No homework and our hot lunch will be really swell!
By Johnny Roosh
My thirteen-year-old son made an interesting and unprompted observation as we were out running errands in the car the other day.
“Dad, at the Open House (for his school) I noticed that the Student Council candidate at our school is sort of like Barack Obama.”
“How’s that?”
“Well, he’s really nice and enthusiastic and promises things that he can’t do and are completely out of his control; to get people to vote for him.”
He went on with examples.
“Like vending machines in every room, and no bullying ever in the halls, allowing video games in school, to make sure school lunches are a lot better; less homework.”
Smart kid. It made me think of Obama’s speech the other night.
“Well, (Obama’s) really nice and enthusiastic and promises things that he can’t do and are completely out of his control; to get people to vote for him.”
I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.
I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power.
I’ll help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America.
I’ll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars.
And I’ll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy
…five million new jobs that pay well and can’t ever be outsourced.
I’ll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support
…help families with paid sick days and better family leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick child or ailing parent.
I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less.
I wonder if Barack Obama ever ran for student council? I wonder if all junior politicians take their lead from liberals these days (and I include GW Bush in that hogpile)?
In all fairness to Barack Obama, his speech didn’t sound that different from G.W. Bush’s State of the Union a few years back. Promises, promises. Program after program. I don’t think any of them happened.
At least now, with Sarah Palin on the McCain reform ticket, there is hope. Albeit a sliver of it. Hope that someone will go to Washington, and once there, wake Americans up to the fact that our Federal Government needs to go on a diet. Needs to do less, and with less. That the American people will have to do more with less. That we will actually have to go back to “being our brother’s keeper.”
Someone’s gotta do it. The question is will it be now, when we have a choice, or later when we don’t?
September 1st, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Out of the mouths of “babes”. Smart kid you have there – he must take after his father!
LL
September 1st, 2008 at 8:24 pm
WHOA! McCain Reform Ticket! Reform!?!
Let’s see: 8 years of BushCo and 14 of GOP controlled (highly controlled) GOP congress and what’s this – suddenly Maverick McCain is needed to lead a reform! Amazing, it’s election time and the GOP needs to reform itself. I think I recall this story from a Dennis the Menace strip. I’ve read a lot of this blog and I am certain it was the Dem Liberals that were the problem, 110%. Bush was golden, a little short of divine right – in these pages –short because he did not go far enough ( I was convinced and pretty sure we’re all still alive cuz he is Pres). Funny how things can change so completely when your ideologue back is against the wall.
And your son, and especially your quick analysis, missed the mark on several points:
You have vending machines in the public schools! – selling brands and sugar water to the students – Osama had nothing to do with that, nor did Bush (except indirectly since NCLB added 15% to school budgets). They did it (the idiots) for funding purposes.
And hey, Mitch, you gotta be more honest. Come on. If a mental midget like Bush can figure a way to spend $700B+ on a Cheney/Rumsfeld theoretical exercise in the Mideast desert, AND hold off the public for 5 years while he does it; who says Obama can’t spend $150B on trying for cheaper energy and energy independence? And what mental midget is going to say it’s a worse expenditure?
If the Feds gave the same amount of my $ that they gave to Halliburton, Custer Battles, Curveball and indirectly to Enron, to some renewable energy developers (private and a little to basic research at U.s) your son and I would be a lot better off. No, change that to a whole lot better off.
And where’s the quote where Obama wants students playing video games in the classroom – I missed that one.
But what the hey, makes for good blogging to your pre-conceived notions. So let the 13 year old reinforce what the old guy already knows, instead of the old guy teaching the 13 year old some critical thinking, or what’s really going on in the world.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Hi coldeye! Long time, no see. I guess it takes a mental giant to note that JRoosh wrote this post. It is pretty funny when you mention “pre-conceived notions” after blathering on about “Cheney/Rumsfeld” and “Halliburton, Custer Battles, Curveball and indirectly to Enron”.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 am
And the greeter at your local Wal-Mart is kinda like McCain.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
“I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.”
Simple exercise: ask yourself why he didn’t set the goal at 8 years, since that’s presumably how long he’d expect to be President.
Nice round number? Maybe. More like plausible deniability: “It’s not my fault President [N+1] didn’t finish the job I started!” When you know for a fact that 10 years is an unreachable goal, make the unreachable part somebody else’s problem.
And people say Obama doesn’t have enough political experience…