The Unknown Messiah Fad Fade

Is the President-In-Training really the Obamessiah?  Or, just the black Obamessiah?  Are the people who believe that he is certifiable?  Is there any evidence that “Obamania” is finally, slowly, being played out?  That question is being asked in a myriad of ways in an interesting variety of sources.  Citing San Francisco Chronicle writer Mark Morford’s infamous “Lightworker” article as the height of Obama foolishness, Pajamas Media says the phenomenon they call “Obamamania” is “on the wane.”  While Morford was either clearly delusional, or clearly having fun at Obama’s expense, his over-the-top testament to Obamanipotence was not the only example of hero worship at the feet of The Precious by a long shot.

The Chicago Tribune cites many others, including websites that spoof ObamaLove, in their “Obama: Was He Sent To Save Us?”  article today.  I’m not sure, but I think they think that the answer to their headline question is “not.”

CNN asks, “Which Hero Do We Want Obama To Be?”  They limit their examination of Obama fascination to those who insist upon comparing the unproven, untested, some say unqualified, former junior senator with the short resume to former presidential greats like Kennedy, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Clinton, and conclude, basically, who the hell knows if he can be like any of them since nobody ever bothered to vet him in the first place?

While it is fun to lampoon the guy who invokes the “oceans to rise” and “lights to shine down” and the folks who bought into the “hopey dopey happy crappy” he spews, it’s even more fun to mock the “serious journalists” who are only now seeing the humor of the errors of their own ways.  And, though it is good to see that some of the sources of the worst forms of suckupitude are finally “seeing the light,” ya gotta wonder, what took those guys so long?  Maybe soon they’ll “wake up and get” the whole bogus “over-exploitation of the black half” national faux racial angst thing, as well as the “you’re likable enough, sweetie, so get over it” what sexism? thing too.

But hey, deprogramming a cult is a lot like overcoming addiction, right?

One step at a time.

Obama Picks Clinton’s Cabinet For Her

It’s official, just call her Madame President Secretary.  Shhhhhh, it’s Secretary in public, okay?  We’ll all play along and call him Mr. President ‘cuz…well, the sheeple voted for him, but, hey, how much damage can he do as long as he just reads what’s on the cards?  Plus, it’s all good; keeps those women’s issues in focus and balances out the black thing.  Cool.  Now, unlike some people, I don’t think we’re seeing Bush II or Clinton III.  I think it’s Clinton 1, Obama 0.

Game, set, match.

Oh, Susan Rice is short, and Janet Napolitano barks.

Jo(k)e Biden is extraneous.

And Hillary needs to work on her poker face.  She looked like a cat in a room with a missing canary.

Just callin’ ‘em like I see ‘em.

Who Stole All Our Cookies From The Cookie Jar?

Who is responsible for our current economic crisis?  How come nobody “saw it coming?”  Because everybody involved is a one of an equally culpable bunch of lying thieves, that’s why.  On October 2, I wrote a post called “Bailout, Misdirection and Lies,” one of a series claiming that anybody with access to Home and Garden TV should have seen the housing crisis coming years ago, since the network features a treasure trove of information about home buying, renovations, and all manner of real estate and home improvement transactions, nearly all of which have been “no money down,” 100% financing, double mortgage deals regardless of the income level and/or credit-worthiness of the purchasers.  First time buyers, home flippers, vacation home purchasing retirees and any and everybody else was encouraged to buy more house than they could afford, take out additional home improvement loans, rennovate, redesign and redecorate these over-priced, too large homesteads, only to put them back on the market in short order at even more inflated prices.  Anybody with any sense could spend a few hours watching HGTV and see the government sanctioned bank pirates’ Ponzi scheme they were promoting, wittingly or un-, develop right before their very eyes.

But, nobody knew nuttin’.  Now the Associated Press is “breaking the news” that indeed everybody knew everything, and did it anyway:

The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents.

“Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories,” California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to U.S. regulators in January 2006, about one year before the housing implosion cost her a job.

Bowing to aggressive lobbying — along with assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were OK — regulators delayed action for nearly one year. By the time new rules were released late in 2006, the toughest of the proposed provisions were gone and the meltdown was under way.

In an article full of schoolyard finger pointing, AP reports that some, like Comptroller of the Currency, John C. Dugan, have been trying to sound the alarm since 2005.  While that is true, it is not news.  In my “bailout” post, even I provide the Dugan quote to which AP refers.  From a Sept. 27, 2005, Washington Post article about an American Banker’s Association convention at which Alan Greenspan, along with Dugan, issued warnings, I quoted:

Dugan reinforced Greenspan’s message to the banking industry, expressing concern that “looser underwriting standards and the more widespread penetration of riskier mortgage products have raised questions about how these loans will fare in the event of a rise in interest rates or a softening in house prices.”

While I don’t expect AP to read me, doesn’t anybody read the Washington Post?  What’s the point of this “breaking news” blame game bullshit that doesn’t pass the smell or laugh test?  Whose ass are they trying to cover?  The Republicans didn’t do anything, the Democrats didn’t do anything, the bankers, regulators, brokers, nor the buyers did anything at all to get out of the way of the approaching train barreling down the tracks they insisted upon having a block party on.  Now they want to stand in the middle of the tracks saying, “It wasn’t my idea,” “he did it,” “I just heard the music and stopped by for the free food,” and all other manner of copouts, denials and lies, knowing that they can, since they hold the controls to the mechanism that switches the train to the track we’re standing on before it derails completely, taking everybody out but them.

Screw Fuck ‘em all.  They’re all crooks.  Whether they’re bankers, elected officials, regulators, realtors, contractors or any of the other runaway train riders, conductors or engineers, they should all be prosecuted to the fullest under existing RICO laws.  Because if this is not a criminal conspiracy of the highest order, there’s no such thing.

UPDATE: We are now officially in a recession, and have been since December, 2007.  They just decided to tell us that, though.