It might be hard for you to believe but I still have people tell me how horrible George W. Bush’s presidency was when it comes to unemployment.  A very liberal, retired union member whose name I won’t use (GH) claimed that unemployment under Bush was over 8%!  I can only guess where he got that number but like most libs that attempt to use facts he got them wrong and couldn’t/wouldn’t source the data.  The table below comes directly from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics which…is under the Obama administration’s control…not the Bush (or Cheney) administration.

As you can see, the Bush unemployment numbers are far better than the Obama administration.  The libs will still scream, “It’s Bush’s Fault,” but it’s worth noting that the highest unemployment numbers during Bush’s tenure occurred after the Democrats regained the majority in the House of Representatives and Senate during the 2006 mid-term elections and they’ve gone up ever since.

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote Texas pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust worthy of the Road Runner.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the BMW’s gold-tinted window and asked cowboy Bud, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?”

Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, Why not?”

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to a secret NRO satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his iPad that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”

“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Bud.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”

“You’re an aide in the Obama Administration”, says Bud.

“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”

“No guessing required.” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about how working people make a living – or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep…

Now give me back my dog!

Author unknown but appreciated.

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

The liberals, progressives, elitists, and marxists who support President Barack Hussein Obama usually take every opportunity to make personal attacks on anyone who is conservative or an anti-Obama critic. That’s especially true if a critic or conservative dares to provide indisputable facts about, or express any well founded criticism regarding, President Obama’s policies.  The usual liberal response is to quickly say how stupid, uneducated, and uninformed the conservative/critic is.  They clearly believe that they are the intellectual elite and everyone else is part of the mental midget society.

Recently a number of President Obama’s ardent supporters were caught on video expressing their opinions of a sign at the Restoring Sanity Rally in Washington, D.C. that simply asked “Obama = Keynesian?”  Here at Happily American we are very well aware that the sign was asking about President Obama’s economic policies and philosophies, and whether they were influenced by British economist John Maynard Keynes but apparently the President’s supporters were not.  It seems they were confused and thought the sign was commenting on the President’s place of birth (some say Kenya).  Whether these highly intelligent democrats had difficulty seeing the sign, can’t be bothered to distinguish between Kenyan and Keynesian, or have some other intellectual impediment has not been determined….but the results are hilarious!  Intellectual elite indeed!

To be fair, education in the United States isn’t very strong now days in the subjects of economics, geography, or even reading.  So, who could blame these poor minions of the great and powerful Barack for not being able to distinguish between Kenyan and Keynesian?

Enjoy the video below, it’s a hoot!

With the 2010 mid-term elections less than two weeks away it’s seems strange that people I talk to have forgotten that we have already had four long years of DemocRat majority in the Congress.  Yeah, I know it seems longer than that for some of us but some voters they seem to forget that during the last two years of George W. Bush’s presidency the DemocRats were in charge of both houses of Congress.

The 2006 mid-term elections saw the Republicans lose their Congressional majority and the DemocRats gain the majority.  So, in January 2007 the DemocRats took over the national budget and all Congressional committees.  Yes dear reader, the DemocRats have been in charge of federal oversight for banking, housing and mortgages, and much more for about four years…are you better off?

If your having a hard time remembering what the DemocRats have been up to for the past four years here’s a video to jog your memory:

Remember now? On November 2nd remember who’s been in charge for the last four years and choose between more of the same crap or a new direction.

Is President Obama planning to suspend the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or is he just less intelligent that the liberal media would have us believe? I’m not sure how he would accomplish the suspension of the 22nd Amendment but he hasn’t really been paying much attention to the Constitution.  As for his intelligence…he doesn’t seem any smarter than Jimmy Carter.  You decide after you watch the video below:

Another Fly In The White House

I’m not saying that Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, attracts flies but I can’t recall any other President being so plagued by them. Whether Obama attracts them or not, the lowly feces-eating insect says a lot about his presidency and ability to govern.

First, it says he is all too willing to bow to radical special interest groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).  This fly that was buzzing Obama on June 22nd was not subjected to the same fate as the fly that succumbed to the Commander-in-Chief’s wrath in June of 2009.  PETA’s spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Obama shouldn’t kill flies and Obama clearly has complied.

Next, it calls into question Obama’s desire to control borders.  After all, if the President won’t keep nasty disease-infested flies out of the White House or at least capture them once they’ve entered, why should anyone believe he would keep criminal aliens out of the country?  It also makes me wonder if he’ll have the Department of Justice file a lawsuit against makers of bug zappers and fly paper…if he’ll do it to Arizona why wouldn’t he do to lawfully operating American companies?

Sometimes a fly is just a fly, sometimes it’s an interesting symbol of a presidency.

If you’ve ever wondered about the intelligence of people who voted for Barack Hussein Obama in the 2008 Presidential election you need to watch the video below. In the video below Peggy West, a Democrat county supervisor in Milwaukee is speaking in support of boycotting the State of Arizona because of the new immigration law (SB1070). The problem is that she apparently doesn’t know that Arizona is having problems with criminal immigrants because Arizona borders Mexico.

See the video of Peggy West, County Supervisor embarrassing herself

Don’t you just love Little Johnny?  (h/t Melissa)

One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living.  All the typical answers came up – fireman, mechanic, businessman, salesman…and so forth.  However, little Johnny was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he replied, “My father’s an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his clothes to music in front of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for money.”

The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the children to work on some exercises and took little Johnny aside to ask him, “Is that really true about your father?”  “No,” the boy said, “He works for the Democratic National Committee and helped to get Obama elected, but it’s too embarrassing to say that in front of the other kids.”

Do you know why Democrats in the media and government like to spread malicious lies about conservatives being intolerant and violent when they gather at Tea Party meetings or anywhere else? It’s because they believe everyone shares their point of view and their willingness to shout down and even physically attack anyone they deem a political or ideological opponent. That’s certainly the case with Congressman Bob Etheridge the Democrat representative from North Carolina’s second district as seen in this video.

Clearly the Congressman must have believed that the student was engaging in an unamerican act for daring to ask if he, a U.S. Congressman, supported the Obama agenda.  To a Democrat that seems to be the ultimate sin…questioning Obama and the Democrats…and it warrants a physical attack.  Next time you hear about “potential violence” from Tea Party gatherings just remember Congressman Bob Etheridge.

Obama Flips Off Americans

If you’ve ever listened to talk radio I’m sure you’ve heard some remarkably unintelligent sounding liberal callers who sound like they’re reading Democ-Rat talking points on health care reform.  Do you know why they sound that way?  Simple, they are reading talking points!  That’s right, they’re reading talking points from a website – BARACKOBAMA.COM – because they’re too stupid to form their own arguments.

Liberals are given three steps on completing the talk radio call in process.  The first step, “Listen, Then Call” orders the activist to listen to the show using a link to listen online, and gives them the ability to select a different show if they can’t get through to the first one they pick.  The liberal caller can select from variety of shows including Sean Hannity, Fred Thompson, The Savage Nation, and the Dennis Miller Show among others.  The second step called “Add Your Voice” tells the caller “Use the discussion points on the right in your conversation”.  The final step is to “Report Your Call” where the compliant left-winger sends a report about their call to President Obama’s website via email.

The website also includes “Calling Tips” telling the progressive activist caller to “Be polite” (usually ignored), and “Stay calm and firm” if the host challenges their views (Obama’s views actually).

Mystery solved.  Liberal callers anxious to spend your money to provide health care for liberals and uninsured illegal aliens are getting their marching orders from the Socialist in Chief (Peace Be Upon Him).  I’d tell you how to fight back against this but as a conservative you are able to do it yourself.