Why I Left Liberalism #5 - They Think We're Stupid: Obama's "I'm the President" Moment

Last week’s dog and pony show known as the bi-partisan health (s)care summit had some funny parts. My favorite part was when Louise Slaughter (D-La la land) made the case for imposing government-run health care on the nation because one of her constituents wrote her a letter and said she had to use the dentures of her dead sister because she couldn’t afford her own.

Something else was said at the summit which at the time seemed obnoxious to me, but nothing more. When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pointed out that the Dems got to speak for twice as long as the Republicans, President Hope&Change replied: “There was an imbalance in the opening statements, because I’m the President. And I didn’t count my time in terms of dividing it evenly.”

This statement was passed over by the mainstream media, which I took as them simply having no objection to that sentiment. But the conservative outlets took big issue with it. Again, I just took it as Obama being his typical pompous self, and let it go.

But Jeffrey Lord at American Spectator makes the argument that Obama’s statement is a symptom of a much bigger disease: There’s an epidemic of superiority—moral, intellectual, and, most importantly, constitutional. As Lord explains below, Obama is dead wrong on all three counts. And it’s not just Obama who assumes this level of superiority, but the Democrat Party as a whole. He makes an analogy with the recent Tiger Wood sex scandal: Just as with Woods, there’s a separate set of rules for the holier-than-thou.

‘I’m the President’: Tiger Woods In The White House
By Jeffrey Lord on 3.2.10

They are, of course, equals. Constitutional equals, as specifically provided by Article I (which creates the

Sharon in her Section 8 home!

Sharon Jasper has spent 57 of her 58 years dedicated to one cause and one cause only, and has nothing to show for her dedicated servitude...

She has lived in Section 8 housing all but 1 of her 58 years. It was a legacy passed down from her parents who moved into Section 8 housing in 1949 when she was six months old. She has passed the legacy down to her children, but fears they may have to get jobs to pay for the utilities and deposits.

She laments about her one year hiatus from the comfort of her Section 8 nirvana, ‘I tried it for a year — you know, working and all. It’s not anything I would want to go through again, or wish on anyone in my family, but I am damn proud of that year.’

Sharon was moved out of her St. Bernard housing project after hurricane Katrina and into a new, yet albeit, substandard quarterage. As can be noted from the above photo of her new Section 8 home, it is repugnant and not suitable for someone of Sharon Jasper’s seniority status in the system. ‘Don’t be fooled by them hardwood floors,’ says Sharon .

‘They told me they were putting in scraped wood floors cause it was more expensive and elegant, but I am not a fool — that was just a way to make me take scratched up wood because I am black. The 60 inch HD TV? It may look nice but it is not plasma.. It’s not a plasma because I’m black. Now they want me to pay a deposit and utilities on this dump. ‘Do you know why?’

She has held her tongue in silence through the years of abuse by the system, but it came to a head at the New Orlean’s city council meeting where discussions were under way about the tearing down of the St. Bernard projects. When a near riotous exchange between groups opposing the tearing down of St. Bernard and groups wanting the dilapidated buildings torn down and newer ones built, Sharon unleashed verbal hell with her once silenced tongue. The object of her oratory prowess was an acquiescent poor white boy in attendance. The context of her scathing rebuke was, ‘Just because you pay for my house, my car, my big screen and my food, Medical needs. I will not be treated like a slave!’ and ‘Back up and Shut up! white boy Shut up, white boy!

Recapping from the log of the city council minutes; Sharon repines, ‘Our families have been displaced all over the United States. They are being forced to commit crimes in cities they are unfamiliar with It is a very uncomfortable situation for them Bring them back, then let’s talk about redevelopment.’

Sharon directs the reporter’s attention across the street to Duncan Plaza where homeless people are living in tents and states that, ‘I might do better out there with one of these tents.’ She further lamented her sentiments about her situation, ‘I might be poor, but I don’t have to live poor.’

Any wonder why this country is in the shape it is? Maybe we should all just chip in and get her the plasma TV she so richly deserves!

Remember to pay your taxes - Sharon needs your help -

Spread the wealth ! ! ! ! !

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