“Being There” a Remake of a Movie Now in Wash. D.C

I don't know whether you remember the Peter Seller's classic movie called, “Being There” (1979), about an unassuming gardener who is mistaken for a brilliant philosopher, but it seems we have an actual remake of that movie going on right now in Wash. D.C.

Although people will criticize me for making a comparison between President Obama and the Peter Sellers character, Chancey Gardner, it was too obvious a connection, to me, not to make it into my column which I am now presenting to you. Besides, we, in America, have a 1st Amendment right to make a comment(s) on anything and anyone within reason. I am exercising that right.

Over the past two years, we have seen what a total lack of vetting by the media, pundits, and the Democrat Party can do when they “tie their wagon” to a candidate with a total lack of experience in all areas of governing, domestically, economically, in foreign affairs and in the presidency of the United States itself.

This guy, Obama, according to his most ardent followers, cannot do any wrong, and no amount of evidence of his “screw-ups” on his part can change their minds. He is a genius, he is profound, and he's the smartest man in the world, and on and on and on as the platitudes drip from their lips in describing their “Messiah”, Barack Hussein Obama.

As Chancey Gardner (Peter Sellers character) went around Wash. D.C. making statements that made no sense whatsoever, the more profound his statements became to the “intelligentsia” and the more they clamored for more statements from this illiterate person who they deemed a genius. If you are in a gathering of Obama “Kool-Aid” drinkers and supporters, the same statements that were made about Chancey Gardner are made about Obama even though most people don't know where he is coming from, policy wise. His incoherent policy statements (which he always seems to say, “Let me be perfectly clear”) toward Israel, the Middle East, energy, health care, jobs, and “Final Four” basketball predictions, are just examples of how supposedly educated people can get caught up into the human phenomenon of “idol and cult” worship. As Bill O'Reilly says after every show, “The spin stops here”, the Obama cultists always use the “spin” to make what Obama says and does more palatable than it really is. The “spin “ goes on 24/7 each and every day all year round. My answer to these poor souls is that, “You can't polish horse manure”, but, alas, it is like talking to a brick wall. To be honest, not everyone who voted for Obama in 2008 is still with the program. Many after the past 2 years have had “buyers remorse” and have seen the light, for they now realize that they bought a “pig in a poke” when they voted for him and his “hope and change” B.S. in 2008.

If any of you get a chance, get a copy of the Peter Seller's film, “Being There”, and see if a connection can be made between Chancey Gardner and Barack Hussein Obama. You might be surprised and your head might just nod in agreement.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

Does Obama Have a Tin Ear?

No, I'm not referring to his protruding ears, I'm referring to his inability to respond to what's happening around him. He hears but he doesn't adapt to what he hears or to change his ways.

Since his “idol worshipers” have proclaimed him a “genius”, he must know that his policies, or lack thereof, are not sitting well with the American people. Over 60% of the citizens don't like ObamaCare and want the act repealed. Does that change his thoughts on the subject, of course not, he just digs in more firmly and forcefully? Remember, he's so smart he knows what's best for us.

In addition, he must know, or should know, that his energy policies are helping raise the prices on oil, gasoline, natural gas, and coal. He said, during his campaign for president, that he wanted the cost of exploring and producing fossil fuels to rise so that we'd concentrate more on providing “clean” energy. He said we'd be “paying through the nose” and he is making good on his pledge. Where does that leave the average Joe? It leaves him with less money in his pocket, as inflation not only hits him at the gas pump, but also the goods and services he buys in the store as it now costs more to deliver those goods and services which we want to buy. Now, with the disaster in Japan, he has an excuse to be against nuclear energy as well. Think of how many decent paying jobs could be filled if he didn't have a “tin ear” about opening up our vast supply of energy just laying there in the ANWR Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, off-shore in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, and the vast untapped supply of oil shale in our Rocky Mountains etc. These well-paying jobs are just waiting to be filled just waiting for the Obama Administration to give the O.K. to start exploring.

On the foreign policy front, he seems to have disappeared from view. It seems he can find time to play basketball, golf, and fund-raise for the Democrats, but can't find the time to exert leadership around the world like a U.S. President should in times of crisis. We are really becoming a “paper tiger”, and in many places the laughing stock around the world. He seems to be “mailing it in” (going through the motions), just like he did as an Illinois State Senator when he voted “present” over 130 times. It seems like he just can't make a decision - he's all talk and no action. What a waste of talent for someone so “smart”!

Besides Obama, his pals in the Democrat Party seem to also have a “tin ear”. The people overwhelmingly voted on Nov. 2, 2010 to change the way Wash. D.C. and the various state houses should be run, and to stop spending money we don't have. Where did these “knuckleheads” get their education – at Disney World? We have amassed over a $14 trillion debt and the Democrats want to still spend more money. It seems that they are addicted to spending our money which we do not have. As Michael Savage once opined, “Liberalism is a mental disorder”, and from their actions, they are proving his point.

Let's remove the “tin” from Obama and the Democrats ears and pump in some good old common sense so that our country will again be No.1 in the world in economics, diplomacy, and leadership. All we need is a President with some “kahones”. God bless America!

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

Obama: Stay out of my life

Obama, you are one very rotten apple that is not satisfied with just spoiling all the other apples in the barrel, you are trying your damndest to spoil the entire orchard.

Your effort to 'redistribute wealth' in our society, is from a page ripped out of the Marxist-Socialist ideology that has failed everyplace and every time it has been tried over the past couple of centuries. If you weren't blind to reason as a result of your early indoctrination into Muslim dogma and if you were not so painfully ignorant of world history, you would know that.

Your effort to 'by-pass our Constitution' and all the other Founding documents of this nation, also represents your total acquiescence with a host of lunatic premises printed on the pages of 'How-To-Books-for-Revolutionaries' that apparently, comprised the totality of your education - the missing records from your alleged matriculation at Columbia and Harvard, notwithstanding.

Your efforts to 'homogenize our free society' into the vile-tasting stew that is the European Union, via your 'suck-ups' to the United Nations, is traitorous to our most sacred, sovereign traditions. Your pursuit of this ignominious end to our cherished independence, is proof positive of your departure from all that Americans have held dear since we declared our independence from England in 1776. You are a Chicago street organizer and you just don't get it - and you never will.

As if all the preceding examples of your unfitness to be our President were not sufficient to throw you out with the kitchen waste, you've topped yourself by your ill-conceived, clumsy attempt to co-opt the Passover Holidays of the Jewish faith, by staging your own Muslim-oriented, distorted farce of a Seder service. You've gone too far. Who in the hell do you think you are, to have to have the chutzpah, nerve, gall, stupidity and hypocrisy it takes to attempt to equate Easter with Passover or Passover with Easter? In your thuggish arrogance, you seem to have convinced yourself that there is some sort of moral equivalence between these two celebrations. Let me enlighten you, you boob - Easter is a Christian celebration; Passover is a Jewish celebration. While they might be celebrated in close proximity on the calendar, they are not the same. You cannot make them the same. Nor, will I permit you to misuse the power you've been granted by a majority of the misguided electorate, to pound these celebrations into the same mould for your political purposes. These two celebrations cannot be lumped into a 'universal' holiday to suit your warped whim.

When you usurp the Passover celebration and make a charade of its traditions and ceremonies, you blaspheme the significance and the very essence of the historic religious celebration that has been held near and dear to the hearts of Jews for thousands of years.

Get away from my beliefs, Obama. Stay out of my life. Get out of the way. You are a meddlesome pariah. You are the quintessential rotten apple.

Take up residence where you can feel more at home. Go live in one of the burgeoning Muslim-dominated populations around the world. Give them your sage advice. Suck up to them; homogenize them; even the playing fields someplace else. Take an apology tour of the world (at your own expense of course, no Air Force One) and go redistribute the wealth of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Thailand, Africa, Asia, Central and South America, China, Russia, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Greece. Have a ball. But, get the hell out of my life, you bum.

Conservative Commentary by MORT KUFF © 2011

“Nobody Asked Me ...But.....” Part 5

Why can a national man's clothier, like Jos. A. Bank, get away with advertising a “70% Off” two-day sale for 365 days straight?
Why do trial lawyers advertise for “potential” victims by implying that people could be compensated whether or not they were actually harmed on their job?
Why is there a moral equivalence for the government taking your money or property supposedly for the benefit of someone else as comparable to the act of reaching into one's own pocket to help another person in need without being coerced?
Why is it that no Congress or other legislative body has ever voted to declare homosexual unions as a marriage?
Why is it that some people extol the benefits of Socialism and then complain about the government intruding in their lives by over taxing and over regulating them?
Why do “global warming” charlatans, who have zero credentials in the field of climatology, get “favorable” press coverage (ala Al Gore), but the over 31,000 Americans with degrees in science who have signed a petition “pooh-poohing” global warming, get no mention at all?
Why are the “millions” of people who are starving each day, according to the liberals, “hiding out” so that skeptics, like myself, can see them in person to validate that erroneous, emotionally based claim?
Why do the people, mainly atheists and skeptics, keep bringing up the phrase that “separation of church and state” is written in our Constitution, when it is not mentioned at all? (Not even in the Declaration of Independence).
Why do some liberals claim that you can balance the federal budget and reduce the federal deficit by spending more taxpayer money for “stimulus” and other entitlements, of which money we don't have any of except by recklessly printing it?
Why is it O.K. to lose $64 billion in Medicare fraud per year, but a profit honestly earned by a company or an entrepreneur is somehow considered immoral or unjustified?
Why is it O.K. to keep sending students to failing public schools when better performing private schools are available to students if the politicians and teacher unions would permit them to enroll in them through the issuance of school vouchers to their parents?
Why is it O.K. to pass out condoms in the public schools, but it's not O.K. to say a non-denominational prayer before a football game or at a school commencement?
Why is “affirmative action” accepted and needed, in the eyes of the liberals, in the business workplace, but not in the N.B.A. or the N.F.L.?
Why are liberals in favor of special advantages for others only if they're sure they won't have to sacrifice or personally suffer as result?
Why is the “complete” lack of evidence, according to some who feel that Bush was involved in 9/11, the surest sign that the conspiracy was real?
Why doesn't Obama come clean and show his college transcripts, medical records, and “real” birth certificate to put to rest, once and for all, all the speculation that he is trying to hide something from the public?

Maybe you should have asked me.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann

IN ONE EAR.........

The complete idiom is, “In one ear and out the other”, which means something heard but not remembered or not heeded.

Does that not describe the actions of President Obama, Senate Minority leader Harry Reid and ex-Speaker Pelosi, in their assessment of the latest election results and the policies that they so forcefully shoved down the throats of the American public? Nancy “Botox” Pelosi threw a victory party for all her minions in the House of Representatives in a “phone booth” (even that was too big) on Capitol Hill. After the worst defeat in almost 60 years, she is still strutting around the track claiming victory. Is she detached from reality or what? In addition, as the leader who led her party in ignominious defeat, she wanted to continue as the leader of the now minority Democrat caucus, and the Democrat congressmen voted for her. That shows that the Democrats seem to have a “deaf ear” when it comes to interpreting the election results. We, the Republicans, couldn't be happier as she will be the gift that will keep on giving for the next two years.

Her boss, the “Appeaser in Chief”, Barack Hussein Obama, is going around saying that the reason people are angry and took it out on the Democrats was because of bad communications. Really? Is he from the same planet as the rest of us? During his 2 years (plus) in office, he has been on T.V., town hall meetings, backyards, and press conferences endlessly, exhorting people to get behind his expansive government agenda. The voters rejected him and his policies overwhelmingly on Nov.2 and they threw out of office many of the “lemmings” that supported his Marxist/Socialist agenda including some long-time Democrat committee chairmen and some sitting Senators. Obama didn't have a communications problem, he had a credibility problem. I really should go easy on Pres. Obama... after all just a short time ago (on Nov. 2) he got jobs for 63 Republicans in Congress. Now, that's progress that should not be overlooked.

Unlike the former Democrat President, Bill Clinton, who changed course after the Democrat election debacle of 1994, when the G.O.P. took over both houses of Congress, Obama seems hell-bent on continuing his ruinous policies, come hell or high water. He will sound like a “moderate” (like he did in his State of the Union speech), but watch what he does. He will say or do anything that might possibly get him re-elected in 2012. Don't be fooled by his “soothing” rhetoric, because as I've said before, “you can't polish horse manure”.

We, the opposition, encourage Obama, Reid and Pelosi to continue on their merry Marxist/Socialist way, as that will guarantee a G.O.P. victory in 2012. They do not seem to grasp what the effects of their policies have had on the citizens of our country. The pleas of some of the rank-and-file Democrats seem to be “going in one ear and out the other” much to the consternation of those hapless members of the Democrat Party who really are moderates.

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann