Obama: Post-Racial, Post-Partisan, or Post-Sanity?
Partisan politics have not improved things since then for President Obama or his party. Are Americans just spoiled rotten and don’t know what’s best for them? For the current congressional campaign season, President Obama has had to secure the aid of his old nemesis, former President Clinton — who once blustered to friends that Senator Obama could “kiss my ass” in return for his support following the primary defeat of now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As a substitute for President Obama, seen by many members of his own party as a kiss of death on the campaign trail:
[Mr. Clinton] will shortly visit Arkansas, his native state, plus Kentucky and Florida in an effort to woo voters — particularly white Southerners, with whom Mr. Obama has never gelled. He will also be deployed in swing states such as New Hampshire that he won during his own presidential campaigns.
Despite trying to “kiss and make up” in order to grab a life jacket as the good ship Bipartisan flounders, President Obama’s chances of retaining a compliant majority in the House and a compliant filibuster proof super-majority in the Senate don’t seem great. If he does, the atmosphere will likely become even more partisan. However, should there be a lame duck Congress between the November congressional elections and the seating of a new Congress, things are likely to be even worse:
There have been signs in recent weeks that party leaders are planning an ambitious lame-duck session to muscle through bills in December they don’t want to defend before November. Retiring or defeated members of Congress would then be able to vote for sweeping legislation without any fear of voter retaliation.
The goodies probably on the lame duck agenda include card-check legislation, cap-and-tax legislation, and more:
Other lame-duck possibilities? Senate ratification of the New START nuclear treaty, a federally mandated universal voter registration system to override state laws, and a budget resolution to lock in increased agency spending.
Then there is pork. A Senate aide told me: “Some of the biggest porkers on both sides of the aisle are leaving office this year, and a lame-duck session would be their last hurrah for spending.” Likely suspects include key members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Congress’ “favor factory,” such as Pennsylvania Democrat Arlen Specter and Utah Republican Bob Bennett.
Voters don’t want it now? Tough! President Obama is “The Won”; lots of voters told him so in November of 2008 and it must be true! What they in their ignorance think they want won’t matter until 2012. An active lame duck Congress would be an orgiastic experience for President Obama and a nightmare for the rest of us. The orgiastic experience would be transitory, but the impact on the rest of us would be far more enduring.
So how about a post-sanity presidency? Albert Einstein is claimed to have said that insanity is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” That’s pretty much what we got with the various stimulus packages, health control legislation, and further attempts to tax us, control what we use as fuel, and even to tell us what and how much to eat. Creation and maintenance of personalized federal records of our obesity is coming, and the White House cook is now “senior policy adviser for health food initiatives.”
Caligula, a Roman emperor, was clearly nuts; he probably suffered from schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses. However:
[Those] who believe that Caligula was never mentally ill attribute his erratic behavior to being suddenly presented with immense responsibility, having had no previous experience with holding public office. They suggest that actions such as insisting on his deification and making his horse a senator stem from a wish to test the extent of his power and a petty vendetta against the Senate. But popular opinion still holds that no sane person could have done what Caligula did, and that it was by all accounts a relief when Claudius took over.
President Obama is almost certainly not insane as the term is used medically, rather than as a slang or colloquial expression. However, if snake oil czars are actually appointed, and if first Dog Bo is named White House congressional relations czar, we may have additional concerns. That sort of thing didn’t work out too well for Caligula and his horse.
Still, there is always hubris hope for President Obama. Lots of unemployment? Fix it by making it even more difficult and less rewarding for business to create jobs. Not enough money? No problem. Additional taxes can always provide more; the government creates prints all of the money so all of it obviously belongs to the government. Last year, President Obama argued:
For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase.
Now, the government’s taxing powers are claimed to justify mandatory health insurance and to be “even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.” That’s a pretty “sweeping” statement.
The beatings must continue until morale improves; besides, the beatings mean more government employees to administer and regulate the beatings which the “little people” of the country will feel but can’t comprehend. This stimulates employment and that must in and of itself be a good thing.
Three months is an infinity in news cycles, and Vice President Biden may be correct (isn’t he always?) in claiming that the losses are not “going to be bad at all.” Things may indeed get smoothed over temporarily between now and November, and former President Clinton — perhaps on his own behalf rather than President Obama’s — may possibly work the magic which President Obama himself has misplaced. A compliant congressional majority may yet endure.
Here are some things to do now. In November, vote. Please!
My greatest fear is that the Congress will pass a blanket amnesty bill before the elections. It will appear out of nowhere and it will be a done deal. They will set up centers to register the new citizens and they will be handing out voter registration cards to them at the same time. They will say that they don’t have the resources to provide photo ID’s, and they will make it illegal to forbid anyone from voting who has one of the instant paper ID’s, thus paving the way for voter fraud on a level previously undreamed of.
I hope I’m wrong.
That is a frightening scenario, and given the bizarrO world in which we live in today, one that is not very difficult to imagine.
It is astounding that a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law can sit there with a straight face and write this drivel!
Mr. Miller, you and your ilk are the ones who made certain that Mr. Obama was elected. You did this in spite of the fact that it would be virtually impossible for you; or any half baked human being not to know that Obama’s entire life consisted of extreme racism against the United States of America, white people and the Jews.
Likewise that the liberal Democrat Party has provided itself with 50-60 years straight of infinite self-gratification courtesy of racism.
I am sick of hearing about and reading this, “Oh, I had no idea that Obama was really something besides what I thought he was.. I’m so sorry that I can’t pee without sitting down” crap!
It is amazing is it not? “Typical white person” “bitterly clinging to God and guns” throwing grandma under the bus. The clues to Obama’s radical nature were all there for everyone to see. Sir Conan Doyle knew what he was doing when he wrote the “Purloined Letter”. Nothing is better hidden than what is in plain sight.
I would agree that it doesn’t take a genius to hide the truth from a large portion of our outcome based liberal educational system.
But, when it comes to people that have enjoyed the benefits of higher educational within the best learning institutions in the world I simply do not believe that they were fooled by Obama for even one second.
In fact, they are the ones that were playing Obama for a fool in that he is black and they did not think that he could match wits with them during the relatively short duration of his time as President.
Do you think that Senator Kennedy believed that Obama would one day be President when he spewed his, “My Gawd we have a black in the Senate that can actually articulate English as well as anyone can”? Kennedy went into the ground with well deserved humiliation consuming his pickled brain.
Alas, you won’t hear any speak of things this way. That would mean Obama has been right all along; that his hatred is justified as would be all of the damage he has and will cause to America.
Such is what 60+ years of unchallenged International Socialism mixed with liberal Democrats has produced for America to endure. No one even knew that radical Islam existed. I don’t think Sherlock Holmes and/or Einstein combined could figure this mess out.
That said, what does one suppose that Mr. Miller and those like him are going to come up with next?
Actually, Edgar Allan Poe wrote “the Purloined Letter”, not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. And the applicable Doyle story here is really “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”- about a scoundrel nobody in “polite society” wants to admit is, in fact, a scoundrel.
cheers
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Stick It..You hit the nail dead center. Great statement!
Blows my mind when people actually thought this communist agitator would be post racial. The best line I heard to describe him was written by a reader on a conservative site: MOST RACIAL. This thug whipped the race card out at every opportunity he could during the campaign. Oh yes, sometimes he thought he was being subtle and “humorous” but he wielded it nevertheless. Remember all those comments he made about having “a funny name”, and “I don’t look like all those Presidents on the dollar bills”? He counted on his race to yank him across the finish line. So much in fact that his obvious lack of qualifications was not thought to be a hindrance by his supporters or himself. The only qualification in his mind was that HE WAS OF THE “GOOD RACE” – Black. You know, the race that has morphed over time into the superior race, the race whose members can never do anything wrong, and who can be excused for fomenting and committing violence against any other. Oh yeah – he’s “special” all right. The wonder is that so many people rumbled this about this Marxist freak BEFORE he got into the WH, and so many of the “chattering class” who think they are far smarter than the rest of we serfs didn’t have a clue. El Presidente is a BLACK SUPREMACIST, a racial CHAUVINIST, and a RACIST. The signs were all there during the election for those who weren’t deluding themselves. It has gotten “crazy” like you said, because Obama is UNBALANCED.
A little satire from the American Thinker.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/does_barack_obama_have_a_learn.html
Might not be to far out.
Things may indeed get smoothed over temporarily between now and November, and former President Clinton — perhaps on his own behalf rather than President Obama’s — may possibly work the magic which President Obama himself has misplaced.
Then enough Americans are really stupid for falling for it a second time round.
I am praying for the ignorant to be wise at least one day this year. Election Day then they can go back to bliss for two years.
Stick It! and scythe say the things that those of us CAPABLE of being detached and aware observers did observe about Obama and about those who took him, in any way, as some good man or passable candidate for President. Further some of us (me) predicted that Obama would go crazy, or bug out. That was my read based on my applying Bowen’s Family Systems Theory as I understand it as a layman to the known circumstances of Obama’s upbringing and his parents and grandparents. In times of trouble Obama’s family pattern, both sides, is a history of running away or turning to alcohol.
I do not think Obama is sane, yet levels of insanity also surround Obama including much of Congress. These are insane times of insanities of legislation and DC bureaucracy.
“Insane Hussein” is my nickname for the guy in the White House. Indeed, we haven’t seen a President do this much insane stuff since FDR, but the compliant media is the key.
As for that racial healing canard, who would expect that a former community organizer whose specialty is agitating the underclass (read “minorities”) to take things from the overclass (read “whites”)? There was nothing in Obama’s background to suggest that he would be a “post-racial” President (a media caricature if there ever was one) and everything in his background to suggest that he would a racially divisive President. After all, you got a glimpse of this when he had to remind us that he didn’t look like all those “other guys on the dollar bills”. That was just an opening salvo into what we would expect of Obama.
At the very least, it should have been a huge red flag to all you Obama voters out there (aka, wishful thinkers) when Obama used his old, sick Grandma Toots (one of the few adults in his young life who actually stood by him, Mom & Dad were gone…) during his campaign to illustrate a really dumb point about whitey’s fear of the black man.
A community organizer (and small thinkers, like both Obamas) absolutely relies on agitation, keeping the community stirred up. Barack Obama will be spending the bulk of his time between now and November elections stirring up the crowd. At enormous taxpayer expense, I might add. $60,000/hour just to run AF1.
After November, he will be more or less in full time campaign mode.
I wonder what he thinks of the revelations in “wikileaks” documents ? For a long time, stories of Pakistan’s ISI helping AQ have been out there, while the Pakistanis accept enormous sums from America to combat AQ and support of the country in general.
Got a war to run ? Naw, giving speeches and flying around is ever so much more fun.
The basic problems are liberalism, ‘trust’ in Man and religious devotion to the ideas of the Founders/Constitution when (sadly) this sort of projected Constitutional reality/guideline has been objectively irrelevant for many decades.
The real answers lie in seeking truth, including in the spiritual aspect. This is not a one-stop instant-pudding suggestion, merely a general direction. People need to ask which values guide their daily lives, and how they act, if they expect honesty and decency of themselves – and others.
In the political realm, people must also apply these principles. This also means that very eloquent, wordy and intellectual souls who deny that BHO may simply be a fraud must look at themselves and decide whether they wish to deny certain truths about the corruption of the political system.
If you view “progressivism” as the mental disease it is, there should be no confusion. This administration is all about the insane urge to control others.
In every way.
By any means possible.
I agree President Obama only looks out for blacks and illegal Mexicans. As stated before, what about The Beer Summit, the filing against the new Arizona Law before he or his prejudiced Attorney General Eric Holder READ the law? Post Racial president? Anything but!!! No border fence or adequate border protection without amnesty first passed after an innocent rancher was killed on his own land in the crossfire; who else is getting in illegally here? Al Quaeda?? Plus, only when the Africans were killed by terrorists did this president dare to call them what they are- terrorists; before that they were just simple criminals!!
Forcing ahead with his progressive agenda, no matter what any American thinks, now that he fooled enough people to get elected! He doesn’t know how to solve any problems that come up, even the easier ones, because of his wanting to “spread the wealth” at any cost! Appointing a man to oversee all Medicare in a recess appointment who says on tape, he will ration health care with his eyes open OR closed is very scary!
“If life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.” A useful maxim, and maybe it’s time for conservatives to adopt it just now. The lemon in this case is the Dems’ favorite weapon, the race card.
When the Dems pull out the race card, they’re as good as saying, “We don’t care about employing ad hominems against you, we don’t care about making an accusation that associates you willy-nilly with the Nazis, we’re fighting with gloves off.” That’s the game, and up to now what have conservatives been doing but protesting it.
I say we stop protesting it. I say we join ‘em. Let’s not care about employing ad hominems either. Let’s take off the gloves.
I propose that each time a liberal calls a conservative, “racist,” answer back by calling him or her, “Marxist traitor.” In fact, in a lot of cases it totally true, and in the other cases it’s not far off (courtesy of the Mainstream Media, nearly all of today’s leftists hold Marxist opinions even if they don’t call themselves Marxists).
The lib will say, “Marxist traitor?! That’s over the top!” The reply should be, “And calling me a racist isn’t?”
Gloves off. For every “Racist!” raise them a “Marxist traitor!” Race Card trumped by the Red Card. On and on, relentlessly, until they get the idea and stop. If they have no problem associating us with the Nazis, let us have no problem associating them with the ideology that murdered a hundred million. Tit for tat, no wide berth given, no benefit of doubt to those who have fouled up the political debate beyond all recognition with their unrestrained use of the race card.
Ready to win?
Here’s my response to race-baiters:
“I’m sorry – your race card has been declined due to a lack of credibility in your ‘Race Advantage’ account. Please destroy all of the cards in your possession. New ones will not be re-issued on this account in your lifetime.”
Sends their heads spinning like Linda Blair in the Exorcist.
Yes, Obama is crazy, and he’s destroying our country. The trouble is, he knows that’s what he’s doing.
If the new Congress actually is a NEW Congress, one thing in its objectives should be to rescind all (of the expected crazy) legislation passed by a lame duck Congress. There is no bill that cannot be removed by subsequent law. In 1981-1988, we missed the chance to eliminate the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, but one might, in a paranoid fashion, presume that we were supposed miss this piece of integrity-diminishing garbage. Shall we not be so stupid this time?
For those of you who do not remember, the CRA of 1977 was the bill which initiated the sub-prime loan practices which built and led to the housing bubble development some 20 years later. Never presume that the seemingly innocuous bill of today does not have ramifications within the plans of some elements. The CRA made legal bad loan practices which were previously illegal under the Banking Code.
And it seemed like a nice thing of peanut-Carter to get the French to release the Iranian religious leader, right? And where are we today?
Short-sightedness can be a deadly disease.
I agree. However, unless the new congress gets a non-Democratic veto proof majority, I don’t see how it might happen.
That is right because the lefty crowd will go back to calling it the nuclear option and all of you, so called, conservative pundits will be left to wring your hands about being powerless to control the dialog and the Republicans will be toothless, again. Government is a big cancerous tumor. It has become malignant, and worse, the prognosis is terminal.
I wish I didn’t agree. Yes, the Republicans are very likely to be “toothless,” and without teeth there probably won’t be much they can or will chew on effectively; lots of bark but little bite. Given a conservative (and I don’t use the term as a synonym for Republican) congress, President Obama’s future agenda can to a limited extent be blocked, maybe. Without a veto proof conservative majority, the damage already done probably can’t be reversed until we have a new, non-Obama president, and I don’t mean Secretary Clinton.
You say, the “Government is a big cancerous tumor. It has become malignant, and worse, the prognosis is terminal.” I agree that it is a malignant cancerous tumor, but not that the prognosis is, yet, terminal. If it were, why bother? I think we do have to bother, and to continue to try to push things in a better direction.
I wrote here in March that the country has to get back to the basics and that the tea party movement shows a way to do so, unless taken over. There seem, to me at least, to be three basic tea party objectives: respect for the Constitution, America’s safety, and minimal governmental meddling. That’s it. If you have a moment, go to the linked article and find the links to LTC Allen West, Retired. He is running for the Congress in Florida and as far as I am concerned is the best of the lot.
Let’s assume that there is a conservative, but not veto proof, congress next year – and the tea leaves seem now to suggest it. That will be a good thing. However, as I argued in the article linked above,
Perhaps I see things through too rosy a lens, and my ability to foresee the future is between minimal and non-existent. Be that as it may, I retain hope for the future.
“Lots of bark but little bite.” Generally speaking there isn’t even much bite with these Republicans, and Anthony Codevilla explains quite well why this is the case in his American Spectator article about the “country class” and the “ruling class.”
Of one thing there can be little doubt: If power is not wrested from the hands of the “ruling class,” Jim Baker’s prognosis will prove correct.
bark that is
I hope to God that my prognosis is incorrect, but I am 58 years old and all I have ever seen is continuing growth and power of the federal bureaucracies, even during the Reagan years. It has reached the point where the bureaucrats don’t even give a damn who we elect, they will just continue on their march to be in control of everything, and or elected representatives will continue to allow it. If the ‘new conservative majority’ doesn’t nut up and start REDUCING the budgets and size of these bureaucracies the great American experiment in self government will be over. I will never give up hope for freedom, but I have decided that our government no longer has any intention of working to protect it. Maybe our children will drain the swamp. Oh yeah, the bureaucrats control their educations, my bad.
You know, I was just getting some relaxation going, some equanimity, a gentle hum of background calmness, and wham! I read this article. Now I’m extremely depressed, and considering some kind of therapy. If the Lame Duck Congress does what you suggest it might, pitchforks and hot tar would definitely be needed. Possibly armed revolution.
“Exit poll data in South Carolina indicates that Senator Obama won 78 percent of the black vote, but only 24 percent of the white vote.”
I love the way liberals think. 76% of the whites voting against Obama proves that they are racist. However 78% of blacks voting for him says nothing about blacks.
That is that “new math” they started teaching in the 70s.
Mark, look at those numbers again. Those were from the SC primary not the general election. Obama got three-fourths of the black vote and Hillary most of the rest. So you tell me, what does it say about black voters when they didn’t cast all their votes for Obama in the primary. In general elections, blacks vote upwards of 90% for democrats no matter what color they are. They don’t vote for Republicans no matter what color they are. If blacks voted for black candidates because the candidate was black, then Alan West of Florida (a black Republican) will have the black vote sewed up. But of course, we all know that won’t happen, right?
If your thesis be true, why did Barack Obama get 75% of the blacks to vote for him against a Democrat woman who’s views are nearly the same as his? Yes, blacks vote for Democrats in large numbers, but they vote for black Democrats in much larger numbers. And that is just racism.
Here is my take. Blacks vote for Democrats because Democrats pander to collectivist victim groups and blacks are the most collectivist and most see themselves as the biggest group of victims. Until either Democrats abandon collectivism or until blacks begin to see themselves as something more than victims, this situation won’t change. Therefore, this situation won’t change.
Sobama is already completely mad and being carefully rationed out to the media an public so that it isn’t obvious. He spends so much time on the golf course and on vacation as a way to keep him pliable for his handlers. Before long, the degree to which he’s gone insane will become clear and maybe even the degree to which he’s medicated (self-medicated or otherwise). That’s my opinion, and until I see the man do one thing that’s rational even from his own warped point of view, I’m sticking to it.
Regards
I was amazed at the number of people who were shocked:shocked I say; the first time he showed his true colors after the election. They did not see any of the things he did or said during the campaign. I read both his books, watched him talk, knew half of his radical friends from the far left from other issues they had worked on. I was in California in the 60s and was well aware of Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground, SDS, the Black Panthers, and Farrakhan. I can understand someone in their 30s not knowing this but why did they not just listen to him. the media, I refuse to use news media, was an arm of his campaign and has been for his Presidency as well. He told everyone what he was going to do and too many did not listen. 2012 can not get here soon enough.
Me, too, lee @19.
What it was with the young people (I have two of them myself) was basically voting for prom king. And it would be cool to have a black guy.
So they did.
When children are brainwashed, instead of educated, the resulting young adult population votes for prom King or Queen. It is the government owned schools which are run by labor unions. Just a guess. By extension, get ready for even more pathetic voting patterns by young people. It was the Democrats who changed the voting age to 18 and now we know why. It is for the same reason that they are pushing to give the vote to illegal aliens.
DM: Things are getting crazy.
Sobriety is returning to a nation which has been on a sixty year drunk,
culminating in a binge which emptied every bottle behind the bar;
It is late, the Parties are over, the morning-after hangover is going to be
a Brass-plated Bitch, followed by a walk in the cold and dark down the road
to Reform, dodging the random-walking drunks still sure there is another
bottle of Old Tax-and-Spend out there somewhere.
What we are experiencing is the ascendency of the highly irresponsible and unworkable liberal ideology placed in the hands of someone rigidly captured by a particularly extreme and inane version of it. This occurred because the romantic idea of a well-spoken black man as president captured the imagination of a few too many while blinding most to his history, his inexperience and his trumped up credentials. Unfortunately reality just isn’t cooperating and we have a mess.
“Obama: Post-Racial, Post-Partisan, or Post-Sanity?”
Answer: Post-America, Post-Constitutional, Post-Good = evil.
Then again, what is evil but a twisted mind and a twisted heart?
How about Neo-Stalinist?
Michelle Antoinette, the wife of the USA’s Lying Mohammedan BOGUS POTUS Barry/Barack , you can call me HUSSEIN now I won, Soetero/Obama the MOST Racial in American history,has just announced that she and ONE of the kids will go for ANOTHER extremely EXPENSIVE Holiday this time to SPAIN and she has already booked 30 ROOMS. This is on top of the Holiday they are ALREADY on and the FLORIDA Holiday they have just announced they will take while already ON Holiday.
Well lets just try and work it out hey 30 ROOMS.
I for Michelle Antoinette Obama, 1 for the kid, 1 for the dog, 1 for the dogs aide de camp ,1 each for the Security staff say 6 more thats ELEVEN including some obviously excessively stupid ones . Then 1 for her hairdresser, 1 for her valet,1 for daughters hairdresser and 1 for daughters valet how many is that now oh yeah 15 ok lets get even more RIDICULOUS 1 for her aide de camp 1 for her aide de camps aide de camp 1 for the daughters aide de camp and 1 for the daughters aide de camp’s aide de camp how many now 19 .
Well darned if I can get STUPID enough to get to 30 .
BTW did you read that Obambi SLAVE (if thats not a naughty word to use about a half cast) to the Opinion Polls has just announced ANOTHER Holiday to FLORIDA even while he is STILL on Holiday. This time because he has been getting flack in the Lame Stream Media for telling people to Holiday in the Gulf then going to MAINE himself.
So lets see he is ALREADY on Holiday and has just announced ANOTHER Holiday and Michelle Antoinette and daughter are going on their OWN Holiday to SPAIN.
WHEN DO THE OBAMAS EVER DO ANY WORK?????
The Eve of Arizona’s SB1070: The Eve of Destruction?
On the eve of implementation of SB1070, Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law, United States District Court Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee, issued her decision on the federal government’s suit seeking an injunction against or the voiding of SB1070.
In a nutshell, illegal aliens won, the American people lost, although we haven’t lost everything. The judge gutted the principal features of the law but allowed some provisions to stand.
Also, there will be appeals, first to Bolton to re-consider her decision and then probably to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which is the most liberal circuit court in the country but which has sided with Arizona on similar issues in the past.
There were high hopes that Judge Bolton would find for Arizona since she had voiced skepticism as to whether SB1070 actually does pre-empt federal immigration law and whether the feds should be trying to overturn Arizona’s right to be “inhospitable” to illegal aliens but politics eventually prevailed.
Okay, so what’s out and what’s still in? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1810)