(YBH) – Remember, “I feel your pain?” Those were the days, folks. No one was better at empathy than our “first black president,” Bill Clinton. What we have now is a Par-TAY!
Six vacations in 18 months – yep, great gig if you can get it. Nearly 10 percent unemployment during this “recovery summer” and Joe Biden is practically giddy with the “opportunity to do something great.” I sure hope so because we are all dying out here down in the real world, outside of the beltway.
He relentlessly plugs the $5 billion for weatherization as “one of our signature programs,” never mentioning, as the Associated Press puts it, that the program “has experienced spending delays, inefficiencies and mismanagement. In Biden’s home state of Delaware, the entire program has been suspended since May, and last month federal auditors identified possible fraud.” Oops, sorry. Forgot that little detail about how it isn’t even working where he lives.
Bill Clinton could look into the camera and you could imagine what he was thinking, and then he would do what he said he would do. You could feel it. Now, when Mr. Obama looks into the camera – you imagine what he is thinking and you can smell it.
The other night as he took the credit for “ending combat in Iraq” his ego wouldn’t even allow him to give credit to those who actually DID make the tough decision – to have a “surge.” Without Mr. Bush’s plan – the one that this president opposed, Iraq wouldn’t be in a position today to even visualize American troops withdrawing, much less actually sending some home. “Look at me, ma!” is what I saw last night and almost daily on television from this president.
Where is the empathy now? As the boy who cried wolf was eventually ignored, so is the case here. I see him talking but I don’t hear anything. I see neighbors losing jobs, cars, homes and moving out. I see their pain. I don’t want change for America – I want what we had in America again.
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