E.J. Dionne The Washington Post Writers Group

June 27, 2010

E.J. Dionne
The Washington Post Writers Group
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RE: “Dems Need To Snap Out Of It” – Some comments and questions on your “look how well we’ve done and why don’t they love us” column in today’s Miami Herald.

Mr. Dionne,

When you’re right, by crikey you’re right.

And this from a Biden certified “smartass”.

[Maybe Curley Biden, named Curley in honor of the smartest Stooge, has found a shovel ready project for the money we borrowed from the Chinese to stimulate our economy. He finds and names all the “smartasses” in America. Our President, The lord Barack the Beneficent, “kicks their asses”. If a follow-up treatment is needed Secretary Salazar will come and “put his boot on their neck”. No threat to the Burke-Fox or the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the civil discourse Hall of Fame there, right?]

Obama is not like Carter.

He lacks Jimmuh’s charm, grace, wit, and most of all, that certain picaresque air about him that we all came to love.

There are three things in which they are similar.

Jimmuh had a brother who sold really bad beer and then shilled for Qadafi. Barry has a brother who lives in a mud hut in the bad section of Fugowi.

Other than his time in the Navy Jimmuh worked in heavily regulated, hugely subsidized business. When he was booted out of the White House he couldn’t even run that business. In fact, he couldn’t run a two car funeral. If it weren’t for Dwayne Andreas and Archer Daniels Midland buying him by picking up his open markers he would have wound up by the side of the road doing his best Deliverance banjo imitation. ADM picked up an ex-President for, forgive me, peanuts.

Barry never worked. Ever. The most prominent part of his CV is his stint as a community organizer. He spent a few years bellyaching about how bad the government was in Chicago. Naturally enough, having solved all the problems in Cook County, a grateful electorate, most of whom were alive when they voted for him, sent him to the Illinois legislature and then the United States Senate. In 2013 he will either take Oprah’s time slot or become Pope. Maybe he will solve Chris Matthews’ randy leg.

Among the 20th century’s other well known Community Organizers are Evita, Che, and the mother of all Community Organizers, the paradigmatic template of modern American Liberals, Adolph Hitler.

You say that Republicans are “conspicuously vague about what they would cut”. Maybe they are. Not me.

Here are the first 3 lucky winners.

#1 – The Department of Agriculture
#2 – The Department of Energy
#3 – The Department of Education.

Perhaps as part of the soon to be assembled “death panels” for Medicare patients we could have flying squads visiting the above named dead zones. You can change their order of departure as long as the stage directions are followed by “pursued by a bear”.

Perhaps you could tell me which two wars did Bush get this country into?

The one in Afghanistan that had Democratic members of Congress sounding like a cross between Vercingetorix and Patton or was it the one in Iraq that ¾s of Congress approved in a blood lust worthy of the Hoplites forming a phalanx. You can’t mean them, can you?

There is one other thing that Jimmuh and Barry share.

Neither of them likes Jews. Considering where they came from, considering who they listened to, it is not a big surprise.

You say the big issue in the fall election will be government spending. It is but a side issue. Which candidate better understands how fragile liberty is, which candidate knows that our freedoms come not from the government but are ours at birth, “a gift from beyond the stars”, is the worthy one

Obama is a technocrat without soul. He believes that the government does know better. You are his pleader. He and Carter can compare Nobel Peace Prizes and say how bad Israel is.

“Will there ever be another Ronald Reagan?”



Kevin Smith