Who's Going on the Presidential Honeymoon?

I was thinking about what we traditionally call the postelection "honeymoon," of which President-elect Barack Obama is now in the second week. But what exactly is meant by the metaphor? As a starting point, I looked up the word in my well-worn Oxford English Dictionary: "The first month after marriage, when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure (Samuel Johnson); originally having no reference to the period of a month, but comparing the mutual affection of newly-married persons to the changing moon which is no sooner full than it begins to wane; now, usually, the holiday spent together by a newly-married couple, before settling down at home."

First of all, who are the parties on the honeymoon? Is it the president and the public, the president and the opposition party, or the president and Congress? Are the media supposed to be on the honeymoon? If so, in what capacity? Are they reporting on the developments of the honeymoon like paparazzi, or are they participants? Is it ethical for journalists to be sweetly "relating" to a politician, or should they stay at arm's length, so to speak? Are we all on the honeymoon together, and is it voluntary or mandatory?

I have been on only one honeymoon, with my wife 24 years ago last week. It was very much voluntary, and I didn't need to fake my tender love and devotion.

But whether as an opinion journalist or as a member of the opposition party, my attitude toward the president-elect is utterly dissimilar to what I experienced on my real honeymoon. I didn't choose him; I don't trust him (if he knows of me, he doubtlessly reciprocates such sentiments); and I don't look forward to a long relationship with him.

When did you stop beating your captured Islamo-Nazi?

In a TV interview Sunday, ruler-elect Obama, who supports killing the unborn, killing the newborn, federally-funded sacrilege, Hollywood, gays in the military, bribery, thieving and lying, said he plans to "rebuild" America's "moral stature in the world." So, he's thinking of appointing Hillary Clinton as top diplomat. Moral-stature-rebuilding-wise, it's considered a big step forward since we all know how moral the Clintons can be. Hillary got passed over for VP and left-wing NOW hags are screaming for the appointment of a woman, so this must have nothing to do with any of that.

In the same "60 Minutes" interview, Obama also vowed to "stamp out al-Qaeda once and for all," and towards that end the terror-hunter plans to give al-Qaeda Habeas Corpus, stop dunking al-Qaeda and the Taliban in water to get useful information, close Guantanamo even before Tony Rezko finds new housing for the inmates, withdraw from Iraq and do warm, catchy singalongs with Ahmadinejad. Obama is already getting praised by Euroweenies for how he plans to mindlessly cut defense spending.

And to restore America's "moral stature" even more, Obama will stamp out AIDS once and for all by closing the Department Of Deadly Viruses To Be Used Against People Of Color, Especially African-Americans. Maybe pal Jeremiah Wright knows something about this since he's overseeing the shutdown -- immediately after leading us in opening and closing prayers at the inaugural.

Liberals believe "moral stature" means getting applause from France and being loved by the Germans for trashing America. Libbies consider trashing America to be the ultimate expression of "true patriotism". It really gets their patriotism to kick in. (Coming in a close second is having your taxes raised.) In fact, liberals like Madonna spend so much time bad-mouthing America, our "moral stature" would scale new heights if ace ignoramuses like her would simply shut up for a week.

Regarding the imaginary horrors at Gitmo, Obama told "60 Minutes" that "I'm going to make sure we don't torture." Disemboweling and torturing human beings in the birth canal, yes, but never those peaceful little darling Muslims plucked from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. On the basis of zero evidence, Obama insists that "torture" is occurring at Gitmo -- but the opposite is the case, sadly. As notorious Free Republic spammer "JohnHuang2" wrote some months ago: "Liberals scream that Bush is running an Auschwitz-Birkenau down in Guantanamo, yet, for all the torturing Bush's doing, you wouldn't know it from your run-of-the-mill Gitmo jailbird who typically puts on 13 pounds while being "tortured" and "starved" to death there. The typical Gitmo menu STILL consists of culturally sensitive fresh fruit, honey-glazed chicken, rice pilaf, steamed peas and mushrooms, ginger chicken breast and lemon-baked fish -- all of it prepared by top-notch Navy cooks who run the death camp's kitchens."

If moral stature is your bag, the U.S. ponies up a good chunk for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and something like 2 million folks in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean are getting treatment through fascist Bushitler's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, even as the Great Satan cranks out a majority of the world's food aid and spends hundreds of millions in aid to the displaced people of Darfur while doling out almost a billion bucks helping tsunami victims, sending earthquake relief to Pakistan, aiding the displaced people of Georgia, sending $29 million in storm relief to Haiti, doubling aid to Latin America, bringing $60 million in debt relief to poor countries -- but Obama is upset that three Hannibal Lector types in Guantanamo got roughed up during interrogations. And didn't even get their John Edwards lawyers either.

Bush's 'immoral' foreign policy has liberated 60 million people from tyranny, but Obama is worried that the folks who danced and cheered on 9/11 and hacked Daniel Pearl's head off (then made a snuff video out of it) still don't like us. It's so important for a global superpower to be liked by homicidal Islamic maniacs seeking its demise. If Obama's 'Walk softly, and carry a big carrot' approach fails, try a bigger carrot.

From the looks of things, Obama's main achievement during the next four years will be to catapult past Jimmy Carter as Worst President Ever, doing just about everything humanly possible to avoid being competent, even as we discover how far up their posteriors Obama's jihad/Iranian-mullah-hugging supporters can wedge their heads when the Shia hits the fan. But enough about the media.

If Obama is to implement a number of disasters in his campaign platform, he won't have an easy go of it. Leafing through just some of the loony items Zero thinks he has ready to roll, whether it's hiking taxes to 'fix' the recession, hiking taxes to 'stop' "climate change", snuffing out the coal industry to 'fix' the energy problem, doling bailouts, doling still more bailouts to bailout the bailouts in the first round of bailouts, Sovietizing health care, resurrecting Smoot-Hawley, flipping off allies, fleeing Iraq, letting Iran get The Bomb, letting Gitmo inmates walk, playing patty-cake with his Three Amigos (Chavez, Castro, Ahmadinejad), wimp-o responses to Putin, scrubbing 'simpleton' Reagan's missile defense, inserting gays into the military, shrinking the military -- it's all the same corner the ruler-in-waiting has painted himself into.

But, don't worry, the press will stay on top of this. The Associated Press sums up the cold realities that await the messiah by cranking out a story entitled, "Cold realities await Gov. Sarah Palin in Alaska".

Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"

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