So, Obama Really Does Pal Around with Terrorists!

by Noah

The pictures do not lie. In the picture above, the dark, shadowy figure being chauffeured in a golf cart by President Obama is none other than House Speaker John Boehner. To be fair, and I always try to be fair, this may not be some Republican Driving Mr. Daisy fantasy come true. It could just be that the Secret Service took one look at Speaker Boehner as Saturday’s “golf summit” began and decided that Obama better be the one to drive the cart. After all, none of us want to see two of the top three in our government wrapped around a 100-year-old tree, or, God forbid, running down Vice President Joe Biden, who joined Obama and Boehner, along with Ohio’s neofascist teabag dictator John Kasich, in a morning of slamming little balls around on a green in Maryland -- before they got back to slamming us around in the afternoon.

I have nothing really against golf. I have to say, though, that if it hasn’t involved a miniature wooden windmill, or a dragon or a clown’s mouth, I’ve never aimed a golf ball at anything. I like the more complex and more physical games like baseball and football. Call me a middle-class traditionalist. I don’t think I’ve ever even been interested in being on a golf course, unless it would have involved a late-night date, but that’s for another post.

It really concerns me when presidents get all buddy-buddy with creatures that do not wish us well. Just a few weeks ago, we saw Bill Clinton being all friendly with Rep. Paul Ryan as they got caught off-stage in a dark curtained corner in what for Clinton amounts to just another episode of atrocious behavior which he thought would go undiscovered. Now we have this: Golfing with Terrorists.

President Obama continues to sell out not only us, but also his position of leadership. The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, which are, as I see it, the main cause of our current budgetary fiasco, have gone unscathed, and Democrats have, either in an act of appeasement or as an act of desire, put the social safety nets of Medicare and Social Security on the table; thus making us chips and pawns in a very sick Washington game. Such things are not legitimate subjects for negotiation in the minds of normal, well-adjusted humans, but there’s a shortage of those in D.C. Yet we still get e-mails from the White House and from the DSCC and DCCC asking us for money so they can stab us in the back with a smaller knife.

I know it’s the Washington way, meeting political opponents halfway and all that. Maybe this looks good to wishy-washy independents who are really just Republicans that are afraid to admit it to themselves. Those are the voters Obama is trying to impress. But personally I don’t think President Obama should be meeting people like Boehner and Kasich halfway or even ten percent of the way. The Israelis got it right when they said you don’t negotiate with terrorists. Save that for when you’re dealing with reasonable people, Mr. President; not when you’re dealing with venomous reptiles and, yes, terrorists, terrorists who hold an entire country hostage while they deliberately delay economic improvement just for an Election Day advantage.

It may be "negotiating" to Obama. To cretins like Boehner, however, it’s winning incrementally: big increments at that. Give them that arm, and tomorrow they’ll come for both your legs. They’ll even try to get it without even asking (see Wisconsin dictator Scott Walker). These are people who don’t even want to help out the victims of tornados, just as they were not just willing but eager to see the auto industry and it’s 3,000,000 related industry jobs go down the tubes. For them, it’s what the hell do we care? We don’t know any of those people.

Too strong? Let’s look at it from the middle- and working-class viewpoint for once, not the viewpoint of the neofascists and their media and corporate supporters. Mr. President, your two golfing buddies want to withhold reasonably priced health care from tens of millions of American citizens. They would rather we just die of disease, disease caused by their ideal world of oily beaches and unregulated environments and food supplies. They would also like to finish the job of shipping all of our jobs overseas, thus taking food off our tables and out of the mouths of the next generations of Americans. They want to send us into unsafe mines to make them even more money. They want more nuke plants with less regulation. They want petrochemicals in drinking water, which we can set fire to as it comes out of our taps. They even want to be able to pull us from our cars if we don’t fit a physical description they can tolerate. They do all of this just for the “campaign contributions” from briefcase-toting terrorists on K Street and the satisfaction of their sick minds.

You too go along with too much of this behavior, but yes, they are even worse. Even now, they are willing to vote against raising the debt ceiling in order to plunge the entire world into economic chaos and darkness, just so they can seize power over whatever is left while billions of us starve or kill each other outside of the gated communities or the castle walls, fighting like dogs over the last bowl of grub, just like in medieval times. It’s pretty damn nihilistic. It’s the stuff of Marvel Comics and James Bond villains.

It’s also the stuff of Al Qaeda’s wildest dreams. People like Boehner and Kasich may not fly planes into buildings, but their actions will and do kill more people. They’ll even do it slower, nice and slowlike. So, where’s Team Six? Too much? How about you and Boehner face off with 9 irons -- or, better yet, tire irons at 20 paces. You could take him. You could beat the crap out of him if you wanted to. It would be no contest, and it’s the best way to beat a bully. Leave him crying in a sand trap. Sign your scorecard and walk away. They will never like you let alone love you. So, what’s it gonna be? Millions of voters want to know while millions of others suspect that they already do.

Four guys fiddling on a Saturday morning, while we burn.

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