"Urgent Political Hygiene"

Mark Steyn:

 The Incredible Shrinking President

... when the president and other prominent officials stand by as four Americans die and then abuse their sacrifice as contemptuously as this administration did, decency requires that they be voted out of office as an act of urgent political hygiene."

 

 

At the photo-op staged for the returning caskets, Obama et al. seem to have been too focused on their campaign needs to observe even the minimal courtesies. Charles Woods says that at the ceremony Joe Biden strolled over to him and by way of condolence said in a “loud and boisterous” voice, “Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?”

One assumes charitably that the vice president is acknowledging in his own inept and blundering way the remarkable courage of a man called upon to die for his country on some worthless sod halfway across the planet. But the near-parodic locker-room coarseness is grotesque both in its inaptness and in its lack of basic human feeling for a bereaved family forced to grieve in public and as crowd-scene extras to the political bigshot.

 

.... But a funny thing happened over the next six weeks: Obama’s own cue balls shriveled. Biden had offered up a deft campaign slogan encompassing both domestic and foreign policy: “Osama’s dead and General Motors is alive.” But, as the al-Qaeda connections to Benghazi dribbled out leak by leak, the “Osama’s dead” became a problematic boast and, left to stand alone, the General Motors line was even less credible. Avoiding the economy and foreign affairs, Obama fell back on Big Bird, and binders, and bayonets, just to name the “B”s in his bonnet.

At the second presidential debate, he name-checked Planned Parenthood, the General Motors of the American abortion industry, half a dozen times, desperate to preserve his so-called gender gap. Yet oddly enough, the more furiously Obama and Biden have waved their binders and talked up Sandra Fluke, the more his supposed lead among women has withered away. So now he needs to enthuse the young, who turned out in such numbers for him last time. Hence, the official campaign video (plagiarized from Vladimir Putin of all people) explaining that voting for Obama is like having sex. The saddest thing about that claim is that, for liberals, it may well be true.

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If voting for Obama is like the first time you have sex, it’s very difficult to lose your virginity twice. A flailing, pitiful campaign has now adopted Queen Victoria’s supposed wedding advice to her daughter: “Lie back and think of England.”

Lie back and think of America. And then get up and get dressed. Who wants to sleep with a $16 trillion broke loser twice?

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Another brilliant piece from Mark Steyn. If there's a better polemicist in America, I don't know who it is. Obama's campaign is crumbling, and surely Benghazi must be a big part of the reason why. Sure, Romney's momentum has something to do with it, and Obama's juvenile antics on the stump are no doubt starting to rile voters, but the major factor, I suspect, is that a critical mass of voters has suddenly realized that our president is a man of low character. Apparently, it took an event as tragic as Benghazi to make that plain to a lot of people, but -- despite the best efforts of the MSM to suppress it -- the story has gotten out. When the Des Moines Register endorses a Republican for president, you know something historic is going on. That something historic is Benghazi -- and its revelation that a moral midget now occupies the Oval Office.

[bunuel]

Excellent, Mannie. Thanks