The Fantasy House of Barack Obama
It All Failed?
By Fantasy House I do not mean — or rather only mean — Barack Obama’s La-La land in which Austrians speak Austrian, Hawaii is in Asia, Afghans speak Arabic, the Maldives lie off Argentina, there are seven additional states, servicemen are zombie corpse-men, and Kansas twisters kill 10,000 at a time.
Rather I refer to the fantasies that Obama employs to deal with a very real world he inhabits. The president just told Univision that you “cannot change Washington from the inside.” In other words, the president just shattered his own four-year fantasy that he, like Lincoln, would take the train from Illinois to D.C., not just to remake America, but also to change the very way things are done there.
Now Obama accepts that the second coming of an Illinois savior has failed, not because he tried to change the ethics of Washington (he never did), but because upon arrival he almost immediately did in Washington what he was used to doing in Chicago. And so lobbying, insider politics to help campaign bundlers, private deals to pass health care, the revolving door, and nonstop campaigning all replaced hope and change.
I suppose in place of change from the “inside,” he now envisions more “outside” executive orders like the de facto Dream Act, having the EPA shut down more coal plants, stopping more federal energy leases, granting more recess appointments, and extending more executive privilege.
Shattering Glass
The president’s illusions about the economy have, one by one, been exploded. Do we even remember the 2010 “summer of recovery”? Or “millions of new green jobs” that ended in Solyndra-like realties? “GM is alive, Osama bin Laden is dead” — well, sort of, in the sense that the government can take any insolvent company, inject $25 billion into it, and keep it alive until the next election.
Somehow we are to console ourselves that 43 months of 8% plus unemployment is success. The president keeps bragging that he has created 4.6 million new jobs. But who cares about the actual number created, if the number lost is the far greater figure? Do businesses brag that they grossed $4.6 million when their bottom line is a net loss of $500,000? The jobs fantasy has also evaporated in the reality that we have lost more jobs than gained under Obama, millions no longer look for work, and the percentage of adults working is at near-record lows. Where did the fifteen million more on food stamps come from?
Check your tire pressure; tune your cars up; “bankrupt” coal companies; “skyrocketing” electricity prices, Steven Chu’s dream of gas prices at “European levels” — all that only ended up at $4 a gallon gas. Yet we still don’t know whether that price spike is supposed to be welcomed, in the green sense of helping to sell subsidized Volts and “cutting our carbon footprint.”
The deficit? What deficit and debt? The president insists to David Letterman that he doesn’t know what the aggregate debt is — only that whatever it actually is, George Bush caused it! He barnstorms on the idea that ending the war in Afghanistan (where was the supposed “peace dividend” from Iraq that was supposed to cut the deficit?) will help pay down the $1 trillion-plus he borrows each year. Yet taking 39.5% from top incomes and hiking capital gains taxes will not even give us a 20% reduction in the annual deficit. So after the next tax hike, then what? We go to 50%, 55%, 60% — to pay our fair share for millions of more green jobs?
Our Dear Leader, King Barack Hussein Louie Obama, will be a great Emperor for Life as he is a very highly educated man. He went to University where he was well schooled in bigotry and allegations, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic: ambition, distraction, falsification and derision. Trust him. He knows what he is doing. Just be patient. His economic plan will work perfectly. I have worked it all out mathematically. Let me see now, four million times five million is twelve million, and four billion times six billion is thirteen billion, and four trillion times seven trillion is … … oh my! We shall never get to economic recovery and prosperity at that rate! However, the multiplication table doesn’t really apply. Let’s try geography. Iraq borders Pakistan, the center of the Universe was Iraq but now it’s Afghanistan, America has 57 states, Minnesota is in the tropics because of Global Warming. No, that’s all wrong, but geography doesn’t really apply either, I’m certain! Let’s try religion. The Mossad was behind 9/11, Palestinians are victims, Saudi Arabia is our good friend and Islam is a great religion of peace. No, that’s all wrong too! Maybe if our Dear Leader just starts over and this time he reads the directions then perhaps directly he will be able to direct himself in the right direction.
The following are just some of the putrid fruits – of Dear Leader’s efforts – over the last four years.
IF he is not thwarted, the last 4 years will appear like a walk in Disneyland, in comparison to what he has in store for the next four – if heaven for-fend he is reelected, by hook or by crook!
Chilling.Numbing.Spine tingling.
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/02/revealed-the-second-term-plans-of-an-obama-presidency-nothing-short-of-a-national-nightmare-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
And the television and movie industries will reinforce Obama’s internationalist orientation, forgetting that we once were the political vanguard of the nations. Last night Emmy Awards featured lots of mockery of the dread Republican Party, and gave all its drama awards to HOMELAND, supposedly a non-political “psychological thriller” according to star Claire Danes. I wrote about the ideology of the popular show here: http://clarespark.com/2012/09/23/homeland-and-the-idea-of-the-fifth-column/. Be warned. The “best minds of our generation” are still howling.
A. Obama most probably attended both Columbia and Harvard with funding from Saudi Arabia which was targeted at funding the educations of American black Muslim students. For obvious reasons. Check it out – it was a large program.
B. Obama knows full well there are 50 American states – he just thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room. It was an inside joke about the 57 states – of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Those are his kind of states.
HE FAILS, HE FALLS, HE KNOWS HE’S TOAST, YET DEFIANT TO THE END, HE PLAYS WITH THE “STARS” AND HIS “LATE NIGHT WHORES”, AND…
“THEY CALL BARACK , PARIAH”
[To the tune of “They Call the Wind Mariah”]
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah
In DMV* they got a name,
For Liar, Dolt and Loser.
The Liar’s Reid, the Dolt is Joe,
And the Loser’s called “Pariah”
Pariah blows his Choom** around,
And makes the Kool-Aid stronger,
But fewer groupies are now found,
They can’t trust him any longer.
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
When crowds first heard Pariah speak,
Some swooned like rock star groupies.
But now, the “Man of Steel” is weak,
And his “fans” are simply loopy.
Our seniors lost, their heritage sold,
Our children’s birthright squandered,
His “Hope and Change” were just fools’ gold,
How far from truth we’ve wandered!
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
And in the East, they burn our flags,
Our embassies are shattered,
An envoy and soldiers in body bags–
Our very Liberties are battered!
The Media Whores cry: “All is well”
“THE WON” was never stronger!
But our “lying eyes” say, “This is hell—
AND WE WON’T TAKE IT ANY LONGER!
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
*District – Maryland – Virginia =”DMV”
** “Choom”, both a noun (marijuana) and a verb “to smoke marijuana”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/…
HEY, SOMEBODY WITH A GUITAR AND A CAMERA COULD GET ON YOU TUBE–HAVE FUN, I RESERVE NO RIGHTS–ZIP; ZILCH; NADA; ZERO; GOOSE-EGG–just like BO’s brains.
Away out here they have a name for lice and frogs and locust
The lice is Nancy, the frog is Harry and they call the locust Obama
Obama blows liberty away and sets the constitution a-flyin’
Obama makes the countryside sound like freedom was out there dyin’
Obama (Obama)
Obama (Obama)
They call the locust Obama
Before I knew Obama’s name
And heard his wail and whinin’
I had a country and it had me
And the sun was always shinin’
But then Obama, Pelosi and Reid betrayed me
And left me far behind them
And now I’m lost, so gone and lost
Not even God can find me
DUDE! Now you tune up your guitar, get a bud with a camera, and make a little You Tube magic!
I was just following your lead.
Hey guys, is that a Bud light with a camera?
Clever. Just call it a blight. Wow, I could make up a poem with words rhyming with blight…but I’ll spare you ;)
I took the liberty of a few revisions:
Sung to the tune of The Kingston Trio’s “(They Call the Wind) Mariah”
“They Call The Won Pariah”
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah
Back in D.C. they got a name,
For Liar, Dolt and Loser.
The Liar’s Reid, the Dolt is Joe,
The Loser’s called “Pariah”.
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
Pariah blows his Choom around,
And makes the Kool-Aid stronger,
Believers now are seldom found,
Can’t trust him any longer.
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
When crowds first heard Pariah speak,
Some swooned like rock star groupies.
But now, Dear Leader’s lies are weak,
His “fans” are simply loopy.
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
Our people lost, their freedoms sold,
Our children’s birthright squandered,
His “Hope and Change” were just fools’ gold,
How far from truth we’ve wandered!
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
In the Mid East, they burn our flag,
Our embassies are shattered,
Our envoys lie in body bags–
Al Qaeda banner’s flying!
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
The Media Whores cry: “All is well”
“THE WON” was never stronger!
But open eyes say, “This is hell—
We can’t take it any longer!”
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
Curt — It wasn’t the Kingston Trio’s “Mariah” — the song was from the Musical “Paint Your Wagon” written by Alan Jay Lerner circa 1950. The show was originally produced on Broadway in 1951 and Paddy Chayefsky adapted it to screen in 1969. The K Trio’s version of Mariah was one of the weakest of their repertoire — in the same class as Dave Gaurd’s “Scotch and Soda.”
For the record Baby Glock wins this one hands down.
VDH, another gem.
We need Mitt Romney/Ryan more than ever in our history. Barack HUSSEIN Obama has us at the cliff and is saying FORWARD.
I don’t want to go!! I want America back…. Change it Back!
“He barnstorms on the idea that ending the war in Afghanistan (where was the supposed “peace dividend” from Iraq that was supposed to cut the deficit?) will help pay down the $1 trillion-plus he borrows each year.”
Well, it sure ain’t going to hurt financially and ending the Insanity in Afcrapistan would save a lot of the lives and limbs of America’s troops and would also avoid a copious amount of bowing and scraping to Muslims there as our generals apologize to them for whatever, including our First Amendment at home, it was that most recently offended them and their Pedophile Prophet.
You misunderstand that the problem is that there is no “Peace Dividend”. We have been borrowing to fund both wars. Only a democrat would consider accruing more debt to spend on their failed pet projects a dividend.
To the tune of “Don’t Say Nothing Bad About My Baby” by the Cookies…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDYRsgh8HRE
Don’t say nothin’, bad about Obama! (Oh, No!)
Don’t say nothin’, bad about Obama! (I love him so!)
Don’t say nothin’, bad about Obama! (Oh, don’t cha know!)
Don’t say nothin’, bad about Obama! (He’s God!)
He’s God! (He’s God to me!) (You better shut your mouth!)
Everybody says he’s lazy! ( But not when he’s redistributin’ to me!)
Everybody says he’s crazy! (Crazy like a fox in a Chick-Fil-A Dinery!)
Don’t say nothin’, bad about Obama! (Oh, No!)
Don’t say nothin’, bad about Obama! (MSM loves him so!)
Don’t say nothin’, bad about Obama! (Holder’ll know so!)
Don’t say nothin’, bad about Obama! (He’s God!)
He’s God! (You better shut your mouth!)
Everybody says you’re racist! (But not when you vote for him!)
Be a zombie-enslavist! (We’ll jump off cliff, when he says when!)
Don’t say nothin’…. repeat, etc.
Superb piece, VDH. Romney is doing well. Conservative Americans need support and believe in his campaign. From over here, just on the edge of the Arab chaos, I believe that he will win and be a decent President.
I hope conservative Americans who read this site will volunteer for him in the coming weeks..
I will pray that the sense of pride in traditional American beliefs overcomes the sloppy degrading embrace of the Big Brother welfare state.
YES, LARRY. The polls are totally unreliable. Israel will find enduring friends in Romney & Ryan:
“ROMNEY FOR THE REPUBLIC”
In my soul I’ve seen the triumph,
I once doubted could ever come,
To dispel the clouds of fraud and fear,
Spread like sewage by false MEDIA’s son.
The Pretender was truly their bastard child,
Conceived by the lies they’d spun.
Those with eyes to see and ears to hear,
Pierced the veil false MEDIA made.
As it hid the past and distorted the present,
Of its child who worshipped the shade,
Of the enemies of honor and truth,
And the evil plans they had laid.
Rejoice my soul! Sing out my heart!
A true champion has appeared!
His honor has never been sold for lucre,
And his faith will not bow to fear—
But I now deeply bow in thanks,
That our pleas kind Heaven would hear.
Blessed with a wealth he made himself,
He can neither be bought nor bribed.
His sons and daughters burst with vigor,
And a true lady stands at his side,
Tempered by sorrows and service,
They will fight evil’s vicious tide.
With our Champion and Lady I call to you,
My friends and brothers in need.
Be not dismayed at the scope of our task,
Heed not the temptation of greed.
FOR WE SHALL SOON SEE a renewed Freedom Tree,
Though our bodies and spirits may bleed.
Poet’s Notes:
* I could provide, if time allowed FACTS AND SOURCES to support these joyful claims. E.g. Romney donated his entire inheritance to charity http://www.forbes.com/sites/ed…
Nice. Very lyrical and heartfelt.
I am saddened by the negativism of Mr. Hanson’s writing. For me as for millions of patriotic Americans, the opportunity to have voted for Pres. Obama in 2008 was the most poignant moment of our lives. More profound that marriage or the birth of children: the first opportunity in two thousand years to renew and redefine Man’s Covenant, to stem the rising waters of racism, to protect the Oceans, to usher in a new Era of Peace. And we are the ones who have changed the World.
How can Mr. Hanson now say we were wrong? Thank you, Pres. Obama, for having brought a transformational Peace Dividend to this fallen world. Four more tears.
It is indeed a terrible thing that Mr. Hanson does not appreciate Mr. Wonderfulness’s … … wonderfulness.
“And the crooked were made to appear straight and the rough places, mere bumps in the road.”
“Four More Tears,” indeed…
Here are Hanson’s most important lines for Romney’s campaign:
“You can scream at, tax, regulate, and berate an employer, but you cannot force him, not yet anyway, to go out and hire and buy new equipment… There are trillions of dollars on the sidelines because employers don’t know what Obamacare will cost them since Obama does not know either…”
Romney can free up that money “on the sidelines” by eliminating the man-made uncertainty. Much of what we need to turn this around is already here, or can be here quickly if the tax policies were right, if true expenses were known.
Moshe, if your comment isn’t a /s, I’m afeared you are just another pathetic and sobbing sucka.
Agreed Fred. Either Moshe is being sarcastic or he has a very sad, small life.
A Romney victory will cause a major rise in the stock market for certain stocks, but more importantly it will turbo charge the economy.
The reason businesses will not hire is ObamaCare, Dodd Frank and crushing tax increases in January 2013.
Art Laffer wrote an article about the coming collapse of 2011 that was simply deferred when the Bush rates and brackets were extended two years. An AGI of 70K results in $4,200 increased taxes just due to the current rates sun setting. ObamaCare taxes almost double that amount. So businesses know that WE will not have money to spend in 2013 and there is absolutely no reason to hire or expand.
Did you miss the 2007-2008 meltdown. What do yo think Romney will do differently than G W Bush. You may happily criticize Obama, but do you actually think Republicans know what they are doing? Do you think that lower taxes and less regulation is the always answer and if you do tell me why we had a financial meltdown and housing bubble in the first place. What exactly is the point of a polity which arranges for the rich to get richer while most of us tread water or worse. Doesn’t that suggest to you that the system we seem to embrace may have some defects. There is a thoughtful critique of Obama but you don’t have it. Neither does Hanson who simply saying that Obama promised radical change and hasn’t achieved it. Under this analysis Romney would be a success if he promised nothing and achieved nothing.
Jeff,
You should look into the real cause of the crisis of 07-08. It was a combo of sub prime mortgages, (a mostly Dem idea) and the repeal of Glass- Steagell (Dems and Reps together). Had little to do with tax rates. What’s more, Dodd-Frank, which pretended to solve the problem actually failed to revive Glass-Steagell regulations. So the idea that Romney would bring back the policies that got us into this mess is a multi leveled, self serving lie from the Dems.
the reason for the housing market crash were too many people buying houses they could not afford and then re-financing them to take money out that did not exist. When the job market fell thru they could not pay for or sell their unmderwater houses and that killed the market no only for them but for people who could have afforded a loan – the bank dried up the money to protect themselves – and all of this was brought to you by Barney Frank’s and Bill Clinton’s easing of ability to pay restrictions for mortgage companies to get more people in houses they could not ever afford – let me quess – DEMOCRATES – so don’t blame the republicians – Bush might have continued the policy instead of dropping it but the damage was already done -
The housing and banking meltdown started because of Clinton policies. Bush forgot he was a republican and caved to the Dem majority when he agreed to TARP.
I did like your last line, Obama’s grade is 0 or inc. so if Romney did nothing and got a D he would be relatively successful. Interesting.
Read some history. Start with the FHA or FDR and notice the beginning of Red Lining of loans. Now jump to LBJ and his great society and the changes to the tax code for Charity. Jump to Carter and the CRA against the S and Ls which caused the recession of the 80s. Jump to Clinton and his Executive Order that changed the target of the CRA from S and Ls to National Banks. Now go to the Banking Modernization Act and the Securities Modernization Act (Clinton). Now just follow along and watch the dems destroy Fannie and Freddie as they loot the orgs and dump the bad mortgages on the world as dirivities.
Wake up and smell the coffee Jeff, this is all Progressive crap and it is the culmination of 80 years of scheming fools robbing the American People.
The cause of the economic downtown was in the financial and housing sectors, the democrats were in charge in congress, Bush warned about the dangers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac countless times, and was ignored by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, head of the Financial and Housing committees in Congress. The democrats’ financial and housing policies caused the collapse. Under Bush we were doing quite well and he started with a downturn which began under Clinton and then had 9/11 to deal with. It’s time to stop the misrepresentation and lying about what happened.
The stock market is not the same as the economy, overall. The S&P 500′s performance is not correlated with which party gets into office. I looked at the returns of the S&P 500 in the year following the election, going back to about 1926 and there is no trend indicating that Dems are better than Repubs or vice versa. That said, I would like the current administration out of here, come 2013.
moshe you are HILARIOUS!!
this has to be (sarc) 4 more tears!
“the opportunity to have voted for Pres. Obama in 2008 was the most poignant moment of our lives. More profound that marriage or the birth of children: ”
I really believe the person saying this is a pathetic parent. You probably see nothing wrong with someone giving your little girl abortion pills. Hell you’re probably a pedophile if you say this.
“the first opportunity in two thousand years to renew and redefine Man’s Covenant, to stem the rising waters of racism, to protect the Oceans, to usher in a new Era of Peace. ”
And of course the exact opposite of this is true. Obama is going to be the main cause of WWIII, the end of America and worldwide slavery.
This ‘rising tide of racism’ is pure libtard projection, because of course, yall are NOTHING if not racists.
How did Obama, one letter away from the most hated man in the world Osama get elected?
How did Obama, who shares a middle name with a dictator we’re at war with get elected?
How did Obama, a black communist that knows next to NOTHING about America, get elected if we’re all racists?
It was sarcasm. Reread the last sentence, that wasn’t a typo.
So it was YOU? that voted for him too? When were you going to tell us that YOU
were responsible for this fiasco? I don’t know what YOUR excuse was. All I know
is that he wore sharp suits. And the crease in his pants! Oh… to die for! I don’t
know about everybody else but I gotta get the name of his tailor.
Moshe, if voting for Obama was the most poigant moment of your life, you are a very sad, sorry individual.
Simplified, here’s the plan.
And conservatives REALLY need to stop judging subversion by capitalist or constitutional standards.
The Red/Green Axis doesn’t intend the same outcome you think is important.
They don’t care about your electric bill or your retirement plan, ok?
Replace countries neutral on Israel with Islamist regimes.
Turn a blind eye to countries hostile to Israel.
Burn the agent, the key witness(es) who armed the new hostiles.
Create a faux protest after he’s been taken; the media will keep fanning the flames til every mosque hiring
rentamobs to create a ‘demand’ for sharia compliance(- thanks Hillary at Durban IV)
In short- surround Israel, arm them, then stir them up: RECREATE ’67.
Now thats an enduring legacy.
The caliph that brought down the US, Israel, and the Vatican.
The death knell of a weakened Judeochristianity.
Who doesn’t want to work for a man, such as Obama?
A man, such as Obama, can go to sleep knowing that his ambassador is under attack — not knowing the cause, not knowing the depth of battle, not knowing the outcome. For a man such as Obama will still be able to sleep well, knowing the most important thing of all: The Press has his back while, at the same time, almost unbelievably, he has the Press in his pocket. The Press will read divinations from his morning excrement and it will pronounce all that he does consistent with the best of what the best Presidents have ever done.
Who would not want to work for a man such as this? A man so brilliant he can skip intelligence briefings whenever he wants — even after an ambassador’s death — and still know all he needs to know. For what he needs to know — and it’s all in his heart of hearts — is really very simple: He needs to know how to win. And he knows if he goes to a fundraiser that night and the next night and the next night after that, he can still win this thing. After all, only losers give up. Dead people are quickly forgotten. But one, such as himself, with all that he has done and all that he will do, can allow others — the others who work solely for him (and he for them) — he can pay these others by allowing them to bask in his glory forever.
Well put Mike. As the good doctor wrote: “There is not really any free press anymore, but instead a Ministry of Truth… They care little whether ambassadors are left unguarded, or that the U.S. suffers the most costly attack on its air assets since Vietnam, or that administration officials offer lies about Libya that they know cannot be true.”
By providing cover for the crimes of the Dem / Globalist cabal, most of the editorial boards and senior correspondents for the mainstream media, including the loons over at MSNBC are guilty of high treason. The fact that they carefully plan and coordinate their cover ups and thematic unity with the Dem leadership shows that they know they are engaged in deception, since it is a deliberate process, and so are complicit in larceny on the grandest of scales, as well as compromising national security. This proves their guilt. It’s pretty obvious that people like Chris Matthews and Katrina Vander Heuvel have mental disorders, but what motivates seemingly intelligent, sane individuals like David Brooks and Thomas Friedman to betray the country that has given them so much (and which they hypocritically pursue more of)? It’s a puzzle because they seem to have consciences, so what mental contortions permit them to conceal the monsters they have become from their own conscious awareness?
There’s no way that they actually believe anything they write about Obama’s fiscal strategies, foreign policy or governing style (although Friedman really does seem to think that murderous, totalitarian, state-capitalist systems like China’s are superior); in fact, one can trace the tortuous yet predictable path their minds take as they construct their elaborate rationalizations…so it must be something else. Could it be they were simply bought (i.e. manipulated) via the usual methods: money, sex, power, fame… could it be something so pedestrian?
I suspect it goes deeper. It seems to me that a guy like Friedman is in the grip of some sort of Stockholm Syndrome. He finds emotional satisfaction by groveling before his would-be master-killers, such as the brutal fanatics of Hamas. And Brooks seems to yearn for the sense of security that comes through the psychological union with a power greater than he. He wants to impose an order in the likeness of himself on the chaotic world he sees, but because he is weak, he believes that totalitarian methods are the only way to do it. I think it’s important to understand the psychology of traitors such as these as it may help us recognize their signatures and safeguard against them.
Either way isolating and neutralizing them becomes job #4 come January.
Excellent work, VDH. The adults will have to win this election or else the ‘fantasy’ continues. The children of the sixties are in power today and haven’t grown up at all- drugs have a way of doing that. We are living in a transition not unlike China’s Long March where youths grabbed the bull by the horns and gored whatever got in their way.
Some call them liberals, I call them brats that haven’t reached adulthood. What this country is experiencing is exactly what you might expect were you to give your teenager your credit cards, the keys to your car, and access to your checking and retirement accounts. Worse still, since they haven’t developed morally, much of what they do is nothing more than raw instinct, and is heavily tinged with tyranny.
It’s true- your little brat can be quite the tyrant when he wants to. Real adults squash this natural tendency when they’re “in the house”. Real Americans will too at the voting booth next November. America’s parents will soon be “in the house”.
Since it appears certain that the Obama administration deflected attention away from (1) the lax security in Benghazi that led to the Ambassador’s and entourage’s deaths and (2) the failure the “Cairo Doctrine” and repackaging of the “Arab Spring” by diverting attention to this YouTube video (best illustrated by Susan Rice’s antics last Sunday), can we now say that the Obama administration is directly responsible for all the killings and property damage that ensued? Had they not used this YouTube video as a shield would the world’s Muslim population even have noticed that this video was there?
Entourage? Hardly.
Note: The two ex-SEALS were not at that location to protect our Ambassador. By happenstance, they were there, contracted to try and find the missing Libyan manpads. Think 1,000 or so “Stingers” (should-fired anti-aircraft missles) in Islamist hands, across all of Islam. Infidel airliners are ill-equipped.
These heroic MEN entered the fray because that’s what they do. It appears that these two ex-SEALS were the only reason a violent gun battle insued before the massacre. They were murdered trying to protect the unarmed staff.
Where was the Ambassador’s security detail (DSS)? After Stevens told State he was targeted?
I haven’t heard of any of the Libyan security force inside or outside of the compound being killed.
Sounds like a “hit” to me. Why could that be?
Ignore those already hostile- Iran, Hezbollah in Syria, Lebaon, Gaza,
Convert neutrals to hostiles. Egypt, North Africa, Gulf states, Shia Iraq, AfPak.
Hire mercs and arm them.
Burn the agent(s) who coordinared them. They stay armed.
Now stir them up- keep droning em, media to fan the flames.
Recreate 1967.
The caliph who brought down both the Great and the Little Satan- and neutered the Vatican as well.
Hey hey ho ho Western Civ has got to go
Repeat, so solly
Jaysus, man, I used ‘entourage’ as a term meaning those with him at the time. We’re on the same side on this issue — what’s the cause to jump on the use of a word and missing my point? The Obammunists used this video to cover their asses and the results ought to be shoved down their throats along with the fact that their pro-Islamist policies are detrimental to our interests.
I especially love the ending about the Ministry of Truth. How pithy and correct. Control access to information at the source by refusing to cover what would trouble the image or simply lying about what is going on. In a cooperative state where there is to be no distinction between public and private, the media listed, the foundations, the university presidents, and Big Business are all among the politically connected class. Insulated in their minds from the ill effects to be released on the rest of us from state intervention into virtually all aspects of our lives.
John Goodlad was right. People would be more horrified by Obama’s education vision than Obamacare if they were only aware of it. And the education agenda is to spearhead the penetration and transformation of everything else. Isn’t that how you conceive of your small business in the era of “You didn’t build that?” Just a learning territory to train employees? http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/who-granted-permission-to-spearhead-societal-evolution-to-a-global-cooperative-consciousness/
Any historian of the Soviet Union will tell you that a goal of integrating all societal systems with people as mere socio-technical systems at the bottom and a mere part of the Whole was the Kremlin dream it never could accomplish. How ironic to be pushing it on the West now via education and a coordinated attack on the noetic system.
The socio-technic system reference was in a National Academy of Sciences report released this summer on merging the economy and the environment into a single planned and designed ecosystem. Just imagine what John Holdren would accomplish in a 2nd term. More flexibility indeed.
Campaign Obama 2012, if you are in a swing state, just watch for about 10-15 buses traveling the interstates together most likely traveling to a Obama campaign event. Its funny and its true! You can call it; “Busing In Propaganda”.
Was an autopsy done on the body of our ambassador, and, if so, we’re the results released? If so I missed it.
From what I gather…horrific.
Think Mogadishu, but worse because Stevens was alive.
When they did the autopsy?
The real culprit in this whole mess is the Lame Stream Media. They have totally abrogated their traditional role in society to become presstitutes for the Democrap party. The Forth Estate has become the Fifth Column.
Right on, JimK! Two things that are not allowed in my home….pornography and Brian Williams.
I wish that were true. To my shame, I and we are to blame because we thought that America, the love of the Constitution would always be here. I was oblivious to the forces of progressive socialism that have been at work to destroy this country from the inside for the last 100 years.
I pray it is not too late, but it took 100 years to get to the edge of the cliff. I can almost see the bottom, but it is a long way over the chasm. Probably at least 40 years of hard, hard work to oust the commies from our midst and our schools and our government.
A long struggle is ahead, with no guarantee of victory. I’m not giving up.
I agree No_BlahBlah. We are almost all culpable in the desecration of our country, it’s values and foundation. I was raised with the ideology that because the USA was (is?) the primary and shining example of success, honesty, responsibility and tolerance for the world it would always be so…somehow by magic? I have no idea what I thought, I just ASSUMED we were and are and forever would be.
Vigilance wasn’t part of my vocabulary. I’m ashamed to admit it but that’s a fact. I have become far more engaged in the last 10 years and can proudly claim I didn’t vote for Obama, was far too informed to do so and grew hoarse trying to convince friends and family that he was exactly what he has poven himself to be: a liar, a charlatan, a divider, a Marxist, a grifter-shifter-grafter, a coward and every other pejorative adjective you can come up with.
I’m confident he will lose in November but I am terrified we still may not be able to pull away from the course we are on…set well before Obama was elected, but quickened by multiple degrees since he took office.
I too will not give up the fight.
Carter, dreadful in all respects, was not a weaker opponent than Obama: Obama pouts and wilts when challenged; Carter would lecture about malaise and nyookyular subs.
The safest road ahead is to assume there is no margin. If you hear anyone say ‘this is going to be fun, pass the popcorn’ (rare on this site, but common on others), use all the bad words your mother wouldn’t let you use. Then turn to violence.
this is going to be fun, pass the apocalyptic popcorn.
You think its bad now wait another 4 years. This is gonna look like the good old days.
I would like to commend the president for his rare candor. He’s correct; you can’t change Washington from the inside. So, by all means vote for Romney, but keep your expectations low. Whatever the election results, we’ll still have a congress full of knaves, pickpockets, and prostitutes. Career politicians will still seek office for the filthy lucre they might accrue. The idea of citizen legislators leaving their farms and businesses for a short career in politics is long past due. There will be no reformation before the collapse. We need a Seldon Plan for the reclamation and restoration of small “r” republican virtues. If it happens at all, the leadership won’t come from a professional political class. Where is Cincinnatus when you need him? “Comes the time, comes the man,” goes the saying. We can only hope.
Yes you are absolutely right. I am planning for the worst and hoping for the best. But I have very little hope that much of anything will be different under new management. Our Congress, our financial system and The Fed are all contemptable and corrupt to the core.
The most significant difference I think is that I don’t believe Romney will impose marshall law, fill our streets with our own armed forces to oppress and terrorize us and understands the magnitude of the problems we face as a country. He is a genuine patriot, he loves this country (he doesn’t covertly hate and diminish it) and our Constitution and will work very hard to protect and preserve it.
Obama is the polar opposite in all he does: why people listen to what he says and ignore what he does is breathtakingly stupid.
I truly believe Romney can’t openly talk about what MUST be done to save the country because to say what MUST take place will scare the bejesus out of the weak-minded of our populace. Let’s pray he is elected and that he has the fortitude and courage to guide us to a more stable foundation.
The Propaganda and Lies Ministry is the reality, the Ministry of Truth is the fantasy.
Running guns to drug cartels is the reality, saying it was a Bush program that Holder stopped is the fantasy.
Obamacare is a tax is the reality, saying it was not a tax is the fantasy.
Skipping intel briefings like a choomer ditching class is the reality, a super-brain who picks up all the intel he needs by osmosis is the fantasy.
A trigger-happy drone executioner is the reality, a Nobel-deserving Gandhi is the fantasy.
A divisive and bitter class warrior is the reality, a no red state, no blue state uniter is the fantasy.
A race-baiter and Jeremiah Wright/Louis Farrakhan reactionary is the reality, a race-healer is the fantasy.
A snippy, thin-skinned, prickly and flustered amateur is the reality, a hip and cool as a cucumber, smartest man in the room, above it all Fonzie is the fantasy.
A Rashid Khalidi pal, who needs to have the LA Times hold material evidence hostage is the reality, a good friend and ally to Israel is the fantasy.
A guy who can’t get a single vote on his budget and gets the mute button and face palm from Nancy Pelosi is the reality, an adored and admired leader of his Party is the fantasy.
A guy who skips press conferences and needs Bill Clinton to take over to explain the economic arguments and to save the Democratic convention,is the reality, the man who pushed the Clintons into the background is the fantasy.
The President who would be losing by 20 pts. if the Propaganda and Lies Ministry was not carrying his water is the reality, the notion that these co-conspirators are not traitors to this land of ours is the fantasy.
The notion that this election is in any way, shape or form…fair, free, or representative is the biggest fantasy of all. It is already stolen. Every moment that the truth is distorted, lies are spread, propaganda is foisted upon the voting public…all notions of fairness, all protections of freedom, all semblances of representative self-governance are stripped bare and left to rot in the midday sun.
The reality is this: This election is being stolen. The truth is being stolen. And, not enough people in this land of ours care enough to stop it.
We are being attacked from the inside. Our media is not “mainstream”, they are “poisoned stream”.
“God Damn America”, said Jeremiah Wright.
No matter what the outcome in November, he has already gotten his wish.
Jeez, CFB. Shoot me now!
I refuse to be that pessimistic, that cynical.
It may be true that cfb is pessimistic, it is certainly true that cfb is one of the great ones at pithily describing the problem of this president. I would love to hear Romney openly make some these charges.
“I would love to hear Romney openly make some these charges.”
I would too but it’s not about to happen. Romney must tread carefully because Obama is no ordinary POTUS; he is our first affirmative action POTUS & that alters the playing field significantly. Romney appreciates this fact I am sure because we all got to see how ruthless his campaign tactics were during the primaries where (guess what?)…….NO affirmative action candidates were running; so, he could pull out all the stops.
I hope it has become clear to the American people that NO affirmative action candidate of any stripe should ever be seriously considered to lead our great nation again!
Please reread again, bobbcat.
What part cynical? What part pessimistic?
Go line item by line item and tell me which part does anything more than point out the reality of our situation?
Certainly you do not find cynicism in the identifying marks of Obama or the Propaganda and Lies Ministry. No regular reader here nor alert/aware citizen could find any of those points cynical or pessimistic. They simply expose the reality of a conspiratorial media carrying water for a radical extremist amateur.
I suspect then, that you recoiled in horror at the following two realities:
1) TOO FEW people in this country see things as they are, or care enough to do something about it.
2)Jeremiah Wright asked God to damn America and to put us through hell.
Let me explain why both of those items are neither cynical or pessimistic, just observations of our situation on the ground.
A)TOO FEW PEOPLE are responding to the truth and to the reality. If the proper number were fully informed, fully engaged, fully aware…the situation of even a close race would evaporate. Because whatever Romney is, he is not the clear and present danger that the Obama/Propaganda conspiracy presents.
B)We are not “headed to hell” as Wright wished, we are swimming in the fires. Our DOJ is a cesspool of extremism. Our foreign policies are in a shambles and the world is on the brink. Our economy is dismantled and heading toward the abyss. Our natural resources are strangled. Our allies are abandoned. Our military is in the process of being gutted. Our borders have been thrown open. Our election process is rife with fraud. In every nook and cranny there have been radical extremists implanted. We are giving away state secrets. We have been reduced in power, might, influence, capacity, stature, and honor.
We cannot escape the reality that no matter who wins in November, our media has turned against us. Inside EVERY department are radical extremists who will undermine EVERY effort.
We can’t get the message out to our countrymen because traitors own that message and the mass media vehicles to dispense it.
Our universities are indoctrination farms.
Our entertainment industry is rife with traitors.
Our religious institutions are under direct assault. Our freedoms are being stripped like bark from a tree. Our Constitution is being shredded. Our checks and balances are being circumvented. The rules and regulations of our Senate and the manner in which we pass laws are being completely ignored.
We are being ruled…not self-governing. The protections between us and our government have been eroded.
It may not feel very nice to feel the flames of hell lick our feet. But denial won’t make them go away. They scald the heart and blister the soul, I know.
But, this is no time to avert our gaze or go into shock and shut down.
Bobbcat, there is no cynicism or pessimism in my words. I am perhaps the last town crier still at my post. THIS is our reality. THIS is where we find ourselves today. I am ringing the bell…and it tolls for all of us. You included.
No matter who wins in November, our work will not have ended. It will have just begun. We are in Jeremiah Wright’s hell. All that’s left is to ascend out of it or descend deeper in.
I was venting, CFB. I am as frustrated as you are but realize that this battle cannot be won until we become a populace that embraces self sufficiency & echews the strong entitlement mentality that has such a tight choke hold on so many of us. We are becoming the country of the “makers” & the “takers;” guess which side is winning? Hard to say right now but this fall’s election will provide the answer, depending upon who emerges as the winner. I remain cautiously optimistic that Romney can pull it off & am trying not to get dispirited, so…lashed out at you just a bit because if too many on our side lose hope & stay home on election day, Obama is gonna take it & it will surely at that time all be over but the shouting.
Why is it that some of the most intelligent commentary I ever hear, anywhere, is in the comments section of PJMedia? It’s kind of like “samizdat” in the old Soviet Union…(I was a Russian Studies major in the 80s).
“Hell”? Perhaps a bit over the top there. Want to see hell, try Somalia, or even Iraq.
Under grave threat of irreversible decline? If that is your definition of hell, then I’m completely with you, CFB.
I don’t see cataclysm if Obama wins. But I do see America-as-UK: a wholly-owned, self-governing subsidiary of Saudi Arabia. Permanent economic stagnation and mediocrity. A large dependent class that never goes away. Huge taxes that never go away, ever. And a foreign policy ABSOLUTELY dictated by Moslem petrodollars. Imagine our whole media as some variation of the Ssudi-funded BBC or the Guardian…we’re almost there already except without the entertaining accents and quirky feature stories (but there’s always NPR…).
No, it won’t be “hell”, but it will be close, paticularly compared with what we once knew.
No gulags, just quiet marginalization. I’ve experienced this myself with my local media, as represented by a the one major newspaper in my one-newspaper town, that tries to ape the NYT. Completely operates per Whatever Helps Obama. Used to get letters published there all the time…now can hardly ever, but even when I do, badly mangled by what passes for “editors”. Wouldn’t do to have an intelligently stated POV that runs contrary to The Official Line. No no no. The peasants might get ideas….
Places like this site are all we have left.
Hang in there, CFB and everybody. You could not be more right that even if – IF – Romney wins, there is a LOT of work to do. I keep telling people myself that suppose Romney wins – and that is at least a reasonable proposition – the media will still be there. The corrupt academics will still rule the universities. They’ll do their damnedest to make this country ungovernable, to make Romney “fail”.
Romney is just the beginning. He’s not our savior…WE are.
And he could well lose. If he does, we are truly screwed.
One small thing you can do is to cancel your newspaper subscription. I did, and I live in a highly Republican area with a newspaper that has started toting the liberal mantra, bit by bit. I simply won’t support that. I was terribly used to getting the newspaper, and it took a bit of getting used to, but it was worth it.
AMEN brother! With you all the way.
I’m in the process of selling everything I own with any value and turning it to hard assets. I sold my Mercedes and bought a car that gets 45 mpg. My home is under contract to sell and I sold all of my rental properties in the past 3 months. I am selling shoes, handbags, household items…everything that isn’t nailed down.
I rented a home in a gated community, installed a massive security system and am taking shooting lessons at the local firing range. I’m fleet of foot, traveling light and can move at a moment’s notice. All my friends and family think I’m overreacting…frankly I am afraid I’m underprepared. I lost a good friend last week because he got upset with my viewpoint and started tearing me a new one. People hate hearing what they fear most and yet know in their hearts to be reality.
We are under attack and the sooner people wake up and figure it out and then prepare themselves the better off we’ll be. We are ABSOLUTELY in the midst of the biggest crisis this country has ever faced.
When the truth is ugly, Polyannas call it pesimism.
Sleep on, bobbcat.
You misunderstand, Pelaut. I happen to agree with everything CFB says; I was merely venting my frustration. I get the impression our hands are tied. The MSM has incredible power over public opinion. We live in a country where Howard Stern staffers can ask people questions like, “What do you think of Obama’s running mate Paul Ryan” to be answered with “He’s just fine” or “He’s a stats guy.” No statements like “Just a minute here, Ryan is Romney’s running mate, not Obama’s.” Now, there are the sheep; reserve that moniker for them, Pelaut, not me. At least I am awake, informed & on top of things. I just wish there was something I could really do other than cast my vote on election day to cancel out a stinking Obama vote.
in the lake
This is as far from being pessimistic and cynical as you can get.
I challenge you to name any problem that can be solved if you ignore the problem rather than acknowledge it and analyze the who, what, where how.
No solutions are possible to any problem without the ability to define the problem.
If you don’t ask questions, you won’t get any answers.
Pessimistic and cynical? No.
A sobering clarion call for action? Yes.
The guy whose actual interest in working together was obvious when he told John McCain to go pound sand (“the election’s over John, you lost”) is the reality, the guy who declares himself as a uniter and whose wife burbles at the democrat convention that “Barack doesn’t care whether you’re a republican or a democrat” is the fantasy.
Excellent outline, cfb, and very accurate.
And, as you point out, this is not simply about an election for a president, but a critical threshold about how we define information and control our access to it.
If we define information as ‘whatever anyone feels about an issue’, then the MSM, are the source of such an offering.
If, however, we define information as ‘representing factual reality’, then the MSM are not the source.
I think that the MSM are moving out of the realm of providing facts; we are turning to electronic sources which, often, simply present the data without an interpretation.
For example, the MSM and the Obama administration, assured us that the Libyan consulate attack was a purely spontaneous attack caused by Muslim anger at an anti-Islam video. Rice and Clinton assured us of this; so did Obama, who sidelined the truth by saying he wasn’t sure (heh, just as he told us on 60 Minutes that he couldn’t remember the size of the US national debt).
The electronic sources, the satellite images and the reporters, told us that there was no spontaneous mob; that the place was absolutely quiet until suddenly, an attack with heavy weapons (not usually carried by spontaneous demonstrators) broke out. Further, these reports told us that the attack was in two phases, seemed extremely well organized, and indeed, the Libyan government had warned the US of such an attack days before.
Then, we get the MSM and Obama telling us that the economy is doing just fine, but the Internet brings us a blog site of over 600 economists including 5 nobel laureates worried about Obama’s plan and strongly supporting Romney’s plan.
My point is that the loss of the veracity of information provided by our old sources, the MSM, and a government, are being met with new information processes provided by individual. Individuals who gather data and put it on the Internet. It’s difficult to deal with this kind of information because it requires a population who don’t simply swallow the MSM, as many still do, but who take a critical look at all the information that is being offered.
Therefore, as you say, even with the election, our work won’t end, as we strengthen the Internet and remove information, real information, from the control of the Fictionalists, the MSM and the Government.
One of the weapons we have at our disposal is to simply stop watching, reading, listening… not just the news but everything they produce. Enough of us do that, it will have an effect.
But ultimately we have to tackle them head on. We have to call them out for what they are (traitors) and prosecute them. We will have to push Romney to appoint special committees to expose their methods. We will need more Darrel Issa’s. McCarthy was right after all.
We’ll have to be careful not to abandon our own principles. Freedom of expression remains a cornerstone of the Republic. So we will have to demonstrate with hard evidence how the cabal operates, and how the media is coached by the Dems to conceal their crimes. If we go after the ceo’s, senior editors and most prominent writers and commentators, we can trigger an avalanche.
ETAB, I not only believe that the Propaganda and Lies Ministry (they are NOT MSM to me…they do NOT represent mainstream thought unless we believe the entire mainstream is filled with liars and distortionists) are co-conspirators in an effort to infuse a radical extreme leftism into our body politic, I believe they are the source reason that Obama exists as anything but an afterthought at all.
The SOURCE problem is the utter lack of accountability, the failure to hold extreme leftism up to any light, any sunshine, any transparency, any consistency, any principles, any honor.
When mass media, academia, entertainment and one of two major parties abandon truth, honor, and loyalty to the country…and conspire to lie, distort and propagandize away our information stream so that truth and accountability are unattainable…we can”t self-govern this land of ours.
Obama is the love child of the rape of our information stream. He would not be in the title role of this horror film but for the lack of truth and accountability, if not for the coverups and distortions. If not for the reddened eyes of opponents on magazines, forged documents, material evidence held hostage.
The Propaganda and Lies Ministry does not merely give us “opinion”, it gang rapes the information stream repeatedly. We have become immune from the snake bites. The venom no longer causes the pain it should. We sometimes point at it and say…”oh, those darn snakes, they bit us again”.
The venom now courses through our veins. Throwing Obama out by voting in Romney does not remove the fangs. The SOURCES of the infestation still exist and will continue to do to us what they have been doing for over forty years.
We are overrun with snakes in the house and garden. Snakes on the coasts and snakes on the plain.
Our lefty media doesn’t respect those who will not hit back. They hunt in packs. Like dogs surrounding a mountain lion they are relentless. To defeat them, you need more mountain lions. As conservatives we are being hunted into extinction.
To defeat them, we must bring more lions to the fight. “Well, my dogs had him treed but then, out of nowhere a bunch of lions came along and started ripping my dogs to pieces.” “It was bloodier than hell, not one of my dogs survived and we were lucky just to get back in the truck.” “A hundred pound cat is nothing to mess with, but ten of them was too much.”
Their pack (media, academe, Hollywood) haven’t met ours in concert. This November will mark a new face-off. People from every part of non-liberal America will be showing up to take a bite out of Obama and the hounds he runs with. Too stupid to call-off the hunt, what happens next will be of their own doing. Lesson about to be learned: Don’t screw with America.
Again Dr VDH you clarify and outline the Obama problem so well. But again you fail or prefer not to paint the landscape of a second Obama term. Is it too risky or dismal to tackle ? Start painting for the sake of further awakening the sleeping, dependent masses. Get your articles published where it will matter. We readers at PM are already largly with you. Go to the belly of the proverbial beast, go to the establishment media. Time is short and Romney is not up to the task, regretably. Perhaps Romney could use your advice ? Hopeful.
“Grow up, conservatives.”—Barry Goldwater
“Buck up, Americans.”—Victor Davis Hanson
“Wake up, people!”—-me
Go to powerlineblog.com and click on the “A word to rioting Muslims”, by Pat Condell, at the top of the page. Just about the best straight talk I’ve ever heard—it really puts Islam in its place!
Maybe a Great Awakening is happening.
Here’s a joke I came up with—
People are lynching chairs, all across the country.
It seems that Eastwood’s chair skit has legs—four of them.
About hope and fear concerning the impending election, especially the polls—I learned to only pay close attention to the Intrade poll, where people back up their opinions with money.
It’s gone from 40% to 29% for Romney in the last few weeks or so.
My supreme question is whether Soros or his minions are “investing” their own $$$ in this poll-bet, to make it seem like Obama is a shoo in.
No matter what, though, as VDH notes, as well as Rush Limbaugh, that Mitt is essentially tied with the One, according to most polls, is actually a miracle, and COULD BE heartening, going forward. In the bad old days, when people were less childish and the MSM was more reasonable, a president with the record of Obama would be at least behind by 10%, 55-45%.
But, the salient fact continues to be—Obama is BLACK.
We’re STILL paying reparations for slavery, and he’s our token.
OURS.
half WHITE, 43.5 percent ARAB, and 6.5 percent BLACK.
Nice joke.
What matters is common perception. It’s still true that most people who have black blood and white blood, consider themselves to be black.
Yes, Obama had a white mother and an African black father, so biologically he’s half and half. Not in HIS mind, though.
And, he’s considered to be the first black president by the vast majority of voters.
Therefore, if HE and VOTERS say he’s black, only a fool would disagree.
Much Madness is divinest Sense —
To a discerning Eye —
Much Sense — the starkest Madness —
‘Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail —
Assent — and you are sane —
Demur — you’re straightway dangerous —
And handled with a Chain —
and prefer to be
as always, but they are still, however subtle and probing, preachments to the choir.
I suggest a challenge, that VDH direct and address his insights to a wide audience not disposed to take them calmly, and hammer his points home into their thick, hostile skulls for a change.
Not only that, but also address the president directly, and bluntly, man to man, say in a series of open letters, in a way that everybody who reads them can understand.
I am sure he can do it.
Well said. Also see #17. Dr. H needs to speak where it counts.
Bottom line: It might just take a miracle to beat Obama!
Recall he already has in place hundreds of “lawyers” trained and at the ready to challenge the “voting results” of the election on Nov 7th.
He ain’t going down without a bloody fight…which means he will do anything to keep his ill gotten power.
Evil is in our home!
You forgot the most awesomest fantasy of all. Taking the “intercontinental railroad” from New York to London. Cooool!
Every time I think I’ll stop being appalled at the dishonesty and extreme vacuousness of the media, I’m just shown they can be even worse. And every time I think it’s so blatant and outrageous that people have to be able to see this garbage for what it is (example: the entire aftermath of the Benghazi and Cairo embassy attacks), they show me that they are easily distracted by the media’s “squirrel!” maneuver. So very disheartening.
Where did the fifteen million more on food stamps come from?
This is a success, building up “the base” of the new democrat party. Nancy Pelosi has told us that unemployment insurance and food stamps are good ways to “stimulate the economy”.
“You didn’t build that” translates to “only government moves people forward”.
Wrap your mind around it, only “government action” makes lives better.
The failure we’re witnessing is the plan
“What I think will re-engage people in politics is if we’re doing significant, serious policy work around what I will label the ‘working poor,’” he said, “although my definition of the working poor is not simply folks making minimum wage, but it’s also families of four who are making $30,000 a year.”
“They are struggling. And to the extent that we are doing research figuring out what kinds of government action would successfully make their lives better, we are then putting together a potential majority coalition to move those agendas forward.”
So well done. Best domestic summary yet.
Great article. Thank you. I guess the question becomes, “can the average American voter handle the truth”? I think yes, we still can. If we actually do in November 2012, we stave off the Globalist Gulag for yet a while longer.
Bruce K.
I saw the softball interview with Steve Kroft. No follow up question about his super majority after he was elected to counter his allegation that the GOP is standing in his way. The killing of the ambassador, the lack of security, all in one general question about the Middle East. Unreal.
They are in the tank. Kroft made him look good. Maybe he can be Czar at the new Ministry of Truth after Obama wins.
What we may have here, in our capital, centered as the president, is a cult of personality. The “malignant” part of malignant narcissist refered to the contagious ability to spread the fantasy of the Entitled States of American.
The synthesised socialism, trickle up wealth, the Europeanization, and any use of the word “free” as in free stuff rather than freedom pushes the drool button to keep popularity as the electability of a president over any character flaws, economics, or security issues.
Of course the mass media is going to promote personality; that, not facts, are their business. The American viewing public likes an outlaw, a charlatan, a smooth talking confidence man. They will buy the snakeoil just to hear the speel. The arguments of sophistry say that pleasant delusion sells better than harsh reality. The bet is on the American public.
is exactly how to describe it, and the romney campaign should use it, along with “celebrity”
A lot of things have happened lately that are changing perceptions of obama.
The old view was that he was a Leninesque mastermind pulling the strings for an army of marxists with a unified vision of remaking America into Amerikka.
But consider. After the death of an ambassador, and probably torture including possibly sodomizing his body, Obama didn’t miss a beat jetting off to Las Vegas to appear in his road show to tumultuous admiration from the press and other acolytes. He couldn’t be bothered to attend the security briefings either, apparently satisfied that his speed reading abilities are vastly superior to having actual people describe the bumps and minor road blocks interfering with his vision.
Meanwhile, numerous articles appear describing his management style (check box 1, 2 or 3), how he spends his time (practicing bowling in the basement), his work ethic (up and at em by 10 am, more time in fund raising than national security, no meetings on the economy for months at a time).
and on and on
It’s time to say it. He’s not a Leninesque mastermind. He’s a 17-year old having the time of his life. He can’t mastermind lunch.
Somebody is running the show, but it sure isn’t this idiot.
He may be an idiot, but he’s a useful idiot for all the influences of his past (Frank Marshall Davis, imagined Dad, Marxist profs, Khalidi, Jeremiah Bullfrog Wright, the Chicago gulag et al. and etc.) and his promoters and backers in real time like George Soros, who see Barack as weak and imperfect but, nevertheless, the closest they’ve come to effectuating the plan for America.
He’s not an idiot, but he’s no genius either; he’s your standard issue leftist apparatchik. He’s the Hahvud Law version rather than the Meany School version of an Alinsky disciple. Unlike most of his ilk and age, he probably had some clue who Alinsky was. He was steeped in communism, anti-imperialism – another expression of communism, and anti-Americanism – yet another expression of communism, from birth through the offices of his grandparents, his mother, his mentor and probably biological father, Frank Marshall Davis, and the whole slew of leftist professors and associates. Through a process I don’t really understand, he became a made-man in the Chicago leftist machine and somehow became the frontman for a Soros-run cabal who administered a coup d’etat against the former United States in 2008.
Comrade Obama is no more than an apparatchik in this junta. Somehow Ayers and his associates and allies became allied with Soros and those who he represents. The money behind the Soros Cabal is a combination of lefty dominated trusts and foundations (See, The Blueprint) and, undoubtedly Muslim sovereign wealth. Of that latter assertion I have no proof, but there is the powerful circumstantial evidence elements that, first, only Muslim soveriegn wealth is powerful enough to have mounted the attack on the US that took place in September of ’08, and, second, the old cui bono analysis shows that the Muslim world has been the greatest beneficiaries of Comrade Obama’s tenure: the Caliphate is almost restored.
It is largely wasted effort to analyze Comrade Obama; he’s a typical community organizer/lefty lawyer. He doesn’t know much but what he knows, he knows pretty well. He knows the lefty catechism pretty well. He knows how to talk in Lefty code pretty well, well enough that the stupid and ignorant hear something totally different from the well-informed. He’s not calling the shots, but almost no lefty “leader” really does; it is the rare lefty front-man that can call his/her own shots. Whether its a union executive board, a front-group’s executive committee, or a foundation/corporations board of directors, a lefty frontman has masters. Sure would be nice to know just who Comrade Obama’s masters are.
“Sure would be nice to know just who Comrade Obama’s masters are.”
The same guy Alinsky dedicated “Rules for Radicals” too.
those who can and will blow the lid off his cover
and have photos of him working the steambaths
Yes. He is the muppet with the flapping mouth, but I always assumed he was at least aware of it. But the people calling the shots are definitely Lenin-esque. They have mastered a whole array of population control techniques, have succeeded in taking control of key cultural institutions (media, academia, entertainment…), have destroyed crucial social value systems, have hobbled our economy, have populated the bureaucracy etc. etc. (Perhaps its more accurate to say that they are reaping the opportunities created by these converging trends, which were set in motion by their Soviet controlled, Communist predecessors going back to the 30′s).
They felt that they had achieved victory under Clinton, they were counting on a Gore victory and that’s where things went wrong. The script did not call for a Bush victory, in that sense Bush was a Godsend. Things went badly off track with our rapid victory in Afghanistan, which is what led to the the anti-war (anti-America) frenzy of 04-07 by the Dem-media apparatus. Since then they have been providing running cover for their puppet.
I think the puppet mostly believes the lines they feed him (insofar as he’s capable of believing anything), since they roughly align with the Communist-Islamic-Multiculturalist-Racialist-Environmental-kleptocratic pablum that passes for a thought process in his brain. At any rate he’s pretty good at regurgitating whatever they put on the teleprompters, and that’s good enough for the puppeteers. To whatever extent they ever gave him a free hand, they probably now regret it. Also, it probably should have occured to him prior to 2008 that puppets rarely fare well when they try and free themselves from the guys holding the strings. Oh well, too late for that now.
Whenever I read the happy-face propaganda churned out by the Obama administration and their poodles in the media I am always reminded of Churchil’s speech in the House of Common in late 1936 concerning the Baldwin government’s failure to recognize the growing German threat….
“The truth is that they simply cannot make up their minds….So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence.”
That really sums it up for us doesn’t it?
More Churchill (1938):
“Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulatory power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.”
Google Pat Condell and watch is brilliant comdic take on Muslim riots on youtube. Should be seen by everybody!
Would be nice to know if Mr. Obama is even eligible to be POTUS since we seem to have more evidence he is not compared to anything that he is from him sealing all of his records.
If he is not eligible as the evidence suggests then that has to be dealt with legally. It could and should cause forfeiture of benefits since several of the items are federal fraud items and that would mean he obtained the Presidency under false pretenses.
The Senate and Congress still need to investigate this. It should have been done in 2008 but was not. The people of the United States deserve the truth.
Excellent as usual Dr. Hanson.
How on earth did you stay sane in the university environment this long? Or are you able to do your work primarily from other locations?
For the Leftists who orchestrated the rise of Barack Obama (long pre-dating 2008) and who are currently working feverishly (not to mention maliciously) to keep him viable, increased government dependency and a weak private economy are features, not bugs.
It really is a mindblower that half of all Americans can still prefer Obama. Pass the Kool Aid.
“The Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt, Mr. Morsi, just summed it up when he outlined the conditions under which his country would be willing to accept aid and remain friendly.”
This is what hurts the most. Why are WE crawling on our bellies to be friends with the Egyptians? Why are WE the ones begging them to take our foreign aid? Worse, why are there so many people in Congress bending over backwards to want to give money to these people? Foreign “aid” is looking more and more like bribes and payoffs to worthless Islamic nations around the world as tribute that has to be paid to prevent these maniacs from attacking us. This is blackmail, pure and simple, and should be treated as such.
When the Barbary Pirates threatened president Thomas Jefferson in 1801, saying that they would attack American merchant ships unless we paid the pirates “tribute” or, basically, blackmail, Jefferson responded by sending the US Navy to the Barbary Coast to deal with the pirates. He thought it was not only illegal to pay these extortionists, it was also dishonorable. I only wish we had Thomas Jefferson in power right now. Seems like we need a lot of his common sense in Washington today.
Morsi (who will be in the US this week, along with Arachnid-jihad) said the US had to respect “Arabic values” as a pre-condition to good relations with Egypt.
What could he mean by Arabic values ?…wife beating, rape, suicide bombing, inbreeding, beheading, totalitarianism ?
Ah, but what kind of Fantasy House is it?
Why it’s-
BaracK Obama’s Fairy Palace
http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/barack-obamas-fairy-palace/
it’s also coming true
Excellent article Dr. Hanson. Children can reside in a world of fantasy of their own devising since they expect adults to reside in reality. I am firmly convinced that Romney will win, and convincingly, much in the same manner that Reagan beat an incompetent Carter in 1980.
I live in the city where the president made his “You didn’t build that” remark.
Who? Who? Who? would risk everything he has, (including borrowing from a relative with a little savings) while the highest elected leader sneers at those who succeed?
Who? It’s even more chilling because the POTUS has dozens of czars and department heads, who in turn have tens of thousands of staffers, who might share his attitude. Is anyone surprised by thousands of pages of NEW costly, inefficient, and unnecessary rules and regulations which make entrepreneurship more difficult and cut razor thin survivorship?
“Lots of people are smart?” Mr. President, I recommend bold action. Declare a national emergency, fire every PHD in the country, hand each one $25,000 and say: it is your patriotic duty to create 50 new jobs each while ALSO creating a profitable company which provides a product or service people will voluntarily buy. Easy, right?
Romney’s main campaign message ought to be “I won’t frighten anyone who will take personal risks to start companies which hire Americans”.
By the bye, the “you didn’t build that” remark has inspired someone with a video camera and a hilarious script. I recommend this humorous 2-minute video.
http://dailybail.com/home/comedy-honey-you-didnt-build-that.html
…thousands of pages of NEW costly, inefficient, and unnecessary rules and regulations which make entrepreneurship more difficult and cut razor thin survivorship?
II,000+ new pages of drivel, and counting…Last week, the US House voted resoundingly to stop the extra-legislative EPA from killing coal.
A small step for mankind, but good luck with the Senate and Barack going for that, which is why those 2 branches of gov’t must be reconfigured with people who aren’t idiotlogues.
Your video, destroy the confidence early on, don’t excel…certainly the point of the conditioning going on in our public schools.
Just what magnitude of disaster would have to befall the country, and the Ruling Class, before the media would return their tongues to their mouths from Obama’s nether regions?
I fail to perceive any.
It does seem that this Prezzydent could blow up the capital tomorrow and the boot-lickers of the so called MSM would instantly fall into “why that was necessary” mode.
Even in the absence of honor, truth still exists and can be found; in the absence of truth, honor cannot.
In the absence of truth and honor, God still exists and goes on. In the absence of God, truth and honor cannot.
In the absence of truth, honor and God…one finds the American media and the radical leftists they promote, and they go on. But if they do, America does not.
Of course, you could encourage hiring and retention (rather than bodyshopping), if you restored tax breaks for bringing US citizen job candidates in for interviews, for relocation assistance, and for new-hire and retained employee training.
They’d have to be different from what they were — what with changes in tax brackets and their effects on the marginal value of the tax break, inflation and prices for training (a decent 1-week class with some substance to it for a software developer can run several thousand dollars even in the deep south) and moving expenses and temporary housing while they’re finding an apartment or selling and buying houses.
And decreasing the incentives to bodyshop across border by, e.g. requiring a background investigation on people applying for student and guest-work and exchange visas and green cards, as we should have been doing all along, would certainly help restore a few of the millions of Americans who are unemployed and under-employed back to real employment.
The truly sad reality is that things are far worse that even VDH has enumerated. We all hope and pray that everyone else is waking up to this reality, but the MSM is doing all it can to convince us that a BHO re-election is automatic. Where is John Galt when you need him?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FOO0t5OEV4
Change you can believe in!
Dr. Hansen;
Very eloquent, calm & elegant, I might add, logical way to state the obvious to thinking people, your essay is – to put it in the vernacular of Yoda. It is sad that 50% of our fellow compatriots are not only over-emoting but refuse vehemently any debate/discussion re: the real issues befalling our country. Group-think, PC, loud vulgarity, ignorance, apathy, amorality are the societal norm today. Many years ago, Justice R. Borg wrote about it in “Slouching towards Gomorrah.” I highly recommend it. He not only exposes our ills but at the end of every chapter offers simple solutions. With him at the SCOTUS, obamacare would’ve been shredded.
I grew up as a conservative atheist w/ Descartes’ “cogito ergo sum.” As a believer, I still consider it as a part of being human. And noticed 30 years ago the subtle indoctrination in our public schools. That incremental laying down of the foundation to the present frontal assault on the minds & souls of our young is the clear & present danger. I’ve been through that, hated it, didn’t fall for it & recognize it in any infernal permutation a 1000 miles away. Of course, I made sure that my only daughter’s been raised as an independent & critical thinker; it worked.
Victor, another very important red flag fell through the cracks, namely, obamination’s attempt to create his militia. Believe me, this is not your honorable Praetorian Guard. I’ve seen these vile goons & thugs in action in my youth; Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, the CZ commies in 1948, all had them. If his fatuousness wins, he might still get them by exec fiat.
Lastly, I beg to differ very strongly on your assertion re: ‘…A young, JFKish, Nobel Peace laureate, biracial, hip, cool, and beloved president…’ Are you kidding me? JFK was handsome & a patriot; this creature from the Swamp causes me severe revulsion, can’t watch or listen. Noble PP has become meaningless since the terrorist Arafat got it & even more so since this empty-suit-Zero got it for nothing! Hip & cool is in-congruent w/ the wishful thinking La-la land. He’s a pathological psychopathic narcissist & fraud through & through. How about the 1.5 Mio for his sealed records? Nothing cool & hip about him, zip, nada, nichts. He is a ‘Taugenichts’, good for nothing! Beloved? Not a chance, President R. W. Reagan was beloved & respected even by his enemies. The mob that falls for the fake-ness is brainwashed, it’s not even sweet-sixteen-puberty-girl-infatuation.
It seems your genteelness of the educated landowner got the best of you, giving ‘that one’ such undeserved compliments. Just like the pundit C. Krauthammer about 3 years ago did gush over Barry Soetoro. Thanks to surviving the Red menace, I knew the truth about Klinton & BHO before they were elected just by instinct. A discerning mind is a gift from God. I wholeheartedly agree that you should get exposed to the masses by any means.
Read all the comments, although, will suffer for it by working till midnight, mea culpa. My fave is, just as on PP, cfbleechers, you nail it every time, bud.
I forgot to compliment the ‘Ovids, Rilkes & Emersons’ in the comments, worthy effort. Stylistically, I prefer baby glock’s ode on Romney. Nice cadence, rhythm, rhyme & imagery. However, a word of caution, he is a politician & but one man. Prez Reagan tried to dismantle the bureauc-rats & some Depts & didn’t succeed; just scratched the surface. I know, Kafka is not an easy read but he predicted over 100 years ago the rise of these bloodsucking green blooded fish.
Any of you wordsmiths want to read cool stuff, read C. Baudelaire’s ‘Les Fleurs du Mal.” The Flowers of Evil.” 1st edition in mid 18 H. Nothing new under the sun. I’ve got lots of issues w/ the haughty Parisians but French is a great language especially for poetry, not to mentions French ladies. C.B.’s style is impeccable.
Guess what, I found a good translation in 5 secs, titled “To the Reader.” Here’s a perfect teaser on our subject:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/039250.html (not all things out of Chicago are bad… ;-)
Folly, depravity, greed, mortal sin
Invade our souls and rack our flesh; we feed
Our gentle guilt, gracious regrets, that breed
Like vermin glutting on foul beggars’ skin.
Our sins are stubborn; our repentance, faint.
We take a handsome price for our confession,
Happy once more to wallow in transgression,
Thinking vile tears will cleanse us of all taint.
On evil’s cushion poised, His Majesty,
Satan Thrice-Great, lulls our charmed soul, until
He turns to vapor what was once our will:
Rich ore, transmuted by his alchemy. Etc.
Let’s pray that in the great span of exceptional American history and progress that President Barack Hussein Obama will be remembered as mere bumps in the road.
Salve VDH,
Having read your books and NRO columns this is a new and more aggressive VDH than I have ever seen! I invite you – and everyone here to – BOYCOTT THE LIBERAL MEDIA!
Another great piece or writing by the wonderful VDH. Sadly, this writing applies to Great Britain and Australia, too.
While the comments section appears to have turned into some sort of talent show, Hanson’s well-written article hits about 10 home runs. Problem is o’bama followers never, ever even see this kind of stuff and wouldn’t get it if they did. They simply will not hear anything negative about their idol. The o’bama zombies inhabit his fantasy as well… their future relies on maintaining it… (forever maybe?… just one of the things that could happen in the next four years.)
Does it ever bother you that you traded in legitimate scholarship for being just another partisan hack in the absurd circus that is the political entertainment industry (it’s is even completely divorced from actual politics, governance and policy – just entertainment for a small niche audience little different from fetish porn)?
Was that intended as humor or as a serious question?
Perhaps Mr. Hanson doesn’t enjoy living in an ivory tower any more since he realizes that the USA has turned into a filthy swamp. And perhaps he realizes that the universites have turned into the epicenters for propaganda to destroy this country. So his political writings are some kind of atonement.
But to a certain degree I can understand your discomfort with Mr. Hansons writings (although I am almost certain we are not on the same page). From my point of view the American “democracy” is an farce and everybody who pretends to take it seriously is either a fool or dishonest. All parties are controlled by Jews who throug their control of the money and the media reign supreme. Politicians are puppets.
Both Obama an Romney are in the pockets of the Jews (or the “Zionists” if you want to be polite) and they will do their bidding even if means that they will lie blatantly to the public (remember Obama’s promise to pull out of Afghanistan?). Rommey (funded by the Jewish casino mogul Sheldon Adelson) was at least honest enough to say that he will only will be a puppet of the Jews when he visited Israel recently.
Romney will not cross the plans of the Jews to destroy the USA and especially the White middle class. So you can hope to get a president as “great” as George W. Bush. That Hanson get worked up by the upcoming sham elections between two Jew-puppets is mind-boggeling.
Lets look at the other choice!
——————————————————————————-After his wife’s plane was forced to make an emergency landing this weekend, Romney told the Los Angeles Times, he was worried for her safety. The candidate then continued on a bizarre tangent that showed just how little the Republican nominee understands about flight.
“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney told the paper. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly.”
Romney said the biggest problem in a distressed aircraft is that “the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous.”
The main reason airplane windows don’t open is because there isn’t enough oxygen at cruising altitude to keep passengers alive. (The fear of window or cabin failures, which would lead to potentially fatal hypoxia, is why many planes are equipped with emergency oxygen masks.)
“You can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open,” Romney told the Times, suggesting that additional oxygen in the cabin during the electrical malfunction could’ve alleviated the problem. In fact, if there were an electrical fire on board, additional oxygen would have fed the flames.
Most amusing, but a few points:
(1)You really smart Demunists elected as President of the United States a man who thought there were 57 of those states.
(2)Romney is not running for a job as aircraft designer or fireman.
(3)Your LATimes is covering up and refusing to give us the news concerning some potentially damning video/audio featuring your geography-challenged president. Why the hell would you read a filthy, unpatriotic and ant-jouralism/free speech rag like that?
Lets see what Mark Zandi thinks about last 4 years!
Question: Did the federal fiscal stimulus succeed or fail as an antidote to the Great Recession?
Answer: It succeeded. The temporary tax cuts and government spending increases launched in 2008 and 2009 were aimed at ending the recession and jump-starting an economic recovery. They did that. There were several rounds of stimulus, beginning with tax rebates sent out in the Bush administration’s final days, but the stimulus most peopleremember is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Worth nearly $800 billion, this legislation was passed in February 2009, just weeks after President Obama took office. The recession officially ended in June of that year and job growth resumed in February 2010. This was no accident.
The fiscal stimulus was never intended to permanently drive economic growth; it was supposed to temporarily fill the vacuum left as panicked businesses slashed jobs and terrified consumers stopped spending. The goal was to give the private sector time to rebuild confidence, after which the stimulus would fade away. This is precisely what happened.
Mark Zandi about Bank bailout!
Q: Should the banks have been bailed out?
A: Unfortunately, yes. The U.S. banking system nearly collapsed in late 2008. Most of the nation’s largest financial firms either failed or would have without government help. That help came in part from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, which provided lifesaving capital to the banks. Stakeholders in the banks lost money, and while they arguably should have suffered more as punishment for imprudent risk-taking, the entire economy would have suffered immeasurably more if the banking system had been allowed to go down.
This became clear to me during the height of the panic, when the CEO of one of the nation’s largest retailers told me a bank had just cut off one of his largest suppliers. That meant some stores’ shelves would soon be empty. Without a well-functioning banking system, the rest of the economy ceases to function. The TARP money put banks back in business, and they ultimately repaid the government’s loans back with interest.
Mark Zandi on auto- bailout!
A: This is a closer call, but letting General Motors and Chrysler go into bankruptcy would have probably been a serious mistake. There was little chance the companies would have found the money to stay open in bankruptcy, forcing them to liquidate. Many auto suppliers would then have also gone belly-up, likely causing Ford, which relied on the same suppliers, to shut down as well. It is not hyperbole to say that a million more jobs would have been lost in early 2009 if the automakers had not received help, on top of the millions already lost to the recession. The psychological blow of losing an iconic American industry would have been devastating, moreover.
Mark Zandi again!
Q: Was the public cost of the stimulus and bailouts justified?
A: Taxpayers have paid dearly, but they would have paid even more if policymakers had not been so aggressive. The bill for the government’s response to the financial panic and Great Recession will ultimately total $1.8 trillion. This is huge; for context, it nearly equals the last two years of total economic output in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. And since the Treasury has borrowed to pay for this, it roughly doubled the nation’s debt load.
But if policymakers had sat on their hands while the economy cratered, the cost would have been immeasurably greater. The Great Recession would have become a 1930s-style depression. Tax revenue would have shriveled and government spending would have ballooned automatically for existing income-support programs, forcing the Treasury to borrow far more than it did. We have big problems with deficits and debt that must be addressed, but those problems would be completely overwhelming if not for the government’s aggressive reaction to the crisis.
Mark Zandi like Bill Kristol yesterday about last 4 years!
Q: Are we better off today than we were when President Obama took office?
A: By most measures, yes. Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, when the recession’s slide was steepest. U.S. payrolls lost 820,000 jobs that month, affecting every industry and region, and the unemployment rate rose by a half percentage point. Stock prices had fallen nearly in half and house prices by a third.
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Victor Hanson an you call Zandi and Kristol and get your FACTS!
With respect to the first part of Mr. Hanson’s superb article, I am forwarding a copy to Mitt Romney; this is what he needs to say on the campaign trail and what the American people need to hear.
With regard to the liberal media, it can no longer be referred to as “the free press,” they really have become the state run media with all the propaganda you would expect from that organization. This fact is not lost on the American people and now nearly 60% of the people no longer trust the MSM. This has not deterred the liberal media however; they continue their coordinated assaults on truth and reality with abandon and impunity.
As long as they believe that they are key players in politics and even government, they will continue to act as though they are part of the ruling class. Since the media insists on inserting itself in politics as activists promoting a political agenda, they must be subject to the same scrutiny as that of those in government. It is fair then to demand the same disclosures of the media as we do our elected officials.
Moreover, since the media now wants to make the news, not report it, it is fair for so-called media elites to face the same invasion of their personal lives as they subject our politicians to. If they insist on being public figures, so be it, along with the glaring white hot spot light they shine on those they slander, impugn and destroy publicly. It is fair and so should it begin. He who lives by the pen, shall we say.
If the media wanted to destroy Obama, they could do it in less than one week by repeating the points made in this article or those from any recent article written by VDH. Most of America, except for 20% or so of the hardcord leftists who don’t care about facts and truth, would turn against Obama in a flash.
It’s the media stupid. We know all this already. The masses are so misinformed and uninformed…. It’s the media stupid.
Except that the media won’t do that, because this post is mostly incorrect from an actual facts perspective.
This is so great. Your alternate universe where Obama is a scary tyrant and yet simultaneously an inept failure looks so much like the dystopia the rest of us lived through under Bush. Except that was easier to rationalize because the GOP ticket could be neatly identified as Stupid/Evil, with Dick Palpatine clearly running the show. No one can ever say that of Biden, haha.
I can’t WAIT to check back here when Obama is reelected (by a much more comfortable margin of electoral votes than W. could have dreamed of).
Gosh A, your forgot the initial of your last name, i.e., H. But wait till you see Obama’s speech at the UN. The long beginning could have been taken straight from the conservative opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal or from my 6th grade Civics class of many years ago. You will find you disagree with a lot of it, but you will forgive him as you forgive a good actor with a bad script.
But I have a motto I try to live up to when I see Obama speak: Consider what he says, but watch like a hawk what he does. May I ask you why has he not arrested the Demunist majority in the Senate for not preparing and submitting a budget, as required by law, for over the past three years?
“You can scream at, tax, regulate, and berate an employer, but you cannot force him, not yet anyway, to go out and hire and buy new equipment.”
Mr. Hanson did not absorb fully the Supreme Court’s holding that the Obamacare mandate is constitutionally permissible as a tax. In view of the holding in Sebilius, a Congressional mandate on employers to hire employees or buy equipment is a perfectly permissible exercise of Congress’ taxing authority.
It’s a Brave New World.
Blythe, you have it all wrong. It is a cowardly old world. You don’t believe me? Take a good look at the UN. I strongly recommend you let Claudia Rosett be your guide through the demonic levels of the UN hell.
Welcome to all the Demunist trolls, what some of us live for, a friendly face-to-face.
Mostly hit and run artists this time around Fred. Or so it would seem. I guess they’re starting to realize how weak their positions are. Nice comebacks btw.
More Obama fantasy. Here is my take on his biggest’s whoppers
1. “We’ve got shovel-ready projects all across the country.”
2. “We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need”
3. “Cut deficit in half by end of first term”
4. “If you like the health care plan you have you can keep it”
5. “The health care bill will not increase the deficit by one dime.”
6. “Won’t raise taxes on those making less than 250,000 per year.”
7. “I will not rest until the leak has stopped.”
8. “Would have the most transparent administration in history”
9.”I don’t want to pit red America against blue America”
10. “We will be able to look back and tell our children that … this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
The majority of comments remind us why the US has dropped in global educational competitiveness. The amount of idiocy is just mind boggling! Not even the most over-dosed comedian could make up that crap! Amazing!
Joseph, is that you, you sly trickster?
Obama is a charlatan.
Pleaase do not post..I submitted a reply to one of the posts yesterday, but my post is not included in the comments.
There was nothing crude, or hateful in what I wrote and do not understand why it was not included.
Please let me know.
Quesnay
shulari@gmail.com
So many of this column’s assertions are factually incorrect and misleading, that there is not space to correc them all. Let’s start though, at the top where after a tirade of misquotes and gaffes, we get to this bit:
“I suppose in place of change from the “inside,” he now envisions more “outside” executive orders”
This is just nonsensical fear-mongering. Obama specifically said in the same speech that he wanted to go back to enlisting the will of the people in pressuring congress to move toward acheiving something. He had little success in getting the obstructionist Do-nothing Congress part deux to do anything. They wouldn’t even pass a bill to save our credit rating.
And how many times does it take every single fact checker to point out that Obama didn’t apologize before you will believe it?
The do nothing congress is harry reid’s senate, who refuses to even let bills come up for votes.
Quesnay is right–Papa Juliet somehow fails to post certain contributions that are neither obscene nor threatening!
Except, Austrians do speak Austrian… I have two German flatmates and one Austrian flatmate. They all refer to the language my Austrian flatmate speaks as “Austrian”, which is a distinct dialect many Germans can’t understand. To say otherwise would be like claiming that Cantonese speakers don’t speak Cantonese, they just speak “Chinese” – which usually refers to Mandarin.
Plus, you sound off your rocker.
Well, whatever. You might as well start writing your useless screeds for the next four years, cuz it sure ain’t gonna be Mittens, my bloviating friend.
but the deficit WAS initiated by the previous administration( i still love that all time great war rally ” just go shopping” ) as well as the the first bailout to the wall street banks. Paulson was a GHWB guy – remember?
as a historian you’d think vdh would have a better understanding of timelines. as well as public speaking gaffes. what – a college lecturer never made a gaffe in front of a live audience?
i think vdh enjoys being the house contrarian. no matter how silly some of his “analysis” sounds. I bet he knows it too.
Victor is not a “contrarian” in this house, jihad riley. It is YOU who are the ‘contrarian’, as if we didn’t notice how Pro and George are probably both you.
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“Let there be no mistake about it”, Obama MUST be defeated in November.It would be GREAT if Congress would impeach him immediately afterward and remove him from office so that he can’t have 2 more months in which to abuse his Dark Side like imperial powers (oops, that has a racist ring to it, unintentional, I assure you), and further wreck our country and its future. That is probably not gonna happen, but it would be nice. Biden would then be POTUS, but HE could be impeached for sheer incompetence or senility in another couple of days,and we’d have a GOP Speaker of the House running things competently and conservatively until the inauguration. I don’t think I have EVER heard a Biden quote that sounded rational and appropriate.
Even BETTER would be to impeach them both NOW, but that is an evil fantasy, I suppose.
Our world is a complicated and difficult place and our leaders are ambitious flawed individuals. What we do is create a narrative describing just how flawed is the candidate/party we oppose. There is never a shortage of grist for our mill, but what neither we nor, alas, VDH can create is overall balance and context. That power is beyond us.
Some combination of Obama the man, Obamacare, and the debt has unleashed the hounds of hell on the right and in the Tea Party, who “suddenly” have a Road to Damascus experience, revealing to them all the sins of the Republic since Woodrow Wilson. The experience does seem to have some cathartic value, but the actual change of course either way in the huge ship of the Republic is necessarily small.
But our rhetoric is oh so large. The less power and influence we have, the louder we talk, eh? ;-)
“Our world is a complicated and difficult place and our leaders are ambitious flawed individuals.”
Words of wisdom, Lloyd, words of wisdom. Who would not share your thought that people in a democratic republic should choose their representatives wisely? But our Leader, who oft seems to speak an indecipherable German dialect of Austro/Hungarian, as the good Pro would have it, wouldn’t put it that way. He’s an incurable straw-man kind of guy. No he would say something like this:
“Zere are some volkes who vould say dhere ist no reason to be choosy about who runs zis Reich. Odhers vould say nobody should run any Reich. I say volkes should be very careful to pick a highly gualifiet gegenius chust like me. Nicht var?
Not sure where you’re going, FB with zee volkstalk, but here are a snippets from my FB posts to my liberal pals:
Please. The drama and hyperbole with which one side excoriates the other is not only melodramatic, but tedious. If only left and right could see how they are the exact shadow opposites of the other side, we might get somewhere; but then, both would say, “NO, we are the righteous, they are the evil,” and all players can resume their positions on the board. Is it in our DNA that we tend to think this way?
Well, if it makes you feel any better (and I doubt it will) Romney was Governor of our state for several years, worked well with the Democratically controlled legislature, and no one accused him of being dumb. The devil you know…
And the right makes the case that Obama is a fool, over his head, Marxist, elitist, blah, blah, blah. I’m telling you that we latch on to the villainy or foolishness in the other side and use it to convince ourselves that WE are indeed on the side of the good guys. We don’t even have to show that our guy is adequate, once we have shown that the other guy is a villain, a scoundrel, or a fool. From my experience with Romney (and Obama) neither is the scoundrel portrayed by the other side. Bottom line: I think that we need a President who can broker deals. Obama is a good organizer when everyone in the room more or less agrees with him. Romney is better when various sides hate each other.
“Not sure where you’re going, FB with zee volkstalk…”
See comment #64
“Bottom line: I think that we need a President who can broker deals.”
I would dearly love to see what deals you would like made, Dwight. I’m always open to conversion. Cost cutting deals, not budget “cutting”? Deals with Russia, about which Medvedev was told by Obama that as president he would have a lot more “flexibility after the election” and told him to tell Putin so? Don’t know what you have in mind, as usual.
The number one deal is to hammer out Bowles-Simpson across the board, arm-twisting or bribing the left who want no cuts in spending and the right who want no tax increases. C’mon Fred, you’re smart enough to figure that out, except that you are one of the people who may be holding out for all cutting…and no taxing. Just a wild guess. ;-) 2-2-2 baby, remember that? If you want to save the Republic and not just posture, then get on board.
People get ready for the train to Jordan
It’s picking up passengers from coast to coast…
I wonder if that in Mr Lucky’s repertoire?
Bowels Simpson? Obama would never sign it; he seems to wish it was never offered, and even that he had never asked them to come up with it.
This election coming up is going to boil down to counting accurately the the number of incumbent-supporting Unthinking-Lemmings against the Angry-Intelligent-Thinkers-Fighting-Socialism.
Remember that those 53% Lemming-Unthinkers who put this Chameleon in our White House are still out there, and still want to “stick it” to the rest of us, and have the rest of us pay their bills for them.
The key will be how many have switched over from the former to the latter; and how many of the latter can be become much more vocal and convincing the closer we get to Election Day.
Somewhere I read that this coming election is nearly equivalent in importance to that of 1860.
Scrolled through the Republican talking points and the chorus of sycophants. The usual anti Obama tea party screed.
Next column, please tell us what Romney is going to do for us (shrinking middle class) or more likely do *to* us. Not the usually vague platitudes. Not likely to happen, he either can’t tell us because he doesn’t know what to do or he is afraid to be honest.
There is little cause for optimism. Either way we are screwed. Just ask the 700 fired Campbell Soup workers in Sacramento. How much longer until our soup cans are labeled “Made in China”? Or the 300 fired Comcast workers. The phone lies work just as well into India. Love that iPhone 5 do you? Better thank those Chinese workers working in squalid conditions so you can upgrade annually.
Here is Obama’s specialty, The Future:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/328815/president-future-mark-steyn
But seriously folks, Obama has laid out the specifics of what his second term plan is. It is: FORWARD.
The only thing Obama successfully led was the “Choom Gang”. In doing so, he fried his brain and came to believe he was the second coming. It is unfortunate that the parasite class in our country has come to believe his absurd fantasies.