OBAMA APOLOGIZE?……WHEN PIGS FLY

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.

That is a phrase that was recently and often used in politics to refer to taxes and to point out that if you implement a tax but call it something else, it is still a tax. The phrase is a legitimate analogy that helps hammer a point across. You may even say it is an innocent one.

This morning Barack Obama stood before a crowd of supporters at a school in Virginia to give a speech on education. He pre-empted his usual education stump speech to address his own remarks from the day before when he made another type of analogy that didn’t use ducks, it used pigs. In it he said “ You can put lipstick on a pig“,(laugh, laugh, laugh) “but it’s still a pig”.

Given another time and circumstance this might have been an innocent statement, but given the fact that the women Obama is running against, on the Republican ticket, made a joke that referred to lipstick during a speech that introduced her to the nation, only days before Obama’s remark, it was hardly innocent.

In the business of politics every word is chosen carefully and with reason. There is a press corps that is looking for red meat in every crevice and corner. There is a politically correct society that is just looking for a reason to ask for your apology and there is of course the fact that you are running for President and that people think a President or potential one says what he means.

So today Barack Obama addressed his remarks from the day before. He did not deny the remark, nor did he deny the insinuation made in his remark. Instead he turned it into an attack that blamed Republicans and John McCain for playing politics. He blamed them for using diversionary tactics and trying to distract voters attention away from the issues . He essentially said that words are not important, or more accurately put, that his words are not important. He suggested that what he said should be ignored and that we should overlook his words and move on.

Well I am here to tell you that I will take his advice. I will assume that all the words of Barack Obama are meaningless and should be ignored. When Barack “America” uses words to offer people health care or cut their taxes, I will assume that they are meaningless and should be discounted. I will listen to his words and then I will ignore them, because according to Obama, his words are just distractions.

After Sarah Palin said “you know what the difference between a hockey mom and a pit-bull is?….. Lipstick”, everyone understood the analogy and we moved on. It was a harmless use of words that played on the toughness of women. No one was or could be offended by it. However, when days after these words grabbed headlines and were fresh on the minds of the public, Barack talks about lipstick on pigs. No one can deny where this phrase came from or the association with it. No one except for him.

And no one except for him could get away with it either. If John McCain had said this remark after Hillary Clinton accepted her desired nomination with the same joke that Sarah Palin used, every left wing and feminist organization throughout the world would demand that his gonads be chopped off and pickled like pigs feet.

In 1984 Vice President George H. W. Bush debated Democrat Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro. The day after the debate he was at a shipyard in Jersey City, New Jersey for a campaign stop. While stepping off of a tug boat, he passed a remark to a fellow supporter and said “we kicked a little tail last night , didn’t we”. Well the sky fell for that one and every group from the National Organization for Women to Women Pig Farmers United held Vice President Bush accountable for it. Subsequently, he apologized for any offense taken by it and explained that the term was not a reference to Geraldine Ferraro’s sex, but was meant in a political context. Believe him or not, he owned up to the remark and apologized to those who did take offense.

Flashback to 2008 and Barack Obama essentially calls the Republican nominee for Vice President a pig and not a single feminist group objects. This only helps to support the fact that these groups are not for women. They are for Liberal women and liberal women only. They do not denounce the remarks, nor do fellow Democrats and their standard bearer. Barack Obama, doesn’t own up to it and apologize for it. Instead he discounts it and plays the victim card. Would Obama The Great ever lower his infallible stature enough to apologize? No, not Obama. To apologize and demonstrate that he is less than perfect would damage his messianic image.

Barack Obama gets his wish. I will ignore his words. I will see them as meaningless distractions that have no value when it comes to things like solving America’s problem. If Barack does not want to be held accountable to his words, then so be it. On the other hand, if he wants us to have any faith in his grandiose speeches than he should take responsibility for what he says and what he means and apologize for calling Sarah Palin a pig.

FLAG-GATE

As the Democrats wrapped up their convention they also wrapped up the America flags which they used to show their patriotism. They wrapped them up in garbage bags that were set aside dumpsters outside of INVESCO Field.

According to an Obama official "All of the flags at Invesco were picked up and put in bags and into storage, along with the unused flags and campaign signs. The flags were going to be donated, and the signs were going to be sent out to be used elsewhere". The official maintained anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.

But if he was authorized to speak for them would he actually claim that the garbage that contained these flags along with crumpled, handwritten Obama for President signs and crushed soda and coffee cups, was actually a system of storage?

Was placing the flags in garbage bags filled with garbage next to a dumpster some sort of shipping operation?

Putting aside the actions of the campaign for a moment, I wonder how the flags got left behind on the seats and grounds, by the Obama fans in attendance for his acceptance.

I know that after I have waved an American flag with pride, my pride does not stop when the waving stops. I would have kept that flag and taken it with me. But I guess that sense of patriotic pride and fervor does not exist with the Obama supporters at Invesco Field.

But back to Obama’s campaign, lets get this straight folks, the over 12,000 flags tossed in garbage bags, with garbage and placed next to garbage dumpsters were not intended for future use. They were not going to be recycled for the next Obama campaign stop. No, not in his campaign.

But after being found they were saved from the real and symbolic treatment offered by Obama and they were delivered in 84 neatly packed bundles by Boy Scouts to a McCain-Palin campaign event in Colorado Springs.

Now this issue is really not an issue, I admit. But there is significant symbolism in the Obama campaign’s throwing the flags away. It is also a look into the mindset of the campaign of a man running for President. It demonstrates a lack of respect. It signifies the Obama camp’s reluctance to respect the flag.

A man like John McCain who has fought and almost died for this country understands the significance and symbolism of the flag. He understands the meaning behind it as well as the nation it represent.

Barack apparently does not. The throwing away of 12,000 flags by the Obama campaign shows us that they are not for America but that they think America is for just for them. For them to take advantage of. For them to blame. They use America for themselves and care not about truly doing things for America.

On the other hand we have in John McCain a man who puts country first. A man whose respect for country and flag prohibits him from throwing it all away.

No, the throwing away of our flag is not an issue that can rise to the importance of war or life threatening diseases, but it does rise the occasion of showing us a look at ones respect and love of country.

Barack Obama did not throw these flags away but his campaign people did. They are the type of people that Barack Obama entrusts and surrounds himself with. They are the people who advise him and help reinforce his thinking.

Barack did not throw them away himself but my friend, birds of a feather flock together and his flock is not what we can put stock in.