{"id":1801,"date":"2011-05-24T15:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T19:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2011-05-24T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T19:46:42","slug":"for-those-still-slurping-from-the-kool-aid-trough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/for-those-still-slurping-from-the-kool-aid-trough.html","title":{"rendered":"For those still slurping from the Kool-Aid trough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/1\/12\/Kool_Aid_Man.jpeg\/220px-Kool_Aid_Man.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kool Aid Man!  Tastes Great!  Keeps you happy all the time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>WATCHWOMAN NOTE: <\/strong>Most of you receiving this know I\u2019m no longer preaching to the choir and for those of you who are in the choir you don\u2019t really need to read this. \u00a0However, many, based upon the wild &#8216;n crazy comments I get at my Watchwoman on the Wall blog, more than just a few are still slurping from the Kool-Aid trough. \u00a0I got the following emailed to me so I am forwarding it onward via the Watchwoman Blog.<\/p>\n<p>May those of you still slurping from the Kool-Aid trough, may this be a present reminder of what Obama has accomplished in the short time he\u2019s been the Kool-Aid Kommander in Khief. \u00a0<strong>\u25ac \u00a0Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S. This should get the attention of the latest\u00a0Obama Czar appointment, the new Director of Progressive Media &amp; Online Response.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1814\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2011\/05\/Obama-Spending-Money-to-Get-out-Debt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1814\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2011\/05\/Obama-Spending-Money-to-Get-out-Debt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obama-commie-nomics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;as the Czech columnist wrote: \u201cThe United States will survive an\u00a0Obama, maybe even for two terms. What the country cannot survive is an electorate that put him in office to begin with.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>Because he has begun his campaign, it is incumbent on those of us who disagree with his policies to rally and make an effort to wake those people up, pull their heads out of which ever dark place they have hidden them and urge a correction to the mistake made in 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks for your time\u2026(author unknown)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOME OF YOU WILL APPRECIATE THIS<br \/>\nAND SOME OF YOU WILL NOT.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR SENDING THIS<br \/>\nBECAUSE ALL OF IT IS TRUE.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nIf any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad doubled the\u00a0National Debt, which<br \/>\nhad taken more than two centuries<br \/>\nto accumulate, in one year,<br \/>\nwould You have Approved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad then proposed to Double<br \/>\nthe debt again within 10 years,<br \/>\nwould you have approved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad criticized a State Law that<br \/>\nhe admitted he never even read,<br \/>\nwould you think that he is<br \/>\njust an ignorant hot Head?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\njoined the country of Mexico and sued a<br \/>\nState in the United States to force that State<br \/>\nto continue to allow Illegal Immigration,<br \/>\nwould you question his patriotism<br \/>\nand wonder who&#8217;s side he was on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad pronounced the Marine Corps<br \/>\nas if it were the Marine Corpse,<br \/>\nwould you think him an Idiot?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad put 87,000 workers out of work<br \/>\nby arbitrarily placing a moratorium on<br \/>\noffshore oil drilling on companies that have<br \/>\none of the best safety records of any industry<br \/>\nbecause one foreign company had an accident,<br \/>\nwould you have agreed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad used a forged document as the<br \/>\nbasis of the moratorium that would render<br \/>\n87000 American workers unemployed,<br \/>\nwould you support him?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad been the first President to need a<br \/>\nteleprompter installed to be able to get through<br \/>\na press conference, would you have laughed and said<br \/>\nthis is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is<br \/>\nreally controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad spent hundreds of thousands of Dollars<br \/>\nto take his\u00a0First Lady\u00a0to a play in NYC,<br \/>\nwould you have approved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad reduced your retirement plan holdings<br \/>\nof GM stock by 90% and given the<br \/>\nunions a majority stake in GM,<br \/>\nwould you have approved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad made a joke at the expense<br \/>\nof the Special Olympics,<br \/>\nwould you have approved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad given\u00a0Gordon Brown\u00a0a set of inexpensive<br \/>\nand incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown<br \/>\nhad given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift,<br \/>\nwould you have approved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad given the Queen of England an<br \/>\nIPod containing videos of his speeches,<br \/>\nwould you have thought it to be a<br \/>\nproud moment for America ?<\/p>\n<p>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia ,<br \/>\nwould you have approved?<\/p>\n<p>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad visited Austria and made reference<br \/>\nto the nonexistent &#8220;Austrian language,&#8221;<br \/>\nwould you have brushed it off<br \/>\nas a minor slip?<\/p>\n<p>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad filled his Cabinet and circle of<br \/>\nAdvisers with people who cannot seem<br \/>\nto keep current on their Income Taxes,<br \/>\nwould you have approved?<\/p>\n<p>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad stated that there were 57 states in<br \/>\nthe United States , wouldn&#8217;t you have had<br \/>\nsecond thoughts about his capabilities?<\/p>\n<p>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nwould have flown all the way to Denmark<br \/>\nto make a five minute speech about how the Olympics<br \/>\nwould benefit him walking out his front door in his<br \/>\nhome town, would you not have thought he was<br \/>\na self-important, conceited, egotistical jerk?<\/p>\n<p>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to<br \/>\n&#8220;Cinco de Cuatro&#8221; in front of the Mexican ambassador<br \/>\nwhen it was &#8220;The 5th of May&#8221; (Cinco de Mayo),<br \/>\nand then continue to flub it when he tried again,<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t you have winced in embarrassment?<\/p>\n<p>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel<br \/>\nto go plant a single tree on Earth Day,<br \/>\nwould you have concluded he&#8217;s a Hypocrite?<\/p>\n<p>If any other of our presidents&#8217;<br \/>\nAdministrations had okayed\u00a0Air Force One<br \/>\nflying low over millions of people followed by<br \/>\na jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing<br \/>\nwidespread panic, would you have wondered<br \/>\nwhether they actually get what happened on 9-11?<\/p>\n<p>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad failed to send relief aid to\u00a0flood victims<br \/>\nthroughout the Midwest, with more people killed<br \/>\nor made homeless than in New Orleans, would you<br \/>\nwant it made into a major ongoing Political issue<br \/>\nwith claims of racism and incompetence?<\/p>\n<p>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad created the positions of 32\u00a0Czars<br \/>\nwho report directly to him, bypassing<br \/>\nthe House and Senate on much of<br \/>\nwhat is happening in America,<br \/>\nwould you have approved?<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>If any other of our presidents<br \/>\nhad ordered the firing of the CEO<br \/>\nof a major corporation, even though he<br \/>\nhad no constitutional authority to do so,<br \/>\nwould you have approved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>\nSo, tell me again,<br \/>\nwhat is it about Obama that<br \/>\nmakes him so brilliant and impressive?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t think of anything?<br \/>\nThen you&#8217;d better start worrying.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s done all these things in 28 months &#8212;<br \/>\nand you have less than 19 months<br \/>\nto come up with an answer.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>Every statement and action in this email<br \/>\nis factual and correctly attributable<br \/>\nto Barrack Hussein Obama.<br \/>\nEvery bumble is a matter of record<br \/>\nand completely verifiable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>Author Unknown<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WATCHWOMAN NOTE: Most of you receiving this know I\u2019m no longer preaching to the choir and for those of you who are in the choir you don\u2019t really need to read this. \u00a0However, many, based upon the wild &#8216;n crazy comments I get at my Watchwoman on the Wall blog, more than just a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,463,35],"tags":[745],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-elections","category-obama","tag-obama-accomplishments"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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