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First Hundred Days - and We Are Doomed!

So here we stand, on the very edge of a cliff, looking into what appears to be an abyss... A man with a strange name has been president of the most powerful nation in the world for just over 100 days. The Mayans thought that the end would come in 2012. The minority party thinks it's already here. And can we blame them?

Just think about all the horrific things that have already happened:

To start off on entirely the wrong foot, the man with a strange name said something or other about American arrogance. He, in effect, apologized for the art of arrogance practiced here for the past 8 years. How dare he. After all, we are nothing if not arrogant, but we should embrace it, because god damn it, we are right, and we know it. We have always been right, maybe just misunderstood a tad, like with the whole Vietnam thing, and the slavery and all, but all that aside, we are and always will be righter than the next guy or gal, because we are the greatest country on earth.

He then proceeds to shake hands with some other people with strange names, none of whom are hand-shake worthy. We successfully ignored these same people for years, and now this man is squashing any notion we have grown accustomed to that those people simply don't exist.

Shortly after the whole mess of apologizing, the man with a strange name has the audacity to release the memos dealing with us, the greatest country on Earth, torturing a bunch of horrible people from a bunch of horrible countries who want nothing more than to blow us up. It's as if this used-to-be-attorney forgot that we are, indeed, unquestionably, undeniably the best country in the world, and anything at all we do must by definition be right. We had every right to torture those good-for-nothing-assholes, stuck in their Stone Age beliefs, habits and laws.

Who the heck does this guy think he is to tell us that we screwed up? We are Americans, and we don't screw up. Ever. It's not our fault that there are a whole bunch of people in the world who hate our guts - it's theirs, and we'll teach them to love us or become like us if it kills us!

These hundred days were also marked by blatant disregard for all things this great country was founded on. We are apparently not a Christian Nation - craziest freaking thing I ever heard. We are, supposedly, a nation of various religious beliefs, a diverse melting pot of sorts. It's like saying we are all amoral mutts, who can do, say or believe anything they please.

So here we are, on the brink of extinction, even if we don't realize it, and the only thing that can save us now is a new leader. Someone who understands that the Bible is always more right than any Constitution, someone who knows that there is only one Right Way to live one's life, and that way was defined in the Good Book. Someone who knows that no matter how wrong something seems, it's right if it's in the Bible. Infidels of all creeds with their twisted morals need to be eradicated - or this whole empire will collapse. This is the mission of this nation - to be the shining light, the city on the hill, the beacon of Freedom of Being the best freaking Christian Nation on earth.

If only Osama bin Laden weren't Muslim...

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Posted by Inna Hardison-ha media group Design, Printing, Web on 05/04/2009 11:30 AM

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69 Comments on First Hundred Days - and We Are Doomed!

MAY

Wow! Straight to Feature on Dissent. Congrats Inna!

Cool - my first Dissent Feature! Yippy! Thanks man:-)

Inna - Are you telling me that I am allowed to think for myself? This is complete chaos. : )

Inna, well written post, loved reading it. You are right, there is only one right way to live, no matter how wrong things seem to be. There wouldn't be so much hatred and cruelness in this world! :-)

: ) @ Marey.

Chris, you can think for yourself? Amazing! Who knew! Maybe I can too!

Chris - of course not - that would be just waaaay too dangerous:-) It's all you thinking for yourselfers that the bad guys want to destroy us over. Lock step is the only way:-)

Marey - hi, and good to meet you! You are right, of course; if only the basest instincts didn't so often overwhelm the inherent humanity...

Inna - I swear, you say one thing against apple pie and we are no longer friends.

Ed (FHE) - so good to see you, though I must say you look truly creepy in this pic:-) Me against Apple Pie - never:-)

Tchaka, how did I get featured and then unfeatured? Curious minds want to know:-)

Inna, now I'm confused. The man with the funny sounding name sure does have the audacity doesn't he?

Hey Terry:-) Good to see you here. As for audacity - but of course...:-)

To all: here is a link to a YouTube of our soldiers on a mission from God. 4 minutes, worth the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGmbzDLq5c

Hahaha! This is awesome! I am smiling and laughing!!! Thanks so much for your keen insight and clever wit. This goes straight to Stumble!

Wow, Rich - awesome, and thank you for the compliments:-) Great pic, man... If babes could kill... never mind that...

Stumble would be great! I am still learning to use that thing, but every time I try, I stumble upon something else that needs doing. Go figure.

Inna: You are obviously some commie-pinko socialist. How frigging hateful, unpatriotic and unAmerican. What's next? Gays should be allowed to have equal marriage rights? Women equal pay for equal work? Responsible gun laws? Good God, woman? Where does it end?

Scott - ouch, what a mouth you got on you:-) Yep, all of those things. I mean if we are going to be on the highway to hell, we might as well do it with abandon, right. After all, haven't all our sins already been paid for?

All quiet on the silent front. What gives?

Inna - well done! You're quite good at setting up straw men and then humorously shooting them down.

David, I hear there's nothing better than a humorous shoot-out, though I am afraid straw is quite flammable. My men are made of tin.

Inna - suit yourself. ;-)

If you seriously want to hear something from the silent front, I would suggest you deal with things they're really concerned about. Hint: how funny someone's name sounds isn't even close... to the best of my knowledge, that's only been an issue for those on the Left, as has the color of skin. But you already knew that.

My dear David - did you really read the post before commenting? I find it hard to believe that if you read it, you'd only find references to the superficial stuff you accuse me of... It is, sadly, about the important issues.

My dear Inna - yes, I really did read the post... prior to commenting the first time. It appears you've been reading too much of your own perspective's press. If you paid more attention to those of a different perspective - perhaps even took them seriously enough to consider what their top complaints are - you'd know that the main points and tone of your post have little to nothing to do with the important issues they're concerned about. That saddens me. Really. Because, although I know we'll rarely, if ever, agree on much of anything politically, I'd come to view you as a more considered liberal... not one as easily swayed by the talking points. Am I mistaken in that view of you?

David - I wrote this blog precisely because of the recent doom and gloom conversations concerning the current president. Most of these were not about the Economy, but Obama making our country weaker, first by apologizing for our ways, and then more infamously for releasing the memos, and shaking certain hands. To read some of the rants on here (never mind some of the other sites) would really lead one to believe, if one didn't know any better, that Obama's sole purpose in life has been to do whatever it takes to destroy this country, and 'everything it was founded on', and the many implications that he'd do all those things to appease the muslim extremists.

Would you like me to cross link to every bit of insanity ths bit of satire was meant to address?

None of it is about the color of his skin or a strange name, btw. The choice of style in the beginning of this blog was meant to imitate 1984's style, Orwell, that is.

Hope this helps. As for your opinion of me, once again, this was satire. Sadly, there was basis for every bit of it, but the post would be too darn serious if I took the trouble to actually address every insane argument for how we are doomed. Others have done it plenty.

Inna, wow, I found this post through my friend Chris Fisher who put it on facebook and then I went back and read some of your older posts... I am an instant fan. Entertaining, funny, biting and true all at once... Excellent!

Inna My Dear

All good satire contains some truth Yours notwithstanding

Joanne - I am always open to new fans:-) Who would have thunk Chris is cross-promoting my blog on FB - cool beans.

Thank you for the compliments, though I must say with most political posts I've written I wish i hadn't felt compelled to write them. Glad to have you here!

Hugh, my dear - good to see yah... :-) It wouldn't be the same without you popping in every now and then. Now, just to clarify, you did indirectly imply that there was something good about this here post?

Hugs, man.

Inna, I don't know what happened.....but you're re-featured. :-)

Cool - thaks Tchaka:-)

Inna,

The best part of all this is that you have finally changed the photo, and I like this photo. As for the rest of it, it is funny, cute and... irrelevant.

We all enjoy a good laugh. For whatever reason there are some names there, unfamiliar name which may sound familiar, but like in any disclaimer, the resemblance is accidental and unintentional.

As in many historic movies, it is nice, but it never was this way. It is the directors representation of the history to stress his/her agenda, and the history is used like a colorful background, and nothing else.

And what if Osama was not a Muslim? Do we need to love another man with a strange name? Right now, or it can wait?

MAY

Jon - I am not sure I understand your comment or its relevance to the post... Can you restate what you were trying to say and we'll go from there? :-)

Inna, I think this is your best post of 2009! It is now featured at Blatant Politics.

Jon: Obama is not a Muslim.

Inna~ I think its all good, I just think that it,s mostly true whereas you think it to be satire

Scott: You still really believe that?

Scott: He sure ain't a Christian.

Check this on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auwe-aGF4Lo&feature=PlayList&p=97477859B66E01E6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=17

A Christian would not screw that up. Even in the extended version he never says he's a Christian unprompted. He says "my faith."

Here is the extended version posted to "prove" the Muslim statement false:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqIpdBOg6I

This is a free country and you can be any religion or no religion if you wish. He primed himself to get elected, that is it, honesty is out the window with this guy. We desperately needed a leader to show young people you cannot cheat on your wife with a woman 30 years your Jr., lie about it on TV, and get impeached, and not get tarred and feathered for it.

This country has gone nuts, starting from the top down.

BTW Inna, great bit of satire. The deconstruction of our country is happening in minute steps. It needs to happen this way so the majority of us stay asleep. So is the world going to end in 2012? Maybe, but most of us won't notice.

Jay - thank you! Now let's see if the Silent Marjority will feature it as well, and this way all the bases are covered:-)

Scott - I don't think Jon meant to imply that Obama was a muslim, then again, I am not sure how to read his comment. Hopefully, it'll be clarified.

Perhaps he is jewish. Why should his religion matter?

He has a hebrew name, a biblical name. Barack means "Lightning" in hebrew. He is the only US President that had a Passover Sedar in the white house. He prayed and left a note in the western wall. He has the same name as the former Prime Minister of Israel.

1st hundred days...Lightning

Hey Mitchell:-)

The premise that we are indeed a Christian Nation is somewhat at fault here as far as if one's religion should matter. I guess so long as we are all the same yet somehow different but just enough to not really stand out all things in the world should go smoothly:-)

Good to see yah!

Christine - is this for real? I read some of your blogs, as I've not run into you here before, and I find it hard to believe that you would, indeed, make such a big deal out of what was said in that video. The possibility of him being muslim was in question, hence the statement in that context made perfect sense, albeit, the sentence structure not so much... Regardless, and not that it matters, but it's no better than the 57 states argument.

Surprising, to say the least.

Lastly, to all the maybe he is a muslim comments - I think it's truly sad that one ought to feel the need to belong to any religion to run for the office of the President of the United States, but I highly doubt an atheist would be electable. However, to assume that one "fakes" belonging to a church or religion for years to someday run for office is both assinine and offensive to anyone who actually does believe in God (and that is any God).

Hugh - your believing this to all be truths doesn't surprise me, but it does sadden me. I have disagreed with virtually everything the previous administration has done, but I wold have a hard time accusing them of being unpatriotic or deliberately trying to destroy their (our) country. I find it interesting that so many of the right wingers have no problem of doing this with Obama. I am sure it's all just about the economy, of course.

Of course it does not matter what religion President Obama is. That is, honestly, no one's business but his.

I am confused because every time I disagreed with Mr. Bush's behavior I was told I had to respect him as the president no matter what he did, just because he was the president. Why doesn't the same apply to President Obama?

I'm a lot less concerned about his publicity tour and a whole lot more concerned that he is putting this country into bankruptcy. Time will tell. 4 years from now will he be considered great or horrible? So far, I am not impressed.

Christine, you actually believe everything you see on youtube? Amazing!

Inna, I just posted a blog about the dwindling Christian population in this country.

Rob, like we are seeing the end of the recession and the stock market is way up? Doom I tell ya, doom!

Chris - I will say that the office of the President demands respect, but the person is open to criticism, always, no matter who they are. I also think, however, that to presume any President of the US (or any other country in history for that matter) has ill intent towards that country and its people is disengenious at best.

Rob - this country was well on its way into bancruptcy long before Obama took office. The ill conceived wars didn't help our finances any :-)

We as Americans, are somewhat like remote island dwellers. We gaze out onto the sea and if we see our reflection we are comforted and dazzled by the likeness. When we look inland, unfortunately, we crave the same mirror image. It then becomes a house of mirrors for the hard core homogeneous visual stalker.

I have come to believe that we just don't think of America as a "Christian Nation" we think of the world as a "Christian World" or gratuitously as a "Judeo-Christian World" I lived under a theocratic monarchy for 10 years, and most of the Americans I spent any time with, were always seeking the similarities between Christianity and whatever religion was at hand. The common denominator was the impetus for further alliances. Not the differences. I am afraid that we as a society gloat over our "freedoms" yet don't fully comprehend the meaning of it. And the implied dare it represents.

I think I'm about to profess my love for Michelle. How refreshing it is to read such accurate and enlightening comments! You are a fellow citizen of the world.

MAY

Ditto to Tchaka...

Michelle, "the implied dare it represents" has systematically been stipped of its luster and shoved into the shadows. Here's to hoping we might get it back someday...

You need to write more! There are some of those citizens of the world around here:-)

Tchaka, am honored to be part of that broad denizen. And right back at you.

Hi Inna, perhaps you are right, it is a faded and unfashionable calling. But since I often inhabit the shadows it is still quite a luminous signal for me. I worry about the younger generation that are forming their convictions and personal compasses. So much now is abbreviated, popularized, capsulized. Brevity and speed are far more encouraged than the actual process of attainment. You have young children so you are a much better barometer of this than I am. Yet, I observe broad ranging social ineptitude among the younger group here, even more with slightly privileged children that belies a detachment that is rather hollow and worrisome. I must sound like someone's ancient grandmother!!

Inna, You are too funny... even though we disagree on damn near everything.. I still love reading your blogs... I know its buggin you that not many are arguing back... I guess its the whole satire ingredient.. Who knows... Have a great Day!!!!!

OOPS! I made the previous comment but was not logged in because I visited through facebook.. :)

Be good!

Michelle - the youngsters in my home so far have been spared the allure of defining countries, people and beliefs by cliches, which makes me feel quite good, regardless of how they turn out in the end. The texting generation is probably going to be less philosophically inclned than their technologically challenged counterparts, but I see quite a bit of desire for involvement in the eyes of these young people. It's more about action than conversation for them, and maybe that's what's needed... Maybe that's their part:-)

Tana - it's really not "bugging" me that there isn't much disagreement. What bugs me, if anything, is that there is little discourse that means anything. A bunch of partisan statements regurgitated as fact doesn't a functional democracy make... But maybe you are right, and I ought to reconsider the format of my blogs:-)

MAY

Who knows... my point is that I like reading them.. either way...

Tana - good to know:-) Glad I could entertain-

Inna - excellent piece of work. Seriously. I think the first hundred days have been truly scary. But I do understand your points. The thing that gives me greatest concern however, is the press. The Founders gave us freedom of the press because they wanted to be sure that the press watched over the Government. It was not because they liked the newspapers of the day. Our press have simply stopped doing that. In the first hundred days we have been told about the white house dog; that Michelle has worn one dress twice; what the President's basketball bracket was like; date night; the President and first lady holding hands and on and on - oh and I forgot the burger meal with Biden when the reporter actually said (CNN) that the President taking money out of his own pocket to pay for his burger was a sign that the economy was improving. Yes - she really did say that! Meanwhile, the President spends $338,000 on photographing Air Force One against the Statue of Liberty. Given what you do for a living Inna - I know that you know that the same effect could have been achieved with $250 to a reasonably good graphic artist! And now we can't see the pictures we paid for. Why not?? And why were all the authorities in New York sworn to secrecy about it the night before? It's not like the President was on board. And most importantly of all - why is the press giving the administration a free pass on this like they have on everything else? I am a trained journalist. The people covering this Administration should be ashamed of their actions. That too I mean sincerely.

MAY

My dear Simon - good to see you, as it's been a while:-) Thank you for the compliments. I am not sure how the press doing or not their job is relevant to this particular post, but I'll play. In my humble opinion, by the same rationale we should all be outraged at utter lack of investigative journalism by Jim Kramers et al of the world... The results of taking advice so cozily presented are manifest, and will take years to undo. I am not blaming the press for the economic mess we are in, but it certainly didn't help any that those who knew and understood full well the implications of the market chose to ignore it for the cameras.

I will also say I am surprised you think that the President ordered the nifty flyover photo-op. Last I checked, unless the pres is on the plane, it's not really his - it's Air Force's. To assume that any president dispatches his chariot for any reason is a bit odd. Regardless, Air Force One will always be an expensive proposition, but unless we are ok with the first family etc. traveling on commercial flights, we will foot those bills.

Lastly, I am not sure it's accurate to say the all press have given the President a free pass. Even something as far left as Huff Post published a few scathing bits dealing with certain decisions of this new administration. Also, if I recall correctly, there was hardly any negative coverage in the populist press of the previous president so early on either. Correct me if I am wrong.:-)

Inna - You certainly did an excellent job of "riling the progressives!" You would never be welcome on MSNBC! Love it!

Disconcerting developments of President Obama and his Cabinet...

Re-writing the basic tenets of the Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934, using Chrysler as an example. The federal government, through TARP devices, is now going to re-order the priority of bondholder claims on secured lending.
Releasing CIA directives on interrogation, whether one opines on the morality of the measures, the height of insanity and immaturity is to divulge to one's sworn enemies how you intend to defend yourself. That's not a "Founding Father's" principle, see Machiavilli and Sun-Tzu's Art of War.
Informing the Veterans of Foreign War's civic organization that wounded veterans may have to pay for their own health insurance for combat-related injuries.
Chatter about limiting the benefits package to the families of law enforcement personnel killed in the line of duty.
Releasing a cost savings of $17 billion in budget "cuts" when you're running the U.S. dollar printing presses 24/7 so you can inject trillions into companies like GM. Who will pay for this largess? We tuck them into bed every night.
Closing Gitmo and releasing terrorists on American soil. I suggest today's Wall Street Journal's Op-Ed piece by a sister of one of the murdered U.S. Cole sailors. Nothing like immediacy to lend credibility to an argument.

Andrew~Hope you are well

Gary - hi and good to see yah... Nope, with this blog, I guess I might not be, but then again, maybe if Fox folks misinterpreted enough of this, I'd get my fifteen minutes on the most watched 'news'.:-)

Andrew (Lenza) - how bizarre to see you in a comment, and with something other than your outstanding cartoons:-) I hope you are well.

As for those disconcerting developments, I agree with you on some, but will stick to my guns on releasing the torture memos. I think we have a moral imperative to open the books on the era of 'enhanced interrogations', not out of some hope for revenge or punishement, but simply to be able to move forward (never mind the mandates of the Geneva Convention begging for same). I have read the Art of War. I understand, at least philosophically speaking, the premise of knowing your enemies. I doubt we currently even know who the enemy is, Lenza, but it is un-American of us to treat certain people as guilty until proven innocent.

Anyway, this was really only meant to deconstruct certain rants that have been popping up here and there with the 100 day mark, and the feeling of imminent demise permeating certain circles. Of course, I wrote this, regrettably, before the mustard incident:-)

Best to you,

Inna - nope, comes from the White House. To the point where today they produced a fall guy to resign and released a picture which in fact looks like they only spent $100 on a graphic artist!

Inna,

Perhaps we're not so far apart conceptually ;)

As a conservative I lend smaller credence to the President's "style" than the substance of his policy. Extending resident rights to illegal aliens undermines citizenship; saving the automakers for UAW jobs and votes the same. Privatizing the banking system and refusing the return of TARP I and II funds so the White House can keep its foot in the bank's Executive Conference room door is a breach in a 200 year+ philosophy of when government ends and business begins -- regardless of one's opinion of Wall Street CEO's.

Nationalized healthcare, I fear, will injure more Americans in the long run due to disenfranchising doctors, companies and technology firms that operate with a profit incentive.

At every turn this Administration strives to increase the role of Government in the private citizen's life, handing each of us a tall frosty of Kool-Aid.

As to the "moral imperative" of releasing the CIA memos to salve our nation's 'sin,' your insinuation that our intelligence personnel just plucked a few hundred people off the streets randomly because they were foreign, looked different and had funny names and labeled them terrorists is disingenuous.

But I temper my fears with a quiet confidence that April showers bring May flowers just as Jimmy Carter brought Ronald Reagan. I'll go back to doodling, Inna. It's safer and less verbose.

MAY

Simon- I didn't realize the White House equalled the President when it comes to photo-op decisions or most other inessential things for that matter. Who would have thunk:-)

Andrew - the silence from the conservative side of the fence over the Patriot Act was deafening, which surprised the heck out of this here liberal. There is currently a kiddo serving an indeterminable sentence at 15 over some computer scare involving maybe a word bomb in it - and American kid, held without trial or access to an attorney. Hopefully, this answers your delusion that everyone held at our detention facilities has been plucked from the battlefield. That's just one of many such examples, sadly.

I won't debate you on the role the government should play in our private lives, I just think it would be more honest of us if we acknowledge that for some bizarre reason the conservative base is only bothered when the Government interferes with free markets but not the least bit concerned with the Fed poking its nose into our private lives.

One little sidenote, Andrew: I don't know if nationalized healthcare is the answer, but I would venture a guess that our current health care system is not only costing the tax payers dearly, but is, indeed, broken. The medical profession is owned by the pharmaceutical companies and insurance giants - and one way or the other we are footing the bills for every one who can't afford care. I think the whole health-insurance scam is nothig more than a scam, unregulated way of taking people's money without any intention of actually providing the services. That, at the very least, needs to change, in much the same way the Wall Street Best Practices need to change. If the market were capable of making these corrections on its own, i would hope it would have done so by now:-)

Anyway, good to see you. Be well, and I'll look for your doodles and or words if you are still writing those somewhere:)