As President, Barack Obama Is A Fleaweight

In boxing you have a lot of weight classes, from your heavyweights down to your strawweights (105 lbs).

But in comparing Obama as President to boxers, I don’t want to offend any strawweights. Hence, Obama the fleaweight.  As a candidate, Obama seemed to be the 800 lb gorilla; as President, he’s been far more the 32 milligram flea.

I still think that the polite contempt that Marines showed for Barack Obama ought to be the top story of every media outlet in the country.  They most certainly know that their commander-in-chief is a fleaweight.

And then, of course, there is the whole “teleprompter” thing.  If Barack Obama is NOT actually an idiot who can’t put a sentence together without having a teleprompter tell him what to say, you sure couldn’t prove it.  It reminds of that line, “If I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.”  Never thought that would describe the President of the United States of America, though.

When a Maxine Waters goes after a Democrat President only two months into his term, something is really messed up in the kitchen.  Responding to the fact that Democrat Chris Dodd first lied about having inserted language into the stimulus bill that exempted AIG bonuses, then acknowledged that he actually did insert the language, but had done so at the request of the Obama administration via Treasury, Rep. Waters said:

“They’ve got some explaining to do,” Waters told Joe Scarborough on his WABC radio show Friday morning. “And I think the president is going to have to clarify to the American public what took place between Treasury and Mr. Dodd.

“Obviously, there appears to be some sort of an agreement that they would protect AIG from having to give those bonuses. I don’t know who said what and when,” she added. “Chris Dodd said he wrote the language but that he was pressured practically by Treasury. Maybe the president is not up to speed on what is going on, but I think it is going to have to be clarified.”

I thought Republican Senator Jon Kyl summed it up even better:

SEN. JON KYL, R-ARIZ.: You have the president saying that he takes full responsibility and then saying it wasn’t his fault. You have the chairman of the Banking Committee saying well, he didn’t put this language in the bill, and then saying, well, he did, but it was because somebody made him do it.

Obama is beginning to reveal that as a president, he is a fleaweight.  He doesn’t seem to know what’s going on.  He can’t  fill his vitally important senior-level Treasury positions.  He turned first the $787 stimulus, and then the 9,000 earmark-laden $410 billion omnibus bill entirely over to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to write.  She’s the real power in Washington.  And Barack Obama is either as big of a hypocrite as I figured him to be, or he doesn’t have the cajones to challenge Pelosi’s agenda.

The AIG bonus fiasco has revealed how incredibly incompetent and out of touch the Obama administration has been.  For all the administration’s and the Democrat’s attempts to deflect attention to “those immoral executives at AIG,” the fact remains that it was the government’s duty to understand the structure of AIG and known what its fiduciary commitments were.  And Obama criticizing the very bonuses that his own administration pressured Sen. Dodd to protect is about as asanine as one can get.  After he let the horses out of the barn, he is demanding that someone build a corral.

I watched a movie called Hot Shots last night that made me think of Barack Obama.  The power figure was a bumbling incompetent admiral who repeatedly hit his head on something:

In the funniest scene of the movie, the admiral (played by Lloyd Bridges) loses his admiral’s cap over the flight deck of an aircraft carrier while the aircraft are taking off during a mission:

Admiral Benson: Holy cow, my cap blew off!  Swing around, we’ll pick it up.

XO: But sir, we’re on the mission!

Admiral Benson: Good thinking, yeah.  We’ll pick it up on the way back.  We’ve got to mark the spot, though.  Put Rabinowitz in a life raft, and have him row in circles until we return.

XO: It could be days.

Admiral Benson: Then put some food in the life raft.  For God’s sake, man. Do I have to think of everything? We’ll tape his favorite shows; he won’t miss anything.

XO: Sir, there’s no time.

Admiral Benson: Okay! okay!  How can I be an admiral without my cap?  It’s out there somewhere all alone, and I’m here, powerless to do anything about it!

In the real-life version, with the AIG fiasco swirling, Obama sent Turbo Tax Tim Geithner out in the life raft to row in circles (which of course serves as an apt metaphor for Geithner’s twisting in the wind) until Obama got back from his mission to California to be on the “Tonight Show” so he could tell host Jay Leno that he basically bowls like some Special Olympics loser – which was obviously an incredibly retarded thing for Obama to say.

Lloyd Bridges’ Admiral Benson depended on his admiral’s cap for his appearance of authority; I wrote during the campaign on how Obama did much the same with one pseudo-symbol after antother.  Obama is no leader; prior to becoming president, Obama had never lead anything.  He has to rely on campaign symbology because he has absolutely no actual substance to offer.

During the campaign, Obama repeatedly attacked John McCain for his claim that “the economy is fundamentally sound.”  After months as president-elect and then as president demonizing the economy as teetering on the brink of the Great Depression, Obama finally got it through his wooden head that McCain had been right to sound positive notes on the economy.  And so, after months of fearmongering down the economy, when every economic measure is now actually FAR WEAKER than it was when McCain said it, the Obama administration is now coming out and saying, “the economy is fundamentally sound.”

What a fleaweight you are, Obama.

I considered using the term “gnatweight” instead.  But given the fact that fleas “are wingless insects whose mouthparts are adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood,” I couldn’t help but notice the similarity to what Obama is doing to the economy with all of his ridiculous and wasteful government spending that will ultimately bleed this country dry.