Sarcasm Alley

That quote comes from Howard Davidowitz, some sort of self-proclaimed pundit, and I thought it was pretty funny. I don't usually get all worked up about politics, it's a subject most people don't understand as it's a completely tail-wagging-the-dog scenario. Politics is just another mirror, it reflects us but does not determine us. But most people don't realize when they're looking in the mirror so I couldn't resist a line like that.

Here's the video it comes from along with part of the accompanying Yahoo story:

President Obama is having a rough go of things lately. As noted here last week, for the first time in his presidency, more Americans disapprove of Obama (48%) than approve of him (45%), according to the latest WSJ/NBC poll. And 62% say the country is headed in the wrong direction.

“The American people are right,” says Howard Davidowitz of Davidowitz & Co. A critic of Obama’s, from the start, Davidowitz refers to him as the “worst” President of his lifetime, even worse than of Jimmy Carter, based on:

-- The War in Afghanistan: Davidowitz doesn’t see the point. As far as he can tell, after 7 years, hundreds of billions spent, and thousands of U.S. lives lost, the Afghans still can’t defend against the Taliban. Plus, the Afghan government is stealing billions in aid from the U.S. The WSJ reports, $3 billion in U.S. aid has been loaded onto planes by corrupt officials and flown out of the Kabul airport since 2007. “If they can’t be trained, if they’re stealing all our money, all our soldiers are dying. I don’t understand how any of this is logical,” proclaims Davidowitz.
-- Out of Control Spending: Davidowitz thinks Obama has wasted time and taxpayer money pushing ‘Obamacare’ into law at a time when the debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to hit 62% by year’s end. “We’re going broke because of Medicare, Medicaid and everything else. He added another benefit, health-care. Can you explain that to me?”
-- BP Oil Spill: “It could destroy the country,” he says. Davidowitz fears the continued loss of hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil per day will drive gas prices higher, further choking and already struggling consumer. Meanwhile, he questions why the President waited 50 days to contact BP executives.

[The oil spill claim is ludicrous, baseless and hysterical]

Clearly, the [anti-Christ 43rd President] was unique in all of American history for inflicting evil upon the land. The fact we allowed that to happen does not bode well for us. And it was the election of the Dark Prince Reagan who first threw reality to the wind declaring trees cause pollution among various other daylight insanities he transgressed. So O-man is clearly not the worst.

Damn sure not the best either, though.

What he is is a Nothing Man, a leaf upon the water. If things are flowing in the right direction he goes with the current, if things are flowing in the wrong direction, he flows with that current as well. He's not one to fix a crisis or stem the bleeding. He recognizes the crisis and seeks to allay fears for political reasons but his solutions are all a matter of perception, not painful reality. Nobody wants to hear about reality. If we did, O-man never would have made it into office (neither of the final pair was fit).

There are many who see Obama as a messiah, just as many did his predecessor, claiming he will fix us and must be in office or the sky will fall. But if you fear who your fellow man will put in office all is lost anyway. Only the truth deserves fidelity, no one person. There is no salvation outside of the truth, no matter how much we seek it, just as is there is no salvation through politics either.