I Want To Be Obama's Speechwriter!

...especially if it only involves copying and pasting the same rhetoric from previous speeches and using certain phrases over and over...and over again.

Take a look at this video (embedded below):

CAUTION: we do not recommend turning this into a drinking game for each time you hear a country being listed as our strongest / closest / oldest ally.

Bonus: after watching the video, please feel free to take this short multiple choice quiz (below) to test what you learned about the rhetoric of Obama's foreign policy.

Question 1. According to POTUS, what country is our strongest / closest ally?

 A. Holland

 B. Netherlands

 C. Australia

 D. Poland

 E. Great Britain

 F. Germany

 G. Republic of Korea

 H. Israel

 I. France (our oldest ally)

 J. Italy

 K. Japan

 L. All of the above

Question 2: According to POTUS, which country continually "punches above its weight" class in foreign affairs?

 A. Denmark

 B. Norway

 C. Holland

 D. Ireland

 E. Philippines

 F. All of the above

Question 3: What is the most likely source of Obama's repetitive speeches?

 A. Faulty copy - paste keys on the speechwriter's keyboard

 B. A broken teleprompter

 C. Lazy speechwriters dependent on parroting key talking points to try in a last ditch effort to keep all of their facts straight.

 D. All of the above.

Below is another speechwriting gem from POTUS on the health insurance mandate. This video captures highlights from a 2011 speech and puts it side by side with a more recent recycled rhetoric from 2012.

I suppose that Obama is clinging on to the hope that the more he repeats himself to the point of ad nauseam, that his statements will somehow magically contain more truth. Though, you'd think that by the second time around when Obama gives the exact same speech, he'd at least stutter a little less. 

~Gee

America's Real Bullying Crisis - Liberal Scare Tactics

This week CNN has been hosting a series of specials on "America's Bullying Crisis" addressing the supposed problem of young students and children terrorizing each other in the playgrounds and at schools.  My initial response is to laugh and shake my head, especially when I see the straight-faced Anderson Cooper dishing out ridiculous statistics like: "fifty-six percent of all children are bullies, or victims, or both."  

Surely there must be issues of greater importance in the world than excessive coverage of kids testing the boundaries of social interaction and competition? 

I can think of a few topics that seem slightly more newsworthy, like the failed Iranian terrorist plot, our nation's current unemployment rate, or even how billionaire Warren Buffet's company, Berkshire Hathaway, has compiled around one billion dollars in back taxes over the past decade. 

Yet, the more I think about it, the more bullying might actually be a legitimate topic of conversation -- just not in the way CNN imagines it. Consider Vice President Joe Biden's line of reasoning, for example, during a speech to gain support for Obama's jobs bill on his recent visit to Flint, Michigan this past week (video below):

According to Mr. Biden (emphasis mine)

In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city,” the vice president said. “In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65 and rapes–just to pick two categories–climbed to 229. In 2011, you now only have 125 shields. God only knows what the numbers will be this year for Flint if we don’t rectify it.

In other words, America, pass this bill or rapes and murders will increase. Flashback to 4th grade recess, anyone? Give me your lunch money, or you'll be sorry! The media would have you believe that this "bullying" problem affects our youth, but they clearly do not understand the full implications of bullying to leave it as a childhood epidemic.

...which is why CNN invites puppets from Sesame Street as experts on addressing the problem. 

Little bullies grow up to be big bullies. Little children who don't get their way stomp their feet, slap classmates, and steal lunch money. Big bullies who don't get their way use fear tactics to scare the population into legislating the change they demand. In the adult world, bullying is known as political scare tactics (a.k.a. argumentum in terrorem or argumentum ad metum) and seems to be the reigning line of reason that liberals are currently using to get their way in the political world.

Pass this jobs bill or rapes and murders will increase.

Pass this environmental regulation or the oceans will rise and drown half our population.

Pass this stimulus package or our economy will blow up.
Pass this health care legislation or grandma will die of influenza.


It's a shame the "Worldwide Leader in News" can't make that connection to America's real bullying crisis.

~Gee