Wednesday, September 23, 2009
This is it!!!
Oh man...sorry...that sounds like a Kenny Loggins song, right? How 'bout "There! Right there!!" ...which would be reminiscent of Howard Cosell from his heyday on Monday Night Football back in the 70's...or "it's in the hole," that utterance from the Bill Murray groundskeeper role in the movie, "Caddyshack." I guess it could be worse...I could have said, "that's what she said," courtesy of Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) from "The Office" television series. WHAT THE HELL AM I TALKING ABOUT?
The headline from the AP this morning, "Obama to world: Don't expect America to fix it all." I LOVE IT!! Can you imagine if Bush had "inferred" something like that? Well, okay...he did...he was a dummy, we all know that...but, man, the media would've had a cow. "Ooh, there he goes again, alienating the world...we had the entire world's support on September 12, 2001...and Bush gave it all away." First of all...NO WE DIDN'T!! We had the world's pity...but we were far, FAR from ever having "support," or respect. But that's another story...AGAIN, I digress...
What I LOVE is THIS...THIS RIGHT HERE...is where voting for Obama is a good thing. Put aside (for now) what you think about (incremental) socialized medicine...or nationalizing the banking industry...or bailing out corporations "TOO BIG" (as deemed by whom?) to fail. Just put that aside for a tad...this is where Obama's intellect and "gift of glib" can benefit us greatly. Do you think "the world" would sit by and let a Republican (or ANY old school politician...hell, even Ross Perot) "talk" like this...NO WAY JOSE, IVAN, ACHBAR, GUIDO...well, you get the idea...
This just in...dateline Sep 22, 2009...UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon convened a high level summit on Climate Change ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Convention (COP 15) in Copenhagen this December. According to the Secretary General, "failure to reach broad agreement in Copenhagen would be morally inexcusable, economically short-sighted and politically unwise." Good stuff? You bet! Who doesn't want to "save" the planet?
But of course, the UN wants America to "take the lead" by, yes "reducing emissions," etc. with a baseline of 1990 rather than a more current date , such as 2005 (so as to negate ALL the technological advances this great country has made during the 90's and beyond)...of course, Obama himself pegged the 1990 date during his campaign for the presidency (can you imagine if Bush had a 15 year memory lapse...the media would go nuts). Regardless, the UN's expectations are well above what any person, rational or otherwise, would consider a "fair share,"...
Well, unless of course, that person was George W. Bush. BUT NOW, with Obama in charge...the UN will NOT be able to push us around...Bush could never tell the UN that we won't "do" the rest of the world's share (in addition to our own)...BUT Obama can...yes (h)e can...and I say, "BRAVO!!" C'mon, it could be worse...hey, I could have ended this column with the 'Top Gun' theme...HELLO...a Kenny Loggins reference...that's funny, right there...oh well, toodles...
The headline from the AP this morning, "Obama to world: Don't expect America to fix it all." I LOVE IT!! Can you imagine if Bush had "inferred" something like that? Well, okay...he did...he was a dummy, we all know that...but, man, the media would've had a cow. "Ooh, there he goes again, alienating the world...we had the entire world's support on September 12, 2001...and Bush gave it all away." First of all...NO WE DIDN'T!! We had the world's pity...but we were far, FAR from ever having "support," or respect. But that's another story...AGAIN, I digress...
What I LOVE is THIS...THIS RIGHT HERE...is where voting for Obama is a good thing. Put aside (for now) what you think about (incremental) socialized medicine...or nationalizing the banking industry...or bailing out corporations "TOO BIG" (as deemed by whom?) to fail. Just put that aside for a tad...this is where Obama's intellect and "gift of glib" can benefit us greatly. Do you think "the world" would sit by and let a Republican (or ANY old school politician...hell, even Ross Perot) "talk" like this...NO WAY JOSE, IVAN, ACHBAR, GUIDO...well, you get the idea...
This just in...dateline Sep 22, 2009...UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon convened a high level summit on Climate Change ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Convention (COP 15) in Copenhagen this December. According to the Secretary General, "failure to reach broad agreement in Copenhagen would be morally inexcusable, economically short-sighted and politically unwise." Good stuff? You bet! Who doesn't want to "save" the planet?
But of course, the UN wants America to "take the lead" by, yes "reducing emissions," etc. with a baseline of 1990 rather than a more current date , such as 2005 (so as to negate ALL the technological advances this great country has made during the 90's and beyond)...of course, Obama himself pegged the 1990 date during his campaign for the presidency (can you imagine if Bush had a 15 year memory lapse...the media would go nuts). Regardless, the UN's expectations are well above what any person, rational or otherwise, would consider a "fair share,"...
Well, unless of course, that person was George W. Bush. BUT NOW, with Obama in charge...the UN will NOT be able to push us around...Bush could never tell the UN that we won't "do" the rest of the world's share (in addition to our own)...BUT Obama can...yes (h)e can...and I say, "BRAVO!!" C'mon, it could be worse...hey, I could have ended this column with the 'Top Gun' theme...HELLO...a Kenny Loggins reference...that's funny, right there...oh well, toodles...
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