Obama Throws Tantrum, Sows Seeds of Discontent

It is a sign of the advanced state of moral and social decay that in America today that celebrities are afforded the status that they are. Take for instance our clowns. Silly comedians the likes of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher provide a mixture of jokes, shtick, political mockery and real news mixed with interviews. That these are taken with any degree of seriousness is a clear example of not only how poorly that the mainstream media has served its purpose but also of the depravity of the American soul. Now there is El Presidente Obama showing up on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno this week.

Obama took to the air to schmooze with Leno and to dispense his political lies and disinformation on a number of topics. One of course being of Russia’s refusal to turn over NSA contractor Booz Allen leaker Edward Snowden for torture and a show trial. Obama and dirty Eric Holder, still pissy over Friday’s embarrassing smackdown by the bear accused Russia of having a "Cold War mentality” for not immediately rolling over and conceding to his majesty’s requests. In the new American century it is intolerable for any country to not acquiesce to the wishes of the U.S. empire, for the smaller ones there are threats of withholding of economic support, non- inclusion in global trade agreements, support of that regime's political opponents and when all else fails, send in the drones. With Russia, still an extremely powerful nation with a military and nukes of it's own it is a special type of retaliation that is merited. The U.S. President debases the office he holds, shows up on a celebrity clown show, mocks Putin and the next day in a proclamation that is promulgated by state media Obama throws a tantrum and cancels his September Summit with the Russian leader. Now there's some stellar leadership. 

Someone get that man a pacifier. 

Obama's snit only further cements the image of the U.S. of A as the global spoiled brat that it has become. The pope of hope can stamp his feet all that he wants and here in Der Homeland it will be eaten up by the lemmings as well as his legions of adoring, low-information zombies but once again the country is exposed on the world stage as exactly what it has become which is a petulant, immature, self-absorbed, hypocritical bully. We are no longer held in high esteem by those outside of our borders where the electronic narcosis of television used to keep the population distracted, placid and stupid. There was a time when our democratic form of government, civilized and moral society and advanced sciences were the envy of the world but that era recedes into the past quicker than revisionist history is able to keep its image alive through lies, trickery and propaganda. Thanks to a succession of amoral cheats and cheap hustlers, of which Obama is only the latest we have become the new evil empire. 

While on Leno, Obama also used the opportunity to blatantly lie about his NSA surveillance machine. 

"We don't have a domestic spying program...What we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an email address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat."

While I seriously doubt that the man has more than an inkling of the true nature of this growing menace that will soon consume all privacy except as Orwell put it his prophetic 1984 "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull" he is a useful idiot. Most of it is above Obama's paygrade, he will be gone long before the final phase of the eradication of the Constitution will occur. He is a malleable fool, a dunce and an amiable front man for the empire. He serves his purpose for the time and by showing up on Leno's show he is selling the sizzle while obscuring that the steak is made of horsemeat. 

As for the terrifying Al Qaeda, risen like a phoenix from the ashes to which Obama himself not so long ago relegated it the propaganda just gets more ridiculous by the day. I heard some yutz on the Chris Matthews show the other night spreading the absurd tale that devious Al-Qaeda was planning to attack targets carrying surgically implanted bombs that are able to evade detection. Hey, I saw the Dark Knight too where the Joker was able to pull this off and blow up the Gotham City Police Department but come on now, when does this stuff just become so over the top that it is rejected outright as the horseshit that it is? Now with the wonderful idea that this is actually a threat it will allow an already run amok TSA to unleash the government goon squad on those who appear to have medical issues, humiliating them in public and seizing them for strip searches. A massive big government agency already comprised of thugs, miscreants, wanna-be-cops, perverts and control freaks is about to get even more aggressive. Nice country isn't it. 

And all of this recent hullabaloo is because one man was able to break free from the systems of control and reveal top secret rogue government information about widespread unconstitutional spying. The subsequent self immolation of the Obama administration's competence and the tearing down of their star spangled facade of lies that covered their tyranny was just too much to take.  

So the vainglorious ass that is the sitting U.S. Emperor is now taking his case directly to the sheeple, first there was Leno, what's next Obama? Jersey Shore?

Pissed Off Obama Regime in Cold War Mode

Riding high after their show trial of poor Bradley Manning who now will be thrown into a hole for the rest of his life for exposing war crimes and state treachery the celebratory mood at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue didn’t last long. The champagne had not even gone flat before the buzz wore off and Obama’s rogue administration went into a maniacal rage.  On Thursday, the hated Edward Snowden was granted asylum by Russia and left the transit area of Moscow’s airport where he had been trapped since fleeing Hong Kong in June. Make no mistake, this news was a running drop kick in the nuts to Obama who has now proved that he is nothing but another lawless, human rights abusing wolf in sheep's clothing. He may be more articulate than his predecessor and probably will never match Bush’s body count, even with over three years left in office but he is every bit the type of global criminal that the office of the presidency has as the top job requirement. This entire episode over Snowden has been an embarrassment to a U.S. establishment that in anointing Obama sought to put a friendly face on Bush and Cheney’s oppressive and ugly policies, just think of it as Fozzie Bear fascism. It went over well in the beginning but now has become exposed as just another great advertising job, in America you can sell a turd if you polish it to a high sheen but ultimately it is only a turd.

The 1 year asylum provided by Russia was immediately denounced by Obama’s occupiers of the U.S. government and their loyalist apparatchik. “We see this as an unfortunate development and we are extremely disappointed by it” hissed top flack Jay Carney. The administration is now weeping and gnashing it's teeth and threatening that Obama will likely boycott the upcoming G20 summit in Russia next month and maybe even the 2014 Winter Olympics. It is the equivalent of a petulant and spoiled child threatening to kill himself by holding his breath until he turns purple in the face. What a bunch of clowns we have running this circus but as the adage goes “we get the government we deserve” and when you have an apathetic public infatuated with television garbage and content to wallow in willful ignorance while the state goes gangster that is the truth sans a sugar coating.

Longtime fixer Eric Holder must be apoplectic this morning, his letter to Putin promising not to have Snowden tortured has made him into a laughingstock, much like his boss. A good amount of glee over the entire grotesque episode is experienced by Americans themselves, at least the portion of us who have become disgusted at how this once great country has been destroyed from within. Nothing is quite as delightful as having our government’s hypocrisy and grandiose incompetence exposed on a global stage since we are inundated by silly tabloid media coverage that refuses to address real problems. With the Snowden asylum our once beloved and now gone to seed Uncle Sam has been served up a big shit sandwich with a vodka chaser by of all countries Russia. The only thing that was more humorous in the past month was seeing Obama get a stern lecture on the evils of his Stasi surveillance machine by the Germans. You just cannot make stuff like this up.

As former Reagan administration Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts pegs it spot on in his latest piece America Discredited –

As Washington loses its grip on the world, defied by Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and now Russia, the US government resorts to public temper tantrums. The constant demonstration of childishness on the part of the White House and Congress embarrasses every American.
 Washington’s latest outburst of childish behavior is a response to the Russian Immigration Service granting US whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum in Russia for one year while his request for permanent asylum is considered. Washington, having turned the US into a lawless state, no longer has any conception of legal procedure. Law is whatever serves Washington. As Washington sees it, law is nothing but Washington’s will. Any person or country that interferes with Washington’s will is behaving unlawfully.
 Because Obama, like Bush before him, routinely disobeys US law and the US Constitution, the White House actually thinks that Russian President Putin should disobey Russian and international law, overturn the Russian Immigration Service’s asylum decision, and hand over Snowden to Washington.
 Washington expected Russia to hand over Snowden simply because Washington demanded it. Like a two-year old, Washington cannot conceive that its demands don’t take precedence over international law and the internal legal procedures of every country. How dare Russia stand up for law against “the indispensable nation.”

This is dead on, about the only thing to be proud about as an American these days is if you happen to be ashamed to be an American because of the stupid, futile and deadly conduct of the last two presidential regimes, this one in particular. It is getting to be pretty fucking mortifying to live in this flag swaddled fascist  lemming colony and will be until a gigantic enema bag is inserted into Washington and the bulb given a good squeeze. Unfortunately, given the advanced state of deterioration that has taken hold will not allow any such cleansing until the system itself collapses. The good news is that at the rate that we are going it could be soon, the downtrend cannot be reversed. 

So with the acceptance of Snowden who is fleeing torture and a rigged justice system here in Der Homeland the sequel to the Cold War is nigh. This will no doubt delight the still deeply embedded neocons who have always hated ‘the bear’ and the propaganda chop shops in their network of think tanks and media fronts are busily dusting off old anti-Soviet propaganda and modernizing it for the imminent rollout. John Bolton must have a hard-on this morning and all of the remaining ghouls from Team B and Iran-Contra will be booking appearances over at Fox News to bray their lies to the base. Conversely, the Obama toadies will wrap up their anti-Russian bellicosity in the language of human rights interventionism and will soon be appearing on defense contractor G.E.’s propaganda organ MSNBC. Rachel Maddow will inevitably be wailing about Putin’s repression of gay rights and Chris Matthews can finally take a break from Anthony Weiner roasting to slobber and demagogue the “evil empire” for hypocrisy. What is problematic in 2013 for Obama and the establishment’s meat puppets and talking heads is that the United States has lost the moral high ground. That shining city on the hill that Reagan once extolled has become a corrupt sewer of inequality, state propaganda, paramilitary police, rigged courts, torture facilities and rule by a small elite. We also have a shameful incarceration rate that if not the highest in the civilized world is  in the top three and a for profit prison system that rivals Stalin’s gulags. The roles have been reversed and while it may not be common knowledge to those sitting on their sofas sucking their thumbs in front of the electronic crackpipe it is common knowledge to the rest of the world. We have become the new “evil empire” courtesy of Bush and Obama with an assist to Clinton.

The delusion though, not apparent to our foot stomping emperor who while not totally naked yet (the glue on the figleaf is wearing thin of late) is that Russia is a serious nation with a serious military and lots and lots of nukes. It's not like invading Iraq or Afghanistan which despite all of the money and superior U.S. forces still managed to drag out the conflict for a decade running. This is lost on the idiot in chief and the rest of the war freaks who still seem to be enthralled by arch-neocon and proud fascist Michael Ledeen's doctrine of "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business". Now pissed off, scorned and shown to be the twit that he is to the rest of the world Obama just may be susceptible to being pushed into a new Cold War, one that this time will be lost and lost badly. El Presidente has often compared himself to Reagan, much to the dismay of his stabbed in the back base but when it comes to the Russians all that can be said is that "you are no Ronald Reagan sir."