The House of David

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Hillary! and Iran

I'm watching CBS, 60 Minutes. They were talking about Iranian journalist Bahari. (Only fair to link to CBS's print account.)

It interests me that it's Hillary Clinton who got name-checked as the American who got Bahari out of prison. Not Obama.

Obama was and remains Carter II on Iran, and the media can't ignore that. Obama makes Clinton shine in comparison. (Disclosure: last year I ranked the candidates - Palin, Romney, Ron Paul, Giuliani, Clinton, McCain, Obama. My opinion has since changed. That's "Another Rant".)

I'm holding out for a Clinton "flounce-out" from this disaster of an administration.

Labels: fascism, obama, presidency

posted by Zimri on 19:07 | link |

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Obama the liberal

Obama is a cultural Marxist but he's no Pol Pot, nor even a Gramsci. I think Obama is at heart a (failure of a) liberal.

Even the messes he's made of the Constitution smell more like Brüning than brownshirts. Obama has brownshirts, albeit they prefer purple, but their intimidation tactics aren't helping.

Labels: liberals, obama

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Friday, November 06, 2009

Why is the President getting involved in New York?

According to CBS (h/t Roses): "Obama let it be known he didn't want Paterson to run because Republicans like Rudy Giuliani consistently beat him in the polls".

That would be fine if Obama were the head of the Democratic National Committee. But he's not. He's the President. The Presidency, like it or not, has a stature beyond partisanship. When The President says that so-and-so should not run, he is saying that this person is bad for the nation. That is a bombshell a President would reserve for the likes of David Duke.

Labels: fascism, obama, presidency

posted by Zimri on 18:22 | link |

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Obama's "shout-out"

President Barack Hussein Obama, you are not a cool cat.

In addition, as "franticflintstone" points out: while we are under attack by existential enemies, it is not the time to opine that America is an illegitimate nation. But then - I've never thought much of your loyalties.

If you want to be seen as Presidential, it's time you started earning it.

UPDATE 4:40 - Upon seeing FFs's comments at Ace's, I posted the latest two parags and then - the comment board immediately went down. Gah.

Labels: bullshit, obama, presidency

posted by Zimri on 16:17 | link |

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Barack Obama: dumbass

Steve Sailer thought that Obama was a genius, and as for his college SATs "he aced them". Sailer based this largely upon two presumptions: that Obama actually wrote Dreams From My Father, and that the book was something other than an extended wank. Sailer took the book seriously enough to write a lengthy tafsir entitled "America's Half Blood Prince".

There's a controversy about Dreams. Some think Obama wrote it, and it's rubbish. Others (myself included) think Ayers wrote most if it. Either theory doesn't reflect well on Obama's verbal skills.

One might then ask Sailer, if Obama is such a brainiac, why is he keeping his college transcripts locked away; well, Sailer responds, because he didn't want people to see how smart he was. That argument may have been tenable last year but I don't think it is anymore.

From energy to green jobs to climate change to healthcare, Obama has evinced a profound lack of interest in objective reality. From what I've seen of humanity, this derives from lack of ability to handle the "hard subjects" like the sciences. In short, he is bad at math.

So were his parents. Barack Senior's economics, I kid you not, was "100% taxation". Ann Dunham's thesis, I kid you not, was entitled "blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and thriving against all odds". The whole point of HBD is that intelligence is an inherent genetic trait, and that such traits are hereditary. Barack's parents were dullards. The chances were very low that these two clowns were going to spawn the next Gauss.

President Barack Obama, Harvard Law alumnus, and Nobel Prize laureate is a certain lefthander on the Bell Curve for g. Also I doubt very much that Obama's math SAT cracked 500.

(Not that there is anything wrong with that; but then, we're not talking about a candidate for the assistant manager at the corner Barnes & Noble, here.)

His verbal skills were probably higher (they might even have to be) so his overall IQ may still be 120+ (and his combined SAT >1000), but when I see him off Teleprompter I have to wonder.

If we're handing out George Armstrong Custer "Kicked Ass!" Awards like we did on UseNet, for the most cocky prediction that then collects the most arrows in its throat, Sailer's "he aced them" would be in serious contention. Somewhat ironic given Sailer's stated views on heredity (and this even without the four letter R tag).

P.S. Obama's temperament stinks too.

Labels: bullshit, HBD, obama, sailersphere

posted by Zimri on 01:45 | link |

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Presidential Fail

In the run-up to reviving this blog, I was writing essays in other peoples' comments. I posted a few comments about to what degree we can hope for Obama's failure. I had first taken Jeff Goldstein's position, but then at LGF I posted "to hell with Goldstein" because he was acting like a schmuck. Maybe the most thought-out of my comments was at Roses' on 3 October.

The occasion for that last comment was Obama's personal failure to get the Olympics for Chicago. Many Conservatives and Libertarians cheered that failure. Obama's supporters were upset about it all, including about the cheering.

When the head of state sticks himself out this far: he is not just himself, but he is also the mascot for the position of "head of state". Therefore when Obama fails, the Presidency is weakened. I do not know anyone who can argue otherwise.

The question then becomes: does it weaken the country when Obama fails? To answer that we need to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Presidency.

School A is that the Presidency as an institution is kinda bogus, in which case weakening the Presidency isn't a problem for the US. School B is that the Presidency is sacred, and that weakening the Presidency is a problem for the US.

In the short-term, A isn't going to be replacing the Presidency with their chosen head of state in the next two years. As a result we have to put off that discussion and move on to B.

Where the office of "head of state" is strong: when the ruler is seen as a success, the display of power helps make his country a success. I'd love it if Obama could pick the right battles and win them, and I don't hope he fails overall. But Obama first has to learn to pick the right battles. If he is fighting for the crooks in Chicago, or for the bureaucrats' takeover of the medical industry: those are battles Obama is waging against me and mine. I want him to fail in what he is trying to do NOW: first, because what he's trying to do is wrong; second, because he has to learn that it is wrong.

Obama's predecessor Bill Clinton began his stint as Carter Junior in 1993-4. In 1994 he was taught a sharp lesson and in 1995 he was close to irrelevant. Then he hired Dick Morris, who taught him he would be personally better off if he governed more like Reagan Junior. This, Clinton did: 1996-2000.

When Obama learns humility, I will root for him. Where Obama and his defenders are being attacked unfairly, I will defend them as if I were defending this country. But until then and otherwise, I will root for Obama's humiliation. The country cannot succeed until Obama's current course fails.

Labels: obama, presidency

posted by Zimri on 16:44 | link |

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Funny pages

I'm reading up on Obama's talking-points which he sent to his media lackeys (h/t Ghost of a Flea (itself found via Table 9)). Obama is pushing for these stooges to run stories "about service and volunteerism".

In the Houston Chronicle comics this week: the daughter in Baby Blues has signed up her mother for "all" of the volunteer-work her school offers; Mutts refers to volunteerism; and (less surprisingly) so does Luann.

If you read a mainstream newspaper, there is no escape.

Labels: obama, progressives, propaganda

posted by Zimri on 20:49 | link |

Lord Barack the Humble

A most annoying verbal tic from Obama: whenever someone gives him an attaboy, like the Presidency and now the Quisling Prize, he tells everyone how "humbled" he is.

If Obama were truly humble, he would recognise the Peace Prize as a manifestation of humility's opposite. He would see it as the arrogance of a foreign elite who rules upon what is and is not "peace", and who then tosses the award to whoever strokes its ego most. If Obama were humble he would reject this thing.

Obama is not humble. What he has done is to render his own psyche, consciously, awestruck at the award he's gotten. Having built up that award in his own mind to the stature of the Victoria Cross, Obama is then in a position to accept it with all his phony humility.

Outside his own mind, to the rest of the world Obama has humiliated himself: he has made himself a grovelling sycophant to his lords in Continental Europe. Insofar he accepts this award for all Americans, he humiliates us too.

Labels: obama

posted by Zimri on 17:34 | link |

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Obama's NEA

I was reading over my past articles. It looks like Obama may have read over it too, back when the articles were up, and printed out "For whom does the artist create?". That piece had argued that the National Endowment for the Arts must belong to the Executive. That is currently the elective office which Barack Obama holds.

Under a partisan President like this one, who is Serrano's pipe dream brought to life: the result is predictable.

UPDATE 10/29 - Ave Caesar!

Labels: fascism, obama, propaganda

posted by Zimri on 16:10 | link |

Monday, October 12, 2009

How Conservatives can question Obama's patriotism

Birtherism is not to be confused with Conservatives questioning President Barack Obama's American credentials generally.

By my definition of "Conservative", and their definition of "American" - Conservatives are being consistent. They even have a political-scientific point. Other nations have had problems with near-abroad foreigners migrating in and taking over. For two examples, Napoleon was born a Corsican and Hitler an Austrian. The law about natural-born citizenship has until now hindered would-be Napoleons.

But now we have a half-African (and half-moonbat), born in frontier Hawaii, raised in Indonesia, with little contact with Middle America. Noel at Cold Fury has more -

Obama is our first hyphenated-President in a way that even Catholic JFK was not. And not just as an “African-American“. He is the first to go completely through our educational institutions since the Hyphenated-Left has held sway. When academia teaches students to be loyal first to their own pigment or identity group and suspicious of the larger culture, that is the very definition of questioning patriotism.
Indeed, for all the hyperventilating cries of “How dare you question my patriotism!”, the Left has literally questioned the very basis of patriotism, the nation-state. And held up Internationalism as a higher value. He is an International-American.
He was exposed to Muslim cultures through his father and step-father; he’s a Muslim-ish-American. Who lived in Indonesia and traveled to Pakistan–a Third-World-American. He absorbed the vicarious victimhood of McCarthyism from all the socialists in his life. A Victim-of-America-American.
So why are you, as a Wondering-American, still scratching your head as to why he keeps siding against America and freedom, and with foreign governments, the UN, Third-World grifters, mullahs and Socialists?

I'm not wondering; Obama has been running this nation as a Third World province of the "international community". He has benefited from the Liberal loophole: since he's legally allowed to be President, he's playing on the same field as a generations-long patriot like John McCain.

It's annoying, and Conservatives have a serious case that Obama's election represents a failure in the birthright prerequisite for office. If we grant that it's a dangerous folly for anyone to call for Obama's ouster by mutiny as the birthers do, it remains legitimate to question whether the birthright law ought to be restricted further for future candidates. It is even legitimate to call Obama out as a Quisling, foreign in his own heart.

Because that's how he's behaved; and that's at least as equally dangerous a folly as birtherism, for a man of his background especially.

UPDATE 10/24/2009: added ColdFury's paragraphs.

Labels: constitution, fascism, nirthers, obama

posted by Zimri on 17:34 | link |

Birth Certificate skepticism is seditious

Certain of Barack Obama's opponents have been spreading a meme that Obama was not born in the USA. This has implications.

Other opponents, if not buying into "Birtherism" themselves, imagine that "Birthers" are useful; rallying the base to constructive activities, like taking the House for anti-Obama candidates in 2010. Most blow it off as harmless gutter politics. I beg to differ.

If Obama was not born here, then he is not the President. The office of President includes the formal military rank of "Commander in Chief". If Obama is not the President, then he is not the Commander. That would mean that no soldier is allowed to follow the man's orders. The whole chain of command is busted; every soldier becomes a mercenary, in it for the pay. Under such conditions - with which I am not agreeing - a mutiny, with the purpose of installing of Joseph Biden as President, isn't just likely; it's required. As for Obama, he could legally get shot during the mutiny, being the foreign and illegal head of a mercenary force on our soil (i.e., the army itself). The stakes are high; it is not an idle game.

It might help to understand how we got here. I was first introduced to birth-certificate skepticism at the site "Little Green Footballs" last year, during an election campaign against John McCain which was - at the time - close. This meme then spread around various right-wing sites along with other rumours of varying degrees of credibility. LGF then repudiated BC skepticism and turned against those bloggers who were still supporting it - like Pamela Gellar, originator of the typo "nirth certificate". Meanwhile, various drips and drabs have trickled out of the Obama camp, including a version of the BC. Obama then won, and took the Oath of Office.

A few documents remain unreleased (hence the "Long Form" sub-meme planted here and there) but it is no longer reasonable to doubt them. Obama has political reasons to hold onto what is left: it makes opponents look bad, and it also draws fire away from other "documentary hypotheses" like Obama's college records and whether or not Bill Ayers wrote Dreams From My Father. The courts agree; whenever Obama is sued over the BC, Obama wins.

The natural tactical shift is to "we are just asking questions"; such as we find in the realm of Holocaust denial, 9/11 trutherism, and Ben Stein's Expelled. Unfortunately for the Birthers, the tactic isn't new, and its targets know how to counteract it - as in the Dover evolution decision of 2005 (which helped lose the House in 2006). These court cases, coupled with the lost BC cases, have given Obama evidence which he may now use, in lawsuits against his accusers.

The issue is now bigger than Obama. Obama isn't an ordinary citizen going after slanderers, anymore. To the extent that such doubt exists in the military, it undercuts unit cohesion and morale. In short, this talk is - if false - a form of sedition; and since we are engaged in warfare, it must class with Tokyo Rose.

Birther talk is legally false, a deliberate slander, and sedition in a time of war. Obama has the legal right to order "Birthers" rounded up and tried for treason. Whether Obama will have to do it depends upon the Birthers, and upon to which degree the military and its friends buy into Birtherism. Pray that the Birthers remain irrelevant.

Labels: lgf, nirthers, obama

posted by Zimri on 17:15 | link |

Sunday, October 11, 2009

"Affirmative action", in Norwegian

Some are calling Obama's Nobel Peace Prize "affirmative action" - RedState and Sailer come to mind. Over at the blogmocracy I had tried to debunk that, and concluded that this canard was an expression of racial resentment.

I'd forgotten about Rigoberta Menchú.

The Prize committee has, in several occasions, (quoting Sailer) "demonstrate[d] how much white people long to give money, fame, and power to a black guy who meets minimum standards of presentability, regardless of his lack of accomplishments." For Europe, read "someone reminding them of the post-colonial Third World" instead of "black guy"; if Obama was actually Black, like Harold Ford Jr, I doubt he'd have won anything in Norway. But the impulse behind the Nobel here is analogous to American affirmative-action, and I can't rule out that it contributed.

So, belated apologies to Erickson and Sailer.

Labels: apology, obama, race, sailersphere

posted by Zimri on 19:48 | link |

The Nobel Prize

The Nobel committee’s decision is an afterclap of the reconstruction of Norway after 1945.

Norway surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 and, under Vidkun Quisling, their collaboration went beyond that of allied Finland and even occupied Denmark. Not everybody went under, but the resistors needed help. They got it. According to this Norse site, British agents were in deep with the resistance. When the Germans surrendered in Norway, British forces under General Sir Andrew Thorne occupied the place. Under Thorne, and then under the indigenous Labour-Party under Einar Gerhardsen, for 20 years Britain and Britain’s Norwegian allies drove the Nazi-aligned elite of old Norway into extinction. They remade Norway into a Progressive nation.

Norway has a new elite now, which exploits national guilt for its collaboration. This elite has relentlessly (if peacefully) continued its purge of anything remotely right-wing.

Moldbug has the goods on what that meant last week. This elite sees populists in America (I call them, "Conservatives") as the prime enemy now that their own populists are marginal. It has rewarded Obama for being a bulwark against America itself.

By accepting this award, Obama has announced that he is our Quisling: ruling America on behalf of continental European interests.

P.S. I believe that reconstructing Norway was a necessary act, and I’m glad my countrymen helped do it. Unfortunately handing over Scandinavian nations to progressives cost us in the Cold War: Gerhardsen wouldn’t let NATO keep military bases in Norway, for instance.

Labels: europe, obama, progressives

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