Oh the places they'll go

Mitt Romney's summer vacation was great didn't you here. He got universally hated by the entire country of Britain, and than Palestine. Not like those people would be important figures in any presidential administration. But to be fair to Willard Mitt Romney, he did try to look like an accomplished statesman (even if he's been universally criticized by both the left and right for having weak foreign policy chops). Its just he didn't learn from other great statesman like Churchill a very important rule, keep your mouth shut in public. As such he said really really really stupid things. And than the whole mess got capped off when his press agents, started verbally abusing and denying the facts from the only people who would let America know the facts and the governor's responses. 

But why did this man even go on this dumb trip when it really won't effect the election at all, and all he did was make him look like a buffoon to the entire world stage. Well its simple: because Obama did it. Yes Barrack Obama departed on a pilgrimage to Europe in 2008 to the Middle East and Europe in a buddy buddy road-trip with his BFF Hope. And unlike Mitt, and this is the sticking point here... everybody loved him. He gave a speech to 200 000 Germans and they loved it. He wasn't even the president and yet he could haul Kennedy size crowds with just the setting of his foot on soil. But why did Obama succeed and Romney fail? 

Well the answer is unfortunately simple in many ways. Obama was kind already known in 2008 internationally, and so drawing support and crowds. He made his flubs sure but the shear excitement of the participating countries outweighed any coverage of that. Because to the world he was no longer a politician, and he didn't become one again until after the financial crisis by the way, he was a celebrity and ask any major celebrity what happens when they travel abroad and they'll tell you they draw crowds. 

Mitt Romney was not assembling that kind of buzz before he went, in fact I would hazard a bet that less than 2% in the countries visited knew of him before coming. Mitt Romney's lack of celebrity killed him because it made him an unknown visitor who was deemed unimportant by the masses making him a blank slate, and than making his dumb regards to there countries affairs made him more reviled. There was no good to counteract the bad. 

Also Obama offered something to the world, which was he's not Bush. In 2008 Bush was hated by most of the world I think its fair to say (I disagree with much of it but that's for another time). Obama was not Bush and the world reveled in it. He was different in every way, he was black so he was a man who rose rather than be handed. He offered hope while Bush seemed to offer constant ill advised war. He was not Bush and the world wanted someone who could in there eyes wipe out the remnants of the anti US stigma much of the world had. 

Romney is coming in now when Barrack God-Child Obama is the president and he's attacking the worlds favorite man. Because unlike in the US, the world still kind of loves Barrack Obama. mainly because he's not Bush and because he has that celebrity charisma. Romney is viewed as the enemy of Obama and therefore the enemy of Obama's global defenders. 

So in the end Romney's trip was mostly doomed from the start its just that he made it worse by bashing the Olympics, encouraging war and telling his press officers to tell America eyes and ears to kiss his ass.

Were Not Laughing Anymore

I like all lovers of good satire and politics, have followed the big time Minnesota conservative congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Her many follies and slips ups have been funny to say the least. From small bits like her terrible Elvis birthday wish on the anniversary of his death to big ones like her belief in the ability to cure homosexuality. Every little bit of her political career is plagued with dumb, dumb things. She thinks global warming is a hoax, her outlandish, absurd description of the cost of a state visit to India, her belief in retracting from the global economy, connecting swine flu to democratic presidents etc.

See while these are crazy she was never in any position of power to enact any of this. Sure she was running for president but anybody who thought she had a serious shot at defeating Obama let alone win the nomination is almost as crazy as she is. She a congresswoman with four years experience and a crazy track record. I mean at least Romney is SANE.

But no I'm not laughing anymore because she's not doing wacky, outlandish routines anymore. She's going on a witch hunt. A witch hunt for Muslims in congress.

A Victim. Nothing More

Ms. Bachmann sent to several levels and branches of the US government including the Department of State and Defense claiming that the US government and the Obama administration in particular has been "infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood terrorists". Specifically she attacks Huma Abedin, Hilary Clinton's assistant Chief of Staff, and a Muslim-American has been manipulating the actions of the State Department to support extremist Islamist causes like the Brotherhood. She claims that Ms. Abedin's father (who's been dead for twenty years) and two other relatives are deeply connected to violent, anti-american terrorist groups.

There is no proof of any of this at all. This is an extreme abuse of power and a clear act of defamation of a public American official. Michele Bachmann is launching an attack based completely on fear and distrust for a sector of Americans, Muslims. Ms. Bachmann is allowed to express her freedom of speech if she truly does distrust an entire faith, but to publicly claim that the Us government is infected and that long working public official is a "terrorist sympathizer" is an abuse of that right. These are not funny, and I will not kid about them. These words have already been beat down by many politicians of both the left and thankfully equally beat down by the high ranking members of the right including Majority Leader John Boehner and Senator John McCain. But certain members are starting to support her and attacking other officials.

This is McCarthyism plain and simple. Bachmann has left any sense of representation or public duty and is srpeading misinformation, paranoia and lies. She needs to be punished by the Congress for these remarks and I call upon the voters of her district: DO NOT re-elect this woman. At all. She does not deserve to hold public office. Please elect Jim Graves to the seat. I do not know him personally but he seems like a decent, rational and sane man. Or at the least if you do not want Jim Graves as your representative please, PLEASE have a public outcry against Michele Bachmann and DEMAND that she resign from the campaign so you can elect a better conservative.

Its been a fun and funny ride but this is serious and she needs to go.