Billboard on the One Term Expressway

Not that it required any special psychic power, but America Wants To Know predicted that the Fort Hood shooting had the potential to be a big political problem for President Obama.

If you remember, in a post titled "Obama picks a church" we bet everybody a hundred bucks that the president would attend services at St. John's Episcopal the Sunday after the Fort Hood massacre, just to demonstrate to a queasy public that the White House occupant who spent part of his childhood as a Muslim in Indonesia harbors absolutely no doubt about where he stands now.

We lost that bet. President Obama spent the weekend at Camp David.

We said it was "no time for fuzzy statements about multi-cultural understanding."

Good thing we didn't put any money on that.

"They are Americans of every race, faith, and station," President Obama said, describing the members of the U.S. Armed Forces during his weekly address following the Army psychiatrist's solo jihad, "They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers. They are descendants of immigrants and immigrants themselves. They reflect the diversity that makes this America."

Some might argue that what makes this America is a set of beliefs and principles that transcends ethnic identity, religion and "station," but let's not quibble about it now.

This is a picture of a billboard that just went up in Wheat Ridge, Colorado:



KDVR in Denver reports that the sign belongs to a car dealership.

Maybe the president should have gotten those cash-for-clunkers reimbursements mailed out a little faster.

Yes, of course, the sign is obnoxious and whatever else anybody wants to call it. But when a local businessman is willing to put up a billboard like that and stand by it, the president has a political problem.

President Obama's detached reaction to the bloodbath at Fort Hood (he was in the Rose Garden the next day to "caution against jumping to conclusions" about the gunman who shouted "Allahu akbar," and he warned Congress against holding public hearings, which he described as "political theater") is just one of many peculiar actions on his part that seem to stem from some deep-seated belief that America deserves what it gets, due to past sins.

What did you make of that bow to the emperor of Japan?

It's as if he's always trying to make the point that America isn't better than any other country and in many ways is a lot worse.

He's certainly entitled to his opinion but if that's what he thinks, he's really in the wrong job. If you work for Coca-Cola and you're always trying to level the playing field for Pepsi, you're going to be president of Harvard in no time.


Copyright 2009

Editor's note: You might be interested in the previous posts, "Barack Obama, angry colonial," "Certifiable," and "Tabloid update: "Where Obama was really born!"

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