The best of Obama-praise

November 1, 5:03 PMHartford Conservative ExaminerJohn Talleos

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  When President Obama threw out the first pitch at a baseball game there was satire that was especially disturbing and mean. First was the observation that he was wearing "mommy" jeans. Then it was said that he threw the ball like a “girl" which only shows how stupid some people are because everyone knows that girls can't and don't play baseball--they play softball instead. The thing about the mommy jeans too, well, so what? If true it probably was for the first time in his adult life and it may have made him very proud.

  These are distractions by a small part of society that won't accept the greatness of Obama. They want to ignore that Obama has a Grammy award for instance whereas the Beatles don't. Or that Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize for just thinking about peace while Gandhi couldn't accomplish that for all a life time of work. Well it's time to bust some bubbles here and show just how small his detractors are.

  The first testament is from the singer currently known as Sting (no relation to Cher) who says Obama "In many ways, he's sent from God because the world's a mess." As for Obama 's detractors he says "They don't want change, they want things to feel the same because they feel safe there." Sting is releasing a new rock album. He's 58.

  Now that Obama is here, thank God, literally, Sting hopes that "we can start talking about real issues and not caring about whether God cares about your hemline or your color". Sting may have a point but perhaps God should have sent us a tailor instead of a president.

  Senator Patrick Leahy (D VT) points out that along with Obama's swellness comes incredibly good manners: "No one can force other nations to follow, but President Obama is reintroducing America to the rest of the world..." and from that let's hope the two converse on a first name basis.

  In this next quote former Clinton white house employee D.D Meyers (the D's stand for Dee Dee, in fact that's how she spells her name or names, Dee Dee Meyers, think of Boutros Boutros Galli). Dee Dee did some research and came up with this:

  "Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world."

  No mention on who's second. Some may say that since she's talking about the history of the world the fact that Obama is living is redundant. Well we say it isn't and go one step further to say he is the history of the world.

  The next gem is from Rocco Landesman chairman of National Endowment of the Arts. Now Dee Dee and Sting put Rocco at a disadvantage. You can't beat stuff like most-famous-ever or being a divine gift so Rocco, being a tireless reader of rare books, does the intellect angle and he doesn't disappoint:

This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for American artists.

  Good for American artists? Don't you mean good for all humanity everywhere? Oh, one final point., Lincoln never wrote a book. Let's stick with the big boys like Julius Caesar, okay Rocco? Lincoln, indeed. I know I know some of you cynics may say that since America is the best place in the world to shop and since Obama is its leader therefore the white house is like one big Sears customer service center since Gimbals ? Not funny, I understand the parallel reasoning, but not funny so stop it you haters.

  Many many years ago there was a rock band called Crosby Stills Nash and sometimes Young. They wrote a song that had these words: "teach" music music "your children well" music music, I forgot the rest. The point is we are teaching our children well since Obama became leader. Now the children are singing songs that finally have some meaning:

Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!

For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say "hooray!"

Hooray, Mr. President! You're number one!

The first black American to lead this great nation!

  It's a good effort but there is a sense that the kiddies are being indoctrinated here with “great nation”.

This next song is better:

 He said we must be fair today

Equal work means equal pay

Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama

  The song had different words to it and was changed for the purpose of fighting child obesity. It used to be: “He said we must be fair today since we had pizza yesterday mmm, mmm, mm, macaroni and cheese.” We like the new song, kids are getting a little too fat. Thank you Mr. President or better yet, hooray!

  Back in the adult world of CBS News where anchorperson Katie Couric who gets paid today three times the amount for equal work at other networks across the way (mmm, mmm, mm) gave us an objective newsy take on Obama:

  What he represents to many countries overseas is a departure from the Bush administration which alienated some foreign governments early on with its rejection of global warming initiatives and its national security positions. 

..such as going after countries that supported Islamic terrorists when America was attacked. Here's the rule, do not go after people who kill Americans if it means alienating some foreign left of center government. What skewed priorities carbon lover Bush had!

 Another news person probably got it better than everyone else. Evan Thomas from Newsweek hit the nail on the head when he was chit chatting with Chris Mathews on the Chris Mathews Show staring Chris Mathews. He's the favorite here because being the most famous ever, the next literary Caesar or being sent by God is nothing compared to being, well, read for yourself:

  Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.

  We know that Thomas is a news person and he has to be objective but he overdoes it when he says "sort of".