Dean Barnett the happy warrior, we do miss him so.

The few times President Obama has been without teleprompter he has been chaotic in thought and speech, contradicting himself and his past statements, and unsteady. Even the Bloviator O’Reilly was able to throw him off and O’Reilly was doing his ‘nice act’ to boot. If you can’t hold your ideas to someone soliciting them, who is just playing ‘devil’s advocate’ then you are not going to do well in much of anything. His ‘great speech’ du jour tend to be pap and no matter how well he intones the words, the ideas are a pure mess. Now that he tries to order them we get more debt and overspending in a month or two than in the entire period of history of our fair Nation. In a mere three weeks he spent more than all of Iraq, Afghanistan and Katrina aid, and yet supporters still try to point out the ‘cost’ of Iraq which was 1% or less of GDP per year and that same amount in total for the total GDP over that time. Long ago the spending passed 5% and it continues to spiral upwards and GDP race downwards until they pass each other. Where are those ever worried at the cost of war when this happens? Still complaining about the war, unable to ‘move on’ and Stuck On Stupid.

Yet the telemprompter candidate speaks, but fewer are swooning as they see the money move from their future into the government’s hands and budget. There is no comparison with the past, and when the solution makes things worse it is the responsibility of the one who pushes it forward and cannot be blamed on others. The past is now history and we must live with it, yet his supporters cling to it in hopes those days just might return as it sinks deeper and deeper from sunlight, air and life. Too bad they are grasping the leg of the Nation to pull it down with them… I am sure the words are intoned ever so sweetly as they embrace the cold and deadly deep.