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The utterance of sane words from a seat of power is both refreshing and welcome, but I also believe the Peace Prize should be awarded based on more substantive results, and not just because the new occupant of the Oval Office has pledged to discontinue the meatheaded policies of his predecessor. Because Obama’s Presidency is still very new (to say nothing of the fact that he was quite possibly nominated before he was even elected) his “contributions” are far from concrete, and thus lack a sufficient level of merit. Essentially, he’s been given an award because he hasn’t managed to fuck things up as bad as the last guy. Don’t get me wrong; I’m glad he is breaking with many of the bad policies we’ve labored under for the last eight years, but what has Obama really accomplished as President so far? The Nobel seems cheapened as a result.
Granted, when a nation-state starts issuing threats of war, it is newsworthy. On the other hand, Kim Jong Il’s Glorious People’s Unicorn Fantasy Playland does this every week. The ultraparanoid DPRK sees everything that happens outside its borders as a “warlike act”, “hostile”, or otherwise unwarranted belligerency that their army is supposedly poised to smash at a moment’s notice. Ho hum. An American President could mention he’s switching his morning routine by putting his pants on his right leg first instead of his left, and North Korea would pitch a hissy fit over it. I’m not saying that they should be ignored militarily—U.S. and South Korean forces should definitely be on constant alert—but I’m tired of the press treating North Korean tantrums as politically meaningful. In that vein, just once I’d like to see the President, Secretary of State, or some foreign equivalent stand up in response to the latest bluster from Pyongyang and say “whatever, man. Either throw down or shut the fuck up. Seriously.”
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So what, might you ask, is the latest outrage? Sundered from its protective web of liberal fiction, it is this: not content to merely murder the innocent unborn, he targets kids for destruction.
This is the party that squandered a budget surplus during an economic bubble. A party that not only blew approximately $638,778,000,000 on ill-considered military adventurism, but didn’t even have the honesty to put the costs of it in the goddamned budget; no, instead, all we got was a bunch of smoke and mirrors, supplemented by “emergency spending” bills, as if our extended military presence overseas was a completely unforseen event, two, three, four, and five years into the operation. And where was the GOP then? Busy cutting taxes, defunding regulatory oversight, and generally locked in a feverish embrace of Dick Cheney’s nether bits. Yeah. Cutting taxes. During a war. And yet, when a Democratic government wants to throw money around within our own borders for at least ostensibly constructive purposes, a hue and cry is raised. “It’s too expensive!” “We can’t afford it!” they moan. Which, I suppose, is true, considering that these idiots spent the last five years pouring the contents of our Treasury into the sands of Iraq. I’m sorry, but where fiscal restraint is concerned, the GOP has all the moral authority of a Maenad at a WCTU meeting. |
Even though I’m a huge liberal pinko and support most of the Obama administration’s foreign policy goals, I can’t shake the feeling he was 
While I admit I don’t recall the North Koreans specifically 
It is, of course, common knowledge that our current President is a horrible man. A foreigner, raised in a radical madrasa by Communists, his sole purpose in life is to oversee the utter desecration and ruin of our fair republic and Christendom in general. Thank goodness we have staunch patriots like Rush Limbaugh to expose him for his many crimes (no longer solely theoretical—they are now scrawled in blood across the canvas of our victimized planet) so that the world may see Obama’s true face.
After having suffered through a few weeks of public wrangling over the federal economic stimulus package, I’d just like to say that although it is a good and useful thing for the party in opposition to attempt to point out and rein in waste, the GOP’s recent posturing is laughable. I mean, suddenly the Republicans are the great defenders of fiscal responsibility? Fuck you.