Governments Rot When Their Citizens Let Them (Part II)
(Read part one here.)
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“Single issue” voters often lose sight of the bigger issues that embrace their often reasonable but always smaller ones. This makes it very difficult to get the country back to basics and deal adequately with their issues as well as the others. It also makes it very difficult to work effectively against President Obama’s 2012 reelection — even though what is suggested here might otherwise be his destiny:
In order to save the world from devastating global warming and climate change — and, indeed, all fatal consequences of capitalism — the restless progressives in the world are uniting. Obama is well prepared to position himself as their prophet — or messiah.
His conservative critics dramatically underestimate him. Obama knows precisely what kind of America he envisions. He wants to mold a certain type of America in order to mold a certain type of global governance. For that, he needs another term to reach his goal.
“Birthers.” Whether President Obama is constitutionally qualified under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution as a “natural born Citizen” of the United States — implicating several interrelated questions apparently involving passports, college scholarships, etc. — is oft asked. To a great extent, these questions are based on a palpable lack of trust. The MSM response? “Are you serious? Chuckle Chuckle. Are you Serious?” This, of course, has simply encouraged those who doubt President Obama’s provenance to become even more serious. The MSM itself is no object of trust. Maybe some who pursue the issues aren’t serious, and maybe some who are should lighten up. There are other problems with President Obama and, while not constitutionally based, they are arguably no less important: incompetence and disdain for the United States — for its culture and history, for example — are not constitutionally disqualifying attributes.
The issue of President Obama’s constitutional qualifications has probably been answered for many, even if the larger questions remain for others. The release of a “long form” birth certificate on April 27 is not likely to silence them — or restore their trust. Some question the document because it shows the father’s “race” as “African,” not a traditional racial classification in 1961, or because of alleged Photoshopping of the document. Silly? Maybe. A statement from Hawaii Governor Abercrombie’s office is here.
Why did President Obama wait so long to release the birth certificate? Will it hurt or help Donald Trump?
Who knows. The case was made to the Republican leadership here that
if you continue to shield Barack Hussein Obama, knowing that he is ineligible for the presidency and has possibly committed fraud and felony conspiracy, then, you are welcome to him for a second term. I will not stand with you.
In my opinion, many Republicans have violated their oaths of office to support and defend the Constitution. Because of their cowardice or complicity in hiding the truth from the American people, there was a major failure to uphold the law. For that reason, they have forfeited their privilege to represent me.
Is this issue so crucial to the future of the country that it should trump the matter of Obama’s consistency with the Constitution in all of its manifold aspects? Or the harm President Obama has done, and is likely to continue to do, regardless of his constitutional qualifications? If I had the misfortune to be President Obama, having finally released my “long form” birth certificate, I would continue to prance away from substance and pump the “natural born citizen” issue for all it’s worth. I might as well say, “if those right-wing nuts aren’t satisfied with the tardy release of my real birth certificate, they are really beneath contempt.” And many would accept this. It can be a great decoy to divert attention from all else — and push him over the top in 2012. As suggested here:
It’s tempting to speculate that Obama used today’s release to make the birth certificate a bigger story, to distract from the story that the press has spent 39% of its time covering: Namely, the economy.
And here is an article suggesting that continued “birtherism” is just just barely disguised racism. Nonsense? Sure. But that won’t make the suggestion any less effective in diverting attention from more important issues facing the country and getting President Obama reelected.
Abortion. I agree with the view, held by many other conservatives, that in many circumstances abortion is bad. There appears to be no national consensus that any federal funding for any abortions at any time or of any type is essential to the national defense or to anything else beyond the fulfillment of a desire to give some people medical care at the expense of others. That might be a rather more altruistic and praiseworthy motivation were those demanding it to donate their own funds, generously, to deal with the problem they perceive. Instead, they demand that others who disagree with them — fat cats all! — pay.
While it seems possible to eliminate federal abortion funding, it does not seem possible any time soon to make early term abortions unlawful. No national consensus for that has emerged. Nor is doing so within the constitutional powers of the president. Even if a changed Supreme Court were to overrule Roe v. Wade, only the states could pass the necessary laws. While abortion is an important issue, single-issue opposition to all abortions for everyone should not impair our efforts to have the country return to constitutional basics. This does not suggest that anyone opposed to abortion should pretend to countenance the practice, or the grant of funding to those who do. Other issues, however, should take precedence.
There are some on the left who are obsessed with President Obama’s reneging on his many campaign promises: to close Gitmo; to move at great speed to further liberalize the immigration laws; to mandate government-provided national health care; to increase the scope of affirmative action for “minorities”; and to do the other silly things they thought he was destined to do. Ralph Nader is trying to assemble a stable of challengers for the Democrat Party convention. That’s very good: if they neither support nor vote for President Obama in 2012, it will decrease his chances of reelection. Unfortunately, it seems premature to scream out a headline like Obama Will Lose in 2012.
Those who favor a return to constitutional governance and a minimum of federal meddling cannot emulate the ideological supporters of a president who favors the opposite. To do so is to board the same unseaworthy vessels, to founder on the electoral rocks, and finally to sink. The willing, competent, and electable presidential candidate that must be found, no matter how difficult, will not be a single-issue leader. Elections have consequences. Is anybody there? Does anybody care?
Until we understand that we are up against an ideology with fully formed tenets that have coalesced over recent decades we will achieve nothing. Ad hoc solutions putting out brush fires will achieve nothing.
This is a “hearts and minds” issue and very much the cultural war that it is being portrayed as. One cannot counter such things without a specific plan to address the specific tenets of political correctness which is that ideology.
Look at even small community colleges and centers across the United States. Fighting racism and oppression against women and gays is practically splashed across the lobbies like war posters and those institutions treated as if they were refugee centers.
Political correctness is the Democratic Party and it is centered around the idea of de facto bigotry being the centerpiece of middle class, male and white America. It makes up bigotry where there is none and uses that scare tactic to advance it’s goals which is to rip up the history of the United States and throw it in the garbage.
The problem is, that history is where our success has come from and so the Democratic Party is killing the goose that laid the golden egg, building on failure rather than success by positing that that failure is the result of the oppression of disenfranchised groups, rather than their innate talents based on cultural values.
For those who can go back and remember such things, it was the Democratic Party that first had sign language in the bottom corner of the TV screen and not the Republican Party.
You ask yourself: so what? The what is this: the Democratic Party has set itself up as the protectors of the disenfranchised, any disenfranchised and demonized conservatives as heartless racists. The Dems routinely portray Reps and people who want to throw children and seniors to the wolves and hate gays and ethnic groups.
The specter of slavery and Jim Crow is thrust in our face every single day in this country and that is very purposeful since the Dems cannot show the racism they want to. So, what they do is embrace a post traumatic stress theory of cheap psychology wrapped in blame, excuses for failure, payback and resentment.
This is not a bright future but it’s own language of racism and hate put forward by people who put on prominent display their vast empathy for the least among us by way of railing against scented perfumes, holding up wheel chair access like a Joan of Arc and sign language like they are Robin Hood tearing down the regency of King John.
Conservatives are the evil and entrenched racists who pine for the days of Jim Crow and who talk in code about birth certificates and Tea Parties.
This must be attacked by calling this hate speech out for what it is; you can find it every single day on CNN, the Huffington Post and MSNBC. Questions must be asked as to why an utter racist like Roland Martin, who is no better than a David Duke, works for CNN and calls for his firing and all his ilk must be heard and CNN shamed.
You can do that in the media by turning around their speech and asking how long a MSM commenter who was white could survive who did such a thing – the double standard must be attacked and abolished – Cornell West, Tavis Smiley and Al Sharpton must be put to pasture. One can go to advertisers of those organizations and say we will boycott any news agency that employs racists of any color. Free speech is one thing and conspicuous hate speech dressed up in notions of empowering social justice another. Racism is racism.
Jim Crow is over and the reason a new theme of racism 2.0 and white privilege based on white supremacy is coming out is because of the conspicuous failures of minorities in this country. They self-segregate along racial lines and blame it on being forced to do so as a smoke screen for degenerate behavior and values. Rap music is not Doris Day and it is as simple as that yet she is shown to be a sign of all that is wrong in America now and then and rap music some kind of political defense mechanism when in fact it is a conduit for a debased cultural value system. Where are families in rap videos and a love of books or an idea of curiosity for curiosities sake?
In this scenario, were we to extend this value system to those innocent yet accused of being racists, the Discovery and History Channels would be non-stop visions of self-absorbed white people talking about nothing but white people and yet they are not and in fact those channels are about everything under the sun. A black version would be the answer to my rhetorical question for web sites like the black culture site The Root: Do black Americans ever think about anything other than black Americans?
We are being forced into a dialogue we have no interest in and that is race and so the battle is half lost already. Our own lack of interest is posited by Eric Holder as a “nation of cowards” and so, bewilderingly, our lack of racism is a sign of it. However we addressed the issue of the Nazis when we had to because of that: we had to and it didn’t make us Nazis.
Fight these people smartly, and with pin point strikes. The idea that I am so stupid that I don’t even know I’m a racist or understand my own white privilege is what an odious little Nazi would say and they should be treated as such.
Excellent points! During the 2008 campaign, I noticed that candidate Obama was using a lot of Slick Willie’s strategy of the 2006 campaign. Obama also used the Alinsky tactics and now Obama uses a LOT of “1984″, especially newspeak.
It appears to me that Obama really doesn’t have a lot of original thought. He picks and chooses from political tactics espoused by others. His goal (regardless of his rhetoric) is simple: keep himself in power. Slick Willie is a millionaire now, thanks to the voting public in America who kept him in office for 8 years while Islamo-fascism flourished.
What will America look like 6 years from now at the end of the Obama regime?
“…6 years from now at the end of the Obama regime” I wonder, given BO’s penchant for ignoring laws he doesn’t like, what’s to say his regime will end in 6 years? Unthinkable? Several things that were unthinkable 2 years ago have been implemented without even a whimper.
“Until we understand that we are up against an ideology with fully formed tenets that have coalesced over recent decades we will achieve nothing. Ad hoc solutions putting out brush fires will achieve nothing.”
This is precisely why the main thrust should be a 12% balanced budget and fair tax amendment. Kill off the unrestrained spending by cutting off the money supply and credit spending. This also kills most of the incentive and enticement for the Marxian statists to exploit the American system. If we do not do this a shooting civil war is virtually guaranteed, complete with secessions and state mergers.
I agree.
The next Republican president in 2012 will have his or her hands full with the economy, wars in Afghanistan and probably still in Iraq, and who knows what will happen now in Libya. The world really is on fire and retreating into a European-style social-welfare state is certainly NOT the answer, which is what Obama is doing right now.
Also, I think many Americans are done with the United Nations, and any Republican candidate who supports ending that organization will find a lot, and I mean A LOT, of support in this country. Our most recent adventure in Libya is yet another reason to shut down that dangerous Wilsonian global government, one that has brought more pain and harm than just about any other organization on this planet.
Foreign policy will play a large role after 2012, so whoever the Republicans run in that election should have a good grasp of foreign policy. Obama is a perfect example of what happens when you have a naive leftist trying to deal with some of the worst regimes in the world. He actually thinks the United Nations and diplomacy can solve everything. Well, in dealing with rogue nations like Iran and North Korea, we have seen that it has solved nothing and has actually made the situation worse than when he came into office. So keep your eyes on foreign policy as well. It’s the forgotten topic that can have a huge effect on what happens to the world tomorrow.
The next new president will also have to devote about three or four months just to repealing and striking down the executive orders and 3,000 new agency regulations that His Majesty has enacted in just over two years. At least that president will know what the inside of the Oval Office looks like, unlike our hobo president who spends more time in Air Force One than anywhere else.
You can bet large, that “they” will use the RACE CARD to it’s fullest degree. They’ve already demonstrated they will use it whenever they get cornered. This regime doesn’t care what the negative effects of that plan generate, just as long as it is effective to their agenda. If you do not believe this regime wants a divided America, then you have been living under a rock for the last 5 years.
Racism will be the biggest issue, just wait.
And Constitutionality?
This regime has stacked their ‘administration’ with the most devout hard-liners America has ever been subjects of.
Finally; Obama excoriates the rich and most productive individuals and companies, then turns his back on the sycophants he just spoke to, and heads off to rub elbows with them, and extort them out of as much cash as he can for his re-election campaign.
His faithful see this duplicity and love him even more for it. This practice is also known as Al-taqiyya to the muslim world.
The rest of the 1st world is about this far || from casting its vote,
by refusing to fund our fiscal foolishness any further; If that happens,
the resultant inflation driven ‘social unrest’ will render all the above
points moot by replacing our current system of government.
…and what Barry Soetero did was smart. He kept his long form birth certificate secret to distract the majority of birthers from the central fact of his being ineligible for the presidency of the U.S.A. To be eligible he would have had to have both parents being citizens of the United States of America and as is apparent in the long form he finally released, his father was a citizen of Kenya and Barry himself MAY not have been a citizen of the U.S. but rather a citizen of Indonesia. Since the U.S. does NOT recognize dual citizenship, although many other countries do, and since he has never renounced his Indonesian citizenship, at least no record of that exists, he is NOT qualified to hold the office of President of the United States of America. So, when did Barry Soetero change his name? Did he legally change it to Barak Husein Obama? If so, where are the court records to indicate such a change? Forget the damn birth certificate. There are other, more important, reasons that indicate his ineligibility.
Coeurmaeghan in 29 Palms, CA
‘What we are up against’ is a citizenry that is either willfully in ignorance of, or is in denial of, the meaning of the Constitution. It is a fairly simple document. Everyone who votes is morally, if not legally, obligated to know what it says and to require that the legislators they vote for follow it. If we did so, ‘progressives’/socialists and their ilk would not be able to hold the power that they do. It is shameful that even those who generally support ‘conservatism’ etc seem unable to consistently articulate Constitutional principles. If we actually followed the Constitution, 90% of the Fed gov’t would disappear, business would boom, wealth would mushroom, the unborn would no longer be subject to a SCOTUS-ordered open season on their lives regardless of the will of the citizens of a state.
But we won’t do that, will we. ‘We the people’ are a wicked sovereign, having hired corrupt and venal ministers to supply us with bread and circuses while ignoring the rot and the cries of the oppressed. This does not end well.
FOX Tops Opps
Ok, I freely admit I can’t compete with Variety in rhyming or alliterating headlines but nevertheless the stats are in and one mo’ time the conservative-leaning Fox News Network, FNC, trounced the leftist-leaning MSNBC, CNN, and other liberal, cable networks in viewership.
That’s no surprise since first, “liberal” and “cable” are largely redundant and, second, FOX dominance has been the prevailing trend for years. Nevertheless, the new numbers published on Drudge.com are startling:
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,178,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,196,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,127,000
FOXNEWS SMITH 2,085,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,817,000
MSNBC O’DONNELL 1,138,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 1,026,000
CNN MORGAN 859,000
CNN COOPER 851,000
MSNBC MADDOW 832,000
MSNBC SHARPTON 699,000
CNNHN GRACE 663,000
Some ballpark math: About 11 million people regularly watch Bill, Sean, Scott, Shep and Greta versus 6 million who catch Lawrence, Chris, Piers, Anderson, Rachel, Al, and Nancy.
And few libs thought those dolts, those Neanderthal throwbacks that Obama called in 2008 bitter, frustrated, gun-loving, Bible-thumping, immigrant-hating dummies, even had cable!
It seems the mass of semi-literate, ignoramuses affiliated with the Tea Party and other radical conservative movements, those terrorists, as Joe Biden calls them, actually do have cable connections rather than aluminum, antennaed hats and choose to watch the fair and balanced reporting on FOX with its liberal representation in the persons of Juan Williams, Bob Beckle, Kirsten Powers and others.
They somehow seem turned off by the twisted perspectives of the tingler Matthews and the sacrosanct O’Donnell, the phony Brit Morgan, the gaiety of Cooper and Maddow, the race-baiting of Sharpton, and the vapidness of Grace. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5169)