Wednesday, September 10, 2014

BloggeRhythms

The world waits for the incumbent’s speech tonight, about his plans for dealing with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. However, by now most of the world’s aware that whatever he utters, it usually doesn’t mean a thing. Because he rarely, if ever, follows up or delivers. The media, though, will have plenty to write about for the next few days.
 
Fox’s Chris Stirewalt opined that, “So, that round of golf probably wasn’t worth it, right? President Obama is scrambling in a prime-time address tonight to show that his level of alarm about marauding Islamists in the Middle East matches that of his fellow Americans. How alarmed are Americans? The new WSJ/NBC News poll tells us the story: Only 26 percent of respondents felt the country is safer than before 9/11, awareness of the beheaded Americans is higher than any news story in five years and the president’s job approval rating remained at 40 percent, the lowest of any president ahead of midterms in the past 20 years.”
 
That pretty much sums it up.
 
Mr. Stirewalt went on, “Obama adopted a tougher tone last week, but Obama’s golf outing on August 20 immediately after declaring himself “heartbroken” over the beheading of American James Foley can now go down in the books as one of the worst political botches of recent memory. And describing the beheading savages as a potentially “manageable” problem and infamously saying, “We don’t have a strategy yet” sure didn’t help.”
 
Adding proof to the point, the Daily Caller reports that, “Two months before midterm elections, Obamacare has the disapproval of a majority of registered voters — just above its all-time low level of support, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s latest tracking poll.” And a new analysis by the conservative group, American Action Forum, makes it even worse, saying, “take-home pay at small businesses was caught to the tune of some $22.6 billion due to ObamaCare, translating to a loss of nearly $935 for workers at companies with 50 to 99 employees.”
 
On another matter, last week when the incumbent went home overnight from his recent trip to NY, returning the following day, it was joked here that he probably couldn’t get a tee time, so he went back to DC to sleep.
 
Then today, Jonathan Dienst  of 4 New York.com writes that, “President Obama was turned down at several top golf courses in Westchester while he was visiting the area over Labor Day weekend, sources tell NBC 4 New York.
 
The Trump National Golf Club, the Winged Foot and Willow Ridge were among some of the elite courses that rebuffed the president's request to tee off there, according to several sources who were told about the president's advance team's calls to the club managers.
 
Club managers apparently did not want to inconvenience their high-powered and high-paying members over Labor Day weekend by shutting down their courses to accommodate the president.”
Then lastly, there’s another bankruptcy for self-proclaimed business mogul, Donald Trump
 
Wayne Perry, of Wayne Parry, of AP in Atlantic City, NJ writes that, “Trump Entertainment Resorts filed for bankruptcy Tuesday and threatened to shut down the Taj Mahal Casino Resort, which would make it the fifth Atlantic City casino to close this year.
 
The company owns Trump Plaza, which is closing in a week, and the Taj Mahal, which has been experiencing cash-flow problems and had been trying to stave off a default with its lenders. The company said the Taj Mahal could close Nov. 13 if it doesn't win salary concessions from union workers.
 
It's the fourth such filing for the struggling casino company or its corporate predecessors.” So, here we have a person who might be the world’s most consistent businessman. Because, in writing about him here and there for the past four years, regarding his enterprises, bankruptcy’s most often the subject.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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