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By Dennis Mullin

SNAPSHOT: Time to take off the blinders. Something is happening here. Has anyone noticed that the Clintons (the two most astute pure politicians in our lifetime), are staying a half-a-world away from the buffoon in the Oval Office. Yes, the record now justifies that remark, without the fear of racist accusation -- and we are prepared to say what everyone has been thinking but has been afraid to say out loud: this is Jimmy Carter 6.0.

NO VISION: We have to admit it: our President has no clear vision for the nation, is surrounded by stupid ideologues and incompetent politically tone-deaf advisers, and really has no idea why he’s in that chair in the first place. He really believes this is some kind of class exercise at Harvard, where he pretended to make a difference, and even as he still can’t count his own toes. This man, white, black, blue or gray, has never had a job, and has no idea what the one he now holds means.

To him this is a theoretical game – and has nothing to do with the rest of us. He couldn’t find the real America on a map – we are his laboratory rats for his class in rhetoric 101. PETA should be protesting in Lafayette Park

Barak Obama is an accident of history. How would you feel with Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and Joe Biden looking over your shoulder? How bad is that?  It would be fun to shoot pool with this historical anachronism, Hussein Obama, in three years -- after he’s is unceremoniously dumped by his own party.

MORE ARIZONA; This morning’s news brings the latest in the new Obama Fantasy World.  Arizona is being attacked, because some genius in New York has discovered that the border state has for years, employed a regulation that requires that teachers, in “English as a Second Language” classes, (provided to the 10%-plus of the population that is there illegally) actually have to speak English themselves.

A novel idea it seems. As many as 20% of the teachers of the courses to teach English to illegal immigrants (who therefore are technically not here), do not in fact speak English themselves at all. The SEIU and other unions insist those teachers cannot even be asked or tested on whether they speak English or are here legally – as that would be discriminatory -- assuming they would understand the question. All are on the state payroll drawing on federal funds.

MANDATE: And, while Obama’s solons refuse to address the border issue, the immigration service now says it will break its own mandate and all US laws, including the one that established ICE in the first place, and not deport the illegals entering Arizona – because they don’t want to lose their tax-free maids. And this, after admitting that they haven't even read the law.

Immigration and Custom Service (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton from that border state Virginia, has apparently been instructed by that genius Hussein Obama from that border state Indonesia, to declare war on Arizona  – not New Mexico or Texas. And despite the fact that Phoenix is tied with Cali, Colombia for the most kidnappings in the world, and the crimes are almost all Hispanic on Hispanic, LA has decided that it needs to teach those people how to be nice.

So bankrupt LA’s Hispanic Mayor is going to boycott a state that provides him with a quarter of his electricity over a 10-page law that may offend an illegal immigrant? Now you know why everybody in Mexico is trying to move out.  But the Democrats, who apparently love Mexico’s President more than Arizona's legislature, don’t seem so anxious to move to Tijuana.

MADNESS: As John McEnroe would say, “You have got to be kidding!" What is going on here? Am I crazy? We are paying people who are potentially technically not here, that do not speak English, to teach people who are also technically not here, to learn English, but still pay union dues? And to question that makes us racist? We should all move to Mexico and swap homes before the fleeing Americans drive the prices way up.

Let’s just give al Qaeda multiple re-entry visas and Holder and Co. can then stop pretending to do their jobs and retire at full pay – and try everyone they accidentally catch in downtown Manhattan across the street from where the Towers once stood – as if we have no other courtrooms. I’m seriously beginning to think that Holder graduated from Riyadh Law School. I’m considering joining la Qaeda myself – at least then I would get free, competent legal representation against the dunderheads in DC.

GREECE II: Listen to the NY press over the weekend. The front page of the hysterically liberal New York Times notes that municipal pensions in Gotham City are more egregious than in Greece. Government retirement packages in that nation -- along with other lavish public-sector perks -- have put it on the fiscal brink.

But pensions in Yonkers -- and throughout New York, as in other states -- give Greece a run for its money. More than 100 cops and firefighters in the Westchester city, for example, get retirement pay above their on-the-job salaries, the Times noted. One cop, who made $74,000 annually when he retired three years ago (at the ripe old age of 44), gets a pension of $101,333 -- and doesn't have to pay one dime in state or local taxes on any of it.

And you thought Greece was the only place you can get a raise -- by quitting. How is this possible? Thank overly generous rules and practices put in place by public officials to please government-sector unions. And Obama wants to quadruple all of it – and make your kid pay.

OUTRAGEOUS:  We are all being robbed blind, and the Democrats are determined to make it even more outrageous. In Yonkers, for example, retirement pay is based on salary plus overtime in a staffer's final years on the job. So employees, with the blessing of their city bosses, rack up the extra hours and extra pay as retirement day nears. In fact, the Times says, Yonkers cops who work as flagmen for Con Ed on their days off actually get credit for that toward their city overtime hours -- boosting their pensions further.

But it's not just Yonkers: Throughout the state, the paper found, some 3,700 retired public employees collect six-figure pensions. In New York City, 13 of these people retired at the age of 40 -- and nine hit payday even sooner. No wonder the state's going broke.

But hold it: we have to call also-broke California to decide what to do about those racist pigs in Arizona who are legal citizens – to make certain that they don’t ask the hangman if he has the right papers before he kills an American – wouldn't want to offend any union bosses, or Nancy Pelosi. This is sick.