Why all the names?

I listened to a conversation where a guy who was maligning (aka telling the truth about) the Dear Dope was reminded that the Dope was “his president too.” Sadly, I suppose that is true. Our parents are our parents and our president is our president regardless of how petty, stupid and abusive they may be.

I have noted here before that I do not call the Dope a dope for any other reason than I do believe him to be a dope well out of his depth in any activity that doesn’t involve organizing a pick up basketball game or throwing together an arugula salad.

He’s not a dope in the Bullwinkle J. Moose sense of being a good natured dope. He’s smarmy Eddie Haskell type dope. He tells Middle America how great we are when he’s campaigning in Ft. Wayne (Oh, good evening Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver. That’s a lovely dress Mrs. Cleaver. Is Wallace home? Thank you and have a good evening.) Then when he’s out with his arugula eating swells in Hollywood, he refers to us as bitter, clinging to our guns and bibles (Beat it squirt. Hey Wally, let’s raid your old man’s liquor cabinet tonight.)

I refer to him as a punk not because I think it is a clever taunt. It’s anything but clever. I refer to the Dope as punk because I think it is the right word to describe him. The – the cops acted stupidly – event is the perfect example. Mr. High and Mighty weighs in on a topic that – like everything else – he has no clue about. He calls the cops stupid for trying to protect a black man’s property. When it turns out he F**&ed up in the biggest way possible, Mr. Punk doesn’t offer an apology. He gets everyone together for a photo op for himself. That’s what punks do. Hey, it wasn’t my fault. Everyone’s to blame here. Sure, the only one who acted stupidly here was me but let’s get together, share a beer and the blame and forget about the whole thing. P-U-N-K.

I don’t refer to him as arrogant for any other reason than he is – for some reason - an arrogant SOB. Generally arrogance is not attributed to people haven’t accomplished anything. Mr. Know nothing, do nothing, be nothing travels around the world apologizing for and blaming America. That is arrogance. America – with all her faults – has been the greatest force for good on this planet for the last 234 years. Yet Arugula Boy, the man who has done nothing, travels around apologizing and blaming America with his nose turned up at just the right angle. Arrogant!

I don’t call him a thug gratuitously. I call him a thug because that’s how he acts. That’s the kind of people he chooses associate and surround himself with. He is not a thug in the sense that Luca Brazzi was a thug. No, Eddie Haskell types are also pretty much cowards relying on other to do the dirty work. The Dope is more of a Jabba the Hut type thug laying back while others go about doing odious things to gain his favor. According to Tom Beavan at RCP, the Dope and/or his thug friends have used the power of their offices to:

accuse doctors of performing unnecessary medical procedures for profit

demonize bond holders as "speculators"

produce a report suggesting military veterans are prone to becoming right wing extremists

attack insurance companies and threatened them with legislative retribution

ridicule talk show hosts and political commentators by name from the White House podium

dismiss and demeaned protesters and town hall attendees as either unauthentic or fringe characters (His thug friends upped the ante by calling us everything from un-American to Nazis to assassins.)

launch an orchestrated campaign to marginalize the country's biggest pro-business group

publicly declared war on a news organization

Yeah, he’s a thug.

So while it’s true that the Dope holds the highest office in the land, until he starts to act like the president of all of the people, I’ll kiss his skinny @ss at Broad and High before I call him “my president.”