Have Obama’s Policies Failed? Let Us Count the Ways
“Time to Admit Obamanomics Has Failed” is the title of a Washington Examiner editorial from Sunday that brings out in stark relief the monumental failure of the $1 trillion stimulus bill to stimulate anything except the greed glands in Democratic constituencies like labor unions and government workers.
The money graf:
The economy is stalling, unemployment seems stuck at European levels of idleness, the federal deficit and the national debt are at historic highs, public confidence in Congress is at its lowest-ever level and big majorities of Mainstream Americans say Obama has the country on the wrong path. Obamanomics has failed miserably and it’s time for everybody in this town to admit it so we can move on.
That’s only the half of it. Add on the following from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and you begin to get the complete picture of how much this government has spent to “rescue” the economy and how little good it has done.
* $85 billion to prop up GM and Chrysler, as well as auto suppliers. GM is still “Government Motors” despite crowing about “repaying” the government loan that kept them afloat. Not only was the $6.7 billion GM gave back to the government only about $42 billion short of what they owed, they had the temerity to use part of the bailout money to do it. GM claims a healthy profit this past quarter, but taxpayers — who still own about 70% of the preferred stock in the company — shouldn’t be checking their mailboxes for dividend checks. This gift to the UAW has spawned the next adjective to describe product failure: the Chevy Volt.
* $70 billion for consumer and business lending initiatives. This was a program designed to jumpstart business and consumer lending. As with every other program that was supposed to shock the economy back to life, it has failed miserably.
* $75 billion to help those with mortgages that were underwater to stay in their houses. A recent study shows that the centerpiece of those efforts — the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) — has a miserable success rate of 32%. That means that “about a third of the trial mortgage mods begun will be successfully converted to permanent ones, and won’t redefault.” Granted, if it were you or I who was helped by the program, we would declare the effort a success. But a redefault rate of 2/3, if looked at rationally, has to be considered an abject failure.
All of the above came out of the $700 billion TARP program signed by President Bush. Of course, no one who voted for the bill could have imagined the monies being used to bail out GM, throw money at lendees drowning in bad mortgages, or jumpstart the commercial and consumer loan industries. The bill may have originated with Bush — a desperate attempt, we were told, to buy up toxic paper from banks in order to stave off economic calamity. But Obama made this program his own, eschewing its original intent by vastly expanding the reach and power of the federal government, taking it into areas of the economy it had never ventured before. TARP’s failures are Obama’s failures.
And what of the hundreds of billions of taxpayer monies used to bail out banks? Much of that money didn’t go to eliminate the problem that caused the meltdown in the first place. Some estimates place the amount in toxic assets held by banks — still hovering in the background despite massive efforts to hide, write down, or otherwise resolve the value of these worthless securities and derivatives — at several trillion dollars face value. If another meltdown were to occur — a possibility not out of the question — we’d be back at square one with the big banks, risking depression and a blowup of the Western industrialized world’s financial system unless taxpayers repeated the agony of massive bailouts.
And you didn’t even touch upon the foreign policy disasters – catastrophe in the making – that are on the horizen. What about Iran? What about Afghanistan & Iraq?
Pakistan? Turkey? A probable Middle-East regional war? Mexico as a failed narco-state?
We’re losing the entire Middle-East, have alienated all our allies, the list of failures just goes on & on. I can’t decide if this is pre-WWI or pre-WWII, there are similarities to both situations. And in America’s economic state, we are woefully unprepared. Team Obama doesn’t have a clue, a bunch of bungling amateur-hour fools who mistake rhetoric for reality.
All those so-called “failures” are Team Obama successes. A weak, broke, and broken America, at home and abroad, is what Team Obama wants, and it’s getting it.
Carl wins the Kewpie Doll. He is right on target when he says that while the country has been harmed, that is Obama’s goal and he has succeeded. A bankrupt America will be putty in his hands, a crisis every day to take advantage of, more billions of dollars that can be directed to his contributors, more union members that will have to pay mandatory dues, and more citizens that will be dependent on big government for survival which is the justification. Anyone who robs Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul. And our children and grandchildren will be saddled with all the debt.
He told the “American” people what he intended to do if he was elected and they said hooray, communism sounds good. As we sow, so shall we reap. Surprised that things are getting ugly?
You are correct, sir. Those driven by the will to power would rather rule in hell than to let the rest of us live in peace and prosperity. They’ll be quite content to rule from atop a pile of rubble and corpses in a world lit only by fire – and that’s exactly what they’ll get if they are allowed to pursue their course.
I’ve already come to believe that this is pre-WWIII. And we’ll have that weak sister in the White House and all his “progressive” eggheads to thank for it.
No it’s WWIII because it is destined…No matter who is president.. So when the war starts what are you going to do?? The war will not only affect the military, but civilians… What will you do?
Sorry, Rick. Word should be envelop, not envelope, which is something to put a letter in. Other than that, right on target. I hope I live long enough to stay off a death panel and see this country back on the right track. As a naturalized citizen, who has lived in this country for 50 years, I have never seen things the way they are now. This president almost makes Jimmy Carter look good.
Obama’s sabotage of the economy is deliberate. Part of fundamentally transforming America. Breaking eggs for the social justice omelet.
This entire administration is beyond a disaster.We can only hope the economy does not collapse before 2012. I keep thinking of Robespierre and Obama as historical twins.
But isn’t it cool having an African-American President?
Well to be honest…No it is not!
Sigh. So many conservative commentators fall into this trap. It’s as if there were a mind-control device in operation that prevents conservatives from seeing the facts and speaking the truth.
Obama’s policies are not failing. They’re working exactly as intended. The problem isn’t Obama’s grasp of policy matters; it’s his intentions.
Obamunism aims to reduce the United States to a socialist state without the military power required to maintain an acceptable level of international order. It’s not about “combatting the recession.” It’s not about “restoring our image in the world.” It’s about transforming the last free society on Earth into a carbon copy of Sweden, if not something even lower.
A course of action “works” if it brings about the desired result at an acceptable cost. As Obama and his henchmen pay no costs — indeed, they’ve contrived to profit from his machinations — they’re getting exactly what they aim for. They’ll continue to get it until they’ve been expelled from power.
Barack Hussein Obama is a bad man, surrounded by bad men, enacting an evil agenda. Never forget it.
“Barack Hussein Obama is a bad man, surrounded by bad men, enacting an evil agenda.”
This is it.
But what prevents every American who loves America from seeing the obvious?
An important question, surely.
Imagine for a moment that at the height of the Cold War America elected a President that was a dedicated Communist. We would have put our very existence in peril. Doing so would also have been a failure of our whole system of self-government.
Would we have been able to confront what we had done to ourselves then?
And, more important, can we confront it today?
“Barack Hussein Obama is a bad man, surrounded by bad men, enacting an evil agenda. Never forget it.”
I think some people have real trouble accepting this grim fact. No one in their right mind wants to think our country is being led by ‘el diablo’ & his band of demons despite huge mounds of evidence abounding to the contrary.
You have it in a nutshell: Barack Hussein Obama is a bad man, surrounded by bad men, enacting an evil agenda.
The worst of it is that the bad men surrounding 0bama are driven by an insatiable will to power, and the ideas that animate them are the same ones held by recent history’s worst mass murderers – Mao, Stalin Pol Pot, Hitler. They have an agenda, and that agenda is millions of us dead, the remainder of us in chains. If that seem a tad, well, extreme – some of them in their more candid moments have said as much. They are not merely ‘bad men’. They are monsters.
This is well written…For someone who didn’t know any better they would say you are genious.. But I know better. You all play this game of us vs. them in this “free-country”. You then look to point a finger to place blame, the entire time keeping your prejudices in your heart. Keeping your hatred alive. You turn to those who believe as you do and continue to spread your hatred and belief to manifest. You have to understand destiny. I cannot change your opinions or have you to realize that debates concerning politics are meaningless in the end. But what else do you have to do?
There is unemployment and poverty and starvation in the world, not because of politics, but because of mans greed. There will always be poor people, starvation and poverty. You can’t give everyone a job, you have to have someone to look down on and make assumptions of how they became that way. You have to have someone to point the finger at. To laugh at to ridicule. There is not a political practice or agenda on any government sanction that can change this. It will always be this way, because of mans heart.
In the end everything relies on two priciples “Good or Evil”.. It all rides on your faith in God. He has stated that all these things shall come to pass. You realize that no matter who is in power nothing different will occur.. Until that day you are tricked and how do people become tricked? By opening their minds to beliefs that are not of “Good Value”. Yes, there will be a time people will believe that a great leader has changed the world for the Good, but it is only and mirage of events that are yet to come..
I challenge you to release your prejudice and hatred and look at all as humans, because all come to God at some point.. and he doesn’t care if you are fat, black, white, spanish, jew, christian, puppet.. He only cares that you believe and have the faith the size of a mustard seed. He only cares that you turn from sin and attempt to live life in a way of merit.
If I were you, I wouldn’t be using Roosevelt as an example of lifting this country out of its economic problems, considering the fact that it was Roosevelt’s horrific economic policies that made the Great Depression worse and not better. People tend to forget there was another depression around 1937, while Roosevelt was in office and had already instituted a wide number of programs designed to blunt the effects of the depression. But Roosevelt’s progressive programs only made things worse and the depression was extended until we got into World War II. Does any of this sound familiar today when talking about the Obama administration?
What is also destroying Obama is constantly blaming Bush for everything and whining that economic times are so horrible. Well, duh, we know economic times are bad and people are getting tired of the Bush bashing. You’ve had almost two years to turn things around, champ, and they’re getting worse, not better. People are also getting tired of being lied to. Enough of this “We were at the brink and now on the road to recovery.” If this is recovery, I’d hate to see what another recession is going to look like. And stop with the mantra “The Republicans drove us into a ditch so you want to give the keys back to the people who got you into the ditch.” If Bush got us into the ditch, Obama got us out and has pushed us off a cliff.
I’ve got a simple economic plan for both the Republicans and the Democrats. STOP SPENDING MONEY!!! No earmarks for anybody, fund only the pentagon and the Veterans Administration, the CIA, and the Post Office, and cut, yes CUT, everybody else’s budget by 25%. Get rid of the Department of Energy, consolidate federal agencies wherever possible (do we really need the department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms when we have the FBI), and tell all civilian government workers they are NOT getting a pay raise this year (just like everybody else in private industry). This would all be a good start. Will it ever happen, I doubt it, which is why 2011 is going to look a lot like 1937. God help us all if that happens.
There are only two choices that logically explain Obama, his entire administration, every Democrat in Congress and the people that elected them.
Choice #1 – All of them are dirt stupid.
Choice #2 – All of them detest, hate and want to destroy America.
Pick one.
I’m beginning to believe that Choice #2 is the correct answer.
There are only two choices that logically explain teabaggers and conservatives in general, and every Republican in Congress and the people that elected them.
Choice #1 – All of them are dirt stupid.
Choice #2 – All of them detest, hate and want to destroy America.
Pick one.
I’m beginning to believe that Choice #2 is the correct answer.
That’s racist!
When polled about 70% of the American people were against the Ground Zero Muslim TRIUMPHALIST Mosque. So what is Obambi’s reaction well first he spouts RED HERRINGS about religious freedom then uses those same Red Herrings to justify an illogical conclusion. The man and his REGIME are so out of touch with grassroots America that they seem genuinely surprised at the public’s reaction. Either that or more likely they just dont give a damn after all they WON.
But Barry Soetero is just doing what Muslims always do when involved in an inconvenient argument to which they have no logical reasonable answer and that is raise RED HERRINGS and use Taqqiya and hope that it will divert you from your legitimate complaint. Muslims ,of which Obama is a prime example, know very little about logical thought processes but a whole lot about HYPOCRISY their CULT is built on it. So having a complete ban on Bibles, Churches, Crosses and Christian books in Saudi Arabia along with a ban on NON Muslims even entering Mecca is completely ignored and treated as NORMAL by the SAME people who preach and cry for religious TOLERANCE in America and then illogically equate that with them being able to build their TRIUMPHALIST Mosques anywhere they want.
They use Americas renowned laisse faire benevolence and tolerance and with the active connivance of Politically Correct, Multi Culti left wing moonbats and use your good nature AGAINST you and then act as if they are perfectly JUSTIFIED in doing so. Indeed why not so many moonbats and the Lame Stream Media actively and loudly and just as HYPOCRITICALLY agree with them . The American Lame Stream Media meanwhile continues to do what it has been doing for decades and that is protect the left wing Democrats REGIME’s backsides.
Obama’s Bin Lyin’ and America’s cryin’
Pretorian – having observed for some time the sick parade of collectivist pornagraphy that passes for your thought processes, I have a few questions. Where do you suppose that you fit in this spectrum?
1. Wishful thinker – don’t you just wish that the world was a nicer place? If only everyone were just as smart, just as clever, just as enlightened as you, it surely would be, wouldn’t it? You, and those like you aren’t really up to doing the heavy lifting, but you surely do vote and applaud into power those who will. Trouble is, those folks typically have an agenda that doesn’t quite match yours. As witness the buyers’ remose that appears to be settling in now.
2. Coercive utopian – you just know that no one is going to do what it takes to usher in the new millennium, the New Man, that immanent eschaton that’s just around the corner. Put socialism / communism and its imperatives and consequences right out on the table in front of everyone, and most in their right minds wouldn’t buy it. Hence, Antonio Gramsci’s dioctrine of the ‘long march through the instutions.’ Trouble is, you coercive types tend to be fairly bloody-minded. For example, Billy Ayers and his wrecking crew thought that once they achieved power would have to slaughter over 25 million Americans too stubborn to toe thier utopian socialist line – that was back in the 1970’s so we’re actually giving him a bit of a discount on that 25 million figure. But what’s a few million here and there? Eric Hobsbawm, Marxist historian (now there’s an oxymoron) has also said as much in a BBC interview where he allowed as to how the ’sacrifice’ of millions would have been worth it in order to achieve socialism. So, Prraetorian, is that you? A little slaughter, a ‘re-education camp’ or two not too much a price to pay for heaven on Earth?
3. Lord of the flies– now we’re at the top of the pyramid of power, and those driven by that insatiable will to power. These are the ones who, once they achieve absolute power, really make things happen. And we’ve got over 260 million dead in this century and the last to prove it. Now, Praetorian – pay attention – that’s 260 million unarmed civilian non-combatants killed by their own governments. They were murdered by those exercising the power of the state. They were starved, gassed, tortured, shot, impaled, burned alive, drowned, frozen to death, hacked apart with hoes, axes and machetes – a litany of brutality and atrocity beyond human imagination. Hundreds of millions more lived their lives enslaved, impoverished and in despair. Communism, socialism, the immanent eschaton – who cares? Ideology is only the particular horse they riding in pursiut of absolute control of mankind.
Those who are driven by the will to power typically disguise their intentions under the guise of ‘achieving the greatest good for the greatest number’ or under the rubrics of social or economic justice. They may claim that they are ‘doing the business of the people’ or that they are acting according to ‘the will of the people’. The statement, ‘It’s for the children,’ should inspire instant disbelief and skepticism. When it has come to creating the ‘New Socialist Man,’ those who advance such arguments remain untroubled by the oceans of blood they would have to spill and the mountains of corpses they would have to pile up in order to realize their dreams. They are all animated by the unrestrained and unappeasable ‘will to power’. The Will to Power plays itself out at all levels. From the malice or indifference of the petty bureaucrat to the savage and demonic mass murderers of recent times. As we have seen, power and the exercise of that power is more addictive than any drug.
The need is insatiable. The result is horror.
So – where are you in all of this? If you’re a follower or apologist for today’s political and social multiculturalism, an adherent of liberal democracy, or believe that our culture can continue without a basis in moral absolutes, which camp do you suppose you belong in? Are you a cynical but clever elitist intoxicated by the will to power? Are you on to the deception but support it out of pathological spite? Or are you simply ignorant of your role in the intentional destruction of your culture, even if you think you stand in the relative right?
You may want to re-think your premises, buddy, because you are not likely to survive the consequences of the ones you’ve shown us. History is my witness.
Amen. For the simple, it can be expressed in small words. I have been using the following question for the past year:
“There have only ever been three types of Marxists in the world:
1. Evil plotters/overlords,
2. Dupes, and
3. Victims
Which one do *you* think Obama (and his friends) are?”
I like the way you put it, though!
It’s the fool-vs-knave phenomenon. Is Obama a fool or a knave? The percentages of fool/knave drift back and forth depending on which policy “The Won” is using to destroy us, but the end result is the same.
“It isn’t only Obama’s economic policies that are dragging the nation down. It is his inability to extend a hand to a dispirited people and help them pull themselves out of the doldrums and look with confidence to the future once again. ”
Here we go again. Same old unsupported assumption that he WANTS to “pull dispirited people out” of doldrums. If you look do not start with that assumption, AND look at the same facts, and many more that the author forgets to mention, it would become obvious that his, and the Left’s, idea is to destroy american economy, cripple the Republic, and hence perpetuate their tyrannical rule to eternity. When you gain this enlightenment, all this, “obama failed” and “obama is incompetent” and such nonsense just vaporizes and yields to a more realistic assessment– Obama is, without doubt, the most successful Leftist destroyer that western world has ever known. Not a single one of the agenda items he has taken on has been permanently defeated. He single-mindedly and successfully pursues his destructive agenda and NEVER gives up. He goes after what he wants in a fashion common to all born tyrants—the mafia way. Make them an offer they can’t refuse, and if they don’t yield, cut off the head of their million-dollar horse. By hook or by crook. Mostly by crook. Unless we come to terms with this exact nature of the Leftist enemy (Obama being their current leader), we can not even begin to hope to defeat him/them.
And it is true, it is not just economy that he wants to destroy—-he wants to, and is being successful in, imasculating america in every single aspect that makes america a great and strong country. He is busy dismantling our military. He encourages every sort of criminally insane islamist threats—both globally and domestically. He is punishing and/or snubbing the only two serious allies we have in the world. (with a view to destroy at least one of those). He is pandering to all sorts of sundry thugs who have found themselves heads of states. He is pandering to china and specially russia. He has thrown away many DEFENSIVE inititative against the neo-comminst threat that is russia. He is all but openly aiding and abetting Iran in its drive to get nuclear weapons AND destroy Israel. He is attacking the first amendment, the second amendment, the judiciary, AND state sovereignties, not mention american sovereignty itself. In general, he is doing his level best to flush the Republic down the drain—and successfully so.
If we can not recongnize all this as a deliberate attack on america, there is no way in this world that we can put even a little dent in his agenda. So stop spreading this nonsense about his “incompetence” and “failures” and start decrying his SUCCESSES.
American Eagle:
Congratulations and thanks for your efforts in explaining what is, rather than what we wish it were. You have definitively described the success of a Marxist Dictator.
The only question now, what is the antedote if there is one? And I hope you don’t believe that November 2010 is it.
This troubles me greatly to say…but I am becoming convinced that an open revolution may be the only hope we, as a Republic, have left at our disposal. We cannot put faith in our elected officials any more, regardless of whether they have good hearts and intentions or not. If a good elected official went to office he would be forced to bow down before Obama eventually during his Presidency. Assuming even that the Republican party wins the entire House of Representatives, he can still overturn them with vetoes and executive orders. He has appointed a racial criminal to the Department of Justice. Looking at the DOJ’s track record since Holder came to office, how can anyone realistically believe that the voting turnout for 2010 and 2012 will be true? How will we know if the New Black Panther Party stationed themselves at every election booth they could reach? How will we know that the military is accurately represented? It is now 2010, and only recently did we discover what happened with the NBPP and military absentee ballots for 2008′s election. Should we wait until 2014 to cry out that Obama rigged the 2012 election?
Again, with a heavy heart I am saying all this. I do not want war within our country. I would prefer that we could use our court system and true diplomacy to solve all of this. But now…when the rule of law is against you and the elected officials is out for your money…what other alternative do we have?
“Give me back my MONEY” . . . I know what I need . . . it ain’t giving GM money . . . I don’t need a VOLT . . . I need a decent pickup truck that will do work for me . . . I don’t need a mortgage reduction . . . I don’t have a mortgage, my home is mine . . . I need consumer goods . . . Damn, when they going to figure out that if they leave my money I alone, once I feel good about my security . . . I will spend it for things that I want and need. “GIVE ME BACK MY MONEY”!!!
From his first month in office, I wrote that Obama and his elitist posse were either incompetent or evil. The bad news is they are both. The good news is that America is awake and nov. 2 is not the end of this intentional destruction. It will be the Beginning of a long ter pendulum swing back to God and faith, conservatism, personal freedom and individual responsibility.
America has been blesses by God as His example of what freedom can do for individuals who have Faith and Freedom
It is our Duty to restore freedom, responsibility and accountability of the individual. And with those blessings come the call for charity to give others that same personal freedom.
God bless the USA!
Sinclair Lewis wrote that “when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” That pretty much sums up everything you wrote. Evil, co-opts symbols of good for their own destructive purposes. America needs to watch out for people like you. You are a clear and present danger. You are the enemy within.
I wouldn’t count on that pendulum swinging too far and for too long. Remember Karl Rove’s “permanent GOP majority?” Uh, huh, right . . .
Terri, “amateur-hour fools who mistake rhetoric for reality.”
These people do not operate in reality; therefore they do not mistake rhetoric for reality. They have an alternate reality in which to revel and party on and the rest of the world can shut-up.
Look at the ease with which Islam has crept into positions of influence in our government. An Imam, (Rauf) can boldly lie and state that the 9/11 hijackers were not Muslims; and absolutely nobody questions it…now is that cluelessness, gullibility or living in an alternate state of allowing ourselves to be deliberately deceived?
May God rescue us quickly.
And Barracky boy is seriously over the limit on his Race Card. It’s like the Keystone Cops trying to operate as the Mafia.
Islam is at war with the United States, but, the United States will not use ‘offensive terms’ to describe the enemy.
Yea; That worked so well in my neighborhood where we refrained from calling the drug dealers what they really were.
I’m sure that will reduce graft and corruption in Congress if we use warm and fuzzy terms for criminal activity, instead of condemning them for what they are.
Let’s start calling and treating Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel poor misguided, mistreated, people of repression, and I’m sure they will repent for their sins.
GTFO!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps a more thorough examination of Obama’s life would have helped the country. It seems that only a few of us were interested enough to find out what little we could about him prior to the election.
We discovered that he was the product of two young radicals who preferred studying leftist politics instead of providing a stable home and family life. As a result of rejection, young Barry always tried to fit in with the only people he knew: anti-American radicals and their filthy ilk. His childhood mentor was a radical communist as was his eventual pastor, the wrong Rev. Wright.
It didn’t take much research for the interested among us to realize that this guy had no business in Washington, much less the White House, but a swooning media could find no wrong in his radical beliefs and upbringing. After eight years of constant whining about the evil George Bush, the country had had enough and was eager to vote for any but him.
By any measure, this guy (I’ll call him a man when I see him display a truly masculine characteristic) has been and continues to be a disaster for America. His warped views of the country are on display daily as he never fails to choose the wrong side of an issue. Anything that has actual benefits for our country are automatically dismissed, like any real effort to get the economy going again through common sense ideas like tax cuts and regulatory reductions. He was who the radical left in our country had waited for. Once in office, he along with his Soros-funded lackeys in Congress began their long march toward socialism.
His idealogy was destined to fail. Thank goodness. If any American continues to vote for Democrats after this debacle of one-party control, then we have a much larger problem on our hands. And any Republican who dares to compromise one iota with our proven enemies on the left won’t last another election cycle. The brand of anti-Americanism as embodied by Reid, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, and the others in Washington has suffered greatly. Perhaps its time to retire Dems for a generation or two.
They have done more to harm the country than any outside threat and deserve to be ostracized, mocked and ridiculed.
Mr. Moran,
Speaking domestically, you forgot to mention the $26 billion going to the teacher’s unions recently. You know, to shore up the ’100k jobs that may be lost’ nonsense.
An op-ed from Michelle Malkin:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Not-a-jobs-bill-but-a-special-interest-bill-1009327-100467334.html
Another piece by writer, columnist David Freddoso:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/vote-prevents-teacher-layoffs-that-were-never-going-to-happen-100617859.html
I for one was never taken in by Obama’s speechifying. What was breathtaking to me was after hearing him speak the people were so mesmerized. What? by his two dimensional concepts and simple wording? It was obvious he gave a simple and obnoxious rhetorical voice because he knew his victory would be on the backs of the simple and easily convinced. It was painful to listen to. And I remember my impression was ‘he’s not saying anything’.
I read some essay that was floating around about conversational hypnosis and if Barack could be shown to be using such a method. I still remain convinced that that is what happened.
He and his speechwriters and handlers clearly used elements of hypnosis and intentional mind control of a dumbed-down audience – those that would provide him key votes – to get a JFK or RFK effect on the voter. They exploited his ‘good lucks’ and his up-tilted, off-into-the-distance gaze as well. It was all rehearsed, including the pauses and cadences.
They knew that the American public is increasingly susceptible to such messages, increasingly incurious and ‘owned’ by a TMZ-Reality TV show set of values. Enough are to make the difference, and did.
The current occupant of the Oval Office is a stranger, an alien who is woefully inadequate and disconnected. He targets people and industries for public flogging. His diatribes reveal him to be small and petty
in his heart. He’s not president of all the people. He teaches hate and fear.
The United States offers opportunities to succeed and to fail at the highest levels but we do not suffer fools.
The country has taken the measure of this over-inflated blowhard, whose words are strings of platitudes without warmth, kindness or substance, and
found him
wanting. Next time, voters need to do some research and LISTEN to the candidate’s words, and not project their own fantasies onto the candidate.
Electing a man who produced two autobiographies before reaching anything close to maturity, without any tangible accomplishment to his credit, was an act of collective folly. It may some day be recognized as the apotheosis of the fallacies of the left. Learning can be painful. Detox anyone?
RICK MORAN, you have touched on so many things that it is almost impossible to give each its due. FDR, as you say, was the very GREATEST of PRESIDENTS, having as his companion the crippling pain brought on by Polio, he brought this nation out of its blackness and morass and literally brought AMERICA to victory in WW11. Reagan also served his country and brought the defenses of our country way, way up from the Carter years, so that we were the unparalleled leaders of the free world and absolutely no one would dare to tangle with our country. The Soviet Union went down as a result.
ALL CREDIT MUST GO TO THESE TWO MEN FOR KEEPING AMERICA GREAT.
“European levels of idleness?” Real unemployment in most European countries today is less than real unemployment in the US today. Also, even the NYT had to note on its front page this a.m. the irony of Germany posting 9% economic growth last quarter. Ours was reported to be 2.4% but will soon be revised down to 1% or even less. 9% is what a real economic recovery looks like, and is what we got under Reagan, thanks to his free-market-supportive policies. Mr. Obama lectured the Germans that they needed to stimulate to overcome the financial crisis. Thank goodness Angela Merkel had the balls to do the right thing. The difference in result could not be more stark.
You should qualify that 9% is the annualized rate and considered non-sustainable. Germany’s actual rate of growth in the second quarter was 2.2%. Still, I’ll take it.
I wouldn’t be too hard on the President. It’s the first job he’s ever had where he was responsible for, you know, doing stuff.
Laugh….? Or cry?
Thanks Steve, you made me laugh and tonight I really need that!
And now many in the GOP have the answer to all the problems! Drum roll. Yes, it’s to destroy Social Security. A government mandate to purchase healthcare insurance i very, verys bad but a government mandate to invest in Wall Street (via privatization) is very, very good? Imagine that! Only in D.C. You see, conservatives are really closet socialists. As long as they can privatize their profit and socialize their losses they are fine. Try and upset that apple cart and all hell breaks loose.
Even Sharon Angle has hopped on the apple cart. She wants to follow the Chilean model. That is, Angle is now speaking favorably of a system that was enacted by military dictator Pinochet. We should note, however, that Chile’s private pensions system has been criticized for being subject to market volatility, though its proponents argue that it gives all citizens a stake in the market (isn’t that a coincidence! That’s what Republican’s are arguing!). However, Chile has been moving toward a greater government role in the private system: The pension system established in 1981 by right-wing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is no longer a fully private system. Chile’s system was revamped in 2008 to expand public pensions for groups left out of its system, including low-income seniors.”
And just think of all those Tea Partiers comparing Obama to Hitler on health care. Those teabaggers say they hate socialism but they sure seem to love fascism.
Adding a Private Option to Socialist Insecurity would not destroy it.. well I grant you it would destroy the lefttards like you who want to control everyone like the good little fascist you are.
There is a reason people who actually produce in this country are not clamoring to place even more of their hard earned monies (not that a welfare maggot such as yourself would know what hard earned means) into the SS fraud. But instead invest in their own real retirement.
However if it makes a far left fascist such as you happy, I am sure you can stay in the current SS ponzie scheme.
The rest of us .. us decent and patriotic Americans would prefer to use the 15% that SS/MediScam steal from us to put in place a real retirement.. one that does not leave us in abject poverty like your progressive(communist) SS does today.
This would be real Social Security. Of course you progressive scum would loose control of our lives.. but then there is always a cost to improvement.
I know that you would rather bend over and spread those conservative cheeks for the private firms that would get to skim off your retirement. The rest of us are not that stupid (nor like acting against our own interests). Social Security will never be privatized. What is comforting for me to know is that people like you will go to your grave frustrated at having tried!
My, my.. those baaadddd private firms “skimming” off my retirement… LOL
Well at least there would BE a retirement as opposed to the sure loss that government run SS has turned out to be. And a real retirement , one not in poverty that your SS guaranties.
SS will be privatized or it will collapse like all ponzie schemes do.. even government run ones.
Oh and speakin’ of spreadin’ ones cheeks….
http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/13/related/1
“The average monthly Social Security benefit for a retired worker was about $1,164 at the beginning of 2010. This amount changes monthly based upon the total amount of all benefits paid and the total number of people receiving benefits.”
Wow, a whole $13,968 dollars a year after the government skimmin’ 15% off of me my whole lifetime… that’ll send a tingle up your leg… NOT! This is poverty and below. SS is even worse for the working poor, it steals the very funds they need in order to have a real retirement and one in dignity.
Now those at the top end get a wonderful $2,346 a month or $28,000 a year.
“The maximum benefit depends on the age at which a worker chooses to retire. For a worker retiring at age 66 in 2010, the amount is $2,346. This figure is based on earnings at the maximum taxable amount for every year after age 21.”
And that maximum taxable income you might ask. Well.. “For 2010, the maximum taxable earnings amount for Social Security is $106,800.”
So lets do a quick comparison. SS will pay that sucker.. er poor soul, if he put his money voluntarily in SS he would be a sucker, SS would pay 28 Thousand a year after 45 years of paying in the maximum. SS/mediscam take a little over 15% so that would be $16000 a year. According to the link I provided to this libttard on a post below Chile’s private system has earned an average of 10% on contributions. Applying the “rule of 72″ you would double your money ever 7.2 years. If you work the 45 years stipulated under SS you would double your first years contribution over 6 times. Which means that your first years contribution in Chile would grow to over 1 million dollars, that alone would provide over three times the SS return of $28,000 a year alone. Or $100,000 a year at the average rate of return, all without touching your principal and all without paying in more than the max for your first year.
Now, back on your knees libtard, your master is wanting serviced.
Hitler solved the Great Depression and Mussolini made the trains run on time. Even the worst dictator is bound to have a good idea once in a while.
News flash, Slingblade:
Social Security is already destroyed.
And, BTW, ascertaining where the evil resides isn’t a difficult exercise: Soros, Obambi and their pocketful of useful idiots.
Including you, I venture.
The sad irony is none of this had to happen.
let`s hope the electorate is awake and paying attention in November. The only thing certain is uncertainty….
Hello, Terry in Eilat,
What you say is quite true, but the causes and effects of this prevalent anti-American momentum are akin to that familiar chickens versus eggs dispute. This negative-America emotion seems to feed upon itself and varies a bit country by country. I would question the blanket “alienation of our allies” in that it would appear that their true emotions may be only now surfacing, as is their wont from time to time. I’m convinced that our “allies” in a situation are motivated by crass opportunism. Nothing new there. When the “…what’s in it for me” attitude founders, and the politics shift, we find ourselves seeking new friends…..”allies”.
This is a lead-in to my saying that we have no true allies. This leads me further to say that in the -gasp!- event that USAID cash dried up universally, as in Wylie’s “The Disappearance”, and that if the actual graft and administrative costs of this USAID were revealed, we Americans would wonder how we came to be so hoodwinked into this what seems to be a “protection money” scheme foisted upon us. When the shock and awe of America’s newly applied hard-a**ed pragmatism faded, we’d actually be more “respected”.
Much is made of the French assisting us Colonial upstarts in the eighteenth century. But certainly this was because Imperial Britain’s enemy was France’s new friend. Leap ahead to the arrival of de Gaulle demanding the removal of all American forces from French soil. This provoked (..wasn’t it?…) Secy. of State Dean Rusk to say, roughly, “Does he mean to include all those Americans buried there?”. We can skip the endlessly patronizing English for the time being.
Add to this complex mix our current Obama problem. Isn’t it becoming apparent that he is again straining towards planting the idea that overtures and outreach to our Muslim/Islamic enemies are to our ultimate benefit? Mentioning that THAT Mosque is technically OK at THAT location because it exemplifies our tradition of freedom of religion…..and, he says this at a dinner at the beginning of this Ramadan period. This is dizzying distortion and spin along with monumental B.S.
I’m concentrating here solely on your mention of the “alienation of our allies”. I tend to minimize the importance of that theme. I’ve written off the Middle East as a place for our land-based military involvement. I don’t care if we “lose” the Middle East. I know, the risk here is our narco-like oil dependence, but as we protect our petro-sources with bribes (er, USAID), I’d say the whole Islamic Middle East/Central Asian theater can take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut, as we used to say….or even better….a ham sandwich.
Charlie Griffith.
Sorry I didn’t reply earlier, I didn’t see your post.
Foreign policy since the earliest times has involved bribes & tribute which is essentially what foreign aid is. Buying allies, loyalty, support, is nothing new in human affairs.
A wise man said that if you ignore the Middle-East, the Middle-East will NOT ignore you.
But, Obama is not just alienating the phoney allies of the Middle-East. Obama is alienating ALL of America’s allies.
But don’t take my word for it. Chile has been dismantling the private model for years now. Even Chilean conservatives admit it has largely failed. But the failures of Chile’s privatized pension system are exactly what make it appealing to neo-cons in the U.S. They would love it if their Wall Street friends had a new boatload of cash to skim off of. Skimming off the backs of the American people is what they do best. They point of bringing up the Chilean model for pensions is to demonstrate that conservative economic policy is a failure, but that’s beside the point for them. But I hope they run the entire 2010 campaign on their ideas on how to destroy Social Security.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/world/americas/10iht-chile.html
Another trait of you progressives is to lie. However you do not have the leftist media echo chamber to back up your lies here lefttard.
A later article from your leftist source. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/business/worldbusiness/10iht-pension.4.10887983.html
A small excerpt.
“The dictator Augusto Pinochet established Chile’s private pension plan in 1981 amid a broader push to privatize the economy. The system required salaried workers to deposit at least 10 percent of their wages into personal accounts managed by private pension funds.
The mandate created a huge pool of capital that spurred a new wave of investment. Pension funds accumulated $111.4 billion by the end of 2007 – 70 percent of gross domestic product – and helped to drive growth in what became known as Chile’s “miracle” economy.
The private funds earned an average 10 percent return since their start, ensuring that typical workers who contributed since 1981 now collect about 85 percent of their final wage upon retirement. That’s more than double the average 40 percent paid to full-career, middle-income Social Security recipients in the United States, according to a study by James last year.
”
Looks pretty good to me. And a lot better than your fdr/progressive Ponzie scheme.
The only problem with Chile’s system is a certain amount of fraud by employers not sending the monies they withhold in. Something not likely to happen here in the USA with the IRS as overseer and collector of funds. Likewise , just as with the fdr/progressive Ponzie sceme.. you have to pay in.
Even a lefttard such as yourself must realize the your SS does not pay you a dime if you did not pay into it right… RIGHT?
In ending, adding a private option to SS. a ownership option does not destroy SS, it saves SS and vastly improves SS. Making it a real retirement system which builds wealth for individuals and their families. Their money, their wealth, owned by themselves not some scumbag politician like O’Blame-a.
It would only suk for the far left progressives who want to keep people poor and on the democrap plantation. As such I see why it scares the hell out of you.
Of course we are wasting our breath (or finger movements) in replying to Praetorian. I Notice that he/she is especially active when BHO is under discussion so I think he is paid to skirmish with conservative blogs in this manner. The fact is that there is no justification for this administration’s policies that would be acceptable to the American people. So they never try to explain themselves step-by-step with clear logic. Rebuttals are always with tired old talking points, angry slogans, insults and hands-over-the-ears whenever someone on the other side makes too much sense to ignore. I am not a Republican, not a Conservative, not even a “Tea bagger”. But I believe in logic and empirical evidence. I believe The author of this article is mostly correct in his analysis. I also believe in limited government because they almost always get things wrong especially when driven by a questionable and sophomoric ideology.
SB – A college buddy and I were discussing the very same German growth numbers this morning.
Can’t imagine if Germany or portions of the EU heeded this economic-know-nothing’s ‘financial advice’.
I’m but in my mid 30′s, but being an avid reader of history – and Obama TRULY gives way to President Carter being far more intelligent..!
Well, Roosevelt didn’t exactly “pick the country up off the floor,” but he talked a good game which is perhaps what you meant.
Anyone who lived through the 70′s knows what a truly putrid decade it was. To say we were mired in the doldrums is to put it mildly. But then in 1980, two things happened that actually did pick the country up off the floor. First, our Olympic hockey team (God bless ‘em) beat the Ruskies and went on to win the gold medal resulting in a surge of patriotic pride the likes of which hadn’t been seen in many a year. And second, and most importantly, we elected Ronald Wilson Reagan, he of the sunny disposition and abiding faith and pride in our country and its citizens. We believed in him because he believed in us. Reagan, and this is where he parts company with Mr. Roosevelt, put into motion the policies that would achieve his two major goals: getting the US economy back on firm footing and relegating the Soviet Union and Stalinism to the ash heap of history.
But, we will not see the likes of Reagan again any time soon and this time there will be no Lake Placid miracle on ice. We’re going to have to get ourselves out of this mess. This man-child from Kansas/Hawaii/Indonesia/Cambridge/Chicago neither can nor will lead us; he can only impede us further. We’ll have to lead ourselves. And the very important first step is, to the extent possible, getting everybody who would act to make our situation even more intractable out of the way. My favorite Tea Party sign of all time: I can see November from my house.
Huckabee/Ryan 2012.
what was utterly amazing to me was the way the lefty media bullied and name called ANYONE who dared question the
halfwits credentials, and his obsessive secrecy. then along came the Tea Party and the left still uses quite nasty
sexually explicit (in front of children) and demeaning names to describe them. they openly talked and wrote for years of killing Bush. yet, even a whisper of anything even slightly negative (imaginary ‘n word’ name calling) and they go into high earth orbit. i guess nasty name calling is considered an art form with this bunch. that, raising taxes and giving away (to their friends) other people’s $$ seems to be what they really excel at.
i started out praying that he was just stupid. he reminded me of those people who win the lottery and upon finding themselves all of a sudden flush with newly found wealth, begin on a path of self destruction. unfortunately for us, he found how to spend all of our $$. however, now that i see he is being methodical in his path of destruction, i too agree that something stinks down deep in d.c. the criminals are breaking the law and (again) calling everyone else nasty names, and blaming imaginary ghosts of the past. maybe it is not too late to recover from this nightmare on pennsylvania avenue.
my friends got mad at me for voting for him (3 times) last election. this time maybe those nice acorn people will let me vote for someone else (joke).
Barack Hussein Obama “has his boot on the throat” of our country and all the greatness it stands for. To expect otherwise is wishful thinking! VOTE THEM OUT 11/2/10.
Mr Moran:
“Have Obama’s Policies Failed? Let Us Count the Ways”
What are you yammering about?
-we have an unprecedented level of long-term unemployed
-despite the above, we still are importing low-wage labor from less-developed countries.
-we have socialized medicine in the form of a national health plan
-our government is increasing entitlements, (and certainly to its own workers).
-our debt is staggering
-our taxes are climbing.
-Homosexuality is now recognized and state-sanctioned,(at least in the 9th District)
-Judaism and Christianity, and the values they teach are actively attacked in public consumption media.
-abortions-as-birth-control are not only lawful, they are also subsidized.
-Decriminalized euthanasia is gaining ground, as is decriminalized recreational drugs.
-our military is very nearly enjoined from actually killing anyone.
Heck, man…how do you call these failures?
The Alleged Hawaiian has succeeded wildly.
If we get any MORE like Europe, we might as well apply for membership in the EU.
The lousy phuk.
Hey! #29-davelinga!
Share! how! you! voted! three! (3!) times!…
….As my one time hero once said, “I’m all ears…”…but now in this space insert “eyes”.
Hey! #29-daveinga!
Share! how! you! voted! three! (3!) times!…
….As my one time hero once said, “I’m all ears…”…but now in this space insert “eyes”.
actually, where that came from,
one nite i was playing cards with the boyz, and my ‘good buddy’ fats, during a heated conversation
about the pretender, blurted out how i had voted for that idiot. i let it simmer for a few seconds,
and about the time they were about to ask me to leave (if i was lucky), i whipped out ‘yeah, i voted
for him…. three times’. sometimes it better to be quick, than pretty.
Throughout the Cold War, most of us tried to think as “reasonable” intelligent people, and moderate our feelings towards our Communist adversaries. We cringed at the “crackpots” who insisted the enemy was much worse than we were letting on, and those crackpots were sometimes downright odious, which made it easier to despise them. The the Venona Files came out, and Joe McCarthy was largely vindicated. That drunken clown was right! Then the “Evil Empire” fell, and the Soviet archives vindicated the amiable dunce who helped bring Communism down.
Nowadays we have birthers, and people claiming Obama is a secret Muslim, and others railing against the notion that Islam is a “religion of peace,” and us “reasonable” people are being put to the test again. Every time this President opens his mouth, or a jihadist commits an act of violence, or a runaway Congress defies the will of the people, he and they makes birhters and other conspiracy mongers and “haters” look like prophets. This is not a good sign.
Folks:
“Praetorian” is a college kid (by his own stupid admission), so his pronouncements are valueless. He’s an immature limpnoodle hiding behind a “macho” user name. Don’t feed him, please.
No one wants to feed the little Troll but you have to laugh out loud at his pathetic naive gullibility. It is the same naive gullibility however which led to the USA committing collective suicide by voting in the Bogus POTUS usurper because such as he has a vote. Obama’s narcissism is really starting to show isn’t it , it was always there but it seems to be getting worse as he is obviously being insulated from reality and fawned on and worshiped by the fools around him and the pathetic biased Lame Stream Media and is starting to actually believe he IS the Messiah. Sent here to lead foolish America to the Socialist paradise he craves.
Obama’s Bin Lyin’ and America’s cryin’
As usual, Rick…my seat in the cfbleachers gives me a slightly different perspective from my friends here and PJM and certainly a different view from the pueriletorians that troll these pages for openings to inject venom, invective and brain dead leftism.
I truly believe that this administration is baffled at the lack of rousing applause for their efforts. They are on the brink of tucking tail and running in Iraq. They have sat on their hands in Iran. They have left their hand print on the slapped and reddened cheeks of Israel and Britain.
They have rewarded their friends handsomely in the unions, at One West Bank, and have pushed Reset buttons in every leftist nation around the globe.
They skirted every constitutional constraint in passing a health care bill that accomplished the goal of “redistributing” wellness away from the age group most likely to not like socialism and toward those who will vote to advance dependency on the nation state.
They have sued a state, ripping away its right to self-protection and crushing its borders. They do this with the muscle of a mafia bag man, insisting on “tribute for protection”. The border states have to allow “amnesty” to protect against further demolition of their borders.
This will also produce tens of millions of dependents, those who are needy and will be grateful to have the “redistributed” monies ripped from the pockets of others in order to vote for lifelong entitlements.
ACORN can fraudulently sign em up and they can fraudulently sneak in, then they can fraudulently claim that the “mean” people don’t want them to live the “American Dream”.
As for TARP and HAMP and HAFA…you have to understand the game, Rick. The banks do NOT want to modify these loans. They have bundled them and have sold them to investors. The government isn’t enforcing any of the rules. The banks and servicers are pulling every trick in the book to keep from timely reviewing, fairly negotiating, or honestly reworking these loans.
They pretend to lose documents, lie to homeowners with impunity, fake like they are “under review” and then sell the homes out from under folks WHILE they are “reviewing and negotiating”.
George Soros’ One West Bank. which was bought in a sweetheart deal to get and then rename IndyMac…with the FDIC, is at the head of the class.
It doesn’t appear that this administration has let a crisis go to waste. They have accomplished all of this…and kept the media in their pocket the whole time…so that nobody knows. I would call that a rousing success.
And they kept the “blame Bush” meme alive the whole time.
Obama need not worry. He’ll have a Republican majority to blame for all of his failures or accept the credit for all they’re able to accomplish in spite of his opposition and a gullible public, eager to return his eminence and his political hacks to the oval orifice and give them another chance at that nebulous Hopey, Changey thing, will vote accordingly in November, 2012.
Obama has created a mountain of legislative, regulatory and economic garbage that will be impossible to clean up between January, 2011 and January, 2013 and the party in power, presumably the Republicans, will be eagerly blamed by the liberal media immediately upon assuming control. “It’s Obama’s fault” will be relentlessly mocked the first time it’s tried and the “party of the rich” will scramble to go on defense, if past behavior is any indication. Attempts to cut spending will undoubtedly require some painful changes to entitlements, the so called “third rail” of politics and Republicans will likely tuck their tails between their quivering legs and act contrite. Again, if past performance is any indication.
Hate to pessimistic but the evidence of the disconnect in America is overwhelming. Doubt it? Then explain how this bozo got elected in the first place without including rampant ignorance on the part of the electorate and a desire on the part of same to elect a man of color despite the obvious irrelevance to the requirements of the job. The fact that there are still a significant number of voters with the opinion that Obama is doing a good job is infuriating but understandable given this realization. How likely is it that this will change given a few months post Nov, 2010 of the paranoid bashing of all things Republican?
For a US President, Obama really isn’t into America that much. I think he’s into leftist politics, and he’s really into himself. Obama really digs Obama. That’s the main feeling I get from him. It’s pretty clear he doesn’t understand basic economic theory, US history, or the difference between his behind and a hole in the ground. And 53% of us thought it would be a good idea to give this mook the keys to the store.
I weep for America’s future. Idiots electing idiots.
Summon the meteors.
Very good article. I agree with its spirit. I also agree with the commenter’s.
Obama’s administration is proving to be an abject failure. The actions to bailout and stimulate has placed more money in the hands of the skunks.
With that said I believe all debate on the issue of spurring job growth leaves out a key component. That component centers around outsourcing, free trade, and failure to tax American companies with a substantial workforce they have placed overseas to avoid paying a fair wage to American workers.
Granted Unions played a part but that does not explain this in its entirety.
Is the pain we are experiencing (as well as other Nations) clocked in the Global Economy? I think so.
The fact that Wall Street players desire for gambling at all costs play a big part? Absolutely.
Our Gov’t, the elite class, have aided all world players at the expense of the American taxpayer all the while becoming ever more rich and at he expense of her willing workers.
I am afraid the entire experiment in the Global Economy is a failure.
Global Economy = Global Dictatorship
Obama’s reaching out, or, rather stretching way out to “reach” the Muslims/Islamists, particularly his latest emphases on the appropriateness of building that infernal Mosque two blocks for Ground Zero in the name of our historical religious tolerances lead me to consider that we’ve properly elected a Muslim sleeper as a President.
Naturally there will be the usual “vigorous denials”, and I’m already ducking the virtual shoes for putting it this way, but I see this as a form of the Muslim/Islamic tactic of “lawfare”, i.e. the Muslim/Islamist nose under the tent of twisting our legal precedents to further their subversive aims. Inch by inch.
What should be really bothering all of us voters is that we’ve been effectively snookered by a slick talker. His socialistic forays combined with the terrible symbolism of that Mosque are apparently following the Brit’s dangerous lethargic leniency….hence Londonistan. And, don’t forget the Archbishop of Canterbury’s tolerance of Sharia in pockets of the U.K.
We Americans should, sad to say, look to London as a warning precedent.
Even Stalin outdid Obama, by scrapping the ‘new perfect Soviet man’ for ‘our sacred motherland’ when his alliance with Hitler blew up in his face. Unlike Obama, Stalin had some knowlege of the people’s attachment to the past, and put it to use.
All Obama can come up with is ‘bitter clingers to guns and religion’, witlessly alienating all those Americans whom he should be inspiring. An organizer of the community-as-a-whole he is not, and as a cultivated class warrior, he never meant to be.
Dang. Correction needed:
Hence, President Obama’s rhetoric that seeks to use America’s past as a touchstone for patriot hearts engenders a titanic disconnect between his actions and words.
Even Stalin outdid Obama, by scrapping the ‘new perfect Soviet man’ for ‘our sacred motherland’ when his alliance with Hitler blew up in his face. Unlike Obama, Stalin had some knowlege of the people’s attachment to the past, and put it to use.
All Obama can come up with is ‘bitter clingers to guns and religion’, witlessly alienating all those Americans whom he should be inspiring. An organizer of the community-as-a-whole he is not, and as a cultivated class warrior, he never meant to be.
Who cares about anything anymore. There’s no chance (ZERO) that obama will lose in 2012. By then over 10 million illegals will have voting rights. Conservatives just plain don’t have the numbers to overthrow him. Without an armed revolution in this country we are doomed, it’s that simple. When will people finally get up from their computer monitors and make their actions speak louder than words?
Rick,
How much longer is it going to take pundits to realize Obama’s not running in 2012? He’s kaput.
I hope your prophetic insights are as accurate as your pragmatic perspectives; but suspect that the same ethically challenged dodos will support him in 2012; and beyond, if he survives and suspends the Constitution. The Pelosi maggots and the Reid dungflies will continue to light on him, plus all the felons, crazies and illegals they, in turn, recruit. Then, too, we will have even more deceased persons voting, along with many ficticious entities. All Democrats, of course. Finally, the vote counters, wherever they can get away with it, will pitch Republican ballots and doublecount anything with a picture of a jackass on it.
Incidentally, Francis Porretto may be a pretty smart guy, but it doesn’t take a genius to see that Obama’s intentionally driving this country off a cliff.
Writes, Porretto, “Obama’s policies are not failing. They’re working exactly as intended. The problem isn’t Obama’s grasp of policy matters; it’s his intentions.
Obamunism aims to reduce the United States to a socialist state without the military power required to maintain an acceptable level of international order. It’s not about “combating the recession.” It’s not about “restoring our image in the world.” It’s about transforming the last free society on Earth into a carbon copy of Sweden, if not something even lower.”
A course of action “works” if it brings about the desired result at an acceptable cost. As Obama and his henchmen pay no costs — indeed, they’ve contrived to profit from his machinations — they’re getting exactly what they aim for. They’ll continue to get it until they’ve been expelled from power.
Barack Hussein Obama is a bad man, surrounded by bad men, enacting an evil agenda. Never fo
Barack Hussein Obama is a bad man, surrounded by killers without conscience, enacting a monstrous agenda. They are posessed of an insatiable appetite for controlling mankind, and with a pedigree of ideas whose persuasion is the gun, the gulag and the mass grave. Monsters, all of them.
“Have Obama’s Policies Failed? Let Us Count the Ways”
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They’re not Obama’s policies. Obama is a puppet in a tiresome circus show and masquerade. People that continue to perpetuate this circus show and masquerade need to be called on it. And that means you, Rick Moran. You are part of the problem. Part of the lying CIA-MSM gov mafia propaganda priesthood and guardians of the thieving central banking matrix world construct.
Amplify, please, Mika!? Does one hear an atavistic clanging in the Rothschild cellar? Are they expanding the services at the Synagogue of Satan to include Ramadan? Are we tempted to guess at the real identities of the Beast and the false Prophet?
Damn – I’ve been discovered! Do you think I should hold out for more money from “the lying CIA-MSM gov mafia propaganda priesthood and guardians of the thieving central banking matrix?” My last paycheck from them bounced.
And if I were you, I’d tighten the screws to that tin foil hat you’re wearing. Seems to be slipping a bit.
Jones #38 comment – Classic!
Hey, you don’t think Obama understands basic economic theory? Hey now, he said accounting is an ‘inexact science’ – What could be more exacting than that?
-U.S. History – he knows ‘all’ about it. The U.S. Constitution is a ‘remarkable political document’ (I believe it to be FAR more than that but hey.. thumbs up Obama!) and reflects the ‘fundamental flaw’ that apparently continues.
-Apparently FDR and Truman met with enemy leaders when President as well.
-His choosing Germany’s Siegessäule site during his campaign trail.. in Europe?
-His commenting on JFK & Khrushchev rendezvous in Vienna ‘ended the Cold War (?)’. Or how Czechoslovakian ‘demonstraters’ following the Berlin Wall falling in ’89 brough forth change (Hmph.. really?)
Apparently Emperor Horohito surrendered and signed the peace agreement with MacArthur. I thought it was Japanese G-Men.
This discussion reminds me a bit of something that an Obama-voting colleague said the other day. This fellow is not well-informed and his political reasoning is questionable at best. He was lamenting the poor economy and high unemployment and assorted other problems, but then he said, “I don’t blame Obama for any of it, though. I think he’s just had bad luck. I still support more socialism.” I was tempted to point out that a poor economy and high unemployment are consequences of socialism, but even if I had, I don’t think he would have gotten that all of those things are connected.
“He was lamenting the poor economy and high unemployment and assorted other problems, but then he said, “I don’t blame Obama for any of it, though. I think he’s just had bad luck. I still support more socialism.” I was tempted to point out that a poor economy and high unemployment are consequences of socialism, but even if I had, I don’t think he would have gotten that all of those things are connected.”
Wow, are YOU a patient soul!
Had someone said that they support even more socialism to me, I’d be more tempted to bash a crater into his skull with a brick than engage him in reasoned debate.
Are you a saint?
Actually, I am that fellow’s boss, and I work at a university, where, as you might imagine, leftists of all stripes abound. The head of our division is a lifelong Democrat who is increasingly left-wing. Mostly I keep my opinions to myself. I did make a few political comments to both this fellow and the other employee who reports to me during the 2008 election, but it was more in the way of pointing out facts that most people weren’t necessarily aware of. The other employee who reports to me mostly votes Republican but isn’t usually up on the issues. This fellow, on the other hand, was in full-on Obama voter mode, and he considered simply hearing a fact that didn’t fit with his worldview to be an outrage and an affront.
Whoa! Obama’s mission is NOT to SAVE our economy, but to DESTROY it.
He is not stupid, naive, or ingenuous. He is EVIL. Please note that he has it ALL wrong-backward-sideways.
He thinks it is good to kill babies; to promote homosexual perversions; to open our borders to whomsoever; to reduce our defense capacity; to encourage and assist those sworn to destroy us; to hyperinflate our economy as a rationale for enslaving us to the International Bankers; to subject us to the filth and feces of Islam; to substitute Mohammed for our Lord, Jesus Christ; to have the Government own and operate the insurance and automobile industries; to make everyone totally dependent upon Government largesse.
Obama is a sociopath; ie, criminally insane; and so are those satanists who support him.He is but one silly clown. They are the real danger; the probable nemesis of our republic. We need to identify and re-educate them.
“Obama’s policies failed”
sez who? Not him and his buddies. They’re happy as clams. Grinning like Cheshire Cats.
Think about it.
Why is it that GM cars whose name(s) begin with “V” and are four letters seemed destined for doom: Vega(gone), Volt(soon to be gone). The Venture is gone but had moderate sales success.
The ones that start with “C” seem to have been mostly successful: Camaro, Chevelle, Cutlass, Caprice, Cadillac, Corsica to name a few.
The ones that begin with “C” and also have a “V” in their name(s) have had mixed results: Corvair(gone), Chevette(gone), Cavalier(gone), Corvette(still here).
Of course, there are exceptions. But why doesn’t GM learn its lesson that cars with names that start with “V” and have only 4 letters seem destined to flop . . . .
“This is America. And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country and that they will not be treated differently by their government is essential to who we are. The writ of the founders must endure.” said Obama. Those were marvellous words, a clear expression of the only correct moral, legal and constitutional position that can be taken on the issue of the New York mosque-cum-community centre.
Within hours, however, in the face of ferocious Republican criticism, Mr Obama appears to have backtracked. On Saturday, the American president told reporters: “I was not commenting, and I will not comment, on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there.” So what appears to have been a clarion defence of the New York mosque has been watered down to a professorial dilation on the rights Americans enjoy. Sadly, America’s politicians, especially Republicans, appear to have let down their country and all that it is supposed to stand for.
The 9/11 attacks were executed by Al Qaeda, not Muslims at large. That Al Qaeda espouses a distorted view of Islam has nothing to do with ordinary, law-abiding Muslims practising their religion. These are obvious facts. Unfortunately, some American politicians appear to have calculated that Islamophobia is a potent vote-getter. But that is as dangerous as it is self-defeating. Al Qaeda and militant Islamists could probably not dream of a better propaganda opportunity: see, they will say, America really is against Islam. The furore over the mosque isn’t winning hearts and minds for America, it is poisoning them.
It all started when he sealed/scrubbed his records. Just the tip of the lame iceberg.
Ok, let’s see how Obama has failed or succeeded below. For all educated people, you be the judge.
1) Saved the Big 3 automakers from a total collapse with bailout stimulus loan from the Recovery & Reinvestment Act, not a grant that Bush previously gave, and programs like Cash For Clunkers. The Big 3 has shown profits for the first time in over 5 years, regardless of how pundits try to twist things.
2) Saved the mortgage industry from a total collapse with bailout stimulus loan from the Recovery & Reinvestment Act to mortgage banks, raising a tax credit from $6000 to just $8000 for first time home buyers, and lowering the mortgage interest rates. We are not hearing massive foreclosures on weekly bases now as we did in 2007-2008, during Bush’s last 2 years of office.
3) Passing Health Care Reform, Credit Card Reform Act, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and the financial regulatory reform to avoid another economic collapse.
4) When Obama took office from Bush, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit bottom at 6,547 at one point and the NASDAQ was at 1,036. Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 10,271 and the NASDAQ is at 2,178.
5) The last U.S. combat brigade has left Iraq as promised by Obama, after 7 years and over $700 billion spent on this war.
People must realize this clearly, Obama took over the Presidency at a worse time than Reagan or Clinton did. Reagan took over a bad economy from Carter but there were not 2 wars, Big 3 auto makers collapse, and mortgage industry collapse. Clinton took over a bad economy from Bush Sr. without the same problems. Obama took over the Presidency with a total economic meltdown plus 2 simultaneous wars. So people, you be the judge.
Just what would the option to Obama have been? George Bush Lite in the form of McCain? The man doesn’t even know how many homes he owns. He said he’s not knowledgeable about the economy he is counting on his running mate to cover that expertise for him. Yeah Palin is a real economic juggernaut. He said our economy was strong just before Lehman Bros crashed and the ecnomy tanked. Palin can’t even handle the job of running Alaska for a full term. Alaska has the population of Long Beach California, so she is fit to run the country?
All Obama has done has slowed and stopped the increasing job loss in America. Stopped the drop of the DOW Jones. Saved the Big 3 Car mfrs from going out of business. Stopped the banks from failing remember while the Bush administration was in office they were falling like Dominoes. Now GM is posting a profit and is going to start selling stock. Banks are posting profits. I can go on and on how things have been improved.
The biggest problems have been the Republicans trying to crash the economy so they can blame Obama. They have blocked most of Obama’s appointments, and blocked since April a bill to provide low interest loans to small business why? Because Small businesses provide jobs and the Republicans don’t want job growth. They have blocked a bill to put billions in community banks to loan money to small businesses, why? Because Republicans and conservatives want the economy to fail. Why has big business not hired people? Because they run the Republican party and its in their interest to keep the job growth low.
I noticed in all the negative Obama not one line of proof backed up be facts. Because they don’t have any, just personal attacks. That’s because the Republican’s spread lies and hate day after day hoping you’ll never check the facts. If you point out their lies with the facts your a ultra liberal because you dare to tell the truth. Then they attack the website that post the facts with lies. What does that say about a group or party that lies everyday to the American people and yet call themselves patriots? If they are so trust worthy why do they keep sending out lie after lie.
Fox has given millions to the Republican Governor election fund yet they never mention in when they cover the elections, why? Why is a “News” organization trying to affect the outcome of elections? If they are so fair and balanced did they give an equal amount to the Democratic Governors election fund? No, why?
Check the facts the Republicans are spewing out day after day and if you find the majority to be lies how can you trust them to run the country if they tell you lie after lie.
Now I’m sure they will have to attack me personally rather then the points I raised because that’s how they argue no facts just hate and lies.
BARAK OBAMA IS A FRAUD
He and Michelle have perpetrated the Biggest Hoax on the nation and its peoples since this nation was founded. The Prime Directive of Obama is the destruction of the United States. He has begun this process by:
1. Thumbing his nose at the constitution.
2. Unconstitutionally requiring the citizens to buy a product or
face penalties.
3. Unconstitutionally involving us in a war without consulting
the congress or a declaration of war by congress.
4. Engaging in uncontrolled spending that is likely to bankrupt the
nation.