Obama's Oscar
I am no pinnacle of humility, and I've learned my fair share of hard lessons from the camps of conceit. But I'm not sure the former Chicago politician occupying the White House ever has been schooled with a primer on the perils of pride.
It's one thing (though still distasteful) to be boastful in a sports or fighting ring; it's quite another in the Oval Office. We were promised change, but it seems to me this White House's smug swagger and strut rival the great taunts and bluster of Muhammad Ali in his heyday. In fact, if I were handing out awards, President Barack Obama would win hands down the Oscar for overconfidence and arrogance.
Here are a few examples of his Oscar-worthy political performances:
Who can forget the State of the Union address back in January, when the president utterly disregarded and disrespected our military commanders and the U.S. Supreme Court? President Obama rebutted the entire Supreme Court in the justices' presence and before the whole nation, with a premeditated and prepared accusation (later proved incorrect). "The Supreme Court," he said, "reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections."
And what about the looks on the faces of the military commanders during the State of the Union? My view on gays in the military aside, the president's smug demeanor in pushing the issue and the military leaders' stoic response prompted me to ask, "Is the State of the Union really the place for a commander in chief to cast in-your-face politics before his leading military personnel with all of America watching?"
Consider even the recent so-called health care summit. It might sound simple to some, but I believe it is symptomatic when members of Congress address the president as "Mr. President" and he calls on them only by their first names. The president went the entire six hours or so in this room full of Washington politicians and various notables addressing them by their first names rather than by the socially accepted and proper forms of address for senators and representatives. "John," "Paul," "Louise," "Marsha," etc. — one may argue that these are examples of familiarity, but I believe they are of contempt.
In addition, to Sen. John McCain's genuine concern for ramming a pork-ridden health care bill through Congress by politics as usual, President Obama replied, "We're not campaigning anymore. The election is over."
And to Rep. Eric Cantor's polite opening greeting, President Obama sarcastically commented about the high stack of pages in front of Cantor by saying: "Let me just guess; that's the 2,400-page health care bill. Is that right?"
As for other Americans who oppose his far-left agenda, the president jeered at them before a live audience a few months back, when he condescendingly declared: "Those folks who are trying to stand in the way of progress, let me tell you: I'm just getting started! I don't quit. I'm not tired. ... It is important for those folks to understand I'm just ready to go. We're just going to keep on going."
The president demonizes any opposition and even tried socially to quarantine No. 1 Fox News as an illegitimate news organization because some commentators disagree with him. His actions remind me of these words of Fulton J. Sheen's: "Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals."
Lou Pritchett — a former vice president of Procter & Gamble — who retired in 1989 after working at the company for 36 years, hit the nail on the head when he wrote his renowned "open letter to President Obama": "You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. ... You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others."
The president lords himself over not only broadcast agencies, other politicians, his opponents and the American people but also our most precious founding documents. As I noted in last week's column, President Obama described the Constitution as "an imperfect document ... a document that reflects some deep flaws ... (and) an enormous blind spot." He also said, "The Framers had that same blind spot."
In possibly his gravest error, Obama haughtily placed himself above Judeo-Christian Scriptures when speaking at a church in June 2006 as a senator. In that message, he denigrated biblical books, including Leviticus and Deuteronomy, ridiculed the issue of the Bible's inerrancy, called the Sermon on the Mount a radically inapplicable passage of Scripture, and declared that basing public policies upon the Bible "would be a dangerous thing." He arrogantly concluded that "folks haven't been reading their Bible," setting himself above not only most others' understanding of Scripture but also all of us who read it. In olden days, such sacred contempt would have been regarded as an abominable desecration — a man standing in the house of God claiming to be like a god, above others and even Scripture itself.
President Obama, I don't know whether you've spent a day in a Sunday school class, so here's a verse that might help you. Proverbs 16:18: "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."
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Proverbs 16:18 is a good one, Chuck, thanks. Here's another (three): "Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found" Psalm 37:34-36. All 4 passages are good for the purpose of prayer, I suggest.
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Posted by: Alan O'Reilly
Tue Mar 9, 2010 7:00 AM
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Always enjoyed all your movies and your series. I firmly believe that Obama is trying to destroy this nation and bring it down to the final curtain. He hates the Constitution and he frankly doesn't care for those who go to church and defy his anti-Christian views. When he pledges allegiance he uses his left hand instead of his right hand.
He would love to be the Anti-Christ who sits and judges those who he wants out of the way.
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Posted by: Jim Parkhill
Sun Mar 14, 2010 4:26 PM
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Dear Chuck Norris, Excellent article. What's happened in past five (5) decades is called 'Treason against the Taxpayers!' Until Taxpayers take America back, padlock all politicians offices, and send them on their way to GITMO, nothing is going to change except 'we'll be a Third World Country!' This administration is going to make sure this happens. The foreign countries are laughing at America and are waiting until the interest isn't paid on the trillions they've borrowed without Taxpayers consent! As for this Healthcare, social and welfare, rhetoric, as trillions spent America didn't have, has gone on a several decades, FOLKS ARE ASKING "WHY DID WE LET THESE IDIOTS WORK ON SAME PROGRAMS FOR ALL THESE YEARS, JUST SO THEY COULD BE PAID BIG BUCKS AND BIG RETIREMENTS, GIVING NOTHING IN RETURN TO TAXPAYERS EXCEPT IOU's (USELESS AS TITS ON A BOAR HOG) IN SOCIAL SECURITY VAULTS, AND BANKRUPTING AMERICA WITHOUT SENDING THEM ALL TO STATE PRISONS? ANYONE KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO AMERICA WHEN INTEREST ISN'T PAID?
'AND IT CAME TO PASS' - ALL THESE INCOMPETENT, CORRUPT, GREEDY, BLOOD-SUCKING TICKS, SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE 'ELEVATOR GOING DOWN-------TO HELL' - and this is far too good for them. In the meantime, GITMO is the place for them to be - as they need to be put in the same situation as they placed the Taxpayers 'BROKE AND HUNGRY!' If a Taxpayer had committed any minor crime, they'd be paying in prison, but yet the politicians have gotten by with MAJOR CRIMES AND TREASON against Taxpayers and they're still in their cozy positions, drawing big bucks and retirements, and "PUSHING" America further into Bankruptcy and to think "THESE IDIOTS BELIEVE THEY'VE BEEN WORKING, IN ORDER TO DRAW THESE BIG SALARIES AND RETIREMENTS! HOW DUMB HAVE WE BEEN, AS TAXPAYERS, TO LET THIS GO ON FOR OVER FIVE (5) DECADES, WITHOUT SENDING THEM TO STATE PRISONS, NOT THE 'COUNTRY CLUB FEDERAL CLUBS' - BETTER YET, GITMO IS THE ONLY PLACE THEY NEED TO GO WITH ONLY THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS! THINK ABOUT IT, AS THIS IS BETTER THAN WHAT THEY'VE HAVE 'GIVEN US!'
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE TO SELL POLITICIANS A ONE-WAY TICKET TO GITMO, SENDING ALONG ALL THEIR BUDDIES, SOCIAL, WELFARE RECIPIENTS, DRUG, INSURANCE COMPANIES AND ANYONE ELSE ''STEALING' FROM THE TAXPAYERS! SERIOUSLY, THIS IS MUCH TOO GOOD FOR THEM!
The following was sent to me and maybe your readers might want to see!
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THIS IS A NONPARTISAN JOKE THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY BOTH PARTIES!
NOT ONLY THAT-- it is POLITICALLY CORRECT!!
While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by
a truck and dies.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
'Welcome to heaven,' says St. Peter. 'Before you settle in, it seems
there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts,
you se e, so we're not sure what to do with you.'
'No problem, just let me in,' says the man.
'Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do
is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you
can choose where to spend eternity.'
'Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,' says the senator.
'I'm sorry, but we have our rules.'
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes
down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself
in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse
and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians
who had worked with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him,
shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while
getting rich at the expense of the people.
They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar
and champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who
has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a
good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go.
Everyone gives him a hearty
farewell and waves while the elevator rises...
The elevat or goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St.
Peter is waiting for him.
'Now it's time to visit heaven.'
So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls
moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a
good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St.
Peter returns.
'Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now
choose your eternity.'
The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: 'Well, I would
never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but
I think I would be better off in hell.'
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down,
down to hell.
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a
barren land covered with waste and garbage.
He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and
putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder.
'I don't understand,' stammers the senator. 'Yesterday I was here
and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and
caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now
there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable.
What happened?'
The devil looks at him, smiles and says, 'Yesterday we were campaigning.. .
Today, you voted.'
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Posted by: Shirley deLong
Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:18 AM
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Surely it's no surprise that so many politicians are prideful, since they KNOW they're right - and they point to the Bible as proof.
But anyone - even President Obama (or Chuck Norris, for that matter)- can quote scripture to emphasize (and supposedly legitimatize) their point.
But government (unlike opinion columnists) needs to save their Bible quoting for Sunday church service. where it's appropriate. And that goes for ALL religious texts, not just the Bible.
After all, while we promote the notion of religious freedom in our country, I'm sure plenty of Americans would take exception if Obama quoted the Qur'an to underscore his message.
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Posted by: Eric Alder
Thu Apr 1, 2010 8:00 AM
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