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Obama’s Balloon Boys

Late last week, a lunatic Colorado family launched a home-made helium balloon from their back yard and ignited a hoax watched by the entire world.  Claiming they believed their son was carried aloft by the craft, the entire state and nation were mesmerized by the drifting balloon believing the child was on board.  In the end, the story generated a great deal of emotion, skepticism and finally, accusations of fraud. 

Claiming this was all done for a ‘show’ the young man who had hidden himself inside the family garage as much as admitted the hoax on CNN afterwards.   At least this is more than Team Obama members admit to when caught in a hoax of their own.  This family may get their show as a result, but it will be one from which they will never earn a dime.  All proceeds will almost assuredly be paid in restitution for the services of those involved in the rescue attempt and for the diversion costs of flights in and around Denver International Airport where the thing finally came back to earth.   All in all, this family will have only perpetrated a fraud and embarrassment upon themselves and cost taxpayers a great deal of money.

This of course brings us to discussion of Obama policies.  Fraud perpetration and choices that are sure to bring future embarrassment are also being made at the White House, where the President’s staff seems focused on its own ‘show.’  

Fox News – Picking a fight with Fox News is pointless and guaranteed to leave the White House with its nose bloodied.   Team Obama has sent up this trial balloon of hyped up indignation claiming that Fox News is untruthful in its reporting.  The ultimate objective in this fight is to establish Obama as the ‘victim’ of unfair treatment.  And one of the surest ways to tell when Democrats are desperate is when they claim victimhood.   The Presidency is the loudest bully pulpit in the world.  Still, Obama wants to be the underdog.  And accusing Fox of being unfair Obama Himself drove millions of new viewers to the very network He wants to demonize.

Young Voters – Former Clinton advisor Dick Morris reported yesterday that recent polling among young voters suggested that the younger age group supports the Obama health care takeover plan.  That is they supported it right up until they had it explained to them.  When individual features of the plan are laid out, younger voters understand that they will get bills for increased cost for their own health care, increased fees and taxes for health care of others, and a great reduction in the quality of care that they receive.  When the college aged crowd gets details, they no longer support the plan.  The more Obama sends up His health care trial balloons, the more laughable He appears.

Incidentally, GOP strategists have apparently emerged from the morgue to come up with a way or two to reach out to these same younger voters.  To illustrate just what the Obama brand of socialism means, some of the GOP troops came up with a fake Facebook redistribution plan.  As younger voters make such heavy use of Facebook, the GOP wizards came up with a program to execute a  ‘Facebook Tax’ to take friends from one user’s Facebook account to redistribute to those that have fewer friends.  This also could be extended into each college campus where students would redistribute their grades so that all students will score evenly on class work.   When socialism is made personal, younger voters tend to run away like all other intelligent voters. 

Iran – This would be a lot funnier if it didn’t mean the potential deaths of millions of innocents.  The Prez floated the idea that Iran would be sanctioned by the world community as a result of His awesome diplomacy.  After surrendering the safety of Eastern Europe by dropping deployment plans for a missile defense shield in exchange for – well nothing really – Obama expected the Russians to join Him in sanctioning Iran for its nuclear program.  Of course anything that is good for the United States will be opposed by the Russians.  Still, Obama naively believed that by cowering before Putin the Russians would suddenly become reasonable.  The Obama doctrine of ‘see how great the US is since I’ve been President’ has failed miserably.

United Nations – President Obama gave a marvelous speech for a socialist, showing the world once and for all that the US has been a great nation for the past nine months.  He then called on the international body to live up to its charter by taking appropriate action to secure world peace.    His speech was then followed by speeches by the world’s leading terrorists – Libya’s Muammar Khadafy and the nut job from Iran.   Only a fool puts any kind of hope in a body that embraces terrorists.  The only world leader with both a brain and a backbone was Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the world body to shame for entertaining those such as Khadafy. 
 
Unemployment – Although the administration’s cooked books show that new applications for unemployment may be decreasing by a very small percentage, the numbers of new unemployment applications are still growing by half a million each week!  Team Obama has pointed then to Wall Street where stock prices are rising as proof of their economic policy success.   Large numbers of unemployed are not going to spur consumer confidence or increase consumer spending.  Until unemployment improves, the recession will continue to deepen.

Joe Biden – Biden himself declared the recession over in a speech earlier this week.   As proof, he said that we are now in a ‘depression.’  Team Obama dispatched a team of specialists to capture the VPWI (Vice President Without Intelligence) and confine him to that previously unknown secure location.
This latest gaffe comes right on the heels of Team Obama’s attempts to increase the VP’s stature in advance of handing Biden the responsibility for losing in Afghanistan.  Fortunately, CNN chose to ignore the story and the gaffe.

Team Obama inflates each of its policy trial balloons with hydrogen instead of heium.  From economics to foreign policy, every Obama trial balloon has gone down (or up) in flames.