Is Anybody Else Freaked Out Yet?

I must admit to being very worried at this point in time. Once again, Obama is “sobered and saddened’ by the horrid revelations surrounding the arrest of Governor Blagojevich, and once again, P.E. Obama seems to be contradicting himself and/or his campaign manager about meetings or conversations that took place or did not take place in re finding the replacement for his Senate seat. But he has not been accused of anything. Why evade? Isn’t telling the truth so much simpler?

Confusing. Perhaps you can help me to clarify the butter here.

It is tough enough to fathom how a nation with grievous economic difficulties at home and two wars abroad can elect a man with no governing experience, no executive experience and very little legislative experience. Perhaps George Bush so lowered the bar, people figure – ‘hey, how bad can this guy do? At least he gives a good speech.’

Let’s hold that thought for the moment.

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No matter how unhappy I am with his election or how he got here, I have been pleased with at least some of his cabinet picks. Hmmm. Perhaps he is exhibiting some of that ‘good judgment’ that his supporters keep touting after all.

Surely it is excellent judgment to nominate Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State (no matter how he lied about her ‘lack of experience’ during the campaign). Probably a good idea to keep Robert Gates on as Defense Secretary to insure a smooth transition given our situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Appointing Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff, not my favorite pick, but a Hillary fan and a solid enforcer who knows how to get things done and knows where the bodies are buried (which, as it turns out, could be good or bad for him with Chicago festering and ready to explode). Also, his appointing 80% Clintonistas tells me that the self-described “delegator,” P.E. Obama, is smart enough to know what he doesn’t know and hire some adults to mind the store. So far, so good.

So here’s my problem with him in the judgment department. How can a man with the political savvy the media and his followers keep trumpeting be goofy enough to surround himself for twenty years with the likes of Rev. Wright, Rev. Pfleger, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers (now practicing revisionist history on every talk show and newspaper who will have him), Emil Jones, Gov. Blagojevich, Mayor Daley, Jim Johnson, Penny Pritzker, et al….I could go on singing!

According to Politico:

During [Blagojevich’s] reelection campaign in 2006 – with press reports swirling about a grand jury investigation into Blagojevich’s alleged jobs-for-contributions scheme – Obama praised the governor as a leader “who has delivered consistently on behalf of the people of Illinois.”

Yep. He sure exhibited some good judgment there. And didn’t he endorse someone else who got arrested recently? Kwame Kilpatrick, I believe.

Never mind ‘surrounding’ himself with these people, and praising them, surely not the work of someone with good judgment, but when questioned on their negative influence, their crooked actions, questionable ethics or downright criminal behavior, his answer is invariably one of the following:

I didn’t know.
I thought he was reformed.
We never spoke.
Oops, that was a boneheaded move.
He doesn’t work for me.
This is not the man I knew.
I am sobered and saddened.
Come one fellas, can’t I just eat my waffle?

As far as hearing Rev. Wright’s incendiary and racist America-bashing sermons, P.E. Obama contradicted himself on mainstream news six times in one week: ‘I knew. I didn’t know. I knew. I didn’t know.’

My sister, my daughter, my sister, my daughter…
She’s my sister AND my daughter!

(Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown…)

It’s downright exhausting keeping track of so many fibs. It is even harder to do this because the press won’t do their jobs and keep track of them for us. Articles getting scrubbed, altered history left and right. What’s a girl to do?

I know Rev. Wright is considered old news to Obama’s more virulent supporters and the media, who keep insisting there is ‘nothing to see here.” They say this even though Wright just came out this weekend to declare the TUCC is responsible for giving us our first black President. But riddle me this, Batman: if a man sits in a church for 20 years where this vile stuff is expounded regularly and gets married by this man and baptizes his children there – he does so for one of two reasons – either he believes this stuff – or he just sat there for TWENTY years for political street cred. Or he slept in church for TWENTY years.

Unfortunately, there is no good way to spin that. Just as there is no good way to spin so many of his other actions and policy reversals. Gee, he hasn’t even been inaugurated yet. What a supreme mess.

So I guess my question is, how much can Mr. Supercalifragilistic-Expialidocously Triple-Coated Teflon Man get away with before the American people start to wonder about a leader who doesn’t ever seem to notice stuff that is happening right under his own nose? Assuming for the moment that it is mere ignorance and not complicity.

I have made mention of this in the past, but I want a President who is going to protect us, not one we have to protect. Everyone in the media is dancing circles around themselves to make sure we know how honorable he is. Do they protest too much? Why is this even necessary?

I guess media talking heads need to protect their investment, since they have so touted Obama, any revelation denting the armor of their ‘chosen one’ would irreparably tarnish their reputations. Well, I hate to tell you, MSM, but that ship already sailed.

I thought the whole reason he was able to get some mileage over the more qualified candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton, was that he was supposed to be the “new kind of politics” – a fresh way of doing business in Washington – yet he was and is surrounded by very unsavory influences indeed, and seems very much at home with them all.

And after the fact, he behaves as though he knew nothing, saw nothing, said nothing, heard nothing.

Without even accusing President Elect Obama of wrongdoing, I am terrified at having our leader be someone who constantly acts like he is walking around with his head in a fart, with no knowledge of anything that is happening around him. And that is giving him the benefit of the doubt.

But anyone who has been caught dissembling as much as President-Elect Obama has, stopped getting the benefit of the doubt a long time ago.

Right now, it looks as though we have two choices: he is ignorant of all of this or is being dishonest about his involvement. Which is worse? I can certainly understand his voters aching to believe him when he says this stuff, because they voted for a romantic idea and would hate to see their hopes come crashing down. I worry about a crash too, albeit for very different reasons.

What are you hearing out there? Any buyer’s remorse? Is anyone else concerned?