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The Panhandler-In-Chief
By Lee Duigon
June 28, 2012
NewsWithViews.com
How low has America sunk? Consider this, from the Obama Event Registry, June 22:
“Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?
“Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It’s a great way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it’s a gift that we can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.
“Setting up and sharing your registry page is easy—so get started today.”
If you think Fred Flintstone or Basil Fawlty ever landed in the soup for messing up an anniversary, wait’ll you see what happens when you try this. “I didn’t get you an anniversary present, honey. Instead, I sent the money to Obama.”
Yes, the schnorrer-in-chief wants your anniversary presents, wedding presents, birthday presents, and whatever else you’ve got. Completely lacking in any sense of shame, he feels entitled to ask for it. Don’t be surprised when he comes after your six-year-old’s piggy bank. And I’m sure he’d appreciate it if you cashed in your retirement account and sent the money to him—at the White House, Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii, or wherever else he’s playing golf and eating kobe beef at your expense.
This is something you might expect from a petty tyrant in an Arabian Nights story—the kind who forces his subjects to “give” him his weight in gold every time he has a birthday or a happy thought—not a president of the United States. It is impossible to imagine any other president we’ve ever had sticking his hand out for people’s birthday presents, like the worst Hollywood cliché of a good-for-nothing moocher of a brother-in-law. This would be an embarrassment even to Bill Clinton.
Our forefathers in heaven are laughing at us—when they aren’t crying. And what can we say in our defense? We elected the Great Panhandler. Worse than that, we deserve him.
Does a righteous nation get a Barack Obama for a president? But we have become a nation of greedy, covetous, immoral morons, and it will take a long time to dig our way out of the hole we’ve dug ourselves.
A nation of clowns will have a clown for president. A nation of thieves will have a thief. Take a good, long look, America, at the president we have. It’s as good as looking at a mirror.
