I Promised Myself I Wouldn't Do This

I really didn't want to post about politics on the blog any more. I've been trying hard to ignore it all and just accept that America is pretty much dead, and that there is nothing more I can do to help it. However, I just saw something just now that made me REALLY angry. I've been angry before, and I've known for a while that our country is in trouble with very little hope for positive, constructive change. I've also known that Obama is an amoral, opportunistic jerkwad who will throw anyone under the bus as it suits political expediency. But in an interview today, Obama had the following exchange with C-SPAN's Steve Scully (via Drudge Report):

"SCULLY: When you see GM though as “Government Motors,” you're reaction?

OBAMA: Well, you know – look, we are trying to help an auto industry that is going through a combination of bad decision making over many years and an unprecedented crisis or at least a crisis we haven't seen since the 1930's. And you know the economy is going to bounce back and we want to get out of the business of helping auto companies as quickly as we can. I have got more enough to do without that. In the same way that I want to get out of the business of helping banks, but we have to make some strategic decisions about strategic industries..."

"Bad decision making over many years"? What? WHAT??? YOU'RE BLAMING THE AUTO MAKERS FOR THE SITUATION THEY'RE IN NOW?? The US Government has done nothing but handicap the American automakers for the past 50 years, by forcing them to continuously fund guaranteed jobs, outrageous benefits, and neverending retirement for hundreds of thousands of union workers who did nothing more than turn the same four bolts for 30 years of their lives. And when union workers felt like they weren't getting enough, they just made some government arbitrator give it to them. The government handicapped them further by forcing them to turn out millions of cars that Americans didn't (and don't) want to buy. The government is about to do this even more, as already indicated just a few days ago by Mr. Obama's announcements regarding even-higher fuel efficiency standards. These facts are not in dispute. They have done nothing but try to follow free-market rules and make cars that their customers want to buy. Yet the government has done nothing but meddle in the business affairs of the American automakers, and now "America's chickens are coming home to roost" as Mr. Obama's good friend Reverend Wright likes to say. Yet somehow, Mr. Obama has the unmitigated gall to claim that IT'S THE AUTOMAKERS WHO ARE AT FAULT???

You all know I don't typically cuss in my posts, at least not harshly. So please forgive me for how I am about to say what I am about to say...there's just no other way to put it.

Mr. Obama, you are officially full of shit.