It is now crystal clear that the Obama administration is totally clueless with regard to the duty and responsibility of a President. The occasion called for a memorial service. Instead we got the kick-off to Obama’s 2012 Presidential campaign. The Obama administration clearly recruited a crowd of avid supporters and directed them to fill the hall with loud applause. It was pathetic demonstration of supercilious sanctimony.
On October 25, 2002, Senator Paul Wellstone was killed in an airplane crash. Democrats, who simply cannot resist exploiting any tragedy replaced him as a candidate with Walter Mondale. They then took over his memorial service to run a Campaign Rally. While Democrats thought this went really well, the people in Minnesota were appalled and it backfired. Mondale was trounced. Of course left wing blogs continue to report conspiracy theories of how Republicans killed Senator Wellstone. They fail to acknowledge that one of the reasons Wellstone was flying in such bad weather is that he was way behind in the polls. They had no reason to kill him, he was destined to lose.
It is too early to get the full impact of Obama’s performance at the Tucson Memorial service, but it sure looked like a repeat of the Wellstone fiasco. I was stunned and appalled. The wild cheering and rapturous introductions of the Democratic participants was just plain awful. No matter how the main stream media tries to spin it, the memorial service was turned into a campaign rally. It was beyond poor taste. It was just another shameless exploitation of tragedy. I would feel exactly the same if the participants had been Republicans. The contrast between this pep rally and the national prayer service put together by Bush after 9-11 could not be starker.
The main stream media is trying to spin this as a great performance by Obama. But, my guess is that a high percentage of people were just as disgusted as me. The campaign slogan tee shirts draped over each chair added a whole new level of weirdness. Have any of you been to a funeral lately where they handed out tee shirts with campaign slogans?
Obama also droned on and on and on. He repeated himself several times and he was his usual arrogant self. The man cannot give a speech without thrusting his jaw out every time he pauses, in breathless anticipation of the adoration he deserves. I suspect that the KoolAid drinkers will continue to drink it in, but everyone else will be unimpressed. There were no great moments, no soaring rhetoric, just the same boring monotone Obama reading predictable clichés. His greatest moment turned out to be a lie. Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes Sunday, long before Obama got around to visiting her. Perhaps Obama really believed she had only opened her eyes after his visit, but it sure looked like a staged theatrical stunt. The problem is that this was obviously not true. Dr. Rhee reported on Sunday that she could open her eyes, but could not speak. The Sonoran Chronicle carried the story, but pulled it down after Obama’s speech. Fortunate an alert blogger kept a screen print of the article:
Naturally the main stream media continues to report the miraculous eye opening shortly after Obama’s visit. Some have even stooped to referring him as the great healer. Please! I am very glad she can open her eyes, but the exploitation of this woman is mindboggling.
Obama did say that political rhetoric had nothing to do with this incident. Some broadcasters felt that was a brave thing for him to do. That is nonsense. It was the very least he could have done. What he should have done is said that it is a national disgrace that people viciously attacked Sarah Palin when there was no evidence to support those attacks.
Since Democrats have already demonstrated a total lack of shame, I predict that soon we will have some kind of gun control legislation proposed by Democrats with Gabrielle Giffords name attached. Does anyone remember the “Brady bill?” The Giffords bill is soon to follow. Any legislation proposed by Republicans will be challenged by Democrats as failing to honor the tragedy. I Democrat will demand that the health care repeal vote and any other “controversial” legislation be suspended until she is able to return to office. Bills proposed by Democrats will be done in her honor. Of course when a Republican is temporarily unavailable Democrats just try to cram through legislation without them. The most recent example was with Senator Kirk from Illinois. Democrats tried to delay swearing him in until the last possible moment so they could shove more legislation through the lame duck congress.
After watching Obama’s performance one thought went through my mind, in addition to pure disgust: “If the American people are too stupid to see through this garbage, we are doomed.”
TDM
To bad your observation of the intelligence of the general voting public is probably correct! The Great Healer my ass! That remark takes a real %&$&%^ of a reporter!
By now the American people should be smart enough not to listen to what he says but watch what he does. If they are not, just as you said, we are doomed.
Rightfully Said!