TORRANCE TRIBUNE August 30, 2012 Page 5 One Man’s Opinion Political Penguin By Gerry Chong he is accomplishing exactly what he had set By Duane Plank in Mayberry? Not sure of the veracity of Juan Carlos, our neighborhood talking cat, out to do and is far more dangerous than the Well, Condoleezza Rice has now been that. Checked on her Presidential website sat bolt upright in his chair, his back arched and characterizations of either the left or right. accepted into the private membership and her savvy political operatives were his fur sticking straight up. As I approached “D’Souza reaffirms that Obama had little brotherhood at the Augusta National Golf scurrying around to get her on the ballot for with a friendly, “Wazzup, cat”?, he hissed, contact with his absentee father, so his Course. Ms. Rice, the former Sec. of State, the upcoming election in the all-important slammed shut the book he was reading and mother painted a portrait of her husband as and some incredibly rich and privileged electoral states of Rhode Island, Tennessee, spat out, “Man, you know were broke, right? a principled anti-colonialist, a fictional role woman from one of the Carolinas, were added Delaware and Minnesota. Pick any statistic: unemployment, stagnant model for her fatherless child. The anti- to the membership list last week after years Now, not to downplay the power of Ms. economic growth, annual deficit, cumulative colonialists believe that developed countries and years of whining and complaining by the Barr in changing the political landscape debt, Food Stamp participation, unemployment derive their wealth not through hard work, but lefties who saw the inclusionary practices of circa the vote in a couple of months, but benefits, you name it…we’re busted. Worse through immoral exploitation of the natural a private entity as somehow discriminatory. gotta believe if she did get on the ballots on than the news about where we are is the assets of smaller third world countries. The Not that Ms. Rice nor the incredibly rich those throwaway states, it wouldn’t exactly news about where we’re going. Our debt is goal of the anti-colonialist therefore is to and silver-spooned privileged lady from the tilt the upcoming November election one $16 trillion today, but you ain’t seen nothin’ create a world of perpetual reparations in Carolinas cared a hootie about getting into way or the other. yet. Barack says in 10 years, by 2022, we’ll which this ‘unearned wealth’ is confiscated. some golf course in Augusta, Georgia. But So keep seeing stuff out there about cities pump it up to $25.4 trillion. We’re broke now, Barack Obama, according to D’Souza, is his they did and the libs spun this as a great going bankrupt. Why are we not able to hold but will be ‘broke-er’ tomorrow.” father’s son. day. Kinda like the Rosa Parks deal on the our public officials’ feet to the fire? Cities The cat went on, “I’ve been reading Dinesh “Domestically, he insists the wealthy pay bus a way long time ago. financially go kaput and blame everyone D’Souza’s book Obama’s America, and saw more to government—‘their fair share’--while Guess that I don’t necessarily agree with else, as the head honchos cash in on their his documentary showing in neighborhood neither the economy in general nor the poor that. Private means private, right? You let in very lucrative pay packages. Riddle me this, theaters, 2016….Obama’s America. Both make in particular benefit. who you want to play with, golf with, chat kind readers: Do you know how much your the point that the seeds for America’s decline “Internationally, he wants the U.S. to be with, drink with, whatever. Stuff like that has local administrators rake in each year? Just were sown two decades earlier, but Obama a smaller, humbler player, far from today’s been going on for more than 200 years in wondering. I will be the first to admit that I has put our decline on speed. Conservatives superpower. He wants us to be ‘just another this country. No matter how much pressure am not sure of what the compensation rate is paint him as a Socialist, but he is not. While country at the table.’ His Middle East apologies the lefty libs throw out? Augusta National is for these hard-working folks. Just wondering. Socialism dreams of raising its citizens’ living tour dovetailed with his willingness to defer a private club, and just because they host a When you factor in vacation pay, sick days, standards from the bottom up, Obama has both domestic and international governance prestigious golf tourney in early April, they days doing nothing but updating Facebook shown little empathy for the poor. Based on to United Nations programs such as Agenda shouldn’t have to adhere to some kind of status, et al… his policies, Black and Hispanic families’ 21. Such deference will raise the competitive rules thrown down by the limousine liberals. Okay, so a column supporter asked me net worths have fallen to $6,000...about the postures of China and others to a level equal And to think some of you think I am a the other day why there has been no Sarah value of a used car. Since his own relatives to or greater than ours, but Obama feels that Demo? “Princess” Palin news recently. Well, the live in abject poverty with no assistance genuflection is in our best national interest Saw a sign on one of the storefronts in extremely lucky woman hasn’t really done from Obama, author D’Souza gave $1,000 because it is comeuppance for our sins.” Mayberry touting Roseanne Barr for President? anything that caught my attention, or anyone to brother George Obama because Barack D‘Souza believes Obama needs one more Well, I guess that we need more than two else’s. She is still chipping away on the would not. Liberals call him inept because term to seal America’s fate. “Will he get it?” choices in the upcoming election, so why Elephant network, sending out her salvos. poverty abounds, but he is not inept. In fact, asked the cat. • not have Ms. Barr be the third? 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