The Emperor's Clothes

In that beloved tale, it took a child to see through the BS and tell the truth.

Well, it has been about 3/4 of a century since I was a child, but here goes:

Our esteemed president is not the smartest guy in the room. He is a dumb SOB. Am I insulting his mother? Well, she posed for nude photos of her bod. Not for a big Playboy paycheck (judging from the quality of the photography), apparently just for fun with an amateur photographer.

Obama has a single accomplishment: he has become pretty good at reading a speech. Not in a class with Ronald Reagan, by any stretch, but pretty good. His handlers, whoever they really are, know how to write for his reading, and they write endlessly. Even if this emperor has to address a classroom of children, his every word is prepared.

Take away his beloved teleprompter and he stammers like the idiot he is.

But, you say, he was president of The Harvard Law Review! No kidding! Now he is president of our United States (of which he has visited 57 with two more to go).

The only thing he ever wrote during his distinguished academic career (that isn't secret), was something about gorillas stomping grapes. Deep thinker.

As a youngster, Obama was mentored by Frank Marshall Davis, a Chicago Communist, who fully loaded his young mind with a belief that his mother's race - all white people - are evil. He has not strayed from that belief, but added to it all successful, accomplished people. He never knew Barack Obama, Sr., but bought his beliefs that all British are also evil.

A guy who pronounces 'corpsman' as 'corpseman' couldn't possibly identify a World War Two genre M1 Carbine, yet he has banned the re-importation of these relics from nations to which they were 'loaned' in the 1940s. (I once carried one when I delivered restricted military messages around the Philippines. Would love to have one now to show my grandkids.) Just who is pulling Obama's strings?

Obama repeatedly asserts things which prove to be complete falsehoods. Political opponents call him out. TV comedians tell jokes about him. But it does not stop his utterances.

American Foreign Policy is a mess. Iraq and Afghanistan are lost. All of North Africa is lost. The Middle East is in shambles. The few Arab allies we have enjoyed are turning against us. Our allies in the West are confused and suspicious. Iran is about to test an atomic weapon, vowing to destroy Israel, while we sit at a negotiating table with the Mullahs.

At home, each time a new scandal is uncovered, Obama asserts he did not know until it was reported by news media. How could Edward Snowden, a young contractor employee, know all these secrets while The Preisdent of The United States did not?

I worry that America may not survive until January, 2017, when Obama will retire with his ill-gotten millions to earn millions more speaking to still adoring idiots who support him.

What should be done? Beats me. I'm just a country boy who's grown old, deeply loving America every day of my life. Maybe "the media" could get rid of him. They forced Nixon to resign. But they didn't like Nixon and they adore Obama.

How phony is our Federal Government?

Here is an illustration.

Deep in the Gila National Forest of western New Mexico, is a place where some ancient people, perhaps the Mogollons, found some caves high up the side of a mountain, laboriously carried stones up the slope, and improved the caves to create inhabitable living spaces.

Stone is (almost) everlasting, so the efforts of these ancient people have remained, largely intact. This is such an interesting place that it has been designated a National Monument, known as the Gila Cliff Dwellings, to ensure its preservation. The National Park Service built a nice visitor's center, and employs a single person to oversee the operation.

Then, interested, civic-minded persons educated themselves in the history of the place and  regularly volunteer to act as guides. They help visitors understand the dwellings, and further protect the site from vandalism - or simply from over-enthusiastic visitors who want to take home a rock as a souvenir.

With the government shut down, the Monument is closed. The single paid employee is still on the job, still paid their salary, to keep the gate shut, the Visitor's Center shuttered, and advise visitors that they cannot enter the area. The unpaid volunteers are also forbidden to enter the Monument.

October is, perhaps, the most beautiful month in New Mexico. It is a wonderful time to explore our "Land of Enchantment". But, you can forget seeing the Gila Cliff Dwellings. They are 'shut down'.

The paid employee is still paid. The volunteers cannot volunteer. The visitors cannot visit. All because the Administration wants the public to 'feel the pain' of an affront to their policy.