Generally, when we think of a storm, we imagine some non-sentient entity that forms out at sea with certain kinds of currents and fatal forces of winds, or maybe an earthquake causing a tidal wave. But what happens when seemingly random elements of nature converge? Well, in that case, we might just witness a perfect storm.

Perfect does not always mean good. A perfect tidal wave may just be an unusually huge wave, perfect in the generic sense of the term. Unfortunately, that wave will also function as a perfect monster to coastal dwellers who would rather have lived a while longer than experienced a rare phenomenon of nature.

Can one situation be perfectly disastrous while another situation is perfectly benign?  The answer is, yes. Nature, of course, is not a conscious entity, so we would not use terms like “evil” in describing a crippling storm. But then, the word, storm can also be used as a metaphor for the injuries perpetrated by human beings. And so, the fair question continues: Can one act be perfectly evil, just as another act is perfectly good?

For history to be made (bad history as well as good) we need the right person at the right time. The right person at the wrong time will have little effect. The wrong person at the right time will not accomplish much either. But the right person at the right time knows how to harness, package and sell the debris left over from a perfect storm. If he also has charisma, it helps a heck of a lot.

When Obama was running for president, multiple Freudian slips with Joe the Plummer and several unguarded interviews, revealed his passion for a mandatory redistribution of wealth. This is commonly called Socialism, but Obama is smart enough to know what a bad word Socialism can be, so he didn’t use the word. Socialist governments often go hand in hand with dictatorships, oligarchies or other paradigms that suppress freedom, stifle speech, and force the populace to be completely dependent upon Big Brother. This is another reason politicians avoid the word. Socialist is not a handy noun when one wants to come into power. Obama sounded embarrassed and caught off guard when his Socialist agenda reared its ugly head.  Even though he has an extreme Leftist ideology, he was not so naive as to think that this belief system could be force fed down the throats of fellow Americans. The original plan was to boil the frog slowly.

That all changed when the perfect storm came our way. Now, mind you, Obama did not create the storm. But he sure knew how to use it. With various fazes, the storm elements eventually overlapped. Obama figured out how to channel the intersection his direction.

Faze One: The Reputation of George Bush.

Bush gets a mixed review from me. He was a good president in some ways and a terrible president in other ways. But he is not responsible for every single problem befalling our nation. Honestly, if somebody accidentally dropped their hot dog and got mustard on their lap, they would find a way to blame George W. Bush.

How does Bush contribute toward Obama’s perfect storm? By giving Obama immunity to all criticism. Do you think Obama was running against John McCain in this last election? You are mistaken. Obama was running against Bush. He knew McCain was nothing like Bush. He knew the reason many Republicans deserted McCain was because he was not conservative enough. McCain was Bush’s thorn in the side the entire eight years of Bush’s presidency. None of this mattered. All Obama had to do was lie through his teeth and portray McCain as four more years of George Bush. That was enough to satisfy a significant majority.

Just watch: Four years from now, when Obama wants to get re-elected, he will run against Bush once again. I keep listening to hopeful Conservative talking heads. “Obama is on too high of a pedestal,” they say. “People expect him to walk on water and solve all of our problems. That’s a tough order. Nobody can live up to it. Obama will make our economy worse. What’s he going to say four years from now when our national debt is in the trillions of dollars and even more people are unemployed?”

I hate to shatter the hopes of my conservative peers, but I can tell you just exactly what Obama is going to say: “The disastrous policies of George W. Bush were so far reaching, so entrenching, and so massively tentacled, that it will take an additional four years to get ourselves out of this quagmire.”

Rest assured,  if the economy is still bad, it will be Bush’s fault. And if a terrorist attack on the magnitude of 9/ll comes our way, it will also be Bush’s fault. The fact that Obama is kissing up to organizations such as Hamas and dictators like Ahamadinnejad, will have nothing to do with it. Never mind that compromise emboldens terrorists. Never mind that they always strike again when they see a sign of weakness. When it happens, we will be told that if Bush had not gone into Iraq, none of this would have happened. Bush will receive no credit for having kept the country safe during the seven years following 9/ll. Instead, he will be blamed when Obama’s appeasement policies bring fanatical Islam crashing down upon us.

Catching on? Obama will run against George Bush for his second term, just as he ran against George Bush for his first term. Bush has inoculated Obama from any kind of criticism or protest. The media will be on Obama’s side. After all, Bush was the “illegitimate president,” the guy “selected, not elected.” Bush is the one everybody hates. Besides, the media will look like they are not doing their job if they don’t go after some politician and Obama shares their Leftist ideology, so they can’t go after him. If the new kid on the block is forbidden territory, there is little else to do but hit the Bush default setting. So watch for the media to act as Obama’s sidekick. Obama is Batman. George Bush is the Joker and our media is Robin, the Boy Wonder.

But there’s another reason the media won’t dare to take on Obama. And that leads to the second faze of the perfect storm.

Faze Two: Our country has become shell shocked by the word “racist.”

In fact, we are not a racist country anymore. We haven’t been for a long time (see link below). But it doesn’t matter.  People have become as frightened of being labeled a racist, as previous generations feared the designation communist. Even though typical politicians would not have been able to sell a radical left agenda, Obama can. Why? Because anyone who opposes him is accused of objecting to the man’s skin color. It could not possibly be an objection to Socialism. It has to be color. Since we are not allowed to use Socialism as our concern, Socialism will prosper.

Faze Three: The Economy

Although Obama made a little headway early on by portraying McCain as Bush reincarnated, that strategy was starting to falter when confronted by the fresh, vibrant popularity of Sarah Palin. McCain and Palin actually began to lead by double digits in many polls. Then the housing crisis reached its peak, short-circuited Wall Street and the Democrats had a new disaster to blame on Bush which rivaled Hurricane Katrina.  Never mind that Bush and McCain both tried to warn the Democrats to stop encouraging sub-prime loans. The race card trumped all warning. Organizations such as ACORN threatened banks with accusations of discrimination if mortgages were not handed out like lollipops to people who could not afford them. What a combination of ingredients! What a blend of potent flavors; bad mortgages mixed with the roar of race baiters! Stir carefully and let it simmer for a decade or two. Sprinkle in a pinch of Bush bashing and presto! The very culprits who ruined our economy are now poised as the doctors who will fix our economy. Honestly, the very idea of a Barney Frank or a Nancy Pelosi lecturing CPOs on how to run a company is laughable at the very least and horrific at the very most. Banks did not create this problem. They amplified the problem after an invasion by politicians and special interest groups. Sour banks took their toll on the housing industry. It then trickled down to small business owners who could not get a line of credit any more. With micro companies laying off workers, we found ourselves with a surplus of unemployed people and the unemployed cannot afford to buy cars. Neither can cars be built without that same credit stream which has dried up.  This is why the auto industry had to beg Congress for a bail out. I hate the idea of politicians helping banks and businesses because the price for that help is control. Still, one can hardly blame those who look to Congress for assistance when Congress dug their bottemless pit in the first place. No, I don’t blame them at all, but oh what a sad sight to watch; Leftist demogogues, handing out sanctimonious lectures on how to foster a company. Have you stood in line at a post office lately? There's your three dimensional snap shot of a well manged government business. And when the day comes that we no longer need a post office anymore due to E Mail, Fed Ex, fax machines, electronic greeting cards and finally, grandma herself sending off that Christmas fruitcake through UPS, the post office will still exist. It will always exist because government institutions never die. Barney Frank or Chris Dodd lecturing a CPO is like Captain Hook trying to teach Peter Pan how to fly.

“OK,” Congress says, “We’ll give you the money. But in return, we will tell you what kinds of salaries to give your people.” 

Forgetting for a moment the nifty salary hike Congress votes itself each year, and forgetting how many of them live in mansions or fly around on private jets, let’s ask another bonehead question: On what competent authority does our government dictate the kinds of bonuses a company may offer its executives? Sometimes money can be an incentive to strive for excellence.  But then, excellence in the private sector smacks head into the goal of Socialism.

“By the way,” Congress continues, “We will also tell you what kinds of cars to make and what levels of fuel emissions are allowed.”

They get away with this demand because they have all the money. Not that there’s enough gold in Fort Knox anymore. They are only printing money and that paper is about as real as a 500 bill from a Monopoly game.  Still, our trustworthy federal heads appear to have the money, so they appear to have the power. If anyone dares to speak against their demands on the auto industry, they hear a handy dandy response from Walla Walla, Washington; “Environmental concerns.”  And that leads to the next faze.

Faze Four: Global Warming

No, Al, the debate is not over (see link below) but because we have convinced people of this incoming disaster, the government will be free to pass all kinds of rules and regulations. Cars must be made smaller and cleaner. Even Christmas lights can be moderated, dovetailing into other Leftist ideologies. After all, religion can foster dissent. Oh, and we can’t drill for oil anymore, because that will harm Carrie the Caribou and Perry the Polar Bear. This will make the economy even worse. To fix the economy, Obama and his fellow Democrats will tax the "rich” even more. The rich, incidentally, are those individuals who work in the private sector, commonly known as the middle class. Soon there will be no more middle class. There will be wealthy politicians with Hollywood chums and a bankrupt population looking to the government as a Santa Claus to keep them out of poverty. Once you feed a cat, you never lose it and once you give money to citizens who do not deserve such a prize, you have their loyalty. Frankly, even the innocent guy whose business goes belly up will be grateful for a handout if a handout is the only way he can provide for his family anymore. Don't even think about who caused the recession. Just be grateful to the fellow who fixes it, even if both parties are one and the same.

OK. Let’s add this up. Our new President is immune to criticism, partly because people won’t dare speak against a person of color and partly because Bush is a scapegoat for absolutely everything. Unchallenged by most, he gets his congress to pass laws about "Hate Speech" or “Fairness”. This ends up silencing the remaining few who would still speak out. He then “fixes the economy” by stealing from the entrepeneurs who once pumped blood into our Capitalist system. He bails out banks by taking over banks. Once the government owns the banks, they own everything. Reaching further into the private sector, they self righteously defend themselves as the champions of Earth who must kill any business that contributes to a bad environment. With the private sector completely neutralized, we have no choice but to depend upon politicians for everything. We are tempted to welcome their “stimulus package” even when it includes money for ACORN and other groups that laid this smelly egg in the first place. While we may wonder how millions of dollars for condoms, cable TV converter boxes, climate change research, or  National Endowment For the Arts, can jump-start our economy, we will no longer be in a position to say much about it. The Leftist agenda is upon us in one fast sweep. They were patient. They waited for years. They waited for the perfect storm.

There is still hope, but before we prepare for the battle ahead, we must first understand how we got dragged into this mess. After wising up to the lure and enticement of Sauron's ring, then and only then can we send Sam and Frodo to Mt. Doom.

This is Bob Siegel, making the obvious, obvious.

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Well, we did it again. We allowed Ahamadennejad to set foot on our shores and instead of arresting him, we permitted Hitler Incarnate  to talk about the evil United States and the evil Israel, whom he plans to wipe off the face of the earth in the near future. The rest of us don’t need to worry until the distant future.

We are used to allowing such maniacs to address the United Nations, but did he also need to speak at the University of Utah? Did he need to be a guest on Larry King Live, where Larry asked tough questions, such as, “How many children do you have?”  That’s telling him, Larry. Wow! Can King ever play hardball!  Larry also asked him if he would sit down and try to make peace with Israel. Ahammadennejad said, “No.” He could not possibly have said it more plainly or more clearly. Larry looked astonished.  I could have predicted that answer because he’s been saying it plainly and clearly for years. The man is a Jew hating, holocaust denier who plans to go beyond Israel and wipe out the entire western world with nuclear missiles, thus bringing in the age of the 12th Imam.  But many Liberals don’t seem to understand this. In their minds, the concept of evil is as extinct as the inhabitants of the La Brea Tar Pits. Don’t get me wrong. My Liberal friends are well intentioned and sincere. I am generalizing, but for the most part, they figure everyone in the world must want the same thing or at least they will want the same things if they get the same opportunities.  They forget that many of the 9/11 gang came from well to do families and were college educated. They think deep down inside, we all have similar values. The concept of a religion, which seeks to conquer, which is uninterested in Democracy or peace talks, is unthinkable to them. The very notion that a man might just hate Jews because he enjoys hating Jews is as foreign to them as Planet Mars. They simply find it impossible to believe the man will do exactly what he said he would do, that is, they find it impossible, if we would only sit down and reason with him first. I love reason, but it assumes we are talking to somebody reasonable. This is why so many people in the 30’s and 40’s had trouble believing the holocaust was going on, despite the many reports. Coincidently, this Ahitlerdennejad, who brags that he will start his own holocaust, also preaches that the first one never happened! It is a Jewish lie, according to the honored guest of our universities.

But  his denial is not much different than other kinds of denials. Even when history is stained with holocausts and genocides, people still deny that evil exists. Sure, wars exist and they are tragic, but they take place because Captain Kirk was unable to get the Federation and the Romulans to sit down and talk to each other. The only time I catch my friends on the Left using the word evil is when they are referring to Bush or perhaps the new “Bush,” Sarah Palin. Why did they dislike Bush? Because he was a cowboy who talked too much about good and evil and everybody knows those ideas are behind the times. In fact, to believe in evil is…well it’s evil!

Ahamadennejad isn't evil. Why? Because he smiles a lot and seems friendly. That means two things:

1) When he lies and says he does not hate Jews, only Zionists, we should believe him.

2) When he tells the truth and says that he plans to destroy Israel and the rest of the world for the sake of Islam, we should not believe him.

All because he smiles.

Some of my Christian brothers and sisters are also taken in by this reptile. Quaker and Mennonite leaders (both representing pacifist denominations, big surprise) met with Ahamadennejad because “only through talks will we avoid a war.” Inasmuch as their Christian world view admits that sin is our joint heritage as human beings, it is surprising they think that talking to someone will make him stop sinning. Yes, the Bible teaches that sinful humans can have their hearts transformed. But the Bible also speaks of hardened individuals who have become evil and will never turn back. The Bible draws a distinction between evil and sin. Sin is our potential to become possessed by evil. Evil is the possession itself.

But whether you are a Christian pacifist or a secular pacifist, let me give the bottom line one more time: THE MAN DOES NOT WANT TO AVOID A WAR! How do you talk somebody out of doing what he wants to do and what he plans to do, out of obedience to the God he believes in?  Is he more afraid of Allah or that guy on the Quaker Oats box?  He keeps telling us he intends to go to war. Yes, evil men lie, but it is also true that if you let them talk long enough, sooner or later they will tell you exactly what they plan to do because they love their evil and love to brag about their evil. The only lies are his justifications, such as Israel’s  “illegal occupation of Palestine.” How many of you realize he does not refer to the West Bank, but rather, all of Israel? How many would keep talking to the man if he actually did destroy Israel? I think my pacifist friends would continue talks, even if Ahamadennejad obliterated every Israeli. They would figure, “Better to talk to him, then have him also obliterate every American.”  I am convinced that is what they would do. If they wish to prove me wrong, then they should cease all conversation with this Hitlarite snake now, because even if he does not succeed in turning Israel into the Grand Canyon, he intends to try. How do I know? I have the audacity to listen to what the man actually says instead of listening to Liberals and peaceniks try to explain to me what he really means or how he will change his mind after they take tea together.

Pacifism works only when both parties wish to be pacifists or when the opposing party at least has a conscience. When one party reads a “holy book” that forbids him to be friends with Jews and Christians, I must believe he is not really our friend even when he smiles. I guess the part where he actually admits and explains how he is going to destroy us, also contributes toward my belief.

Do you ever watch old footage of Hitler?  You should.  He smiled often.  He even held a little girl in his lap once while the camera rolled. Such a gentle man. Who could believe he was responsible for all those atrocities?  Oh, that’s right. Ahamadennejad says he wasn't responisble. And who could believe Ahammadennejad will be responsible for some future atrocities? Nobody on the Left. They would have to first learn that evil is a real word in the dictionary and that the definition does not say, “See George Bush.”

Before talking about the same recent Saturday Night Life routine that everyone else is talking about, let me begin by saying that I am a former fan of Saturday Night Live. I even own the second season on DVD. I love the original cast and I also enjoyed the show years later during the time of Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, etc. Irreverent humor does not bother me. That the show has gone down hill, is disputed by few. That their humor has morphed from cutting edge to Politically Correct, is a sad lament.

And so, the era of Sarah Palin begins. Will this launch a new series of routines rivaled only by Chevy Chase’s weekly fall as President Ford?  The impersonation of Sarah was first rate if we are talking about voice and mannerisms. Unfortunately, we were also led to believe that Sarah Palin is stupid. Had she been a Pro-Choice running mate, nobody would be portraying her that way. The genesis of Palin’s new reputation is that supposedly she did not understand the “Bush Doctrine” when fair minded, even handed, objective Charlie Gibson interviewed her on 20/20. Well, Charlie, evidently you don’t know what the Bush Doctrine is either. Officially, there is no such thing as the Bush Doctrine. Informally, there is a wide range of definitions. For the most reliable information on the subject, let me recommend an article on Townhall written by Charles Krauthammer in as much as he is the very first journalist to ever coin the phrase.  If  anyone can tell us about the term, Bush Doctrine, Krauthammer can. From this Pulitzer Prize winning writer, we learn that smug Charlie simply did not know what he was talking about and Palin was within her rights to ask Professor Gibson which “Bush Doctrine” he was referring to.

Having said that, supposing she had not known? A college educated former mayor, current governor with an 80 percent approval rating and a record of cleaning up corruption, is stupid because she does not define “Bush Doctrine” exactly the way the media elite do? Give me a break!

I don’t mind hearing or seeing an insinuation of stupidity done with humor from Saturday Night Live or anywhere else, as long as we are being entertained with some semblance of accuracy. It would also be refreshing to see them parody both sides of the political isle once in a while.  How about stupidity from the Left?  How about when people insist that Obama never voted in favor of infanticide? Is it stupid of them to make such a claim? Granted, that’s a horrible subject and there is absolutely nothing funny about it. Then again, there is nothing funny about Saturday Night Live these days either. Of course, SNL is a very small part of the media elite, but the “serious” programs seem to display the same bias. I have seen five or six broadcasters, including Alan Colmes of Fox News defend the indefensible. Alan Colmes is actually a very intelligent person and I would never say otherwise, even though in this particular case he is indeed being stupid. That Obama voted against a law in Illinois which would have protected the lives of babies born through botched abortions, is a matter of public record. The only argument Alan offers is an emotional one. Emotion is always the last resort when people enter a discussion fleeced of the facts.  All I hear from Alan is, “What a terrible thing to say! How despicable, to accuse Obama of being in favor of infanticide!”  Well, Alan, I don’t know what the man thinks in his heart of hearts, so who can say what he’s truly in favor of? I do know how he voted. Yes. This is an outrageous accusation, except for the fact that it is absolutely true. What else can we say?

But Obama’s vote for infanticide does not concern the media elite. The real news is that Palin doesn’t understand the Bush Doctrine. Obama is also friends with a self-confessed, unrepentant terrorist, but the media elite are concerned that Palin’s husband once ran a stop sign. Obama’s pastor preached hatred of America for the 20 years that Obama attended his church, but the media elite are concerned that Palin once prayed for God to show our country His will. Obama plans to sit down and have unconditional talks with the Nazi, Jew hating, holocaust denier, Ahamadinnejad. The media elite are concerned that Sarah Palin does not have proper foreign policy experience.

Bill Clinton had zero foreign policy experience before he was elected president. That didn’t matter, either to the serious media or the fun folks at Saturday Night Live. The week after Clinton was elected (before he was inaugurated, mind you) SNL, in a rare moment of mellowness, declared him the greatest president our country ever had. Wow! Already better than George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, and he hadn’t even taken office yet! When he finally did occupy the White House, Clinton purposely declined to go after Osama Bin Laden on many occasions. I guess Saturday Night Live could be called stupid for prematurely honoring one of the worst presidents we’ve ever had and slanting their current, humorous opinion toward a candidate whose foreign policy will be as bad if not worse. As for being funny; the only thing funny, is that twenty years after it lost its edge, people still watch this 90-minute mess of arrogance matched only by ignorance. You want something even funnier? Many of the people who will be voting, get their news exclusively from SNL and The Daily Show. Oh wait! I forgot about The Colbert Report. Now that’s funny! People will vote against Sarah Palin, only because some comedians told them she was stupid! Is there a bit of irony in the voting booth?

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