Right in my wheelhouse:
Faithful Reader Longmont Tony reported to me on Wednesday that for the first time in 56 years an incoming president snubbed our nation's greatest heroes... the Recipients of the Medal of Honor.
Via This Ain't Hell:
the newly sworn-in President... blew off the “Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball”, the first and only time that has happened in 14 Inaugurations.
So where was our new President instead of honoring Medal of Honor Recipients who by some miracle are still alive?
He was here:
- In addition to the Neighborhood Ball, the other nine also featured many stars such as Kid Rock and Kaney West at the Youth Ball, Cheryl Crow at the Midwest one, and Marc Anthony at the Western Ball.
Kid Rock you'll remember likes to deface our flag by cutting a hole in it and wearing it as a poncho.
You recall slug rap-thug West maligned President George Bush after Katrina, saying on national television: "George Bush doesn't care about black people!"
And Cheryl Crow, the minimally-talented, leftist pain-in-the-ass, apparently 86'd boyfriend Lance Armstrong on the following grounds:
"Cheryl said Lance didn't just support Bush, he'd go off and fight if the president asked him to," the friend said.
Imagine that... people who would go off and fight, perhaps die, for their beliefs... say, someone like these men:
The word I received about Recipient background chatter was that most of them were angered by the obvious disrespect shown The Medal... the national symbol of our military's service and sacrifice.
Biden made but a brief appearance at the ball, but did not meet with or acknowledge the score of Recipients who had braved sub-freezing weather to attend Obama's swearing-in.
The Vice-President, by the way, received five student draft deferments during his Vietnam War college years, and was eventually rejected for asthma, despite his superior record as high school athlete.
And of course, Obama's military experience is limited to wearing t-shirts printed with "USMC".
The “Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball”, which started in 1953 with President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s first inauguration, is sponsored by the American Legion to specifically recognize Recipients and other service members.
Event co-sponsors include 13 other veterans service organizations, among them the Military Order of the Purple Heart and the Paralyzed Veterans of America.
Oh, and for the benefit of the Obama White House... those last groups are comprised of the paralyzed, blind, burned, disfigured and amputated men and women who ensured with their bodies and their very lives that there was a White House to occupy.
And speaking of another first...
"In a flurry of telephone calls from the Oval Office, he reached out to leaders in the region and vowed to engage immediately in pursuit of a permanent Arab-Israeli settlement.
"Obama's first call as president went to Palestinian National Authority and Chairman of the P.L.O. Mahmoud Abbas."
"Lessee... first order of business... call enemies."
And another first... Obama didn't waste any time bringing casual Friday to D.C. by appearing in the Oval Office without a suit coat.
Go through eight years of his White House photos, and you won't find a single one of former President Bush in the Oval Office without his jacket on.
And before him that was President Reagan's rule (and for everyone who entered the Oval Office).
It's called respect for the office... any money on when he appears in the O.O. dressed in his gym clothes? Of course it could be worse... another great democrat president appeared in the Oral Oval Office with his trousers at half-staff.
I could be wrong, but I do not recall a shirt-sleeve photo of President Kennedy... of course that was when democrats were still Americans.
And from the ridiculous to the ridiculouser:
Democrat hobbit and Obama economic adviser Robert Reich (shown left, obviously) on how to spend the federal stimulus money:
"I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers....I have nothing against white male construction workers.
Yeah, some of my best friends are honkies.
"I’m just saying that there are a lot of other people who have needs as well. … Criteria can be set so that the money does go to others, the long term unemployed minorities, women, people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals."
Yeah, next time I cross a bridge I damned sure want an affirmative action slug "working" on the damned thing.
And there's this... metrosexual-democrat-dwarf-Clintonista and faux TV journalist George Stephanopoulos cried like a little bitch on inauguration day:
Ali Wentworth (wife of ABC News' Stephanopoulos) on "Oprah":
We watched everything and George was still doing all the anchoring for ABC and as soon Beyonce said "At Last..." George called me at home and he went, "Honey?" and I said "I know!" and we both started crying."
You may recall that PBS’s Gwen Ifill, the totally un-biased moderator of the only 2008 vice-presidential debate, just coincidentally wrote a book titled “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” which just coincidentally was published on Inauguration Day.
Who knew?
At the launch party for the Obama book, Obama cookies were served to fellow left journos David Broders and Jim Lehrers beneath “Be The Change” Obama propaganda posters. No word on what drinks were served, aside from the
standard-issue Kool-Aid.
And what bash of left-wing media types is complete without...
CNN's orange-haired septuagenarian chatterbox Larry King has been bowled over by the new Age of Obama, enthusing that his youngest offspring (from his seventh marriage) wants to be black. I guess it's a case of black being, er, the new black.
Interviewing a visibly uncomfortable Bob Woodward on his eponymous CNN show, Larry, 75, gushed: "My younger son Cannon, he is eight. And he now says that he would like to be black. I'm not kidding. He said there's a lot of advantages. Black is in.
Is this a turning of the tide?
The Watergate scribbler responded "well, maybe" and talked about how his 12-year-old daughter Diana liked Barack Obama's inaugural speech before gingerly steering the discussion towards George W. Bush's magnanimity and how he "hasn't, you know, made any cheap shots" at his White House successor.
It could have been worse, Bob.
The other day, Larry blurted out that things were changing so fast that there could soon be a lesbian in the Oval Office. "Who would've thunk it," he said on KIIS radio in Los Angeles. "I can't believe it. Well, in 10 years' time we'll have, a what, a lesbian?" Audio here.
Lesbian in the Oval office...? well, who better than the uber butch MSNBC opinionist Rachel Maddow who, like terrorist and
Obama butt-buddy Bill Ayers, Kid Rock and virtually every black American Olympic athlete, also likes to desecrate our flag.
And if not her, what about Obama's new Homeland Security director, the oh-so imminently qualified Janet Napolitano -- former AZ governor.
The formidable Mz. Napolitano is shown below, left and at right: 

Janet Reno's Dance Party anyone?

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