RUSH LIMBAUGH CHALLENGES PRESIDENT OBAMA TO A DEBATE! This time I really wish I WAS kidding.
Yes, the king of the right wing (or if you live in Spokane WA, “That moderate guy on the radio.”) has challenged the President of the United States to come on his radio show and debate him. According to the AP:
“If these guys are so impressed with themselves, and if they are so sure of their correctness, why doesn't President Obama come on my show? We will do a one-on-one debate of ideas and policies,” Limbaugh said on his radio program Wednesday. “So let's have the debate! I am offering President Obama to come on this program — without staffers, without a TelePrompTer, without note cards — to debate me on the issues.”
OK, a few quick points here. In actual presidential debates, the participants ARE allowed note cards and even memo pads. Remember all those shots of Obama taking notes while his opponents were speaking? Also, all those things that Obama wouldn’t have, is Rush saying he’d give up those advantages too? Would he force all the staff of his radio show to leave the building? Lastly, “I’m offering President Obama to…” does Rush realize that he doesn’t own Obama and therefore can’t offer him to anyone or anything? For a man who insists English should be the national language, he should at least be able to get his possessives straight.
Enough nitpicking, let’s get down to the real issue at hand here. Who the Tartarus does Limbaugh think he is? Why would the President of the United States (or any sane person for that matter) debase themselves by coming on his show? The President has a lot to do such as running a country, helping his children grow up under a spotlight, ending wars, and using the toilet. All of which come well ahead of debating Rush Limbaugh.
All that said, I would LOVE to see a debate between these two because Barack Obama would tear that man (and I use the term loosely) into bite sized chunks. But I would have to insist on a fair debate. That means neutral territory. There is no way you are going to convince me that a debate hosted on Limbaugh’s own radio show would be even remotely impartial. For example, if Rush’s minions control the microphones, then they control who get’s to speak, when, and for how long. This is fair how?
Get the two of them on stage at some university or another and let the cameras roll. If Rush thinks he can hang in Obama’s league, then let it be a real debate, not a 90 second apiece “sound bite-off.” President Obama has made himself a reputation as the guy who gives you the long detailed answers and assumes you are smart enough to deal with it. I doubt Rush can even come close to matching that. This is a man who can’t go 3 sentences without stumbling over his words, repeating himself, or interjecting space fillers such as um and er. (Granted, the improvised nature of a live chat show contributes to this)
But back to my original point, it ain’t gonna happen because Rush Limbaugh isn’t worth the President’s time.
Until next time, I’m RyuSensei and I’m not kidding.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Obama, I love ya, but come ON man!
OBAMA MAKES A F#$* UP!
OK, I’ll cop to being a shameless Obama supporter, but I will admit that the man is capable of making mistakes (Trusting the GOP to go along with the “new era of bipartisanship” springs to mind). But now Obama has made a possible game changer of a screw up in the field of cabinet nominees.
President Obama has named former Washington State Governor Gary Locke as his third pick for Secretary of Commerce. Gary Locke? You have to be kidding.
I was living in Washington State during Locke’s tenure as Governor and he was, for the most part, not completely incompetent. However, there is one area where he sends up a burning hot red flag: Education. Education 2000 to be exact.
Education 2000 was a conference held in the last year of the twentieth century. The goal was to define a curriculum that would be used to write a state wide exam for high school students, with the eventual goal of having this test be a graduation requirement. This was before No Child Gets Ahead came along and soiled the whole concept. There were several things that went wrong with this event, but only one relates to former Gov. Locke
Before I go any further, I must confess that I’m working off of second hand information. One of my professors at Washington State University attended this conference and LOVED to tell horror stories to her College of Education students. The employees of WSU are mostly fools and knaves, but I trust this particular teacher enough to relay this story.
It was the end of the conference (whether it was also a dark and stormy night I’ll leave to your imaginations). The curriculum has been finalized and everyone is patting each other on the back and enjoying the last of the free food (teachers are one of those groups to whom, if you promise free food, you had better deliver if you value your kidneys).
It was about that time that the Governor rolled up and gave the final approval for what would and would not go into the test, and therefore what subjects would and would not be funded and focused on in schools. Please note that he had not attended the rest of the conference and was only looking at a bullet point list of subjects.
The subjects that he crossed out and essentially eliminated from Washington State public schools include, but are not limited to:
Health
Listening Skills
Art
Geography (as a separate subject from Social Studies)
and Civics (CIVICS! The professional politician cut CIVICS from the exam that tests whether or not students know what they need to know to be proper members of US society! W! T! F!!)
Now both of you may be wondering (and please note that I make no illusions about my readership) why any of this matters for the Commerce Secretary. Fair question. To find the answer, just re-watch President Obama’s I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-a State of the Union address. One of Obama’s stated priorities to fix America was a heavy investment in Education. Who controls where and how that money is spent? If you said the Commerce Department, you get a gold star. And who will be running the department if he is confirmed? That’s right! The man who thinks Americans don’t need to know how the government works, how to find China on a map, or how to follow basic instructions.
Just to be clear, we’re all aware that this is a bad idea, right?
Until next time, I’m RyuSensei and I’m not kidding.
OK, I’ll cop to being a shameless Obama supporter, but I will admit that the man is capable of making mistakes (Trusting the GOP to go along with the “new era of bipartisanship” springs to mind). But now Obama has made a possible game changer of a screw up in the field of cabinet nominees.
President Obama has named former Washington State Governor Gary Locke as his third pick for Secretary of Commerce. Gary Locke? You have to be kidding.
I was living in Washington State during Locke’s tenure as Governor and he was, for the most part, not completely incompetent. However, there is one area where he sends up a burning hot red flag: Education. Education 2000 to be exact.
Education 2000 was a conference held in the last year of the twentieth century. The goal was to define a curriculum that would be used to write a state wide exam for high school students, with the eventual goal of having this test be a graduation requirement. This was before No Child Gets Ahead came along and soiled the whole concept. There were several things that went wrong with this event, but only one relates to former Gov. Locke
Before I go any further, I must confess that I’m working off of second hand information. One of my professors at Washington State University attended this conference and LOVED to tell horror stories to her College of Education students. The employees of WSU are mostly fools and knaves, but I trust this particular teacher enough to relay this story.
It was the end of the conference (whether it was also a dark and stormy night I’ll leave to your imaginations). The curriculum has been finalized and everyone is patting each other on the back and enjoying the last of the free food (teachers are one of those groups to whom, if you promise free food, you had better deliver if you value your kidneys).
It was about that time that the Governor rolled up and gave the final approval for what would and would not go into the test, and therefore what subjects would and would not be funded and focused on in schools. Please note that he had not attended the rest of the conference and was only looking at a bullet point list of subjects.
The subjects that he crossed out and essentially eliminated from Washington State public schools include, but are not limited to:
Health
Listening Skills
Art
Geography (as a separate subject from Social Studies)
and Civics (CIVICS! The professional politician cut CIVICS from the exam that tests whether or not students know what they need to know to be proper members of US society! W! T! F!!)
Now both of you may be wondering (and please note that I make no illusions about my readership) why any of this matters for the Commerce Secretary. Fair question. To find the answer, just re-watch President Obama’s I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-a State of the Union address. One of Obama’s stated priorities to fix America was a heavy investment in Education. Who controls where and how that money is spent? If you said the Commerce Department, you get a gold star. And who will be running the department if he is confirmed? That’s right! The man who thinks Americans don’t need to know how the government works, how to find China on a map, or how to follow basic instructions.
Just to be clear, we’re all aware that this is a bad idea, right?
Until next time, I’m RyuSensei and I’m not kidding.
Ready for rapid fire
I have been writing for thid thing, I swear, but I just haven't gotten around to posting any of it yet. Combine this with the fact that I'm forever a news cycle or so behind (what with being on the other side of the world and all) that my materia is usually out of date before I post it. However, I love to hear myself talk, or type, or whatever. Therefore get ready for several rapid fire posts over the next hour or so.
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