Fear and Shame on the Campaign Trail #4 — Arrested Development
How bad will it actually be if Barack Obama is reelected?
That was the question lurking over, under, and through Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie 2016: Obama’s America, which I saw today. (Capsule review: go.)
My guess is that it will be pretty bad. Maybe real bad.
But the worst of it won’t be the economy, as you would expect, although that’s likely to head south even more rapidly than it has been for the last few years, pushing us closer and closer to fiscal Armageddon.
It will be in the area of foreign policy. The world will go rudderless as America increasingly abandons its leadership position. Forget the clowns at the United Nations, forget even NATO, without the USA at the helm, the citizens of planet Earth are on their own. I suspect even Vladimir Putin is secretly concerned.
But not Barack Obama. As D’Souza convincingly shows us, he lives in a world deeply nostalgic for an anti-colonialism that was at its most popular somewhere around 1968 when Barack was seven.
I wasn’t, of course. As a college student then I shouted “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh” as loud as the next man, only I realized pretty quickly that the anti-colonialist Chairman Ho was just another communist despot who threw his opponents in forced labor camps when he didn’t shoot them.
The folks who surrounded the young Obama then, as D’Souza again convincingly shows us, remained on the other side. More than that, they promoted it. And those still around still promote it, overtly and covertly — a mass case of arrested development.
So that is what we see all around us now on the campaign trail, more even than fear, shame, and the usual loathing — arrested development. It accounts for the absolute glee expressed by liberal Democrats that some moronic Republican congressman from Missouri said something Neanderthal about rape. (Barbara Boxer practically had an orgasm.) It accounts for the relief, also seemingly quasi-orgasmic, from mainstream media outlets that they can devote themselves exclusively to this dim bulb’s utterances without having to spend a second more on the economic catastrophe that threatens to upend us all, including their children.
“How bad will it actually be if Barack Obama is reelected?”
What drives Obama is his inborn nature, which is similar to that of a Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, lit. “Vampire Squid from Hell”, ramming his blood funnel into every part of America to suck dry all remaining individual freedoms. His blood lust will not be satiated unless the United States Constitution, especially including it’s Bill of Rights, is a withered corpse. If this throwback fascist monstrosity wins reelection this November the mask will come completely off and he will go into a rabid freedom killing frenzy such as this country has never before even imagined.
Dial it down a notch.
The left is rabid, yes; demonizing bitter clingers who fail to worship at the altar of Hope and Change; but I understand that there have been thousands (maybe millions) rounds of hollow-point sold to military institutions such as the Social Security Administration….so maybe they just want to shoot pigeons off their roof, and the full metal-jackets were on back order from China.
Don’t make us sound more crazy than they are, as they roll on the ground and hug themselves over every mis-step we make.
You may be right, Sule… perhaps FeralCat should dial his or her rhetoric down a notch.
But, like a growing number of citizens in America, I fully understand FeralCat’s frustration… and concern for everyone’s future.
But that said, the truth about this community organizer must come out.
And Roger said it best. “Go.”
Dinesh D’Sousa’s “2016:Obama’s America” started with just a few screens across the country. Then simply by word of mouth, this documentary started attracting larger crowds and is opening in more locations.
Conservative author and columnist Thomas Sowell wrote that he had to drive 30 miles and sit in the balcony because of a full theater just to see it. As soon as I sign off here, me and the Mrs. are headed for a local screening.
Let’s really do a “word of mouth” on this one.
And keep passing the word.
Forget the danged movie. Use the ticket money to buy your own bullets. Leftists want to take all your stuff and make you a slave. And you’re gonna let ‘em if you lose this election? Man, Patrick Henry must be 9.7 on the Richter Scale today.
It opens in my little town tomorrow & I am going for sure. I was quite surprised when I found out it would be here
Yeah, it even showed up here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which is beyond the end of the world to most people. We went to the first showing yesterday. All I can say is, DON’T miss it! It really lays out what obama is up to, and rest assured, he’s up to no good.
We’re seeing “2016″ tomorrow and I’m glad it’s getting so much buzz, but I can’t shake the nagging suspicion that it’s not being seen by those who really need to. Nevertheless, I remain cautiously optimistic that enough Americans will have the good sense to give Obama the boot in November because the alternative is too frightening to contemplate.
For someone who has so carefully hidden his past, he’s been remarkably candid about his intentions, telling us he’ll shut down coal plants, “lead” from behind, cause the cost of energy to skyrocket, redistribute wealth, “go around” Congress whenever possible to implement his policies. So far, Obama’s implemented much of what he’s told us he would to the extent he can while being constrained by political necessity, but if he wins the White House for a second term all bets are off.
The failure to curtail Obama lies with the Republicans. They are toothless, apparently afraid someone will key their car (not an unrealistic assumption based on the left’s proclivity for such behavior). I contact my congressman with the issue of a run-away obama, and get pretty much drivel in response. I fear for this country after Nov 6 if that piece of ….. isn’t tossed. But then, there’s the lame duck which could be the revenge of the century, especially if Harry loses the Senate. It should be our goal to clear the thugs out, but also, buy your protection.
So you’re so damn smart, huh?
So are Germans.
So were Jewish Germans.
Still feel like you know it all, dolt?
What’s Mitt hiding? Well, we know some of it now. 950 pages will keep us all busy through the convention at least. That is if God doesn’t blow it away. Next will be Wikileaks for the tax returns.
The dots are beginning to connect …
http://gawker.com/5936394/
See, Cynical the troll knows how this game is played. So does the Weekly Standard:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/senator-famous-joking-about-rape-campaigns-obama-biden_650609.html
What’s Obama hiding in his college and professor records?
“The Washington Free Beacon” knows how to play the Obama campaign game too Cynical. They are writing about some Dems making war not only on women but also on children:
http://freebeacon.com/the-va-dems-against-mandatory-rape-sentences/
“950?”
That’s still about 1600 pages less that Obamacare.
The notion that Obama is an inborn vampire and fascist is exactly the kind of careless remark that discredits the Right in the eyes of any sensible person, whatever their political preferences. We do better to look at how individual action is restrained or encouraged by the institutions in which each of us navigates. FeralCat’s remark could be taken as racist, but I will confine my criticism to its hereditarian bias. I wrote about the teaching of class, race ad gender here, and recommend it strongly, especially as Alexander Saxton, my dissertation adviser at UCLA, has just died.
I left out the link to my blog: http://clarespark.com/2011/03/26/race-class-and-gender/.
In a multi-racial state, race is the only answer to every question. Anyone who doubts this should visit America some time. No, Mexifornia and *ew York City are not parts of America — look at the voting results there.
Clare, bless your little heart! Is there anything at all that you, the wisest woman in the world, have not written about? Are your multitudinous tomes copyrighted, or may we cheerfully plagiarize and purvey them? Most importantly, do you establish divine inspiration, thus absolute inerrancy for them, or does the himan factor mitigate their infallibility?
FeralCat may have been a bit over the top but I think it was clearly for the purpose of illustrating his point. I don’t know where you found racism in anything he said.
With the NFL season rapidly approaching while the baseball season continues I recently made this observation: Football people endlessly talk football, baseball people endlessly talk baseball and racists endlessly talk racism.
I recognize your extensive knowledge about many subjects but racism just doesn’t fly this time.
Racism will be over when racists stop seeing racism in EVERY issue.
What a bunch of nonsense and nincompoopery….
Here sir, is your tinfoil hat.
That was supposed to be a reply to FeralCat… no idea why it went here.
Who knew Matt Taibbi was a PJM reader??
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
– Matt Taibbi, “The Great American Bubble Machine,” Rolling Stone, April 5, 2010
Obama today is behaving like a tin horn dictator and the evidence is overwhelming but otherwise never given a second thought by the MSM. His use of exectuive orders, his noon-recess appointments, his unilateral waiving of provisions of laws that cannot be waived under the consitution, his provision of back door amnesty to illegals, his support for voter ID law suppression, and his general arrogance to white america while waging class warfare on almost every group of producing people in the USA.
In short this guy is saying catch me if you can because any legal action taken is now too late and will be NOT enforced by his stranglehold on the other perpettrator of our misery Eric the criminal Holder. So there you have it. If he is elected it will be more of the same. Hard to believe it could get worse but hey when you are trying to destroy a country like the USA that is a tall order. So much to do and so little time.
We could be in for the saddest four years in American history if this thug gets another term. Prepare to defend yourselves is all I can recommend at this point if we lose.
Even if we get Romney to help with the international situation. If the won loses in November, his supporters (i.e. Black Panthers, OWS crowd etc) are going to cause upheaval and civil strife because we tossed “their President” out on his ass.
Rule #1 for getting ready for Nov 7, buy more food, reload more ammo. It’s going to be a bad winter no matter who wins.
So is this why DHS is stockpiling rifle ammo and FEMA is stockpiling food rations according to underground sources?
The stories about federal agencies stockpiling ammo are not from ‘underground’ sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/17/agencies-tamp-down-speculation-over-hollow-point-ammo-purchases/
What I don’t understand is why no one is connecting this to Barry’s comments, early in his administration, about his wanting to organize a militia.
Is this guy scary or what?
More Foreign Policy chaos: very probably. O’bama stacked SCOTUS: a near certainty.
Remember the story about the Australian Ethicists advocating for post-birth abortion?
An Obama-stacked SCOTUS will make it law.
Also expect at least one (if not two) Islamic judge(s) to be rammed through into SCOTUS.
“Because of what the Democratic Party did to black people, he said.”
Really?
So, here we are today with a president that was raised under Islam as a Muslim, then for political convenience decided to spend the rest of his life as a member of the Black Liberation Theology church; both and all of which harbor intense hatred for America, Israel and Caucasians.. and I (we) are supposed to pay some sort of homage to the concept of what the Democrat Party did to black people??
What about the damage that has been done to America?? Obama wasted the black people before he took the oath of office. The man has trashed everything about America that he was able to lay hands on.
And yet now a few months before the general election America, especially the black people cannot applaud Obama enough.
The Democrat Party did not do anything to America that America didn’t want them to. They simply complied with what the public at large said that they wanted.
No more God. No more moral standards. No more pride in America.
“And yet now a few months before the general election America, especially the black people cannot applaud Obama enough.”
Blacks REALLY loved Biden’s “back in chains” comment which he stole right off Obama’s teleprompter. If you keep electing Democrats, stop whining when you get what you voted for…time after time after time after time.
Nothing Has Changed may be a “jock”, but is rather obviously not an Obama supporter. We agree that the electorate is at fault and at risk in re Obama. It seems incomprehensible to sane, literate, moral persons, american patriots, that such a traitorous, genocidal, ignorant, amoral promoter of sex perversion could weaken our defenses, betray our sovereignty, destroy our economy, defy our constitution and get away with it all, in full view of a cowardly and impotent congress. Why do we not hire Lee Kwan Yew to straighten out our mess- and restrict the franchise to those males over 35 with property, education and income and without immoral or criminal ties?
I’ve posted elsewhere a couple of times thoughts restricting the voting also; Lee Kwan Yew is too much for me, but I agree to the rest of your restrictions with the prominent INclusion of those young folks in our Military who’re posted into active combat zones.
They’ve committed themselves to laying down their lives for this country. Who else among any enfranchised group have committed themselves to that?
Michael Berman is not a liberal? What is his political philosophy then? sotto voce as if there were only two choices; liberal vs conservative.
– so what’s holding Howard back?
Excellent points. Yes, things can’t go on like THIS much longer.
One could always imagine someone as malignant as O becoming president, but the reality has been something of a shock. Ideologues as bad as Lenin admitted that communism doesn’t work. It took him a number of years for the truth to dawn, but to his credit it dawned. It doesn’t look like our own Leninist is ever going to see the light. I’ve always wondered why O and his kind chose to stay in this wicked country they hate so much. Maybe it’s because they know that being American and being vocally anti-American overseas gets you not only ignored real quick back in the good ole USA, but most foreigners tend to regard you with suspicion—since so many of them would immigrant here in a heartbeat.
If the country is sane it will give O a pink slip in November—I can’t imagine anyone deserving one more.
Pink slip is good; although I’d rather it be a summons.
It was pretty much a certainty that sooner or later we would elect a progressive leftist who really believes all the hogwash about America being the problem in the world, it being a homophobic, racist an near fascist country which oppresses other countries through economic imperialism, and so requires drastic change to make it acceptable to the left, and that he would set about to do that very thing. The odds have steadily improved for such an event through the waxing rolls of federal dependents.
Our only hope for salvaging some of our prosperity and influence is that the teeney boppers who elected this guy will wake up and notice that they don’t have jobs and not much prospect for any, that the trouble spots in the world all seem to be bubbling with renewed fury and that there is a monster lurking that will gobble up their health care.
Well, Romney’s not the strongest candidate we could have hoped for but maybe it will happen.
Think I’ll sit down and write another check.
OBAMA IS NOT LINCOLN. I DON’T THINK HE CAN FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE THE TIME.
My hope for change is that Obama is thrown out in November. I can’t even fathom ‘Four More Years’ because as Greg Gutfeld said: “You’ll wish you were dead after three.”
THE CURRENT STATE OF DHS: (Defending the Hope Strategy )
FAVORITE ANIMAL: The Scape Goat
STATE BIRD: The Ostrich
LARGEST RIVER: De Nile
STATE FLOWER: Stinkweed
STATE CAPITOL: Fuzzylogicstan
BORDERS: Insanity
CURRENCY: Political Correctness
LANGUAGE: Liberalish Jibberish
RELIGION: Globalism
MAIN OCCUPATION: Getting re-elected
LARGEST EXPORT: BS
LARGEST IMPORT: Tired, worn-out ideas from the ’30s
SIZE: Too big to succeed
STATE MOTTO: See Evil. Hear Evil. Speak Evil of Others.
Mike, if Oscumbag is re-elected, we will probably be dead, most of us anyway, three years from now. The announced goal of his CFR masters is reduction of world population by 85%, so lots of us are expendable.
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Obama just needs to fool most of the voters to win reelection. He has managed to fool some of the people all of the time, but those poor fools are pretty reliable Democrat voters anyway.
There are two reasons to believe that Obama could care less about American power if he’s re-elected. First, Obama could care less if in January of 2013 over half a trillion dollars is cut from the defense budget. People in the media keep focusing on what the ramifications would be if the Bush-era tax cuts are allowed to go away. What nobody seems to be talking about is what would happen if the Defense Department is allowed to wither away and die with the massive budget cuts that are due to kick in under the sequestration agreement made in 2011?
Our standing in the world would collapse and the newer, more dangerous, powers such as China or Iran would be happy to step in and take our place. We would be weaker than we were prior to World War II, a war we almost LOST right at the start because of how unprepared we were for war. Gutting our military may make socialists like Obama feel good, but in the long run it will cost American lives, because inevitably some country out there will think we’re nothing but a paper tiger and that there’s nothing to fear from us militarily. Hmmmm, who thought that same thing recently? Oh yes, his name was Osama bin Laden and his contempt for American military power gave him the courage to attack us on 9/11, resulting in the deaths of almost 3,000 innocent Americans. THAT is what weakness, or even the impression of weakness, gets you.
The other thing to remember is that when Obama, Pelosi, and Reid were putting the “stimulus” bill together, absolutely NO money was earmarked for defense as part of the stimulus. Not one cent. Much was made about giving money to policemen and firemen, people who protect this nation. Well, don’t our troops protect this nation too? Aren’t they just as important as firemen and policemen? Or does it have something to do with the fact that American troops do NOT have a union representing them, like firemen and policemen do? And what about the defense industry? Aren’t those jobs worth anything? If we keep people at Boeing employed, isn’t that just as good as keeping somebody at Solyndra employed? After all, a job is a job, whether it’s for the defense industry or not. Yet Obama, Pelosi, and Reid never considered defense industry jobs as legitimate jobs, preferring to dump the money into saving union jobs (such as teachers, police, and firemen). Now why would they do that? Could it be because unions traditionally support Democrats and the military does not? Because, if that’s the reason why stimulus money was not given to the military, especially while we had TWO active wars going in 2009, then Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are far more hateful people than even I could have imagined.
A second Obama term would bring us right back to 1940, the year before we were drawn into World War II and a year that saw most of Europe fall to the Nazis. Trust me, that is NOT a time we want to go back to.
Thank you… you shined the light on something I’d never considered before… the difference between military and police/fire/teachers and why one group gets “stimulus” money and the other does not: union vs non-union. Not one commentator I’ve read (and I read a LOT) has ever mentioned this.
I am all for DEFENSE… as in, doing what is necessary to remain prepared and vigilant for threats upon our own soil, either by direct invasion or indirect subversion. But what I STRONGY object to is our playing “world’s cop” and meddling in all manner of “conflicts” (they’re really not “wars” because the COngress have not authorised one of them since the Second German War some sixty years ago) all over this planet. We SHOULD cut our MILITARY budget to end that sort of insanity, and the never-ending one-upmanship resulting from it. Also, stop building a “homeland security” force of militarised local police/spy networks. THIS is costing billions, and is not only ineffective, but illegal, immoral, invasive, and threatening the peace and safety here at home (more people are killed by LEO per year in questionable or outright wrong circumstances than are by criminal gunfire). Build a strong DEFENSE force here at home, let cops go back to solving housebreakings and rapes, end the thought police and spy networks, quit meddling all over the planet and see how quickly we prosper again.
Oh, but that would anger those at the helm of the “military-industrial-security” complex. Indeed, it would…. a great idea.
Roger, you wrote, “and in another way it accounts for the almost rabid responses to the most banal of revelations — that Paul Ryan dated a black woman. (Who didn’t?) The reactionary liberal press doesn’t know how to wrap its hive mind around this one. It must be a trick. And even if it’s not, Ryan’s policies must still be anti-African American. Some wag at the Washington’s Post’s “The Root” blog went so crazy at the revelation as to compare Ryan to Strom Thurmond because the dead segregationist fathered a mixed-race daughter. Talk about arrested development.”
Arrested development indeed. Small children insist that reality is what they need it to be because they lack the coping skills necessary to deal with “what is” on an emotional level. “What is” at times becomes an existential threat to their identity and must be resisted. In small children this is normal. More and more often, and more and more venomously, the cultural left exhibits this same trait. It’s the battle of “How It Is vs. How I Wish It Were” which I discuss from a psychological boundaries perspective in this post…
http://stevenater.com/?p=51
…with reference to Monty Python’s “Parrot Sketch” and propose some ways to recognize and avoid this problem in one’s own thinking.
Somehow I don’t the “The Wag” at “The Root” will be interested. When I read her article the desperate need to re-confirm her preexisting worldview, regardless of contrary evidence, oozed out every letter. Why? Perhaps because her identity is based on the role of aggrieved minority and to lose the role is to lose her “self.” I can only speculate as to her motives, I don’t know her, but the “what is”/”what I wish” conflict is unmistakable.
Didn’t Obama’s mother date a black guy? So what?
Most of us can readily see the major disaster of Obama getting a second term to finish up with Pappa Bush and his wolf pack of elite’s New World Dis-Order.
What I am much more concerned about is if the checkers player in the White House decides to go toe to toe with Putin and partners on Syria or Iran.
That will take the economy,Akin and election off the grid and give the survivors other cataclysmic things to worry about.
Forget about October surprise because there are no words to explain what would happen to make the economy,Romney,Obama,Akin dust up and troubles irrelevant.
The saying ‘you ain’t seen nutthin yet comes to mind.’
I was just pondering this morning how the typical black or Hispanic parent would react to the fact that these doctorates in math education and science education are based on a willingness to push the idea that math and science are social constructs. Just human activity and a means of social interaction. Meaning, of course, that ONLY the kids whose parents remediate at home or recognize the nature of the problem and hire a tutor actually get to learn math and science as a body of knowledge developed by the greatest minds who ever lived.
And don’t get me started on reading or how Edward Said’s view of oppression and Ayers’ view that the transmission of knowledge is banking education and the indoctrination of an oppressive society have resulted in Obama rejecting education as a form of individual thinking. Instead, the Common Core implementation is based on the Marxist socio-cultural theory of interaction and dialogue. What a crock!
I know how education and the Building One America/regionalism movement Obama wants in a 2nd term relate. Tracking all that has created several posts but the most relevant one for what is coming in a 2nd term is this one:http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/keep-urban-schools-weak-to-force-economic-and-social-justice-then-make-the-suburbs-close-the-gap/
They have been community organizing the schools. My reading of the Open Government Action Plan Obama issued in 2011 is there is even more of that going on with any federal agency where it is possible. Moreover, one more vote and the Milliken ruling that ruled out busing in metro regions of different jurisdictions is gone. The era of busing will be back. I have read it in the ire that busing went away before the problem of integrating Latinos from inner cities could be addressed.
Frightening to contemplate everything that he and his advisors and acolytes want to transform.
Obama will lose because he made the mistake of making this election about race. They can try to put a lid on white beatings but in this case, word of mouth is unstoppable. White people are scared of blacks now more than they have been in years. They will not publicly say this but they will vote against it.
We are experiencing what happens when you let an amateur “run the show”. All theory, no experience and we have someone who is incapable of learning from their mistakes. They continue to blame anyone and everyone else for their lack of thinking beyond the next election.
It not only would be worse, it would be far, far worse.
The ONLY thing restraining Obama was his full time job of being reelected. The sixties hippies spent his first term building the bandana republic.
Asserting executive privilege where none existed, appointing czars and czarinas to circumvent legislative checks and balances, seizing whole industries in a wholesale takeover, shutting off our natural resources to strangle us with utility and gas prices, stealing our money for cronies in “green” companies, robbing Medicaid for his “redistribution” of health care, having his DOJ openly declare a racially biased platform of due process and equal protection. throwing open our borders, gutting our military, stacking the NLRB to sic on businesses, cheating the bankruptcy system to promote the Workers Party, assaulting organized religion through Sebelius’ departmental overreach, running guns to drug cartels to gin up a play against the 2nd amendment, dividing us as a nation by class, race and ethnicity at every turn.
Those were his action in his first term. Without the fear of losing, the pat on Medvedev’s knee said it all. Tell Vladimir it will be small c communist Christmas every day for the next four years.
There is no law he won’t break, no legislative process he won’t circumvent, no accountability in his pocket pal press, no divisive ploy he won’t promote, no restriction on his power.
Being a Fabian by nature, though…he won’t announce this and shove it in our faces most likely. The Soros brigade will want to stick the final sword in the bull and finish off America. Obama will let us bleed out instead.
Our side rarely marches and never riots. It won’t be the economy or foreign policy. It will be domestic policy that does us in. We will have had our own rulebook thrown out, our Constitution trampled and we will have had our system overloaded and collapsed by putting so many people onto dependency that it buckles under its own weight. We will have been Cloward-Pivened.
Intentionally.
And…we will surrender. And die, without a fight.
Geez, CFB. In your quest to be realistic, you manage to rob even the hardiest cynic of any hope.
Surely the American people are not so stupid as to reelect this charlatan & his band of Chicago thugs.
bobbcat
Any nation that could get duped into electing itself into a Bandana Republic, can get itself duped into continuing down that mass suicidal path.
Look at Europe. (but not for too long, it will burn your eyeballs)
Look at Cuba, Venezuela, the Middle East.
We are deteriorating at a rapid pace. The New World Order has spread like a plague.
Europe could afford to fritter away its existence as long as America kept it safe. When the Bandana Republic seized the reins of our government, there were no adults left except the Germans to keep Europe’s Animal House from double secret probation. The frat party that was Greece is now a vomitorium.
Spain, Italy, Portugal…and coming soon to a cesspool near you, France…are no longer economic weebles…once they would wobble but would not fall down, today, they are wholly unable to stand on their own two feet. (think Charlie Sheen/Lindsay Lohan dance marathon after a 36 hour binge)
If Europe succumbs and Roseanne Obamadana is reelected…”well…never mind” will be our mantra. The Middle East will not be contained. Obamargeddon.
We are staring into the abyss. And, as a nation…we somehow believe that jumping doesn’t seem like a terrible option. Thank your local Propaganda and Lies Ministry traitor for much of this. They have been promoting Obamargeddon as mind candy for the easily duped. Our mild protests are no more than a mere annoyance to be brushed away like a piece of lint.
So, it’s on to Obamargeddon…while the geddon is good.
We are not Europe, Cuba, Venezuela or the Middle East and none of those places have ever been us.
Thanks, cfb. You always get it right.
And just like Cubans we’ll all stand around muttering “what happened, how did it happen” — those that live through it, that is.
“….our Constitution trampled …”
If Obama is re-elected then the very first thing that must be done is quite obvious. Every non-conservative in the Republican Party leadership must be placed before a firing squad and (figuratively) shot…..on C-Span. The minute John Boehner mumbles “eh, duh, I think I can work with the president on a number of issues important to all Americans” he should be run out of town on a rail and replaced with Scott Walker or someone with a spine that knows what the words “articles of impeachment” (the means by which our Constitution provides for the handling of those who trample upon it) are all about. The ignorant and the ninnies among us and the media will squeal like stuck pigs but if we are going to lose America to the Marxists we must do it. It is said that Obama will trash the Constitution. He will only if we allow it. Sure, there will be howls of protest in which it is said that “the Republicans are only trying to undo what they couldn’t get at the polls” but so what? Will repeated attempts at impeachment result in removal from office? No, probably not, but it sure will bring the issue of the reason for our demise before the public who can decide for themselves if they want a constitutionally restrained government or a tyranny. Lacking this appropriate and constitutionally provided for remedy then it is we who the enablers of the trashing of the Constitution and might as well be its enemy.
Cfbleachers, I agree with your explication of the horrors imposed on us by Obama’s first term, but I disagree that Americans will give up so easily. The 50% of us who haven’t yet been co-opted and bribed with handouts will put up a fight. I just hope and pray we rally and engage by November 6th; it will be much harder, but not impossible, after that.
What will happen if ObamaRx gets a 2nd term?
We (the American people) had better stock up on personal lubricants, for we will be screwed. To death.
I have a better suggestion: turn ammunition into skill. Master the “rifleman’s quarter mile”. You’ll gain a whole new perspective.
Obama’s closest and most influential adviser is Valarie Jarrett, who like Obama, grew up in an islamic country. That country is Iran. She talked him out of attacking OBL on several occasions.
It would appear that Obama himself can be reasoned with, as long as Jarrett isn’t around. The problem is, she’s always around. And she apparently won’t allow anything bad to happen to Iran.
This is more of a problem than Obama himself. The problem with reelecting Obama is four more years of President Jarrett.
Born in the Great Depression, I witnessed the surge of Communist Power [c.1940] and its demise in the USSR [c.1990]. What a moment of hope for my generation that had been preoccupied by the Soviet threat for half a century. Anti communism , in many ways, defined our lives, including my own service in the sixties.
How could it be that two decades later we are facing the enemy again and he is us. A President imbued with a Marxist ideology, surrounded for a lifetime by unreconstructed Marxists, from his grandfather and Frank Marshall Davis, to his top advisors Axelrod and Jarrett [check out their families and mentors], and various professors along the way.
This shouldn’t be happening, but it is, due in large part to the ignorance of so many American voters, compounded by the complicity of academia and the media. Metaphors of the Trojan Horse come to mind. We thought we had defeated the Reds and they were already inside our walls, awaiting their moment.
Can we admit that McCarthy has been vindicated?
We can, but the Left never will. McCartheyism is right there beside Racism in their pantheon of compelling logical arguments.
VENONA says McCarthy was 100% correct about every single person he fingered, and VENONA IS official Russian history.
Amen!
This octogenarian Native Washingtonian has vivid memories of Pearl Harbor and our bristling patriotism of 1942 and onwards.
What has me shaking my head in wonderment is the shrugging passivity so apparent after that second enemy aerial attack on New York and Washington 11 September of 2001. The horror of that morning somehow did not gel. The fact that most of these recent attackers were Saudi Muslims, or I should mention “trans-national” Muslims, has greatly clouded the issue, as has our dependence on Saudi oil which no doubt prevented our severing of diplomatic relations with the Saudis….leaving the onus on them to re-establish their murky positions.
And, I can’t attach too much significance to President Bush visiting that prominent mosque on Massachusetts Ave…those were uprooting days and I trust that his sentiments of those hurried moments were well intended. I wish that instead somehow things were done differently. What were the “advisers” thinking, what rationalizations then were so different from 1942?
BUT…..in the decade since then we have now English as almost a second language in Northern Virginia-istan. We have a Saudi financed lobby group at Georgetown University inside the District Line in the guise of a Saudi provided “Chair” study group or some such…. of something or other…..all so nebulous and ecumenical. Other mosques appearing…..why can’t we openly recognize the very same Muslim enemy which repeatedly declares that they are are indeed at war against our America? How many more deaths at Muslim hands do we suffer?
I’m not advocating a repeat of Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order interning all of our resident Muslims….that simply would never work for a multitude of reasons.
Aye, there’s the stark contrast…..1942 versus 2001. We’ve since been submerged in syrupy, coagulating “political correctness”. It’s lethal, but we can’t seem to see it as such.
Our National Malaise.
An Obama win will mean that America has given up.
If that is the case, the world will be entering into a fragmented world order may be like the first half 20th century with WMD.
I suspect that the polls are overstating Obama electoral position, To paraphrase PJ O’Rourke, many Americans want to be perceived as high-minded (and that is what they are telling pollsters), but these high minded folk may not actually pull the lever for Obama.
Those of us who’ve raised kids know that most kids are pretty much who they’re going to be by six or eight years old. When Comrade Obama was six or eight years old, he was being raised by open communists in a Muslim country undergoing a seething communist inspired insurrection. He then spent the rest of his formative years in Hawaii, which by the ’70s was a groovy piece of ecotopia as divorced from reality as Berzerkley. From there he went into the unreality of elite academia and Blue city leftwing organizing. He has never spent a day of his life as a mainstream American. To the extent he knows anything about ordinary Americans, he is contemptuous of them as bitter clingers. How this man could be elected President eludes me.
That said, he is not nearly as dangerous as the people who put together the cabal that tanked the US economy and made his election a certainty. The Clintons would not have sheathed their swords and kissed the ring without a powerful threat having been made. I remain morally certain that McCain was threatened in some fashion in September of ’08 and purposely tanked his campaign. That would account for much of the tension between McCain and Palin adn the left’s violent attacks on her; she wasn’t in on the order to throw the election. Soros was the front man for the cabal and may have been its mastermind, but even he doesn’t have the kind of money to practically destroy the US economy through financial manipulation. The only people who do have that kind of money have lots of petrodollars.
If we only beat these people narrowly, they will not go gently. They may not even if soundly defeated. We’re living in interesting times. Invest in precious metals; brass and lead.
“How this man could be elected President eludes me.”
I wonder why, Art. After so many years of shoddy educational cirricula churning out droves of ignorant, gullible people who suck up programs like AI & Dancing With the Stars, it’s no small wonder to me they were able to serve up Obama the “great orator” & his platform of “hope & change” after everyone was treated to 8 years of nonstop pummeling of Bush. I don’t know what it’s going to take to change the level of stupidity & gullibility that fetters far too many American voters. I bristled when first hearing some people say that voting rights should be once again restricted to property owners only; now, I find it to be not such a bad idea that deserves serious consideration.
Going far back into our history, with each expansion of the franchise the Nation has turned further left. In the 19th Century the turn was to Populism and home-grown Progressivism. By the late 19th Century and through the 20th Century and to today, the turn has been through a more statist progressivism that turned more and more socialist; much of that turn coming on the heels of extending the franchise to women, many of whom will vote for perceived safety and security before all else. With the extention of suffrage to all Blacks in the ’60s, a sizable constituency became motivated only by what the political system would give to them. And finally with the extention to 18 yr. olds in the early ’70, we added the uninformed, uneducated, and inexperienced, not coincidentally this group constituted Comrade Obama’s second largest constituency. The were second only to single, divorced, or never married women.
Short of doing so in the aftermath of a successful revolution, I don’t see a way to reduce the franchise of specific groups. I do have a modest proposal: In order to become a registered voter, one must pass the same citizenship test given to naturalizing aliens seeking to become citizens. The only groups that discriminates against are the ignorant and lazy.
Those on our side need to figure out how to dominate in the realms of mass media & education. When people are armed with accurate information, they generally make the appropriate decisions.
And we need to refuse to accept the vocabulary the MSM uses to spin people. For example, we should never use the word “revenues” for TAXES. I want to throw us when Obama talks about “investing”. Call it SPENDING the people’s money. The term “Bush tax cut” should never be used; call it keeping rates where they are. Letting the tax cut expire should be called “raising taxes”. Finally, we should never refer to Republican/conservative leaning states as “Red” states. Who came up with that one anyway? What a crock. We know who the Reds are and it ain’t us.
More baffling was the otherwise intelligent people of mature age (educated at a time when education still meant something) who were taken in — who somehow saw wisdom and leadership and “a first-rate temperament” in someone who had not demonstrated any of those things. Some people in the smart set weren’t exactly in a giddy schoolgirl crush over Obama but were willing to ignore many red flags, refrain from asking serious questions, give him every benefit of the doubt, or pronounce doubt to be off-limits.
Why? One reason was racial condescension and a smug self-satisfaction in promoting the (half-)black guy over the white one. Another was the snobbery tied to a Harvard degree, despite the well-known racial double standards at the Ivies.
Another, often overlooked, was the sound of his voice — which I frankly detest, but it’s the kind of voice that people might hear as conveying wisdom, reason, authority, sophistication, etc., even when the words are stumbling, illiterate, nonsensical, ignorant, dishonest, punkish, malignant, etc. There are subliminal messages that go with the sound of a voice, and they are sometimes terribly misleading.
If only property owners were allowed to vote that would disenfranchise me and my husband, who are renters but also staunch Tea Party conservatives dedicated to removing Obama from the White House. I strongly doubt we are the only ones in our particular demographic thus inclined. Be mindful of the law of unintended consequences and remember the old adage “beware of what you wish for”.
Spot on in total and in detail. The amazing congruence of once in multiple generations catastophes in the fall of 2008 simply could not have happened without guiding hands. The stock market doesn’t crash, while the credit system crashes, while the price of oil crashes, while real estate crashes….all within 2 months of the most consequential election since 1860…all by themselves. That GROUP of economic catastrophes was induced to get obama elected. Doubtlessly Soros was involved, but as you say, even someone that evil and rich could not have done it alone. Oil trillions had to be involved. Soros or any band of leftist US traders could not have rocked a 15 trillion stock market day after day after day for two months. It came from the Middle East, and probably Russia, possibly China.
Who in the world has gained the most from obama? not Americans (40% decline in net worth on average); not minorites (higher unemployment than any other group; millions of illegals have returned to Mexico); not Wall Street (now all contributing to Romney); not Europe (teetering of the verge of collapse on multiple fronts); not Israel (isolated and alone); not young Americans (facing a debt that will take generations to repay). But hey, the Suadis are in great shape, the Muslim Brothrhood is ascendent, Putin is gaining strength, and China’s economy is roaring.
Follow the money.
Many good posts by you. This one in my opinion is 100% accurate.
I’ve always believed Obama wouldn’t have won the 2008 election, if it were not for the financial crisis.
I’ve also always believed that the short-selling that caused the stock market to crash was no different than a cyber attack.
BTW: If you ‘follow the money’, it usually leads back to Soros. Soros funds many shell organizations in an attempt to stay behind the scenes. Soros was heavily involved in the ‘Arab Spring’, especially in Egypt and Tunisia. He also, single-handedly has contributed more money to progressive/socialist causes than the top ten or twenty Republican contributors combined — and that includes contributors such as the Koch Bros or Sheldon Adelson, who get all the press. I highly recommend http://kleinonline.wnd.com/. Klein has consistently traced money back to progressive/socialist groups that then lead back to Soros. One of these groups, for example, wants to change the Constitution by 2020 and one of Obama’s former czars, Cass Sunstein, was also part of this group.
Here’s the greatest coincidence of all: The attack on Lehman Bros began Monday, start of day, Monday, Sept 9, 2008 (the feds took it over that following Saturday). Market volume FOR THE ENTIRE MARKET immediately jumped about 40% and held steady for about three months (which would be impossible to believe if it hadn’t happened). That chain of events started the crash and pummeled the finances of the country and busted millions of seniors and businesses. Today, still, the net worth of an average American is down 40%. Check out the current poverty stats btw.
What happened the day before the Lehman attack? that Sunday, a Gallup poll was leaked that had McCain/Palin in the lead for the very first time in the entire campaign season. Why? The Republican convention and Palin had just rocked the country, ending immediately before that Gallup poll was taken.
Sometimes, there are just too many coincidences to chalk it all up to fate.
All very interesting. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll ever know for sure what really happened.
On a different note, this is equally as scary. According to Aaron Klein: “In April 2005, Sunstein opened up a conference at Yale Law School entitled, “The Constitution in 2020,” which sought to change the nature and interpretation of the Constitution by that year. Sunstein was a founder of the movement.
That 2005 event was sponsored by George Soros’ Open Society Institute as well as by the Center for American Progress, which is led by John Podesta, who served as co-chair of Obama’s presidential transition team. Podesta’s Center is said to be highly influential in helping to craft White House policy.”
http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2012/08/04/is-this-why-sunstein-is-stepping-down-controversial-views-could-become-election-issue/
Soros was certainly part of the gang. He made his money by shorting currencies and then provoking crises – this is Soros’ stock in trade.
Soros was found guilty and fined in 2009 by Hungary for market manipulation during the 2008 meltdown. Surprising, huh?
In the US, the SEC began a general investigation in late 2008 into market activities during the prior several months. It wasn’t specificly about Soros. For some mysterious reason, the investigation quietly disappeared in early 2009.
I’ve heard, btw, that all but one member of Congess increased his or her net worth since 2007. They must be very good investors, beause the average American’s net worth has decreased by 40% during the same period. I guess being in Congress makes you so smart that you can overcome a 55% drop in the stock market and a 30%+ drop in real estate prices and still prosper. We’re lucky to have such smart people serving us.
Well I think the Michael Berman story highlights the worst of the worse. Yep, the economy will be bad, and yes, destoying the US’ power will possibly be even worse; but possibly worst of all is the deliberate effort to pit americans against americans, primarilly via accusations of racism. United we stand, divided we fall.
And I also believe it won’t necessarilly be a slow descent into national chaos on all of those fronts. The term fiscal cliff is apropos. It won’t really happen in January 2013, although that event is potentially bad enough. Nobody can really know when it will happen. But when it does happen, it can come very quickly. September 2008 is an example. Personally, I believe the crash was orchestrated by the left to get their guy elected, but we also now know that the CRP had been eroding the foundation of the entire credit system for more than a decade. The symptoms had been masked for years by the artificailly low fed funds rate and because our corrupt and evil government dictated that that Wall Street create derivatives to hide the problem, which Wall Street complied with willingly to reap short-term profits. All of that went pretty well for about a decade, until Lehman Bros went bust and then Soloman Bros was attacked by leftist financiers. Then, in the span of a few days, the whole ediface came crashing down.
The same thing can happen to the entire economy. It almost happened in 2008. It can happen in foreign affairs as well. For example, China could sieze Taiwan in a day, and declare a nuclear shield for Iran as well. In a single day, everything could change. And it could happen internally in America as well.
The marxists have primed the pump. All that is required is a crack in the wall.
The crash was causeby the voodoo economics of the keynesians since 1913.It results in continually diverting wealth to the CFR folks while impoverishing the rest of us. To the CFR 5/6ths of world population is expendable. You and I will be found amongst that number.Obama must be defeated, arrested, tried and executed for his crimes. Then all he has done must be undone and those who have supported him must be executed as traitors.
RUN, run like hell if you want anything left.
One thing I know for sure, if he is re-elected I will be out of every stock I own, quickly, very quickly, to protect my interests and after his back alley raping of the GM bond holders run from there as well.
Keep one thing in mind, all the accounting genius in the world can only squeeze the books for so long to show a profit, after that, everything begins to shrivel.
Watch very closely what is happening to GM already.
Interesting. The 1st part of the article is how we all love obama. How the world loves us more. A joke, I’m sure.
If it was happening under the Bush presidency, the opposition would be vociferous and widespread. But while there were 52 such strikes in Pakistan in eight years of Bush, there have been over 280 in three and a half years of Obama. Numbers have soared in Yemen and Somalia, too. Two months ago, former US President Jimmy Carter described drone attacks as a “widespread abuse of human rights” which “abets our enemies and alienates our friends”. He’s not wrong: the Pew Research Center found just 7 per cent of Pakistanis had a positive view of Obama, the same percentage as Bush had just before he left office.
But, in the West, Obama can get away with acts that Bush would rightly be pilloried for. Indeed, he seems to think it’s all a bit of a laugh: in 2010, he jokingly threatened the Jonas brothers with a Predator drone strike if they came near his daughters. How droll, Barack.
From The Independent 8/23/12
Of course not. The fiscons will never admit it, but the economy has NEVER been the most important thing.
It’s merely a symptom of matters of far greater importance.
And there is this to consider:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/will_obama_keep_power_by_any_means_necessary.html
Upon re-election, expect a flurry of EO’s imposing his ultimate vision upon America; and expect small pockets of resistance germinating within the heartland of America, a resistance that will nibble away at the Leviathan forcing it to take off the mask, and show its true face.
At that point, all Hell breaks loose!
Yes, Bear — I’m beginning to doubt more and more that O will go peacefully. He’s girding for war — not overseas but right here in the good ol’ US of A. Even if he does acquiesce to the voters’ will, imagine the damage he’ll try to do in the three months between election and inauguration. He’ll give “sabotage” a bad name.
Roger, please, in the name of all that is holy, never write “Barbara Boxer” and “orgasm” in the same sentence ever again. Please?
I think the premise of this article is correct. The economic consequences of this election, though important, are not the most serious. I have always felt that the impact of elections on the economy are overrated. Put another way, the economy exercises an influence on elections that overrates the importance of elections in fixing the economy. As large as the government has gotten in the last few years, the private sector is still by far the largest portion of the economy and it has its own sources of ups and downs. And the difference between Republicans and Democrats on economic policy is a small percentage of the actual percent of the federal budget.
What are the issues over which the election will make the greatest difference? It seems to me that they are:
1. Foreign Policy
2. Health care
3. Preferential Treatment
4. Immigration
5. Environmental extremism
All of these have economic consequences but they don’t affect the weekly reports on economic growth and unemployment percentages.
In foreign policy, the one thing that seems to characterize Obama’s actions is the desire to reduce the American footprint. It is strangely close to the isolationism of many conservatives. There is lots of talk of America being helpful but the reluctance to take sides and invest in foreign initiatives has encouraged a lot of aggressive actors to have bigger footprints on the international stage.
Healthcare is big. But even here there is perhaps a disconnect between the appearance of importance and the actual importance in terms of the election. The problems of entitlement expense and the growth of healthcare costs are not going away no matter who wins the election. If we want these benefits we are going to have to pay for them regardless of who wins the election. The costs will be shifted around a bit so it will impact some more than others but basically the problem is the same whether Democrats or Republicans win. In other words, if we don’t get our costs and benefits in line, whether we stick with Obamacare or go back to our old health care system, we will just be rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
The preferential treatment agenda has a huge impact. This is an issue where neither side opposes it but Republicans will not pursue it with the same relentlessness. The Department of Justice is now filled with people who believe that laws against discrimination apply only to discrimination against favored minorities. Whether this is interpretation of the fourteenth amendment, the enforcement of hate speech laws, investigating voting rights violations, or affirmative action in college admissions, the appointments of the Obama administration to the courts and the various government bureaucracies have been of people who follow the principle that anti-discrimination law is meant only to protect the favored classes.
On immigration, the Republicans and the Democrats are not that far apart but it is unlikely that a Republican administration would so aggressively pander to those who want no border enforcement.
As for the environment, the Obama administration can be reliably expected to tilt in the direction of environmental regulation and against economic growth. The most irrational actions of the present administration may be its policies of consistently impeding the development of domestic gas, coal and oil and the so far unsuccessful investment in the alternative fuels agenda including wind power, ethanol, solar power and electric cars.
At this point, I agree with Marcel in large measure. All of this is the result of a failure of values and a loss of morality, including pummeling Israel (Oslo, Road Map, Obama). The US no longer believes in its original values, and Barack Obama as President is the result. The US has a President who can’t remotely prove his qualifications for the job, and who has been proven (by his own lawyers) to have created a fake birth certificate.
In the sense that Marcel and other very religious people refer to, the US deserves Obama. But at the same time, I hope the American people will ‘undeserve’ him by voting for Romney. Yes, otherwise chaos will certainly ensue.
What is clear in all this is that there was only a deterioration from the Bush years. There was no sea change, because the corruption has been accelerating for years.
Bingo.
You may win an election by focusing on the economy, but you will never change a nation by focusing on the economy.
Tell that to von Hindenburg. I assure you that when the economy gets really, really bad, the country changes. And not in a good way.
True, but in this case the economic descent is clearly tied to electing an unqualified America-hater with socialist economic ideas that are a subset of his world-changing notions.
2016 just arrived here in West Michigan. It has one showing at one theater at 12:01 AM in our city of over 200,000. The MSM does not have an exclusive hold on obstructing other opinions.
Neither will be the worst. It will come from severe anti- business micromanagement and restrictions on our freedoms, giving the Libral elites virtually absolute control over our decision-making. It will be pulling a curtain over the greatest proof of man’s need and thirst for freedom with the same need of the few to possess control over people.
We The People have given away our freedoms.
I will agree that Europeans were often miserable colonialists. They left entire countries, hell, an entire subcontinent, without basics like potable water, sewage systems, educated populaces and indigenous personnel properly prepared to govern and lead.
But that does not describe the US, Mr. President. We are not colonialists. We go in reluctantly and stay for as brief a time as possible. And we leave everyone better off than we found them. Arrested development indeed.
I tell my wife about Obama, she says “I hate politics” and goes her merry little way thinking if she ignores the problem because she hates it everything will be just fine. Most American’s feel the same, the politician’s have worked hard to turn American’s off of politics so it’s the small organized groups of special interest that do the voting. This leads to an Obama or a carter and a Nixon.
Americans will sit fat dumb and happy ignoring politics until like the Jews of Europe in the 30′s they wake up on a train to nowhere for a shower and time in the ovens.
Americans say I don’t care who it is democrat or republican they are all alike, all liars and all sick with power and money and it’s perks. They say their votes don’t count and they will be just fine no matter who is in charge besides there are laws to protect them from government.
They say Obama cannot hurt me. They say it’s rhetoric and propaganda and blown up just to scare people into voting for one or the other who are both the same.
Americans just don’t give a crap about politics and politicians are the reason why! being comfortable and blissfully unaware of anything beyond Hollywood and the TV soccer games for the kids and having a good time.
Americans will vote for the gas chambers and all in ignorance and applaud the dictator that sends them there.
“Oh what a fine well dressed and articulate man Adolf Hitler is was the cry from Germans and many across the world, Oh what a fine man he is said the Jews.
It all led to the same place, a mass grave.
I had a couple Mexicans tell me, on separate occasions that no one screws over the Mexicans like another Mexican. She was referring to how lawyers, who are Mexican by heritage but are American citizens practicing law will screw over other Mexicans by dragging out the legal process of applying for green cards and citizenship into a multi-year, multi-thousand dollar spectacle of delays and “give me more money” and charging hundreds of dollars to fetch paperwork that is available for free from the government and so on. So from what I can extrapolate from your article is that a black liberal can screw over another black liberal like no one else can. I guess we can look to Obama and what has happened to employment of black youth to see his methods come to fruition.
How bad will it be? Read, ‘THE COMING: A TRUE STORY OF HORROR’ @ amazon.com I truly believe this will be our future.http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-True-Story-Horror/dp/1469955652/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345638923&sr=8-1&keywords=the+coming+a+true+story+of+horror
Amen to HEP-T! An electorate which prefers an Obama deserves destruction.The essential issue is the lack of morality in our electorate. Most decisions are not based on right or wrong, but on frivolous considerations.It may well be that we no longer have a sufficient number of moral persons with which to maintain a republic. Ah, well…
I have absolutely no understanding of why Obama is polling so well. The economy is a disaster; our ill-advised military adventure continues unabated in Afghanistan; I can’t think of a single campaign promise, other than health care reform, that has actually been accomplished; and, probably most importantly, the personal charm and optimism of the candidate has simply disappeared. By any objective measure, term #1 has been a complete disaster. He’s not even promising us anything this time around – I guess he’s learned his lesson. So how is it possible that term #2 may be right around the corner? Can anybody explain this to me? After the last 3 ½ years, Obama’s re-election should be the last of our worries, shouldn’t it?
Am I completely out of touch?
Thor,
How about the uncooperative GOP House of Reps? (ie JOB 1 is to prevent Obama’s reelection proclaimed the GOP leader McConnell.)
Actually OBAMA accomplished a lot:
Out of Iraq,
Found Bin Laden,
mitigated the worst financial crisis since 1929,
saved American jobs with TARP and the Economic Stimulus while banks stopped lending and American business sat on record profits.
Invested in Alternative Energy
Ended Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
and a lot more.
Can I play?
Out of Iraq:
And into Afghanistan, now possibly Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Djibouti, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, and Syria.
Found Bin Laden:
Navy SEAL Ben Smith “Mr. President, you did not kill Usama bin Laden. America did. The work that the American military has done killed Usama bin Laden. You did not.” In an OPSEC video, an array of retired CIA agents and other intelligence personnel suggest the administration has been leaking security details for political gain, and specifically criticize the president over his public handling of the bin Laden raid.
”Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him,“ Richard Miniter writes that Obama canceled the “kill” mission in January 2011, again in February, and a third time in March; Obama’s close adviser Valerie Jarrett persuaded him to hold off each time.
(mitigated) the worst financial crisis since 1929:
Must be a typo here, you misspelled, “instigated.”
saved American jobs with TARP and the Economic Stimulus while banks stopped lending and American business sat on record profits:
“State-by-state jobless rates for July, which showed that unemployment has risen in 44 of them a shocking statistic that the nightly news shows all but ignored. If you are looking for things to get better under Mr. Obama on the job front, forget it. The unemployment rate will stay above 8 percent for the rest of the year.”
invested in Alternative Energy:
“Solyndra built the facility on Kato Road with $528 million in federal stimulus loans – the FIRST such loans HANDED OUT by the OBAMA administration.”
“Four alternative energy businesses that received financing from the Department of Energy wound up filing for bankruptcy, but not before they gave executives generous bonuses.
(One) failure was EnerDel, maker of lithium-ion battery systems. It was given a $118.5 million energy grant. Its parent company Ener1 paid $725,000 in bonuses to three executives, including $450,000 to CEO Charles Gassenheimer. The company filed for bankruptcy. In September 2010, the White House had boasted that EnerDel was one of “100 Recovery Act Projects that are Changing America.”
ended don’t ask don’t tell:
“Many, if not most, opponents of DADT care less about risking our national security than they do about advancing the homosexual cause.”
Historically, military ‘tolerance’ doesn’t end well: Jeremiah 51:30: “(The) mightiest warriors no longer fight. They stay in their barracks, their courage gone. They have become like women. (As a consequence) invaders have burned the houses and broken down the city gates.”
and maybe a lot more:
There’s more? Please oh please, no.
The AMERICA most of you live in must be an awful place to inspire such negative comments.
The truth is AMERICA is still a great place- the land of opportunity. Yes times are tough for many, but most people don’t seem to be suffering.
How can so many of you want to cut spending except for the Military which already is 50% of the world’s spending on Military and Weapons?
Many complain that Obabma did too much in Libya, yet you call him weak. I don’t see you marching for war in Syria or Sudan or Palestine or IRAN or North Korea Where do you think the next ten trillion dollars for the next police action, so we can look tough, come from? ANSWER: They’re going to borrow it because you don’t want a tax increase. (Why won’t you insist on paying for your wars?)
If you kill Obamacare, Medicaid, Medicare, SocSec, Energy programs, Education, School Lunches,Unemployment benefits, Minimum wage, Economic Stimulus spending(which McCain admits creates jobs, and Ryan voted for) won’t we more like a 3rd world country?
If you take away women’s right to choose and limit their access to contraception aren’t you just the American Taliban?
The most incoherent rant of the week. Congrats.
“If you take away women’s right to choose and limit their access to contraception aren’t you just the American Taliban?”
That is breathtakingly stupid. A tour de force of fail. So… if mothers aren’t allowed to kill their own children we become like muslim islamists? Mission accomplished, you got your reaction.
“Life is complicated. I mean, I know we know some things for sure, like why Jesus put us here on Earth: to watch Here Comes Honey Boo Boo on a 50-inch TV screen. But what about the Chinese slaves who made the TV? What about carbon from the coal that generated the electricity? What about the Walmart where we bought it, where the workers don’t have health insurance? What about racism, or the oceans turning into nail polish remover? The grown-up answer is: identify problems scientifically, prioritize and solve. The Republican answer is: there isn’t a problem. And anyone who tells you different is a liar who hates America. We don’t have to make hard choices. We just have to ignore the science and the math — that’s why God gave us values.”
Dear Mr. Tiger…
Instead of your whacking the Wisest Woman in the World for chaining us up to the wall, jimmying our eyelids open with toothpicks, and then projecting her years of insufferable essay writing into our faces with giant screen display gizmos, you simply could post links to your own vast back catalogue of well-considered original writings and thus we might see for ourselves how they might stand up against hers in quality and relevance?
I know why D’Souza uses the term anti-colonialism, but surely he could have found another term. After all, I would think the average American’s first response to Obama being an anti-colonialist would be, great, isn’t every American.