Obama Must Go
Ascribing blame is generally an unproductive habit and merely adds to the heat of public rancor. Nevertheless, responsibility for a clearly deteriorating situation must sometimes be assigned and there can be little doubt that the attempt to impose an unpopular leftist program of Robin Hood economics, environmental thuggery, and transnational accommodation upon what is historically a free-market constitutional republic must release the demons of social dissension and cultural rupture. When the misconceived policy of “Islamic outreach” is added to the farrago of mischiefs, the recipe for disaster is pretty well complete. The problem for the left in this latter regard, as Jonathan Spyer points out with respect to the Israeli left in The Transforming Fire, “is that they don’t find leftists on the other side.” Though, obviously, this has not stopped the sinister cohort from blundering on. For all these costly aberrations, the left is undeniably accountable and Barack Obama, as its most conspicuous standard bearer, is the visible manifestation of a disintegrating nation. Inevitably, there will be casualties.
Peter Wood’s important 2007 book A Bee in the Mouth addresses the issue of “our new anger in contrast to our older habits of emotional restraint.” It is certainly worth reading. But I’m afraid that the effort and recommendation to calm the Furies, as represented by his analysis, will go for naught unless the intemperate left is progressively marginalized and its propaganda organs, like MSNBC, the New York Times, the Soros-funded organizations, the spurious NGOs, the voracious labor unions, the special interest groups, and many fellow-traveling websites are serially exposed for what they are by a relentless tympani of fact and argument.
As Ronald Reagan urged in his 1983 “Evil Empire” speech, we must beware “the temptation to…blithely declare yourself above it all and label both sides equally at fault.” What applied then in the international arena applies now on the domestic front. The cultures wars must go on until one side wins or all is lost, which is to say, until either America or the left triumphs. There is no doubt on which ideological parapet Barack Obama stands. Like Hollywood sequels, Obama II would be an even greater clunker than its original version; only, this is no movie but a real-life megaflop in the making.
For this reason the battle must continue. There is, regrettably, no option if one of the most destructive and recidivist presidents in American history is to be chased from office before his corpse-man gaffe becomes ever more of a reality. Such a consummation might be a first step in at least partially recuperating the Democratic left back into the majority consensus of American life via the modality of a crushing defeat and, perhaps, of narrowing the rift that divides the nation from itself.
Indeed. We either have a cultural revolution, or a violent one. The two sides cannot co-exist. It is impossible. They are anathema to one another.
Just look at the unbelievable treatment of Sarah Palin. She has become the symbol of the struggle. That is why she is so influential now. The cultural battle rages, and she embodies the cultural values of the Right and the Center. She is positively Rockwellian.
Very true.In fact, I would go even further.
Many believe that Obama is acting out of inexperience and clueless stumbling.He is not.
He knows exactly what he is doing, both domestically and internationally.
To wit, first he reduces the US to a financial basket case-first mission accomplished.
Second, he reduces the US to a nation NO better, NO more exceptional than any other, including third world basket cases-second mission accomplished.
Third, he incites revolutionary overthrow in Egypt(there is much evidence to conclude, that over a period of 2 yrs, Muslim Brotherhood reps have been learning the art of ‘community organizing’ under the guise of democracy.Also, US reps have been meeting with MB reps abroad)-third mission accomplished, the Brothers are on their way…
Fourth, and most especially, Obama knows that the MB has two main goals, the establishment of the Caliphate and the destruction of Israel.This is a fact and Obama knows it.Therefore, if he did NOT agree with their goals he would not be empowering them, the ONLY group with capacity to take over-regardless of leftist whitewashing.
What to do?Well, from Israel’s standpoint we are preparing for all contingencies,(yes, we are) including a MAJOR Middle East war.Moreover, our bombs in the basement take on increasing urgency, particularly with Egypt very likely to join the Iranian Hitlerite’s ambitions-the destruction of Israel.
The fact of the matter is that we can discuss this from today to kingdom come, but at the end of the process one thing is for sure-we will not go down alone.PJ readers-familiarize yourselves with the Samson Option….if we are abandoned, with our backs to the sea, not only will the entire Middle East burn, but many EU capitals etc etc…..
No one in the USA likes isreal anymore anyway. isreal is the TERRORIST state along with iran . Maybe they could just blow each other up and we’ll be done with both of them
Precisely, and those who posit that Obama is acting out of incompetence, had better wake up.
No! She is a dimwit alaskan housewife who favors marijuana use and presides over a dysfunctional household. She is a female Jimmy Carter, with a few conservative tendencies. I wouldn’t let her walk my dog. Her tendencies are both secular and humanistic. A sad combination.
The left keeps agitating for violence but they don’t seem to realize they will be crushed. I agree with Mr. Solway this will not end well.
And yet, it is the right who wanted 2nd Amendment solutions when they didn’t get their way at the pols. Revisionist history is so much fun.
Explain yourself. Give examples that apply exclusively to one side.
All violence has come from the left. I’m all for divorce at this point. Pick yer turf and move!
single first name. slurs and bombs. a professional troll.
Oh really? When? Who’s revising anything when you don’t provide examples?
Mike says
“And yet, it is the right who wanted 2nd Amendment solutions when they didn’t get their way at the pols.”
The most recent election will show that, aside from being the right (correct) and sober choice, “the right” DID get their way at the polls.
Go back to the Huffington Post you fool.
STRAWMAN ALERT:
no the right does not need SOLUTIONS the amendment, as the RIGHT TO ARMS EXISTS
and has stood well the test of time and history.
it is ONLY the left/lib/retards like Mike/commies that want “solutions”- so far that has meant ineffective controls, with gaint loopholes, or like their leaders Hill and Obama, to REMOVE rights guarenteed by LAW.
Very easy to understand now how brother shot brother during the Civil War- stop treading on our rights and we won’t need another one
Yep. I’m a total moron…
Well, thank goodness we swung Mike around to recognize the truth. One less IDIOT out there.
Welcome to the side of reason Mike.
Now don’t you feel better???? If only we could get your boss to admit this truth also.
Paladin, I couldn’t agree more.
The left overtly in some cases but mostly covertly, through deception and ignorance, genuinely believe via Cloward and Piven, Saul Alinsky, Howard Zinn, to name a few, that in the event that they can bring the U.S. to its knees by their actions that it is an automatic outcome i.e., ‘They Will Then Prevail’, and build a new Utopia to replace what we have now. They see this as a given, because that’s the way all leftists revolutions end. Right? I mean that’s what they’ve been told by the experts.
They are nuts to think this. I am not a violent person. But ,come on, every NRA member I know of with a few exceptions are die hard conservatives with lots of gun safes full of arms and ammo and flak jackets.
If these leftist yahoos think they can take their agenda to the streets and build their Utopia on our backs then they are fools. This isn’t a bunch of unarmed pitchfork wielding peasants in Moscow in 1917 they are talking about taking on and if it comes to that and we all pray it doesn’t, I’m pretty sure I know what the outcome will be, unless the left thinks they can somehow get the armed services to start shooting fellow citizens that the left ‘doesn’t like’. Good luck on that one. More likely the armed services would join the conservatives to stop these useful idiot feelgooders.
Lord knows I hope it never comes to that, no offense intended to anyone, except useful idiots.
Thank You and have a nice rest of the day.
Note: I believe that I should have said ST. Petersburg in 1917 rather than Moscow. Apologies. And for the record I am NOT, NOT advocating violence, merely offering an opinion in the discussion. I do not believe for a moment that if violence comes about that it will start with conservatives.
But you can’t contradict or criticize The Won! That’s lese majeste. The government belongs to him now, by the only standard that matters to him: his.
For the very first time, we have in the presidency a man who believes himself superior to the office — indeed, superior to the law that created the office. Should Congress and the Supreme Court rally against him, he’ll attempt to rule by executive order. He’ll have plenty of supporters, inside and outside his administration, telling him to do exactly that. Remember that you read it here first.
Sounds like the same mess that overzealous liberals were predicting Bush would do. I’d be more than willing to wager large sums of cash that executive order will not be enacted by Obama.
Obama is America’s reward for trusting and believing in philosopher kings. Following these philosopher kings into the abyss. Pied Piper anyone? Harvard and Yale etc are the high status members of credentialled liberal “elite”, as Obama the constitutional scholar,his corpse-man and more than 50 states.exemplifies. So elevated an intellect that he speaks a language that only initiated as both Clintons, N. Pelosi and H Reid understand.
AND AMERICANS £LECTED him, by commission and omission. It does appear that they have got what they wanted.
Youre going to look a little silly when he gets reelected in a landslide. The economy is recuperating, the finance crisis seems to have stabilized, and the upheavals in Egypt and Tunisia is concrete evidence that his Cairo speech and his attempts at making Israel behave were good ideas. In two years time,t he health-benefits and the job-programmes will be kicking in. Hell, even Afghanistan is stabilizing. The republican party has not had one single original idea in the last 2 years.
But hey, good luck with Palin!
I’m not sure what you’re smoking, but it must be good stuff. Can I get the name of your dealer?
LOL WTF, Obama!
The economy is getting better? Where? Not my business, and not where I live!
he probably got a welfare check bump
It’s boon time if you work in the welfare industrial complex.
It amazes me how people who supported GW Bush can cast aspersions on President Obama’s intellect or his success as President. The fact that we’re all not completely destitute after the mess Bush left for him can only be attributed to the interventions made by President Obama.
I find it highly amusing that someone who lives in Canada is so critical of US Presidents who don’t conform to his political beliefs. The list of your country’s contributions to the world is such a long one that it is easy to see how you have the temerity to speak up. If one does little to nothing, it is easy to criticize the actions of others.
Sondra, sondra, sondra…what cognitive dissonance you suffer!
Bush 400B deficit bad…Obama 1.7T deficit better?
Bush gitmo open bad…Obama gitmo open better?
Bush Iraq war bad…Obama Afghan war better?
Bush 7% unemployment bad…Obama 9% better?
Bush Patriot Act bad..Obama Patriot Act AND TSA fondling, spycams etc better?
I know the above facts will be completely ignored and your life will continue in that trance-like meaninglessness kind-of way. Oh well.
I would have to say that the war in Iraq was considerably worse considering that it eliminated Iran’s bitter rival. Iran has since cemented it’s status has a powerhouse in the region. Also, the cost of the Iraq war is almost double that of the Afghan war at this point.
Sondra, please widen your perspective by reading Michelle Malkin’s “Culture of Corruption”.
Sondra,
You really are a silly goose (-stepping socialist).
Sondra,
You are a comedian, right?
Sondra – I agree it’s ALL Bushes Fault! It’s his fault because “he” ‘pandered’ to the Liberal/Progressive/Left and gave them what they wanted!! His Veto stats come out to about 2 veto’s a year for his 5 years.
So, yea I STILL BLAME THE LIBERALS and Blame George Bush for not fighting harder AGAINST the Liberals. PS. Sondra, the Liberals had the Congress since 2006. It is NOW 2011. How can you possibly defend this??
you are very funny. and very ignorant. why would some one from Canada not be aware of the political situation in the USA? you made an ignorant and bigoted comment based purely on your emotions.
it is clear to most of the world that Barry is an abject failure as a leader.
as a point of reference remember that the media in the USA and for much of the world is left leaning or full socialist while the populations they report for are more centrist and conservative. we can’t all be members of the professional left or you would have to get a job.
I don’t like Canadians. They smell like wet fur.
fnord,
I actually do think that BHO may win a 51-49 squeaker. The economy will still be underwhelming in job growth but Fed POMO ops may keep it from its rightful abyss before the elections. The Senate, however, will likely go repubs 53-47ish due to so many dem seats in red states up for grabs. House stays the same. Now the rest of your Euro-centric rubbish is batty to say the least. By making Israel “behave” you mean ceasing to defend herself? By Afghan stability you mean 2010 being the deadliest year of all? By jobs “programmes” you mean the job-killing program of BHO-care, yes? Lastly, I am right that you are comparing repub lack of originality for 2 yrs compared to roughly 78 yrs of dem lacking originality? The problem with you Euros fnord is you have been raised so tight to your state’s teats that you cannot even fathom the concepts of self-determination and individual liberty. You are a gelding, a bleating pile of nothingness, and worst of all, a dependent.
Hey donttreadonme, your genius is showing. thanx for lifting my day. Would like to include your commentary in my blog & on my site.
fnord,
So far stupid has yet to get anything right, as for the middle east, it is improving in spite of not because of. If we are lucky, the ones he is backing, the muslim brotherhood will be sent packing.
As for the economy, suggest you quite reading the main scream media, they have not gotten anything right, ops, I forgot, they are the dims propaganda machine aren’t they? they are not suppose to get it right, just PC.
Somewhat too heavy on the purple prose.
A President who plops malaprops? This one…or the last one? For whatever it is worth, GWB was possibly the all time King of such things.
Not enough purple prose for what we are living through. Solway hit this one out of the ball park, as always. If we want to turn back the tide we have to first start with immigration and go forward. Stop it all now and then allow only those who will contribute and not be part of the disintegration. We are living within communities which are falling apart because the idea of community itself has become so perverted. I do not CELEBRATE DIVERSITY. CELEBRATE DIVISION??? Whatever happened to united we stand, divided we fall? United we stand, diversity we fall. Multiculturalism, diversity, all Marxist constructs were developed and implemented by the left to BREAK US APART. And if we should protest, they already had the weapon at hand: name calling. We have allowed this to happen to ourselves because we were too cowardly to push back decades ago when the left was importing alien “peoples” to destroy the fabric of Anglo-Saxon culture. The white “culture” has been scorned because it is the culture which made America great and what she was. If you want to destroy a nation, change the population which made it great. Bring in the uneducated backward uncivilized underclass and tell the majority they have to suck it up and deal with it and if not they are bigots. Then introduce another language to compete with the national language and teach the children everyone else is far better. This has been the modus operandi of the left for generations and Obama is the pus from the boil. We are losing our country because we were beaten by a small group of people who used name calling to get the job done. Not even sticks and stones.
You hit the nail on the head with this reply Scythe. The age old strategy of divide and conquer coupled with a double dose of white guilt, stir and a tall glass and we get the hell that we are living through now.
When in doubt (is there ever such a time for D-White?), break out The King Kong Ping Pong Tongue and leave a little Pick It Fence But Wisdom in defense of the status quo.
Without a doubt, D-White’s pretend “centrist” world is much like Mr. President’s world. Smoke and beers. Backyard, on the lawn, and so in the past.
Let’s see. What’s convenient here? Past President’s. Well, ok. Pick one! How about this!
D-White, what would Woodrow Wilson think the current occupant of the White House?
Be brave now.
And the old men call him insane,
And sometimes he’s so nameless…
Whoa. Anything left in that bong? Pass it around.
No, D-White smokes tweed in the faculty lounge. No bong there. Too efficient.
Psst..I think we just heard from your doppelganger head banger. Not too Lucky, are you.
A perfect storm of Bush-hate/fatigue, political correctitude, “celebrate diversity”/”COEXIST”, white guilt, etc. got him elected and now we’re in a perfect sh!t storm of American decline as a result. And to think that many of us could see this coming from miles away, the morons who voted for him thought that he was going to usher in Utopia with a baby unicorn for everyone. I hate to say it, but we got what we deserved. That being said, we have to eject this man-child and go about fixing this terrible mess. God bless America.
ME, MYSELF & I HAVE NO WHITE GUILT…
When Obama runs into a real world problem he always turns to his anti American Left wing ideology, and when that fails as it always does, he doesn’t know what to do. Thus he does whatever the last advisor he talks to tells him to do.
A Canadian telling us that our president must go?
Canada’s Muslim population will grown 183.1 % in the next twenty years!
Blame the politicians for that, not the public. Votes, votes and more votes. That is why we have this multicultural mess north of your border. Thankfully, we now have a conservative prime minister who has the cajones to walk out of the UN when Achmadinijad speaks.
OK, tim, I am siding with the Canadian. Lame brain, sometimes called the president, MUST GO! He is an idiot and an embarrassment to America. He is ignorant, illiterate and not to bright or he would not do all the dumb things he has done to date. If we are stupid enough to put him in office again, then doom on us.
“A Canadian telling us that our president must go?”
Yes, I know. It doesn’t sit well with me either. Too many foreigners feel entitled to dip their oars in our millpond.
In this case though, consider Solway’s words to have been written by me if it’ll make you feel better about it.
“Canada’s Muslim population will grown 183.1 % in the next twenty years!”
I can’t speak to Canada’s policies, myself being supremely disinterested in Canadian politics, but the UK Labour Party was shown to have deliberately “packed the rafters” with 3rd World immigrants solely for partisan political purposes.
http://wikibin.org/articles/labour-party-immigration-scandal.html
I wouldn’t be surprised if some “bright bulb” in Ottawa decided to show his original thinking skills by slavishly aping UK Labour’s scam.
If Ottawa hadn’t been so packed with Americaphobes, they might have actually gotten their innings in on the Limeys first by copying the US 1965 Immigration Reform, which was signed by LBJ for exactly the same reasons as UK Labour’s
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5391395
You read the pronouncements by the talking heads of the time about how this Act would change the nation very little, and you realize that all of those c-cks-ckers were lying through their teeth.
Just like they lied through their teeth about MediCare.
Canada is the testing ground for policies that erase the core values of a country in a fell swoop of policy and bureaucracy.. Obama is Trudeau 2.0
Both fundamentally changed the structure of a whole country… Canadians are still saddled with a flawed Charter; and a very entrenched, controlled by the UN, Human Rights regime…
Canadians had the NEP.. You have the EPA.. both UN socialist diktat..
I could go on.. forced support for a privileged minority language; government takeover of health care services; crashed dollar; high unemployment; ‘victim’ status in perpetuity for ‘underprivileged’ minorities of any stripe possible; unchecked immigration (muslims were deliberate for Agenda 21 purposes: need for police state); Elected Dictator (Canada’s Dictator is structural, America’s is structurally checked)… but maybe not this time..
GE Corp = Power Corp
The US is doing the same thing. The liberal left are filling our small towns with Somali refugees under the guise of humanitarian aid. We know what it really is, more votes for the left and yet more divide and conquer strategy.
The same can be said on illegal immigration and the so called “Dream Act”. Yes, I dream of breaking the law, being a parasite, and being rewarded by the host.
And this is all news? I think the nation reached these conclusions in November 2010 and the elections proved that. Obama IS the second term of the Carter administration. Perhaps this experience, though, will educate the American public. Whenever a far-left socialist claims that he really is, after all, a centrist, don’t ever believe him or her. Just say the name “Obama” and they will come to their senses. But, what IS shameful about this guy is that so many, SO MANY, people during the 2008 election chose to ignore this guy’s past and lack of experience. That is what is horribly shameful about the Obama presidency, and the main stream media ate it up with a spoon. Disgusting.
But, next year in 2012, we can make things right, or at least a little better by voting this guy out of office. Can’t come soon enough for me.
Brilliant Mr. Solway!
Well said!
Reagan would have said of Obama: “He isn’t ignorant – he just knows so much that isn’t so.”
Oh, and if I were you, I wouldn’t bother sending a resume to the NY Times.
Yes, we are witnessing the War of the Insane Left, founded upon a swirling mix of deluded political ideas and the determinedly taught inability to accept, forgive and get on with one’s life — the inability to face life, and learn from it, rather than bemoan its “unfairness”. Yet deeper than that, the Right too is at fault, for its long embrace of those who want only War with the Left — a case of self-fulfilling prophecy in America. Dig deeper, and you will find it all comes from the obscene belief, by both Left and Right, in Darwinian “survival of the fittest.” It is a demonstrably incompetent belief upon which to build a healthy society, and it is untrue — but who now will listen to that truth? Ah, there’s the rub. There will be peace when all can agree that Darwin was a fool, not a genius.
Hogwash! The problem with the right was that they were too polite with the left – believing they were just misguided and not filled with malice. Thier mistake was in not engaging the enemy with the first salvo 100 years ago! We’ve been in a defensive battle for the last 60 years and have been losing ground steadily!
The problem is definitely not Darwinism. Darwinism would indeed work. Sadly, the left choose to foster and perpetuate a dependent society, via welfare, section 8 etc. Therefore hard working, tax paying Americans are carrying millions of parasites on our backs.
Atlas will shrug!
This is the first time in my life where I lie awake at night with such worry that it is affecting every aspect of my life. And I will bet anything that Obama will get a second term. What happened to the America I love??
Darned good question. We have saved for many years…only to see the dividends that we were depending on go down the tubes.
Prices on commodities are up and news just said they will be going up more and more..We don’t’ want to depend on this government.
Obama has done nothing but destroy our nation. People can make all the excuses they want to. They need to try living in the real world for a change. A job, a family to support, a future to look forwad to. I don’t want to give what my family has worked for to those that do nothing.
Unless the right comes up with a strong candidate, Obama will win again, and America will lose..big time.
Those of you that make snide comments need to listen to the Beck TV show. It will scare the bejibers out of you!!
..and he tells you NOT to take his word, investigate and look at the facts for yourself. Yeah, I’m scare for our nation.
Under Garde #13 Reply to Anonymous
Anonymous – I agree. I think Glenn Beck is dead on about a lot of things. I always knew there were radicals from the 60′s. I didn’t realize as with probably a lot of other people how much these Far Lefties infiltrated our schools, colleges and young minds. Young minds that just ‘follow’ like sheep without ‘individual thought’, critical thinking and a young mind to mold like clay. I at one time was in the same thought process as some of these lefties, but, I was actually sitting on the fence.
I then met my husband who as he says he ‘created a monster’ lol. Then I realized how much the entitlement crowd were draining our countries, economy and how much the Democrats were actually ‘enslaving people’ rather than ‘helping’ them.
When you see how much money the Government takes out of your hard earned pay check, then see all the bull shit they ‘spend it’ on ‘to improve the lives of other’s’ (forced charity) aka (slavery) while I do without being able to enjoy “the fruits” of “my hard work” I want to spit nails.
Not to mention all the “creative ways” they can come up with to “Tax Us” some more. I do hope the GOP come up with a Strong Candidate we need a true Constitutional American (A Reagan with less taxes). We need a Miracle. God Bless.
I agree with you. I bet there are a lot of us who go around with our stomachs twisted in a knot and lapse into an uneasy sleep every night. I sure do. What has happened to our country domestically in the last two years is unbelievable to me, but at least that is mostly contained within our borders. Even scarier is Obama’s and Hillary’s incompetence on the world stage. Who knows what their bungling foreign policy, including their blind eye to the Islamist threat, will bring to the world and to America. God help us all.
Take advantage of your 2nd amendment right while you can. Obama and Clinton cannot wait to disarm the population and have the US submit to the UN and the NWO.
Garde you need to join your local TEA Party and associate with Real optimistic Americans. “The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing” So don’t do nothing! Pick the Right side. Take action.
The Obama administration has been found in contemp of the law, (Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh have discussed the details regarding the unconstitutionality of Obamacare) and NO ONE is able to make the administration comply with the judges order, and the states who take the money to begin implementation are committing a felony.
So where are the cops to enforce the judgement? Is anybody out there? Or won’t anybody turn off the television to make a phone call?
Of course, in this state it’s a phone call to Al (ballots in the backseat) Franken, so just hand me back that remote, willya?
Yes, I don’t even bother to make calls in MN anymore. Who will I get? Klobuchar, Franken, McCollum. And then our fellow Minnesotans give the governorship to Mark Dayton, an unstable guy with mental problems. And we thought Minnesotans were goofy to elect Jesse Ventura?
Well actually most of did think Minnessotans were nuts for electing Jesse Ventura. I mean what can I say. I can’t move on to Franken until I digest Ventura first. And that’s a lot of heartburn. My condolences, but maybe you should move to Nebraska or something. Girl I’m Kidding, just kidding.
gotta be in the water
It’s simply unbelievable how even the right makes the assumption that there is parity of value between the ideas of the right and the left. They are not equal! If the right believes that truth is sacrosanct while the left views it as a mere means to their false idol of power, then there can be no communication, no cohesion, no common culture. It’s absurd to reason with someone who rejects reason.
Well spoken, Randall. Conservatives, whether they know it or not, owe their philosophical beliefs to the Biblically-based, two-edged sword of honor and integrity. Conversley, the left ascribes to the hollow spectre of moral relativism, where the end justifies the means, and a bald-faced lie is simply that person’s truth.
This nation has turned from our God, and as such we have reaped what we have sown. We have given our government over to an evil man who smiles as he lies. Only God can save us now.
Yes only He CAN save us. But why would He? As a country, we have become so morally bankrupt. We as a country have reaped this problem. We as a country are paying for our unwillingness to pay attention, unwillingness to pay the daily price of freedom and liberty. We have kept quiet, kept to ourselves, wanted to do our thing. And we have allowed evil to dwell freely amongst us. Now evil has a strong foothold. And we as a nation allowed it.
On 9/12 the nation looked to God. On 9/13, they started the return to themselves. Darkness flourishes with an absence of light.
I fear for this country. Either we rise to the wake up call, or we fall. There will be no other end.
God saves individuals, through His Son Jesus Christ. If enough of our people repent, he may save our nation. Without Him, individually and collectively, we and this nation are done.
Unfortunately true.
This article speaks the brutal truth as to the state of our Republic. Our country is under assault by an evil from within. Obama and his fellow marxist democrats must be excised from our Republic and relegated to the the ash heap of history. Economically I fear the worst is yet to come as people who have been surviving on their 401ks and savings run out of money and lose everything that they worked for all of their lives. On the foreign front a real possiblility exists that President Kim Il Obama is lurching us into a global conflagration.
Obama is the inevitable conclusion of affirmative action. A good looking dark skinned man with no talent, ability or intellect who has learned how to appeal to those unwilling to pay attention to facts. If it looks so it must be so. Thus America has regressed to a time when slavery was the law of the land. We have only exchanged one slavery for another. Physical for intellectual.
Menachem
Right on. This is the truth. Even if it were Colin Powell that had been elected in 96 or 2000 it would be for these same reasons. Someone should make a bumper sticker that asks if WE still believe in affirmative action.
Affirmative action? I have never believed in it. It was shoved down the military’s throat in the early 70, it was BS, actually stupid beyond belief, and it has gotten worse, much worse as time has gone by.
Most of our problems seem to stem for two areas, wars we refused to finish and political correctness/affirmative action. A scam the communist conned us into in the 20′s
An article I read a few years back pointed out the Army had a battalion that was combat ineffective, the girls were all knocked up. We used to discharge them, then we got PC and gave them a choice and many stayed as it was a cushy gig.
Now for the next fun and games, we are going to put the ladies into the combat outfits. I want to see if they will have to meet the same standards as the males. I think most of us know the answer, NO! The current military probably has the same set of stands now that they had in 84, girls meet the girls standard and the guys meet the original standard, which the little ladies are exempt from.
Well, sooner or later the obvious will dawn on the dim wits in the head shed. It is sorta like that major that murdered all those folks. No one in his right military mind will criticize a muslim or any other minority of any sort unless they are ready to get out of the US military.
They combat ladies will look great on paper, why? Well, again, if one is ready to take a discharge then point out their short comings. Of course, when they have filled enough body bags the obvious will dawn on some. Of course this will result in a whole herd of dead males, picking up the slack for the girls
I have watched all this play out already, the USAF has a bunch of mechanic, they enlisted to be clerks and nurses, recruiters said they could cross train after they were in, right. Early on it was a joke, the ladies in that area have finally settled in and some are doing great, but none have to carry a 70 or 80 lb pack, plus ammo and their rifle, they will probably also get out of adding machine gun ammo and mortar rounds to their pack, to much weight.
Just real tired of this BS going on and on. Get rid of the dims, put anyone who whines in a PC manner in prison as a traitor and all will settle out nicely eventually.
Now for the next fun and games, we are going to put the ladies into the combat outfits. I want to see if they will have to meet the same standards as the males. I think most of us know the answer, NO! The current military probably has the same set of stands now that they had in 84, girls meet the girls standard and the guys meet the original standard, which the little ladies are exempt from.
Actually, it could be worse. I have a friend who is a career soldier in the Canadian Forces and he says men and women have to satisfy the same standards – but the standard is set ridiculously low so that the women can meet it. For instance, both men and women must be able to do 9 (yes, that’s NINE, not ninety) pushups. In short, political correctness results in standards so low that they are farcical.
9 pushups? 9? What good are you going to do in a hand to hand combat situation if you can only do 9 pushups. Hope the Canadian troops are expert marksmen and never run out of ammo.
Having visions of Saving Private Ryan when the German slowly pushed the knife into that little girls chest (skinny male soldier)… that soldier could probably do 9 pushups.
He isn’t good looking. He just isn’t ugly. Mediocre, like his intellelct.
yes …why do people try to molify their disgust for Barry. You have to wonder what Larry Sinclair saw in him …of course it may have been the cocaine.
Any way Obama leaves office other than being voted out will serve as an historical example to future Americans. If he were impeached out of office not for clear commission of crime but for political causes, that would mean that the President serves at the pleasure of the Congress. If he died in office, especially by assassination, we would have another conspiracy industry like the one we’ve had since President Kennedy’s assassination and this has not helped the country. If he resigned to avoid impeachment as Nixon did, we would remember the scandal as we do Watergate and this hasn’t improved our politics, either. The least worst alternative for the worst President is that the voters vote him out of office, which merely creates the problem of having to listen to the delusions of a pathetic loser like Carter for the next few decades.
There’s nothing to add to Solway’s essay except to wonder if the US can survive the final two years of Obama’s first term.
I tend to think we aren’t meant to.
There is always “free will”…but, it appears a lot of Americans do not have the will to work for this freedom we enjoy.
If Obama loses in 2012, it will be blamed on racism, and we can look for touble. If he wins, we are doomed to hell as a welfare state,until the jobs are all gone and no more checks can be given out for doing nothing. Then we’ll sit back and wonder what the hell happened.
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hate to tell you this…….obam’s not leaving, never……..he’s a lifer?
You’re preaching to the choir, son. Tell me something I don’t already know. America is in decline.
I personally have nothing against Obama, it’s the American People who elected him. I am beginning to think the vast majority of Americans have no clue whatsoever on how to judge character. The majority of American people are incapable of rational thought and critical analysis when it comes to the Federal Government. I don’t understand this, because our Government seems to be a bit better at the State and Local levels.
That’s because there’s a vast majority of people that don’t work, don’t want to work and don’t pay taxes. Gimme, gimme, gimmee, then gimmee some more. With Obama, the gimmees will just keep getting.
until the guy paying the taxes himself no longer has a job thanks to Obama adm
Until Atlas shrugs.
You can blame the irrationality and stupidity of a large share of the American electorate squarely on our education system. The left has been shredding education for 50 years or more now. When you consider that one of the widely used history textbooks in our schools is Howard Zinn’s blasphemous, revisionist, and anti-American history of the U.S., it’s no wonder that people are inclined to vote for big-government, big-spending, socialist/communist, anti-U.S. liberals. Also, logic and critical thinking are no longer taught in our schools. Our kids have falsehoods floating around in their brains, are unable to make a reasoned decision about anything of consequence, are wired constantly to gadgets that insulate them from the real world, but hey, they sure do have healthy self-esteem and feel good about everything that they have not accomplished.
I recently noticed a copy of Howard Zinn’s History on the bookshelf of my son-in-law who is an engineer with Eaton Corp. 30 years old, two kids, peaceful wonderful person.
When I asked him if he knew that Howard Zinn was a first tier card carrying communist, he was astonished and had no idea. He asked me if I had read Zinn. I told him that I had read enough to know that as a successful businessman I would probably be dead or in prison or a gulag in his form of government.
“His malapropisms, however, are not only a sign of a deeply ignorant man.”
Well, if that’s the case, then Bush’s and Palins constant malapropisms put them just one brain cell above Terry Schiavo.
But really, even if what the author is saying is true, what was the alternative? McCain and Palin? What a joke.
Not to be nitpicky, but it was 57 states. Thought I would point it out before someone with less civility did.
He got it messed up with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_the_Islamic_Conference
He also flubbed this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18VOGykrgHo
His mind is often on Islam, if you know what I mean.
No, Obama said during the 2008 campaign that he’d “been to…57 states?..and one more to go”. That makes 58. We all know he meant 47 and 48 (for the lower 48), but to actually not acknowlege the mistake and correct it, is arrogant to say the least.
“We all know” do we? I don’t know that. He didn’t say anything about the “contiguous” states, of which there are 48. Nor did he use or even hint at your misnomer of the “lower 48 states” (which would only be acceptable if you are making a shorthand reference to the lower 48 “continental” states). I don’t know what he was thinking, and never will, but your explanation seems implausible.
As I recall the comment was, “I’ve Been to 57 states and think I have one more to go.” That would be 58.
the idiot Barry said “I have visited 57 states and have one more to go”
57=1=58 ..they used to teach arithmetic in school
America (and Canada, David) have been…and are continuing to be…beaten with their own rulebooks. Democracy has at once a tough hide, but delicate bones.
The skeletal framework can be fractured in numerous ways. Not the least of which is the constant assault for 40 years from within. The disease of rampant, unchecked leftism has caused the “brittling” of our weight bearing bones and creaking of our joints. Our knees are buckling under the weight of four decades of the invasive indoctrination of a pack of lies, slander, false attributions, and the propping up of nearly every enemy of this land of ours in its history…including the present.
The dogged and determined left has shattered our self-confidence, destroyed our economic advantages, squandered our natural resources, weakened our resolve and attacked the very basis of our unity.
No, David…we are no longer the same United States of my youth. We are neither united…and, increasingly, there are no longer states. Many of our individually named lands are now nothing more than wards of the left, having been first disrupted, then bankrupted and corrupted, for the benefit of leftists and their stooges in union halls, ACORN-like front groups and pension and entitlement engorgement.
Our states are incapable of ruling on their own border safety as children and missionaries and jet skiers are gunned down with impunity. We have 500,000 new entitlement seekers a year, puncturing another vein to draw from the taxpayers last droplets of disposable income.
If there are 58 of any organized group, that would mean that the Organization of the Islamic Conference has added one new member. Perhaps in secret, perhaps only in spirit, perhaps in Freudian slippage.
In Stanley Kurtz’ book Radical-In-Chief, it is clear that many of the “results” we see today…for which we stunningly attribute to “chance”, “incompetence” and “necessity” were openly discussed and orchestrated on pilot local programs.
The disease of leftism has caused a necrosis of our will to defend ourselves from further attacks. We are so numb to them that they barely register a wince, we tsk-tsk the treachery and we tut-tut the treason.
We will not go out with a bang, nor a whimper. We will continue to ingest the poison, force fed by our complicit and polluted “mainstream” media, Hollywood and academia. And we will expire in our sleep.
Having slumbered upon the tyranny of those who mean to disguise their intent to destroy us. We have been in a war we have been losing for more than 40 years. America has been gang raped right before our very eyes. And we barely have raised a peep (relatively speaking), in her defense…and we have neither the gumption nor the organizational skills, the realization nor the will…to raise a finger to stop today’s and tomorrow’s violation of her as well.
Eric Holder called us a nation of cowards and Jeremiah Wright asked for God to Damn America. I’m afraid these dear friends of our President have it right. As do all the leftists who wish to rule us. Guilty as hell and free as bird.
Obama will be re-elected in 2012. ACORN, the unions, Hollywood, academia, the “mainstream” media, government workers, pensioners, “minority” entitlement holders…will all see to it. One way…or the other.
That’s a formidable base…with a 40 year head start. There is not enough “unity” amongst “everyone else” to stop it. We couldn’t agree on the color of a Shi’ite.
I am afraid you are right.
Dear Skeneogden
According to Obama, it’s 57 state visits plus 1 to go.
David
He means Israel, after the MB and friends finish with us. Good luck to him/not.
My greatest worry is how many soul mates does Fnord have out there.
I said on PJM some three years ago that this was the dumbest man ever to run for President. And since 11/08/08, I have often said that he is the dumbest that I at 71 years have ever seen in the White House. My finding is that if you voted for Obama, you should pay serious attention to your attempt at acquiring an education. Apparently your truncated learning ability has left you with inoperable BS detectors.
Excellent essay Mr. Solway! But look at Obama as God’s greatest gift in that we will be that much stronger, if we survive.
I’ve lived through some pretty awful presidents. but this one is the worst by far. What is it that compels the voting public to keep on electing to our hightest office the worst of all possible candidates? I have several theories, so that question is mostly rhetorical. Still, I have hope that maybe this debacle will teach the nation a lesson.
However, given our track record, I’m not so sure.
Too many cliches in this piece to take it seriously. Though I’m hardly an Obama supporter (I was at the original tea party in our area … before it was called a “tea party”) I’m put off by HuffPo mirror image articles like this, filled with dire warnings and hyperbole. Here’s the deal: America is what it has always been, a clash of ideas. It really is no less partisan today than it has been throughout most of its history. At least today we don’t name our newpapers “The Democrat”j and such. The only time we seemingly are united is post war or attack.
It is this clash of ideas that the founders saw as our strength. It was a stroke of brilliance. Today the left is reeling from overreach and paying the price. The Repubs, chastened after the Bush years, discovered an ancient word in the lexicon: No. It alone brought them together, clarified their vision, gave them courage.
And so they are ascendant … for now. But they will overreach as well and the left will discover a true voice, not this “Yes We Can” or “Win the Future” sloganeering. Perhaps it will be “maybe.”
At any rate, we are witnessing the beautiful drama that is the essence of America. It enthralls, it captivates, it generates loud “ooohs” and “aaahhhs”, it produces careers and destroys them.
That is the U.S.A. Obama is part of its story.
I agree.
What you say may be accurate, but hardly resembles the truth (to distort a movie line). If one accepts, as many from the political right do, that conservatism, by it”s very name, is not malleable; does not require perfectability; is a proven winning hand that we are sticking with (for you poker players).
And that the left, across the table, is forever ‘progressing’ to a passel of ephemeral and ever changing ideals.
We have, instead of your back and forth clash of ideas (which implies a balance), a slow but steady 100 years of compromise away from a stable American state.
What we are discussing here is when it will all tip over. Try and keep up.
“USA Obama is part of its story” and USA did have other tragic Presidents and we survived.What David Solway wrote, as I read it, was continual, factual events and information – not cliches. And just think we have two more years of USA Obama. Continual facts and information can never be overused.
Thanks, David for your lucid essay. Perhaps it takes a little distance from a problem to see it clearly, even when the problem is as large as an elephant in the room. In my opinion, Obama is NOT clueless. He deliberately INTENDS the actions he takes, and the chaos they produce. That’s not incompetency it’s maliciousness.
Bob
Oh! How could anything go wrong under Obama? He is so tall and thin. He looks elegant, so mainstream. He reads the teleprompter so well. And, after all, isn’t he always the smartest person in the room? Besides, he graduated from Harvard! What more could we ask for?
God save our Republic.
The man knows exactly what he is doing, and that is to bring our great country down to a whimpering helpless nation so he and his liberal backer’s can build a Socialist empire. Don’t know about you but I won’t go down without a fight !!
My opinion is that Obama does not have the strength of character that it will take for him to withstand the next 2 years. He will buckle under the pressure. Indeed he seems to be getting smaller every time I see him.
He does not have the will power or the experience for a successful presidency and it shows.
I also believe it’s very possible BHO will not finish his 4 year term, but for a different reason than strength of character. I do agree he has no ‘strength of character’.
My perspective comes from over 2 decades of vocational work – matching persons to job opportunities. From what little BHO has not yet hidden, one fact jumps out to me about his career track record – he has never held a job longer than 2 years! Now the perks at the White House, basketball, golf, & expensive dates with Michelle, are attractive, I think his inability to ‘sit still’ will override even theses perks.
How exactly will he do it? I have no idea. He is one of the most creative liars on the planet. But I believe it will not be pitched as a ‘going away’ from the presidency, but a ‘going towards’ something else, perhaps a job at the UN. Where else for someone who truly believes he is smarter, more noble, more important, etc. that anyone else on the planet.
Bob
I’ve had the very same thought. The massive denial he indulges in is the indicator.
The bankster cabal and George Soros have not given him permission to resign nor have they authorized impeachment hearings. We’ll have to wait and see who they pick to run against him in 2012. I was glad they decided to muzzle Al gore and fire Olbermann. Even a MArxist can only take so much screeching. I do hope they settle the NFL labor strife soon!
It is necessary, however, to see Obama not only as a cause of the American malaise but also as an effect of a process of ongoing decay and a reflection of the majority who elected him.
Yes, he really is more symptom than cause.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for you?
Good article, thanks.
No. Don’t let him (and through him, them) off the hook.
Obama isn’t a victim of American malaise. He and his marxist conspirators have dedicated their lives to subverting the country for decades.
To say that he is an “effect” of something else is a profound misunderstanding of what has happened in the US.
Lenin wasn’t an “effect” of the czar’s mistakes either. Likewise, a person who murders for profit is not the “effect” of a system that made him greedy.
“Obama isn’t a victim of American malaise. He and his marxist conspirators have dedicated their lives to subverting the country for decades.”
They are the Politburo, plain and simple.
The groundwork for the emergence of this crowd of subversives in DC has been laid for a very long time…
Even pre-dating this ex-KGB guy’s time frame.
Well said Mark J. The ebb and flow of American politics is at the core of our existence as a nation. And to all of the naysayers and prophets of doom I say this: The United States of America has weathered far greater crises than the current administration. We have faced down and defeated internal strife and division and overwhelmed and thoroughly destroyed the Nazis and Imperial Japan, among many others. Why then do so many of you see such grave danger in a man who will serve his term (and perhaps another if the GOP cannot control its lunatic fringe) and leave our country as so many others have done? Why do you cease to believe in the strength of America when confronted by someone you find so distasteful? He is but a man among many who will be judged by history while this nation perseveres.
Well Jay, or should I call you Polly Anna? This administration has done something accomplished only once before, had an unemployment rat over 9% for two consecutive years! It has also accomplished a 32% increase in the national debt in that same period. It took George Bush two terms to do less than half that. Your history in broad strokes doesn’t cut it.
And how exactly does that rival the challenges this country has overcome? This country is stronger than you would ever admit. Disagree with the administration all you want but leave your pessimism out of it. Optimism and a can-do spirit has allowed this country to flourish when the odds were stacked against it too may times to wilt now.
The difference in history is the country was united. Fought the adversity you speak of as a common cause. The adversity we are confronted with now has many faces, but division will do nothing to solve that. How can you fight a battle if you disagree on who the enemy is? How to fight the battle? If there even is a battle to be fought?
Sadly, the left controls A)the media, B)Education, C) the White House. C knows how to use A to control the recipients of B (who have been dumbed down with relentless indoctrination so as to inhibit questioning A).
The civil war is the only thing remotely close. The causes that are being fought now are equally polarizing, but far broader in scope. The complexity of communication has changed the battlefield.
Spot on JKet. You nailed it. Rome’s enemy was within.
As long as both sides continue to stubbornly cling to the idea that the other side is to be demonized, eliminated, destroyed, etc., then there is no battle to be fought…we have all lost already. The comments on this article betray many on the right and left as perpetual projectors of stereotypes, misinformation and propaganda that comes not from reason and discourse but from demagogues, mistrust and hatred. It’s time to step up to the plate and act like adults and cease the name calling and idle pursuit of one conspiracy after another. The greatness of this nation is measured in the hearts, minds and souls of all of her people. This overwhelming push among some to eliminate the other, to stamp out dissent and to seek to discredit by any means necessary precludes dialogue and pushes us headlong into willful ignorance and defeatism. My father used to always tell us kids that a rush to judgment was wrong and that everyone was owed the benefit of a doubt. The benefit of believing that despite our differences we are all decent, caring and loving people. I’m glad he raised me that way and will never stop believing that about my fellow Americans. When is that last time you said that? MY Fellow Americans. Has a great ring to it, doesn’t it.
Obama is the only lifelong radical ideologue president in American history. He hasn’t changed a single view in his life.
Other than Obama, no president ever spent his entire life disguising his political views, but Obama has gone far beyond that. He has lied about or hidden every detail of his life. And by every, I mean every. Even when he attempts to persuade, he is invariably lying about his intentions. The only glimpses of truth are in rare off-the-cuff remarks in what he perceives to be safe settings. If not for those few instances, we would know nothing of his true views. His entire life is built on deceit.
An honest person who wants the best for America would not act in this manner. No other President has done anything similar, other than to protect national security. FDR is the closest, but FDR’s deceptions were in reaction to major personal or political events (his polio, the Great Depression, Fascist aggression) and not designed to overthrow American society. This is how we know that Obama is a profoundly evil man. Good people do not dedicate their lives to deceit.
I think most conservatives would welcome a frank debate about the issues the country faces. We believe that the people should decide their own fate. If the people were to decide that marxism is the correct path, then we would accept it, adjust to it, and continue to oppose it. But the one thing about Obama that we know for 100% certain is that he will never, NEVER freely debate his intentions. He knows he cannot win that debate. So instead, he has dedicated his life to subverting the principles that have created more wealth, freedom, and human dignity than any other society in history.
The only glimpses of truth are in rare off-the-cuff remarks in what he perceives to be safe settings.
Those brief, unscripted glimpses.
Like when Obama (in good community organizer spirit) spoke to Latinos on Univision about a week before last November’s election…
“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s going to be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.”
Or when he told the rich San Franciscans about all those poor bitter clingers in western Pennsylvania, observations he thought would never leave that room.
He’s terrified of speaking w/o the TOTUS lest he screw up the edifice, the façade, and tell the truth.
Another point about this.
The deceit that animates every Obama action and word says a lot about every one of his supporters.
Personally, I don’t think there are many honest liberals in this country, but with 300 million people there must be at least a couple million people who actually believe in traditional liberal thinking (as opposed to the vast majority who are simply grabbing all they can from other people).
You would think that any honest liberal would be curious about Obama, the many mysteries about his life and his plainly obvious and overt lying. My god, he told O’Reilly on national TV, with a straight face, that he hadn’t raised a single tax. It’s not like Obama is as slippery as Bubba. Most of his deceptions are designed for the lowest common denominator basement dweller liberal jerk-offs.
But there apparently isn’t a single liberal in the country who questions the Liar in any regard. What that tells me is that even the ones who pretend to be true believers in liberal thought are in fact, people willing to do anything to get their way.
The MSM, alleged guardians of liberty (but, in fact, filled with ignorant prétendeurs to coolness) are the worst.
My god, he told O’Reilly on national TV, with a straight face, that he hadn’t raised a single tax.
Obama’s Claim That He Did Not Raise Taxes Is Rejected As ‘Blatantly False’ by Taxpayer Watchdog
Proreason, You are 100% correct. Many say all politicians lie, it is like breathing to them. But this is cynicism at its worst. Our system relies on a competition of the airing of honest views and let the electorate decide whose ideas they prefer. Obama has been practicing a form of “stealth Socialism” to borrow a phrase from Stanley Kurtz for over 20 years. It is a strategy whose main tactic is deception from the underlying goals. This form of politics is dishonest to its very core and undermines our social contract requiring an honest debate. The truly frightening thing to see happening is the power of the image and the self-image completely overwhelming the reality of the devastation that is taking place. What Obama has demonstrated with both his campaign and his administration is that it matters not what policies you implement or laws you pass or your actual track record of achievement or lack thereof, to maintain mind control over the faithful, the image worshippers, and the self-gratifiers, but what you say and how you say it. Nevermind the complete lack of factual linkage between spoken word and deed. The man’s dishonesty is worn like a badge of honor amongst the fellow travelers and his success in attaining what he has proves the value of the tactics employed. Frightening.
I will never accept Marxism, socialism, or any form thereof.
Why wait until 2012 to deliver the Left’s next “crushing defeat”? I would submit their is ample evidence to build an impeachment case based on a clear and blatant disregard for the Constitution. And BHO’s agencies / czars will only continue to add more fodder to this case as time goes on. Today is Day 9 of the administration operating in contempt of Judge Vinson’s ruling …
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
The Republicans haven’t got another Reagan to run. The only thing they can hope for is another calamity like the ones Carter got us into. Democrats are almost never one term Presidents and that is because they always get four years of adoring support from the MSM as a run up to their re-elections. That has to be worth 20% of the voters in most elections. Obama is no different. In fact, the embarrassed MSM is looking for story lines to justify their original support of Obama, even as we write our rants in here. It is all about audience share, and we had better start pushing to be heard, as of yesterday. And don’t expect that Obama, with full support from the MSM, won’t shut down the internet in order to prevent us from having an audience. The collective already controls the MSM, education, public dialog, health care, welfare, the weather predictions(even though they are wrong most of the time)! It could very well be that the only recourse will someday be a violent revolt.
I would take this seriously if there was a shred of actual evidence to back up any of the claims made in the article. Since there isn’t, it goes under the category and onto the steaming-high pile of typical right-wing insanity.
It’s really amazing once you understand the pattern. Common single first name. Slurs and allegations. Almost never a datapoint or a fact.
These are the paid professional trolls who come to this site.
You would think they would occassionally adjust their pattern.
I think they get paid by the post rather than by the word. Otherwise they would ramble on spouting their gibberish.
Personal attacks, no facts. Typical leftie.
Obama is in full campaign mode. He even has a new set of robots hired to troll on these threads. This is a well financed bunch of collectivists.
Not one of the commenters including me nor the author of this essay nor anyone currently breathing knows what will happen either tomorrow or the presidential election 2012. We have hope and desires and a lot of expectation. But, the outcome rests completely with the intentions of God. He alone KNOWS the purpose and reason for the events that overwhelm us.
I prayed fervently on the eve of the 08 election that God not allow this gang of criminals to gain political power. To say I was disappointed would be a colossal under statement. Yet, after weeks of gloom and despair I began to see there may have been a purpose in the outcome . Could it be that this collection of incompetent idiots were going to self destruct just from the over reaching ignorance of their beliefs? Last falls sweeping mid terms gave us all a glimmer of real hope.
So to those who think this marionette in a long running puppet show will be propelled back into power; take a deep breath and crank up your propaganda mill . The truth will not be denied and your legions of professional liars will not prevail this time.
I firmly beleive that G-d will help those who help themselves. I think waiting for the oppostion to implode, is insane, magical thinking.
If we want to get rid of these usurpers, those who would see USA fall to get some chimera that exists in their minds— a PLAn and organization, a movement with charismatic leaders and strong ideals clearly stated will be the ONLY way out of thes mess. GET THE VOTES, work for it- “wishing and hoping” is THEIR schtick
I am amazed that so many people think that obama is the one calling the shots. He has demonstrated over and over again that he is not particularly gifted intellectually. I am not giving him a pass, he is a pathological liar and con artist.He is,however, merely the front man for the person or group who is in charge of the movement to take down this country.
“The worst possible president at the worst possible time.”
The worst possible presidents usually CREATE the worst possible times. Radicals worldwide are constantly testing the waters to see if the POTUS at the moment is a useful tool to legitimize themselves. All they need is a do-gooder, champion of the oppressed, socialist in the oval office and the revolution is underway.
You are brilliant!!!!!
“…surely the worst presidential blight to fall on the U.S. since the woeful Jimmy Carter and probably as far back as Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce or John Tyler — take your pick.”
May I add James Buchanan?
For all the commenters who bemoan the state of American education and the stupidity of the American voter, please remember that we’ve been here before. In 1916, the world was on fire, and we stayed out of it, leaving our allies out to dry — because we were “too proud to fight”. (We later waded in and redeemed ourselves, at tremendous cost.) It happened again in 1940, prompting Winston Churchill to say that Americans can always be counted upon to do the right thing… after they have exhausted every other alternative.
The voters have spoken, loud and clear. The 2010 elections should have been a wake-up call, but they were not. (How many Tea Partiers do you know who were mad as hell in 2010, but have calmed down since? They still have plenty to be mad about… and they vote.)
I see the next two years as a time of relative inaction domestically, when President Obama tries in vain to cling to his “accomplishments” of his first two years (and watches them erode, day by day). He will get increasingly bitter, and he’ll go on the attack, as he always has in the past with his domestic opponents. He will continue throwing allies under the bus, confident that he can always win them back when he needs them — and then will wonder why they stay home on Election Day.
He will do an awful lot of talking; it’s what he does best. The Democrats in 2012 will have a massive war chest, and we’ll be inundated with ads and posters and e-mails, all reminding us what a great job he’s done — and, inadvertently, reminding us how casual he can be with the truth. But the people are opening their eyes in increasing numbers… and, as another famous politician once said, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
We do need a Reagan to take over from him; right now we have Sarah Palin and the Seven Dwarfs. Time is running out for a clear-speaking Republican with fire in the belly to step up to the plate. But again, we’ve been here before. Keep the faith.
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
Well said, Daniel.
We need calm and articulate.
I tend towards anxiety, since it seems (here comes the cliché) we are genuinely at a crossroads in terms of the survival of the Republic.
Perry is addressing national issues; curious for a Texas governor who claims not to be interested. This tells me he senses what you say. Sarah and the 7 dwarfs, and Sarahs negatives are huge.
I haven’t been enthusiastic about Perry because a deep southerner will remind many of Dubya, unfairly but likely. Also, Perry has his share of issues and numerous political enemies in Texas.
But he stacks up pretty well against most of the field and he has one quality that all but Palin lack…charisma. (I’m excluding Christie and Rubio. If the 7 dwarfs fail and Palin and Perry choose not to run, we might have to roll the dice with Rubio.)
The great faschist autocrats of our day were proteges who never worked for a living. It took the USSR 70 years to come out from under socialism and its people continue to pay the price for it. China isn’t even there yet. May God help America.
Obama is the top part of the iceberg. Not the visible part of the iceberg. Plenty of others have to be purged as well, otherwise we will have to get used to a world where the US plays a smaller role than when the US was at its mightiest.
Worst President since GW Bush!
Hey BushLover let me do a correction for you!
Worst President since
GW Bushthe beginning of the country!By his actions over the last two years, President Obama has revealed himself to be that strangest of creatures, a Muslim Marxist. Those two influences are merging into a spiritual, cultural and political “perfect storm” in Egypt and the larger Middle East, and he is enabling them. Whether ir not he fully intends to or not (and I think he does), he is actively tearing down the U.S. and the U.K. to make way for sharia.
God help us!
Let’s hope the GOP in Iowa, New Hamphire and South Carolina do not pick a boring moderate white man like Romney and Huckabee to face Obama in 2012.
Carmelo, I agree with you on the poor quality of the candidates you mentioned. What I find offensive is your “white man” comment. Are you saying that since the country has elected a black “man”, the office can never revert to a white person? Do you not like white people? If your comment said “black” instead of “white”‘ I’m pretty sure you would be called a racist. My point is, why bring race into it at all?
Mark J at #27 wrote
“Too many cliches in this piece to take it seriously. Though I’m hardly an Obama supporter (I was at the original tea party in our area … before it was called a “tea party”) I’m put off by HuffPo mirror image articles like this, filled with dire warnings and hyperbole. Here’s the deal: America is what it has always been, a clash of ideas.”
It’s a problem for people with small, but intense knowledge bases. They become obsessed with some half truth, and all they look for or see is something which fits their immediate vision of how things are. If there is one conclusion you could draw from this article and most of the responders is that they have limited historical perspective on the scope of the things this nation has already struggled with, and survived. Forget the War of 1812 when our capital was evacuated and burned, forget the Civil War when we killed each other as we have at no other time for the better part of four years, forget the Great Depression, or the hundreds of thousands we lost in the World Wars, or Vietnam, when it really did seem that the center could not hold.
No, THIS is the worst ever. I realize that we can only live in the present moment, but the lack of perspective here is not only hyperbolic, but fanciful.
The GOP should have moved to impeach the president as soon as Obama has legitimized the muslim brotherhood.
Precious days are passing by and only Gingrich is raising hell about this decisive point.
When I say that the alliance of elitists, islamists and internationalist subversives (the “CHIMERA”) is very powerful…I mean VERY powerful. Just think about the fact that now Grover Norquist, a tool of the islamists, controls the CPAC !!!!
Things are going to get worse before they improve, we have a lot of work to do to keep the American People informed.
BHO won’t go, and in fact he will be re-elected. It’s part of the reparations the American (Democratic and Republican) establishment has been paying to blacks over the past half century, through affirmative action, PC and the like. The First Amendment, Liberty and Democracy is what we, the rest of us, have paid politically in this transaction.
Everyone knows you don’t “pass around” a bong. Stale smoke is the worst!! Fill your own hit and feed your own head. Conserve!
Everyone knows you don’t “pass around” a bong. Stale smoke is the worst!! Fill your own hit and feed your own head. Conserve! This is pajamas media, isn’t it?
Love this post. BRAVO!
From the author of “The User’s Guide to Freedom”, an activist’s manifesto.
http://blog.libertysoup.org/?ci=23323
Let me make this perfectly clear. The majority of the problems we face as a nation and as a people, are all directly related to the educational prowess/attainment of our populace – with a healthy dosage of political posturing from our mostly liberal media outlets who reinforce the ideals and visions held by the Dems/Progressives.
No one forced these people to elect a “do-nothing, been-nowhere, had-not-a-clue” candidate as to how most of America actually lived their daily lives, or what their real concerns were. There were no guns held up to voters heads. No strangleholds on their opinions or viewpoints. They did this to themselves.
The majority of the electorate had little in the way of problems with candidate Obama and what he held forth for the nation as a whole. They responded with characteristic emotion over “sayings” and “positive rhetorical flourishes” – most of which lacked any degree of substance or value to the average voter – outside of making them “feel good,” of course.
No, this guy was slick and just the right candidate for the right time in this country’s history. He merely said all the things a mostly disenfranchised electorate wanted to hear. And the rest, as they say, was history.
What we are today, is a nation of followers. A group that doesn’t want to be bothered with the small details. Neither still do we want to think for ourselves. We’re so busy with our lives, that we honestly want someone to do the thinking and the heavy lifting for us. We are dumbed down. Saddled with a bad economy that was brought to bear by both a RINO president and the Congress he lauded over. A teaching establishment that cares little for what Johnny and Susie take from class every day, as long as they themselves remain unionized, highly political, liberal (almost to the point of nonsensity), well-paid and well vacationed.
We are a shell of what made us great to start with.
One can lay the blame at the feet of the political class, knowing that it will make one feel better instantaneously. But the truth of the matter is that we have become far too lazy, self-absorbed and ignorant of much of what really matters in life to continue to make or see the gains our parents or grandparents did within their lifetimes.
The next chapter in this country’s history is up to US. Either embrace the dire need for educational and moral substance, or remain on the sidelines and watch the end of the greatest social experiment on Earth. Your call.
The Left/Fascists have been chased out of just about every nation of substantial means in the world save Venezuela, Cuba and other such idiotic places where soft minds are fertile for those ideas.
But we have never chased them, buried deep like ticks, out of America: education, Govt, Law, bureaucracies of Govt, UNIONS and entertainment.
This is their last stand, the time. Right here, right now, that fight is happening hidden in plain view.
They have no way out, nowhere else to go to milk and suck another hosts life’s blood.
That makes them desperate and dangerous. Lao Tse would prescribe to allow an exit for them, to weaken them by lessening their desperation.
The lead-up to November 2012 will be “interesting”…
Time to finish the job thru elections and shining light upon them and defunding them of our taxes.
Up for it?
Wow, this is just a funny website. Worst President of all time? I see most of you were alive during the Tyler administration for that amazing historical perspective. Now please continue with your amazing dialouge about the “left fascists” or commie Nazis or whatever amazing Glen Beck BS you can repeat like Obama reading a teleprompter. Get a life unemployed rejects of middle america.
Tsk. Tsk. Don’t sound too “civil” there. You sound “hateful”. Think maybe your words might incite some…violence? Be careful now.
What a well written, excellent article! You nailed it, David. I think they are afraid there will be riots if he is impeached or removed from office. Considering the times, it is far too serious to worry about such occurances. This man is destroying the world now, not just America, and I for one believe he is IN LEAGUE WITH RADICAL ISLAM. GOD help us.
This is quite simply the best article I’ve read on us.
Zero has got to go, the Republic must be restored.
Worst President ever. Carter was just stupid and misguided. He and no other President before the big O has ever been the enemy of this country.
What is sad is that, while Obama gets a free pass for all his many verbal mistakes, the liberals slaughtered Vice President Dan Quayle for misspelling Potato.
b, b, b but he can spell his name whatever his name is……..
True, for the most part. But the imminent national collapse theory and splitting up of the US into mini-republics deserves to be put in the same category as the mega-catastrophe movie “2012,” earning the same dismal rating. After Obama was elected most Americans probably thought this country was terminally dumbed down. We have since recovered and redeemed ourselves via the recent election and one can be optimistic about what it says. Yes, Obama has a chance to win next year if he junks Obamacare and nearly every other thing he has inflicted on us. But this only serves to illustrate that he actually has less than no realistic chance of being a two term president. For proof one need only read about the pain last year’s election has inflicted on the Left. They understand that it very likely spells political doom for Obama in 2012 and could be the beginning of the eventual demise of the Democratic Party as we have known it. Victor Davis Hanson does not need to be prescient to say that the next two years will be difficult. When all is said and done Obama will have been an exorbitantly steep price to pay for finding how deep the bottom really is.
This president will be judged by history and it will be bad. Stimulus? What was the purpose and why were there thousands and thousands of earmarks and only about 15% (no one knows the exact amount) for the private sector? Health Care Legislation? Huge overreach and did everything to raise the cost of care, not lower the cost. I read these few pages that are all about no reforms, more agencies for oversight, guarantees of coverage but not payment and community rating that does zippo to promote lower rates for young families. The people that praise this man need to read this with a CPA to help them like I did. Severability will be the undoing of health care to some plan that insures the un and under insured…Period. Financial Reform? You should really see who this benefits. The largest banks have more control over the fortunes of the small to medium banks that are still distressed but with more reporting to do then ever. Afghanistan? It ain’t over and won’t be with his rules of engagement. Iraq? Just wait. Mexico border? Only getting worse. Unemployment? Not getting any better. What did you expect from the his philosphy and the people he surrounds himself with?
I read all the comments here and agree with many of them. Most Americans need to Face the Truth – Obama was elected by a good portion of Americans, regardless of his ‘message’ because in many eyes he is a Black man.
Can I blame the American Blacks, a good portion who voted for ‘the man’ rather then the ‘message’ of the man? No, I cannot. This was ‘History’ in the making for American Blacks. The whole scene has been powerful. Something that many of our fellow Black Americans never thought would happen in their lifetime. As well as those of other orientations.
If anyone here ever watched the You Tube videos ‘How Obama got Elected’ they are truly ‘stunning’. Those on video are just a ‘smidge’ of the ‘thought process resonating’ in America. I cannot believe how many &%$&&%$ stupid people there are in America!! And how they get their ‘information’ not to mention how they ‘follow the crowd’ like sheep or cows to the slaughter…
There was a deluge of “buyers” remorse not far into Hopey-Changey Man’s days in office… The light bulb got replaced because it was pretty dim for quite awhile..
This is why it never ‘bothered’ me when Pelosi, Reid and their ilk made comments as to the “Stupid” or ‘dumb’ people ‘out there’ in America. Who cannot ‘help themselves’ they ‘need’ Government to do ‘these’ things for them.
Now, I “KNOW” they were not talking about ME (or anyone here). Rather, Pelosi and the ilk were speaking of the people who I mentioned in the Paragraph above and their ilk. Those who showed the world on video just how truly stupid and blatantly ignorant they are… Oh, and the MSM drilled it home… Pretty frightening stuff also so sad… for America.
I blame the Liberals! And Liberal thought process for the Dumbing down of American!! They are all “equally dumb” !
Let me be clear, I have nothing against Obama personally.
However, I would like the “honest” answer from those who voted for this man, for the Question: Is your life now better because of Obama? If so, how?
Enough Said.
God Bless.
“We always assume what has been will always be..” That from a book called A Distant Crossing. History provides no assurance that we will survive our own folly. We elect fiscal sociopaths, and stand back in wonder that they spend all the money in the piggy bank. We elevate many human train wrecks to “Senator” or “Congressman” or “Judge” and wonder why their policies defy common sense. “Any system created by man can be destroyed by man..” That’s from the book, too.
Bingo. Nail on head. Too many of the sleeping masses remain asleep, believing that the fall of America can’t happen just because it never has. Sometimes I think I really don’t even like too many Americans any more and it’s time to be a pioneer somewhere else. Sometimes I think of Alaska, the Last Frontier I think some call it.
David Solway – Thanks for the article. It makes me want to move to Canada. I want to address two related points you made.
Point 1
As David Horowitz laments, “we now live in a country so divided there are two Americas and two cultures which speak a different language.” The tensions tearing America apart today are so massive as to seem almost unbridgeable.
This fails to see two developments. First, It is only because some Americans sought national power, that the left turned viscous. This also fails to see, and I would like Mr Horowitz would know this, that the level of invective is a tactic of the left as well.
Point 2
The viciousness of rhetorical combat, the rage of slander and vituperation erupting in the national discourse — largely, though not exclusively, emanating from the emotional inferno of the left — transcend the connotation of that increasingly common epithet, “incivility.
The invective comes entirely from the left. The incivility is theirs. The amount of invective that that would constitute your “though not exclusively” is practically non existent. There is a tendency, I suppose from the laudable desire to be scrupulously fair, to say both sides do it. This is a serious mistake. Both sides do not do it. One side does. In addition the left uses invective to govern, whereas the rest of America might well have blown off steam, but still, not the same beast.
Maybe I should put it another way. I think you and I share the same disagreements with the left. True. But someone has to actually, really, slay the beast in the real world. Agreements and disagreements are words only.
Expect the left to get worse. Its similar to an exorcism. The beast will scream, disrupt, cry, plead, beg, appeal to your better side, seduce and kill.
I agree, its not pleasant. Be steadfast. We only want a materially prosperous and secure America living, under God, in a Conservative Constitutional Republic. No hatred here.
Excellent and well written article. I realize I’m not the most well read person in the world, but I had to resort to the dictionary about 5 or 6 times just to make it through. I can honestly say I’ve never even heard of the word “vituperation” and even though the word “chronosectomy” doesn’t even exist in the dictionary, I presume it’s the surgical removal of ones memory; but I could be wrong.
I too fear what damage has been done, and the further damage sure to be done to America and the World due to the leadership of this inexperienced bimbo.
What’s even more problematic is that he’s a good looking, likable, almost cool kinda’ guy which only makes matters worse. Voters that aren’t really paying attention to the political and world scenes are apt to vote for him again especially having the left wing MSM in his pocket.
Even given the November “shellacking” I believe the Republicans are going to have a very difficult time unseating this disaster. Palin, while I admire her conviction to exposing the incompetence of Obama and his jester court of Zars, and I agree with most of what she says, simply won’t cut it. The left wing media has been fairly successful at making her look like an idiot. I even find her voice irritating with her down-home, yokel, hillbilly, “git-r-done” kinda’ talk. Everybody love the “Cable Guy”, but they wouldn’t vote him for POTUS. I hope a prey that someone comes to the forefront to boot this guy out of office. Allen West has the balls, but I’m not sure if America is ready for 2 black presidents in a row.
The Huge DECEPTION. When running for president in our Free-World country of America, Obama claimed he was a Christian. The very day he took power, it became very clear that Obama’s sympathies, heart, and complete commitment were to global Islam, NOT America.
Obama communicated to the ummah – the global Muslim community from day one, that pleasing and empowering Islam was his top priority. Obama’s first official phone call was to PLO Muslim leader, Abbas. Immorally respected by past and present U.S. administrations, Muslim terrorist leader Abbas, financed the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Obama’s first interview was with Al-Arabiya, Muslim TV station.
In October, 2009, the Obama administration co-sponsored a UN resolution with Egypt to ban speech that defames religion (Islam). A massive attack that threatens the freedom and safety of every non-Muslim on earth.
Obama Bows low to Saudi King:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd425zfw5Ew&feature=related
In the Judeo-Christian nation that is America, President Obama makes no attempt to hide his hate for G-D, the Bible, Judaism and Christianity:
Obama Mocks & Attacks Jesus Christ And The Bible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi-V_ilJu0w&NR=1
Obama: “My Muslim Faith”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw
Obama: Muslim call to prayer one of the Prettiest Sounds on Earth
http://www.arkjournal.com/2008/06/obama-muslim-call-to-prayer-one-of.html
To defend a nation a la WWII, there was an America to defend; people inside of it who wanted freedom, believed in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Sorry, folks. We now have a nation not just divided by gay issues, abortion climate control. Those are small potatoes.
Unfortunately, this country is now divided at its foundation; whether we want a Republic as was instituted more than 200 years ago. Freedom of speech; the belief in the Bill of Rights are at issue, not just the meaning of words regarding the right to bear arms.
Do we want free market capitalism or socialism? Socialized medicine? Do we believe in the right to own property or should the state own the property? Do we believe in the tenets of Marxism? Redistribution of wealth or self reliance? The right to make as much money as one wants and keep it?
The sell out to socialism done by what once was a free press spread enough socialist, PC dogma that almost half the country truly believes in it; believes the ObamaCulture. Progressive socialism, Marxism or whatever you want to call it.
This is reality folks.
I hate to say it, but it needs to be said. Questions need to be asked.
Is the “United” part of the United States of America gone? If I blame the press and Barack Obama, a lot of people will agree; many will disagree, but I’m afraid that no longer matters.
I’m afraid we’ve experienced the transformation Obama kept on talking about, and we never really noticed. Street lights still blink green and red. Neighbors will say hi when they get their papers in the morning. There are still predictable tie ups on the Long Island Expressway. But something important’s been lost.
The lynchpins of our nation have been removed. Our basic beliefs. Lost. Half a nation isn’t a whole nation. Half a nation in 1861 couldn’t stand. It’s the same thing now I’m sorry to say.
This time, though, a civil war won’t heal the wounded countryside. There’s no Lincoln in the White House.
Lincoln said it.
A nation divided cannot stand.
I think Mr. Solway was right. Obama was in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Japan launched it sneak attack; when Muslims launched their sneak attack, there was a country worth defending; one united in freedom’s truth. That, I believe in no longer the case. The truth today is that there aren’t enough believers in the Constitution to constitute a nation.
If we were attacked tomorrow, the question in my mind would have to be, “is there anything left to defend?”
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Rachel -
We need to continue to ‘Push Back’. A defeatist attitude will not do. Chin up and get active! Keep Pushing Back it will be worth it in the end… I promise! AMERICA IS WORTH DEFENDING!! Get Active!
Solway is spot on when he points out that Obama is merely a symptom of the conditions that produced him. We have changed. But now the remaining America has begun to push back. Is it too late? I fear that it is. The only question is the nature of the endstate — some kind of ‘soft landing,’ or a singlularity of some kind.
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Noblesse Oblige – We need to continue to ‘Push Back’. A defeatist attitude will not do. Chin up and get active! Keep Pushing Back it will be worth it in the end… I promise!
I would cherish an opinion from Mr. Solway regarding the legitimacy of barry soetero even being qualified to hold office as POTUS.
The article is excellent. For some strange reason the unknown (sealed by executive order 113489) past of barry soetero is never explored. That in itself raises huge questions of WHY NOT? What is it that is so untouchable by a judge, Congressman, journalist, commentator (FOX news and other cable talk news outlets) that lurks in his past?
Will Barry even have a Presidential Library?
If so, what vital documents about Barry will it contain?
Why don’t you all just admit on this website that you demonize this President because your inner hate for the only President of color in our history is eating deep into your soul? America is no longer pure, right? Our fore-fathers’ Constitution has been tainted by a man of color in the highest office. Take a deep breath and let the closet bigot out. It’s ok. Blame him for every disaster you can think of. Your IQ knows no better. Blame him for starting the Iraq War. Blame him for the cause of this global recession. Heck, blame him for ever being born. But oh no, don’t ever question your conscience or look at yourselves in the mirror. It’s ok, he is the demon that has unpurified our country. He has tainted our every values. He is completely out to destroy this country. We were in much better times with George W. Bush and Barack Obama came in and brought our country down to the ground. Take a deep breath and let the closet bigot totally out. Your IQ knows no better. Gosh, don’t you all feel much better now?
You know the problem with you liberals is that you have such a deep seated hate of people that disagree with you that you lash out with the most vile thing you can think of to accuse your opponents. It is driven by hate pure and simple and it is called projection. You hate to such an extent that you are convinced that our side is just as deplorable and you thusly accuse us of precisely what ails you, irrational hatred. Take a hike dipsh*t and don’t come back until you’ve learned some manners.
I fixed your comment for you.
You know the problem with you far-right wingers is that you have such a deep seated hate of people that disagree with you that you lash out with the most vile thing you can think of to accuse your opponents. It is driven by hate pure and simple and it is called projection. You hate to such an extent that you are convinced that any other side is just as deplorable and you thusly accuse us of precisely what ails you, irrational hatred. Take a hike dipsh*t and don’t come back until you’ve learned some manners.
“Why don’t you all just admit on this website that you demonize this President because your inner hate for the only President of color in our history is eating deep into your soul?”
Because for the vast majority of us, it isn’t.
Why don’t YOU admit that he just might be the incompetent and corrupt boob that we all say that he is, and that furthermore the only reason that you are defending him is the color of his skin?
Do you realize what a chump you are being played for?
Do you think that because Obama is half-African that he has any kind of empathy or solidarity for African-Americans? I’ve got news for you, bunky, Obama’s is more related by bloodline to slaveOWNERS rather than to slaves.
Obama’s daddy came to the USA in Boeing 707 to attend college…not in the ‘tweendecks of a slave ship to work someone’s fields. Think about it.
Michelle Obama made over a quarter of a million dollars a year from the University of chicago Hospital to steer her husbands’ poorer, darker-skinned constituents AWAY from the “White Man’s Hospital” Emergency Room and into storefront quackery mills where they would receive sub-standard medical care.
But Obama cares about the American black people he claims to represent, huh?
One of Obama’s first acts was to cancel the school voucher system. This conservative initiative meant that hundreds of thousands of poor kids…some of them even with Black skin…would not be condemned to the decrepit and failed schools that decades of municipal DemocRat machine politics and Teachers’ Unions have made of them.
Couldn’t have THAT could we? The NEA and the NEA and the school boards with their cronies getting rich off the same Public Education income stream want their gravy-train sacrosanct, so “tough luck” for those kids down on the East side that they have to wear a bullet-prrof vest to walk to school, huh?
And note that the Obamas opted NOT to send THEIR little darlings to the DC Public School System, but rather sent them to be educated by the good White Quakers at Sidwell Friends School.
But Obama’s critics are the racists, right?
If you had bothered to do any honest research into the Alleged Hawaiian’s tenure in the Illinois State House, you might have been able to uncover that he sold his own urban Black underclass constituency out to Housing Voucher-financed “Privately-Owned Ghettoes” owned by the likes of Obama’s great and good friend Tony Rezko, (you didn’t know Tony? He financed the Obama’s Chicago squat…which was NOWHERE NEAR where his “peeps” lived).
To a racist schmuck like you, this qualifies as “keepin’ it REAL”, but to anyone with a scintilla of moral insight, this is rank hypocrisy.
But you just keep pointing your finger and calling the Alleged Hawaiian’s critics “racists”, because that is ALL YOU’VE GOT LEFT.
Know this, moonbat. Every time you lay that card on the table, you set race relations back in this country by years.
At this stage of the game, “The One” is going to be “The ONLY One”…for a good long time.
And the shame in that is there are some perfectly capable and competent Black people who might have made great Presidents and done wonderful things for this land and ALL of its people, but now they will likely never get the chance because of this clown and his poisonous hate-filled racist supporters…like you.
No-one sane is going to want to go through this kind of political shit again.
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 of 2009, not a grant that Bush previously gave, and programs like Cash For Clunkers which in fact did succeeded. The Big 3 automakers has shown huge profits for the first time in over 5 years and are paying the money back, 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 of 2009 to mortgage banks, raising a tax credit from $6,000 to just $8,000 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 12,251 and the NASDAQ is at 2,803 due to the Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, which the majority of the large mortgage banks are now paying back.
5) Got BP to commit to paying back $20 billion to all the devastated Gulf communities for the Gulf oil spill.
6) 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 automakers 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.
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE ACTIONS OF A SOCIALIST OR MARXIST?
Preach on, brother Rapture.
“…and programs like Cash For Clunkers which in fact did succeeded.”
Succeed at WHAT,exactly? From where I sit all Cash For Clunkers accomplished was to raise the price of a used car to a $4000 threshold.
And if it was such a glittering success, then why was the program ended?
The very fact that you would post such claptrap as an example of an Odministration policy that works is an indication of your profound self-delusion.
“People must realize this clearly, Obama took over the Presidency at a worse time than Reagan or Clinton did. ”
No, things were bad, and what’s more to the point, they still are bad, but we were nowhere near the armageddon that you would like to paint it as.
Not everyone is a card-carrying member of the O Cult of Personality, whose “Blame Bush” dogma is the creed that you effectively recited above.
It was long foreseen that the real estate bubble would burst,(remember minimum wage workers qualifying for multiple mortgages? (Google “Casey Serin” sometime and read his ongoing story of mortgage fraud).
The RE bubble began bursting in early 2007…just when the Pelosi Congressional soviet took office coincidentally.
That Obama and the Democratic Congress badly mishandled the economic recession with their absurd Porkulus bill is simply beyond debate.
(Building those municipal tennis courts in Virginia Beach didn’t lift us out of recession, did they?).
But frankly, seeing as I’m corresponding with someone who is so delusional that they are likely within hailing distance of being clinically insane, I realize that none of this will have the slightest impact on your highly subjective world-view.
Bilgeman,
Look in the mirror and you will find insanity. You conservatives are so quick to blame Obama for this stimilus and everything else that you could throw at him that you’re blinded by the fact that your lovely George Bush pushed a $700 billion stimilus just before he left office. The only difference was that Bush’s stimilus was a free-for-all grant whereas Obama’s stimilus was a loan that had to be paid back when these companies succeeded. Guess what? They are all paying back, from the car industry to the mortgage banks. This shows that they are succeeding but in your alternate reality, we have a demon at the highest office. Just stay in your alternate reality while the rest of us live in the normal reality.
Your comment is extremely offensive. Black people are BEAUTIFUL. My great sorrow that wonderful human rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is not alive. He believed in human rights for ALL people! He is one of my heroes! He would make the most wonderful president!
Slavery still exists in Muslim Sudan and Mauritania. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have walked in our city streets, demanding their freedom. What a great honor it would have been to have walked with this hero.
Linda Rivera,
Did you misinterpreted my post or do you live in an alternate reality? Or are you twisting things around? Whatever the case, wake up from your alternate reality.
Mr. Solway accurately describes our 21st century civil war, and we should be glad it has come to that. I have long feared we would go down without a fight, but, if a Canadian poet can see our conflict clearly, perhaps we Americans have a chance of seeing and engaging it, too.
It is the irony of ironies that a country doing its best to judge a man by the content of his character, and that elects Barack Obama commander and chief, is called racist.
That the most corrupt President in the history of the United States is Barack Obama makes it all the more bizarre.
That Barack Obama, bankrupt of patriotism, is out to bankrupt the United States of America; neuter our military and destroy every ideal, principle and value on which this great nation was founded is grounds for criminal indictment. Justice requires that one day Barack Obama be led out of the White House in hand cuffs.
I am waiting, hoping and praying, I live for that day.
Only problem is who replaces him? His VP would provide even more entertainment value, but I am hoping for competence, leadership and so on, none of which I have for for the last two years.
The most racist, corrupt administration in the history of the United States. It’s going to be the death of us.
Linda Rivera,
First off, I bet you spent countless hours watching and listening to the likes of Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, and let’s not forget our beloved Rush Limbaugh. What you failed to realize is that all the talking points you have mentioned on all of your posts have been implemented by past Presidents before Obama, with the exception of the Healthcare Reform. He is merely adding or amending legislations of the past and present. I got a hush hush for you, Linda. We have been financing the Middle East for ages now so keep this a secret between just you and me. It’s top secret. It started when the thing called the automobile became rampant in our modern society. Darn that automobile!
As for the mass borrowing, this concept has also been implemented by past and current Presidents for decades upon decades but let’s blame it all on Obama. Darn these Presidents for borrowing money to try to keep our economic structure from collapse. They should allow the American businesses and people to pick up their own pieces. We all know better. Darn Obama for doing what past Presidents have also done. He should’ve outdone all past Presidents and got us back on our feet by now. It was only a tiny itty bitty recession that we went through. The whole world is prosperous except for us now because of Obama. It’s over for America as we know it. Save yourselves, people!
David Solway is a vile liar and a FOX spokes-hole, that can’t tell the truth if his life depended on it. This article is full of lies and 1/2 truths FOX should be proud another batch of lies served up to the American people. It amazing how they appeal to the lowest common denominator.
So RP can you list this corruption you keep mentioning? You think the Bush’s that raped this country’s wealth and took way lots of our rights was better. You must be one of those people that FOX can fool all of the time. Lets see your examples and proof to back up your statements.
Bilgeman, the election of a black man has brought out the inner racist in the tea party group. They say he’s not born in America a lie. They say he’s a socialist another lie, they say he’s trying to take away their guns. another lie. They bombard everyone with email spreading lies about the president that a 5 year-old can disprove in 5 minutes. They send out jokes saying he’s acting “uppity”. He’s not putting his hand over his heart. He hates white people, now he’s not black enough, he’s turned his black on black people because he dared to move to a better neighborhood. What a terrible person he is to want better for his family. Isn’t that the American dream? Or is that only allowed for white people to move up not people of color? They complaining about the 1st lady. She spends too much on vacation. She spends too much on clothes, Her clothes aren’t fashionable enough. Her clothes look too shabby. Her ass isn’t nice enough. She doesn’t look white enough. She looks like a monkey… So Bilge you can say that it ain’t so but it is, and we all know it is. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Guess what its a duck and the tea baggers are a racist organization. Your trying to change the reality that is obvious for everyone to see. The sins of the GOP are too long to list here but don’t worry they will do it to us all again, but you’ll find some way to blame the colored guy for it. I believe in the almighty and I believe you and your ilk can’t lie to him like you do to yourself and the rest of us. We will see where you stand on judgment day. Between you and me I don’t think you’ll need a sweater where your going.
“Bilgeman, the election of a black man has brought out the inner racist in the tea party group.”
Race Card played for partisan purposes, that’s another year that I will not even consider an African-American candidate.
Keep talking, ace. You’re digging the bottom of the hole you are in quite nicely.
(You might want to spend your off-time with the Rosetta Stone Chinese language program, you’re likely to start hearing the tongue coming from below your dig-site soon).
SCARY……
Is this REALLY our AMERICA??????
Know the TRUTH about the Government Health Care Bill H.R.3200 – Key Points
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8
The highly destructive Cap and Trade. An inferior health care plan that no one wants and CANNOT afford to pay. The threat to jail and/or fine those who don’t purchase the government enforced plan.
Massive spending as if there is no tomorrow. Fighting wars we have no money for. Massive borrowing. The Massive giving away of Billions of dollars every year to other countries, including the oil-wealthy Middle East, Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Palestinian Authority organization who fill their war chests, build mansions and laugh all the way to the bank with free infidel money. Whilst in America, homeless shelters are filled to capacity; tent cities have sprung up all over the U.S. filled with desperate, jobless, homeless, NEGLECTED Americans.
Massive debt. The massive printing of paper money. There is no question that the total DESTRUCTION of America’s economy is planned. The results will be horrifying. In the once wealthy and great nation of America, millions of Americans will become destitute, hungry and homeless with no money or resources to help them.
OBAMA: DEBT UNSUSTAINABLE
Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’
By Roger Runningen and Hans Nichols
May 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”
Holders of U.S. debt will eventually “get tired” of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to increase, Obama said. “It will have a dampening effect on our economy.”…
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJsSb4qtILhg&refer=worldwide
Obama admits the terrible financial destruction wrought against Americans. WHY then DOES OBAMA NOT IMMEDIATELY REVERSE THIS TRAGEDY?
A major investor states America is going to reach Zimbabwe hyperinflation.
http://economyincrisis.org/articles/show/2942
Organic, non-gmo fruit and nut trees and berries must be planted in all of our nation’s cities’ and towns’ parks and wherever there is space to help the many millions of Americans who will soon be in a desperate struggle to survive.
Watch it. And weep for our great nation and people:
FALL Of The Republic – The Presidency Of Barack H Obama – The Full Movie HQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LPNRI_6T8&feature=player_embedded
Just to clarify, my comment on Black people is intended for #73 Rapture.
Linda Rivera,
First off, I bet you spent countless hours watching and listening to the likes of Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, and let’s not forget our beloved Rush Limbaugh. What you failed to realize is that all the talking points you have mentioned on all of your posts have been implemented by past Presidents before Obama, with the exception of the Healthcare Reform. He is merely adding or amending legislations of the past and present. I got a hush hush for you, Linda. We have been financing the Middle East for ages now so keep this a secret between just you and me. It’s top secret. It started when the thing called the automobile became rampant in our modern society. Darn that automobile!
As for the mass borrowing, this concept has also been implemented by past and current Presidents for decades upon decades but let’s blame it all on Obama. Darn these Presidents for borrowing money to try to keep our economic structure from collapse. They should allow the American businesses and people to pick up their own pieces. We all know better. Darn Obama for doing what past Presidents have also done. He should’ve outdone all past Presidents and got us back on our feet by now. It was only a tiny itty bitty recession that we went through. The whole world is prosperous except for us now because of Obama. It’s over for America as we know it. Save yourselves, people!
I do not know the work of the author of this interesting article, so i looked for more of his writing. Apparently he is a Canadian poet, so I think I was meant to take this article as a poem. OK, I see how it works that way. I also enjoyed his other poem, “There is probably no one more qualified for the White House than Sarah Palin.” I like how the concept of “see something, say something” has migrated to the publishing world.
I think that what Jay said earlier is worth repeating:
As long as both sides continue to stubbornly cling to the idea that the other side is to be demonized, eliminated, destroyed, etc., then there is no battle to be fought…we have all lost already. The comments on this article betray many on the right and left as perpetual projectors of stereotypes, misinformation and propaganda that comes not from reason and discourse but from demagogues, mistrust and hatred. It’s time to step up to the plate and act like adults and cease the name calling and idle pursuit of one conspiracy after another. The greatness of this nation is measured in the hearts, minds and souls of all of her people. This overwhelming push among some to eliminate the other, to stamp out dissent and to seek to discredit by any means necessary precludes dialogue and pushes us headlong into willful ignorance and defeatism. My father used to always tell us kids that a rush to judgment was wrong and that everyone was owed the benefit of a doubt. The benefit of believing that despite our differences we are all decent, caring and loving people. I’m glad he raised me that way and will never stop believing that about my fellow Americans. When is that last time you said that? MY Fellow Americans. Has a great ring to it, doesn’t it.
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Yeats had a couple lines in “The Second Coming” that have stuck with me. “The best lack all conviction; The worst are full of passionate intensity.”
Mostly I feel like I’m wasting my breath in this echo chamber given all of the galvanized attitudes.
David -
Were the US a Westminster Parliamentary type of Democracy – Obama would have been renting a Moving Truck last November. Dr. Shalit
Hopefully we can regain the “my fellow Americans” mindset. Right now, the “divide and conquer” strategy works well for the politicians. It is their route to more power over the country and it’s citizens. It benefits the political/bureaucratic establishment, who view it as in their own best interests. Bigger government serves their interests, not ours. It will be a long road back.
I don’t really care that Obamas’s grammer or spelling is bad. The fact that he is BAD bothers me. How a clown like him ever got in, I’ll never know. Well, not really. I think he was ramrodded in. Through intimidation and phoney votes. Plus, just dumb, ignorant and racist people. Yes, I said RACIST. I get a real kick out of blacks that claim whites are racist. How about all the Mexicans that hate blacks with a passion. I don’t hate them I just don’t like the bulk of their actions and non-action. They feel they have something coming. Nobody has any entitlements coming. We earn our way and it works. It’s like the one person says above, WE HAVE TO PUSH BACK. Maybe more than just push. Remember 1776? Well, it might take something like that again. I just hope Hispanics have learned a lesson and do not vote for Barry Soetoro Hussein, The Little Muslim, Non-American, Half-Breed, Fraud and LIAR. Oh, just so you know, I am Hispanic. Concerned AMERICAN, L. VELASCO