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FROM THE PHONE BOOTH: The Smallest Space in  Hollywood

	FINEFROCK

Supply & De-Bland, A Taco Stand:
Barack Flak Attack
by Steve Finefrock - Hollywood Forum [scriptwriter] 6/5/08

So well-traveled, known to so many nations’ leaders.  And a failure as president.
 
So well-educated and eloquent, and a judged a failure, until his tragic departure from this mortal coil.
 
Who be these two presidential administrations, and more, who fit Barack’s qualifications, and failed the judgment of history perfessors?  At least two come to mind for the first qualification: Herbert Hoover and John Adams.  And two for the second: Woodrow Wilson and JFK.  As to political savvy leading to marginal utility as commander in chief, consider LBJ, and for most of his presidency the beloved Truman.
 
Eloquence? Was there any more beloved speaker than JFK, or any who was more lionized than FDR? One gave us a New Frontier which failed, but for his tax cut begotten by his death and its riding the national wave of sympathy and guilt, not to mention the Civil Rights Act. Another gave us the rampaging riot toward socialism, and no real ‘recovery’ of the Depression until war loomed in Europe.

Barack Obama: the democrat party’s national answer to California’s Gray Davis, originally named by his mother as ‘Graham’ and nicknamed as a boy by her as ‘Gray’ for his bland personality, which stuck his whole life. This required him to legally change his name for the ballot, which eventually gave California the kind of ‘leadership’ which the nation will garner with President Barack Obama as commander in chief.
 
During the Golden State energy crisis, borne of Public Utility Commission [PUC] refusal to grant “forward contracts” by utility planners, the clash of supply curve with demand curve graphs led a rare initiative by the media to Gray Davis: Do you believe in the law of supply and demand? His Quayle-ish answer, stumbling out of his bland eminence, was: Yes, I believe in the law of supply and debland.
 
So appropriate, yet unexploited by the GOP. Until the recall initiative. One panel of CEOs was asked by Hollywood publicist Michael Levine during the Gray Davis immolation: Would any of you consider him competent enough to manage one of your chain operations, such as Taco Bell and others present in the elite group of decision makers? Not one CEO raised his hand, the commentary confirming Levine’s judgment that the bland Mr. DeBland couldn’t even be trusted, by private-sector leaders, to run a taco stand.
 
The contrast in style and personality and charisma between Barack and Gray is as dramatic as humanly achievable.  But neither is a CEO type – and California stumbled gleefully into handing that state’s sixth-rated world economy to a dunderhead who couldn’t manage a Taco Bell or KFC franchise operation. His PUC refused to grant utilities’ planners and executives the authority to make contracts with electric generation sources into the future, as ‘forward contracts’ which would lock in the rate for the long-term.  The offset was a slightly higher current rate for each kilowatt-hour, but that would be a ‘premium’ for insurance against what the utilities foresaw as a coming clash in supply-&-debland.
 
And it came then, as today’s national energy crunch was foreseen by refinery and nuclear power and energy exploration executives – the very folks brought before the Congress like Ann Boleyn before Henry VIII’s contrived court gestures.  The bland CEO of California was the ideological cousin to the pending possible potentate of national energy policy if Mr. Charisma gets to the Oval Office. As Davis’ PUC poobahs refused a policy which would ‘punish the poor’ with then present-day higher rates, and thus condemned them to monstrously higher rates two years later, Barack and his confederacy of dunces in the DNC will immerse America’s economy into a Gore-iffic energy canyon.
 
Barack’s most oft-heralded ‘qualifications’ are his world travel, mixed lineage and the special judgment of being right on the Iraq war. On Iraq, to date, it counts as “one in a row” since we’ve seen a string of failed judgments ranging from Reverend Wright to radical friends and nifty land deals, ad infinitum [and infinity isn’t completed yet; in politics, a day is a year, and a week is forever – wait for more to come].
 
Herbert Hoover had so traveled so far for so many years that the 1928 DNC strategy focused on branding him “not American enough” for being outside our borders for so many of his adult years. Adams had traveled widely to Europe, even our ambassador to France alongside Thomas Jefferson. Liberals who rate presidencies dub both as failures, with Adams and Hoover both failing re-election in dramatic ways.
 
JFK’s elaborate worldliness stretched from wartime London where he was snared in an FBI surveillance of a Nazi spy-babe he was boinking, to the Solomon Islands in the far southwest Pacific [the direct result of his Nazi ‘connection’ putting his father’s political career in jeopardy]. But for that fatal bullet, his re-election was iffy at best. So much for the enabling CEO capacities drawn from extensive world travel, considering his vast failures leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis, preceded by the Berlin Wall, preceded by his wimpish summit with Khrushchev in Austria, and before that the Bay of Pigs. Not to mention a little out of the way corner of the world known as Indochina.
 
And so it goes – Truman was briefly shrewd, after two years of letting Stalin run roughshod over his Oval orifice of ineptness, then got tough for a while, branded the GOP Congress as do-nothing in the very year they passed bills to finally fight Stalin in Greece, Austria, then Europe generally with economic aid.  He left office with a popularity deficit akin to that now noted as Dubya’s designation. And Wilson? A political science perfessor as president led to the income tax, foreign war, failure in peace, and his wife pulling strings as he struggled with brain lesions – all in secret, nay extra-Constitutional diversion of power.  But, oh, he was so-o-o educated and worldly.
 
Bottom line is that Barack Hussein Obama is a kid in short pants – his middle name is the least of the issues [imagine a GOPster with a middle name drawn from a central figure of South Africa apartheid or Southern segregation, say “Pik” or “Wallace” or “Bull Connor“– or even “Hoover” – and the DNC not note its inherent implications], but emblematic of many interesting and un-bland things to be found inside the nugget of his more known characteristics.
 
In between Barack and Obama, his best-known monikers, is Hussein – unknown for some time, then revealed to protests by his acolytes.  In between his known ‘skills’ and ‘qualifications’ is a grande canyon of deficiencies, yet to be fathomed and blasted on the media.  And by the GOP.  
 
A presidency in short pants?
 
A Presidency in Short Pants!
 
Scary. More than his middle name. Two things to study as an empowered voter, from my own curriculum, is Energy and Islam. DNC diddling with our energy doctrine is a hint of the un-bland President Barack, once nicknamed “Barrie” but not anything like Barry Goldwater. The polar opposite of Mr. Conservative is Mr. Liberal. That middle-name symbolizes the middle-core of his hidden agenda – socialism, statism, collaborationism, appeasement, et al – which will be juicy diet options should the GOP effectively pry out the middle-name truths of his true beliefs.
 
Reverend Wright’s grating manners is only a First Act, to a five-act Shakespearean drama that can be written for the stage in November. Obama’s clan will preside as the Gratest Generation, if their grating ways are allowed to sail under the false colors of charisma, charm and oleaginous media adoration.
 
Barack and Gray Davis: one colorful and charisma-enhanced, the other bland and charisma-deprived. Neither would qualify to run a Taco Bell or KFC franchise. One stumbled into ‘managing’ the sixth largest economy in the world, and damned near destroyed it, giving us the Governator in his stead. The other wants to be Leader of the Free World.
 
Want to see the kind of mess that Barack will make of America? Look to the land of Supply-&-DeBland, and the mess that even Arnold has failed to straighten out. So much truth in the middle-name of his resume, hidden by the end-markers which the media herald, and hiding what must be revealed. Much more important than his middle name is the middle finger his presidency will wave in our face.
 
For four years. Four more years than even this Vital Nation can endure. But on the way to that demise, he will be Oh So Charming. ExileStreet

copyright 2008 Steve Finefrock

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