Posted on June 27,
2014
Barack Obama Wuz
Here
We’re living a Bugs Bunny cartoon
by
Daniel
Clark
Once upon a time, Bugs Bunny got ticked off at
America. It all started when he learned
that the game commission’s bounty on rabbits was only two cents. “It’s discrimination!” he declared. When he went to Washington for an
explanation, the commissioner told him that animals with large bounties on them
are dangerous and destructive, whereas rabbits are “perfectly harmless.” Feeling disrespected, Bugs set out to prove
him wrong.
The
enwaged wabbit embarked on a
campaign of devastation, making sure that everyone knew he was
responsible. In one relatively minor act
of vandalism, he rearranged the lights at Times Square
to read “Bugs Bunny Wuz Here.” As his anger escalated, he committed more
outrageous acts, painting the Washington Monument like a barber’s pole, shutting
off Niagara Falls, selling Manhattan back to the Indians, and filling in the
Grand Canyon. He even sawed Florida off
from the rest of the country and watched it drift off toward South America.
Bugs was only able to inflict so much damage because
he’s a cartoon character, and anything can happen in a cartoon. In the real world, an individual just isn’t
capable of such a torrent of destruction.
Or is he?
Even Bugs never thought of wiping away our Southern
border, as President Obama has done.
Since taking office in 2009, Obama has ceased all raids and audits of
companies suspected of employing illegal aliens, shut down nine border patrol
stations, ordered the dismissal of deportation proceedings in tens of thousands
of cases, sued five states for trying to enforce laws meant to prevent them
from being overrun by illegals, and freed more than 36,000 illegals with known
criminal histories, hundreds of them including rape and murder.
In addition, Obama has taken a giant step toward his
stated goal of bankrupting the coal industry, by having his EPA fraudulently
treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant. As
a candidate in 2008, he acknowledged that his plans to curtail coal would cause
electricity rates to “necessarily skyrocket,” yet he remains bent on doing it.
But wait, there’s more! Despite his countless promises to the
contrary, Obama has enacted a health care plan that has resulted in the
cancelation of about 5 million health insurance policies. He has increased the national debt by approximately
60 percent, partly because the centerpiece of his economic plan was the
deliberate, unnecessary spending of more than 800 billion dollars for its own
sake. His policies have only succeeded
in bringing down the official unemployment numbers by shrinking the labor force
participation rate to its lowest level in four decades.
He has shelved our missile defense program, and
transformed NASA into the Muslim Outreach and Global Warming Propaganda
Bureau. Not all of his schemes are so
grandiose, however. He and his wife have
even felt the need to spoil schoolchildren’s lunches. Seldom has any opportunity to generate chaos
escaped his notice.
So what set him off?
We know that nobody told him his pelt was only worth two cents, so where
does his motivation come from? The
constituents who comprise his audience haven’t been allowed to know.
Imagine
how much more forceful Bugs’ wrath might have become if he’d been the son of
Communist parents. What if the man who
mentored Bugs throughout his adolescence was an America-hating Communist poet
and essayist? What if Bugs had freely
associated with domestic terrorists who had bombed the Pentagon and the Capitol
building in pursuit of global Communism?
What if he had belonged for 20 years to a phony church whose services
were Marxist political rallies, led by a hate-spewing preacher who curses
America from the pulpit?
In addition, let’s assume that Bugs had spent much
of his adult life in the unreal world of academia, where he was “taught” the
anti-American sophistry of such unabashed liars as Howard Zinn,
Edward Said and Noam Chomsky. Let’s also
stipulate that he believed every word of it, and thus had been brainwashed into
a seething hatred of his own country.
Only then could we begin to understand the roots of Bugs’ rampage.
Yet nobody seems to recognize these things about
Barack Obama, because the mention of his being indoctrinated into a
hateful philosophy is considered out-of-bounds within public discourse. People are therefore perplexed
about why so many terrible things are happening to our country during his
presidency. One would hope that everyone
would at least realize it’s not coincidental, any more than Florida just happened
to float away as Bugs stood watching from the dock.
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