Archive for April 29th, 2009
Wednesday Open Thread
What’s on your mind today?
We actually have many friends living in New York City, at least two of whom were looking up at the sky as one of the President’s Boeing 747′s appeared to come out of nowhere on what appeared to be a collision course with the Statue of Liberty. One of our friends freely admits to, in her own words, “soiling herself” in the very literal sense, believing 9/11 was happening again because, in her own words again, “Obama has been taking the side of terrorists and not doing anything to stop an attack”.
People running through the streets crying, soiling themselves, believing we’re under attack again.
Welcome to the Golden Age of Hope and Change, already in progress…for EXACTLY 100 Days today.
So, have you gotten your unicorn yet? Is it fair to finally ask the Hopemeister to deliver on all of his many, many promises? Because he is biracial, should he instead be judged not by his first hundred days, but on some sort of curve of the media’s own design?
What think you?
Personally, we still can’t get over the audacity of actually having a 747 fly erratically into New York, in plan site, in what appeared to be another hijacked attack. There are people who witnessed 9/11 who will never be the same again. When the small plan carrying a baseball player slammed into a high rise a few years back, people went running through the streets screaming and crying again. When a sewer line burst and volcanic-level steam burst from the ground down Second Avene (we believe) three years or so ago, people thought that was terrorists. When a building at 51st and second imploded because of shoddy construction, once again, people thought terrorists were to blame.
Knowing all of this, the President of the United States thought it was a great idea to take some great publicity shots for his own personal use, so he had one of his planes scare the absolute, literal, fill-in-the-blank, out of New Yorks.
Unbelievable.
Or more aptly, it’s what our teachers used to call foreshadowing. For, going all the way back to Cassandra at Troy, colossal disasters are presaged by the smaller-scale hubris of the vain and narcisisstic: being so painfully myopic about a photo open identifies fatal flaws in an administration we do not believe will take seriously enough the chatter and background noise that could prevent another attack on this nation. We hope for Heaven’s sake we are wrong, but we truly do believe this President is having so much fun with his celebrity and all the many perks of his “historic presidency” that he and his staff are now completely removed from reality.
Not realizing buzzing New York with a massive jet plane would cause many New Yorkers to head home for a change of undies is a sure indication of a deep, lasting, permanent, terrifying flaw in the abilities and competence of this administration. Evidence keeps coming out that the White House was directly warned by New York officials that its plan would cause mass chaos and emotional distress, but the current President chose to do this needless and expensive photo op anyway.
Welcome to Hope and Change, people.
We hate to say this again, but it’s only going to get worse from here, too.
