As IF Times

link Voters’ anxiety clouds Obama’s historic successes – USATODAY.com.

This article and those like it remind me of dry heaves.  Just as you think you have experienced the last of the horrible nauseating feeling, another wave overtakes you more excruciating than the last because you are spent from fighting the symptoms of nausea.  Let’s put a label on this and call if for what it is, ODDS, or Obama Deity Derangement Syndrome. 

While understandable during an election campaign to attribute other world capabilities to a favored candidate, surely after almost 2 years in office and undeniably mishandling ALL of the major issues during that time, you have to be delusional to continue to trumpet the skills and accomplishments of someone so utterly incapable of the job.   This is a real life Monty Python movie.  This is not a political observation, this is a business observation.  In the real world, success is measured  by results not spin.  The administration can claim no achievements during their time spent at the control levers of the nation.  Virtually all of the campaign promises so naively accepted during the campaign have been broken or will be. 

Politics as usual, certainly, but never before in the history of the nation have policies been so blindly administered purely for reasons of ideology and with such blatant disregard for practical consequences.  Regardless of this however, most of the media still get weak at the knees when describing the soaring achievements of the White House.  Well, it’s time we got the opinion of those that really matter, those who can coldly judge without the added spin.  The judges from American Idol and Dancing With The Stars weigh in with their assessments:

Bruno:  A decent performance, you have flair and your presentation is professional, but you need to express more emotion and passion.  You are a bit like a shopping cart being pushed around by your handlers.    5.

Len:  Well the Presidency is a very tough role and some are suited to it and some are not.  This is probably  not your best role, community organizer is a better fit perhaps.  Let’s just say you did your best and move on.  5. 

Carrie Ann:  Well the moves were a bit stilted and definitely lacked any passion.  I think that at this stage in your position, you should be more clearly expressing the will of your constituents, but I see conflicts with your natural inclinations.  It still looks very mechanical and the teleprompters don’t help.  5.

Simon:  For me, that was just  awful.  (boooo in the background) Clearly this role is not suited for you.  I think you picked the wrong role and you have the wrong backup people, I see you more comfortable battling authority than being authority.  We need to see you more as yourself rather than trying to fit into a free market capitalist disguise.

Paula:  Week after week you come on here and I just love your suit and haircut and I agree with Simon that this is probably not your best, but you look wonderful and I think you tried real hard with what you had to work with and you have a good stage  presence and  dress well every week and just try to be yourself and be the star that you are and your suits look good and maybe your next role is more suitable and I’m a fan and I just love you.

Randy:  For me dude, it was just a’ight.  I don’t feel it man. I get the feeling you are trying to be someone you really aren’t.  Dude, if you want to be a socialist, just say so and get real.  I don’t think this capitalist free market gig is your bag.

Geez, tough reviews.  I wonder if he’ll survive the next round of voting.

link White House Task Force Seeks Fight on Childhood Obesity – Political Hotsheet – CBS News.

War on two fronts in the middle east.  Crushing government debt loads in all nations.  Out of control health care costs.  U.S. immigration showdown. Nuclear arming of rogue states. Calamitous oil gusher in gulf of Mexico.  Stubbornly high domestic unemployment.  These will now take secondary consideration by the White House now that “Childhood Obesity” is now the crisis du jour.

The steady march continues in the erosion of personal freedoms and responsibilities as the government officially dubs fat kids a crisis that requires government intervention.  We know how this will play out because we’ve seen it all before in other crisis du jours from the recent past.  Slick marketing and propaganda machinery will be employed to convince the public that such a thing actually exists, similar to global warming.  No doubt, nutritionists/pathologists and psychologists will be employed to plead the case to the general public.  In co-ordination, Hollywood will be engaged to champion the cause to fertile and naive minds.  Remember Sally Struthers years ago with her doe eyes pleading for money to feed hungry children?  Now it’ll be the opposite.  We’ll have washed up stars pleading with kids to forgo the big mac, the slurpee or the fried chicken.  It won’t be Sean Penn, he already has a cause, communism, so it will have to be someone with some kind of respect. 

I”m sure they’ll find someone suitable, after all, Hollywood is full of people living healthy normal non addictive lifestyles.  I can even think of slogans for any rappers who care to champion the cause.  “Do da weed, dis da feed”, or ” bein’ big fat, ain’t where it at”.  How about more mainstream slogans, ” eat like a bird, pass on thirds”.  An entire new industry is created to “help the kids”.  Telethons, marathons, bowl-a-thons, sing alongs, everything except eat-a-thons to encourage food abstinence.

As any experienced parent knows, to forbid any activity from your children is an open invitation for them to do exactly the opposite. Years of admonitions not to use narcotic drugs has only ballooned the size of the population doing them, so much so that it’s a mainstream phenomenon, not the isolated activity a few dopeheads participated in 30 years ago.  Oddly, while cigarette smoking has managed to reach pariah status, the smoking of marijuana is an acceptable activity.   When the new food nazis arrive, rebel kids can be found lurking in groups beyond the school grounds sneaking and sharing tubs of fried chicken with gravy. 

So in this new campaign to encourage thinnner kids, fat kids will be subject to even more ridicule and derision.  Not only that, but their parents will be exposed to an entirely new social dynamic as their children are compared to each other at parties like status symbols.  “My little Johnny has only 1% body fat, we only feed him kibble once a day”.  Parents of fat kids will not showcase them at parties, pretending that they are off at law school somewhere.

Speaking of law, that is the logical extension of how this campaign will roll out.  Initially, restaurants and purveyors of food deemed “not acceptable’ by some bureaucracy will need to have special licenses to operate.  The second stage is to make kids carry licenses or permits to carry certain kinds of food. 

“Can I see the permit for that bucket of chicken son?”

“Uh, I left it at home..”

“Please come with me, you can call your parents from the jailhouse”

And so the criminal population grows…..