The Pot and the Kettle<\/p>\n
by Paul R. Hollrah<\/p>\n
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(President Hamid Karzai is seated lotus-style on his rug.\u00a0 The red telephone rings.\u00a0 Karzai frowns and picks up the receiver.)<\/p>\n
Karzai:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hello, Mr. President.\u00a0 How is everything in Washington?<\/p>\n
Obama:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Everything\u2019s fine, Hamid.\u00a0 I just wanted to call to congratulate you on your reelection victory.\u00a0 Believe me, I know how comforting it is to run unopposed.\u00a0 You may not know this but that\u2019s how I won my first race for the state senate in Illinois.\u00a0 I just had all of my primary opponents kicked off the ballot on technicalities.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t know what hit \u2018em.<\/p>\n
Karzai:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Very good, Mr. President.\u00a0 You are a man after my own heart.<\/p>\n
Obama:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But listen here, Hamid, I\u2019ve got no time for small talk.\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to decide how many troops I\u2019m going to have to send to save your sorry behind and you\u2019re not helping much.<\/p>\n
Karzai:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What do you mean, Mr. President?<\/p>\n
Obama:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What I mean is that reports are circulating in the press that you stole the election.\u00a0 I\u2019m hearing reports that ballot counts from all over Afghanistan were strangely in even numbers.\u00a0 In the Paktika province, for example, four of six polling stations turned in totals of 300, 250, 200, and 200 votes.\u00a0 One report says there were probably more than 800 fake polling stations like that all over your country.<\/p>\n
(The door to the Oval Office opens.\u00a0 Rahm Emanuel enters and approaches Obama\u2019s desk.)<\/p>\n
Obama:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hold the phone, Hamid.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be back in a minute.<\/p>\n
(Obama turns to Emanuel)<\/p>\n
Obama:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What\u2019s up Rhambo?\u00a0 I\u2019m on the phone with Karzai.<\/p>\n
Emanuel:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have reports from New Jersey, Mr. President.\u00a0 The mainstream media is all over the Corzine campaign.\u00a0 A couple of years ago the Democrats in Trenton came up with this great idea for insuring the outcome of elections.\u00a0 They allow anyone who wants to vote absentee to get an absentee ballot.\u00a0 They don\u2019t even have to give a reason why they can\u2019t vote in person.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And the new law allows third party messengers. Democrat volunteers can pick up the absentee ballots and deliver them to the county election board. \u00a0And when a messenger picks up a ballot with a Republican vote on it, he can just toss it in the trash.\u00a0 The voter will never know his vote wasn\u2019t counted.\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t we think of that in Chicago?<\/p>\n
Obama:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So what\u2019s the problem?<\/p>\n
Emanuel:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, the system is perfect, but things are going wrong up there.\u00a0 Word has gotten out that thousands of absentee ballots have signatures that don\u2019t match signatures on the voter registration cards.\u00a0 But worse, the media is reporting that Corzine and his people are putting together a \u201cslush fund\u201d of these absentee ballots that they can dump into the mix if Chris Christie pulls out a narrow victory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Obama:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dammit, Rhambo!\u00a0 We can\u2019t afford to have Corzine lose that race.\u00a0 How in the hell will that make me look?\u00a0 I\u2019ve practically lived in New Jersey for the last three weeks and it\u2019s my butt that\u2019s on the line.\u00a0 You get on the phone with that s.o.b. and tell him that if he can\u2019t steal that election I\u2019ll send Valerie Jarrett up there to do it for him\u2026 and she might just kick his butt while she\u2019s there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(Emanuel departs.\u00a0 Obama puts the red receiver to his ear)<\/p>\n
Obama:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hamid!\u00a0 I\u2019m back.\u00a0 Sorry for the interruption, but we have elections we\u2019ve gotta\u2019 win over here, too.\u00a0 What I\u2019m trying to say is that, if you don\u2019t get a handle on the corruption over there, I\u2019m gonna\u2019 have one helluva\u2019 tough time convincing Soros and the Daily Kos to let me send the troops that McChrystal wants\u2026 and he\u2019s not a patient man.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Look!\u00a0 When the polling station at Haji Nehmetullah House reports 725 votes cast, and you got every single one of them\u2026 and when you get all 400 of the votes cast at the Haji Akhtar Mohammad House\u2026 that looks a little fishy.\u00a0 Do you see what I mean?\u00a0 We wouldn\u2019t even try that in Chicago.\u00a0 We\u2019d see to it that the other guy got at least a couple of votes.<\/p>\n
Karzai:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 I see what you mean, Mr. President.\u00a0 I\u2019ll do my best.\u00a0 And I hope you\u2019ll be pleased with the outcome of the elections in your New Jersey and Virginia states.\u00a0 I hope the voters there will give you everything you deserve.<\/p>\n
Obama:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you, Hamid.\u00a0 Allah Achbar!<\/p>\n
Karzai:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Allah Achbar, Mr. President.\u00a0 And good luck!<\/p>\n
To think that Barack Obama, the leader of the Democratic Party, the most corrupt political organization in Western history, would lecture the President of Afghanistan on the merits of clean government and honest elections is just\u2026 incomprehensible.\u00a0 But is it possible for a man with Obama\u2019s level of narcissism to recognize that, even for him, the end does not always justify the means?\u00a0 Were it not for the inside-out, upside-down logic of it all, it would be comedic.\u00a0 For example, where Karzai appears to favor even numbers, Obama appears to favor odd numbers.<\/p>\n
During his 2008 election campaign, Obama was the beneficiary of millions of dollars in illegal contributions, most likely smuggled into the country as Swiss credit card receipts\u2026 from donor, or donors, unknown.\u00a0 As of October 2008, Obama\u2019s Federal Election Commission reports showed no fewer than 66,383 individual contributions, in odd amounts, from 37,265 donors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For example, FEC reports show that a man named John Atkinson, an insurance agent in Burr Ridge, Illinois, gave a total of $8,724.26\u2026 $4,124.26 over his legal limit.\u00a0 He gave in odd amounts such as $188.67, $1,542.06, $876.09, $388.67, $282.20, $195.66, $118.15, and one of $2,300.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sandra Daneshinia, a self-employed caregiver of Los Angeles, made 36 separate contributions totaling $7,051.12\u2026 $2,451.12 over her legal limit.\u00a0 Thirteen of her contributions were later refunded.\u00a0 However, in an odd coincidence, those 13 refunds, in amounts such as $233.88 and $201.44, came to an even $2,300, the maximum amount allowable in any one election.<\/p>\n
One contributor interviewed by Newsmax<\/em>, Ronald J. Sharpe, Jr., a retired schoolteacher from Rockledge, Florida, is reported to have given $13,800\u2026 $9,200 over his limit.\u00a0 However, when interviewed by Newsmax<\/em>, Mr. Sharpe did not remember giving that much money to Obama.<\/p>\n These are obviously foreign currency conversions with the names, addresses, and occupations of $10 and $20 donors taken from the legal contributor lists and assigned to the illegal foreign contributions to mask their source\u2026 whoever or whatever that might be.\u00a0<\/p>\n In each and every election, Democrats are guilty of instances of fraud and intimidation far beyond anything experienced in Afghanistan.\u00a0 If Obama were truly interested in the kind of open and honest government that he is trying to force on Hamid Karzai and the Afghans, he might first look to his own party.<\/p>\n The State of New Jersey, a state that has occupied so much of Obama\u2019s time and attention in recent weeks, is a good example.\u00a0 In September 2005, New Jersey Republicans announced the results of a study of voter registrations within the state.\u00a0 They found that 55,000 people were registered in more than one jurisdiction, 5,950 people voted more than once in the previous election, and 5,000 registered voters were no longer alive.\u00a0 Some 170,000 New Jersey residents were registered in more than one state and 6,500 of those voters had voted in two or more states in 2004.\u00a0 Almost without exception, these are all fraudulent Democratic votes.<\/p>\n In 2000, a woman from Allentown, Pennsylvania visited her sister at a New Jersey mental health facility.\u00a0 At some point during her visit her sister informed her, quite proudly, that New Jersey Democrats had delivered an absentee ballot to her room and that she had cast her vote for Al Gore.\u00a0 The Allentown woman was astonished that Democrats would stoop so low as to comb the hallways of mental hospitals, scrounging for every last vote.\u00a0 She said, \u201cMy God!\u00a0 This is a woman who thinks that God tells her what brand of shampoo to use\u2026 and she decided to vote for Al Gore\u2026 all on her own?\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, the Afghans, being a tribal culture, may have some difficulty with some of the concepts embodied in our advanced civilization.\u00a0 So for Barack Obama to lecture them on honesty and integrity in politics and government is truly\u2026 the pot calling the kettle black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Barack Obama to lecture the Afghans on honesty and integrity in politics and government is truly\u2026 the pot calling the kettle black. Continue reading