{"id":979,"date":"2009-04-27T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exilestreet.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2009-04-26T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T15:13:10","slug":"the-kowtower-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/exilestreet.com\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"THE KOWTOWER IN CHIEF"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"\"<\/a>by Burt Prelutsky <\/span>[scriptwriter]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

During<\/strong><\/span> the presidential campaign, we were told that Barack Obama was another Lincoln.\u00a0 At the time, I recall thinking that he might very well be another Lincoln, but certainly not Abe.\u00a0 Then we were told he was another FDR, which was certainly closer to the truth, and not just because they both smoked cigarettes and made Narcissus look like a shrinking violet.\u00a0 But, now that he\u2019s been in office for a while, he mostly reminds me of Wile E. Coyote.\u00a0 He thinks he\u2019s very clever, but he keeps falling off the cliff while holding the anvil he intended to drop on the Roadrunner.<\/p>\n

I felt that those people who insisted last year that, down deep, Obama was a Muslim were being unfair.\u00a0 While I had to question what sort of Christian would have sat in Jeremiah Wright\u2019s church, soaking up all that racist swill for 20 years, at least the Trinity United Church of Christ wasn\u2019t a mosque.\u00a0 But I have to confess Obama seems to be doing everything he can to make me question my earlier judgment.<\/p>\n

At a time when Iran, not to mention North Korea, is shaking a nuclear-armed fist at the world, Obama is telling Russia he\u2019d like to dismantle our nuclear weapons.\u00a0 I\u2019m afraid that, as a means of providing America with a viable national defense, his approach verges on the suicidal.\u00a0 On the other hand, if it\u2019s his intention to join the likes of Kofi Annan, Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, Le Duc Tho and Jimmy Carter, as Nobel Peace Prize winners, it\u2019s an absolutely brilliant strategy.<\/p>\n

As if his kowtowing to Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah wasn\u2019t contemptible enough, Obama then flew to Turkey, where he announced: \u201cWe convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better, including my own country.\u201d\u00a0 Even those of us who never entirely bought the notion that Obama had been born in Kenya began giving it careful consideration after that asinine remark.\u00a0 For years now, atheists have balked at the idea that the United States was created by a group of extraordinary Christians who shared Judeo-Christian values.\u00a0 But even they only went so far as to insist that some of our forefathers weren\u2019t religiously devout, but were merely deists.\u00a0 But until now, nobody had ever seriously suggested that Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison and Monroe, drew their inspiration from the Koran.<\/p>\n

One of my readers wrote to say that after watching the Obamas behave like hicks when they visited Queen Elizabeth, he felt as if a pair of hillbillies was representing America.\u00a0 That made me think there might be a TV series lurking there, an updated version of \u201cThe Beverly Hillbillies,\u201d with the lucky family moving east, instead of west, after their gusher comes in.<\/p>\n

As if all these gaffes weren\u2019t bad enough, we have the current administration bowdlerizing the language.\u00a0 There are thousands of American G.I.s being deployed to Afghanistan, but nobody is permitted to call it a \u201csurge\u201d because it might remind people that Sen. Obama voted against the surge in Iraq.<\/p>\n

God forbid we mention \u201cIslamic fascism,\u201d lest King Abdullah forget how cute our president looked bowing and scraping to him.\u00a0 Furthermore, we are no longer supposed to call \u201cthe war on terrorism\u201d the war on terrorism because, I suppose, it might give certain people the idea that we actually hold a grudge against the barbarians who are sworn to kill us.<\/p>\n

So far as I\u2019m concerned, the only term they\u2019ve come up with that I approve of is \u201cman-caused disaster,\u201d which was invented by Janet Napolitano.\u00a0 Understand, I don\u2019t sanction her using it as a euphemism for 9\/11.\u00a0 The only reason I like it is because I think it so perfectly defines the Obama presidency. ExileStreet<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

copyright 2009 Burt Prelutsky<\/em><\/p>\n

Television scriptwriter, former humor columnist for the <\/em>L.A. Times and a movie critic for Los Angeles magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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