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The Big Mouth, aka The Bloviator in Chief spewed forth much blether [*Word of the Day] yesterday at his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. Here's a link ->

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/10/barack-obama-nobel-acceptance-speech

It's full of nonsense and rhetorical flourishes ... and self-justification - not unexpected.

Obama sees himself not as President of the whole United States of America, but as the chairman of a mass movement - the Democratic National Committee. This is why he is unwilling to compromise. He wants conflict to gain votes and money to help the "party" remain in power. Listening to his recent speech about jobs, I was struck how he inserted several jabs (three, I believe) against the opposition party. He doesn't try to craft workable programs based on reality; he bases his message on slogans and rhetoric.

This is why he has done nothing to lead - truly lead - Congress towards a workable reform of the health care system. He's let Congress create a 2,000 page monstrosity. He doesn't really care what the result is, so long as his party can claim victory in next year's elections.

Does anyone not wonder why it took Obama about three months to make a decision on his Afghan war "strategy" ? He had no idea what to do, so lots of people talked and met and talked and met and in the end put together a rather weak, flabby "strategy". I think he did that just because the media started to question his "leadership" on the grounds that it sure was taking a long time.

I suppose this should be no surprise; afterall, his first "job" out of college was to be a community organizer. He's still acting like one.

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Zippo. I don't think there will be many buyers higher, so this rally will stall.

Word of the Day

"Blether" - noun, verb [$100] variant of blather
Blether means (noun) nonsense; (verb) to jabber blether.
Sentence: The Nobel Peace Prize committee got in Obama's speech what it valued: much blethering spewing forth more blether.