Boys, You Have Been Had

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

[img]1|left|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]My dear friends on the left have been so busy during the daylight hours chasing Sarah and Newt and Dick and Glenn back and forth across a high wire that they have failed to notice Swish Obama’s most under-rated talent:

Smudging the windows that were supposed to afford us transparency into his virginal life.

The deft left has failed to acknowledge the most shocking numbers from last week’s Pew Research Center survey:

That 43 percent of blacks and 48 percent of Democrats think Swish is a Muslim.

Those numbers are more startling than the three-quarters of Americans who oppose the Ground Zero mosque. Desperately, besieged backers of the mosque have tried to change the subject by switching the name of the subject — while the whole world was looking — from the Ground Zero mosque to the “Islamic community center.” Why not? The con worked before when the same people changed the name of global warming to climate change. How mature.

Reflect on this stunner: Nearly half of Swish’s blindest loyalists think he owes his primary allegiance to Allah.

Not because of a devious Republican plot. Rather, it is by Mr. Obama’s meticulous, deceitful design.

We were served appetizers of the slick now-you-see-it, no-you-don’t agenda throughout his fairy tale campaign.

His surreal path to the election was glutted with glances — masterfully arranged — but not penetrating, revealing portraits.

Swish could have killed the I-am-a-Muslim rumor when it was a seedling. Instead, he poured gasoline on the fire, calculatedly, by circling around it and refusing to clarify his position. Meanwhile, swooning male and female campaign trail reporters were so enchanted by the way his body swayed and his repetitious words flowed that they did not realize, or admit they were being played for squareheads.

You will recall the controversy around the vulgar Chicago racist thug Jeremiah Wright. Swish conned us with his boyish blankness, his guileless, clueless grin when the Rev. Wright’s latest hate speech were published.

This was scripted tighter than an Arthur Miller play.

Wasn’t it cute, we dunces in the country said to each other, how it only took Swish several days to announce that my golly, Murgatroyd, he was a little put off by what the profane reverend said about America and white people.

Subsequently, shrinking into innocent-kid mode, Swish, resembling the greenest amateur, shook his head convincingly and said, my golly, I never heard him say anything like that before. Zowie.

The only thing Mr. Obama does better than fib is to deceive. You and I knew about the Rev. Wright’s gutter history. Swish did not, wink-wink.

Swish swore he had been a parishioner there for 20 years. What he did not say was that for 95 percent of that time, he arrived in the guise of an empty pew. It has been only lightly reported that when Swish made his announcement to run for the White House, he ordered the holy thug not to come near him in public.

This is a game, pal. And we suckers lose.

The bologna about Swish’s birthplace and his lineage is 10-balls-in-the-air-at-once stuff intended to distract us from the main screen.

He could have swatted down the non-native and Muslim stories in the beginning.

But, baby, it was milking time, and we were the cows. Swish did not refute these exotic rumors because they would inexorably enhance his other-worldly aura.

His carefully choreographed dances with various tyrants of the Muslim and Arab universes were drawn to enlarge his Distinct From Us Riff-Raff image. He is human, his people told us, but so ephemerally different from you and me.

Ahh, how romantic.

Swish’s peculiar career has risen on the wings of the following mantra:

Fool the peasants by constantly blurring their vision.

This game is called Figure Out Where Swish Stands:

• Please identify President Obama’s stance on gay marriage. He has publicly spoken for and against.

• Please identify President Obama’s stance on the Ground Zero mosque. He made a declaration of support then ceded part of that position.

• Please identify President Obama’s stance on immigration reform. Even Mad Michelle doesn’t know.

• Please identify President Obama’s stance on Iran and nuclear weapons.

• Please identify the reason President Obama has summoned Israel’s Prime Minister and one half — but pointedly not the other half — of the Palestinian leaders to Washington next week. Please identify President Obama’s stance on the talks and his route to a solution.

• Please approximately define President Obama’s stance on global warming. What are his parameters?

• Please clarify the meaning of President Obama’s ballyhooed Cairo speech 14 months ago, his you-and-I-have-so-much-in-common wooing of Arab/Muslim dictators or his steady drumbeat of apologies for America’s past.

• Please tell me why President Obama has purposely clouded every significant scenario that has arisen during his administration. Name the person or the concept in dispute — and I defy you to state, unalterably, his position. It is nonexistent.

Who Is in Charge?

Swish’s amateurish tools for governing, an axe in one hand and a teleprompter in the other, is an unfunny joke. A majority of Americans oppose virtually all of his signature initiatives — by chubby margins. On one of those 80-percent-against topics, wouldn’t you think he would accidentally humble himself and reflect? His ballyhooed erudition is exaggerated by the same margin as his vacant religiosity.

If he can’t say “g’morning” without a teleprompter and “let me make it clear” is mandatory in every speech longer than 10 seconds, it is beginning to sound as if we have been saddled with a Freudian fraud.

Mainly, Swish has ruled by implication rather than declaration because that would expose his vast hollowness.

Blithely, as if he were stone deaf, he whistles as he walks down a remote road, by himself. This recalls an opening scene from the old Andy Griffith Show. Swish is Dep. Barney Fife — with a loaded gun. Heaven, and all other forces, help us.