President Obama certainly has enormous pressure to perform as the first black president and leader of the most oppressive group of white people the world has ever assembled, or the most generous, it depends on your "political" view.
With all the name calling and finger pointing, the shear grandiosity of the bill lunged on him by his cult of worshipers led principally by Pelosi and Read, if not Obama himself, Mr. Obama might be like the guy that married that high maintenance beauty queen that doesn't like it when her hairdo gets messed up. The skin-deep veneer is in no way a true reflection of the ugliness of the interior. He now has a life long commitment to a strikingly awesome, albeit worthless millstone he will wear around his neck for the remainder of his life without a puddle to jump in. This is not the bling he sought.
Anyway, he is wishing he could still convince people, for a little longer, this is a good idea as the make-up comes off and the true costs of this matrimony start arriving. He says to himself, "Why did I ever do this?" "They MADE me", he will exclaim after he literally exhausts himself in efforts to keep lipstick on this pig. The "political tactics", which, may I insist we go ahead and simply call this "lying", "bribery" and "fraudulent" in favor of simply saying "being political", of gaming the CBO into a number is just that. In keeping with my similes on life, Mr. Obama is living a life of glory set up like the kid who cheats in a game of golf or on a test, or the man that has corrupt business dealings like Madoff or the leadership at Enron, but Mr. Obama does it right in front of everyone and he has the nerve to go right up to the stage and take the trophy and acclaim and write a book about the audacity of hope while ripping hope out of the hands of the unborn and the living alike. We all see it, but it is said, "Go ahead and let him, he deserves it."
You can take that comment two ways, your choice, I worry about the ones getting harmed. An idea springs to his mind, "New bills to distract from old bills, but this time on my terms, more power. But that has been the plan all along." Meanwhile he says, "For now, I'll give the GOP a little favor and make the left squeal. They will think I am moderating." He will proceed to right, I mean left, all the wrongs as he strives to improve "the world" as you see it, that is the new metaphor for Obama, "the world". He says, "Watch me, watch me." Rising ever farther up the podium of falsely manufactured pride and success. Like all ponzi schemes, he will come crashing down one day. Everything he has done he has done with a "political" genius never imagined. Let me warn him and you, nothing false ever bears up to its own tests, in the end it is all but vapor. Ask the Enron retirees and shareholders and Madoff investors, and like them, we are nearly $100 trillion in debt and we are past the point of being able to pay that in full. Who will be the losers as we race to the end of this madness being perform before our very eyes? Everyone! As an old friend of mine said to me about a corrupt boss, "If I don't see you on the way up, we'll all see you on your way down."
Turner Echols
Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
