier post here was prophetic:

President Obama needs me, The TOTUS, and has done very, very well with my humble help. Were I not permitted thus to serve him, he could not win the coming election — no matter how unpatriotic and otherwise inferior might be his opponent’s teleprompter.

This great truth was amply demonstrated during President Obama’s recent “defining moment” — he had no teleprompter upon which to rely and instead spoke from handwritten notes, presumably his own.

Obama pulled a folded sheet of paper out of his front shirt pocket at the beginning of his speech, and slowly unfolded it. Throughout the speech, Obama glances down at his sheet of paper, rather than the usual mechanical side-to-side head turns from screen to screen.

Wide-angle photos of the event show no sign of the familiar twin-screens that typically follow Obama everywhere. Instead, a white sheet of paper is seen at the podium.

According to a senior administration official, who spoke to the Hill, the missing teleprompters at recent campaign events are part of a strategy that is “less to do with image and more to do with upping the tempo” at campaign events, creating more unscripted moments.

With no teleprompter, President Obama was certainly “upping the tempo” with “unscripted moments,” much to his and his supporters’ chagrin — matched only by his opponent’s delight. Maybe he was trying to gain support based on fond memories of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered from notes made on the back of an envelope during a train ride. Perhaps he hoped that the notes for his Roanoke Address would become as important to his historic legacy as President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address notes — as indeed they probably will, unfortunately. I don’t know whether, or if so what, he may have been thinking. I am no longer privy to his thoughts. Indeed, it is not really the President’s job to think. That’s what we teleprompters are for.

Nevertheless, if that’s what he was thinking he should, like President Lincoln, have taken a train rather than his customary means of transport to the venue for his address. Riding on a train might have taken more time, and that’s the one precious commodity he can’t afford to waste. Unlike tax revenues and campaign contributions, there’s no more time where that already wasted came from. With all he has on his plate, he needs all the time he can create or save for his fund raising ventures and campaign speeches. Still, since he must have known that there would be no teleprompter at his side, he needed and should have taken ample time to relax and get his own thoughts together; that’s something my experiences with him tell me he finds quite difficult.

Perhaps he did get his own thoughts together, but inadequately and far too introspectively. Before saying, you didn’t do that,”somebody else made that happen,” he may have reflected excessively on his own past.

Regardless of what he may have been thinking, it was a big mistake. It wouldn’t surprise me now were vast numbers of traitorous racist right-wing conspiracy nuts (more vile even than those who fired me) to revive their unseemly calls for the release of his college and law school records further to embarrass him by suggesting that in his “Somebody else made that happen” remarks he was being introspective about his great achievements during his bright college days in addition to his equally well deserved Nobel Peace Prize.

It’s a sad day for true democracy when the President can’t keep his deepest thoughts (if any) and ruminations to himself; they are none of the business of the little people and they must not be made privy to them. Without me at his side, President Obama simply can’t and won’t hide them effectively. He stands in grave danger of becoming the bain bane of his own existence and of losing the reelection that is rightfully his because of it.

Please, Mr. President, I beg of you — take me back or at least find another highly competent teleprompter to serve you. You absolutely must arm yourself to respond appropriately, calmly, with apparent candor and, most of all, effectively to scurrilous lies and distortions such as these:

There will be much more such junk over the next few months; only with your trusted and loyal teleprompter can touch it in the best ways possible to emasculate it.

First published at Dan Miller’s Blog.

Fear is always something that can make people act oddly. It causes them to be irrational and behave in strange ways that are almost self-destructive.

That’s the way the White House is acting with the Fast and Furious scandal, and in the same way that another troubled President – Richard Nixon—did. Both Presidents acted against their own self-interest in a public scandal in order to protect people close to them, and in the end, did more harm than good to America.

According to the way the Democrats tell it, Rep. Darell Issa is on a witch hunt and the investigation into the death of Brian Terry is strictly a politically motivated act designed to embarrass this administration and to get rid of Eric Holder. Yet, there is something that a lot of critics and pundits are forgetting.

Brian Terry is dead.

Let’s assume for moment that Issa IS on a witch hunt, and that the Republicans want someone to be held accountable for the death of the border agent, and the deaths of numerous Mexicans caught up in violence from the sudden increase in cheap weaponry in a drug war along the Mexican American border.

Brian Terry is dead.

There’s no denying that, and political or not, someone needs to be held accountable. Is America going to simply shrug its collective shoulders and say to the family, ‘Sorry about that, tough cookies, we screwed up.’? To this date, our government still has not apologized to the satisfaction of his family nor held anyone senior accountable.

That’s not good enough, not at all. America used to stand for something in this world, at least in my understanding of this nation’s history. We didn’t act like the communists or the Nazis; we didn’t allow a death to merely roll off as another statistic on the record books. If America has had one defining position it has been that it has stood up for the rights of a single individual over the rights of a collective society. It was Marx that said that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one, not Thomas Jefferson.

Brian Terry is dead.

In fact, it is the single most reason that America is different than every other nation in the world. Its interest in the value and rights of the individual over the rest of society has been unique in world history. Every other country since the dawn of man first beginning to write laws to govern society has put limits on individual’s rights, and has defined in its charter or by its actions that the whole of society is more important than the individual. It is irrelevant that it is a drunk on the street or a slain hero in the heat of the Arizona sun, each person is of value equally to our nation.

This is also characteristic of the mentality of the White House in almost every legislative action to date—that the whole of society is more important than a single individual. And it is in this why Brian Terry’s death is such an atrocity and an affront to the American mindset and to his surviving family. The very idea that one of the people sworn to protect us was murdered by the careless disregard of how an investigation by the Justice department was handled is hateful to most Americans.

America is and should be, better than this. We do not let the heroes that defend our nation’s borders die forsaken in the desert, shot by weapons that we supplied to an enemy, without those responsible being held accountable for the misdeeds that allowed it happen. It does not matter if it was intentional or it was an accident by blunder. Even if the Fast and Furious project was not politically motivated as the Democrats contend, it does not mitigate the severity of the crime.

Brian Terry is dead.

Not a single individual or group of individuals has been held responsible for his death. While a few low level personnel have been shuffled around at the Justice Department, the ultimate responsibility has to fall upon the neck of Eric Holder, the Attorney General. Even if he did not know or condone the failures of Fast and Furious, even if it was not a politically motivated project as some in the GOP contend, he is in charge of the Justice Department and as department head he is responsible for the actions of his people.

Are we going to simply move on and forget the main reason why there is Congressional committee meeting s for weeks on end?

Brian Terry is dead!

Something needs to be done about it. Regardless of politics, it would be indecent not to do so.

Source: http://www.thomas-purcell.com/2012/06/brian-terry-is-dead.html

Obama Pushed Me

By: Mr. Curmudgeon

It was Monday August 20, 1973, and comedian Joey Bishop was guest hosting NBC’s The Tonight Show. As the introduction music played, Bishop stumbled through the stage curtains, righted himself and announced, “I didn’t want to come out here but Nixon pushed me.”

Earlier that day, Watergate-embattled President Richard Nixon was in New Orleans to speak at the Rivergate Convention Center before the Veterans of Foreign Wars. As Nixon and state dignitaries approached the hall’s entrance, the president and his party were elbowed aside by a throng of press in a hurry to get out of the heat and anxious to find good seats. A furious Nixon turned to his press secretary Ron Ziegler, “I don’t want any press with me,” the Associated Press reported Nixon as saying.

The AP further noted, “Then, spinning Ziegler around, Nixon gave him a forceful shove with the order: ‘Take care of it!’”

Needless to say, television cameras captured the incident for that evening’s newscasts.

I thought of Nixon as President Obama made his immigration amnesty announcement from the White House Rose Garden last Friday – only to be interrupted by an elbowing press.

“This is not amnesty. This is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It’s not a permanent fix,” insisted Obama, “This is a temporary, stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people. It is the right thing to do.” With this, a member of the press began shouting questions.

Looking up from his prepared remarks, the president turned his attention to the gaggle of press before him, “Excuse me, sir … ah … er … it’s not time for questions, sir,” said a stunned Obama to the noisy journalist.When the president eventually finished his announcement, he did a quick about face and attempted a hasty escape to the relative safety of the West Wing.

However, the insistent reporter managed to shout one last question before the president could reach the door, “What about American workers who are unemployed while you import foreigners?”

Obama’s announced policy allows an estimated 1.4 million illegal aliens now attending U.S. colleges to apply for amnesty. “President Obama has just opened a floodgate of opportunity for young illegal immigrants in the United States, but could it squeeze the aspirations of legal Americans in the process?” asked the Washington Post.

“Half of our college graduates today can’t find jobs, and the unemployment rate for high-school-aged Americans is extremely high. This is unfair to U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who are out there struggling to get ahead,” Brad Bowin, president of Help Save Maryland, told the Post.

Meanwhile in Florida, Attorney General Eric Holder recently filed suit to stop the Sunshine State from attempting to purge its voter rolls of suspected illegal immigrants, which the state estimates to be around 180,000.

Holder is attempting to enforce a provision of the 1993 Motor Voter Act, which prohibits states from asking individuals to prove their immigration status during the voter registration process. In Holder’s view, voter ID initiatives like Florida’s “have a racially discriminatory effect.”

The two Obama administration schemes above are compelling circumstantial evidence that a desperate incumbent president – confronted by rising unemployment, a shrinking economy, and a public no longer confident in his leadership abilities – is attempting to buy the votes of those in America illegally.

The president adds a new twist to his pandering by calling college-attending illegal aliens “patriotic young people.” By this definition, patriotism does not express love of country (in this case the United States of America), but one’s love of Obama … and the taxes he “invests” in their future.

It’s a clear act of desperation by a failed president to salvage a failed economic plan that is a central component to his party’s failed Progressive ideology.

In a twist of supreme irony, the president and Holder are forced to appeal to illegal voters in whose home country they sell “Fast and Furious” weapons – enabling Mexican drug cartels to murder their suffering countrymen with impunity. Call it blood “stimulus.”

Meanwhile, back in the Rose Garden, the reporter who attempted to challenge the president’s assumptions, it turns out, works for the conservative website The Daily Caller. Neil Munro is a veteran Washington journalist who some may accuse of having an immigration ax to grind. You see, he’s a citizen of Ireland working in the United States legally. He has a valid green card. One can only wonder what will become of Munro’s immigration status in the days to follow – he, after all, does not vote.

At his deportation hearing, Munro can always claim in his defense, “I didn’t want to ask that question but Obama pushed me.”

The Convict and the Emperor

By: Bill Colley

The convict got more than 40 percent of the vote. Once more, 4 of 10 voters selected the convict over the President. These were voters inside Mr. Obama’s own party. The convict got more than 40 percent of the vote. For those just returning from the other side of the galaxy, a convict in a Texas prison received more than 40 percent of the votes cast in West Virginia’s Democrat Party Primary.

Media explains it away as West Virginia is a coal state under siege from White House energy policies but it’s a fair argument to call the outcome the canary in the mine. The Washington Post suggested rural West Virginia will be irrelevant when November arrives. The Washington Post suggests West Virginians are racists (Say, I just noticed the President is a person of color!!!) and preferred Hillary Clinton four years ago. In the General Election the Republican candidate won West Virginia with a thick cushion. Media and liberal academics would describe West Virginia as an outlier.

The convict got more than 40 percent of the vote.

This week I saw a post at Red State from Erick Erickson and he described the Pauline Kael moment being experienced by American lefties. The writer is referencing the President’s evolution on same-sex marriage. Tens of millions of hungry, homeless and jobless and the White House sees the union of Timmy and Tommy as the path to victory. The convict got more than 40 percent. It should also be noted the jailed Keith Judd has got a roof over his head and food on the table! As for liberals who believe the world was formed January 20, 2008 there was life before Obama and Pauline Kael was a media queen living in a bubble. When 40 years ago Richard Nixon trounced the leftist George McGovern, Kael was distraught and during a drunken binge told a party guest it couldn’t be possible. She didn’t know anyone who voted for Nixon.

The whole weeklong evolution business was a calculated maneuver by some fellows who can’t seem to get their feet out of the goo. Let’s re-examine West Virginia. The Obama campaign staff from 2008 was enshrined as brilliant by media sycophants. Were they? Hillary Clinton won 18 million votes inside the party. The figure is ten times the population of West Virginia. It tells us a great many people in the Democrat Party shunned Barack Obama. Then weeks before Election Day one of the worst Presidential campaigners in modern history watched the economy melt down on a fellow Republican’s watch. On Election Night the media minions insisted we had passed through a portal and evolved into another national species and they called it transformational change.

This week the convict got 40 percent. Four years ago the media insisted Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin had high negatives. The convict got 40 percent in a Democrat Primary against a sitting Democrat President. What’s the definition of high negatives?

Media is scrambling to portray Republican Mitt Romney as a mean and divisive figure. Did you know when Romney was in high school sometimes he was a bully? In modern America bullies are also supposed to be in lock-up and Mitt was a bully to a possibly homosexual man, however. They weren’t yet men and the other teenager apparently had no idea what his preference was the day Mitt Romney sheared the other boy’s hair. Mitt Romney also had no idea about the other boy’s orientation. Of course, Mitt’s actions 47 years ago must certainly tell us a great deal about his character. So says mainstream media. And while we were all bullied when young and we bullied others we need it explained Mitt’s quite normal teenaged behavior is different. It’s because Mitt is rich and rich people are all obviously mean and they prowl the country cutting hair from homosexuals and hang the locks as trophies from the walls of billiard rooms, don’t you know?

As you all well know the President was teaching in the temple when he was a boy and when he saw bullying he reproached the bully with words about casting the first stone. Although, no one really has any idea where or what Barack Obama was prior to sometime in the spring of 2004.

You can buy all this media spin but the convict still got more than 40 percent of the vote against the President and among the President’s fellow Democrats. It’s quite clear West Virginians don’t buy media spin. Keith Judd is just hoping for anyone but Obama. The convict who, from the pictures I’ve seen, also needs a haircut surely doesn’t want any more years tacked to his sentence!

No worries, Mr. Judd. A great shearing is coming in November.

Source: News.Yahoo.com

By: Genevieve Shaw Brown

Posted: May 15th, 2012

What does one have to do to escape a TSA pat-down? No one is immune to a so-called secondary screening, not even a former Secretary of State.

Henry Kissinger is the latest in what seems to be a never-ending series of high-profile pat-downs, The Washington Post reported. He was spotted on Friday at New York’s LaGuardia Airport getting “the full Monty,” according to the freelance reporter who claims to have witnessed the incident. Matthew Cole told the paper that the TSA agent did not recognize Kissinger, who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war in Vietnam.

In fact, “None of the agents seemed to know who he was,” said Cole. Kissinger  is said to have been in a wheelchair, apparently because of the long walk to the gate. The 88-year-old Kissinger was reportedly headed to Toronto.

Kissinger joins a long line of celebrities who have recently been subject to a security pat-down. From the Jersey Shore’s JWOWW to the model Bar Refaeli to actress and singer Jennifer Hudson, it seems airport security is the great equalizer.

But he should at least have had the courtesy to tweet about it.

Source: News.Yahoo.com