Friday, September 6, 2013

BloggeRhythms 9/6/2013

It seems entirely logical that if one talks incessantly, mistakes will occur. Laws of probability alone, suggest that they must. And that factor alone now bears heavily on the incumbent. Because, no matter how hard he tries to squirm out of the edict he delivered in August of 2012, he’s stuck with his promise of retaliation against chemical weapon usage in Syria.
 
However, although the issue is now drawing world-wide attention, much of that is due to continual mention by administration representatives and the incumbent himself, at times seeming like nothing else of import is taking place anywhere else at all. Which may be the real point of it all.
 
Foxnews.com/politics posted an article this morning by Rebecca Berg of the Washington Examiner noting that “Conservative Republicans and outside advocacy groups spent the summer pushing Congress to defund President Obama's health care law and hoped to carry that momentum into September, when Congress could vote on it. But they now face an unexpected obstacle: The all-consuming debate over military intervention in Syria.”
 
So, while the Syrian conflict may very merit the attention it draws, it certainly can’t hurt that it takes the public’s eye off the ball where the incumbent’s unpopular new health care tax is concerned. And in that regard, while the incumbent seems to know very little about foreign policy, wars or health care either, political diversions and posturing are his long suits by far. 
 
Which brings me to Peggy Noonan’s column this morning in the Wall Street Journal, titled: “Why America Is Saying 'No” Syria and Obama: Wrong time, wrong place, wrong plan, wrong man.” 
 
Ms. Noonan writes: “I have been thinking of the iconic image of American military leadership, Emanuel Leutze’s painting,  “Washington Crossing the Delaware."
 
There Washington stands, sturdy and resolute, looking toward the enemy on the opposite shore. If you imagine Mr. Obama in that moment he is turned, gesturing toward those in the back. "It's not my fault we're in this boat!" That's what "I didn't set a red line" and "My credibility is not at stake" sounded like. And looked like.”
 
As usual, Ms. Noonan selected a perfect analogy.
 
Which brings me to another of the incumbent’s misconceptions, also via Fox who reports that he said, "I was elected to end wars, not start them.” But he stressed that any U.S. involvement in Syria would be "limited." The president said that if the Rwandan genocide were happening now, "it probably wouldn't poll real well" either.”
 
However, as I recall, the key campaign issues were more toward socialistic causes, redistribution and targeting the “rich.”  But, then again, so much was promised, so often, it’s hard to remember all that was said.
 
Regardless of what was promised for the economy, however, according to cnsnews.com/news’ Terence P. Jeffrey, “The number of Americans who are 16 years or older and who have decided not to participate in the nation's labor force has pushed past 90,000,000 for the first time, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
 
In July, according to BLS, 89,957,000 Americans did not participate in the labor force. In August, that climbed to 90,473,000--a one month increase of 516,000. In January 2009, when President Barack Obama took office, there were 80,507,000 Americans not in the labor force. Thus, the number of Americans not in the labor force has increased by 9,966,000 during Obama's presidency.”
 
So, considering the economic shambles the incumbent’s created here at home, if I were him, I’d want to focus on Syria too. But at least he’s entirely consistent, because everything he’s involved with seems to wind up bombing.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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