A few days ago Obama made news by landing in Phoenix and not going to that infamous VA hospital. Today he’s all over the news for not going to Paris.
I only want to say, “Mr. Obama, you can stay away from me all you like, and I promise not to get mad about it.”
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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Oh yes… and I think that staying away is probably one of the nicest things he’s done in quite a while. Keep it up, Mr. President.
As bad as it looks in the international press, this is one of those rare cases where I may have made the same decision as the Prez.
I don’t think there was ever any contemplation of Obama going himself, nor should there have been. There simply was no time for the advance work.
Things looked very unsafe in France for a few days. So the white house was probably leery about tempting fate by providing France’s crazys with a new high-value target.
Did you see the President’s comment about the Republicans being so interested in going after Bohner that they had left him alone for a bit?
He said something about “orange really is the new black,” (indicating John Bohner’s predilection to using that awful, orangey fake tan stuff that makes him look, well, orange.)
It was a fantastic insult. I mean, if we were doing one of those rap-battle things at the national level, that would have been worth a mic drop and he would have won, hands down.
It’s just too bad he’s the President of the United States instead of a high schooler trying to earn “cool points” from his peers. I mean, otherwise, it wouldn’t have been nearly so embarrassing and sad…