Obama and Trust like Oil and Water

In a very spontaneous move the DEMS have announced the scheduling of 500 rallies before September 8th. Why didn’t we conservatives think of this and how come they have all the good signs? I suppose if you consider that Obama never left campaign mode even after moving into the Whitehouse that could explain some of it. Then of course if you keep the public confused with sleight-of-hand moves you can do all sorts of magic. Today for example the Whitehouse stated that as many as 90,000 could die of swine flu or H1N1.

It would not be my intention to minimize the potential of this flu but it would also not be beneath the Whitehouse to use this issue to distract us from something, say: the war in Afghanistan is going badly or the president’s polls are down, or perhaps the administration plans to probe every orifice of the CIA for wrongdoing. Of course, anything they find can be used as another red herring to enable sliding some facts past the “angry mob”.

I guess what I am trying to get at with all my sarcasm is that I just don’t trust Obama nor his administration. It’s no real surprise. The polls are showing that fewer and fewer people trust him. I even saw it on PBS television. Whoa! For me it was an easy thing not to trust him. I took a look at his career and his lack of candor about his past and voila: distrust. He doesn’t want me to see his school transcripts or admit that he knows and hangs out with leftist terrorists and PLO representatives, that is okay with me. I already know how dangerous he is. That info wouldn’t help me in the slightest.

Now, for all of those Americans out there who haven’t a clue nor a concern about this Socialist Reformer, them it might help. How they ever trusted him is beyond me. Perhaps it was that hypnotic tone in which he….drones on….and on… and occasionally makes a point… but then loses his thought... and says let me be clear about this. (By the way, I take his “let me be perfectly clear about this” to be Freudian slippage for “I am getting ready to feed you a line of crap.”)

So, before my own ratings go any lower let me just say that there is still nothing going on with this administration that could not be predicted. We have his playbook from the campaign. Now it is time for the ACORNs, and SEIUs, and little Obamaites to spontaneously parade and cheer. Then in 2 weeks the strong-arming will begin and the Whitehouse phones will light up with threats and offers.

In closing, isn’t it something that there is a spontaneous HealthCare Reform gathering just now being announced on September 13th in Washington, DC. It seems that it is “Grandparents Day” and that the 11th and 12th were taken by “Tea Baggers” and “Mobsters”. Excuse me while I dislodge my tongue from my cheek.

Is it cynical in here or is it just me?

Once upon a time in a land not too far away you could pretty much trust most anything that was told to you. People actually preferred trust and pleasantries and found disdain in the opposite. I can hear mom saying to me that if I had nothing nice to say about someone then I should say nothing at all. Mom is not alive these days and I am thinking even she might find herself speechless if she were.

Back when, people took great pride in what they said and many a deal was made with only the spoken word and a handshake to seal it. Phrases like “my word is good” and “he is good for it” and “I’ll be right back” were taken at face value: nothing more, nothing less. I think things began to change about the time my uncle Louey went out for a quart of milk and wasn’t heard from for 20 years.

It was about then that President Nixon was elected and within a few years we began to really learn how not to trust people. To be sure, politicians’ words were taken with equal measures of cynicism and hope, with hope being the operative word in casual conversation. Still it is my firm impression that former president Nixon could be credited with the blooming of the modern age of skepticism.

Well of course Nixon appointed Ford as VP who then pardoned Nixon, and then Jimmy came along with that peculiar family of his. Although I don’t think folks thought Jimmy didn’t mean well. I think they just thought him unable to deliver. Ronald Regan seemed honest enough and just about the time folks began to trust again we heard things like “read my lips” and “I never had sexual relations with that woman”. Of late I have heard “change you can believe in”.

It seems that it is not enough to just play fast and loose with the truth but it has become some sort of art form to see whom you can shame with your word. Whole careers are made for people to come up with clever ways to say things. They call it spin. Mom would have called it something else and would’ve washed their mouths out with soap.