Yesterday was quite a day.   It began with President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm)  addressing the Commencement Exercise of 92,000 University of Michigan students.  In it, he touted the virtue of big government and community organizing (I’m shocked!).  He also said the following:

Passionate rhetoric isn’t new, he acknowledged. Politics in America, he said, “has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart. … If you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.”

Obama hoped the graduates hearing his words can avoid cynicism and brush off the overheated noise of politics. In fact, he said, they should seek out opposing views.

His advice: If you’re a regular Glenn Beck listener, then check out the Huffington Post sometimes. If you read The New York Times editorial page the morning, then glance every now and then at The Wall Street Journal.

“It may make your blood boil. Your mind may not be changed. But the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship,” he said.

Remember this for later reference. 

Meanwhile, in certain key cities around the country, illegal immigrants and sympathizers marched against the new Arizona law.  The law actually requires people to show an ID and Proof of Insurance when they are pulled over. ( Hey, that’s happened to me before.  Maybe I should march.)  It is actually an extension of a federal law already  in practice.

As evening fell, President Barack Obama kept his appointment with adoration as he and Michelle attended the National Correspondents’ Dinner.  Like Moses coming down from the mountaintop with the Ten Commandments, Scooter laid some words of extremely profound wisdom on the salivating sycophants.  He pontificated that:

There a few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love.

(Where did you get that from, Scooter, a fortune cookie?)

“Well, love and a birth certificate,” Obama snarkily added, making fun of those who dare question his place of birth. “I happen to know that my approval ratings are still very high in the country of my birth.” Obama was born in Hawaii, but some question whether he was born overseas.

Obama also attacked Jay Leno, the comedian headlining the dinner. Obama said Leno was “the only person whose ratings fell more than mine.” ( How come he’s beating perverted old Liberal Dave Letterman in the ratings, then?)

He added that he was glad he spoke before the “The Tonight Show” host, “because we have all seen what happens when somebody takes the time slot after Leno.” Comic Conan O’Brien left NBC after his stint hosting “The Tonight Show” following Leno didn’t work out.

He took aim at his own administration too, cracking jokes about Vice President Joe Biden and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

He also attacked Republicans, of course. The President noted Sen. John McCain’s claim this year that he was not identified as a maverick. “We know what happens in Arizona when you don’t have an ID. … Adios amigos,” 

Leno did not fare as well as the Regime Leader.  Laughs were few and far between for the comedian.  Evidently, Jay was just too much of an average American for the crowd of Obamabots.

While Obama was being adored and Jay Leno was bombing at the National Correspondents’ Dinner, there was a attempted bombing of a deadlier kind on Times Square.

NYC Police announced an SUV found parked on 45th Street was loaded with explosives, smoking and about to blow up when an ordinary t-shirt vendor noticed something wasn’t right and grabbed a mounted police officer.

The officer evacuated the block and called for reinforcements.

“We avoided what could have been a very deadly event,” Mayor Bloomberg said.

“Firefighters, emergency service officers and the bomb squad responded and the bomb squad confirmed that the suspicious vehicle did indeed contain an explosive device,” Bloomberg said. 

Inside the dark green Nissan Pathfinder, Police found three propane tanks, consumer-grade fireworks, two full five-gallon gasoline containers, two clocks, some electrical wire, and a metal gun locker.

The abandoned vehicle had its engine on and hazard lights flashing, but as of now, the terrorist has not been identified or located.

“We’re in the process of identifying additional cameras which may have captured images of the vehicle and more important, people seen driving or leaving the vehicle,” said NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly. 

In more disturbing news, the oil spill has reached the Gulf Coast.

The oil is flowing from the sea floor at 5,000 barrels a day — the same thing as 210,000 gallons — possibly  much more, from a well about 50 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico,threatening to eclipse the volume of the infamous Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. Remind the video from that disaster?  It spilled oil onto rocky Alaskan beaches, but,  at least you can wash oil off a rock. In the Gulf, the oil is floating into wetlands that could hold on to its toxins for years.

Remember the movie Quo Vadis with Peter Ustinov playing the Roman Emperor Nero?  Nero, quite unbalanced, fiddled while the beseiged Rome burned.  It appears to me that Obama is laughing while America is under attack.

Sources:  wcbstv.com, mywaynews.com, washingtonpost.com, myfoxatlanta.com, drudgereport.com