Goolsbee Gone: Obama’s Economic ‘Dream Team’ Evaporates
Last night’s abrupt resignation of President Obama’s top economic advisor was leaked as the country experienced the Weinergate maelstrom. While the country was gripped by the latest depravity committed by the elites who profess they know how to improve our country, it was easy to miss the announcement and its ramifications.
The sudden announcement that the president’s remaining academic economist, Austan Goolsbee, was heading for the exits was a strong indication of our national economic crisis and the turmoil at the top: he resigned after only nine months at the helm. Goolsbee headed the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Obama’s assembled “wise men.” Last night Goolsbee told his staff he will hang it up for good and return to the calm of university life.
Two and a half years ago, Goolsbee was part of President Obama’s so-called economic “dream team.” Now he is gone, and new poll numbers suggest Obama’s bid for re-election is seriously imperiled by the “Summer of ’11.” The president truly looks vulnerable, bereft of ideas for economic recovery.
This is a dramatic turnaround for a president who, after all, seemed to be only about ideas. He had many: Guantanamo Bay, rendition, climate change — even ideas about the Cambridge, MA, police’s behavior. But these ideas only work in a comfortable and affluent society. The singular idea of how to create comfort and affluence? That has eluded the president and his small army of left-liberal intellectual economists. They have only had the idea of advocating FDR-style expansions of federal spending, entitlements, and government regulations. That didn’t work, so Goolsbee is headed back to academia.
Two days ago, CBS News reported chronic unemployment is the worst since the Great Depression. And Goolsbee’s announcement occurs less than a week after unemployment officially shot up to 9.1%, manufacturing numbers plummeted, and the housing crisis deepened in virtually all markets.
With Goolsbee’s departure, the collapse of the president’s economic team is nearly complete. The first to leave was the president’s original chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, University of California-Berkeley economist Christina Romer. She holds the distinction of predicting an $800 billion stimulus program would bring joblessness down to 8%. Also gone is Jared Bernstein, the actual architect of the stimulus, and the man who was behind Vice President Biden’s “Summer of Recovery.”
Other members who have abandoned the president are National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers, the president’s budget chief Peter Orszag, and Paul Volcker, the chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
There are hints of Herbert Hoover in the air.
It is difficult to underestimate the incompetence of Obama and his advisors. The solutions (reduced spending, regulation relief, lower taxes) just do not fit their socialist agenda.
What I really, really, want to know is who on earth would want to take classes with either Romer or Goolsbee as teachers? I’m sure it would be impressive if they said “Hey, I went to Washington, worked for and advised a president, oh, and yes, destroyed an economy by forcing socialist ideas on a nation.” Hmmm, doesn’t sound too catchy to me. Just goes to show you how worthless academic theory is when put up against practical business experience. Herman Cain at least ran a successful business. What did Romer and Goolsbee ever do? Oh yes, I remember now, they destroyed our economy and gave us insurmountable debt. Yup, I sure want to take their classes!
They’re in thick with the academic powers-that-be…..you could avoid their classes, but then you’d never qualify for your degree…….
Qualify is such a subjective concept.
The function of economic bubbles is to restore balance after a period of excess: Roaring Twenties, Japan 1991, dot.com, housing, education, etc. Democrats have given us two crashed bubbles and one crashing bubble in the last fifteen years. I cannot afford any more bubbles, and I will be glad when the American people realize what Democrats are doing to them.
College tuition is the next speculative bubble to burst.
Until – and unless – academia engages in some serious housecleaning, this would be an excellent time to postpone going to college.
False Christian prophets predicting the end of the world are roundly and deservedly mocked.
False economic prophets of the left are given lifetime tenure in cushy ivory tower “chairs,” wealthy book deals, lavishly profitable speakers fees and comfortable retirements.
The list is endless: Rachel Carson’s Silent Sprint, Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb, Al Gore’s cinderized earth…all of them are still honored and wealthy, though they lie.
Obama was already waist deep in Carter-like disapproval numbers over his handling of just about everything. The economic numbers just cements the deal. Liberals might publically scratch their heads over that in order to try to fool enough voters into thinking otherwise. But the rest us see Obama’s presidency as the best example of why we should never again put one of these people in the WH. One supposes we would eventually have an Obama-like presidency. This one came at a bad time for the country and the effect it will have on the Democratic Party next year will be delicious.
What I want to know is where are the 41% that would still vote for Obama? Not all my friends are conservative, and I still can’t find 41% of them that would re-elect Obama. The only way the Repubilcans can shoot themselves in the foot is if there are too many conservative (I use that term loosely for the Republican Party) options that split the conservative vote. I believe that is what Obama is banking on. I continue to be afraid because this country re-elected Clinton. Fear-mongering works.
Rats fleeing a sinking ship? Surely Obama can counter-act this unfortunate scenario by hopping aboard Air Force 1 and barnstorming the country with his teleprompter in tow to explain how well his plan for the economy and the employment prospects are working. His slavish handmaidens of the press will titter with excitement as they relay his talking points and cheer him on. They will continue to use the words “unexpected” or “surprising” when they recount the downward spiral of our dismal economy. We can only hope that this time, the American people aren’t buying what they are selling.
When you say “teleprompter in tow”, I think you misunderstand which of the two is doing the towing.
My guess is that Goolsbee was eager to return to the safe haven of academia to avoid having to deal with the icky real world. Academics largely live in a world divorced from reality where they put forth their theories on how things would work if they were in charge. We’ve all seen how well that worked for the past 2 1/2 years, haven’t we?
Larry J,
You are right on the money. Goolsbee joined the other progressives in the administration and was a study in Keynesianism. He is responsible, along with the other Keynesians, for exploding the debt and creating negligable growth. He didn’t warn his boss away from burdensome regulation and the harm that is coming from Dodd-Frank or Obamacare. He is a failure as was Rommer and Volker, who should have known better and ought to be ashamed of himself. They like to worship at the Krugman alter, a laughable proposition when you consider it for more than a minute.
You ignore the Austrian economists at your peril. The Keynesian’s theories for promoting growth and recovery have been completely discredited. The really sad part is that they performed their failed experiment with the taxpayers money.
The recipe for recovery is simple and sure. An enormous cut in the size of government and tax rate reductions or elimination. The economy will come around quickly. It works every time.
What? Facts? Who cares. Kumbaya. Be nice. Give feckless people money, food, healthcare. Get votes. Kill capitalism. Facts? Meh.
Do you think their experiment is over?
They have just begun. The next brightest star will come in and hit the gas. Vroooom.
You have heard them all, we are not spending enough.
Ahh, the joy of being guinea pigs! The only reason those in power continue to run their experiments is that they are not subject to the torture during or to the final outcomes of their actions. Whether Obama succeeds and destroys this country (which is his obvious goal), or fails and is sent packing in 2012, he will still receive a hefty pension for the rest of his life! Much more than many hard-working Americans earn.
As long as we continue to allow those who propagate these deliberate economic assaults to be paid their pensions, golden parachutes, bonuses, etc., regardless of their incompetence or the quality and outcome of their “work”, they will never have to pay for or feel the consequences of their actions. Sadly, We The People will be feeling it for generations to come.
Sorry, this was meant as a reply on Larry’s.
All five individuals mentioned on the first page all have one important commonality that you mention. They are all theorists. They have not worked or been successful in the real world like Mitt Romney or Herman Cain have. They all went to high-end schools and got degrees then spent their careers in academia or some quasi-governmental institution, as you rightfully said “insulated” from the real world, performing economic research before becoming involved in government.
Imagine if when selecting our Joint Chiefs and other military leaders, we simply based their qualifications upon studies they did in college and for numerous military institutions (like we do now with economic advisors) instead of actually having spent a lifetime of service in the US military. It would result in chaos; some kid could be a genius at some strategy video game, be admitted into a military theory college, get a high grade and write some good papers, and be welcomed into the government; it’s absurd, and yet that is basically how this administration has chosen its economic advisors.
However Larry Summers has been a voice of reason in the past to Bill Clinton although I think he spent a bit of time with Reagan’s economic team, so maybe that is why he was presenting conservative economic advise to Clinton. Ya, I just looked him up on Wikipedia and he did spend a year or two with Reagan’s economic advisors and then used that successful knowledge to persuade Clinton to go along with Congress and lower taxes and welfare payments.
Ok Jordan,
You are puting your finger right where the author has. These academic types have no experience with markets and their rough and tumble. Keynes vs Mises or Friedman is all an intellectual game to these academics. ( The score is Austrian School 100, Keynes 0).
I love your military analogy, I had not thought of that paralel, but it is spot on.
The isssue becomes how does society best educate the public on the virtues of free markets? If we can teach that, and perhaps a full semester in middle school and another in high school on the founders and the Constitution, citizens might realize how sound freedom is as a central pillar of government and socialization.
Our country needs better citizens, not more laws. The better and more virtuous the citizen, the less government and law is needed. Keynseians will find that pronouncement a foriegn idea, which speaks volumes about their ideals for society.
“The isssue becomes how does society best educate the public on the virtues of free markets? If we can teach that, and perhaps a full semester in middle school and another in high school on the founders and the Constitution, citizens might realize how sound freedom is as a central pillar of government and socialization.”
If we come out of this in any decent shape (due to failure of leftist policies and the success of free-market policies), that would be a good opportunity for Americans to press for replacing all the discredited leftist college “theorists” with people who can teach WHAT WORKS and have demonstrated such.
Samizdat wrote, “The isssue becomes how does society best educate the public on the virtues of free markets? If we can teach that, and perhaps a full semester in middle school and another in high school on the founders and the Constitution, citizens might realize how sound freedom is as a central pillar of government and socialization.”
So wrong, I despair of any reasonable future. Government needs to let go, not educate. That is a socialist premise. Business begins where opportunity arises. Opportunity arises when need becomes apparent. Are there problems to be solved? People will solve them somehow. Or they won’t solve the problems.
It is this letting go of control that is so difficult. The Right has to let go of the Left and the Left has to let go of the Right if the human is to be able to walk forward. Surprise! Goolsbee let go! So did all the others mentioned above! Too much command structure even for them!
I worked fulltime while I completed my masters degree in a related field. Can’t tell you how often I laughed outloud at some professors’ assertion of “how things should be done.”
It was a powerful lesson. Enmeshed in and cushioned by their theoretical world, sans rubber-meets-road experience, they had no clue how to translate their high falutin’ concepts into reality. Nor could they grasp the fact that many of their “shoulds” would completely bankrupt the average company or organization.
Hmmmn. Who does that remind me of now?
The dream team was indeed dreaming that they dreamed that they could spend their way out of a hole and congress would roll over for another debt ceiling. Perhaps they could not pay Goolsbee enough to keep a straight face when he tried to spin the happy days are here again interviews.
There is still that AAa rating to look at in terror, as well as the other terrifing issues of unemployment, inflation, and Arab Spring which triggers the energy market. Any body want to buy a windmill?
If I wasn’t clinging to my religion I’d be going insane. These people are the pits!
Can’t wait for 2012 and make them all disappear…puff. God Bless America!
Don’t underestimate the democrat strategy. They re-elected Clinton who, by the way, didn’t fix the economy. Contrary to what they want us to believe, the economy is truly a slow moving machine. Anything done today will not really be felt until next year. The problems of this summer were created by the strategies they put in place last year. Therefore, Clinton just came in and rode on the Reaganomics wave. He didn’t have to do anything except try not to screw it up.
Clinton was really just a clown and puppet of the same people that put Obama in office. I was shocked beyond belief when this country re-elected him and I will not be surprised when they re-elect Obama. It will not be because he get’s a majority of the votes, but rather because the conservatives will have too many choices because many conservatives will consider the Repubilcan candidate to be too liberal. There will be a large number of people who will vote independent, desiring not to continue voting for the lesser of the two evils. My prayer is that the Republicans will put up a true conservative that we can all feel comfortable voting for. The elections have become too much of a popularity contest and less about the candidates’ resumes.
This “Dream Team” for most of us that are sane was basically a living nightmare! Think of it that was the best Obama had to offer for fixing the economy, good thing he didn’t use people that were even worse!
If a Republican wins the White House in ’12 the first people that the President-elect should thank have all been listed in this article.
Austan Goolsbee…
Ayn Rand could not have come up with a better name for a participant in this dystopic regime.
LOL…you’ve got that right!
Back to brainwashing college students.
Without Austan Goolsbee, how will Obama know what his goals be?
Without Austan Goolsbee, there’ll be no one to whisper to the Canadians that Obama’s protectionist talk means nothing, it’s just for consumption by the rubes back home.
Just take a look over at Huffington Post or the Economist. You’d be surprised to see how many people think the problems will be solved if the government just creates the jobs. Reading those articles and comments is like walking through an asylum.
It has been said that the unraveling of GWB’s mojo became irreversible by the time of hurricane Katrina. This president is beating this sad record by engineering his own turbocharged financial hurricane. Bring the Keynesians when the economy has already started to run out of wind, and they will precipitate the fall in the name of preventing it. Is the next bailout going to be dispensed by FEMA? Heck of a job, guys!
On the other hand, what Cloward and Piven had advocated was the grand and final demolition Derby, orchestrated and directed from the top. If there is a Nobel prize for that, we already know who is going to receive it.
Hit the communist where it hurts. Government run health care. This is their panacea. Take it away from them and you set them back 20 years on their agenda. These communists MUST be removed from our federal government in 2012. Then we will have to spend about the next ten years cleaning up the various messes they are making.
This is just an acknowledgment of the failure. They have all quit, having failed.
The campaign ads write themselves.
Obama’s “Dream Team”. List them all with dates of quitting and length of time in office.
Palin’s a quitter? How about these guys, who not only quit, but completely failed?!?
Show rats fleeing a sinking ship, each rat with the face of one of these guys.
Show a ship with waterlines of unemployment and anemic growth. Show these guys bailing water with stimulus buckets, then as the ship takes on more water, have them hit the lifeboats. The lifeboats should have names like University of Chicago or some think tank. Show how these academicians all went back to academia, not business.
If I am a Repub candidate, I waste no time on my fellow Repubs. I campaign solely against Obama.
You’re wrong. His ideas do not work in an affluent and powerful society. His ideas fail. The difference between affluent and poor societies, is that the affluent society can swallow up the damage done by wrongheaded and failed policies.
The poor society? Buy a new hybrid van, peasant.
You have got it all wrong. Our present situation is just a bump in the road to unbridled prosperity. There will be a chicken in every pot and a Chevy Volt in every garage. Happy days will soon be here again. We just need to be patient with our fearless leader. It is not his fault. It is just that Bush left him with such a big mess to clean up. We just need to let Obama stay in the game. He just needs a little more time. Maybe—I know—he could give another speech. That will be the game changer. Yes. Another speech. He will win one for the Gipper, yet.
Monica Crowley had it right on O’Reilly last night. “Obama took a bad situation and made it 1000x worse.” This should be the mantra. Over and over again. Engraved on every brain.
For those of us who want this nightmare to end next year, now would be a good time for Obama to co-opt another quote . . . this one from Bush 41: “Stay the course” . . .
Anytime superlatives start getting bandied about before a team has even taken the floor you have to start wondering which one of them will be the guy calling for a time out when there are no time outs left.
The entire Earth is encased in irrevesible warming, Americans are killing brown people by the thousands in the Middle East, there are people all over the country who can’t pay their mortgages, and all you neo-cons care about is bring the President down. It’s pathetic. So one of his advisors retires….so what? It’s not always because of “turmoil”. So sad…..
If “global warming” is irreversible, why try to fix it with windmills, solar panels, CFL’s, electric cars, cap and trade, and other schemes? What’s the point if it’s irreversible? My religion, Christianity, is very hopeful, not depressing. I welcome the opportunity to converse with you!
Lovely Earth, I am willing to bet that you spent 8 years attacking President Bush despite the problems he faced. All the Dems could talk about for 8 years was bring down W. Now when your guy is criticized you whine like a Weiner. Liberals are such pussy hypocrites.
Lovely Earth is an Obama campaign worker. He has spread them all over the internet in order to speak the collectivist truth to the great unwashed(and get him re-elected, of course). Or, Lovely Earth is a true believer and member of the Environmental Orthodox Church and has been sent to the hinterlands on a mission to preach collectivist truth to the deniers(and get Obama re-elected, of course).
Americans are killing brown people by the thousands in the Middle East? Pray tell.
They’ve done their damage to the country as they were instructed.
They can leave. They can run. But they can’t hide.
When it all crashes, they will be found. Then,
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
LovelyEarth..take a deep breath. That thing you smell is the remains of the Obama administration’s intellectual elites as they return to the money. I think we all know they aren’t leaving shamed because they really feel like they’ve accomplished what they came for which is the destruction of the American society. Higher Ed wants that and that’s why they’re paying for the expertise to train our children. Nearly completed, but now that Americans are awake your rants are nothing more than the dim echoes of Obama’s zombies twitching. If you don’t stop with this type of comment, I’m going to tell your Mom that you’re up past curfew.
To the tumbrels everyone one of these bastards, no mercy.
things not going so good for he who walks among the corn rows?
hate to pile on. however -
‘economic dream team’?
yeah, i get it.
we have all had our dreams turned into constant nightmares.
makes sense now.
Jobs you never want to see on your resume…..
Assistant Crack Whore
Kiddie Porn Videographer
Obama Economic Adviser
Ahhh academia, where you can smoothly move from one fail to the next and nobody even notices.
“A new Zogby poll says the percentage of voters who think the president deserves to be re-elected is at 41%.”
If this was The Belmont… “…and on the backstretch it’s Animal Kingdom and Nehro off the front by 2 lengths…and bringing up the rear of the field is The Weasel…and down the stretch they come…The Weasel is charging hard…making up ground with the help of a cheerleading media, a reluctant union surge, and the customary disingenuous head bobs to sucker normal people who are too tired from working to verify his droppings…and they’re neck and neck…”
The Obama Team claims that the stimulus saved 3.3 million jobs. How do they know? I can reveal their method, as presented by Christina Romer, recently retired head of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors.
Consider this analogy to the idiotic logic of our government economists.
Say that records from my backyard grill parties show that on average 20 guests eat 25 hamburgers and 5 hot dogs. I would like to be much more popular, so I double the food to 50 hamburgers and 10 hot dogs for my next party. I expect 40 people to show up. but without calling more friends.
After a few more parties, I find that 23 people (three more) do show up. Maybe they came because they heard about the huge amount of food. I resolve to supply even more food (stimulus) for my next parties.
Government economists are treating the entire population of the US in the same way that my example treats grill parties. You may say that I am unfairly criticizing government economists. They couldn’t be that simplistic and stupid. But, that is exactly the method they used to recommend “stimulus” and predict new jobs.
–> Romer is Theoretically Correct
President’s Council Of Economic Advisers in May 2009 [edited]:
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To estimate the likely impact of the fiscal stimulus on real GDP, we used multipliers that we feel represent a consensus of a broad range of economists and professional forecasters.
The final step is to take the effect on GDP and translate it into job creation. Not all of the increased output reflects increased employment: some comes from increases in hours of work among employed workers and some comes from higher productivity.
We therefore use the relatively conservative rule of thumb that a 1 percent increase in GDP corresponds to an increase in employment of approximately 1 million jobs, or about three-quarters of a percent. This has been the rough correspondence over history and matches the Federal Reserve Bank model reasonably well.
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1: Measure the number of jobs in the economy at different levels of GDP. Notice the ratio 1MM jobs per 1% of GDP.
2: Spend money. Each dollar spent adds to GDP by definition.
3: Welcome the newly employed people to the economy.
This is idiocy. This is mere formula crunching. First, express the complexity of the US economy as a simple ratio. Then, play with the ratio by manipulating an accounting measure (the definition of GDP).
Of course, they do get to distribute a huge amount of money to their friends along the way. So, it isn’t all that bad. (sarc)
two modest points, on an otherwise excellent article:
“…predicting an $800 billion stimulus program would bring joblessness down to 8%.” 8% was actually the ‘peak’ of predicted unemployment.
paul volcker: his was a ceremonial post. eventually he was to be the guy who cranked up interest rates as growth and inflation started to run strong. never got the chance, as we are still waiting on growth. really tend to think that inflation has actually been blunted by the anemic growth.
don’t put him in among the keynesian rubes.
speaking of the rubes, going back to academia…
can you imagine teaching theories supportive of keynsian economic theory, with The Stimulus, and the first year, 28% growth in govt spending, getting ‘credit’ for this economy?
these are the guys who slaughtered keynsian theory for all time. for their service to our nation and the dismal science, i thank them.
Obama was widely believed to be a Marxist by both the Right who deplored the fact and the Left who celebrated the fact. The signature characteristics of Marxist practice are opertional ineffectiveness and institutional corruption. We elected a Marxist, he is installing a Marxist system, and he is getting Marxist results. It’s the government, stupid.
I wonder if being part of the Obama economic team will be something that they will try to downplay in the future. The economics profession is not as overwhelming leftist as are some of the other areas of academia, and there are plenty of economists for whom being associated with the disaster that is the Obama administration will be considered not as a mark of distinction but as a mark of shame.
It doesn’t take much talent to ruin something.
There was another “Dream Team” of economists and traders put together by John Meriwether to form Long Term Capital Management back in the 1990s. After several years of spectacular profits, the market turned against them and the Fed organized a rescue because it feared that the collapse of LTCM might bring down the world’s financial markets. It was a preview of what happened in 2008, and unfortunately the lessons that should have been learned were not. Dream Teams do not guarantee success and when they go wrong, they can go spectacularly wrong. Unfortunately for Obama, he does not have a couple years of spectacular success from his Dream Team, just failure.
The Obama campaign website did not include “Economy” as a valid Issues topic.
Once he wrapped up the nomination in June, he borrowed a team of Rubins from Hillary, but still did not want to have to deal with the economy.
The saddest part of how the msm portrayed McCain on the economy was to ignore HIS excellent key economic advisors: Douglas Holz-Eakin and Mark Zandi.
anyway, until Obama hires, and listens to, a cabinet level advisor with real industrial experience (Wall Street and finance do not count because that is who has gutted the economy since 1978 under every administration), absence of confidence will drag us down.
GOP obsession with ever more tax cuts is the other half of what is dragging the country down.
we need to re-industrialize. and let the Bush43 tax cuts expire as they were supposed to if Greenspan’s forecasts of “surpluses as far as the eye could see” did not materialize.
It was one thing to lower the marginal tax rates from Eisenhower’s era (90%?).
To hyper-partisanize everything over the Clinton-era rates is half our problem.
Nonsense. Obama and the previous Democrat Congress bumped spending to nearly 25% of GDP (well above the historical average). Take a look at the trajectory of federal spending vs. tax revenues over the last 20 years. For the Left/Democrats, there’s never enough tax revenue to spend, so their fiscal policies devolve to “borrow and print.” Cut spending, cut taxes (esp. capital gains), reduce/sunset worthless regulations, and repeal Obamacare; then watch the economy boom. Works every time – multiple episodes of historical truth for anyone other than Obama-lemmings and other leftists.
As much as I distrust and despise Obama for his foreign (lack of) policies, I think this upcoming election will focus on the American economy and, if so, will not bode well for the Democrats. I think it’s that simple.
fix the typo in the Fisher quote
Larry Sommers is teaching and now Goolsbee is teaching.
I wonder if the next generation of economists is going to be any better that the current bunch?
They’ll be much better at deceiving people and being able to cover up.
As if that was not enough Obambi’s CONSTITUTIONAL illegitimacy is just about to go viral. Read and pass on.
Evidence that we have a fraud and a usurper currently residing in the people’s White House is overwhelming, despite the overt lack of journalistic investigating on the part of the American press. But now new evidence indicates that the conspiracy to carry out that fraud was much broader than originally thought.
The story of whom and what Barack Hussein Obama II really is – is a forty-year story that requires a book, not a column, to tell. Strong evidence suggests that he was being groomed from a very young age for the moment in history that would end American supremacy in the world, and usher in a new era of Global Marxist Governance.
But there was a major hurdle that had to be overcome – the U.S. Constitution, in this case, Article II – Section I – Clause V specifically, which requires that “no person except a natural-born citizen of the United States” can hold the office of President. – Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States…and may not even be a legal citizen of the United States. So, how can he be President?
This column focuses upon the period 2003-2008 and the political maneuvers that took place in order to make way for America’s first unconstitutional resident of the White House.
Efforts to Eliminate the Natural Born Requirement (2003-2005)
Proving that the players involved knew the correct definition of natural born citizen borrowed from the Law of Nations by our founders – 1) those born in the country, of parents who are citizens; 2) those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights; 3) The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; 4) in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen. – that they knew Barack Hussein Obama II did not meet that definition as a foreign or dual citizen via his father’s British citizenship and that they worked feverishly to find a way around this constitutional requirement for office, as Obama was about to become president…
The effort to remove the natural-born citizen requirement from the U.S. Constitution actually began in 1975 – when Democrat House Rep. Jonathon B. Bingham, [NY-22] introduced a constitutional amendment under H.J.R. 33 which called for the outright removal of the natural-born requirement for president found in Article II of the U.S. Constitution – “Provides that a citizen of the United States otherwise eligible to hold the Office of President shall not be ineligible because such citizen is not a natural born citizen.”
Bingham’s first attempt failed and he resurrected H.J.R. 33 in 1977 under H.J.R. 38, again failing to gain support from members of congress. Bingham was a Yale Law grad and member of the secret society Skull and Bones, later a lecturer at Columbia Law and thick as thieves with the United Nations via his membership in the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bingham’s work lay dormant for twenty-six years when it was resurrected again in 2003 as Democrat members of Congress made no less than eight (8) attempts in twenty-two (22) months, to either eliminate the natural-born requirement, or redefine natural-born to accommodate Barack Hussein Obama II in advance of his rise to power. The evidence is right in the congressional record…
1. On June 11, 2003 Democrat House member Vic Snyder [AR-2] introduced H.J.R 59 in the 108th Congress – “Constitutional Amendment – Makes a person who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 35 years and who has been a resident within the United States for at least 14 years eligible to hold the office of President or Vice President.” – Co-Sponsors: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14]; Rep Delahunt, William D. [MA-10]; Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4]; Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49]; Rep LaHood, Ray [IL-18]; Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4].
2. On September 3, 2003, Rep. John Conyers [MI] introduced H.J.R. 67 – “Constitutional Amendment – Makes a person who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 20 years eligible to hold the office of President.” – Co-Sponsor Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27]
3. On February 25, 2004, Republican Senator Don Nickles [OK] attempted to counter the growing Democrat onslaught aimed at removing the natural-born citizen requirement for president in S.2128 – “Natural Born Citizen Act – Defines the constitutional term “natural born citizen,” to establish eligibility for the Office of President” – also getting the definition of natural born citizen wrong. – Co-sponsors Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK]; Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA]
4. On September 15, 2004 – as Barack Obama was about to be introduced as the new messiah of the Democrat Party at the DNC convention, Rep Dana Rohrabacher [CA-46] introduced H.J.R. 104 – “Constitutional Amendment – Makes eligible for the Office of the President non-native born persons who have held U.S. citizenship for at least 20 years and who are otherwise eligible to hold such Office.” – No co-sponsors.
5. Again on January 4, 2005, Rep John Conyers [MI] introduced H.J.R. 2 to the 109th Congress – “Constitutional Amendment – Makes a person who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 20 years eligible to hold the Office of President.” – Co-Sponsor Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27]
6. Rep Dana Rohrabacher [CA-46] tries again on February 1, 2005 in H.J.R. 15 – “Constitutional Amendment – Makes eligible for the Office of the President non-native born persons who have held U.S. citizenship for at least 20 years and who are otherwise eligible to hold such Office.” – No Co-Sponsor
7. On April 14, 2005, Rep Vic Snyder [AR-2] tries yet again with H.J.R. 42 – “Constitutional Amendment – Makes a person who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 35 years and who has been a resident within the United States for at least 14 years eligible to hold the office of President or Vice President.” – Co-Sponsor Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4]
8. All of these efforts failing in committee and the 2008 presidential election looming with an unconstitutional candidate leading the DNC ticket, Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill, [MO] tries to attach the alteration to a military bill in S.2678 on February 28, 2008 – “Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act – Declares that the term “natural born Citizen” in article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution, dealing with the criteria for election to President of the United States, includes any person born to any U.S. citizen while serving in the active or reserve components of the U.S. armed forces.” – Co-Sponsors DNC Presidential candidate Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY]; DNC Presidential candidate Sen Obama, Barack [IL]; Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ]; Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] – (This was the first effort to also assure that GOP Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain [AZ] would be cleared to run against the DNC primary victor.)
From June 11, 2003 to February 28, 2008, there had been eight (8) different congressional attempts to alter Article II – Section I – Clause V – natural born citizen requirements for president in the U.S. Constitution, all of them failing in committee — All of it taking placing during Barack Obama’s rise to political power and preceding the November 2008 presidential election.
In politics, there are no coincidences… not of this magnitude.
Finally on April 10, 2008, unable to alter or remove the natural born citizen requirement to clear the way for Barack Obama, the U.S. Senate acts to shift focus before the election, introducing and passing S.R.511 – declaring Sen. John McCain a “natural born citizen” eligible to run for and hold the office of president. There was never any honest doubt about McCain, the son of a U.S. Navy Commander. The Sponsor of the resolution is Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill, [MO]
S.R.511 States that John Sidney McCain, III, is a “natural born Citizen” under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States. S.R511 passed by a 99-0 unanimous consent of the Senate, with only John McCain not voting. The basis was – “Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens;” – a condition not met by Barack Hussein Obama II. – Co-Sponsors DNC Presidential candidate Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY]; DNC Presidential candidate Sen Obama, Barack [IL]; Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT]; Sen Webb, Jim [VA]; Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] (They had made certain that John McCain would run against Barack Obama)
However, in the McCain resolution is also this language – “Whereas the Constitution of the United States requires that, to be eligible for the Office of the President, a person must be a `natural born Citizen’ of the United States; – Whereas the term `natural born Citizen’, as that term appears in Article II, Section 1, is not defined in the Constitution of the United States;”
The U.S. Constitution is not a dictionary. The definition of “is” is not in the constitution either. Yet this is the text that would later be issued in Congressional Research Service talking points memos distributed to members of congress, to protect an individual that all members of congress know and understand to be an “unconstitutional” resident of the people’s White House – Barack Hussein Obama II.
Once again, as the political left was unable to alter the U.S. Constitution by way of legitimate constitutional process, they resorted to altering the constitution via precedent setting, in short, knowingly electing and getting away with seating an unconstitutional president in order to alter Article II requirements for the office via breaking those constitutional requirements.
The press would not ask any questions and the American people were already too ill-informed of their constitution to know or too distracted by daily life to care. The press would provide the cover, swearing to the lies of an unconstitutional administration put in power by criminal actors focused only on their lofty political agenda of forever altering the American form of government.
The people would be caught up in a steady diet of daily assaults on their individual freedom and liberty and overlook the most obvious constitutional crisis in American history, the seating of an unconstitutional and anti-American president.
Evidence of What?
Barack Obama is an unconstitutional resident of the people’s White House
He did not become America’s first unconstitutional president alone, he had help
While most of the criminal cabal are Democrats, some are Republicans
Every member of congress knew Obama was ineligible for the office of president
Every member of the U.S. Supreme Court knows that Obama is unconstitutional
Every intelligent member of the press knows the truth, but won’t dare tell this story
Numerous people tried to remove natural born citizen from the constitution
They all know the correct definition of natural born citizen and applied it to John McCain
None of these people wants to apply the same definition to Barack Obama
Nobody in the Federal Government is going to do anything about the greatest constitutional crisis in American history, because all of them are complicit on one level or another
As a result, the DNC was forced to remove the “constitutionally eligible” language from the 2008 DNC certification of the Obama-Biden ticket, omitting from the certification the following language –
“and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.”
Instead, the DNC only certified that the Obama-Biden ticket was duly nominated for the offices of President and Vice President, using the following language –
“THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though 28, 2008, the following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively:” (Note that the word “through” is misspelled in both DNC versions, indicating that it is an alteration from the same document.)
Later, adding insult to injury, responding to endless public demands for documentation that would prove Obama eligible for the office he currently holds, the Obama White House issued not one but at least two (2) blatant forgeries, the first in the form of a Hawaiian COLB (Certification of Live Birth – not to be confused with a common birth certificate), and then a forged (so-called long form) Birth Certificate, otherwise known as an actual birth certificate.
Meanwhile, the entire U.S. Press has been blatantly complicit or terminally derelict in their total lack of interest in investigating or reporting these facts. The fourth estate had become a fifth column.
The Greatest Fraud Ever Perpetrated
The Obama conspiracy to seat an unconstitutional president is the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people and it has drastically altered the American system of self-governance from a constitutional republic to a corrupt democracy of frauds elected by fools.
Obama did not do this alone – he had a lot of help, including from an ignorant electorate.
But these wheels were set in motion in the late ‘90s and placed in overdrive in 2003. Numerous government officials were involved in the conspiracy to defraud the American people out of their government, including key Republicans like Darrell Issa and Tom Coburn. Every member of congress, the courts and the press, have been given the cover-up talking points by the Congressional Research Service and so far, not one individual has the honor or decency to break from those talking points and tell the American people the truth. Their government had been stolen…
Where was Obama while the Path was being cleared?
1992
Barack Obama begins working at the firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Gallard as a junior lawyer, hoping to work on civil rights cases.
Barack Obama is teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.
1992 is an election year. Barack Obama becomes the director of Illinois Project Vote, an organization focused on registering minority voters. Obama registers approximately 100,000 new voters, primarily in the African-American community.
1995
Before achieving a single significant accomplishment in life, Barack Obama releases his first memoire, Dreams from My Father. The creation of the Barack Hussein Obama II story begins.
November 7, 1995 – Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, dies of ovarian cancer.
1996
Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination for the seat, and is elected to the Illinois State Senate.
1998
After failing to accomplish anything in the Illinois Senate for two years, Barack is re-elected to the Illinois Senate.
1999
Barack Obama runs for U.S. Congress and loses due to his record of not showing up for key votes in Illinois.
2002
Barack Obama is re-elected to the Illinois Senate. Politically, his stock is rising, not due to a record of accomplishments, but rather due to his increasing circle of influential friends including Rev. Wright and William Ayers.
2003
Despite the title of Illinois most absent Senator, Barack Obama becomes chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee.
In January 2003, Barack Obama formally enters the race for the United States Senate. Team Obama destroys Democratic rival, Blair Hull, by exposing his domestic abuse allegations.
2004
Barack Obama wins the Illinois primaries with 53 percent of the vote. In the general election, Barack Obama faces Republican candidate Jack Ryan.
Team Obama pushes Jack Ryan out of the race with reports of a sex scandal.
July 7, 2004 – Boston, Massachusetts: The Democratic National Convention introduced the new messiah of the Democrat Party to the world when 42 year old Barack Obama, who had yet to accomplish anything, becomes the hit of the John Kerry convention by the handy work of Sen. Ted Kennedy. [MA]
November 2, 2004 – Barack Obama, 43, is elected for the U.S. Senate.
2005
January 4, 2005 – Barack Obama is sworn in as a U.S. senator.
Barack’s first law is passed with Republican Tom Coburn.
2007
February 10, 2007 – Barack Obama announces his candidacy for President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
2008
June 3, 2008 – After defeating Senator Hillary Clinton in the primaries, Barack Obama becomes the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the 2008 presidential election.
November 3, 2008 – Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, age 86, dies of cancer, just one day before the Presidential Election.
November 5, 2008 – Barack Obama wins the US Presidential Election and becomes the first UNCONSTITUTIONAL President of the United States
In short, as Obama was rising through the ranks of Democrat Party power and being systematically groomed as the new messiah of the party, friends of the movement were busy making way by trying repeatedly to remove Article II – Section I – Clause V from the U.S. Constitution. When they failed to do it legitimately, they did it via setting precedent.
Despite a total lack of significant accomplishment, Obama was clearly fast-tracked by Democrat Party powers and even the massive Clinton War Machine was no match for the people behind Obama’s unparalleled rise to power.
Now you know how this nobody from nowhere came to power in almost no time at all with a completely blank résumé, and if you follow the names attached to the flood of initiatives to eliminate natural born citizenship as a requirement for the office, you can see some of the folks behind that effort.
Since many of the key figures in the three branches of the Federal government were involved in this conspiracy, we know that we cannot rely on anyone at the Federal level to address this crisis, and since we have watched the U.S. press run cover for it, we know not to expect any help from them in returning America to her people.
Only the People Can End this Crisis
From 2003 through 2008, member of congress worked to eliminate Article II – Section I – Clause V of the U.S. Constitution, requiring that all presidential candidates be natural born citizens of the United States.
In 2008, fifty state Secretaries allowed the name Barrack Hussein Obama to appear on their state ballot for the president, despite the known fact that Barrack Hussein Obama did not meet the constitutional conditions for the office sought, and that the Democrat Party had intentionally failed to certify Barrack Obama as constitutionally eligible for office.
On January 20, 2009, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roberts administered the presidential oath of office to an individual and every member of the Supreme Court had knowledge that Barrack Hussein Obama failed to meet constitutional requirements for the office he was about to take.
The Chief Law enforcement officer in our country is head of the Department of Justice, Eric Holder. A long-time leftist comrade of Barrack Obama who uses the power of the office to silence the vice of American dissenters, while protecting all who intend America harm.
The voting fraud is so prevalent in America today that it is almost impossible to rely upon the election system as a means of correcting anything and even if you could rely on the system, decent honest qualified leaders do not run for political office in this cesspool we call a country today.
Only 25% of the nation strongly supports this White House resident, which means 75% have great doubts, with more than 35% strongly opposed.
Only the people can put this nation back on track to freedom and liberty, the rule of law and our beloved constitutional republic and they cannot do it in the election booth.
The people must rise up, stand together and hold these criminal actors accountable for the theft of our government which has become the greatest threat to the American way of life in history.
The people must wake up, stand up, come together and put this evil down and they must do it while they still have the power to do so. TAKE ACTION TODAY!
The name Barrack Hussein Obama II cannot appear on the 2012 President ballot and neither can the name of any co-conspirator. Every citizen who wants to live in freedom tomorrow must contact the appropriate officials today!
Ok, yes. It’s a conspiracy theory. That doesn’t mean that it’s not true. The old saying, “Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after me.” can also go for conspiracy theories. Just because it’s a conspiracy theory doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to destroy our country and way of life. There is a definite push toward a world government. I think the fight between all these narcisists for the top seats will be rather entertaining. Imagine Obama’s surprise when he finds he’s just been a pawn. How will he survive this blow to his heavily inflated ego? He may not and neither may many others.
Regarding Pragmatist’s post, I don’t voice it much, but I still believe that Obama was placed into office as an illegal candidate. The facts are not disputable. Someone has been pulling the strings since Clinton – we all know the only idea he ever had on his own included Monica Lewinski. Clinton was the biggest joke in office. Thank goodness he was too stupid to do any real damage. Obama is different. Many of us have had a very bad feeling since Obama was introduced. He never answered any direct questions about policy, using only rhetoric and suppositions to respond when anyone dared asked him for his platform. Obama always appeared to be annoyed whenever questioned beyond his prepared answers. So they can call us what they want, but a conspiracy is only that until it is proven fact.
My question for you, Pragmatist is this: Once Obama took office, how many more times did Congress continue to try to change the Constitutional definition of “natural born citizen”? If it continued, then the theory may have a little less ground on which to stand. However, if the barrage of Bills ceased suddenly after the 2008 election, I have to believe that it is because it was no longer needed.
My fear is that, like the legal system that now uses precedent by a judge or jury over written law, will no longer be the norm for Constitutional law. In other words, after Obama is out, if he stands up and admits that he was not a legal candidate, but that he was president anyway, then he will have set the precedent for unqualified candidates to becom president! The precedent has already been set. Let’s see if their plan is to use this precedent in the future.