Prime's Worm Hole : Barry Is Just One of The Guys

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Barry Is Just One of The Guys

Yep, our pres is just one of the guys. (Five Guys to be exact).

While the world spins precariously and war and nuclear crisis threatens our lives daily and terrorism looms as a threat to change the complexion of the world as we know it, once again our pres can find the time to get out and press the flesh with the people and have a burger lunch off the cuff.

Yesterday, he made his second venture into the inner sanctum of Washington's burger culture, to once again partake in his cheeseburgers and conversations with the little people. And here we were thinking that the original pokey man of the White house was Bill Clinton. At this rate, Obama will soon wind up looking like Bill Cosby's caricature of Fat Albert, but I digress.

The real story that came out of this latest burger visit? Was that Our president in his attempts to satisfy his fat quotient for the week, has once again demonstrated his naivete, if not his out right ignorance of the issues that he is supposed to have not only a grasp of, but a supreme command of.

Pres. Obama at Five Guys Burgers & Fries in Washington

At the above captioned link, the president's visit was captured on video. Mostly him moseying about glad handing and schmoozing with the hired help and the patrons. And of course the grandiose and staged presentation of his ordering burgers for his friends in the media, then coming off his own hip with the cash to pay the bill.

All very well and all brilliantly choreographed. His media people certainly have a flair for making him look like John Q public done good. But someone let the cameras run too long and the video linked at the C-SPAN site caught the president in the midst of a serious gaffe of knowledge.

Watch and listen closely, as the president approaches one patron and asked him who he is and what he does.

A POLITICO reader caught the exchange, which starts around 5:45 on this C-SPAN video.

The transcript:

Obama: What do you do Walter?
Walter: I work at, uh, NGA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Obama: Outstanding, how long you been doing that?
Walter: About six years
Obama: Yea?
Walter: Yes.
Obama: You like it?
Walter: I do, keeps me...
Obama: So explain to me exactly what this National Geospatial...uh...
Walter: Uh, we work with, uh, satellite imagery..
Obama: Right
Walter: [unintelligible] ...support systems, so...
Obama: Sounds like good work.
Walter: Enjoy the weekend.
Obama: Appreciate it.

That's right....the president of the United States discovered a National Intelligence agency, (that he obviously didn't know existed) while stopping for a burger and fries.

A little background on the president's stumbling over his own ignorance.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of the national Intelligence Community (IC). NGA develops imagery and map-based intelligence solutions for U.S. national defense, homeland security and safety of navigation.

NGA provides timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. The term "geospatial intelligence" means the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. Geospatial intelligence consists of imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial (e.g., mapping, charting and geodesy) information.

Now what is interesting in addition to this, is that this video can only be located at the C-SPAN site. All of the clips covering the president's burger visit to Five Guys Burgers last week on youtube?

Well they conveniently are edited to either outright step around this incident and exchange, or they have been blatantly cut out of the middle of the tape where they occur.

One has to wonder, what would have been the result had George Bush made a similar mistake. Actually? One doesn't have to wonder. There are endless cut and paste videos on youtube and across the internet cataloging his smallest of errors. Including the supposed big one when he was in the Florida grade school the morning the planes hit the twin towers.

Let's certainly hope that Obama isn't stopping for another burger and fries when we are next attacked. If he is, I can promise you the video will likely not see the light of day in our life times. But by the time this man is finished, we will have a rolling video catalog of his burger fetish.

3 comments:

Abraham said...: This is the first I've seen or heard of it. Which isn't surprising.; May 30, 2009 at 1:47:00 PM GMT-5
Julian said...: Yeah, burger boy is at it again and this time, he stepped in it. Of course the suck wind media will cover for him and most Americans will never even know what happened.; May 30, 2009 at 1:49:00 PM GMT-5
Debra said...: Can Obama demonstrate more clearly his cavalier attitude and lack of awareness of his responsibilities?

Good grief!; May 30, 2009 at 7:02:00 PM GMT-5

Prime's Worm hole

This is a place for me to muse about the issues that affect our world. My world and my country and my life in particular. I can say what I want to here and those who may stumble across my musings, are welcome to comment,or not. America is under siege. Everything this nation has ever represented, is now being torn asunder and crushed by the onslaught of egalitarian socialism. All morals and social values have been devolved into the belief that systemic racism, is the only underlying cause or reason for any societal ills in America. And that representation, is nothing but a Trojan Horse argument. A means of getting the egalitarian camel's nose into the tent. And now that it has been inserted? There is mayhem and anarchy and burning and looting all across America. And the only questions that remains to be asked and answered? Are these. When is enough enough and when will the American people call full stop and take the law into their own hands, to repel this socialist based attack on the Constitution and our personal freedoms.

Thinking

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax", I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver.

"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make that much money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.

"I'm going to the library," I snarled
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.

They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today I took the final step...I joined the Democratic Party

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If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Captain Michael O'Donnell was lost in Cambodia on March 24 1970, while flying a UH1 rescue helicopter, trying to rescue an eight man LRRP team under attack in Cambodia. He was listed as MIA along with the eight he had attempted to rescue after his UH1 Huey was shot down by enemy fire. The official military report listed the eight as shot down 'non survivable' and 'non recoverable.'

Michael O'Donnell was submitted for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross, the Bronze Star, The Air Medal and The Purple Heart and he was promoted to the rank of Major (posthumously).

In 1978 he was officially listed as KIA by the Department of Defense.

A little about the philosophy of the author

The Borg Conspiracy is one man's purely pedestrian thoughts, independent musings and frequently cheeky commentaries...Mixed with an abundance of patriotism, love of God, and love of country.

My thoughts?

In my opinion........in another generation, all that will remain of our once great republic, may be little more than what is left to weather the passage of time in the form of a few obscure and forgotten monuments to the great American experiment.

If America should fail....let it be written as her epitaph.....died by her own hand. The greatest experiment in freedom ever undertaken, lost in the end to the pursuit of the illusion that egalitarian tolerance was more valuable than individual freedom.

Let us be warned.
Franklin, Payne, Jefferson. They all knew the consequences of the lack of vigilance and they tried to warn us. They gave us a document as our guide post. We were to guard it and revere it and use it to guide and govern our future and our posterity.

No one listened.