2012
So we are seeing a glimpse of his reelection strategy. Obama by now knows that he cannot speak more than a few days without instinctively waging class warfare (fat cat, corporate jet owner, millionaires and billionaires, limb-lopping doctors, etc.) while offering some weird anti-capitalist rant (at some point we make enough money, now is not the time for profit, etc.). His habit is to polarize people by slurring them as “lazy” or “our enemies” or “stupidly” acting. Again, for most Americans, to listen to Barack Obama for a week is to grow uneasy with him.
But he can increasingly remain mute, while, on late Friday afternoons and amid raucous Republican infighting, dumping appointments and executive orders as a quiet leftist. Quite off the radar screen, Obama plans to let some detainees go from Guantanamo. He made recess appointments when Congress was not really in recess — of course, after, as a senator, once blasting George Bush for making real recess appointments. But who remembers anymore that the EPA is preparing to shut down power plants or Obama tabled a critical pipeline, as gas prices climb? Sometimes, as in the case of the Defense of Marriage Act, or the creditors of Chrysler, or immigration law, Obama simply decided that he, not the ratified law, was the ultimate adjudicator of right and wrong.
The new rope-a-dope Obama will avoid the sort of loud, messy lose/lose fight he had over the stimulus and Obamacare, and instead stay “presidential.” At some point even the American economy should start to rebound a little. And to the degree that Obama must speak to the public, it will be all hope and change banality — “working for you,” “restoring jobs,” “rebuilding the economy” — as well as his psychodramas about protecting the middle class from the Wall Street criminal class (perhaps like Jon Corzine, who gave $70,000 to Obama’s campaign and who cannot find over $1 billion of someone else’s lost money). Only the cranky and spiteful obstruct his labors by reminding Americans that the government now spends $1 trillion more per year than we did in 2008, the national debt is $4 trillion higher, we are borrowing almost $4 billion a day, and the average yearly unemployment rate of 2008 of 5.8% has skyrocketed under Obama’s to 9.6% in 2010. For Obama it is far better not to defend his record — as if it were not his record at all. Instead, loud illiberal boors have made all sorts of wild charges about supposed new debt and mythical high unemployment. What record? Do they mean Bush’s record from 2001 to November 2012? Conservatives rail at his vacations to Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard, and his 90 outings to the golf links. But Obama finally concluded that the more he is out of the public eye and mute, the more voters like the idea of Obama without having to suffer the reality of Obama.
Racists Everywhere
To point out the president’s abject hypocrisies — he once blasted annual deficit spending, increasing the national debt, recess appointments, Friday afternoon news dumping, signing statements, revolving door lobbyists, earmarks, Guantanamo, tribunals, renditions, predators, and the Patriot Act and then simply adopted them all when he found them either useful for his own purposes or supported by a majority of the electorate — is to be mean and, of course, racist. In December, Eric Holder blamed congressional concern over his subordinates’ selling of guns to cartel murderers as proof of racist antagonism against both himself and President Obama. This week, an Andrew Rosenthal in the New York Times alleged that the subtext of the recent Republican criticism was racial bias, given his own creative deconstruction of supposedly coded rhetoric.
Obama in the past lambasted the police and alleged serial racial stereotyping; he called for Latinos to punish shared enemies, and he made a video appealing to voters on the basis of race. Holder called the nation cowards, and referred to blacks as “my people” (imagine John Ashcroft using that tribal term). Justice Sotomayor saw herself as a “wise Latina.” Van Jones had a long history of racist diatribes — though not in league with the president’s own minister. I could go on, but you get the picture: race-based invective from the Obama administration is a cry of the heart in unguarded moments that reflects centuries of oppression; tough talk against the Obama administration is a code for ongoing racist hatred. The formula I guess is supposed to be a winning one: stir up race by false calls of racism and then blast others as racists for noting the new surreal emphasis on race.
It’s funny, but I read the Wall Street Journal this morning, and every single point you raise is addressed in either a news article or an editorial or op-ed. Your commentary makes it clear how utterly surreal this is becoming – the silence, the lack of outrage or even (aside from on PJM and Red State and some other right-wing sites) much reaction beyond a shrug (are Americans becoming Gallic in their expressive shrugs?) is hard to accept.
My stomach’s in a knot – I don’t think I’ve been this worried in a long time. Does this really translate as “Old King Log” and Obama getting another four years? Because that hardly bears thinking of.
– for reminding us of King Log. (“I, Claudius” has been in my thoughts lately.)
Odd. Me, too. I haven’t re-read it recently, either.
Talk about surreal, how does someone go to chicago, and set up shop claiming to be a “community organizer” and get kicked upstairs as Barry Davis did, in a place like chicago, where anyone trying to run for office can be stopped from doing so by any number of gate-keeper tactics? The release of “sealed” divorce records of an opponent, or being disqualified from being on the ballot at all, as Barry did to his incumbent rival Alice Palmer? And she the incumbent of his own party? To name but a few. There any number of city codes, restrictions and laws to snare anyone seeking office there- one becomes a political office player there by permission only from the chicago bosses.
The gods of chicago decide who will get a life in office, and so you are birthed into political office by secret committee. So you need a letter of introduction if you are an out-of-towner such as Barry, and he got one from his father, Frank Marshal Davis. Davis, already married to Helen Canfield, begat our Barry out of wedlock with teenager Stanley Ann Dunham in 1961, and Stanley, unable to marry Davis, had to get Barrack 0bama (Sr.) to come in and pretend to be father in order to get a “certificate of a live birth”- [as opposed to a "birth certificate", certified and recorded at the moment of birth] -issued many days or weeks after the birth itself. And for Barack Sr.’s trouble, he got married citizenship status to stay here in U.S. indefinitely, even though he bolted back to Kenya to fight the British, uninterested in a second hand bride once the ruse of parentage had scuttled any bastardship Barry and his mother would face.
Barry’s mother was an american citizen, his father was an american citizen, and he was born on american soil, so we need not a birth certificate, nor any “certificate of a live birth”, but DNA testing as his profile won’t match any tribe in east african Kenya, nor east africa at all, but will match the DNA profile of Frank Davis in particular, and west african descendants of Nigeria in general.
Agree completely, Barry Davis has been one lucky guy. Selected before he was elected.
You are completely off the subject, but I’m pleased to know that there are two or three of us who don’t believe a record of application for marriage license constitutes proof of paternity. Nobody seems to notice that “Pops” Davis, the lovable ILU rabble-rouser and pornographer, Gramps boozing buddy, was always hanging around, “mentoring.” Forget the birth certificate. A DNA sample will prove that he does not have a drop of Kenyan blood in him.
Jesus was of puzzling paternity too, but you don’t doubt that he was mankind’s ally.
The issue with the birth certificate still remains. To show it is a forgery is to show what BO is. How deep are the corruption and deceptions ?
Oh, btw, Professor? You have “limp-lopping”, which I actually fancy as a descriptor, and am going to borrow for a very rude joke, but I suspect you meant “limb”. Further, you have a wandering “more” here: “the government now spends more $1 trillion more per year than we did in 2008″.
I feel guilty proofing you.
Oh, and aren’t we up to about $6 trillion?
Read again, here’s the paste..
.”…. without instinctively waging class warfare (fat cat, corporate jet owner, millionaires and billionaires, limb-lopping doctors, etc.)”
Um. Yes. After I called it to VDH’s attention. You’ll also note the other correction was made, too. I know, I’m obnoxious and OCD. But I’m not delusional.
Does “anal-retentive” have a hyphen?
Would it kill you to say “sorry”, even in teeny-tiny type?
(That is a joke, Charlie, though I’ll admit to pouting just a little.)
I think Dianna must be a professional proofreader or could easily be one. That’s the only job in the world where you can’t make a mistake. One and done.
Actually, Dianna erred when she put the comma outside the quotation marks around “sorry” — single-character punctuation marks (such as ,) go inside quotation marks. Double-character punctuation marks (such as ;) go outside.
Thanks, Isotherm. I had forgotten that rule a long time ago and I have been frequently addlepated on my punctuation marks ever since. At my age, things like this begin to cause me concern.
As a retired teacher/writing lab tutor, I used to teach this rule by telling my students that the little-bitty period and comma had to go “inside” the quotation marks for protection while the big, strong colon and semicolon stood “outside” the quotation marks. The question mark and exclamation mark go either inside or outside depending on the sense of the sentence. I am constantly shocked at how many people do not know adhere to this rule when commenting online.
What are bloggers like Victor without proofreaders? They are merely the new, and better, mass media.
Dianna:
Re read it. VDH wrote “limb”. I don’t feel a bit guilty proofing you ;-)
proofreading is almost a lost art by now, and we need it.
Then why do it ?
Citizens! Hear Ye!
The most delicious and perfect example of terse, pithy writing which English students [and, hopefully, their professors] the world over should preserve:
….” The formula I guess is supposed to be a winning one: stir up race by false calls of racism and then blast others as racists for noting the new surreal emphasis on race.”
Thanks, again for “being here”, Dr Hanson.
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Addendum:
If we Americans ever, ever again elect someone to our Presidency on the basis of “charisma”, we deserve to have our a**** kicked, hard. Let Omama, et al, be a lesson to us all.
“Charisma” is a term that applies only to Democrats. Have you ever heard the MSM describe a conservative as “charismatic”? The best you will ever get from MSM sources is “some people find Gov. Palin (for example) to be charismatic” with the implication that “some people” are the rubes, hayseeds, racists, etc. of the world. More than likely we will be electing our presidents on the basis of “who can satisfy the most points on my laundry list of entitlements”, ala France. “Give me liberty or give me death” has long since morphed into “Gimme”. Charisma is simply a bonus.
Yooper- “Give me liberty or give me death” has long since morphed into “Gimme”.
This is classic- mind if I borrow it?
Yes, POTUS and his minions will play the race card over and over. See http://clarespark.com/2012/01/03/the-race-card/. What the public will not see are the tactics of primitivism and multiculturalism that are racialist. These are the only arrows in the Dems quiver.
I’m beginning to overhear “I’m sorry, your race card has been declined” more and more often these days.
Due to very insufficient funding!
Except Obama’s policy of doing nothing lets events drive him.
To disaster. Its pretty clear Iran wants a war with the US, object to survive, raise oil prices to about $200 a barrel, and close the Gulf. They can take heavy casualties to do it, and have the means. Obama? He’ll just drift.
And his “the tides of war are receding” words WILL get thrown back in his face. Same with North Korea, and Syria, whose only hope of regime survival is a regional war. No one wants to end up like Khadaffi. And Obama does not scare them, they feel he is on their side, not America’s, as part of the “hate Whitey” crowd.
Gasoline is likely to be up around $5, and possibly even $10 or more, by Summer. Weakness invites aggression, and Obama is weakness personified abroad. With that gas price rise, the economy will tank, corporations will dump millions of workers, there will be outright food riots and cities burning as the permanent underclass goes rampaging into the suburbs which WILL fight back. With the predictable aftermath of White suburban householders shooting Black invaders (on the Daily Mail front page today) — and to Obama’s disadvantage. All that “Black President” stuff is a disadvantage when its thugs invading your house.
Obama is your typical Black pol, who has been told he’s a genius all his life by White Liberals because he can refrain from speaking Ebonics for five minutes. He’s about as skilled at politics as say, Richard Nixon. Who remains the only President to ever resign. Even Clinton managed to avoid that one.
Obama is President. He has to deliver. At least deliver avoiding disaster. What worked in 2008 won’t in 2012. Simple as that. And disaster is coming like a freight train.
“Obama is your typical Black pol, who has been told he’s a genius all his life by White Liberals because he can refrain from speaking Ebonics for five minutes.”
Obama couldn’t speak “Ebonics” (or, more properly, Black Colloquial English) if his life depended on it. Seriously, would you please contrive not to sound like an idiot racist? Your point about who wafted (so far as we can tell) Obama through elite schools is well-taken, but Obama’s background at no point includes a speaker of “Ebonics”, and your statement reads as a wince-inducing piece of…I’m not sure what – plant? racist? simply foolish?
Sharpton, Jackson and most of the black politicians who are reprehensible race batters are exactly what Obama is. You and the many in this country have been suckered into this blind profiling of calling honest observers “racist” is appalling. The truth is most black politicians (and I make that distinction) are liars, cheats and thief’s.
In your rush to use the word “racist”, you missed his point. Try reading it again, for comprehension and not for indignation.
Try reading what I actually said. I was not saying whiskey is wrong in his point about who wafted the unaccomplished Obama along, just that I felt his phrasing read as less than well chosen.
Dianna, you wrote : Obama couldn’t speak “Ebonics” (or, more properly, Black Colloquial English) if his life depended on it.
You are mistaken. He can turn it on and off as needed. He can also turn on and off his Rev. Wright cadence. However, his usual Yogi Bear sounding speech is just as fatuous. ( or if you will fatuitous and flatuous )
Dianna, why do you even bother with these people? This website is little more than a haunted house and these commenters are its resident ghosts, mindlessly moaning the regurgitated hate that keeps them trapped here: SOOOOCIALISSSMMMM … BLAAAAAACK WEEEELFAAARE QUEEEENSSSS IN CAAAAADILLAAAAACSS …. TEEELEEEPROMPTERSSSS … eternally wandering decrepit corridors reaching for a nostalgic delusion they retain in their addled senile brains of a 1950s utopia that never actually existed. Get out of this backwards bigoted madhouse and join the living.
MwikeG: “…they[we] retain in their[our] addled senile brains of a 1950s utopia that never actually existed.”
Funny. I don’t recall reading here about the 50s as “utopia” unless it was preceded by a phrase like “Compared to today” and even then… I would like to see that. Got link?
Then what are you doing here?
Could this be the Stolen Teleprompter?
Nice smearing technique. Is that vasiline around the edges of the display?
I think Mike was educated to believe that slow talking individuals are unintelligent and that this is Mike’s substantive illustration of that idea in his mocking pen typing. He will eventually learn that his superiority complex will betray his lack of intellectual prowess more often than it reveals that of others. Or, it could just means he is still an adolescent. Which is it, Mike?
Mike, it is Detroit that is a haunted ghost town a mere shell of its former self. It is not a delusion that half the people there are illiterate which now puts Detroit on par with Egypt.
Relatively speaking, Detroit was a utopia, Jim Crow aside. There is no reason it had to sink into a swamp along with that Jim Crow. Nostalgia is one thing and being able to point at a successful point in history and the values that made it so another.
If whiskey is a racist, what does that make Harry “he doesn’t use that Negro dialect unless he wants to” Reid?
It makes him an unobservant fool and racist who assumes that dropped final G’s constitute a “negro dialect. “
For a nitpicker you’re not all that observant youself, and clearly a bit insecure…what rant will this comment inspire? One can only guess. His English isn’t all that smooth off teleprompter, Ebonics or not.
Yeah, the dropped “g” is another thing he and Sarah Palin have in common.
Listen to Obama speak to black crowds and tell me he is not using a dialect or accent. Dialects are not nuanced but are sometimes as simple as dropping gs.
Generally speaking if you learn Portugese in Rio de Janeiro people from Brazil will know it though you are using the exact same words. That “dialect” or accent is considered lazy compared to say, Sao Paulo.
Obama purposefully changes his dialect in front of black crowds and he is using the same words, pronounced differently.
That’s just the way them cowboy poets like Harry talk, all 50s like.
Dianna,
Lets not forget his recent speech he gave scolding the Congressional Black Congress, “Stop grumblin, stop cryin, stop complainin, put yo marchin shoes and and GET to work”, (hearty left handed slap on the lectern) and stalked off stage. It may not have been purely Eubonic, but his enunciations were definately intended for an ethnic audience crying for Obama to do more for “just us”.
Ebonic
definitely
Having been born [1931] during the Administration of Herbert Hoover, I’ve seen several of our Presidents in office while being old enough to read and somewhat grasp what was in the newspapers, I cannot remember, ever, such a disaster as our voters electing the likes of this Omama, Osama, Obama.
Our current President seems to be the nearest of them all to being a real fraud. But, so far, slippery enough to avoid Impeachment……and, to our knowledge, he’s not even had his “intern in the cloakroom moments”.
A commenter elsewhere has said something like, “Obama makes Carter look good.” Now, THAT’s saying something.
Its early and iv*e learned a lot already. Your use of the word “slippery” nails it!
I thought that adjective was reserved for Dick Nixon.
Fast and Furious is impeachment material.
Indefinite Detention is impeachment material – attempts to abrogate fundamental Anglo/Saxon rights of citizens
DoJ’s handling of reverse discrimination in its “discretion” in prosecuting voter rights cases should alone have pulled down the Attorney General
No, this administration is getting an white liberal guilt affirmative action press pass on much of its behavior.
If you think the marxists will let events drive them, you are a blind fool.
A key element of their campaign strategy is based on manipulating events, the data about the events, and the interpretation of the events and data.
The other elements, of course, are cheating, voter intimidation and demonization of their opponents.
“Obama is your typical Black pol, who has been told he’s a genius all his life by White Liberals because he can refrain from speaking Ebonics for five minutes.”
I’m confident that Comrade Obama could fake ebonics for more than five minutes if it suited his purposes. Comrade Obama is no “typical Black pol,” he’s a Red Diaper Baby raised to do what he’s doing, mentored, groomed, and sponsored to “pass” as something typical, Black, intellectual, liberal, other harmless creature, in American society. Obama is not harmless, he’s not a scammer like Jackson, Sharpton, or, yes, even Cain living on the projections of White liberals, he is a reasonably skilled apparachik who preys on those projections. Everytime someone like you dismisses him by comparing him to the poverty pimps and AA poster children, it make his job easier. Just remember, his job is the “fundamental transformation” of America, and so far he’s winning.
Well as far as transformation he has in fact transformed a lot of people to now purchase weapons and ammunition, I being one of them, just picked up a M&P40c this afternoon and it is my fifth pistol in the past 14 months, not to mention the hundreds of rounds of ammunition and high capacity magazines I have all loaded to the max!
To think for years I only carried a revolver and now I have several weapons nearby as well as the mags ready to go and spend at least 4 hours a week at the range shooting no less than 150 rounds per trip!
Can anyone out there please contribute some ammo for me to practice with? I would certainly appreciate it very much, email address upon request!
Not much of a pistol guy myself; carry one, a PPK, just to help me get back to the long gun I should have never let myself get separated from. My all-purpose defensive weapon is a Mossberg 500 12 ga. with a Knoxx stock and a light. I have a Saiga 12 ga. that I don’t want to describe in much detail and a “slightly” modified Ruger Mini-14 should there be a zombie attack or some need to work at a longer range. And a few other odds and ends and the usual assortment of .22s. Oh, and I invest heavily in precious metals; brass and lead.
O never actually governs. Adding the time he spends preparing speeches,traveling to speeches, giving speeches, and there is barely time to sleep, eat, and golf.Unfortunately, the incompetent GOP has decided to fund his reelection with our grandchildren’s money. In 08,the Democratic debates showed message discipline while this year the GOP debates reveal candidates more interested in self-promotion than conservative principles.Clearly, none read conservative blogs.
He isn’t supposed to govern.
His role, the one he trained his entire life to fill, is to be the front-man liar. He probably was also slated to be the salesman in chief, but he is obviously a horrible failure at that. But he is an even better liar than they could have possibly imagined. Only a psychopath can be that good at it. Only a psychopath can say absolutely anything with complete conviction. I also give him credit for mastering the dozens, perhaps hundreds, of techiniques to twist the truth. This guy is truly a genius when it comes to standing in front of the world and lying through his teeth.
He gets away with the lying due to the MSM’s incompetence with the truth. Liars protecting liars.
Yes he’s good at lying. Looks us right in the eye when he does it.
I hope you have or will read, “How Do You Kill 11,000,000 People” by Andy Andrews. O’s lying is critical to his purpose. Obama being the liar that he is for the purpose he has declared may be the most evil man of our time. A liar to the extent Obama is at the head of our government is an extremely serious matter and we have to handle it. Stopping the lying of our leaders is something that must come to an end. How to do that may be the dominant question of our next ten years.
The only way a complete FAILURE like Obambi should be able to be re-elected is if the American public are as stupid, gullible, racist and naive as they were to elect him last time. Trouble is it looks like they are.
Well, you have pretty well nailed his re-election strategy.
See my other posts for the tactics they will use.
Future Supreme Court appointments are enough of a reason alone to re-elect President Obama. Hopefully to turn this religious gun-loving corporatist nation around and headed in a different direction.
LOL, that was funny. Stop it- you’re killin’ me!
“Sometimes, as in the case of the Defense of Marriage Act, or the creditors of Chrysler, or immigration law, Obama simply decided that he, not the ratified law, was the ultimate adjudicator of right and wrong.”
And that’s what is so scary about this guy. He really thinks he IS the messiah, or the grand leader of the far left who doesn’t have to “trouble” himself with little details, like Congress. I was always taught in school when I was a kid that we had a system of checks and balances in this country, where one branch of government prevented the other from gaining all the power. Well, when the president can basically do whatever he wants, such as go to war with Libya, and not get the approval of Congress, what does that make him? Well a liberal, of course, becaue they always seem to know, just know, what’s best for us. No need to trouble themselves with petty things like “advise and consent,” nope, they know what needs to be done for us and they will just do it.
Oh, and on the few occasions they are defeated by Congress, no matter. They will have their own judges legislate from the bench, don’t ch’ya know. It just seems that they can do everything EXCEPT actually get a law through Congress in a legal way. Heck, even Obamacare had to be rammed through Congress on a technicality in the Senate.
No, liberals actually fear the people, that’s why they have to resort to tricks and tyrany to force their agenda on us. Time to stop this. Time to vote Republicans into office in 2012. Time to take back the White House AND Congress and maybe, just maybe, we can undo all the damage that has been done by these power-hungry mobsters. But, as usual, it’s up to us to make that difference, to actually get organized to defeat these people. Because, like labor union, once they’re in power, it’s almost impossible to get rid of them. But stop them we must, or else the America I knew growing up will look more like Greece than the United States.
See my response to Art Chance and make that a ditto!
Good summary. The only thing you forgot to mention was the Republican Establishment, including magazines, deciding that Mitt Romney was the candidate before any votes were cast, and also deciding that Mitt Romney could with his media friends and PACs lie about all the other conservative candidates while receiving no similar attacks or even scrutiny. This odd approach to picking a candidate, where we anoint the most liberal one available before a vote is cast will not fly this year. The primaries should be thorough and the debates full. Let the arguments outrun Mitt’s budget for TV propaganda. Let the voters in all the states have their say, including the conservative ones that don’t allow Democrats to select our nominee. A spirited debate will help.
By the way, VDH, you say no Republican was offering your ideal “anti-Obama” plan. Maybe true but the plan you describe happens to be exactly the message Sarah Palin was advancing aggressively before the likes of Barbara Bush, Karl Rove, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Dan Perino, Mona Charen, National Review staff, etc., etc.,etc., drove her out of the arena. When we ditch these luminaries, we might have better candidates.
Agreed. No matter how great the outrage, we’re still guided to the same old tired candidates that are anointed by the GOP braintrust and those the liberal media deem “acceptable” opponents to Democrats. Watch how quickly the knives come out in the media when Romney ascends to the candidacy. It’s as if he slept through the entire McCain campaign and doesn’t know what awaits him.
Romney will be the nominee. It’s a done deal and you know it – and I know it – even if we can’t or won’t say it. My reasoning for saying this is a quote from Churchill who said “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
— Winston Churchill
He was so right – and we are so screwed.
Romney is a poor choice that likely won’t do much to unravel whats been done to the fabric of this country. The ‘average’ voter Churchill was referring to are too damned often Republican and will believe what the MSM/Fox tells them “Romney looks so presidential”. Romney has a tail-wind and he knows it and its propelling him along toward his coronation and the king makers want more money – not less – flowing. The corruption in this country is rampant – we look right at it – and do nothing about it. Nobody cares.
On a lighter side my older sister (71) told me today she was sorry she ever voted for this loser. Her and some close g-friends all voted for Obummer last round – but none of them are planning to vote for him this time around. How many conversations like the one I had with her today are being had in this country these days expressing regret over Obummer?
We may well put an R into the White House in November but how much change will there be? Look at the crappy spineless Rs in the House. If thats what we have to look forward to – well – we’re sunk.
This year is our best chance in some time to put a conservative in the WH. The pickins are slim but its the best we have.
“We heard from the press and other Republicans in Iowa that Cain was a supposed womanizer, Romney a liar, Gingrich a blowhard and hypocrite, Perry clueless and tongue-tied, Paul a nut, Santorum a whiny complainer, Bachman a loser, and not much of anything about Huntsman.”
All of which, sadly, are true.
No, it’s not.
Is so.
no it’s not
But we never heard or hear from the press any of Obama’s negatives which are far more damning than those you cited, even assuming they are completely true. Howcumizzat?
“Howcumizzat?”
Obama is an affirmative action POTUS. This serves his interests beyond the typical double standard with which our MSM functions to benefit those on the left. Add to that the fears generated by white guilt of appearing “racist” for displaying acts of proper vetting of Obama’s horrid acts, associations, etc.
This is not meant to be a disagreement bobbcat. But I am tired of the “white guilt” rationalization regarding the white vote for DL. I may be the only poster here to think this, but I believe that the whites on the left in this country truly hate America. Be it psychological or some kind of nuturing or guidance (public education or college), they hate America, they hate white Americans and they hate themselves.
What else could explain white Americans voting for laws which are discriminatory to white Americans; side with illegal aliens and help them subvert our laws and Constitution; and vote for a black man whose resume is thinner than mine; sits in a church that openly espouses hating white Americans and America; sought out the tutelege of marxists and communists here and abroad; and sticks his middle finger to America at every change he can.
Sure the MSM is biased and full of progs but their motives in supporting DL and the other progs go beyond white guilt. How the left can lie so boldly and not bat an eye; how they can cheat with no compunction; and how unions can be so thuggish against other Americans with no qualms is beyond guilt.
They hate us and they hate America. The sooner we understand this the sooner we can start to combat it.
Surely there are the haters out there, as you say above, but I don’t think they are in large enough numbers to have made the difference that put O in the WH. I think many people were swept away by his charismatic persona (that I never appreciated FWIW). He had a literal “rock star” status with those people. I doubt seriously that they are in his camp now. This is why I am cautiously optimistic that he will be defeated this fall, provided the Pub electorate coalesces around our ultimate nominee, even if it’s Romney.
H.L. Mencken once stated that democracy means people getting what they deserve and getting it good and hard. If Obama is reelected then the United States of America is over. There will be no second chance to set things right; the American people will have chosen their own destruction just as in 1933 The German people voted for their near annihilation under a national socialist regime. Meanwhile Americans will continue to follow their bloated sports stars, movie stars and reality stars whose function is to provide the circuses part of the “panis et circenses”. Americans will still rail about how humane and fair and generous they are as their country falls into widespread misery and deprivation. The young students who cheered Obama will continue to live in the unreal world of the so called academic America where they are free to use drugs, drink themselves into oblivion and have all the sex they want much like the famous Kennedy clan which is preparing to send another pervert into the unhallowed halls of congress. An Obama victory is the end of a noble experiment in human history and the curren Americans need only blame themselves.
Then should Mitt Romney get enough delegates to win the GOP nomination, I hope you will remind your fellow conservatives to get behind Romney and not refuse to support him as some are already threatening to do.
Because if it comes down to Romney vs. Obama, anyone who sits out that election (regardless of his political leanings) I don’t have much respect for.
Ditto to that.
“There will be no second chance to set things right; the American people will have chosen their own destruction just as in 1933 The German people voted for their near annihilation under a national socialist regime.”
The important difference, of course, was that the Nazis (including He Who Must Not Be Named) were determined to conquer or destroy the rest of Europe, plus Russia, because they perceived them as a threat to Germany.
Obama and his minions seem determined to destroy, or at least fatally cripple, the United States because they perceive us as a threat to everybody else.
I don’t believe any nation on Earth has ever had a government composed almost solely of ideologues and pseudo-intellectuals who saw that nation, which they ruled, as an existential threat to the rest of the world, and were determined to erase it from the map for that reason.
And I still give Obama & Co. some benefit of the doubt. Many of them are hardcore academic ideologues who are certain that they can create Utopia if they can just get enough of us peasants to shut up and do as we’re told. Reality keeps getting in the way, but academics other than Dr. Hanson seem to be highly trained in ignoring it, rather like Vroomfondel and Majikthise, the philosophers in “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.
But under it all is a corrosive hatred of everything our nation has ever done, everything it stands for, and in the end its very existence. I am forced to conclude that if this lot cannot remake us into something more to their liking, they will be equally content with seeing us destroyed.
(After they’re done with us, I suspect that Western civilization as a whole is the next item on their hit list, but that’s a subject in itself.)
Like Nomad in “The Changeling”, they seek perfection, according to their own definition of that term. And since we are not perfect, and in fact resist their efforts to make us so, we may need to be “sterilized”.
So that the next generation (if there is one) will know that they must never disobey, contradict, or even have an opinion differing from, their “betters”.
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“I don’t believe any nation on Earth has ever had a government composed almost solely of ideologues and pseudo-intellectuals who saw that nation, which they ruled, as an existential threat to the rest of the world, and were determined to erase it from the map for that reason.”
Good insight.
But I would add that marxists aren’t really nationalists in any way, although they are perfectly willing to use nationalism to gain control, just as they are willing to use any other factor. They recognize national boundaries but their strategy is absolute control, not of individual nations, but of the entire world.
So they don’t see the United States as an existential threat to the world. That’s part of the con. They see the US as an existential threat to their own demand for complete and irreversable power.
Hits the nail right on the head.
As patriots and nationalists, we see this as a battle to regain/retain America. As loyalists and internationalists, they see it as one battle in an ongoing war to subdue and rule the world.
I sometimes struggle with the true identity of this adminstration: is it that they truly live in an abstract world where their ideas are just simply disconnected with the real world and how things really work, or are they truly evil, know exactly how things work and are pursuing a track to subvert everything that has made America great. I think liberals buy into the former and truly believe that we can create the utopia if we will it so, and the rest of us buy into the latter; that its deluded to ignore the consequences of a no-energy policy, a policy that ignores the present in favor of a future that lacks a coherent path of attainment. A healthcare plan that appears to have as its goal the culling of the herd. A homeland security plan that makes legal and law abiding citizens suspect, and immigrants free to ‘carry-on’. I’ll stick to three fronts, although there are several more, where this administration is at odds with ‘we the people’. Masked in hollow assertions that his policies are about protecting the middle class and making things ‘fair’ what we really get are policies that will reduce the middle class to a shell of its former self. We live in a Kafkan nightmare, we just haven’t all awoken to its implications.I’ve worked side by side with people that sell this way. The ends justifies the means with little regard to the consequences once the check clears. And the poor numbskull that buys into the vision is left with a bag of crap and no exit strategy given the magnitude of the investment and political/company exposure.
I lived through what I consider the cultural demise of a once great company…they happen to be much larger now, and are likely reaping the benefits of this regime, but have lost many of the people that made that company great (coincidentally, when an outsider was brought in for new ‘leadership). The parallels are striking, and the methods of excessing people will likely be much less pleasant in our current plight. (How’s that 1/2 million in unemployed military going to play into this equation btw?)
I’ve said way more than I usually do…hopefully I really did get rid of that rootkit on my laptop.
Ion is quite right. Ideologues and pseudo-intellectuals are the leaders today in the universities that produce the political “elite” of America. The hollowness in them creates the hatred they show towards people who believe in themselves, believe in God, and believe in the greatness of their country. The next election is a battle between those who believe in nothing (nihilists) and those who still are whole human beings. The ideologues are so invested in Obama precisely because he represents what they are and they will crumble when he falls. Obama is the hollow man filled with envy of those who are substantial.
“I don’t believe any nation on Earth has ever had a government composed almost solely of ideologues and pseudo-intellectuals who saw that nation, which they ruled, as an existential threat to the rest of the world, and were determined to erase it from the map for that reason.”
I don’t know that I agree with that statement. I don’t believe that most liberal (socialist/Marxist) politicians actually think about where this nation stacks up vs. the rest of the world’s nations. What they are all about is rewarding their own ego-maniacal aspirations by creating a system that rewards them. Socialism is great for that. Our founder’s plan for government is not. Where their aspirations leaves the nation is not really relevant and is simply a side issue. For example, Joe Biden is largely a fool who has lied about his academic attainment and has virtually no claim to accomplishment to be proud of. I doubt that he could even land a job with DuPont in his home state let alone rise to second-in-command of that major corporation. The system he supports rewards him enormously. In the private sector he would be a nobody. Can you imagine a Ford Motor Company CEO Nancy Pelosi? Or a Boeing CEO Al Gore? These jerks have no grand plan either positive or negative for America. They don’t know where our nation is headed either up or down. They are on a power trip unlike their mediocre intellects could have ever imagined. That’s it and that’s all that matters in their feeble minds.
***the Nazis (including He Who Must Not Be Named) were determined to conquer or destroy the rest of Europe, plus Russia, because they perceived them as a threat to Germany.***
But the idea of the rest of Europe being a threat to Germany wasn’t just a random perception that arose out of thin air. It was a carefully plotted plan of propaganda. Herr Goebbels wasn’t there just as another pretty face and he wasn’t there just as a propagandist to those outside of Germany. He was there for “national enlightenment” which, of course, was to lead the Germans/NAZIs to the belief that Hitler was, if not a god a demigod. He was good at his job. Hitler achieved his desired status and the people believed the rest of Europe was “out to get them.”
Right on target: indeed, people get the government they deserve. By bringing democracy to Iraq, we allowed the people to vote in Shariah law and sectarian violence. The result: civil war. Perhaps we in America deserve an Obama. When you look at American society today, you see a celebutard-obsessed society Balkanized into competing ethno-racial grievance groups desiring everlasting, increasing government handouts. We care more about who won the “big game” than in the future of our country. Political correctness has infested every level of our society such that no one gives any honest opinion, and offending some protected victim group in a greater crime than murder. Our kids are taught nothing but how to feel good about themselves. Self-esteem is more important than true knowledge. Our educational system has produced egotistical moronic drones spouting all the left wing platitudes and demanding that their every whim be indulged. Hedonism and sloth is celebrated. Genius and good works are punished (or at least taxed into oblivion). We are outsourcing everything but lawyers. Real criminals are protected and even celebrated (cf. Mumia, radical Islamists) as oppressed peoples, while real victims are treated as an afterthought. Our culture has been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Isn’t an Obama a reflection of our society more than anything else? As an author once said, a country can survive an Obama, but not a people that brought an Obama to power.
I do NOT subscribe to the notion that you get the government you deserve.
Belladonna Rogers and I were discussing something along these very lines just this morning.
In fact, I am vehemently opposed to such a statement. You only get the government you deserve, if you are getting facts from the information stream you deserve. If you are being fed propaganda and that propaganda is effective…if you are not getting truth, if YOUR side at the top SUCKS at bringing forward the truth…you do not have proper information upon which to self-govern.
A second point which proreason, bear, and ETAB always articulate with brilliance and leave me with less to contribute each day…is that we are no longer self-governing. We are being ruled, not governed. And by fiat and declaration, not representative legislation.
When the populace’s protections don’t matter (rules, regulations…even the Constitution), then the people don’t matter. My dear cyberfriend, VDH, is brilliant in pointing out Obama’s continued…even expanded…use of Bush’s arsenal of defenses. But, a larger point, perhaps…is that Obama’s Imperial Adventure is perfectly consistent…but maybe less offensive to our side…when he becomes Drone King and wipes out whomever, whenever, wherever, or takes out Libya by himself, or invades Pakistan to kill bin Laden.
Taking myself as a prime example…I didn’t shed a single tear for anyone of those guys he wiped off the planet. But, maybe that isn’t the whole point.
The point, perhaps…is that he is on the Obama Imperial Adventure in any damn direction he pleases. If it pleases him to not pass a budget for 1000 days, if it pleases him to pass unread, unintelligible, unworkable massive legislation in reconciliation, if it pleases him to appoint czars and czarinas to carry out as lackeys and minions his silent coup, if he appoints in Senate Session a “recess” appointment, if he tramples the Constitution, shreds the balance of power, ignores the Supreme Court at will….it comes from the same place as his drone death excursions, his undeclared wars and his invasion of a sovereign nation to kill a single man.
Obama is not stoppable as long as he holds office.
Sending in the circular firing squad “B” team to fritter away perhaps our last chance to stop the Marxist Barbarians at the Gate…is so disheartening, it sinks the heart to the depths of depression.
Obama and the Marxist invaders have now planted guns in drug cartels along our border, sued our border states, mandated what we buy, shut off our energy resources, and are in the process of gutting our military. And still we bicker about “RINO” this and gay soldier that and a thousand irrelevancies that distract from the fact that we are being sold down the river.
I told Belladonna that she could have something I wrote to her to use as her own. Maybe she will. We need a clarion call to all countrymen. We need a hero. As VDH so eloquently pointed out…we aren’t getting it at the moment. At all.
…”You only get the government you deserve, if you are getting facts from the information stream you deserve. If you are being fed propaganda and that propaganda is effective…if you are not getting truth, if YOUR side at the top SUCKS at bringing forward the truth…you do not have proper information upon which to self-govern”…
I hate being a one-note Johnny but as I’ve often stated before – if there is one enemy that should be at the top of the list of domestic enemies to this country, it is the media, that institution that is tasked with providing the information that is the life blood of a self governing republic. Communism/Collectivism/Progressivism, whatever term you want to use – aka the modern Democratic Party – has as it’s greatest vulnerability, its Achillees Heel so to speak, the fact that it is all based on lies. Every last bit of it, from being for the working man/little guy – until it comes to having to kill him in his millions, e.g., USSR, China, Cambodia – as Billy Ayers predicted in his Prarie Fire; to being against the aristocracy, the rich, the powerful – until it comes time to install its own aristocracy, e.g., the nomenklatura and apparatchiks and cronies of the Party – the Democratic Party in this case; to taking umbrage and screeching indignantly at being called unpatriotic, all the while doing everything in their power to undermine, sabotage and ensure defeat while the country is engaged in war, ala Harry Reid with “We’ve lost’ to Dick Durbin and Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and Medea Benjamin and Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan and every other Democratic politician/supporter I can think of giving aid and comfort to our enemies with their attacks on our troops. Where are all these worthies now that it is a Democrat that is continuing, if not expanding all these hated conservative policies? And more importantly, where is the media in pointing out this absence and these inconsistencies and hypocricy’s? Nowhere, that’s where. Because they are fully in bed with all of it. And without their support and cover, none of this is gotten away with, because of people’s innate common sense and sense of fairness and justice. But most people don’t even know it’s going on, because the media chooses not to inofrm them. And that is why they are enemy number 1 in the fight for our survival as a free people.
True in part LGoPs. Check out the State’s education system.
Brilliantly stated. I tried earlier in the day to say the same on Twitter (albeit 140 characters) — this nightmare would not have been possible without the total cooperation of the corrupt media.
I do NOT subscribe to the notion that you get the government you deserve.
Neither do I. I’m getting the government Obama’s voters deserve.
“You only get the government you deserve, if you are getting facts from the information stream you deserve.”
Perhaps I’m in the minority here, but I gave up printed publications and televised news ages ago when I recognized my intelligence was being insulted — being required to forget what I read/heard in the past and accept the present “truth.” Most news agencies have become nothing but the propaganda arm of certain political parties, but maybe it was always that way. Don’t know and way past caring.
Hugobama is in the eye of the hurricane but i guarantee you the wind will be picking up soon! In 08 his rising tide just barely got him elected,but it won*t be back this time. Hes only had one fight,but not for long! My oldest son won the golden gloves a few times and the whole family would attend. We have our seats already but we*re early. Soon the 140 lb obama will arrive with his posse. Heard hes a bad egg, dosn*t care much for the Cops,and beat up an old veteran once. This should be good!
Obama’s poll numbers rose when he left for Hawaii. But they fell when people realized he would be coming back.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Excellent article and analysis.
Yes, Obama removes himself from accountability by removing himself from Time. Obama exists and operates only in the Present. In ‘Now-Time’. He has no past and even, no future, for his future is open. To your imagination.
This is not a new strategy for Obama. He’s a pathological narcissist and as such, he is the Author of Himself. By this I mean that He, as a Person, isn’t made up of a history of real events – and that includes his birth, schooling, grades, past friends, girlfriends, ideas, activities. Note that we know NOTHING of these past realities about Obama. Nothing.
We know only what he, himself, has authored and told us.
This means that Obama exists only when he is talking to us and this existence is in His Words. Therefore one day he can talk about jobs and the next day, talk about jobs with data that contradict his speech the day before. No problem for Obama. That’s because, for Obama, words do not represent reality. Obama and his words exist apart from, separate from, reality. Obama’s words are meant only to persuade and manipulate you to be within His Control.
A major problem in dealing with Obama is that Americans don’t grasp and understand his psychological nature. They treat him ‘as if’ he were real, ‘as if’ he was made up of a real factual past; and, as if his words were meant to reflect reality.
So- they don’t know how to deal with someone who is unconnected to facts, to reality and instead, lives in a virtual world, a totally fictional world made up of and only of His Words.
They don’t know how to deal with someone who declares the Stimulus a success despite rising unemployment, who ignores terrorism by redefining it as ‘man-caused disasters’, who says he’s not at war in Libya because war is ‘boots on the ground’ and doesn’t mean ‘bombs from the air’; who defines millionaires as ‘making 200,000 a year, who fudges statistics about unemployment by excluding those who’ve stopped seeking jobs..etc.
They don’t know how to deal with someone who openly and deliberately mocks, belittles, smears, denigrates Americans – and utterly ignores the legislative branch of govt, the Congress – and ignores the results of the people’s vote; namely the November 2010 GOP takeover of the House by ignoring Congress and governing by executive fiat.
What is real about Obama? No data about his past; that’s either authored or hidden and sealed.
What is real, however, are his emotions.
These include a deep anti-Americanism, anti-white, anti-capitalism and a pathological need to control and destroy people. Obama needs to divide people, turn them into adversarial identity groups fighting each other – whether this be ethnic identities (hispanic); or racial or political or class. This hostility to people, to Americans, and this need to strip them of their common identity as Americans and polarize them into hostile identity blocs – that’s basic Obama.
I predict that his re-election campaign – and note – all Obama ever does apart from golf and parties – is campaign, will be, this time, not Bash Bush, but Bash Reality.
And I suggest that the GOP acknowledge this and campaign that they are genuine Americans, not TV persona, and have the courage to face reality, face facts and deal constructively with it. While Obama lives in a fictional world made up only of his words.
Every time Obama/Democrats come up with their view – the GOP should bring up this difference – the Obama’s figures are fictional, are not the real data, and then, give the real hard facts – and say – that the GOP, reprsenting Americans, accept and acknowledge the real world and will work to better it.
Highlight this difference. Define Obama as living in a fictional world and trying to make Americans move into this Wonderland. Insist that genuine Americans live in and accept reality – and it is this strength that has made America exceptional.
Obama will move into his normal default position of accusations of racism. He’ll try to set up crises. Again and again, define him as Fictional and the GOP as realists.
i think you are being very unfair. Chauncey at least was an effective gardener.
He never struck me as a malevolent figure, either.
I disagree: Obama was/is not a mere cipher. The truth is more disturbing. He’s an obvious leftist. Always was one, and always will be. The American people know this, and put him in office, not in spite of his leftism, but because of it.
Sure, Obama’s a lousy politician. But in America–in democracies–lousy leaders point to what dismal reality? That’s right!–lousy voters. Our quality as a people has declined precipitously since the Sixties; thus our politicians have gone south, and the fate of the nation’s not far behind.
Politicians (of both stripes)make their livings off blaming the “other.” But the real “other” in case is none other than us.
Unless this is acknowledged by both We the People, and our elected leaders, most criticisms will remain superficial, and thus, ineffectual.
Not good news, I know, because there’s no political solution to this problem. But it is the truth, and that is the only place to begin.
Another gem, but the choir already knows the ‘reality’ of this Presidency.
I do not want to take the red pill! You can’t make me!
But Obama *is* Cipher.
Well, vdh is right about the sleep / over-the-fray strategy, but only half right.
Doesn’t anybody else see that the economy will be “better” in Sept/Oct 2012?
The ENTIRE republican strategy is predicated on the economy being bad, but why would anybody imagine that? Obama owns the government agencies that produce the statistics. This is the guy who invented the “jobs created or saved” statistic; and don’t kid yourself, just because you laugh at it, millions of persuadable Americans accept it. But it will be far far beyond that. Why do you think he has fought so hard to keep every single dime in the bloated federal government? Because government spending counts in the GDP, that’s why. Rest assured, GDP will be up this year. As will the stock market, employment, and consumer optimism. But inflation will be down. This data, my friends, can be manipulated in dozens of ways. Dubya was a fool for letting the economy become prey to marxist speculators like Soros and Goldman Sachs in 2008. There is zero chance that the marxists will do the same. They will agressively manage every single data point. They will manipulate the stock market and other markets. Their cronies like GE will add some jobs. Government bureaucracies at all levels will add jobs as well.
And probably most important of all, the comparison points selected by pravda will be the absolute low points of the marxist depression. For example, in March 2008, Obama said of the market “now is probably a good time to buy”. By November 2012, the market will be up AT LEAST 50% and possibly over 100% from that point. You absolutely positively will hear that in the days leading up to the election. If you think the market will be lower, you are a blind fool. And for employment, the point of comparison will be the month in 2009 when unemployment peaked, and that will be called the republican nadir. Obama’s statisticians will have unemployment under 8% by November, possibly under 7%. And on and on.
As vdh says, the Liar in Chief won’t be making many public pronouncements in the next few months. His handlers will be busy building the case that the Republican nominee is an unstable extremist. During the debates, when (probably) Romney turns to Obama and says “you have been a failure”, Obama will simply say “not according to the official statistics. Unemployment at the nadir of your party’s assault on the country was 11.1%. Now its 7.2%. I ended the recession that began in 2007 during 2010, and GDP has been up ever since and has surged in the last two quarters. Inflation was 5.6% for 2008. This year it is running at 2.7%”.
Slam dunk. Case closed.
Of course, Romney can then take 5 minutes in his boring way to state why the official government statistics are all misleading, and he undoubtedly will.
But when the only bullet you have in your gun is “he’s failed”, no amount of technical information will move the needle when our modestly boastful president hangs his reelection prospects on the VERY LATEST data.
They probobly won’t even need an October surprise against a nice, stick-to-the-rules punching bag like Romney. Particularly if they succeed in getting Ron Paul to run as a 3rd party candidate.
The only way to overcome it, and it’s still a long shot, is to have a candidate who won’t play by the rules. Unless the data is punctured by a great communicator before the debates, it will be no contest.
Have to concur with your assessment.
Obama controls the entire supply chain: Federal dollars to boost GDP; data streams to inflate/create/ignore/eliminate key statistics; creative definitions (“jobs lost or saved”) to redefine the landscape; strategic bedfellows in Wall Street, industry, unions, education, government; media mouthpieces with their persisent ululation of racism, when all else fails; etc.
He can and will turn the spigot on and off at will to shape and reshape the campaign landscape. What we need is a relentless scrapper, willing to wrestle this octopus to the mat. What we’ll get is … Romney?
You nailed it…if you can’t see the strategy the opposition will play, than you’re not doing your homework. The GOP needs to stop bickering among themselves and start a full frontal attack strategy now(that means hammering every act of lawlessness over and over and over again in the minds of the potential voter…if you can do it with journalism, it has to be done through political ads). flanking and delaying tactics don’t work in the market of public opinion. The nuance of those strategies don’t gel in the minds of the average voter. Hinging everything on economics is stupid…most people vote with their wallets.
Proreason, I think you are accurate in your description of the economy being the main driver in the upcoming election. The current administration will take credit for any improvements, as do ALL administrations, whether their policies had anything to do with it, or even if the economy improved DESPITE their policies.
I think we will see campaign trip after campaign trip focused on plant openings, ribbon cuttings, and other events that have the connotation of new jobs. With the exception of anything having to do with solar of course. Like you said, that will put the opposition in the position of arguing against numbers that purport to show things are getting better. The eventual nominee will not be offering the sunny optimism that Reagan offered, instead he will be seen by people as arguing that the economy stay bad just a little while longer, so that he can fix it.
I hope the nominee, whomever it ends up being, has strategists smart enough to see this and not allow the campaign to focus on the economy at the expense of the many other issues they could raise against this administration.
And if he more or less holds the economy together until the election, and still loses, he’ll leave the new GOP Prez on the verge of depression, war and social collapse- and then the Dems can play blame Bush (or whoever) for the next election. Interesting times!
The Obama re-election machine does not sleep in its strategic retreat. It has $800,000 million to burn on the upcoming campaign. Chauncey was a kindly gentleman who only spoke metaphorically about the economy and gardening.
The hard questions to ask about the 2012 election cycle would be about the direction, nature, and support base that will be incited from the bully pulpit. It is also possible that if Obama recognizes himself as a one term president, then the plan is about how much of that fundamental change would be permanently written into the American landscape.
For now, the circular firing squad of the Republicans are supplying the ammunition which distracts from Obama’s 3 year record. There is a baited trap.
Doc, talk, albeit hi-falutin, tasty talk like you dish up, column after column, talk is CHEAP!
Where’s your hat in the ring Doc? Where’s your cake that you want to have and eat at the same time.
I’ve written to you for three years now Doc, always ending in the same way; and I’ll do it again today: HANSON/PALIN 2012.
I’d like to see Barry-boy’s face when he realizes it’ll be YOU facing him at the Pres Debates!
Seriously; Dr. Hanson realizes what a step down that would be. He could not enjoy his life as the artisan he has strived become.
The election of a person of Obama’s intellect to the capacity he has been “entrusted” with, shall denigrate the Office of President of the United States for decades.
I’m betting there’ll be more Obama types in the White House for years to come. And if you are a follower of Dr. Hanson, you may realize it will take a war to cleanse the illusory ideals these hollow idols extol.
ETAB, I particularly liked your #13 post.
Your, ‘..He has no past and even, no future, for his future is open. To your imagination.’ is honest, frightening, macabre and downright spooky.
Uhbama – modern day Jim Jones whereas his minions needn’t travel to Ghana nor drink anything though MUST mark his name on the ballot and ‘enjoy’ their lowered quality of life, less wages and nod in zombie-like unison at his majesty’s class warfare.
And for good measure the First Lady while on vacation said it’d be cool if you can throw $3 bucks or more towards the guy’s election. For good measure.
Where most people with a conscience would duck/crawl away in shame for their horrible work performance, politicians put their incompetence/misdeeds on worldwide stage and BELIEVE you deserve more!
Dr VDH it has all been said before but thanks anyway. Obama has but one thing to count on and that is the predictable stupidity of the American people. Always a good bet. The Republicans are busy-bees trying to elect someone as close to the inept John Mccain as possible. In this they will shine.
And another critical biopsy of the Obama plague contaminating America.
This horde cannot be underestimated. They have plans in the works to nullify and disenfranchise a significant proportion of the voting public to retain their power. With the cash diverted from the military, Obama, his czars, agencies, and Congress can pilfer the money for their cronies and favorite projects.
More proof here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/americans_elect_obamas_third-party_tar_pit.html
“… no Republican was offering a simple anti-Obama plan to drill for gas and oil as never before, repeal Obamacare, balance the budget, reform the tax code, and redo Social Security and Medicare. Instead his would-be opponents argued over who voted for what fifteen years ago.”
The game-show debates and circular firing squad models are brilliant constructs. The Republican candidates appear quite willing to let the left set the scope of inquiry and rules for engagement. Meanwhile, they cheerfully shoot each other and sometimes themselves, for sport and entertainment.
How clever of the left to create a forum for the Rs to mortally wound their own. How stupid of the Rs to participate.
That said, Perry has to date come closest to defining a simple anti-Obama plan. His strategy and communication fubars, however, raise legitimate concerns about his ability to take on the challenge and succeed.
Yah. It looks bad for our side – the R’s – right now. We are having our usual squabble about who will get to challenge a sitting President. One who looks to
have a harder than ususal time as incumbent being re-Elected.
Once the nomination shakes itself out with – as of today – Gov. Romney being
the likely candidate, things will start looking better for us. If he can win
big in New Hampshire and then win by any percentage in South Carolina, this
thing is over. A mild win in New Hampshire and a second or third in
South Carolina means it will just take him longer.
Of course any OTHER result there means that someone else will be the nominee.
And only the most ardent Paulista’s (who really are far-left Democrats crashing
the party) will desert the eventual nominee. All others will rally around him.
And once the focus is back on the imcumbent his numbers will start to fall. The
MSM will do its best to cover for him but relentless adverstising will draw
the publics attention to the scandals of Solyndra and Fast & Furious othe the
other DOJ misdoings.
Veteran democrat pols know this. Which is why so many of them have decided to
spend more time with their families rather than suffer the ignomy of being booted
out of office.
All this commotion by the Obama ‘brain trust’ is really nothing more than
rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Which doesn’t mean it is time for our side to rest.
We’ve ALMOST made the sale. We just have to close the deal.
*simple anti-Obama plan to drill for gas and oil as never before, repeal Obamacare, balance the budget, reform the tax code, and redo Social Security and Medicare.*
Great column Doc. And the above statement is, in a nutshell, why the Republicans are such a mess. THAT above, is a winning strategy. My folks asked me while I was home, what would be the one issue I would focus on most if I was running. My response was drilling for oil. I recall in 2008, when I volunteered for McCain locally(because he was the nominee, not because I particularly thought he was a viable candidate), the biggest applause lines he got were when he started talking about drilling for domestic oil. He came to a rally here where the people were not chanting his name when he came out but rather were chanting “drill baby drill”. Screw the environmentalists this election cycle- they’ll be voting for the other guy anyway. Lets fix this economy the way we know will work – produce domestic energy and actually have a chance of getting us off foreign oil (as opposed to idiotic non workable solutions like solar panels, windmills and magical unicorns).
I look forward to each of your columns VDH. Keep up the good work.
But is it possible? “The sow returns to her mire.” There is no way Obama avoids the spotlight forever.
The Romney Super Pac, funded by the likes of Goldman Sachs, spent 3.5% of Obama’s projected billion dollar NATIONAL reelection campaign fund for three weeks in Iowa exclusively to tear down Newt. When Newt responds calling Mitt a liar, it is called a circular firing squad. If a stranger pushes you to the ground and kicks you I guess you could be described as having anger issues when you regain your feet and are mad about what happened.
The amount of money and intensity of the anti-Gingrich effort tells me that the elites and cronies fear him.
I think “hate” is the right word, not “fear”.
Romney is a by-the-book, ruling-class republican, the same kind that has made every Republican in congress, every noted Republican pundit and every advisor / confidente of the Bush’s wealthy beyond their dreams.
And who else do the ruling-class republicans hate? Mainly the Tea Party and it’s high-profile supporters, notably Sarah Palin. They seem to hate Rick Perry as well, and Jim Demint. Strangely enough, they don’t seem to hate Ron Paul.
An astonishing number of congressmen and women have increased their net worth since 2007, including almost every Republican, even though the wealth of the country has dropped by trillions. How does something like that happen? Rhetorical question, of course.
Why is John Boehner so ineffective at countering Obama even though the country overwhelmingly supports fically conservative policies and the Constitution? Rhetorical question of course.
Why doesn’t Mitt Romney criticize Obama other than mildly saying “he’s a failure”? He rarely even talks about anything other than the economy, even though his own “plan” are essentially Bush III, if even that strong.
But they sure got off their settee’s to attack Newt, didn’t they. Why’s that?
btw, I don’t hate Mitt Romney. I actually believe he would be a good president and govern more conservatively than almost anybody thinks. My issue with him is that it has become abundantly plain that he will rerun McCain’s campaign, and lose.
“…he will rerun McCain’s campaign, and lose.”
This is because of what I like to call the “affirmative action factor.” No one is going to really go after Obama like they should because they don’t want the rain of “You’re a RACIST!!” tirades coming down from the MSM & pols on the other side of the aisle.
So true. O may be an empty suit but he knows how to appeal to emotion.Romney doesn’t.
Game. Set. Match.
You white people don’t want to admit it, but Obama is the bogeyman you can’t kill. He’s the nightmare you don’t wake up from. He’s the straw that stirs the drink that you call KoolAid. And your country is drowning in it.
Frankly, you people don’t get it.
In 2009, it was America that engaged in the circular firing squad because it’s time as a great nation had become grating on the American people. To much nation building. Too much Bush. When a President can’t pronounce half the words of the English language, people on SNL start implying he’s a halfwit, and over half of America starts truly believing it.
Obama realized in 2008 that American exceptionalism had become exceptionally long in the tooth. It had to go because the old beliefs in freedom and self reliance and stuff like that had been diluted by the media.
Meanwhile, in through a porous border, people like me skipped. Got a degree in journalism in Texas without paying for it. Bit off my piece of what had been the American dream; but it’s that’s been transformed into your Obama reality.
Dr. Hanson writes a wonderful piece; lists chapter and verse how Obama’s jettisoned the Constitution (you might call shredded), but guess what. America’s new reality is right out of the Harrison movie, “The Fugitive” when he says, “I didn’t do it.” (kill his wife) and Tommy Lee Jones (the law) says, “I don’t care.”
Well, almost 50% of the American people are telling the rest of you who are appalled at Holder’s white people are cowards speech; appalled at ObamaCare, appalled at Holder slamming the investigative door on operation fast and furious; appalled at the entire Bill of Particulars Dr. Hanson has listed as to why Obama must go. Appalled that Dr. Hanson wonderful writings don’t matter.
I’m willing to stipulate all Dr.Hanson writes is true; that Obama doesn’t care a whit about the fundamental principles on which this nation was founded. Is out to redistribute wealth while making his friends wealthy in the process. Where do you think the billions go? To fix roads and bridges? Get real. Wake up. It goes into our pockets; the pockets of Obama’s big supporters.
You think Solyndra was an aberration? Schemes like that are the bread and butter of The Obama’s administration which doles out the redistributive money in millions to greedy ObamaSupporters who proceed to stuff their off shore bank accounts with taxpayer money because American taxpayers were gullible enough to vote for a guy who would fleece them like sheep.
You people in here are missing the big point. All of what you commenters say is true, but it just doesn’t matter because we have a nation of Obama followers along with people who are too stupid to do anything about it.
America has been transformed.
Congress was in session,and you let Obama make recess appointments. I mean, your representatives don’t rail against this publicly. Only Fox news does.
We have the mainstream press in our hip pockets.
Don’t you realize the significance of lap dog journalism?
The Founding Fathers put their faith in the fourth estate to keep government honest; at least expose their corruption. Which is laughable when you realize that today’s mainstream media is totally complicit in the corruption. The Wall Street Journal is with the rest of you in the Alamo trying to fight off the new wave of Americans; a tsunami of people like me who have our heals on the throat of what you called the land of liberty.
We don’t care what Dr. Hanson writes because he’s a voice shouting in a windstorm blowing in the wrong direction. Nobody but you hear him.
The fault isn’t your candidates for President. The straw that broke the camels back were Republican moderates who went for Obama. In 2009, they let the fox in with the chicken coop. They signed America’s death warrant, and all your left with is Dr. Hanson and his people like him pointing out all the instances of ObamaEvil which from your point of view are unacceptable. But the rest of America couldn’t care less just so they get their checks, and don’t have to pay taxes.
Did you ever consider the affect of the Sunday Morning meet the press, face the nation Obama cheerleaders who tell America’s independents what they should believe?
No, all you can do is go back to whining when Holder lets the voter intimidators go scot. Dr. Hanson writes about the debt about to hit 16 trillion as Michelle buys another 5 thousand dollar dress for another 6 million dollar vacation, as Obama smiles his approval.
Instead of the U.S. public and its media going nuclear, Obama and his media are quiet as church mice as Iran goes nuclear.
Obama responds by chopping the legs off the U.S. military. And what do so called American patriots do? Nothing but whine and mash their teeth and tell Dr. Hanson what a great writer he and and that his voice has to be heard
Let me clue you in.
Dr. Hanson eloquence and intelligence is the equivalent of a trickle in a waterfall of political thought. We’ve even reduced Rush to sense he needs to shout to get his message out.
You tell me how you plan to get to the average dimwitted American voter. You can’t. As four more ObamaYears loom over the horizon, The United States as a nation that matters sets like the sun. But unlike the sun, is destined never to rise again.
An amazing, challenging rant filled with thoughts that really merit attention.
Subversion like this is a long process. It doesn’t just happen. It starts with a(in this case several) false narrative built on a fallacious premise. In my professional experience it was akin to my target clients getting my message from my competitors without a word from my mouth…which was in polite terms, misleading, but nothing short of outright lying. The outcome was a belief with no ‘apparent’ origin that mischaracterized our offering. It is a long process to dispel a myth.
We are in the normalization phase (the subversion nearly complete), but hit a bump in the road with the Tea Party. The media is complicit in this downward spiral, not due entirely to political leaning but to ensure their professional existence ( or as they would spin it, so as not to lose access)…you even see Fox playing the loyal opposition role depending on when you tune in. No one wants to lose and certainly no one wants to lose their job.. But the implications of this game have more far reaching and serious consequences. Visions of population centers (aka cities) where everone lives, housing projects out of a Seinfeld episodes where our bedrooms are consigned to drawer space, no freedom of travel…that kind of dystopia is entirely possible the way we are trending…we all may have jobs (at the new minimum wage) and if you’re over 70 and not connected with the elite (who are likely enamored with the possibility of the singularity) then you better be prepared for comfort care as you slowly expire. Look at the financial model of the Medicaid system closely, and how its morphing, then add 40million more participants and give me your prognosis…then throw in Medicare. The Republicans know that the costs of health care for the elderly has to be reduced by a factor of 10, but the demons are preparing to deal with it their way. Unfortunately Doctors will be forced to flee the profession or work for a corporate ACO, given the ripple effect, and rural HC won’t exist (it will be financially unaffordable), supporting the move to popuilation centers.. PPACA under the guise of being a solution is a malthusian solution. Written into law by who? experts in the fields? more likely staffers of CAP and other NGO’s that are driving these bureaucratic nightmares/ And don’t get me started on AGW.
I hope I’m wrong but I doubt it. You see the only way out of this is through the youth… a fraction of the OWSer types who need to see the mask removed…(the idealists not there for the ‘party’ need to see the ‘party’is over) I have faith that with the right messaging many of Obama’s supporters will turn on him. But someone that commands respect and has credibility is needed to lead the charge, and it doesn’t have to be a politician.
Remember, energy bills will necessarily skyrocket, and with that kind of plan the economy will only get worse. Maybe the class war thing will be turned on its head. I take the extreme view (of the conspiracy theorist)only to make a point, but if you think its not possible, think again. If you look at the trends they all appear to be wood behind the same arrowhead.
Just what we needed, a proud parasite and a thief! Bragging about your vandalism while you are nothing but an opportunist,exactly like millions of others.What are you so proud of? Beware when the tide changes and bragging opportunists like you must account for your actions in trying to sink us!
@ spense not@ bear
That journalism department at the college you attended must have given extra credit for the use of metaphors.
“You people?”
What the hell do you mean by “you people?”
Yes, Dems will play the same old cards this election cycle – the GOP nominee is too extreme, not smart enough, and racist. On the issue of racism, Dick Morris said recently that 8% of Democrats have left the party. I suppose they are racist?
cfbleachers, proreason, bear, and others – are making vital points. That Obama, who controls the statistical base, i.e., the institutions which provide the data for employment, inflation, GDP etc – will campaign on a base that he’s been successful and that everything is improving.
The GOP are making the error, as proreason points out, that this coming year will not see an economic improvement. Obama’s Gang are cooking the books, so to speak, to ensure that the public presentation of the economy is of a vibrant, growing success.
And, as quite a few of us have pointed out, Obama, with his deep contempt for ‘regular people’, his elitism, his narcissism, has effectively ditched Congress. Remember, Congress if the power of the people. It’s not just a bunch of elected representatives; it’s the elected WILL of the people. Obama views the People’s Will with disdain, with contempt. He’s the Emperor and he is, more and more, governing as a dictator.
Remember – his astonishing support for the Honduran dictator who was attempting to violate and subvert the Honduran Constitution? His support for, not the Iranian demonstrators for freedom, but foro the Iranian dictatorship? His bowing before the Saudi monarchs? His support for Ghadaffi – until Francd and the UK shamed him into joining? His public statements that governing (aka ruling) would be easier if the US was run like China, i.e., no Congress, not a democracy?
And Obama has effectively ignored the 2010 election by utterly ignoring Congress. Ignoring the House’s motions; ignoring their budget and not providing one of his own; insulting Ryan directly to his face; violating the Constitution again and again and again.
And no-one calls him on this – because Obama has also set up a scenario where if you criticize him, you are a racist. The NYT has just declared this as fact.
What’s to be done? As others have pointed out – yes, we need a ‘hero’, someone to confront Obama. But we need more than one; a movement. The Tea Party has to get active again, and this time, focusing on Fact vs Fiction. Fling the facts at the public. Starting now – about everything – economic, political, all Obama’s violations. Relentlessly point out how the Obama Gang are propagandists and are violating our constitutional right to KNOW THE TRUTH and to THINK for ourselves.
That is, we the people are the government. We have the right to know the facts and to think and judge for ourselves. The Obama Gang are denying us our rightful powers.
Yes, the circular firing squad has to end and we need to begin concentrating on the real enemy…even if that means we need to coalesce behind Romney and force the campaign to be more about smiling and being polite to the boy king.
South Carolina is probably the drop-dead point. If a conservative consensus candidate does not emerge there, then it may be too late, or rather, fighting on will have become counterproductive.
And ETAB is exactly correct that the effort to suport our candidate has to be complete…the lawlessness, the contempt, the lavish in-your-face lifestyle, the horrific legislation, the prostrate foreign policy, the attack on the military, the hypocricy of the continuation of the terror tactics, the ultra-radical appointees, the class warfare, the one-branch governance, the snub of the Supreme Court, the snubs of our allies, the undeclared war in Libya, the abandonment of Iraq, and yes, European socialism designed by a committed lifetime radical…not just the economy.
We can’t be a one-trick pony and we can’t wait for four more months. The Republican ruling class isn’t going to do it. They are as happy as pigs in shit to have a circular firing squad. If they get lucky and Romney knocks off little lenin, then they will rule the roost. If not, they will still rule enough of the roost to keep them happy.
ETAB, proreason and bear are nailing it, fellow PJM’ers.
It is no longer “enough” to do the “conversation” things we are doing here.
It is no longer enough to point at the propaganda machine and tsk-tsk and tut-tut, and say “Oh, those crazy liberals .
There are no more liberals. The liberals are swallowed whole. Frankly, I kinda like and miss the classic liberals. You could talk to them, reason with them. You may disagree on tactics or the best course of action, but you never got the feeling that they wanted you in a re-education camp, dead or silenced.
The “other” side is not a parlor game of “spirited debate”. The Marxists are playing for keeps and we are reacting…stupidly.
The in-fighting, the rush to call people “RINO’s” at the slightest variance from UNWORKABLE ORTHODOXY, the ease with which we fall into “wedge issue traps” set by the leftists and their propaganda machine…is outright disturbing and wholly maddening.
Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan, John Thune, Kristi Noem, Marco Rubio, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal, Allen West, Chris Christie, Eric Cantor…we have a treasure trove of brilliant, solid, magnificent “A” teamers. I would be proud to be associated with ANY and ALL of them.
Yet, I would bet every dollar I have and will earn in the rest of my life…that if we looked back…somebody from OUR side…trashed them as “not being ” ______ enough .
STOP. Just stop.
If you can’t get behind a list with that kind of star power, brilliance and attraction, we need to separate.
That does not mean, however, that EVERY candidate fits the description of “great” or is a wise choice to carry us forward.
A legitimate analysis of who best to lead us, FOR WHAT WE HAVE AS THE REAL CHALLENGE before us, is what we should be discussing.
Re-read what ETAB, proreason, bear have said above. Please. I beg of you.
They are telling you things that you must understand…and this is not a time to gloss over, skim or half-listen.
We have three MUST DO items:
1)Decide what the REAL issues and challenges are…and NOT fall for stupid, idiotic, imbecilic “wedge issue traps”. Avoid them like the plague.
2)Decide who is BEST to lead us and why. A guy who refuses to confront the issues and plays the “soft middle”, may not be it. The guy whose bloated ego is in the way, it’s all about him, not about us…is probably not the guy. A guy who will NEVER be elected on a national basis, is definitely not the guy.
3)We MUST confront two things…no longer avoiding them. It is time to out the propaganda machine. It is time to out the Marxists. Belladonna and I have chatted about how to present this, so I won’t do it here. But we can no longer afford to have them both wearing their masks and hiding their co-conspiracy.
Please…go back and read what ETAB, proreason, and bear have written here.
And when you hit your knees tonight, say a little thank you that they exist as your countrymen as well as VDH. I know I will.
Wrong, wrong, WRONG! Abortion is a non-negotiable issue. Period. Let me explain what that means- slavery was a non-negotiable issue. If it tears the Republic apart, so be it. If the end result of standing up for life and liberty is a civil war, it’s worth it, no matter what the cost in blood and treasure. We will do every reasonable thing to avoid bloodshed, but tolerating evil is never reasonable, nor permissible. “Let justice reign, though the heavens may fall.” If this nation refuses to recognize the humanity of the unborn, God have mercy on us, because we do not deserve to be free or prosperous.
Sorry, mb. That’s not the mountain to die on.
It’s a 70$ loser.
I, by the way…do not disagree, nor disrespect in the least…your sentiment.
But, the argument is a sure way to lose the nation to the Marxists. If you choose to give up the nation to try to overturn Roe v. Wade, and that is the mountain you choose to die upon..I respect the courage of your convictions.
“Abortion is a non-negotiable issue.”
What is the alternative, forcing a woman to bear a child she chooses not to, regardless of the reason? What if she is too sick to carry the child to term? What if the child has a severe birth defect?
NTS, I don’t approve of having this procedure serve as a means of birth control, but you are discussing an issue here that should reside between two people: the pregnant woman & her doctor (I would also prefer that the father be included as well but “in a perfect world….”).
That makes as much sense as saying slavery is a matter between the slave traders and the masters. It is never acceptable to treat a human being as a commodity, to be bought, sold or disposed of at the whim of another.
Is the uterus a vessel of the state? That’s certainly what it sounds like when someone proposes to confer dominion over it to prosecutors and the criminal code.
@ myth buster: A rather specious argument that holds no water. Refusing to advocate gov’t intrusion over one’s own body has nothing at all to do with refusing to allow a slave trade to exist legally. What R v W argued basically was the notion that gov’t has no business holding dominion over one’s own body.
“It is no longer “enough” to do the “conversation” things we are doing here.”
With all due respect, no s#$&. I, in my most inimitable and annoying fashion, have been saying this for months. Geez, we have analyzed Dear Leader to the nth degree, commiserate and bemoan what DL has done, but nobody says what we should be doing to combat (intentional use of the word) DL and his marxist minions.
Your list also demonstrates that the left has been actively organizing and structuring America for this takeover. And it is a takeover. Our tolerance or apathy allowed this to happen. Our RINOs helped them immensely from the 60s forward.
We should also know that if he “wins” again he will try to pull a Chavez on us. So what are you conversationalists willing to do to stop him, or what will you do when he does pull this Stalin two-step? When are the conversationalists and RINOs going to understand and stop rationalizing DL and admit he and the entire left hate you as a white American and hate America?
VDH is a great writer but where is his list of things we should do to combat DL and the left? How about any writer on PJM? Everyone is always criticizing DL but never offering anything we can do to stop him and the left’s inexorable march to tyranny over America.
Well, I advocate that impeachment proceedings be undertaken. Why this doesn’t happen is a bit of a mystery to me. I suspect it is because of a backlash from those who will likely shout “racism” from the mountaintops & possibly prompting riots in the streets. We got our first glimpse of just how powerful a force this is back when OJ Simpson was on trial, with LA twisting itself up into all sorts of fancy knots & machinations (moving the trial to a more favorable venue, jury tampering, getting rid of the astute prosecution team & replacing it with an inept one) to see to it that the outcome would ensure that no riots took place. They got what they wanted.
As much as I loathe what the Democratic Party has become I have to admit that I deeply envy the discipline they show, both in their message in attacking anything even remotely conservative, and in their unity in allowing no dissent from that message. Their’s is an iron discipline that reminds me of the unquestioning fervor and partisanship that characterized the communist cadres of the past century.
The Republicans could use a healthy dose of that discipline. They could remind themselves of Reagan’s 11th Commandment. If nothing else, it would be nice to see a little common sense and plain old survival skills kick in, in essence learning from Custer’s experience at the Little Bighorn – when you’re surrounded by thousands of screaming savages, FOCUS ON SHOOTING THE F**KING INDIANS, not on settling scores with each other.
2012 is the hill to die on – it is Last Stand Hill – for this Republic.
For the record, as regards the so-called eleventh commandment, Reagan clarified that such commandment forbade making personal attacks against a fellow republican opponent (the media will do plenty of that…) BUT- it was proper and indeed incumbent to debate as regards your opponents RECORD.
We are the only ones who vet our candidates. One must make the distinction as to whether the issue is ones opponent’s record or if it is framed as a personal attack.
VDH nailed it in this piece. And it’s a weird, little administration, this one. We have both a President and a Vice President who have literally no private sector experience. No military experience. Biden gives little to none in regards to charity and Obama talks about treading lightly on the planet and not driving SUVs while enjoying golf at every opportunity and family living large and trekking to high falutin places. We will have to hit rock-bottom before the citizenry has a grasp. By rock-bottom, I mean another 4 years of Obama, a couple more Supreme Court appointments, a nuclear-armed Iran, even more industry fleeing overseas, increased racial tension, an uncontrolled Southern boarder leaking more and more Cartel psycopaths to our cities, more regulation, etc, etc.
Sorry but so far Obama and his crappy administration has awakened a comatose giant that will in fact defeat him along with the so called mainstream media, both in one fell swoop.
Out of letting the enemy know that we are armed and carrying concealed weapons there will be a surprise just as there was when Carter was booted out of office.
Hey I carry legally a concealed weapon do you think that I advertise it, of course I don’t but I have it as well as a couple of backups so when the idiot that is trying to destroy our country is defeated do not be surprised, I for one am doing my part and telling all others with the same frame of mind to do the same!
Here’s what I got out of the long rant.
Just as important as Obama being the target of deserved criticism, the mainstream media, the key to his re-election, should be carpet bombed with the truth.
In a creative way, it should be ridiculed, attacked, mocked, derided, scoffed at etc., etc., etc. The fourth estate should be bombed out of existence if need be.
This is the key to beating Obama. And those Sunday morning cheer-leading pieces of propaganda should receives high doses of verbal arsenic.
Does anyone remember the “silent majority” from the ’68 election? Things are different now, for many reasons, but I feel you will see a resurgence of this phenomenon in Nov.
Obama can’t help himself. Just look at the events since he got back from Hawaii. He is drunk with power and determined to do whatever it takes to hold on to it, be in the spotlight and receive the adoration of approving masses.
Only problem is the tighter he hold on, the more people will become concerned and disenchanted with his greatness.
Had Obama mimicked Clinton, moving to the center in Jan 2011, adopting Simpson-Bowles, be more receptive to oil-gas production and look at entitlement restructuring seriously, we would not be blogging as we are. We would either be supporters or at least accepting of his right to try for a second term.
But Obama did a beeline in the other direction, disregarding the will of the electorate, devising a ridiculous campaign platform and doubling down not as a liberal, but a radical-socialist progressive.
Americans understand this and will vote accordingly.
Unfortunately, the “Silent Majority” is now a “Silent Minority” thanks to unlimited immigration, legal and otherwise…
anyone who has ever had to deal with the contrary end of a community organizer knows they are completely dishonest.
they lack any sense of morality or virtue or fairness.
you can not debate them any more then you can debate a two year old child.
the single biggest mistake conservatives make is thinking that you can dialog or reason with them ….you can not.
you need to force them out, expose them constantly and never debate or dialog with them. this is very alien to most Americans and sadly still not recognized by most of them.
it is war …and guess who is winning !
Something else to think about – and as cfbleachers, proreason, bear and others have been arguing, we can’t sit back and hope that this election will be decided by reason, by our tried-and-true tactics of sitting and listening to debates etc.
Obama doesn’t operate by ethical standards. He’s never gotten a single position by merit; it’s all been backroom deals and up-front manipulation and propaganda.
Obama controls the Information Network – the institutions that produce the data and many of the institutions that package the data (and leave out important facts)…
Obama is campaigning this time, not on Bash Bush, but on Bash Congress. That is, effectively, denigrating the People. Obama is quite prepared to throw a host of Democrats in both the House and Senate – under the bus. Please understand; he doesn’t care.
Obama has moved, more and more, into governance by executive fiat; he’s operating as a near-dictator. He is utterly indifferent to Congress. And it will get worse – in fact, I’m going to say that Obama has every intention of destroying Congress as an effective governing agency – and remember, Congress is the Voice of the People. Obama’s agenda is his own personal, individual Rule.
Therefore – we MUST voice the facts. And this also means that we, not Obama, but we must define Obama. Obama defined himself in 2008 as The Messiah. Now, he’s going to define himself as The Wise Ruler.
Don’t let him define himself. We must define him. As someone who lives in a totally fictional self-authored world. While we, the People of America, have the strength and character to live in the real world of hard facts; we face reality; we don’t manufacture fictional tales.
DEFINE Obama. Don’t let him define himself.
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I agree with the sentiments above that discussing these things isn’t quite enough but what else to do other than support the candidate of your choice, limited by the particular candidates who are running?
Interesting article discussing why Romney is likely to lose: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/287309/simple-arithmetic-michael-walsh
Personally, I’d like to see more people get behind Gingrich.
bobbcat
We must FORCE the issues to the forefront. And no, I don’t believe Newt is the answer. He’s brand damaged and unreliable.
WE must decide what the issues are that WE want to be discussed. It is no longer ok to counter propaganda with the “soft condemnation” of merely pointing it out …when we catch it.
Being a pin cushion and saying ouch every time another needle is stuck in us is no way to stop being a pin cushion.
WE must demand that OUR issues come to the forefront, that OUR issues become the focal point and that OUR candidate be the one to carry OUR banner.
Having “B” teamers foisted upon us …only to watch them engage in the politics of giving each other “wedgies” is a colossal waste of time, energy and political capital.
The Republican Party is not listening. They are tone deaf. EVERY one of these candidates gives off the appearance of being about THEM and not about us…and what we think is important.
They are out of touch, out of tune, out of synch, and out of “game”.
It’s all the same crap…and they miss the key issues by a mile.
1)Runaway leftism is going to tear us down just like it has in Europe and just like it has done everywhere it has set its diseased feet in every country in the world.
2)Our information stream is poisoned and we must never drink from it again. It is not serving us, it is serving a Marxist master. We cannot self-govern this land of ours based upon a pack of lies intended to deceive us.
3)We are on an unsustainable path and there is an element of Marxists who are intentionally accelerating that path.
4)It is NOT just the debt, it is not just the unemployment, it not just the bloated government, it is not just the Workers Party unions, it is not just massive regulatory strangulation of new business, it is not just open borders, it is not just gutting the military, it is not just executive branch overreach, it is NOT just the strangling of our natural resources, it is not just the crony socialism, it is not just the global weather hoax…it is the INTENTIONAL planting of those and a million other Marxist landmines into our system in order to bring down the free market and replace it with Marxism.
If we don’t address the real issue…we will always be nibbling around the edges of the symptoms, not the disease. We can’t cure what we refuse to acknowledge.
WE must demand that OUR candidate be able to articulate this message clearly and with skilled passion, we MUST demand that our candidate not be distracted and tripped up by “wedge” issues, we must demand that our candidate have a broad appeal, a natural likeability, a “servant’s heart” to his country, a patriotic instinct, the courage of OUR convictions, and an undamaged brand.
Unfortunately, that is None of the Above for the “B” teamers.
I would recommend that a committee be formed out of Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan, John Thune, Kristi Noem, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal, Eric Cantor, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio and that committee addresses these concerns in earnest.
If the Republican Party does not see by now that there is something desperately wrong with this primary season and if they are not wise enough to understand what is driving it…we are going to continue careening down a path toward throwing away what could be a last chance at saving this land of ours.
We must DEMAND that they meet in THAT committee. The reason the primary season has been so erratic…is being misread …wildly misread. We have the wrong people, discussing the wrong issues, in the wrong manner, at the wrong time in our history.
It is not ok for us to sit back and “make the best of it” by choosing the best of the worst, the “B” teamer we dislike least.
We deserve better. We should demand better. All of us. United. Before it’s too late.
Well, Newt might be “brand damaged,” but I think he’d do a better job as POTUS than any of the rest of them.
You do make some great suggestions but how are they going to be implemented? Who is going to get this committee of top Pub pols together?
damaged as compared to who …obama ??
I am for Newt. and disgusted with the congress ..where are the freshmen who said no mo more debt?
I was referring to CFB’s comment above: “…I don’t believe Newt is the answer. He’s brand damaged and unreliable.”
Note that when I used the phrase, I enclosed it in quotes, denoting that I got it from him.
At any rate, I support Newt as well despite all his problems & character flaws because he strikes me as someone who could do a really good job as POTUS.
Pretty much says it all: “The Republican Party is not listening. They are tone deaf. EVERY one of these candidates gives off the appearance of being about THEM and not about us…and what we think is important.
They are out of touch, out of tune, out of synch, and out of ‘game’.”
I agree with all the points but also think we have to be realistic about the possibilities.
Romney is probably going to get the nomination. I support Gingrich and would probabaly support Ryan and some others over Romney, but all become progressively longer shots.
We just need to let it play out; advocate, certainly, for our favorite, but be aware that it is probably going to be Romney.
And given the reality, let’s at least acknowledge that it could be worse than Mitt. He’s articulate, good-looking, and has no personal skeletons. Yes they will go after the Mormon religion and Bain Capital, but it could be much worse.
Even though Romney isn’t my favorite, I think he is probably more conservative than he is given credit for being. It’s hard to obeserve him, for example, and not believe he is personally conservative, despite the numerous dalliances with liberal thinking. He will also probably be a good President if he gets that far.
The issue with Romney, at least as I see it, is more with his electability. I know that the Ruling Class has declared him the most electable, but I believe the Ruling Class is more interested in the continuance of their own sinecures than the fate of the country. Rush and many others have rightly warned that the Republican Ruling Class doesn’t really see Obama as a great threat to liberty.
So I think the theme of the day is what cf says. It’s on us to force Mitt to do what needs to be done to win. A milquetoast campaign based on a jutting jaw and the assumption of a weak economy doesn’t meet OUR expectations.
We need to chance Mitt’s approach, or the approach of whoever the candidate is. The future of the country is at stake, more this year than it has been since 1860.
I think i am being realistic, proreason.
The current tach by these primarians…is off course. Throw out Ron Paul and Huntsman who are wasting time and money.
Perry is so off the charts at the moment he may need to reassess his reassessment.
Gingrich has such high negatives, his brand would be New Coke if it wasn’t the Chevy Volt, spontaneously bursting into flames without warning or provocation.
That leaves Mitt and Santorum.
Really? We are going into the battle of our lives…with Daniels, Ryan, Rubio. West, Thune, Jindal, Christie, Barbour, Cantor, Noem…on the sidelines…with a McCain redux plan? THAT’S the “best we can do”?
My analysis of the voting “pattern” so far in the primaries…is “None of the Above” is winning handily.
Why not stop to dig deeper into why that is and what is really wanted.
If Romney wants to carry the banner, he at least ought to be aware of what those he means to represent want from him. Because right now, he isn’t close to delivering on it. If he knows and chooses to run the “four corners” offense instead, do we just sit back and watch the nation implode?
Or do we demand that a first stringer come in and we insist on being properly represented? If the Republicans are not reading the voting “pattern” correctly, or if they are too lazy, complacent, weak-willed to do so…we should DEMAND they listen.
We need a time out. Have my above names form a committee and make half time adjustments. Because “take a knee” is not a game plan. It’s a surrender.
I ask you again, CFB: How does one go about getting such a committee together? Our goals must be shared by those behind the Beltway who can make it happen.
Some think that the two parties are really one. I really wonder sometimes if there isn’t more validity to that than meets the eye. They all seem, once they are in office, to be on the page that directs toward growing the size, scope & expense of gov’t. No one, & I do mean NO ONE is out there really trumpeting Reagan’s philosophy of “gov’t is the problem, not the solution” approach to solving our problems. No one is talking about solving problems from the aspect of gov’t acting within its roles as delineated by the Constitution. Nothing is being done to help guide people away from the well-entrenched entitlement mentality that encourages the mindset that says gov’t will take care of your needs. No one is going there. No. One.
We must have faith in the the wisdom of the American electorate, a bunch of pre-21 year old hedonists voting on the basis of sex appeal. I’m sure they can be counted on to make a wise, informed decision.
BTW, here is a list of reasons to appreciate Obama for the leader he is complied by Rabbi Dov Fischer with around 23 additional reasons supplied by me. Apologies if you have seen it before I am trying to have it go viral by election day.
1. Obamacare — Attempting to federalize local state rights, extending federal control over massive components of the national bourse, extending federal control over individuals’ lives in violation of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. Cynically lining up supporters in white doctors’ robes, while refusing to consult with much more prominent and predominant medical groups who oppose. Lying about the program’s cost and tax burden by subterfuging it with exorbitant taxes that begin several years into its anticipated roll-out. Robbing $500 billion from Medicare that will destroy access for seniors, while lying about the Ryan proposal that would not affect people over 55.
2. The catastrophic $850 billion stimulus. $700,000 to develop a robot that tells jokes. $3.4 million for an underground tunnel for turtles to cross the road in Florida. $1 million to help smokers kick the habit by giving them Blackberry “smartphones.” $2.6 million for Chinese prostitutes in China to drink responsibly. Lying to Americans by claiming the money was going to “shovel-ready jobs” — and then joking about the falsehood. Lying by hiding the amounts transferred to favored liberal projects unrelated to job growth or economic stimulation.
3. Chronically high, persistent unemployment — His own staff said that he would bring it under 8% ; yet it remains over 9% thirty months into his one term, with real unemployment actually exceeding 15% as huge numbers of unemployed Americans withdraw from searching hopelessly for jobs. Lying about a Summer of Recovery (2010).
4. Gas prices — Now exceeding $4.50 a gallon in California, while he bars exploration in ANWR, restricts licenses to explore along the Atlantic coast or in the Gulf, but exports American dollars to help Brazil explore for oil in the Gulf even as Obama promises that America then will buy that oil from Brazil. (See also #82.)
5. Failure to pass a budget. The abject failure by the Chief Executive to get any kind of budget adopted for 2010.
6. Multi-trillion debt free-fall. Turning the disastrous Bush deficits into a multi-trillion-dollar economic free-fall, now leaving the nation with a debt exceeding $14.3 trillion . . . and pressing for authorization to increase the free-fall. His own latest mad deficit proposal was demolished in a House vote 97-318, as his own Democrats abandoned him in droves.
7. The seizure of GM and Chrysler. The illegal transfer of bondholder wealth to unions, imposing his views on parts of the American auto industry, artificially trying to jump-start his favored companies with “Cash for Clunkers,” only to find that American tax dollars were used instead by people buying preferred Japanese cars to acquire them cheaper while being forced to destroy throughly sound used cars.
8. Dodd-Frank.
9. Unremitting hostility to Israel. Destroying the Mideast process by imposing unilateral burdens on Israel, forcing Israel to cease construction of Jewish homes, even in Jerusalem, thus compelling Abbas to harden several positions, all while publicly snubbing Prime Minister Netanyahu in the basement of the White House (the first visit) and trying to snub him on the second visit with a horrible policy speech as Netanyahu was flying en route to America.
10. Failure to support Iran’s Green Revolution. A complete silence and abandonment of leadership when Iranians risked their lives for freedom, while backing the Moslem Brotherhood uprising in Egypt.
11. Failure to support the Syrian people’s revolution against Assad. Utter failure to lead until it was impossible to overlook the massacres by a dictator who actively finances and supports Iran and Hezbollah, America’s sworn enemies in Iraq and South Lebanon.
12. The Libyan Fiasco. Entering Libya while failing to consult Congress. No sense of whether we are supporting people just as bad as Qaddafi. Remaining in the war more than 90 days without obtaining Congressional approval. Lying about violating the War Powers Act by claiming there are no “hostilities” in Libya.
13. The Gulf oil disaster. Bumbling in handling the Gulf oil disaster — refusing aid from countries with oil-cleaning vessels, failing to accept offers of boom to corral the spill, bringing in underwater filmmaker James Cameron as an expert.
14. Closing down oil exploration. The unnecessary moritorium on permitting oil exploration in the aftermath of the Gulf oil disaster, contributing to a massive explosion of oil prices, even leading a federal court to overturn him.
15. EPA interference. The shutdown of Shell’s Arctic oil exploration by EPA
16. Cap-and-Trade Fiasco. The push in Congress for a disastrous “cap-and-trade” plan that would stymie the coal, electric, and natural gas industries, while enormously raising Americans’ home fuel prices, leading even his own party’s U.S. Senator from West Virginia to film a TV promise to voters that he will shoot the proposal full of holes.
17. Use of federal agencies to bypass Congressional oversight. The attempt, after Congress refused to adopt his cap-and-trade nonsense, to bypass Congressional opposition and impose cap-and-trade undemocratically via the EPA.
18. Use of FCC initially to restrict free speech. The push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech on his political enemies on Talk Radio while assuring protections for unions to spend money on campaigns via The Disclose Act.
19. The Disclose Act and cherry-picking. The attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order.
20. Czars to bypass Congressional oversight. The use of unaccountable “czars” who effectively run huge segments of the American Government without being accountable to Congress and who are protected from Congressional subpoena power.
21. Boorish shaming of Supreme Court justices. The embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on the Supreme Court while Court Justices courteously attended the first State of the Union address, sitting in front of him, leading most to boycott the subsequent State of Union addresses.
22. Boorish attempt to shame Paul Ryan. The similarly embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on Rep. Paul Ryan when addressing the federal budget, with Ryan having been invited personally by Obama to attend the speech and sit in front of him.
23. Boorish attempt to shame John McCain. The insulting, embarrassing, and arrogant gloating at John McCain during the televised sham negotiation over Obamacare, when he responded to McCain not substantively but by saying that Obama had won and McCain had lost the election — so there!
24. Refusal to prosecute Black Panthers for Voter Intimidation. Obama’s and Attorney-General Eric Holder’s politicization of the Department of Justice, including refusing to prosecute the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in Philadelphia.
25. Marriage Act. Obama’s and Holder’s refusal to defend the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, an act of Congress.
26. Lies, Lies, Lies. The regular use of straw-man demonizations to try winning support for his unpopular legislation, like accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery so that they can enrich themselves by imposing misery on their patients.
27. Throwing his grandmother under the bus. Using his grandmother as a foil to win points, calling her a racist like “typical white people.”
28. Bowing to the Saudi King and the Japanese emperor. Literally.
29. Treating our British alliance contemptuously. Shamefully returning to Great Britain the bust of Winston Churchill that they had given us and that had reposed in the White House, while insulting the Queen and the Prime Minister with inane gifts like DVDs and an IPOD with his speeches. The subsequent fiasco while toasting the Queen, continuing to talk during the playing of the British National Anthem.
30. Violating and abrogating long-standing promises to our allies. Removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Putin.
31. Siding with the aspiring Honduran dictator. Backing the would-be dictator of Honduras when that nation’s duly convoked Supreme Court had removed him from office in careful compliance with law.
32. FTAs with allies. Failure to push for quick ratification of free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea.
33. Amateurish handling of Afghanistan military effort. The painfully over-extended indecision, for months, whether to authorize a military surge into Afghanistan, then exacerbating the indecision by announcing to our enemies a date-certain withdrawal timeline — a time coordinated with his reelection bid.
34. Incoherence on how to handle the anti-Mubarak uprising in Egypt. Dispatching Frank Wizner as his emissary, then rejecting Wizner’s advice.
35. Radicalizing the NLRB outside Congressional purview. Appointing [Harold] Craig Becker, a radical unionist, to the NLRB through a recess appointment that otherwise never would have passed Congress.
36. Radicalizing FCC outside Congressional purview. Appointing FCC commissioners who are pursuing “net neutrality” without Congressional authorization.
37. Ecology gone wild in California. Wiping out much of the agricultural economy of California’s Central Valley by restricting full water deliveries to protect a small Delta Smelt fish
38. Gitmo debacles. Promising to close the Guantanamo Bay facility that interns terrorists, trying to close it, failing to close it, refusing to concede his error or assure that “Gitmo” will remain open.
39. Civil trials for terrorists debacles. Promising to move terrorist trials to civilian courts, then trying to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Downtown New York, only to be opposed even by the two ultra-liberal Democrat U.S. Senators of New York, then pressing to try another terrorist, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, in civilian court, resulting in the terrorist being acquitted on 284 of 285 counts.
40. Napolitano out of touch. The shameful failure of Obama’s Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, to appreciate the Obama Administration’s security failures in the face of the near-catastrophe of the “underwear bomber” in the skies over Detroit, as she insisted “the system worked.”
41. Student loans. Government takeover of the student loan program
42. Border security. Cancellation of the “virtual border fence” project with no replacement, while deploying National Guard troops to do paper work at desk jobs and provide office assistance rather than stand armed along the border.
43. The “Beer Summit.” In the aftermath of wrongly castigating and erroneously pre-judging fault regarding the Cambridge Police Department, tying up the country with a foolish spectacle on the White House lawn.
44. Immigration and Arizona. The Department of Justice’s attack on Arizona for that state’s exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules. Failure of his own federal government to execute the law on immigration.
45. The attack on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Attacking the Wisconsin governor and his state legislature for exercising their sovereign legislative authority on public employment issues, while Obama failed to acknowledge that the new Wisconsin rules are comparable to those that always have applied to federal employees.
46. Lying to McCain on their deal over campaign fundraising. Violating his pledge to John McCain to abide by McCain-Feingold limits for funding his Presidential campaign.
47. Downplaying American exceptionalism. Apology tours.
48. Implying that the Minnesota bridge collapse was the result of lack of infrastructure funding
49. Chicago Olympics fiasco. Shamefully inserting himself into a botched campaign to bring Olympic Games to Chicago, thereby exposing the Presidency of the United States to ridicule and formal rejection, and demonstrating early-on his overconfident sense of himself and his unpreparedness for the seriousness of his office.
50. Hypocritical attack on D.C. public school voucher effort. The attack on a voucher program for Washington, D.C. schools, even as his own children are protected from the educational failures that curse the Washington populace.
51. Associating with the murky. Associations with convicted unrepentant domestic terrorists and eccentric haters of America: the Reverend Wright, William Ayres, Van Jones.
52. Anita Dunn. Her war against Fox News and her boastfulness that the Obama White House has the “courage to speak truth to Power” — when it is the White House, not a cable TV station, that is “Power”; and her speech to schoolchildren, as a White House representative, sharing with the young and impressionable her idolization and admiration of mass-murderer Mao Tse-Tung.
53. ACORN.
54. SEIU. Having Andrew Stern, President of SEIU, as the man who has visited the White House more than any other person during the Obama term.
55. Teleprompters / White House for Dummies. A reliance on teleprompters to protect him from stumbling and bumbling speeches when, without scripting, he has spoken of his visits to America’s “57 states,” has denigrated the handicapped, could not pronounce “corpsman,” moronically said that Austrians speak “Austrian,” referred to deceased war heroes adding that many were in the audience he was addressing, and has made more gaffes than Dan Quayle.
56. Arrogance and Haughtiness. An extreme level of personal nose-in-the-air arrogance and lack of graciousness, from physical comportment to the way he addresses others. The Roman columns. The arrogant temerity to tell Americans, God-like, that history will record his coronation as the moment that the rivers stopped rising and the planet healed.
57. Chicago Corruption. The house he corruptly acquired through Tony Rezko.
58. The artificial shifting dialects. Affecting an artificial accent when speaking to unions, and to others with whom he allies in his “class wars,” that belies his having grown up in Hawaii, reared by a Caucasian grandmother, his having spent years being schooled in Indonesia, and later attending school at Occidental College in California, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.
59. Lack of transparency. Refusing to share his academic records or the sources through which he paid for private college and law school, despite his pre-election calls for transparency.
60. Failure to lead on immigration. Not confronting the immigration issue when he dominantly controlled both the House and a filibuster-proof Senate, then mocking the GOP on immigration, saying they would not be happy with “alligators and moats” — when all they want is secure borders.
61. Fiscal irresponsibility on foreign relations with Egypt. Forgiving billions of dollars in Egyptian and related Mideast debt when we are past the 14.3 trillion debt line.
62. Wasting billions on corrupt “Palestine” agencies. Pumping billions more into the discredited United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Authority that merged with the terrorist Hamas.
63. Radical judicial appointments. Nominating a radical leftist, Professor Goodwin Liu, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit despite Liu’s contempt for constitutional imperatives towards limited government.
64. Acceding to political bribery by cherry-picking waivers to Obamacare for favored donors. Forcing Obamacare down the throats of small businesses across America that cannot afford it . . . then approving politically correct and electoral pay-off waivers for his friends, donors, and rich boutique businesses. Granting 20% of all the country’s Obamacare waivers in Pelosi’s San Francisco district. Buying off votes from Ben Nelson of Nebraska (the Cornhusker Deal), Mary Landrieu (the Louisiana Purchase) to pass Obamacare.
65. Using the White House to crush political opposition. Trying to force donors to his political opponents to reveal their contributions. Using the White House official website asking supporters to report to the Government instances of people criticizing Government policies.
66. Attempting to crush media opposition. Punishing a Boston newspaper whose editorial attacked him, having his White House conduct a war against Fox News, claiming they are an entertainment, not a news organization, and then boycotting Fox until that strategy backfired.
67. Encouraging cultural decline. Inviting “Common,” a “poet” with disgusting lyrics of hate, to entertain at the White House
68. The Louis XVI Factor. Vacations and high-profile golf during the Gulf oil crisis, prompting even Democrat strategist and Presidential advisor James Carville to erupt in fury. More high-profile golf at Cape Cod while the country was losing its AAA credit rating for the first time.
69. The Marie Antoinette Factor. Michelle high-profile huge trips abroad, a la Eva Peron, with family friends and their children partying on the public payroll, at 5-star hotels in places like Spain.
70. Al Sharpton. Launching his national presidential reelection campaign with a speech to Al Sharpton’s base.
71. Secrecy in Legislation. Failing to honor his pledge to conduct transparent governance, crafting Obamacare with Democrats behind closed doors barred to Republicans, leaving Obamacare as a massive document so convoluted that Nancy Pelosi had to tell the media: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
72. A philosophy of redistributing other people’s money. Trying to persuade “Joe the Plumber” that it is a beneficial national economic goal to “redistribute the wealth.”
73. Cynically blaming Republicans and Talk Radio for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Blaming their rhetoric, while failing to address Democrat use of vile and violent language to describe Republicans and the Tea Party.
74. Lying about a family connection to the Holocaust. Lying and falsely telling Americans that his grandfather was among those who liberated Auschwitz when, in fact, no American troops liberated Auschwitz.
75. Failing to grasp the Israel narrative. Describing Israel’s right to exist as premised on the Holocaust, thus missing the entire point of a Jewish country built on the land where Jews have lived since Biblical times.
76. Lying about a family connection to the Civil Rights movement. Telling Americans that his birth happened because his parents became amorous as a result of the 1965 Selma Civil Rights March — even though he was born in 1961.
77. Collapse of the housing market. American housing prices lowest since 2002.
78. Manipulating legislation by forcing votes on massive documents. Racing massive thousand-page legislation packages through Congress without allowing Congress or the American People time to read, comprehend, and absorb the bill — and thus breaking a major campaign promise.
79. The Credit Rating downgrade. Presiding over the first credit-rating downgrade in American history.
80. Timing military campaigns to coincide with election campaigns. Manipulating and sacrificing the lives of American soldiers, basing a withdrawal from Afghanistan not on strategic national security considerations but timed instead to coincide with the start of the 2012 Democrat Presidential Convention.
81. NLRB. Stacking the National Labor Relations Board with left-focused political hacks who are attempting to prevent America’s leading exporter, Boeing, from building a $1 billion manufacturing plant in South Carolina because that state permits employment of non-union labor.
82. Cynically manipulating the national Strategic Oil Reserve. Releasing 30 million barrels of oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to obtain the temporary political goal of lowering gasoline prices that have skyrocketed in the face of his severe restrictions on permitting exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, along the Atlantic coast, and in Alaska in his obsessive pursuit of “green jobs.”
83. “Operation Fast and Furious” debacle. Allowing Mexican drug lords to access illegal firearms, then losing track of the firearms while the drug cartels used the illegal firearms for crime including murdering Americans.
84. Lying, lying, and more lying to voters. Trying to create class warfare by telling people that Republicans’ refusal to raise taxes will cause youngsters to be unable to finance their college educations, while causing seniors to lose health care and social security payments. Failing to admit honestly that Congress extended the Bush tax cuts and refused to increase taxes even when Democrats had a filibuster-proof Senate and veto-proof control of both Congressional chambers.
85. Investigating CIA patriots. The Holder investigation into CIA operatives’ interrogations of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists and their use of methods that had been approved in advance by the Justice Department.
Here are my additions:
86. the Solyndra scandal.
87. Noncompliance by Eric Holder and the White House for information relating to various investigations.
88. Requesting help from an anti-American terrorist group, Pakistan’s ISI to negotiate with the Al-Qaeda supporting Haqqani network.
89. Bankrolling failed green manufacturing schemes in Finland and Spain, to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
90. having an Islamist Turkish government, that openly engaged in a terrorist attack on Israel, join an anti-terrorism task force.
91. Delaying the decision for the Keystone XL pipeline, even though there have been numerous studies proving its safety, and costing thousands of US jobs.
92. Delaying shale gas drilling in Wayne National forest over fracking concerns even though are already known to be fallacious.
93. Classifying Major Hassan’s attack at Ft. Hood in which 13 people were murdered as workplace violence rather than a terrorist attack.
94. Politely asking the Iranian government to return our spy drone, therefore furthering the impression that the US is a laughingstock.
95. Failure to negotiate a SOFA with Iraq thereby assuring that no US troops will be in Iraq to prevent the establishment of Iranian hegemony over that country. That is, turning a victory into a defeat.
96. The constant comparisons between himself and better presidents; so far he has tried to compare himself to Lincoln, both Roosevelts and Reagan.
97. Inability to even understand the threat the Moslem Brotherhood and radical Islamist pose to the US, the west and Arab liberals.
98. Giving moral support, a wink and a nod, to the miscreants of the OWS crowd.
99. Failure to destroy America’s top secret spy drone after it fell into Iranian hands
100. Living in abject fear of Iran going to war with the US in spite of the fact they are conducting constant operations against our troops in Afghanistan and against our allies.
101. The release of several Iranian terrorists who kidnapped and murdered US soldiers in Karbala, Iraq in exchange for the bodies of their kidnap victims.
102. The effort to ensure voter fraud by attacking picture voter identification.
103. Failing to keep quiet about the bin Laden raid as long as possible so that the intelligence from the raid could be used. Once the enemy knows you have intelligence on him he will change his plans and locations.
104. Failure to understand that the war on terror is NOT only a war against Al-Qaeda but rather a war against the political culture of the middle east.
105. Distinguishing between Al-Qaeda and the regime that harbored it, the Taliban. If this was George Bush’s policy Al-Qaeda would still be sheltered by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
106. Claiming without any justification that the US Chamber of Commerce was taking foreign money. This was so obliviously libelous not even the MSM backed up Obama. He subsequently avoided the subject. The change was apparently in an effort to avoid disaster in the 2010 election.
107. Recess appointments when the Congress is not in recess.
108. Announcing military budget cuts while issues Iran and the Taliban are unresolved, ensuring them that victory due to US incapacity is near. Likewise US allies worldwide become concerned.
That list may be long, but it’s dripping with bias. There is an opposing point of view and different set of assumptions to address most of the grievances listed.
BTW, here is a list of reasons to condemn Obama complied by Rabbi Dov Fischer with around 23 reasons added by me. Apologies if you have seen it before I am trying to have it go viral by election day.
1. Obamacare — Attempting to federalize local state rights, extending federal control over massive components of the national bourse, extending federal control over individuals’ lives in violation of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. Cynically lining up supporters in white doctors’ robes, while refusing to consult with much more prominent and predominant medical groups who oppose. Lying about the program’s cost and tax burden by subterfuging it with exorbitant taxes that begin several years into its anticipated roll-out. Robbing $500 billion from Medicare that will destroy access for seniors, while lying about the Ryan proposal that would not affect people over 55.
2. The catastrophic $850 billion stimulus. $700,000 to develop a robot that tells jokes. $3.4 million for an underground tunnel for turtles to cross the road in Florida. $1 million to help smokers kick the habit by giving them Blackberry “smartphones.” $2.6 million for Chinese prostitutes in China to drink responsibly. Lying to Americans by claiming the money was going to “shovel-ready jobs” — and then joking about the falsehood. Lying by hiding the amounts transferred to favored liberal projects unrelated to job growth or economic stimulation.
3. Chronically high, persistent unemployment — His own staff said that he would bring it under 8% ; yet it remains over 9% thirty months into his one term, with real unemployment actually exceeding 15% as huge numbers of unemployed Americans withdraw from searching hopelessly for jobs. Lying about a Summer of Recovery (2010).
4. Gas prices — Now exceeding $4.50 a gallon in California, while he bars exploration in ANWR, restricts licenses to explore along the Atlantic coast or in the Gulf, but exports American dollars to help Brazil explore for oil in the Gulf even as Obama promises that America then will buy that oil from Brazil. (See also #82.)
5. Failure to pass a budget. The abject failure by the Chief Executive to get any kind of budget adopted for 2010.
6. Multi-trillion debt free-fall. Turning the disastrous Bush deficits into a multi-trillion-dollar economic free-fall, now leaving the nation with a debt exceeding $14.3 trillion . . . and pressing for authorization to increase the free-fall. His own latest mad deficit proposal was demolished in a House vote 97-318, as his own Democrats abandoned him in droves.
7. The seizure of GM and Chrysler. The illegal transfer of bondholder wealth to unions, imposing his views on parts of the American auto industry, artificially trying to jump-start his favored companies with “Cash for Clunkers,” only to find that American tax dollars were used instead by people buying preferred Japanese cars to acquire them cheaper while being forced to destroy throughly sound used cars.
8. Dodd-Frank.
9. Unremitting hostility to Israel. Destroying the Mideast process by imposing unilateral burdens on Israel, forcing Israel to cease construction of Jewish homes, even in Jerusalem, thus compelling Abbas to harden several positions, all while publicly snubbing Prime Minister Netanyahu in the basement of the White House (the first visit) and trying to snub him on the second visit with a horrible policy speech as Netanyahu was flying en route to America.
10. Failure to support Iran’s Green Revolution. A complete silence and abandonment of leadership when Iranians risked their lives for freedom, while backing the Moslem Brotherhood uprising in Egypt.
11. Failure to support the Syrian people’s revolution against Assad. Utter failure to lead until it was impossible to overlook the massacres by a dictator who actively finances and supports Iran and Hezbollah, America’s sworn enemies in Iraq and South Lebanon.
12. The Libyan Fiasco. Entering Libya while failing to consult Congress. No sense of whether we are supporting people just as bad as Qaddafi. Remaining in the war more than 90 days without obtaining Congressional approval. Lying about violating the War Powers Act by claiming there are no “hostilities” in Libya.
13. The Gulf oil disaster. Bumbling in handling the Gulf oil disaster — refusing aid from countries with oil-cleaning vessels, failing to accept offers of boom to corral the spill, bringing in underwater filmmaker James Cameron as an expert.
14. Closing down oil exploration. The unnecessary moritorium on permitting oil exploration in the aftermath of the Gulf oil disaster, contributing to a massive explosion of oil prices, even leading a federal court to overturn him.
15. EPA interference. The shutdown of Shell’s Arctic oil exploration by EPA
16. Cap-and-Trade Fiasco. The push in Congress for a disastrous “cap-and-trade” plan that would stymie the coal, electric, and natural gas industries, while enormously raising Americans’ home fuel prices, leading even his own party’s U.S. Senator from West Virginia to film a TV promise to voters that he will shoot the proposal full of holes.
17. Use of federal agencies to bypass Congressional oversight. The attempt, after Congress refused to adopt his cap-and-trade nonsense, to bypass Congressional opposition and impose cap-and-trade undemocratically via the EPA.
18. Use of FCC initially to restrict free speech. The push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech on his political enemies on Talk Radio while assuring protections for unions to spend money on campaigns via The Disclose Act.
19. The Disclose Act and cherry-picking. The attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order.
20. Czars to bypass Congressional oversight. The use of unaccountable “czars” who effectively run huge segments of the American Government without being accountable to Congress and who are protected from Congressional subpoena power.
21. Boorish shaming of Supreme Court justices. The embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on the Supreme Court while Court Justices courteously attended the first State of the Union address, sitting in front of him, leading most to boycott the subsequent State of Union addresses.
22. Boorish attempt to shame Paul Ryan. The similarly embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on Rep. Paul Ryan when addressing the federal budget, with Ryan having been invited personally by Obama to attend the speech and sit in front of him.
23. Boorish attempt to shame John McCain. The insulting, embarrassing, and arrogant gloating at John McCain during the televised sham negotiation over Obamacare, when he responded to McCain not substantively but by saying that Obama had won and McCain had lost the election — so there!
24. Refusal to prosecute Black Panthers for Voter Intimidation. Obama’s and Attorney-General Eric Holder’s politicization of the Department of Justice, including refusing to prosecute the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in Philadelphia.
25. Marriage Act. Obama’s and Holder’s refusal to defend the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, an act of Congress.
26. Lies, Lies, Lies. The regular use of straw-man demonizations to try winning support for his unpopular legislation, like accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery so that they can enrich themselves by imposing misery on their patients.
27. Throwing his grandmother under the bus. Using his grandmother as a foil to win points, calling her a racist like “typical white people.”
28. Bowing to the Saudi King and the Japanese emperor. Literally.
29. Treating our British alliance contemptuously. Shamefully returning to Great Britain the bust of Winston Churchill that they had given us and that had reposed in the White House, while insulting the Queen and the Prime Minister with inane gifts like DVDs and an IPOD with his speeches. The subsequent fiasco while toasting the Queen, continuing to talk during the playing of the British National Anthem.
30. Violating and abrogating long-standing promises to our allies. Removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Putin.
31. Siding with the aspiring Honduran dictator. Backing the would-be dictator of Honduras when that nation’s duly convoked Supreme Court had removed him from office in careful compliance with law.
32. FTAs with allies. Failure to push for quick ratification of free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea.
33. Amateurish handling of Afghanistan military effort. The painfully over-extended indecision, for months, whether to authorize a military surge into Afghanistan, then exacerbating the indecision by announcing to our enemies a date-certain withdrawal timeline — a time coordinated with his reelection bid.
34. Incoherence on how to handle the anti-Mubarak uprising in Egypt. Dispatching Frank Wizner as his emissary, then rejecting Wizner’s advice.
35. Radicalizing the NLRB outside Congressional purview. Appointing [Harold] Craig Becker, a radical unionist, to the NLRB through a recess appointment that otherwise never would have passed Congress.
36. Radicalizing FCC outside Congressional purview. Appointing FCC commissioners who are pursuing “net neutrality” without Congressional authorization.
37. Ecology gone wild in California. Wiping out much of the agricultural economy of California’s Central Valley by restricting full water deliveries to protect a small Delta Smelt fish
38. Gitmo debacles. Promising to close the Guantanamo Bay facility that interns terrorists, trying to close it, failing to close it, refusing to concede his error or assure that “Gitmo” will remain open.
39. Civil trials for terrorists debacles. Promising to move terrorist trials to civilian courts, then trying to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Downtown New York, only to be opposed even by the two ultra-liberal Democrat U.S. Senators of New York, then pressing to try another terrorist, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, in civilian court, resulting in the terrorist being acquitted on 284 of 285 counts.
40. Napolitano out of touch. The shameful failure of Obama’s Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, to appreciate the Obama Administration’s security failures in the face of the near-catastrophe of the “underwear bomber” in the skies over Detroit, as she insisted “the system worked.”
41. Student loans. Government takeover of the student loan program
42. Border security. Cancellation of the “virtual border fence” project with no replacement, while deploying National Guard troops to do paper work at desk jobs and provide office assistance rather than stand armed along the border.
43. The “Beer Summit.” In the aftermath of wrongly castigating and erroneously pre-judging fault regarding the Cambridge Police Department, tying up the country with a foolish spectacle on the White House lawn.
44. Immigration and Arizona. The Department of Justice’s attack on Arizona for that state’s exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules. Failure of his own federal government to execute the law on immigration.
45. The attack on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Attacking the Wisconsin governor and his state legislature for exercising their sovereign legislative authority on public employment issues, while Obama failed to acknowledge that the new Wisconsin rules are comparable to those that always have applied to federal employees.
46. Lying to McCain on their deal over campaign fundraising. Violating his pledge to John McCain to abide by McCain-Feingold limits for funding his Presidential campaign.
47. Downplaying American exceptionalism. Apology tours.
48. Implying that the Minnesota bridge collapse was the result of lack of infrastructure funding
49. Chicago Olympics fiasco. Shamefully inserting himself into a botched campaign to bring Olympic Games to Chicago, thereby exposing the Presidency of the United States to ridicule and formal rejection, and demonstrating early-on his overconfident sense of himself and his unpreparedness for the seriousness of his office.
50. Hypocritical attack on D.C. public school voucher effort. The attack on a voucher program for Washington, D.C. schools, even as his own children are protected from the educational failures that curse the Washington populace.
51. Associating with the murky. Associations with convicted unrepentant domestic terrorists and eccentric haters of America: the Reverend Wright, William Ayres, Van Jones.
52. Anita Dunn. Her war against Fox News and her boastfulness that the Obama White House has the “courage to speak truth to Power” — when it is the White House, not a cable TV station, that is “Power”; and her speech to schoolchildren, as a White House representative, sharing with the young and impressionable her idolization and admiration of mass-murderer Mao Tse-Tung.
53. ACORN.
54. SEIU. Having Andrew Stern, President of SEIU, as the man who has visited the White House more than any other person during the Obama term.
55. Teleprompters / White House for Dummies. A reliance on teleprompters to protect him from stumbling and bumbling speeches when, without scripting, he has spoken of his visits to America’s “57 states,” has denigrated the handicapped, could not pronounce “corpsman,” moronically said that Austrians speak “Austrian,” referred to deceased war heroes adding that many were in the audience he was addressing, and has made more gaffes than Dan Quayle.
56. Arrogance and Haughtiness. An extreme level of personal nose-in-the-air arrogance and lack of graciousness, from physical comportment to the way he addresses others. The Roman columns. The arrogant temerity to tell Americans, God-like, that history will record his coronation as the moment that the rivers stopped rising and the planet healed.
57. Chicago Corruption. The house he corruptly acquired through Tony Rezko.
58. The artificial shifting dialects. Affecting an artificial accent when speaking to unions, and to others with whom he allies in his “class wars,” that belies his having grown up in Hawaii, reared by a Caucasian grandmother, his having spent years being schooled in Indonesia, and later attending school at Occidental College in California, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.
59. Lack of transparency. Refusing to share his academic records or the sources through which he paid for private college and law school, despite his pre-election calls for transparency.
60. Failure to lead on immigration. Not confronting the immigration issue when he dominantly controlled both the House and a filibuster-proof Senate, then mocking the GOP on immigration, saying they would not be happy with “alligators and moats” — when all they want is secure borders.
61. Fiscal irresponsibility on foreign relations with Egypt. Forgiving billions of dollars in Egyptian and related Mideast debt when we are past the 14.3 trillion debt line.
62. Wasting billions on corrupt “Palestine” agencies. Pumping billions more into the discredited United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Authority that merged with the terrorist Hamas.
63. Radical judicial appointments. Nominating a radical leftist, Professor Goodwin Liu, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit despite Liu’s contempt for constitutional imperatives towards limited government.
64. Acceding to political bribery by cherry-picking waivers to Obamacare for favored donors. Forcing Obamacare down the throats of small businesses across America that cannot afford it . . . then approving politically correct and electoral pay-off waivers for his friends, donors, and rich boutique businesses. Granting 20% of all the country’s Obamacare waivers in Pelosi’s San Francisco district. Buying off votes from Ben Nelson of Nebraska (the Cornhusker Deal), Mary Landrieu (the Louisiana Purchase) to pass Obamacare.
65. Using the White House to crush political opposition. Trying to force donors to his political opponents to reveal their contributions. Using the White House official website asking supporters to report to the Government instances of people criticizing Government policies.
66. Attempting to crush media opposition. Punishing a Boston newspaper whose editorial attacked him, having his White House conduct a war against Fox News, claiming they are an entertainment, not a news organization, and then boycotting Fox until that strategy backfired.
67. Encouraging cultural decline. Inviting “Common,” a “poet” with disgusting lyrics of hate, to entertain at the White House
68. The Louis XVI Factor. Vacations and high-profile golf during the Gulf oil crisis, prompting even Democrat strategist and Presidential advisor James Carville to erupt in fury. More high-profile golf at Cape Cod while the country was losing its AAA credit rating for the first time.
69. The Marie Antoinette Factor. Michelle high-profile huge trips abroad, a la Eva Peron, with family friends and their children partying on the public payroll, at 5-star hotels in places like Spain.
70. Al Sharpton. Launching his national presidential reelection campaign with a speech to Al Sharpton’s base.
71. Secrecy in Legislation. Failing to honor his pledge to conduct transparent governance, crafting Obamacare with Democrats behind closed doors barred to Republicans, leaving Obamacare as a massive document so convoluted that Nancy Pelosi had to tell the media: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
72. A philosophy of redistributing other people’s money. Trying to persuade “Joe the Plumber” that it is a beneficial national economic goal to “redistribute the wealth.”
73. Cynically blaming Republicans and Talk Radio for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Blaming their rhetoric, while failing to address Democrat use of vile and violent language to describe Republicans and the Tea Party.
74. Lying about a family connection to the Holocaust. Lying and falsely telling Americans that his grandfather was among those who liberated Auschwitz when, in fact, no American troops liberated Auschwitz.
75. Failing to grasp the Israel narrative. Describing Israel’s right to exist as premised on the Holocaust, thus missing the entire point of a Jewish country built on the land where Jews have lived since Biblical times.
76. Lying about a family connection to the Civil Rights movement. Telling Americans that his birth happened because his parents became amorous as a result of the 1965 Selma Civil Rights March — even though he was born in 1961.
77. Collapse of the housing market. American housing prices lowest since 2002.
78. Manipulating legislation by forcing votes on massive documents. Racing massive thousand-page legislation packages through Congress without allowing Congress or the American People time to read, comprehend, and absorb the bill — and thus breaking a major campaign promise.
79. The Credit Rating downgrade. Presiding over the first credit-rating downgrade in American history.
80. Timing military campaigns to coincide with election campaigns. Manipulating and sacrificing the lives of American soldiers, basing a withdrawal from Afghanistan not on strategic national security considerations but timed instead to coincide with the start of the 2012 Democrat Presidential Convention.
81. NLRB. Stacking the National Labor Relations Board with left-focused political hacks who are attempting to prevent America’s leading exporter, Boeing, from building a $1 billion manufacturing plant in South Carolina because that state permits employment of non-union labor.
82. Cynically manipulating the national Strategic Oil Reserve. Releasing 30 million barrels of oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to obtain the temporary political goal of lowering gasoline prices that have skyrocketed in the face of his severe restrictions on permitting exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, along the Atlantic coast, and in Alaska in his obsessive pursuit of “green jobs.”
83. “Operation Fast and Furious” debacle. Allowing Mexican drug lords to access illegal firearms, then losing track of the firearms while the drug cartels used the illegal firearms for crime including murdering Americans.
84. Lying, lying, and more lying to voters. Trying to create class warfare by telling people that Republicans’ refusal to raise taxes will cause youngsters to be unable to finance their college educations, while causing seniors to lose health care and social security payments. Failing to admit honestly that Congress extended the Bush tax cuts and refused to increase taxes even when Democrats had a filibuster-proof Senate and veto-proof control of both Congressional chambers.
85. Investigating CIA patriots. The Holder investigation into CIA operatives’ interrogations of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists and their use of methods that had been approved in advance by the Justice Department.
Here are my additions:
86. the Solyndra scandal.
87. Noncompliance by Eric Holder and the White House for information relating to various investigations.
88. Requesting help from an anti-American terrorist group, Pakistan’s ISI to negotiate with the Al-Qaeda supporting Haqqani network.
89. Bankrolling failed green manufacturing schemes in Finland and Spain, to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
90. having an Islamist Turkish government, that openly engaged in a terrorist attack on Israel, join an anti-terrorism task force.
91. Delaying the decision for the Keystone XL pipeline, even though there have been numerous studies proving its safety, and costing thousands of US jobs.
92. Delaying shale gas drilling in Wayne National forest over fracking concerns even though are already known to be fallacious.
93. Classifying Major Hassan’s attack at Ft. Hood in which 13 people were murdered as workplace violence rather than a terrorist attack.
94. Politely asking the Iranian government to return our spy drone, therefore furthering the impression that the US is a laughingstock.
95. Failure to negotiate a SOFA with Iraq thereby assuring that no US troops will be in Iraq to prevent the establishment of Iranian hegemony over that country. That is, turning a victory into a defeat.
96. The constant comparisons between himself and better presidents; so far he has tried to compare himself to Lincoln, both Roosevelts and Reagan.
97. Inability to even understand the threat the Moslem Brotherhood and radical Islamist pose to the US, the west and Arab liberals.
98. Giving moral support, a wink and a nod, to the miscreants of the OWS crowd.
99. Failure to destroy America’s top secret spy drone after it fell into Iranian hands
100. Living in abject fear of Iran going to war with the US in spite of the fact they are conducting constant operations against our troops in Afghanistan and against our allies.
101. The release of several Iranian terrorists who kidnapped and murdered US soldiers in Karbala, Iraq in exchange for the bodies of their kidnap victims.
102. The effort to ensure voter fraud by attacking picture voter identification.
103. Failing to keep quiet about the bin Laden raid as long as possible so that the intelligence from the raid could be used. Once the enemy knows you have intelligence on him he will change his plans and locations.
104. Failure to understand that the war on terror is NOT only a war against Al-Qaeda but rather a war against the political culture of the middle east.
105. Distinguishing between Al-Qaeda and the regime that harbored it, the Taliban. If this was George Bush’s policy Al-Qaeda would still be sheltered by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
106. Claiming without any justification that the US Chamber of Commerce was taking foreign money. This was so obliviously libelous not even the MSM backed up Obama. He subsequently avoided the subject. The change was apparently in an effort to avoid disaster in the 2010 election.
107. Recess appointments when the Congress is not in recess.
108. Announcing military budget cuts while issues Iran and the Taliban are unresolved, ensuring them that victory due to US incapacity is near. Likewise US allies worldwide become concerned.
Bob from Virginia, your excessively long list comments are rude and inappropriate. If you want to present that much information just submit a link, don’t hijack the Doctor’s post with your off topic stuff, no matter how “important” you think it is.
Politech, I have to take exception to your complaint. If there were only a limited amount of space here for comments I would agree using a large portion of it would be rude, however that is not the case. As for inappropriate IMHO that is complaint is dead wrong. These comments are less a discussion group than a support group, or perhaps a meeting of an underground resistance cell. Sometime in 2008 we may have all been doubting our sanity when we saw an obviously delusional charlatan swooned over by the press and public. We all knew this guy was going to be a disaster but I doubt any of us fully recognized the magnitude. Here is where we sane people meet, commiserate and hopefully plot. Let’s put it this way, the best thing in mankind’s sorry history is the United States. Obama wants to transform the US into a dictatorship of the bureaucrat with his lefty friends in command of a docile pandering population. The list of his wrongdoings that I posted here can be used by other sane people against Obama and his devotees. Imagine one of his campaign posters with the above list pasted right along side of it. It’s ammunition for the cause.
And you posted it twice, which was inept and extra burdensome.
thanks Bob
the list could easily be longer.
regards
Funny thing, the main character’s name in the movie “Being There” was actually Chance and he was a gardener. I don’t believe that the character had a last name in the movie at all. It was the misunderstanding of that simple fact by Rand (the guy who hits Chance with his car) as well as the media and eventually the power brokers of D.C. who all used the misnomer of Chauncey Gardner.
Your not one of those people are you Doctor?
Happy EPIPHANY America.
Saintorum is our gift:):):)
God Bless America!
The typical Republican in Congress can give you 108 reasons in 108 minutes why he should be re-elected. But he couldn’t list 108 ObamaMisfeasances in 108 hours. That’s a problem. Another problem: the typical Republicans in congress care more about their jobs than getting the mole out of the White House.
The more this drama plays out the more I reflect on the sad truth of that letter, ostensibly from a Czech source, that said that the far greater threat to this country than Obama, was a citizenry that could elect such a man as their leader. The more outrages this undeserving, petty tyrant pulls, the more in-your-face his actions are, the more despondent I get that the entire populace does not rise up in outrage and righteous anger at how blatantly and brazenly their country is being trampled on and defiled. I can think of nothing more ignoble than for a once great people to go down so passively, without so much as a whimper, let alone a fight. The subversion of America’s institutions, primarily it’s education and information outlets seems to have succeeded as we slouch our way to serfdom – half of us not even seeming to know, or care, what the f**k that even means.
My wish is to get away from the big urban areas and find myself a quiet place out in the country, from which I and my family can hopefully weather the coming storm. A nice quiet place – with open fields of fire.
I’ll try to make this short and sweet.
Hugh Hewitt. American Thinker. Michelle Malkin. O’Reilly. Hannity. All are doing a dance. The old Washington two step. Each one sounds exasperated at ObamaTrickery. His corruption. His thirst for power. But all stop when it comes to explaining what America is really up against; what Obama’s mindset really is.
I was pleased to read cfbleachers pieces. Unfortunately, I don’t see the cold hard truth anywhere else around here except with a microscope when I try to read between the lines.
Here’s my attempt at explaining the fix we’re in complements of Mr. Scienter, himself. Obama.
Suppose, just suppose, you volunteered to be an assistant high school football coach. And early one hot August day, the head coach called a meeting of all the other coaches.
Suppose he talked about, since you have a big fast fullback, emphasizing a running attack this year; that running the ball was your best chance of having a winning season.
Nothing wrong there. As an assistant coach, that sounds like a sound plan of attack to win games.
Now, though, suppose, there’s a different assistant coach a couple of towns away. Furthermore, suppose his head coach holds the same type hot August day meeting.
The difference: This head coach announces he plans to lose as many games as possible. He plans to call plays into the teeth of every opposing defense. He plans to lose every game the team plays. It sounds nuts, but this is what he plans.
Well, this is the equivalent of Obama. He wants America to be a loser nation. If our team colors are the red, white, and blue, well Obama wants to stomp them into the ground. He’s out to intentionally (with tons of scienter) lose each and every game, and, if possible, get every player injured in the process.
In real life, since he took the oath of office, Obama has been lying to us. His contempt is for the Constitution. The bill of rights. The laws that govern this land. The American people. Obama is intentionally trying to destroy our life, liberty and our pursuit of happiness. He’s trying to snuff out the American Dream.
The key word is INTENT.
A high school football coach with Obama’s mindset would be fired.
Obama is on the verge of being re-elected.
Until everybody from Hannity to Roger Simon screams the truth about Obama, people won’t realize the danger we’re facing; the evil Obama is capable of. What Obama is intentionally trying to do.
I suspect, Hewitt, Malkin, O’Reilly and the rest of them know what the Obama mindset really is, but they’re afraid of saying it. If America goes down to defeat, though, it seems to me that we have a right to know. Vince Lombardi would turn Obama into a pancake.
Because Obama is trying to kill this nation.
I agree with you.
But if any national media person said what you said they would be off the air the same day.
Hannity probably came pretty close to being yanked in 2008.
Three words, Rachel. Affirmative action, racism. That is all you need to know as a means to explain why more is not being done. Chalk it up to white guilt with its intense hunger for absolution. Sometimes I think this is God’s way of punishing us for being descendents of slave owners (“karma” to some). Some will laugh at that; others will scowl with utter scorn. How else to make sense of all this? No one can deny the notion that none of this (putting up with all the horrid things Obama has done & will do) would be going on if Obama were not black. He would be facing impeachment proceedings at this time if he were a white man.
Like Bill Clinton? And what good did that do? The Republicans caved on that one, too.
Albeit it didn’t go any where, Clinton was impeached.
Galloping Marxism in Our Schools
Karl Heinrich Marx was a brilliant man. The sage co-founder of one of the two principal social scouges of the twentieth century knew the surest path to godless tyranny was centralized control of schools, colleges, and universities.
Marx recognized Communism-Marxism’s critical need to propagandize the young in order to rid them of anti-proletariat ideas inculcated by parents and churches and for public schools to adopt curricula that denies God, morality, traditional family values, the concept of private ownership of property, and to stoke class warfare.
If any of that sounds familiar, it should. America is experiencing Marxism-in-action today as seen not only in tax policies but in the widespread, leftist radicalism on college campuses and public schools becoming hotbeds of social brainwashing to complement the deteriorization of standards and learning.
We are seeing the patently unconstitutional intrusion of the federal government into local education with dictates, mandates, and oversights by the U.S. Department of Education as it rapidly centralizes control of American education.
We are witnessing the leftist National Education Association busily engaged in discouraging parental choice and home-schooling and fully endorsing those federal intrusions while pushing for inclusion and diversity instead of more effective education.
We are burdened with local districts too feckless to denounce governmental encroachments and administrators too imbued with liberal doctrine to resist the leftward lurch toward the Marxist ideals embraced by our president.
To be sure, there were unmistakable signs of controlled centralization- indoctrination long before the election of Barack Hussein Obama.
Since 2009, however, those signs have developed into a full-blown tsunami of Marxist doctrinaires and godless subversives acting under the guise of educators, all of whom were committed adherents to Obama’s twisted Marxist philosophy, many of whom signed on to his carefully-designed cult of personality.
At first, it was comical when schools like one in Hempstead, New York re-named themselves after Obama even before he was elected. Another in Asbury Park, New Jersey did likewise, before it was closed last July.
Throughout the nation, countless schools, localities, school districts, and streets changed names in honor of someone whose primary claim to fame was his (partial) blackness, whose father was a Marxist, and who has governed as if he dreams the collectivist dreams of his father.
Indoctrination of children comes in many colors. One favorite ploy is the use of songs.
A classic was the ditty composed by a black New Jersey teacher in 2009 who forced her class to sing a paean to their new god. Its unmemorable lyrics included, Mmm, mmm, mm!/Barack Hussein Obama/He said that all must lend a hand/To make this country strong again. . .” It gets worse with, ”Mmm, mmm, mm!/ Barack Hussein Obama/Yes!”
The parody is a vast improvement: “Mmm, mmm, mm!/Barack Hussein Obama/He said we must pay the man/To make this country strong again/Taking your money doesn’t matter/’cause we know He can spend it better. . .”
That song is old hat now. Obamamarxists have expanded their musical vistas to incorporate anarchic elements in their efforts to undermine values and seduce children into believing chaos and revolution were superior to order and civilized behavior. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12029.)
“Being There”? Not quite. Right movie; wrong title.
First, Obama is no workhorse. The Permanent Campaign For Obama to the contrary (and kudos for its masterful, tireless and very successful job of supplying persuasive mis- and dis-information), President Neo is the most non-working, away-on-vacation, relaxing-on-the-public’s-dime, taking-a-break, getting-away-from-it-all, downright lazy President we’ve ever had. He’s simply not to be found at work. Not since Andrew Johnson have we had a leader less interested in the actual job of being President. The work bores him, obviously because it’s so haaaaard. But Obama’s mind is not so much preoccupied with other intellectual pursuits as it is “unoccupied”.
Which brings us to The Great Unspoken, the true “third rail” of politics: Obama is just not that smart. (gasp! gulp! choke!) While sold to us in the 2008 campaign and thereafter by a significant majority of the mainstream media as a man of startlingly powerful intellect, Obama has since proven himself instead to be intellectually shallow, nearly vacuous. He’s disengaged, incurious and uninquisitive. The numerous occasions on which he has publicly demonstrated his deeply unimpressive intellect have entered into the realm of legend, one of the most recent being his wretched and mortifying hash of an ostensibly simple 30-second toast to Queen Elizabeth at a state dinner, where even his hefty handful of 3×5 notecards availed not.
Don’t get me wrong: Obama as Chauncey Gardiner is spot on. But instead of “Being There”, Obama’s movie is “Not Being There”.
agreed, the guy is pretty ignorant. ‘Corpseman’, speaking ‘austrian’, ’57 states’, and most recently, he placed Hawaii in Asia.
His role in the revolution is not to work. The notion that he acts as a Chief Executive was debunked in 2009.
His role is to be the Chief Liar, and nearly as important, to be the built-in Race Card.
This is plainly obvious to anybody who cares to look. The vacations, the golf, the parties in the White House, the date nights, the basketball, the celebrity hob-knobbing, the stiff-arming of dialogue with other branches of government, the eternal campaigning, the endless appearances on tv shows, the incessant travel. Even if he was capable of managing the governement, or had the slightest bit interest in it, he doesn’t have time.
Moreover, the two or three speeches a day that he doesn’t even read before the teleprompter is turned on rarely even touch on policy. He has no interest in policy, doesn’t understand it and is contemptuous of people who do. The purpose of every speech is to gen up hatred of one sort or another, be it demonization of an opponent, a class of people, Israel, other allies, Congress, a policeman, doctors, businessmen, the Constitution, etc., etc., etc. His enemies list is in the thousands. He’s good at giving the speeches since he has perfected the art of sliming other people while pretending to be above the fray, but his involvement begins and ends with the teleprompter. Maybe he doesn’t even hate his enemies. Perhaps that explains how he is able to say the most outrageous and incendiary lies with such limited emotion. He may actually view the demonization as his real job…just something he does at the office because he has to make a living before the party begins.
There is little doubt in my mind that the people who planted Obama in his role as POTUS were counting on his case of being this lazy. It’s perfect for them! He is putty in their hands. While he plays golf, vacations, goes off to NY for dates with the “lovely” Michelle, they are busily doing the job he should be doing: Implementing their agendas through Congress (though not so much these days) & executive fiat.
Our biggest problem has always been and will continue to be… we allow stupid people to vote. Stupid people elected b Hussein Obama. I call them stupid because apparently they thought an empty suit and a polished delivery is qualification enough for the most difficult and demanding job on earth.
Unfortunately, America will always have a bumper crop of stupid. TV pundits always tell us that the Dems have about 40% and the GOP has about 40% and that the election will be decided by independents. I disagree. The election will be decided by The Stupid.
You’re absolutely right. But there is no turning back, as voting has been declared a right for all. Perhaps in our lifetime or that of our children or grandchildren, things will deteriorate to the point that it all has to be redone from scratch & there will be a return to the original plan that only property owners will be allowed to vote. It really is easy to see the validity of that reasoning despite the fact that we are post-modernist, post-enlightenment, so to speak.
Do you mean HOME-owners? If renters had two cars, could they vote?
Hell, if you just got all (or a much higher percentage of) the current property owners to vote, you might be happier. I think that a huge percent of non-home owners do not vote, but a fair amount of the landed, don’t vote either.
Plenty from the entitlement class go to the polls; they make sure they get there via bus or other means of public transport (MARTA, the Metro, NY subway, etc.). Would be interesting though to see what voting patterns would emerge if rates got up to 80% or 90% (which never happens). Statisticians seem to indicate (from what I have read over the years) though that such rates would not change the trends all that much. Face it, most people take our voting rights for granted & really don’t give much of a damn as a result. Shame really.
Obama’s supporters are not stupid, they are committed.
Let’s look at his base.
African-Americans have his back. They rightly feel an enormous sense of pride and protectiveness toward him. And…they have been fed a steady stream of lies, slander, propaganda and deceit about the Republican Party through the co-conspiratorial media, academia, the Marxist Democratic Party, the Workers Party unions, ACORN, SEIU, an array of communist front groups, foundations, associations. The sheer number of these groups, their reach into the black community, the infiltration into the pulpits and pews, ….would curl your toes.
ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice for years dominated the landscape at any rally, march, protest, …THEY obtained all the permits, THEY did all the organizing. They also gave communist speeches and spread flyers and pamphlets…but the co-conspiratorial media NEVER ONCE identified them, showed them on the TV or wrote articles about them to the masses.
Alternative newspapers (The Reader, Chicago Defender) might openly discuss these things, but not any major news outlet.
If you look at Zombie’s photos and outstanding work at the rally’s today, you will see how prevalent they are.
But, I would be most of the lurkers and less vocal contributors here have no idea how many of these groups exist, what they do, how they do it and how powerful an impact they truly have. Even a “general” sense of it…would fall far, far, far short of the reality.
ANSWER, UNO, ACORN, United for Peace and Justice…people know about. Maybe. They are probably remotely aware of Soros’ MoveOn, and his propaganda machine empire. They may know about the Midwest Academy, the Socialist Scholars Convention and some of the Ayers foundations.
But, do they know about the following tip of the iceberg?
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)
Alliance Marxist-Leninist (North America)
American Indian Movement – Grand Governing Council (AIM-GGC)
American Indian Movement – International Federation of Autonomous Chapters (AIM-IFAC)
Barrio Union (Unión del Barrio)
Black Radical Congress (BRC)
Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP)
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS)
Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA)
Communist Voice Organization
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
For a Better World
Freedom Road Socialist Organization [Fight Back] (FRSO)
Freedom Road Socialist Organization [Freedom Road] (FRSO)
Freedom Socialist Party (FSP)
Green Party of the United States, mirror page, other page
Heatwave Communist-Anarchist Federation (Heatwave CAF)
Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN)
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
International Socialist Organization (ISO)
Internationalist Group
Internationalist Notes, other page, Los Angeles Workers Voice
Labor Party (LP)
Labor Standard, mirror page
Labor’s Militant Voice, mirror page
League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP)
League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA)
Left Green Network
Left Party
Left Turn
Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM)
National Black United Front (NBUF)
New Democracy
New Liberty Party
New Party
New Union Party
News & Letters Committees
Organizing Committee for the Program of Permanent Revolution
Peace and Freedom Party (PFP), periodical Partisan Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
Progressive Labor Party (PLP), other page
Progressive ProAction Party
Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) periodical Revolutionary Worker
Revolutionary Workers League (RWL)
Social Democrats USA (SDUSA)
Socialist Action
Socialist Alternative
Socialist Equality Party (SEP)
Socialist Labor Party (SLP)
Socialist Organizer
Socialist Party USA (SPUSA)
Socialist Workers Organization (SWO) periodical Socialist Viewpoint
Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) periodical Militant Solidarity, mirror page
The Greens/Green Party USA, mirror page
United People’s Party (La Raza Unida Party)
United States Pacifist Party (USPP)
Unity Organizing Committee (UOC) unofficial page
US Marxist-Leninist Organization (USMLO) periodical Voice of Revolution
Vermont Progressive Party
Workers Democracy Network
Workers International League (WIL), youth organization
Workers Party U.S.A.
Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA)
Workers World Party (WWP)
Working Families Party (WFP)
World Socialist Party of the United States (WSPUS)
Lord have mercy, CFB. Does our side have a list that comes anywhere to the level of comprehensiveness as what you cite above? No small wonder it’s so difficult for our side to compete in the veritable arena of ideas. Sheesh.
Senator, I am not, nor ever have been a Member of any of those parties, but I was in Young Americans for Freedom and read “The Politician.” Have you no shame?
I suspect that many of those groups are fellow travelers with all sorts of other left-leaning, feminist, pro-gay, and green groups with which they are cross-pollinated. I see that as part of the current fabric of maybe more than half of our culture. You see the bogey man. Boooooo!
I’d estimate 30% to possibly 40% but not half. They get a lot of help from the MSM. Meantime our side of the aisle struggles along an uphill stream of bias against our interests. Where is our “fair hearing” as it were? Is ours to be a socialist country? Is this what our FF envisioned?
I dare you to try to answer those questions, Dwight.
They had never heard the term, socialism, so one has to fly pretty much blind on that question.
Your number may well be accurate, if we assume that there is another 30%+/- who are essentially apolitical or very flexible.
So much of what we are has grown out of events which are far beyond the Founders ability to imagine. As to their principles, “that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights;” such can cut many ways. “All men” has already “evolved” to include non-landed folks, females, and African-Americans. I think that there is a general “strict construction” error common to many conservatives. If one is generally against change, then a literalist strict constructionism as a default position always narrows the new possibilities.
If I were to guess, I would say that some of the Founders would have evolved into modern Democrats, some into modern Republicans.
It’s not my list…it’s the Socialist’s List. Keep trying the slander, it’s what your side does well.
Slander?
Hollyweird, Actors Guild, AAUP, SEIU, Chiefs of Police, AFL-CIO/Police Union, AFT, NEU, Wall Street, billionaires/millionairs, RINOs, Speaker of the House, NAACP, NBP, MS-13 (sorry, just had to include them for giggles),NLG, ABA, NCC, dead people….
Sara Palin would have hit Obama hard on all that VDH points out here. She’s got the brains and the guts to do it.
You said it! I miss her too.
if she had the brains and guts why is she sitting on the sidelines?
Because she is an example of the proverbial “all hat” but not much cattle. I think she is just fine & dandy in the role she is playing right now as a cheerleader for Pub pols & the interests of the conservative base.
just shows how dumb repubs can get
she’s the only reason obama didn’t win in a landslide
Not meant to be a put down, just telling the truth. She did quit her job as governor of Alaska. She did fail to answer rather simple questions on several occasions These things served as more than enough evidence to show that she is not presidential material to my mind & the minds of the majority of the American people.
for very good reasons
and the not very bright majority of the american people voted for obama
***She did quit her job as governor of Alaska.***
There’s nothing like buying into Leftwing slander. Do you really not remember what the Dems (and probably McCain’s people) were doing to her? They kept suing her for one trumped-up charge after another. It took not only Palin money, but Alaska money to keep going to court to fight these charges. When there’s a jackass reporter renting the house next door to yours who even goes through your garbage to find out what else they can stir up I think that’s all reason enough to resign. How in the world do you think she was supposed to run a state when she had to be in court most of the time fighting these lies?
I’ve gotta tell ya, I couldn’t find one person who knew what the Bush Doctrine was at the state GOP convention that year. They all had to run to their computers and Google it. “Why are you buying into Democrat propaganda?”
AFA I am concerned there was no valid excuse for her to quit, including what you cite. Certainly has nothing to do with anything the left has to say. JMO.
because the idiot repubs don’t want and won’t support her
They won’t support her because they know she is not electable. It’s apparent that she knows that as well.
think the clowns debating now are electable
One of them had better be or it’s four more for Obama. Regardless though I will be certain to cancel out an Obama vote this upcoming November. Will you?
The basis of Obama’s miscalculation… He has only been around whites who are liberals, he knows they are puppy-dogs whom he can pet or kick as he pleases and they will always lick his hand, give him whatever he wants. If there were a primary threat for him, he would simply say “race” and every white liberal would quiver and cower and offer up their hands like the contemptible cowards they are. He is going to lose. He won’t have the curious crossovers this time, and there is nothing for him to gain by appealing to the racism of non-whites as he is, they were already going to vote for him anyway. For a supposedly smart man, he’s amazingly narrow-minded and dense. Check his grades again. Oh, wait…
Hey guys, don’t stress our primaries. The primaries are a competition, no one really cares later what was said. You have to vet people and you have to select one, it’s always messy. If it weren’t, you’d be certain that the fix was in and we’d be a straight dictatorship. Look to the other side of the aisle for that.
his numbers keep going up, and up, and up
The advantage of Obama serving a second term is that he can never run again.
he’ll be president for life
I suspect 2012 may be the “progressives’” (in both parties) “dream election”.
The one which operates on the classic strongman government principle of “One man, one vote. Once.”
And that one man will be out-voted, by one illegal “immigrant”, two dead guys, and… Chauncey Gardiner.
Or at least, that’s what it will say on the precinct rolls.
Naturally, all four will cast their votes for The Self-Exalted One. Because It’s The Right Thing To Do.
clear ether
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Good God!
It’s like I was a wheel chair bound invalid parked in a neighborhood bar during the debates with no means of escape.
Y’all know, and have agreed that Obamao doesn’t respond to criticism. He will respond to encouragement. Like a child that refuses to learn to perform a task in the correct manner; Encourage them to do it their way to show their faulty process.
Encourage him to do more, and be his usual dictatorial self. Goad him into taking more action that demonstrates what a tyrant he basically is. If he does this in the next several months, the election will be a landslide.
But, if he gets another term, there will be blood. You know it. His hatred will have no bounds and will be mobilized by his mujahidin. That included Congress, the DOJ, his czars, and agencies.
We already look like a country with so much internal problems, many of our allies are taking action and criticizing us like never before. If we lapse into more chaos, which Obamao will certainly orchestrate with another term, we’re in for a war within our own boundaries. And it will be a REAL war, not a military skirmish on a small scale like Iraq or Afghanistan.
Y’all are praising Dr. Hanson for his insight, and seem to know what he is preaching. If that’s true, then you know what action to take to ward off the disaster that awaits us.
The Advantages of Having Friends in High Places
Call them friends in high places or connections or contacts, knowing people with influence in positions to grease the skids for jobs, perks, or to just plain help you out is an inestimable advantage in America. In turn, when political friends come through, it translates into votes for the politicians.
Forget qualifications, education, merit, or need. Nothing is more beneficial than knowing someone with some pull to get you what you want. And, who has more pull than the current resident of the White House?
Unions have been calling in their chits ever since they blindly–or not so blindly, considering the benefits they reaped– supported the passage of the Obamacare abomination. They have been reaping ever since in the form of wholesale waivers from the onerous burdens of the Democrat-sponsored 2009 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the law VP Biden called “a big f*cking deal.”
Over the last six months alone, 543,812 union members have joined federal employees, Congress, and the president in being exempted from Obamacare, a number dwarfed by the millions of unionistas granted exemptions prior to last June when Obamians allegedly turned off the exemption spigot after it came under public scrutiny.
See “Obama’s Selective Waivers and Exemption’s.”
Reliable friends in high places may retreat but, if they’re truly dependable and know where their bread is buttered and with an election approaching, they continue their friendship.
Other deep-dyed Friends of Obama are his huge cadre of federal employees.
Their president saw fit to cut tens of thousands from the ranks of America’s military, forces missioned to defend and protect the nation, yet found it within his generous heart in the midst of the Great Recession to propose a salary increase for federal workers.
Albeit a modest raise of 0.5%, it’s far more than America’s millions of unemployed and underemployed will receive. Before their raise, the average civilian federal worker was raking in $75,296 plus benefits valued at $28,323 versus average $46,326 salaries and vanishing bennies in the private sector.
Now the people who don’t answer their phones in Washington will be getting a few thou extra to not answer their phones.
The 1939 Hatch Act prohibited federal employees from engaging in partisan political activities, a restriction lifted in 1993 after three union leaders were accused of violations. The result? Federal employes are no longer precluded from contributing to political campaigns or from working on behalf of their favorite politicians.
Who was it called them civil servants? They’re more like a civilian army under the command of the man who pays them.
In addition to that army of 2.1 worker bees and his union armies of millions more, a third contingent of those owing a deep debt of gratitude to their executive friend in the Oval Office is the Gay Lobby.
Homosexuals owe Obama Big Time . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12050.)
Here’s the big question. Can President Obama keep quiet?
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