STUMPTALK: Obama’s uncertainty is scary

By Jerry McDonough / Chronicle contributor

June 29, 2009 05:47 pm

— Speaking with forked tongues has a new virtual reality as exhibited by Obama. He heaps trillions of dollars onto the deficit, now and programmed for the future, then made a speech that we cannot sustain such a high deficit and obligation or indebtedness to foreign countries. All of this before he addresses health care, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc.
He promised more jobs. For whom? Unless, of course, you count the burgeoning political offices that he plans to add more bodies to — you know, the new “czar’s” offices. Obama promises 1,200 jobs in the “new GM,, but, ah, what about the 21,000 jobs being lost in the “old GM”? Running the auto industry into the ground with his convoluted financial schemes, and not using real life planning, is putting more people on the street. Of course, Obama can write an executive order stating anyone who does not buy an Obama car will pay quadruple tax on any other car, and pay $5 per gallon for gasoline. Then we have the case of a dealership in Florida that had its franchise pulled, costing more jobs, sticking the dealer with $3 million of worthless inventory, and then giving the franchise to another dealer with no payment. And, then we have the recently published list of Chrysler corporation dealerships who have had their franchises pulled because they had not donated – kicked back might be a better term – money to the Obama fund. Most, if not all, Chrysler franchises pulled had donated to the other party, according to the FEC.
Top this off with Speaker Pelosi saying she wasn’t aware of the water boarding techniques — you know, the techniques included in Special Forces training — used in Gitmo. Then she said she was aware, sort of, when reminded she and other congress men were briefed on this method several times in the past.
Lies, lies, lies. Lying to congress is a federal offense. Will she be unseated or punished? When pigs fly!
But it matters not when the Obama administration was built on lies. Obama said there would be no pork in his bills and that he would surround himself with honesty and transparency. Then, with more than 7,000 chunks of pork in his latest agenda, with no one in congress allowed the time to read the inflated bill and with not one iota of the bill published before being signed into law, we are to consider this honesty and transparency. Add to that the fact that many of his political appointees are tax cheats and worse, well, you begin to get the picture.
Goodbye America. You were a great, generous, God-loving and dedicated country. I and millions of others will miss you.
Stumptalk is published weekly in the Crossville Chronicle. The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily those of the Chronicle publisher, editor or staff. Phil Billington serves as coordinator of this column. He may be reached at stumptalk@charter.net.