Speaking Of Everything…

The Obamas who, by the way, are independently wealthy thanks to a couple of well written books and high profile pre-politics jobs, multi-task during their vacations. This is news?

The whole meme being pushed in the various media of “optics,” how situations, “look,” reminds me of the lyrics of an old song:

“It’s not what you look like, when you’re doin’ what you’re doin’
It’s what you’re doin’ when you’re doin’ what you look like you’re doin’!”

This type of reporting and commentary have been instrumental in bringing this country to its present condition.

Why? Because “We The People,” are a bunch of suckers.

In her column for tomorrow’s New York Times, Maureen Dowd states, “The latest disappointing jobs report prompted evening news reports about Americans’ fears of falling into what one called “the abyss.”

Why was the jobs report disappointing? Because pundits said so, never mind the fact that approximately 70,000 jobs were actually created in the private sector and that the downturn in the total job growth numbers was caused by the expiring contracts of US Census workers. Yeah, public sector jobs go bye-bye, shouldn’t that warm the cockles of conservative hearts?

Back when the jobs numbers of April, swelled by the amount of US Census hires, were released, the GOP and the media were quick to say, “Yeah but that number was inflated by temporary GUBMINT jobs!” However, when those jobs ended and there was still an uptick where it counts, in private sector jobs, “we are staring into the abyss!”

Suckers!

Meanwhile, the captains of industry who took federal bailout money after they had screwed the nation a hundred ways from Sunday, paid themselves bonuses for their debacle and now sit on a trillion bucks.

Rather than funnel it back into the nation’s economy they say, “we can’t hire or lend capital to small business because we are “uncertain” that the president and this administration will let us go back to our old game of messing up at a thousand miles an hour while raking in short term profits at the expense of the American working class. But as soon as we identify the new “emerging markets” we turn the spigot back on and start the money flowing… off shore.” Yeah, where we can exploit cheap labor and inhumane conditions for fun and profit.

Are any of us “certain” of anything except the sun rising tomorrow?

Wall Street has gotten fat on money stolen from Maple Street and the nation hollers “Bravo!” The President tries to rein in the greed and excess and the nation hollers, “Boo! Scary black man!”

When our news and information industry stops dishing up entertainment and instead sticks to the facts of the matter, then maybe “We The People” can stop being patsies.

Elections matter and the people spoke in 2008 in a clear and enthusiastic voice but that voice has been muted because the Democrats aren’t as good at the showbiz of politics and governing as the GOP.

I ask, if your firm employed a CPA who repeatedly showed you one set of books but when confronted with an outside audit that person was shown to have been a bungler and outright thief. If that accounting associate said to you, “Who do you believe? Me or those impartial professionals?”

Who would you believe? Major papers, such as the Washington Post would apparently believe their old golfing buddy. Why else would Karl Rove get any play from “serious journalists?”

Nearly two years after he left office and virtually disappeared from public view, Bush — his image, his policies, his legacy — are being dragged back into the public arena.

The strategy could backfire for Democrats, who risk appearing desperate by blaming Bush instead of taking responsibility. Former Bush strategist Karl Rove called it a “deadly street to go down” for Democratic candidates who have “no next act” to promote.

Your accounting associate could say, “C’mon, I’m your buddy, I’m your pal! Yeah, I know I messed up, but I swear if you give me another chance i promise to stop robbing you blind!” would you say, “Oh alright, I know you drove me to the edge of financial ruin and cost my company its good name, but sure. All’s forgiven!”

SUCKER!

The GOP took a surplus in 2001 and turned it into a huge deficit and a near financial catastrophe with bad fiscal policies that are too many to list and yet whenever they speak about this administration’s spending and scrambling to keep the ship of state afloat, journalists who should know better parrot their talking points in the name of even handedness.

It’s all showbiz folks and whoever said, (usually attributed to Barnum), “There’s a sucker born every minute” was only part right, they should have said, “We are a nation of suckers, ripe for the plucking!”

“Fool us once, shame on — shame on you. Fool us –you can’t get fooled again.”

Suckers!