Once when I was a young boy I saw a movie about this crazy professor who wanted to create a robot that would be almost a clone of a human. When it was completed, it looked like, talked like and acted like a real live person sometimes in superhuman and ultra-intelligent ways. But at times, it acted strangely and did weird things or said things out of character.
Today, at times, our current president acts just like that robot, acting very presidential one moment and forgetting his role the next. Strange answers do also come from him, such as saying he has traveled to all 57 of our states, and just recently, as reported April 05, 2009, by FreeRepublic.com Forum bho44, in a press conference while in Europe. A reporter from the little country of Austria asked Obama what he had learned from his talks with the European leaders, to which he replied that he had already formed relationships with many of them, and, “there was a lot of – I don’t know the term in Austrian – wheeling and dealing…” Obama didn’t know that there is no Austrian language.
I can picture at that time some electronics technician in a secreted laboratory somewhere in the Middle East going crazy trying to figure out which electrode or connection was loose in this perplexing robot. But then, maybe it was only because the teleprompter wasn’t functioning at that particular moment.
And just today a FoxNews.com reported that President Obama declared that his country "is not and will never be at war with Islam," as he sought to bridge divides between East and West during his first visit as president to the Muslim country of Turkey. When he said “his country is not and never will be at war with Islam” he made all of the brave warriors, who have paid with their lives and given up use of major parts of their bodies while engaged in combat with Islamic jihadists in Iraq and Afghanistan, not matter.
Then again, maybe it was an acknowledgment that the United States is NOT “his country” because MY country, the United States is most certainly engaged in warfare with Islamic fanatics and murderers. Was that a Freudian slip, Mr. Obama? Some people have criticized my encompassing Islamists by saying “Not all Islamists are murdering terrorists.” Very true; just as not all Americans are patriots either. But we don’t go to war against individuals; we take on countries or causes.
Then there are times when he speaks fluently and correctly but the content is a bit on the wacky side such as when he convinced some dupes in the Senate to introduce a couple of bills aimed at taking control of the Internet.
Now we once had a slight problem with one of our liberal VICE presidents who proclaimed to the world that he had, in fact, invented the Internet, but most people just considered the source and laughed it off. From the way this new automaton, or whatever he is, gets his way with so many people even having absolutely nothing to offer beyond a lot of slick talk, it may be different.
As reported on April 05, 2009 by reliableanswers.com/law/news.asp, Obama convinced a prominent Senator named Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), to introduce some legislation to give the president total control over the Internet. These bills would give this ultra power in the hyped-up name of Cybersecurity Act of 2009 to a National Cybersecurity Advisor who would report directly to the president just like his current just plain Security Advisor does. Nothing like creating more jobs when you have a history of losing jobs for the country by the millions. One job at a time, right? Gotta' start somewhere.
Now you might think I’m doing some belated April fooling, but I am really serious as all get out. Obama really does want to take the wind out of Al Gore’s sails (wind that Gore could use to cool off all the global warming we’ve had this past winter) and become the International Ruler of the Internet and all of the world’s cyberspace. Of course he justifies all this by claiming to make this country safe from, honest, “cyber” attack.
I’m not sure just what type of “cyber” attack the president is expecting, and it may turn out to be just a minor worm virus that could fry the hard drives of millions of American computers. But I don’t think it would be one of these Trojan horse attacks that take half of mankind with them. Or maybe it could? Maybe that Austrian reporter will ask him that question some day.
And then again, maybe the North Korean dictator Kim might also want to be the king of cyberspace so he would have more room to play with those missiles and if he doesn’t get his way he’ll shoot off another rocket maybe aimed at the U. S. The world is getting like that coffee: Chock Full of Nuts.
Gerald A. “Jerry” McConnell, 92, of Hampton, died Sunday, February 19, 2017, at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill, Mass., surrounded by his loved ones. He was born May 27, 1924 in Altoona, Pa., the fifth son of the late John E. and Grace (Fletcher) McConnell.
Jerry served ten years with the US Marine Corps and participated in the landing against Japanese Army on Guadalcanal and another ten years with the US Air Force. After moving to Hampton in 1957 he started his community activities serving in many capacities.
He shared 72 years of marriage with his wife Betty P. (Hamilton) McConnell. In addition to his wife, family members include nieces and nephews.
