The Obama Breaking Point
Tear Us Apart
I know many people — including liberals — who voted for Obama on his promises of racial healing and will vote against him precisely because he amplified racial divides for his own political purposes. Again, one Cambridge police incident or Trayvon Martin flip comment would have been the normal stuff of presidential gaffes. But the fake-accented sermons to black audiences, the “punish our enemies” call to arms to Hispanics, the various racially targeted Obama reelection groups (using “we got the president’s back” as their mottoes as if a deranged white person hourly were about to dry gulch the president without ranks of such self-appointed African-American or Hispanic bodyguards) became predictable. Only Obama could have brought out the worst side of a James Earl Jones, Chris Rock, and Morgan Freeman to accuse others of racism to divert attention away from Obama’s failure. Once such celebrities transcended race, now Obama-fed racialism has engulfed them.
At some point, Eric Holder’s various delusions (e.g., “cowards,” racism behind the Fast and Furious investigations, “my people,” etc.), Hilda Solis’s videos appealing to illegal aliens to call in about mean employers, and the Van Jones rants seemed like sound bites out of the Race / Class / Gender gut course in the university rather than the emanating from the U.S. government.
It’s Not the Economy, Stupid?
More than eight percent unemployment for 42 months could be an artifact. Maybe anemic below-two-percent economic growth happens. Five trillion dollars in new debt can be contextualized. Nearly fifty million on food stamps is regrettable. But after a while, they all become force multipliers of each other — cementing the notion that Obama is largely a hothouse potted plant who has not a clue about what drives business, or why employers hire and fire, or how oil and gas fuel the U.S. economy. The only mystery is whether Obama sought to improve the economy but utterly failed — or if he had some vague idea that printing money, unsustainable borrowing, out-of-control spending, and demonizing the successful might create a gorge-the-beast moment: only then might higher taxes be the only way to prevent fiscal collapse while the new entitlements would hook so many that the mere thought of their curtailment might prove impossible.
Enough Is Enough
Add all this up, and millions of voters — quietly, on their own, without much communication — are becoming wearied by Obama, in a way that is quite miraculous. They are coming to the conclusion not just that it is now OK to vote against Obama, but that even if it is not politically correct, they don’t much care anymore.
Incumbents should have all sorts of advantages. This year there is no Ross Perot on the ballot to siphon off votes from a President George H.W. Bush. The media openly slants its news to save Obama. Libya has gained none of melodramatic hourly coverage of the Iranian hostage crisis that finally did in Jimmy Carter pontificating from the Rose Garden. George H.W. Bush was destroyed by “it’s the economy, stupid” when unemployment and GDP growth were far better than today. George W. Bush almost lost the 2004 election on the charge of a “jobless recovery” when the unemployment rate was almost three points lower than it is today. Enough said.
Money can be printed. Official stats can be massaged. The president can dole out pork. The Federal Reserve can print money. Europe can, too. Obama’s unusual heritage makes Americans proud of their country. If some wished to prove that they were not racist in 2008 by voting for Obama, in 2012 they fear they will be condemned as racist for not voting to reelect him.
Yet add all of that up, and here we are three weeks before the election with Romney holding a slight lead in polls that are often suspect.
In other words, millions are feeling liberated and are starting to feel that they have simply had enough of this bunch. In short, it is becoming OK to vote “No, you can’t!”
Two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl >>> meaning guard the copper wire to your irrigation pumps. Thanks VictorDH for all the wisdom you have imparted
No, no puedes!
No, no puedes!
No, no puedes!
..no, no puedan.
One of the great aspects of VDH is that he still believes in “truth” and in telling the truth. Not so for the majority of those training young minds today, either in the media or in academe. That what is called “the Left” today has only the most tenuous hold on reality is what I laid out here, with appropriate references to George Orwell and his Ministry of Truth. See http://clarespark.com/2012/10/14/reality-and-the-left/. VDH readers should enjoy it.
For my blog on how the “socialist” Left has annexed the rather libertarian Orwell to their side, see http://clarespark.com/2012/10/15/orwell-power-and-the-totalitarian-state/. After the publication of 1984, the Right welcomed this book as a warning not only about the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but about tendencies in statism, as for instance, displayed in the British Labour Party from 1945 on to Orwell’s death in 1950. The British Left has outdone itself in annexing Orwell to the cause of anti-imperialism and the British welfare state, disavowing any and all “rightist” tendencies.
BRAVO, Mr. Hanson! May the truth set us free.
Aside from major scandals brewing to the fore,particularly Bengazigate and Fast & Furious,people (independents) are beginning to realize they voted for a mirage.In other words, by giving the Black man their vote of confidence, they now see they have been conned by a jive talking, two bit hustler.
Instead of being a racial healer, they voted in a racial divider. Now, the Dems will mostly vote for him, even if he kills their mamas and papas.They are wedded to the Party.
However, with the economy falling off a cliff;foreign policy in tatters; and the juxtaposition of the empty suit against a fine man like Romney, independents will be swayed. They realize what his plans are for a second term – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/07/barack-hussein-obamas-deconstruction-plans-green-wise-via-the-economy-disarming-the-citizens-via-gun-control-connecting-the-dots-addendum-to-the-second-term-plans-of-an-obama-presidency-c/
Therefore, he will likely fall, and fall hard.
Remember the “3:00 AM phone call” from the ’08 campaign? Well, the Poseur in Chief actually gave us the sequel with his Benghazi performance. The phone literally did ring at 3:00 AM and he was asked “Mr President. The embassy is under attack and the ambassador is missing. What should we do?” And this lazy, pathetic, sorry excuse of a coward hung up and went back to sleep. And then went to a fundraiser the next day. If this doesn’t make you ashamed to be an American, you must be Michelle.
Samuel Jackson made a commercial for Obama saying “Wake the F**k Up!”
Unfortunately for America, when the call came, they let Obama sleep. Normally, he does less damage to the country when he’s sleeping or playing golf but sometimes, he needed to do his job.
I’m writing a book for Mr. Jackson – “Hey Sam…SHUT THE F**K UP!”
Why waste your time?
His arrogance won’t let him read it and his hubris will see it beneath him, so why bother.
I refuse to pay for anything he does, bit got to the movies, rent a movie or buy any movie he is in.
I actually think “the call” from Benghazi came in around 5:30 p.m. D.C. time. As Colonel Hunt has explained in this STUNNING, MUST LISTEN RADIO INTERVIEW (http://audio.wrko.com/a/64657882/col-hunt-on-the-newest-libyan-revelations.htm) not only the Secretary of State but POTUS himself would have been aware in REAL TIME exactly what was happening as the Americans under attack desperately tried to stay alive over the course of a BRUTAL, jSIX HOUR BATTLE. But maybe Mr. O wanted to retire to the family quarters of the White House for Mac N Cheese with the First Lady and the girls. Had to keep his strength up for his big trip to Vegas the next day, doncha know. “Shut that damn Blackberry off! I’m trying to eat my dinner in peace…..”
Brilliant final sentence.
Well said Mr Hanson. Now wasn’t that Eastwood feller just an absolute genius?
Hanson’s DO WE REMEMBER? section is the killer: Summers, Geithner, Romer, Orszag, Goolsbee, Jones, Dunn, Daley, Emanuel… I’d forgotten how many esteemed rats have fled this sinking ship in four short years.
Even the Clintons have their bags packed, if Hillary gets blamed for Benghazi… Let’s see what happens on Tuesday.
As far as foolish black celebrities, Chris Rock is the worst. His comedy special BRING THE PAIN was deeply, openly conservative. It was an all-out attack on ghetto culture in the black community and it put Rock to the right of Bill Cosby and Thomas Sowell.
The special saved Chris Rock’s failed career and of course, he’s has been running from it ever since.
Not to mention the One’s conscription of other respected black actors, like MOrgan Freeman and James Earl Jones, who were mostly quiet about their political beliefs, but apparently felt obliged to set aside all reason and common sense, because they believed they had some kind of duty to support a black president, no matter how poor a job said black president did. Hearing Morgan Freeman’s voice over on the latest bullshit ad makes me sad.
Respected actors? Quietly?
I guess you just weren’t aware.
These racists have NOT been quiet.
To Sinking Ships: “Bags Packed???” Are you kidding? After what Bill did for Mr. O at the convention?? Let us just say, revenge is a dish best eaten cold.
Heh heh heh. If Romney is elected, all of what really happened will become an open book, and if The Commodities Wizard runs in 2016, she’s toast.
This was her “3 AM call” moment. She can’t duck it. An ad featuring excerpts of her “3 AM call” ad, contrasted with her near-criminal negligence in Benghazigate, would be a lot of fun.
Of course, if Obama wins, that may get buried.
Actually, I think you have it backwards. If Romney wins, the scandal is old news and who wants to look backward since everyone who is at fault is out of office. Investigations at that point just look like piling on and the media and everyone else will be on to something new.
If Obama wins, the House Republicans will be on this like a dog with a bone.
Think Watergate, or the Clinton scandals…those were investigations of Presidents who WON re-election.
I’m thinking the Clinton crowd is really hoping Obama loses at this stage of the game. That ends the investigation before it gets to Hillary and leaves her viable for 2016.
The thing is, re Clinton, that even after investigation–and impeachment–nothing changed, everything just went on as before. It didn’t matter.
I could not even any of my relatives understand that the issue was not sex, but lying under oath by our Chief Executive. And I did get, “But they all do it; I would do it,” meaning lie under oath to save embarrassment. So I have no faith that people who care are going to go out and vote to get this man out. You have to believe that government, and the people who carry on the government, actually matter, in order to trouble to get to the polls and vote.
Serious crimes have been committed, from campaign finance fraud to complicity in murder, from perjury to treason. This bunch makes the Clinton administration look like a bunch of Sunday School teachers. There MUST be criminal prosecutions. Otherwise, we are no longer a nation of laws, and the Constitution is just a faded piece of paper. If we do not uphold THE RULE OF LAW, it won’t matter that Republicans won the election — the Republic will be dead.
“Was it the blame-gaming — “Bush did it!,” ATMs are at fault, tsunamis are the culprit, no other administration has had such challenges, the euro meltdown is to blame, earthquakes shook our confidence — that finally turned the country off of Obama?”
The silent film actor Lon Chaney was called The Man Of A Thousand Faces.
Barack Obama should rightfully be called The Man Of A Thousand Excuses (and just as many lies).
“Calling Dr. Freud”
After drinking a potion of Saul Alinsky, Jeremiah Wright, Karl Marx, Bill Ayers, Benito Mussolini, King George III, King Louis XVI and his own creation, Barack Obama is transformed into the cruel, remorseless, pathological, narcissistic, misanthropic, pyromaniac (clinical reference note #1) Herr Hussein, representing the hidden side of Obama’s dual nature brought to the fore. As Barry he has many friends and, with great effort, is able to affect a pleasing personality, but as Herr Hussein he has become more and more fanatical, more and more dictatorial, more and more scape goating, makes ever longer enemies lists, encourages demonization and dehumanizing of political opponents and becomes ever more isolated and fascist like as time goes by as Herr Hussein grows in dominance. After taking this potion repetitively, he now no longer needs to rely upon it to unleash his worst inner fascist demons.
Clinical reference note #1: Such individuals who lack ulterior motive have traditionally been referred to in layman’s terms simply as a variation of a pyromaniac. Most such maniacs lack conscious motivation although they are fully aware of the acts they are failing to stop or they themselves are committing. Typically they will feel intense pleasure, gratification, or relief when causing destruction or when witnessing or participating in the aftermath. Motivation is also classified as pathological and non-pathological. Some research suggests that feeling such joy at horrific situation is pathological. Other research suggests that some motivation for this comes from rational thought. Taking joy in horrific situations for envisioned gains in political power and/or the concealment of the imposition of devious plans are examples of supposed rational decision making.
I must say in conclusion that history has repeatedly and harshly proven that elevating such a profoundly disturbed man to the highest office in any country is never a good idea. Unfortunately it is a lesson that must be learned first hand in every nation and some of those nations survive and some do not
This lesson must be seared into our national memory: That our destroyer can be one of us, and can come in the guise of a friend. Without this innoculation, we will remain as vulnerable as ever.
It was seared in my mind back in the late 70′s. What I couldn’t understand was why it wasn’t seared in everyone else’s. One Carter was enough for me and yet we got Clinton and then Obama. When will they ever learn?
This time we have to go after them, so that everyone will know.
Gylippus, I like that analogy:
Obama as a vaccine. Sometimes there are side effects, soreness, redness, etc., because what is a vaccine but a much watered down version of a more serious disease? After a while, the side effects fade and the patient has the anti-bodies needed for future resistance to the disease.
And what about projection, that is, attributing to someone else the action that oneself is doing or contemplating? What I have in mind here, of course, is the constant accusation by the 0 camp that Romney is a liar. Romney a LiAR?? In my mother’s day they would have said the pot is calling the kettle black, but I wouldn’t want to be accused of whistling any dogs or anything….
I remember back in 2009 after President Clueless had been in office a few months – he was addressing some business people – giving a speech (teleprompter of course) – can’t quite remember the occasion. He was praising small business as ‘the backbone of our economy and our country’ etc etc. Then he implored the small business owners to “hire someone – just one person”! I let out a very loud “HUH” as I listened to this sorry excuse for a president BEGGING businesses to hire someone – just ONE person! He had no clue then – and likely doesn’t now – as to how and why businesses hire. The full ‘knowing’ of what we were in for for 4 years hit me that day like the proverbial ton of bricks. Of course the couple of liberals around me as I said “HUH” asked WTF that was all about. The conservative friends started laughing – they KNEW! The liberals? Clueless – as usual. Whats wrong with hiring ‘just one person’ one asked.
Good God – it was going to be a long 4 years!
Michael Savage was right – liberalism is a mental disease.
Can you say thick as a brick?
Dr. Hanson – better article than usual – and thats saying a lot! Well done! Well said! Even my 71 year old sister is beginning to ‘get it’.
In a similar vein, to bolster sagging economic figures, he advised the nation, “Go out and buy stuff!”
I guess he didn’t understand the concept: no job; no ‘buy stuff.’
But if you are on the dole this rule of life does not apply.
Hmmm, was that Obama, or GWB? Answer: BOTH.
The President’s energy policy falls into this vein also. “If we drive up gas prices, then the Average Joe will be forced into using new forms of energy” (paraphrased, not meant to be quoted).
With so many people unable to find employment and/or finding themselves in some other form of financial despair (housing, healthcare, rising grocery costs, etc.), I keep wondering where he expects people to find the money to convert their homes to solar power or buy that electric car. “Let them eat cake!” seems to be the sentiment.
LOL. The One doesn’t come to mind when I think of “Let them eat cake!”, I think of Michelle Aintoinette Obama herself. She is the one consumed with what everyone eats, arugula anyone? People in apartments do not have the luxury of planting gardens that other people maintain for them, LOL. Obama seems to prefer junk food.
Remember, these are the people who think handing out foodstamps stimulates the economy.
“In other words, millions are feeling liberated and are starting to feel that they have simply had enough of this bunch. In short, it is becoming OK to vote “No, you can’t!”
Thanks VDH for doing a superb job exposing the hypocrisies of this travesty of an administration these last four years. I think the awakening you speak of runs quite deep because the dawning awareness of the enormity of what has been going on is shocking. It’s quite rare you get a shot at redemption in this life. But we lucky few have a shot at redeeming our entire civilization. Our sin was a subtle form of laziness. We allowed our belief – that all men and women should be treated with dignity (a dignity we are willing to grant them until they prove us otherwise), and that our collective will, ordered by law, reason and a respect for that dignity is (apart from God) the only authority we voluntarily submit to – to blind us to the imperatives of survival that our ancestors knew so well.
Another way of putting it: Obeying God’s Commandments comes with certain dangers too. He did not create automatons or robots, He gave us free will, and so we must “suffer into truth” as Aeschylus said. So for us humans, the real struggle is not at the level of freedom vs. bondage (life vs. death), that is an animalistic kind of struggle. For us the real struggle is truth vs. deception (including self-deception, which is the worst kind). To live according to the principles we know to be true (first principles) requires the highest form of courage, particularly when those principles are freedom, consensus, reason, and a belief in human rights. That is because each one of those principles is a vulnerability that can be exploited by those who hate us for having them (Nihilists reject life because they are disgusted by their inability to cope with the moral terror that comes with it.)
We own the high moral ground. But in the decades of prosperity that followed WWII, many of us forgot that we had to constantly struggle to recognize the point where freedom becomes tyranny, for in a free-wheeling, high-speed society such as ours, it is only ever a heartbeat away. Our enemies are ever present, among us as well as beyond our borders, and in a rapidly changing world they become indistinct and hard to recognize. They learn to mimic us, using our languages and concepts, our modes of interaction and our institutions to weaken and confuse us, to conceal their true purpose, and to strike when we are distracted. (see Saul Alinsky, and the Islamic principle of Taqiyya).
How do we counter them, while remaining a free and open civilization (there is always the danger of turning into what you hate the most)? By becoming excruciatingly aware of what distinguishes us from our enemies. “Know your enemy” As Sun-Tzu said. Learn to recognize the ever evolving codes he uses, the tilts in his arguments, how certain ideas trigger his defences, what sentiments he likes to stir, how resentment colors his every gesture, how his actions diverge from his words, how easily he makes grand promises and paints painless futures… And always the idea that government must act to fill every void that comes with being human.
The sad truth is that in a world where we are commanded to give, and to love, it is sometimes necessary to be ruthless, to fight without mercy, and to destroy others (or at least destroy their will and their power to oppose you). That is the great irony at the heart of our civilization: that redemption only comes through suffering. It requires courage to accept that irony, the kind of courage that our animalistic enemies will never know. If we keep reminding ourselves and each other of these hard truths in the struggles ahead (for soon begins the hard task of rolling back the leftists’ ‘long march’), and teach our children to recognize the patterns, we have a good shot at remaining free, and of redeeming ourselves and our civilization in the process.
He can’t save it, it’s finished. Romney will win by a landslide. This has been staring the Democrats in the face for some time, even before the debates. Bathhouse Barry is done.
Yes, quite a while now. To be exact March 10, 2010… it was the day they arrogantly strutted across the Capital plaza and then signed the Obamacare bill into law like they had done something good for the Americn people. Will never forget it (and surely never forgive it).
I think in this time period (faster everything) 8 years is too much.
Generally most everyone is sick and tired of Obama/Biden shenanigans.
The Dems were caught flat-footed by Obama’s performance in the first debate. But what terrified them even more was the sight of the Dem Base imploding. Biden’s job was not so much to lend a supporting hand to Obama but to provide red meat for the Base. He delivered, never mind that he proved true what Clint Eastwood said of him, “… the intellect of the Democratic Party … just kind of a grin with a body behind it”.
So, now, Obama has newly-snorted up Base. Does he do a Biden? Does he deal in raw meat? Nope. Obama, the upper-class toff, is not going to sink to Biden’s level, no matter what Chris Matthews wants.
The second debate, in the townhall setting, could possibly be a problem for Romney. After all, who selects the ‘undecideds’ who will reflect a townhall?
It’s the third debate, the foreign policy debate, where Romney must make the kill. Biden has said neither he nor Obama knew anything of requests for extra security from Libya. Joe Carney went further, saying such requests usually are in the ambit of the State Department. It was for Hillary to solve.
This leaves a very wide opening. Did State not inform the White House? Did such requests not appear in the Presidential Daily Briefing? If not, why not? He must make Obama twist in the wind.
PLEASE PAY ATTENtION HERE: It is not the denied request for extra security–while a tragedy–that is the scandal. The scandal is this.
1) The White House and the State Department KNEW from the very first 24 hours a terrorist attack was happening/had happened in Benghazi. (Listen to Colonel Hunt’s stunning interview if you don’t believe me: http://audio.wrko.com/a/64657882/col-hunt-on-the-newest-libyan-revelations.htm)
2) Despite this knowledge, they CONCOCTED A COMPLETELY FABRICATED STORY that a video-inspired protest outside the gate had spurred the violent attack.
3) They CONTINUED TO TRY TO BAMBOOZLE the American public and the world (see Susan Rice on 5 Sunday talk shows, POTUS before the United Nations and on Letterman) with this ridiculous story.
They will try to move the focus to the request for extra security because this is properly the realm of the State Department and can be blamed on Hillary. BUT THIS IS NOT WHERE THE TRUE SCANDAL LIES.
We still do not know the important facts. There is a FOI law suit file to pry out the status of the following press report on the Benghazi security company Blue Mountain (UK):
Blue Mountain Group was chosen by State, in part, because it was willing to accept the State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya that prohibited security guards at Benghazi from carrying weapons that contained bullets.
The Benghazi guards were locals, several in number. They, Blue Mountain executives, the Ambassador, and Washington State Dept executives, knew within minutes that trained military types were installing mortars, heavy machine guns, RPGs, and massing several companies of soldiers outside the gates.
With this background what would you do if you were a guard? What would you do if you were a mid level bureaucrat in the State Dept? Can you believe Ambassador Rice and our President blaming this on a vile U Tube? Why does it take several law suits to learn the truth about our policies?
After the disgrace of Fast & Furious, we have an Administration which demands that our side holds weapons loaded with bean bags, or no bullets, while killers are heavily armed.
There is a fundamental issue of competency in this election. A bubble of unreal ideology, nicey nicey confronting savage killers, which is a valid policy election issue. US policy has led to the murders of a number of our people. And there is an basic issue of candid honesty to the American people.
Yes, “it’s the video, stupid” line, extended by Obama on Sep 20 on Pakistan TV and on Sep 25 (a full fortnight later)at the UN.
But, the Biden-Ryan debate unearthed a second thread of the cover-up, that the WH did not know what State and the IC knew.
Obama is flailing. But, flailing is not breaking. A concerted push is required.
Just saw on CNN that Hillary is taking responsibility for the Benghazi attack. So, Mr. 0 thinks he is home scott-free. Not so unless people forget about the Susan Rice fantasy. Focus has to be on the cover-up.
There were multiple attacks in Benghazi before the one in question….so why? was the Ambassador sent there? And in light of that why deny additional security? And why is everyone avoiding that question?
I have a different notion of events; ie, the coverup.
The attack was well-planned, not spur-of-the-moment.
It was directed at the compound because we were operating a 40+ team covertly in the rear of the compound.
It was only indirectly an attack on the consulate.
AlQ wiped out our presence and our intel gathering capability in Libya, and not by accident.
So the question becomes “what were our intel folks doing so massed in that outpost that it demanded an AlQ strike with 45 (est.) heavily-armed fighters?
It could be the reason for the coverup, to distract US from asking that question. I’ve heard they were trying to locate missing weapons.
If the extent of the heavy weaponry (including thousands of shoulder-fired-missiles)lost to “insurgents” is as big as some suggest, people will soon stop flying anywhere.
I don’t believe the Administration wants US to know the real threat level; hence the video excuse.
At least we will no longer need the TSA.
Our Travails Are Just Beginning.
Assuming Romney does indeed win the election – what then?
Getting rid of Obama is essential, lest the country collapse completely in all its social, financial and cultural dimensions to become a ruined, crushed, spiritless and hollow country, subjugated to the narcissistic will of a utopian idealist with profound daddie issues that believes the destruction of an ‘imperialist/capitalist/globalist/colonialist’ America is social and economic justice for the ‘oppressed’ third world.
But I’m tellin’ ya, folks: Romney can’t fix this. The public sector (at both the federal and state level) and the financial sector are INSOLVENT. There is no jiggling of taxes and payments and growth that will fix this. We’re in a worse financial condition than GREECE.
The nation’s public and private finances are going to collapse, and quite soon. Romney cannot prevent it. And unless he has the genius of Einstein and the backbone of Reagan, he will not materially lessen the impact of the catastrophe.
Sure, with Obama around, the collapse would be even more profound, and there would be no chance of ever rebuilding. With Romney, there might actually be light at the end of the tunnel 10 years down the road.
But understand this – no one in our nation has gone thru the kinds of difficulties we are about to face since the Great Depression. And those folks were a lot a hardier and much more stalwart bunch than most of us are. So who’s to say that a populace accustomed to instant and nearly unlimited gratification won’t, in desperation and panic, turn to a demagogue in 2016 who promises them safety and rescue if we would all just give him all the command and control he needs to get the job done?
We must be prepared and cannot kid ourselves. Firing Obama is a badly needed first step – but there are many steps we must take after that, and the journey will be grueling, with that light at the end of the journey very far away.
Everything you stated is true and correct, although we face one more major hurdle:
Will this narcissist leave after lsoing or, will he refuse – attempting a coup due to his revenge-induced-rage towards everything american, demanding we ‘owe him’ to stay in the white house.
Then what?
“Then what?”
A *crisis* not to be wasted.
Hear, hear. A chance to take out some trash that has been piling up since about 1913.
There is zero chance Obama would refuse to leave office were he to lose the election. Not only would all of our institutions make that utterly impossible unless he were to somehow declare martial law as an executive order–which sounds more like the plot of a bad sci-fi movie than anything else–but you miss the most important reason.
Obama is lazy. He would love to retire, make millions on the speaking circuit and live for the next 40 years as not only a former President of the USA but the first black president. His place in history is secured. His .0001% status is assured. Obama is not a Chavez who thirsts for power. Obama is just another Chicago machine politician looking for “his”, that’s all.
So don’t worry about Obama declaring martial law. Certainly existential threats to the USA exist, but Obama becoming a dictator is not one of them.
You are correct. For this occupant, the White House is simply a stepping stone toward greater wealth.
He’s probably already got his resume prepared for a high-ranking UN position.
Obama bundler Penny Pritzker has already purchased a $35 million estate in Hawaii for the Obamas and it will be turnkey in January. The date was moved up–hmmm, wonder why.
This is what can very well make this coming 2012 election a close one, not a rout in favor of Romney……
…” So who’s to say that a populace accustomed to instant and nearly unlimited gratification won’t, in desperation and panic, turn to a demagogue in 2016 who promises them safety and rescue if we would all just give him all the command and control he needs to get the job done?”
Remember, these are the still extant 53% who’ll need to be converted away from our Chameleon-In-Chief.
I very much want to be shown wrong, but I don’t think we anti-Obamists should be counting our chickens just yet.
Well said, Charlie. I’ve seen a lot of chicken counting going on. I’m not impressed by those who do so.
Early chicken counting is a sigh of immaturity. It shows a lack of wisdom and humility.
You are right. They are just beginning. But if Romney wins we will have an adult in the White House again. A person who has the good of the country, including future generations of Americans, not just those voting in the next election, at heart. But you are right, the turn-around will take a long time. And it will take attention and involvement by adults like you all over the country to make sure things continue moving in the direction. People who educate themselves about the nuances of issues so they can make intelligent choices and choose representatives at all levels of government who can in turn make the hard and sometimes unpopular decisions. Adults who will regularly and forcefully call the media on their bias and lies. It is up to us to do this. WE CAN BLAME OBAMA ALL WE WANT, BUT THE REAL CULPRIT BEHIND THE MESS WE FIND OURSELVES IN IS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC THAT HAS FAILED TO DO THE HARD WORK OF DEMOCRACY. Time to pull up our socks. We can’t expect one guy in the White House to do it all by himself.
You’re absolutely correct. The damage is too widespread and, now ingrained, to be fixed by one administration. Or one administration given two consecutive terms. The cure is going to hurt almost as much as the disease and nothing can stop that now. It’s too far along. When the fall comes, the parasites will blame the current administration, oblivious to the actual causes. Then what? Do the low information, moron masses decide to go hard left again?
Very depressing to think about, but it approaches.
“The subjects to which I would ask each of my readers to devote his earnest attention are these – the life and morals of the community; the men and the qualities by which through domestic policy and foreign war dominion was won and extended. Then as the standard of morality gradually lowers, let him follow the decay of the national character, observing how at first it slowly sinks, then slips downward more and more rapidly, and finally begins to plunge into headlong ruin, until he reaches these days, in which we can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.” –Livy
Livy was writing about Rome as it approached the end of the Repbulic, but the words are just as fitting for our country today. We do not seem able to tolerate the problems, nor the cure.
Yes Stallion, this is why many of us here have been noting that the real fight begins January 2013, once The One is out of office.
We are in this for the long haul, we have to riff off our momentum and use it to propel us onto our next victory, and our next victory after that… But there will be reversals and defeats as well, we can’t let those demoralize us; this is literally a battle of good versus evil. On one side lies liberty, prosperity and the pursuit of man’s highest potential, on the other lies poverty, corruption, misery, theft, premature death, and an ever narrowing maze of dogma and deception. So the stakes literally could not be higher.
But we have a lot of power too, in fact we have more power than the left does, if we choose to use it in a focused, concentrated manner. It will be a three front war. On the one hand there will be the government level battles for policy and legislation. Take the easy wins quickly and early on, then fight tooth and nail for the rest. Expose leftist corruption and make a big public spectacle of it, prosecute the ringleaders, frame them as thieves and murderers (they are!), and throw them to the wolves.
There will be a communications war between us and the leftist government-media apparatus. We the people play a more direct role here, by refuting their shallow arguments and nonsensical positions whenever we can, whether by word or deed, and tuning out their broadcasts. They don’t grasp it yet but we are already defeating them in this battle, but there is a long way to go yet.
Then there will be the war against the leftist activists, whether class warfare groups like ACORN, the big Unions, OWS (or what’s left of it) etc. Here we will have to be prepared to go toe to toe and shut them down. Things could get ugly. There could be violence in the streets. Don’t be shaken by their street theatre, in this end that is all they have. The boutique socialists and entrenched leftists that make up the 40+% will acquiesce in the final analysis when the entitlement spigot starts to run dry, even if it means they *gasp* have to work for a living…)
It will be a slow, painfull, step by step process. But a turning point will come some years from now where we will be able to see the new dawn coming. No society can rid itself of this kind of corrupting influence, as well as the other structural challenges you mention, without will, sacrifice and pain. Other peoples have tried and failed, we are different.
This is why there is one thing about Romney/Ryan that gives me some hope. Romney is, whatever else he may be or believe, a moral man who believes and relies on the strength of family and faith. His personal background and development has been one of working his way up from the bottom to what he is today. He has made his career on turning around struggling businesses and struggling ventures. He may very well be the right man, in the right place, at the right time. That he selected Paul Ryan to be his running mate signals to me his seriousness. I think he intends to do his best to save this nation. He may not succeed, but I think he means to try.
I don’t expect that it will be easy. I don’t expect it to be pretty either. I think there is going to be a lot of ugliness. There has to be. We can’t continue to carry the Federal burdens we currently do. That means a lot of government employees are going to be out of work. There are going to be a lot of states that go bankrupt along with a lot of municipalities. A lot of pensions and retirements will be be lost or restructured. People are going to have to rediscover family, faith and community again because the government isn’t going to be the provider it once was.
This is going to be very, very difficult for a lot of people to relearn and accept. I hope my generation is up to the challenge and that we’re ready to sacrifice ourselves to save this country for our children so that they never have to face what we’re going to have to and sacrifice their lives like we’re going to.
Exactly how I believe in Romney ability to make difficult decisions. The stories of his business successes, the amazing turn around of the failing Olympics and his personal life that has been lived in service to others and last but not least his ability to balance the Massachuesettes budget with a 90% Semocrat majority, all are indications that we may have nominated the absolute perfect all American to right our sinking ship and steer us back to a safe harbor. For the first time in years I am optimistic that America will get our fiscal mess in order, leaving a better future for our progeny rather than a failing state. The very first decision a future president makes is the choice of a VP running mate. Rather than a safe choice, Romney picked the perfect governing budget hawk. Ryan is the expert in Congress on our budget and entitlement woes. From a fiscal standpoint, Romney could not have made a better pick. Our fiscal woes more than any other are the crisis of this time everything else hinges on solving this now rather than later. A fiscally strong America will be much stronger than we are currently and much better equipped to handled any crisis either here or abroad. America will once again be able to project power rather than being in the weakened position of idle threats and pleas. A strong America has many more options home and abroad and the tyrants of the world are quite aware of this. Our current president has weakened us so badly in the eyes of the world that we have become a paper tiger. With Romney/Ryan I see a chance to return to “morning in America” but possibly with a Republican congress Romney will be able to top the record of Reagan just as Obama has out cartered Carter!
Just imagine the howls and lawsuits generated by Romney’s executive order that all lawyers appointed by Obama and/or Holder are hereby dismissed.
Good post.
Getting rid of obama is only the absolutely necessary step one. Unless Romney has been an alligator in the weeds for 20 years, he isn’t the solution to the underlying problems. Everything he has ever done politically indicates that he is a middle of the road guy whose greatest ambition is to compromise and “get things done” even if “the things” are wrong or counter-productive. (note: there is one hint to the contrary, which is that Rush has said several times that Romney has told Rush that he expects to be 1-term president because he will correct problems which will make him unelectable for a second term. I wish, but doubt.)
So Romney is a stop-gap. The hope is that he can stop the life-threatening bleeding, and somehow educate the brain-dead that major surgery is needed.
The answer is either Ryan, or somebody smart enough to really recognize the severity of the problem, wise enough to figure out how to convince the country that action is absolutely necessary, and stong enough to fight back against the inevitable demagogues on the criminal left who view the demise of the county as necessary to expand their own power.
Welcome to my world, folks.
I had this guy pegged as a foreign agent back in 2007. Any man who’s wife thinks she has his approval when she says the she had never before been proud to be an American is not the guy suited to be the president. She, like every one of the people he chose to associate with or be mentored by, is a clear indicator of the man’s own character and gut level beliefs.
The bottom line is that Barrack Obama hates us. All of us. Especially those whom he professes to want to provide cradle to grave guardianship, the Americans of African slave ancestry.
When you elect a man who clearly does not love the country as much as his new dog, this is what you get.
Now, help me turn this wrecker out. Please.
“More than eight percent unemployment for 42 months could be an artifact. Maybe anemic below-two-percent economic growth happens. Five trillion dollars in new debt can be contextualized. Nearly fifty million on food stamps is regrettable. But after a while, they all become force multipliers of each other — cementing the notion that Obama is largely a hothouse potted plant who has not a clue about what drives business, or why employers hire and fire, or how oil and gas fuel the U.S. economy.”
During the vice presidential debate the other night, the major differences between the two parties hit me.
Paul Ryan actually looked and sounded presidential, while Joe Biden reminded me of a guy you throw out of a bar for being a drunken jerk. And that summed up Biden as a whole. He sounded like a drunk, he acted like a drunk, and he and Obama spend money like drunken sailors. And the WORST thing about Biden that nobody seemed to mention was, what was the Obama administration’s plan for the NEXT four years??? You may not like Romney and Ryan’s plan, but at least it’s A PLAN. What do Obama and Biden have, just MORE SPENDING? That is not a plan, that’s called bankruptcy. Obama has not mentioned any ideas on how to actually grow the economy, let alone how to reduce our crushing debt and deficit.
So I think the choice is clear. Vote for Romney and Ryan and at least we have a chance to get out of this mess, or follow Obama and Biden down the road to Greece. The choice really is up to us this November.
Can anyone sleep easy knowing that Joe Biden is just a heartbeat away from being in charge of America’s nuclear arsenal? While the hardcore Left likely loved Biden’s performance during the debate, I strongly suspect it cost them far more support from independents and women than they gained from the radicals.
They dont need a “plan”, all they have to do is criticize whatever Romney wants to do.
And they have the most sophisticated Propaganda machine in the history of Mankind on their side.
The proof of Obamas moral superiority, and thus the “better-ness” of any possible future acts he may, in his wisdom, decide to engage in, is self evident through the mere existence of Mitt Romneys Evil White Richness.
“Critical Theory”, the perfect Catch-22 of all liberal beliefs…
Don’t worry about the details, for I Am Not Him, and We All Agree He Is An Asshole, Don’t We?
Its Perfect. Its Impenetrable. The Enemy Defined IS their battle plan, they have no other tactics or objectives.
The problem with Liberals/leftists/communists and their Media Enablement Whores is, they’ve spend SO much time perfecting Critical Theory as the best tool to undercut reality and bring them to power, they have no PLAN once they finally hold the reigns.
Like the Professor who earns his living Railings Against all things of Western Man, who has not outside skills, no knowledge of tools, toil, or trade, he is utterly useless unless fully and safely ensconced within the system he claims to despise.
He simply HAS no plans for when the Barbarians Over-run the Gates and burn the books. That day is always CALLED for, a deserving comeuppance for all our sins, so selflessly exposed by The Criers of Critical Theory, but never ever expected, (or honestly desired) to arrive.
It is “The Calling” that sustains them, that verifies the proof of their Nobility and their Superiority, as they poke and scrape, chip by shard, at the foundation that supports us all.
The What and How of their support plans for a new one, is never the question.
Nor was it ever MEANT TO BE.
The obviously myopic Democrats should be alarmed to see that the Communist Party of America has completely co-opted them and is now in control of our Executive branch. I don’t see these guys as being so myopic. They have been working on this scenario for over 100 years and they see the hapless narcissist Obama as no more than a much needed prop for the advancement of their agenda. God help us if we give them four more years to trot Obama around as an acceptable face for this coup. Obama is a marionette but I submit that the people pulling his strings are not clueless about what they want to accomplish. ABO2012
Jim,
You are probably right, there are darker forces lurking behind these fools…
But every SINGLE person I’ve met canvasing our neighborhood with a clipboard, brochure, and an agenda over the last 20 years, is simply the most ignorant and useless sort of self-important idiot I could imagine.
Snotty college kids regurgitating words like “corporate” , “sustainable” , “advocacy” and “awareness” are the dead giveaways that they aren’t majoring in math, science, or engineering. Or Suits with “Biden-esque” smiles, explaining how crucially important it is for you to concede to their desires for authority and esteem.
Its all a game, and they know it. None of them really expect to lead, or to make a difference. It’s a dance, a sham, an obligatory annoyance they must engage in to “convince” us, the little people, of a brilliance they themselves know does not exist….
And sent them forth on that ultimate free ride…
a Taxpayer subsidized lifestyle of all talkie-talk, and no workie-work.
Thought provoking post. Thanks
Obama/Biden are much worse than drunken sailors. Sailors spend their OWN money, while O just prints it, devaluing every dollar you currently hold and all of our savings. They are more like drunken sailors with our credit card!
I believe there is a strategic misunderstanding in explaining the Obama Presidency. If Obama cannot transform America, then preventing the revival of the US is just as good. All legislation, economic policies, social policies, etc are double edged. If they do not change the US they most certainly will cripple the country for a long time. The past four years has been the Counter Culture’s turn at the helm – driven by that odd self loathing, need to prove they are not racist before they die, and fear of those who cling to guns and Bibles. What they did not realize is the man they put at the helm to change direction will just as readily scuttle the ship.
Good observation. I think the strategy has been multi-layered but confused and contradictory from the get go. Obama represents a few different leftist constituencies and he has been told to do all their bidding. Here are some of the layers as I see them, in ascending order of importance.
1) Creating a genuine socialist paradise (to pander to the useful idiots)
2) Implementing a vast bureaukratic-kleptocracy (to please his political allies, financial donors, and to fund political projects)
3) Implementing a crony-capitalist economy (to please his large corporate backers, and implement economic control on the population)
4) Stir racial divides and other forms of class warfare (to better control and manipulate voters)
5) Implementing a surveillance state (to enable more autocratic forms of governing)
6) Weakening the US military (to allow our enemies to move more freely)
7) Eroding the Constitution and the separation of powers (to create an all-powreful executive)
8) Sowing the seeds of global war (To enable the rise of the global totalitarian state and to fulfill the nihilist, anti-human urges that ultimately drive this clique).
I agree that satisfying various sponsors and supporters is has many layers. Socialism-like approaches have been employed to accomplish it. But behind it is something much darker. As G.K. Chesterton wrote:
“I call them the Autocrats. They are those who give us generally to understand that every modern reform will “work” all right, because they will be there to see. Where they will be, and for how long, they do not explain very clearly.” … “If you ask them how this or that will work, they will answer, “Oh, I would certainly insist on this”; or “I would never go so far as that”; as if they could return to this earth and do what no ghost has ever done quite successfully—force men to forsake their sins. Of these it is enough to say that they do not understand the nature of a law any more than the nature of a dog. If you let loose a law, it will do as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Such sense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled. But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you have forgotten to put into it.”
The Obama administration is the culmination of this Autocratic which I would associate with ‘Progressives’. But things have taken a life of its own. To continue:
“Anarchy is that condition of mind or methods in which you cannot stop yourself. It is the loss of that self-control which can return to the normal. It is not anarchy because men are permitted to begin uproar, extravagance, experiment, peril. It is anarchy when people cannot end these things.”
The challenge is to stop the anarchy.
Interesting. Things have indeed been set in motion that will take on a life of their own. That is true for our side too. The Tea Party has only just gotten started. I pray that we are able to direct all of our energies to mostly constructive purposes. But as a student of history I know that its more important that our opponents worry about what we will do to them, than for us to worry about the risks that lie along the path we know we must take. Yes there will be chaos, and perhaps there will be blood. It doesn’t matter. We have no choice but to push ahead and do what’s right, starting on November 6th.
“Oh, I would certainly insist on this”; or “I would never go so far as that”; as if they could return to this earth and do what no ghost has ever done quite successfully—force men to forsake their sins. Of these it is enough to say that they do not understand the nature of a law any more than the nature of a dog. If you let loose a law, it will do as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Such sense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled. But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you have forgotten to put into it.”
But there is no shortage of such nostrums here about how we will stop this, start that, ban this, harvest that. The “laws” of human nature gash the righty positions as well. People move (and vote for) toward what they PERCEIVE to be their own self-interest. Whether the Founding Principles (could we ever get a consensus view on what they are/were) favor perceived self interest, as opposed to “true” self interest, is the kind of thing that we fought a Civil War about. Maybe the most important % is not 1%, nor 47%, but the 3-5%, who are un- or seriously under-employed.
That is obviously on top of the 5% who are now always unemployed…just because.
The nostrums are the real problem. All of those OWS protestors eventually get jobs, usually formulating government policy or regulation. What cannot be done democratically will be coerced. A political change is a necessary first step. But Tinkering with budgets and programs will not work. Without whole scale repeal of legislation and regulation by the truckload and public service layoffs in the tens of thousand, the nostrums will remain and wait. And the silent anarchy will begin again.
There’s a new horror on the loose in the past three weeks! HUD has sent letters and new regulations to Salvation Army and other social services providers, especially as applies to homeless shelters. HUD says that now, as far as shelters are to be concerned, “family” means whoevers says they are a family must be accepted into ‘family’ spaces, whatever the combination of male, female, girl, boy, infant, homosexual males and lesbian women. HUD is wallpapering the hallways with posters about the ‘GLBT Initiative’, soliciting complaints from any LGBT person who sniffs a perception of discrimination in homeless shelters or other social services. For example, one rule is if a person declares he is female or she is male it must not be challenged or countered; he or she must be accepted into the living quarters they request.
Salvation Army uses common-sense and traditional Christian values in helping the poor and those in need. SA has been fooled into applying for government funding grants and now the trap has them. SA does it’s best to provide private rooms for married couples with children, and SA requires proof of marriage. Otherwise the women and children are housed in rooms as well as SA can afford, and the men all sleep in dormitories at smaller expense.
Salvation Army has proven thru experience that it’s best and much less dangerous for all if the men are kept separate. The new HUD rules, if Salvation Army follows them, will lead to homeless shelters full of stress, violence, rape of women and men and sexual abuse of children.
HUD has a multi-pronged attack against religious freedom, private charities like SA and social services in every city, and will create a ‘crisis’ of destroying help for the homeless as our economy falls apart. A crisis not to be wasted.
One does not chomp at the bit; one champs at the bit.
One can chomp, champ, or chafe at the bit, actually….
People are tired of Obama, the excuses, numerous golf rounds, and lavish family vacations on the taxpayer’s dime. We are tired of the wrong priorities, health care vs. jobs, a Vegas fund raiser vs. a dead American ambassador, green energy investment vs. oil and gas exploration, and appearances on The View vs. talking with allies who are in town.
The first debate poked a hole in the balloon that was Obama’s “brilliance”. He stumbled, stammered, fillibustered, spoke five minutes more and five hundred less words. We heard no new ideas and more of the same is his plan “forward”.
His after debate spin? Well, Romney is a liar. He must be wearing an asbestos suit or his pants would spontaneously combust every day. Romney lies.
And yet..Fast and Furious. Benghazigate. Not verifying the source of campaign funds. The then Senator’s vote against waiving the Stafford Act for Hurricane Katrina, who was really asking “where’s yo dollar?”
Obama has made everything worse. The economic recovery. Race relations. America’s standing around the world. Time to let him go.
Obama couldn’t pull off the easiest scams – the one that advises: “If you can’t dazzle em with you’re brilliance baffle em with you’re bullshit”. It would seem he no longer has command of either one.
When you list them all (all?) together in one place/article it’s sorta breathtaking, ya’kno?
Friday morning I went to a political breakfast because on eof the speakers wasan architect of the Regional Equity Movement. Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution had chaired the original 1998 Regionalism conference that was far more overtly political and communitarian. After all it assumed Gore would win. So did he apparently because he wrote the Foreword as Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 collection of essays called Reflections on Regionalism.
Now going by the name Metropolitanism and being sold as a classic Mercantile Public/ Private Partnership via Regional Innovation Clusters, we have to understand all these related Corporatist schemes that were the real reason for pushing that Gaia had a temperature and it’s the fault of humanity. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/protected-producers-vs-paying-consumerstaxpayerswho-will-prevail-on-education-and-the-economy/ is the post I wrote up to explain what we are dealing with.
We are also going to finally have to deal with the Left’s view of Racial Justice since it is impossible to achieve in a Capitalist economy. It is also impossible to achieve if education is about academics and the transmission of knowledge.
In 2008 we showed the US is not a racist country. In 2012 we need to show that Individualism still matters for everyone and we do not want a government led economy. Literally educating our young people of how the world really works and what will crash it and hurt us all will simply have to be part of the cleanup from this historic Presidency.
Let the pipelines begin. All of the pint up frustration of business will begin to flow in a positive direction within days of Romney’s election. Turn off those Obamaphones.
Obama is at heart both a narcissist and a romantic mystic. He is in love with his own (self-perceived) perfection, and also with any philosophy which offers nebulous platitudes and open opposition to the highly technological society he despises- ours.
He is also a primitivist. He looks at the squalor of Indonesia, and sees the way everyone in the world should live. He looks at the violent theocracy of Islam, and sees enlightened mysticism that perceives the world “truly”, not the brutal, humanity-crushing autocracy that it actually is. He looks at the Rousseauian destruction fantasies of the environmentalists, and sees a reborn Eden.
He looks at the rest of us, and sees evil people who oppose all the “righteous” things he loves. And whom he has the power to punish, as he leads us, like dogs on a leash, to Utopia. (With a stop behind the woodshed for a serious whipping, first.)
The only thing worse than having this delusional ideologue in charge is that his two understudies, Biden and Pelosi, are even worse than he is. Biden is mentally challenged at best, and Pelosi veers between wannabee revolutionary and gibbering dingbat. (The latter of which is actually where Biden is most of the time.)
None of them like us. At times, they make no secret of how much they hate us.
Now, explain to me again why we want them in charge of us?
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Just waiting to see Obama standing behind a podium bearing the “Seal of the Lame Duck of the US.” =^[.]^=
Nah, he’ll still be president until Jan 20th. After that, he’ll go around with his “Seal of the Former President of the United States.”
This past weekend my wife canvased a local New England neighborhood visiting 28 houses where voters were registered either republican or independent. She encountered one voter who intended to vote for Obama. She ran into more than 20 who were voting for Romney, and all of them were enthusiastic, including one lady who sheepishly admited to voting for Obama 4 years ago. She told my wife, “But this isn’t what I wanted.” I can’t tell you the exact number of independents in the sample but I believe at least half of the households were independents.
I believe the hard core lefties will vote for Obama out of ideological conviction. Many of the independents are moderates and have been permanently turned off by the last 4 years. One of the voters we encountered complained openly about the constant deluge of phone calls he was getting from the campaigns and pollsters, he had stopped answering about two months ago, but he indicated he was voting Romney and just wanted to be left alone.
How many millions like him do you think there are?
“The only mystery is whether Obama sought to improve the economy but utterly failed — or [...tried to] create a gorge-the-beast moment.”
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Not really a mystery, unfortunately.
Well, there are a lot of ways to steal an election. Chicago plays by different rules; none.
A dreadfully good point.
I take the good VDH’s point about the three hours, but to be precise, since each debate is supposed to accord each candidate half the time, he really only has 90 minutes, no? 45+45. Unless he wants to try and usurp his opponents time via the split screen with facial expressions of gas pain, constipation, jocularity, eye-rolling, contempt, other interruptions, etc., as did the veep (and as he himself did in his own style in the first debate); in which case, I say, be my guest. Tick, tock …
We’re all in agreement here: Obama/Biden must go. But how do we overcome the mainstream press?
Uh, the remote control?
If only it were that simple but alas……..
The NYT is struggling financially. WSJ is gaining market share. Fox is also gobbling market share (not that Fox is perfect but…) I think only Rachel Maddow’s immediate family watches her show… Your micro decisions are powerful.
The Democrats are telling us that we just need to calm down,
we are all being too serious.
Everything is going ‘FORWARD’ and the private sector is doing just great.
The stimulus rewarded billionaires and retained union jobs.
We should continue to ‘invest’ in windmills, Chinese solar panels,
and Michell’s school lunches.
Green Energy is our Future!
Socialized medicine is the best path for the inflated Baby Boomer population.
We have to be able to thin the herd.
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But still a small problem remains concerning the religious right.
You know,
the clowns with Bibles, American flags, and Guns.
20 million of them didn’t vote in the last election because John McCain was considered way too liberal. Ha.
Sorry, that made me laugh.
Obama and Biden have forgotten about them.
20 Millions of Catholic,
Bible Belt voters that are gnashing their teeth over Pro Aborting speeches, Gay Marriage,
screaming ‘NO’ when God was to be introduced at the democratic party level platform.
Some Las Vegas bookies are giving Obama with + 2.
I predict Romney Ryan by + 6 with 390 electoral votes.
No one is talking about the Value Voters. I bet if you polled the Value Voters, it may be 90-10 in favor of Romney.
No, but it’s swinging that way. It’s been about evenly divided between Romney and No Vote. It’s not swinging because of Romney. It’s swinging because of Obama.
If Romney were an actual conservative, a practicing Mormon, rather than the obvious panderer on abortion and a homosexual activist that he is, it would have been 95/5 all along.
The 5% is those few who will not vote for him because of his Mormonism.
And I’m not sure it’s even 5%. I don’t know anybody in evangelical circles who has a problem with it. If it’s there, it’s in fundamentalist circles, and they are a tiny minority of the Value Voters.
Don Wildmon just came out and pleaded with all Christians to vote for Romney.
Yes, if we had chosen a Conservative, this would be a slaughter. Or would it? Would Bachmann run away with it? Dunno. Romney gets the nod with his business knowledge. Bachmann would get the woman vote, and she has small business experience.
Well, if Romney were a Conservative, a man who stands on his principles, yes, he would have run away with it long ago. He would get my vote and my money and my campaign help. As it is, he gets none of these. Just another lying politician whose policies I will mostly hate.
This country was stupid enough to elect Obama, and it is stupid enough to choose Romney as the antidote, when there were better choices available. America deserves its misery. People are just too stupid to govern themselves.
You are a dreamer! With Romney, you have a shot; with the others you mention, not so much.
A shot Dwight? Yes, but a shot at what? Throwing out Obama? Okay, that’s true, and that’s important, and may be a reason for voting for Romney.
But a shot at a good President? No, we don’t have a shot at that in this election cycle. We don’t even have a shot at a mediocre President.
The best we can hope for is a not-as-bad-as-the-alternative President.
Pretending otherwise helps nobody.
As for “the others” Marc mentioned, well, he only mentioned one. And no, we didn’t have ANY good choices. I think Bachman would make a FAR better President than Romney, and so would Palin. And no, I’m not a fan of either one.
But I don’t think either has a realistic shot at it, for a number of reasons.
So we’re stuck with a liberal with business experience who found it easier to get elected as a Republican.
This time.
Marc, I think if we had chosen a CAPABLE and WISE conservative, someone with Bachman’s values but with more stature and more wisdom, he or she WOULD have walked away with it.
I like Bachman’s values (for the most part), but she plays into the leftists hands repeatedly. She’s not wise, and I haven’t seen much sign of her being the kind of fighter that is needed. Someone who is not only tough, but a smart fighter.
She’s just not ready for prime time.
Yes, Marc only mentioned one, my bad, but as I vaguely recall from the primary discussions, he has other favorites as well. The problem is that none are as electable as Romney, because all can be made to seem more the bogey man/woman than Romney, and are less adept at counter-punching.
I could leave my home right now and locate a dozen Obama/Biden yard signs in just a matter of minutes. Sadly, the morons are still with us. I pray that you are correct, Dr. Hanson.
Four years ago I could have closed my eyes and thrown a rock and hit an Obama/Biden sign. A quick look up and down the block this morning and I don’t see any. Same with bumper stickers. I presume its kind of like putting a ‘kick me’ sticker on your backside this go-round. Either the loons have wised up or they don’t wish to be identified.
I assume your signature means you reside in the UP of MI… I do as well, and in my town, I have seen maybe 3 Owbamma signs…MANY Romney/Ryan signs… hope (ugh… the other side sure has ruined that word for me) my town is the true indicator…
Disagree slightly with VDH. Obama’s presidency can’t be saved, even if he wins re-election.
There are a lot of ways for Libs to sabotage the town hall format.
1. Stack the audience. The ‘independents’ may be anything but independent.
2. Screen out the hard questions directed at Obama
3. Camera operators can do a lot of damage. They can flatter O. & get close-ups of Mitt’s nose-hairs.
If those weren’t bad enough, you’ve got the moderator following up on the screened questions from a stacked audience.
Ms. Larda**, the liberal moderator has already said “Rules, I don’t need no stinkin’ rules” (see Drudge} I’ll be shocked if the audience isn’t stacked with sob sisters, ideologues and political operatives.
Yes. I was a college senior during the Watergate hearings, and the overall trajectory of the Benghazi mess is starting to look an awful lot like the way Watergate started — a biggish potential scandal on the sidelines just before the election that doesn’t gain any traction until after the election.
What everyone seems to have overlooked since US presidents were limited to two terms is that as soon as the second term — if there is a second term — starts, the newly elected president is a lame duck, guaranteed to be out of power in a few more years. At that point he starts to become less of a president and more of a target, with the transformation gaining speed as his last term wears on.
Max, one small correction. It is not the camera operators, it would be the director “in the booth” controlling which camera feeds go out over the air. There will probably be one camera dedicated to each candidate and a few others.
Even so, that’s why is was important to watch as well as listen to the VP debate, because how else would someone have understood what a goofball Uncle Joe made himself out to be, and how grown up Ryan was about it.
The more split screen the better, in my opinion.
As Yooper mentioned, the sheer amount of support for Obama remaining despite all of the above, is mind boggling. I’ve had conversations with the (very) few liberal friends I still have/can tolerate and for almost each of them, it comes down to voting based on a couple of wedge issues, like gay marriage or abortion. One of our office staff, a 19 year old female file clerk, who’s voting for President for the first time, has completely bought into the “War on Woman” crap, claiming she thinks Romney will ban abortion and contraception in his first year. Ask why she thinks that, she replies “Its just a fact. Everyone knows it”. Another acquaintance is voting for Obama because she’s against the death penalty. I asked her “Is Obama against the death penalty?” and her response was “of course he is”. How she knows this, I have no idea. As far as I know, its never been a prominent portion of his platform.
Arguably, Obama’s drone policy is a death penalty policy, albeit without due process.
A better name for it would be “murder”. Or, if you prefer, “war crimes”.
Dr. Thomas Sowell said it all, back in 2008, when he claimed an Obama presidency would be a disaster. So, here we are, in 2012, and the steel-trap mind of VDH, gives us the details affirming that prediction.
Aren’t most people stupid? Not YOU, of course! But, The One DID get a majority of votes.
While VDH writes as if the election results will mirror those when Carter imploded, I’m less sanguine. And, Rush Limbaugh has even taken to slipping in a whispering sound—“blowout”, as if only!
Last I checked, though, Intrade still had Obama firmly favored, at around 60%. And, my financial advisor, using objective economic tools, predicts Barrack will win by 134 electoral votes.
Never forget—liberals are masters of the vote-fraud universe!
I won’t be sure Obama lost until he ACTUALLY loses!
Dr. Hanson, we can only hope that Mitt Romney takes the time to read this column. If he takes your message to heart he can run this “divider in chief” out of town. Excellent column!
There are five foreign policy questions that I believe need to be asked of Obama in tomorrow’s debate. Undoudtedly, the moderator will not ask any of these so I hope Romney, during his alloted time, will break precedent a bit and directly ask Obama to respond to these. The American public has a very short memory and I hope Romney, thru his questions directly to Obama, reminds people of these.
1. As president, I will respect and work closely with our allies, however, I will not bow to a Saudi king or the Japanese emporer nor will I give a high five to Hugo Chavez. President Obama why did you do that?
2. I believe America is exceptional, not that we are superior, but that our 200-plus years of individual freedoms make us the exception in the world. President Obama, do you still believe, as you said earlier, we are no more exceptional than Greece?
3. President Obama, you leaned over and whispered to the Russian President Medvedev that you would have “more flexibility” to deal with missile defense after the U.S. presidential election. What did you mean by that and why did you have to say that in whispered tones in what you obviously thought was off microphone?
4. Why did you ignore the 1 million Iranian protesters in the spring of 2009?
5. As President, I will take responsibility for my entire administration. Mr. President, either you, or your State Department or the intelligence community misled the american public on what happened in Benghazi, trying to make us believe a deliberate terrorist attack was nothing more than a spontaneous reaction to a video. Will you as President take responsbility for this?
And when Obama denies or twists the reality of what happened, I hope Romney encourages the audience to “Google Obama bowing”, or “Google Obama flexibility”, etc.
Then there is the LOL effect, the Logic of Libruls of which Obama is a certified user.
For example the insanely fallacious syllogism, e.g.:
Voter ID helps ensure legal voting.
Poll taxes were once racist practices.
ERGO: Voter ID is a racist practice.
I curled over in pain the day that man got elected. I was walking my daughter to school, to pick up her brothers. I was counting out all the children the government and Planned Parenthood wanted to get rid of: Latinos, Blacks, mixed-race children, developmentally challenged children. It was like living through that scene in the Terminator movie, where the protagonist sees all the children at the playground destroyed in a wall of fire. I have to walk by a park to reach the school. Children were in the park, playing It’s a majority minority school, in a mixed neighborhood. These are the children they want to eliminate.
I’ve been in grief and pain and fear since that day. Nearly every child I know, nearly all of my children’s friends, are in danger from this man and his associates. I’ve read in the Bible about people being bowed by grief. This was the first time I’ve experienced it.
Yes. My husband was born to an unwed, 16-year-old mother who gave him up for adoption. According to a letter left in his paperwork by a biological grandmother he has a full-blooded Native American grandmother making him 1/8 which makes ours a mixed marriage and our son a mixed-race child. I have so much to be thankful for in his story because he might never have even made it into the world with all that working against him. Certainly with the attitudes of those in charge, he never would have.
“I was counting out all the children the government and Planned Parenthood wanted to get rid of: Latinos, Blacks, mixed-race children, developmentally challenged children.”
You must be joking. The leftist Establishment is behind population replacement, a soft genocide against whites. Nothing makes them happier than ever rising proportions of non-whites. The idea that they are enlisting Planned Parenthood to “get rid of” the racial groups you refer to is absurd. It’s mostly middle-class whites, the few who are left, who turn to Planned Parenthood (which is about birth control, not just abortion). You won’t find many blacks and latinos in the Planned Parenthood waiting room.
It helps to have information if you plan on thinking.
First off, most abortion clinics are in majority minority parts of towns. Second, 60% of all black infants in New York City are aborted. Third, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, wrote about eugenics, urged eugenics, and supported eugenics. Black people are 12% of the population. They have 38% of the abortions performed in this country.
Mississippi is governed by Haley Barbour. He might look like a bibulous, entitled, connected politician. He is the first governor to vote to protect his own innocent constituents. Mississippi hasn’t a single abortion clinic in the state. The safest place to be, if you are black, right now, is in Mississippi.
Henry Hyde fought to install the Hyde Amendment b/c the government had been a bad actor. Puerto Rican mothers giving birth in gov’t sponsored clinics were sterilized after their first child, without their consent. American Indians were, likewise, sterilized without their consent. This was a George Bush policy, when he was just running things, before he was president. It’s why pro-life agencies did not work for his election.
Kathleen Sebelius was bankrolled by George Tiller, a late-term abortionist. George Tiller installed a medical waste incinerator in the basement of his office building. He would whistle as he loaded bags of dead infants into this inferno. This image gives me nightmares, to this day.
Obama is supported by PP money. It’s why he was the single and only senator to vote against the Born Alive Protection Act. He voted to let infants born alive despite being aborted- alive, crying, moving, living, breathing, startle reflexing, sucking, cooing, crying (did I mention crying as they struggled to breathe?) infants DIE, untreated, uncared for, thrown away, left to suffocate, starve, chill to death.
Right now, Planned Parenthood and independent abortion providers give millions to the Democratic Party. The whole corrupt organization is built on the money of killers, and the blood of innocence.
My neighborhood is maybe 55/45 Democrat. On Sunday I counted signs on the way to church. I saw plenty of signs for local elections and zero signs for either Romney or Obama. The local politicians don’t even seem to identify themselves with the Democratic Party. I took a walk around the neighborhood and saw zero bumper stickers. Later in a prosperous semi-rural suburban area the signs went 2 to 1 for Romney. I would like to think that a huge upset is in the works, that Democrats are demoralized or planning to vote Romney and will not publicly admit it.
And maybe I am wrong.
Because the other guys have been known to do nasty things, people who will vote Romney may be afraid to put Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars. They are afraid to get them scratched off (leaving big gashes) as my McCain sticker was 4 years ago….
SB, you are right about Romney voters and bumper stickers. I for one would never put a bumper sticker of any kind on my 1998 Camry – even to cover the rust. My point is that the Democrats seem to be lying low this election.
Yep, with you there, Charles. I recently attended a debate between CT congressional incumbent (Dem) Jim Himes and his Republican challenger Steve Obsitnik. A big take-away was how much “space” Himes wanted to put between himself and Barack Obama. Not so cool to be an Obama groupie any more…. or so it seems.
Is it that there aren’t people wanting to put out signs or that the campaigns don’t have signs available? It’s only in this past week that we’ve started seeing any signs out here in MO. I know my husband went to get one for Romney, and we had to put our names on a waiting list because they didn’t have any signs from the campaign. We finally got our yard sign and there are also at least three or four other R/R signs in this neighborhood with some appearing on street corners and hill sides. On the reverse, I see one Obama/Biden I know of with one other possible one further back down a side street.
I live in an entirely blue neighborhood and in 2008 it was a sea of Obama signs and bumper stickers. This year? Precisely ONE on the houses…perhaps two on cars.
There is NO danger that having an Obama sign will lead to vandalism in this area. Definitely so for an R/R sign. The lack of enthusiasm for Obama is plain. Oh, he’ll win here (California), but if the energy is low HERE, what ever could it be like in a battleground state?
Just thought of something as I read through this. Remember the Obama we saw on the podium the other night. How in heavens name did a guy with the standard sophomoric bromide answers to Romney”s facts write the eloquent passages in two semi autobiographical books. Just sayin!
A brilliant article! I particularly appreciated the “Calling Dr. Freud” section. Obama’s continuous projection — his sheer hypocrisy — has lies — his constantly blaming others for his own failures — it needs to commented on and Obama’s behavior needs to be scorned. It should never become acceptable.
Excellent article. Too bad millions among the living and the dead will be voting once again for the biggest presidential misfire in our nation’s history. And, as some have posted here, it will be absolutely delicious to see what O does after he loses.
Halloween question: Do Zombies have the vote because of a.) their crippling disability (being dead) or b.) a preference among the living to not being eaten alive by them (discrimination)?
It will get very ugly when Obama is a lame duck president. He will do whatever he can to further his agenda – especially in the area of pardons. If he can make every illegal alien a citizen he will do it – to cite just one example.
…the brilliant Obama economic A-team, chomping at the bit in December 2008 to get started to pull us into the good times —who have now all come and gone.
That is so telling, right there.
Where went the stimulus?
Feds have more than 1,900 investigations open into alleged stimulus wrongdoing
It is so past time to get rid of this guy and the infestation of our federal government.
My problem and the future of the U.S. lies not with Obama, Axelrod, and the rest of the fast and furious administration. The problem is square on the American voter who would buy into the toothy demagoguery and poor performance of the failed economic policies of the last four years. The fiscal cliff is coming right on track with the “fundamental change” that was promised. Will the voter be huckstered into a failed European socialism?
Someone on another forum (not a particularly political forum) asked, “What is the biggest problem facing America today?”
People responded with all kinds of things, from the “lack of green energy” to evil Republicans to even more evil fat cats to irresponsible spending to whatever.
I replied, “A badly educated electorate.”
He asked me what I meant.
” . . . the biggest argument against democracy is a 5-minute conversation with the average voter . . ..”
Winston Churchill
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Still true even in this day and age – the ‘age of information’.
Wouldn’t you call it “mis-educated”? The indoctrination was pretty unrelenting from middle school on for my kids, who are now in their twenties. College is even worse, since the “misinformation” is not confined to history/political science/sociology/social work classes…it spills into “architecture” and “drama” for heaven’s sake. More money for education, especially higher education, is making things worse (where do your children’s teachers get their credentialing?).
Point taken, but still, they ARE badly educated. They can’t make change, they can’t formulate a coherent sentence, they don’t know any real history, etc.
They are badly educated, by design.
I just hope that someone, someone with guts and money, will play and replay and replay that tape of Obama assuring Medvedev that he will have “more flexibility” in his second term.
It took many four years to figure out that for Barack Obama, the need to transform America into some weird version of Greece or Italy trumped any concern about getting millions back to work and the economy going again. Obama’s prime impulse was not restoring lost income, jobs, and net worth, but seeking to ensure the wealthy did not prosper, even if that meant the far more numerous poor did not either. Stagnant equality was his aim.
Say that again.
When the president struggles to repress yet another appetite, we can be assured that he will attribute such a character flaw to others.
An alleged green guy in perpetual motion on AF1 at $80,000/hour to operate.
Calling them stupid and morons, as some commenters have, does us no good. Indeed, they consider us stupid and moronic as well. The seminal problem is that the GOP has not provided a sharp enough contrast the past 20+ years. And although we understand that the GOP does have in its platform an articulation of limited government, which I do believe most people crave, we can’t quickly point to optics where it has been instituted….therefore, us chanting that the GOP would do better – and that more conservatism would have prevented much of the mess we are in – it all falls on deaf ears. There will always be a party of more and more; the GOP failed us in combating this mentality.
It’s worse than that. It’s actually harmful.
These people do NOT do what they do out of stupidity.
They are evil, and when we fail to recognize that, we play into their hands.
The Lawless Presidency had its genesis in the Factless Media.
Fast and Furious foulup and coverup, National Security Leaks, Sebelius Hatch Act violations, Solyndra sweetheart deal for a bundler, Benghazi foulup and coverup, gas prices INTENTIONALLY skyrocketed, …if they had taken place during a Republican administration would have buried the candidate under a barrage of daily media pummeling.
QE1, QE2, QE3…we print money under this administration like we’re producing “Rocky” sequels.
Again, the conspiratorial media provides safe harbor for Obama/Biden as they steer this fiscal Costa Concordia onto the rocks of economic collapse…and the media coverup allows them to trip into a journolista lifeboat to save their reelection candidacy.
People who have become aware of even a smidgeon of the fraud, deceit and corruption have all moved toward removal of the “experimental Presidency”, in which we voted for the dorm room pontificators to see if their zero world experience, but belligerent and fist pounding expositions…held an ounce of merit.
They didn’t and they don’t. But that doesn’t eradicate the belligerence or the volume at which it is shouted. We are in a game with high stakes. We must not only fight the other team, that cheats…but fight the refs who help them do so.
In other words, millions are feeling liberated and are starting to feel that they have simply had enough of this bunch. In short, it is becoming OK to vote “No, you can’t!”
It was “ok” in 2008.
Smart, even.
If you’re still hung up on the 1/2 DNA Obama got from Dad, just vote against the 1/2 he got from mom.
Or in the words of black actress Stacey Dash, choose “content of character” over color of skin.
Election Advice R Us
Well said Dr VDH. But can the rational and independents overcome the massive numbers of welfare deadbeats including the Unions, public employees, Blacks, and Rev. Wright America haters ?
Put your spoiled two year old in charge of the family finances, and all major decisions for the next 4 years and you would have the equivalent of Obama’s next term. His first term proves it.
Note to women and independents: would you rather spend a 6 hour plane ride sitting next to Biden or Ryan ? You just had a small sample in the VP debate.
Hope you are right Doc.
In the spirit of some of the comments here…
Pastor James David Manning’s bombast
(Manning wasn’t much of an Obama fan from the getgo, telling his congregation that Obama was a “mackdaddy”.)
Our own little national Marion Barry, playing the role of president and lying about every single action and statement for four years.
What a disgrace.
Did anyone else see the article about Choom Boy’s coke nails when he was at Occidental? Front-line has shown some previously unpublished photos of the Choomer, and two elongated nails are clearly visible in one of the photos. What a surprise. He lived pretty well in his college years, including some extensive overseas travel. Wonder how he paid for it all.
Thanks for that mention of Marion Barry, that exemplar of disgrace who is regularly re-appointed by his gleeful constituency to any available Taxpayer Supported District Committee. That’s the District Of Columbia…our Nation’s Capital….the same Marion Barry who has been convicted of tax evasion, and caught on video taking up a dose of “crack”. The same Marion Barry who was earlier elected the Mayor of our District of Columbia.
That mindset (attitude) of “stickin’ it to th’ man” could very well re-elect Obama.
Frankly, Obama being elected the first time ought to show us Americans how easily we’re duped. The Democrat party has a solid, unwavering base which is a type of stonewall impervious to the norms of what made our America great. The ‘Gimme Gimme I’m Entitled” mindset is firmly rooted in our Politics.
We, all of us, must “wake the F. up”.
And the echo keeps on, long after the first shout.
You don’t have to tell me how much of a slouch, dolt, and punk Obama is; I’ve known for more than 6 years.
“Vero Possumus” indeed. Obama has no idea what that means. Has he ever uttered a single latin word or phrase? He can’t handle the truth, as was patently evident at the first debate with Romney.
There’s a proverb that goes; “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit”. Obama has that perfected, and I believe he has a PhD in that field.
Obama is a lowly pusillanimous slug, I says. ABO2012
The country brought upon itself an immeasurable degree of pain and sorrow just to prove once and for all that racism was over and done with. 4 years of misery and more to come until some of the damage is undone. If it can be undone.
I have made myself a list of every newspaper and TV network and every hollywood
or TV star who came out for Odumbo and still shills for him. I hereby declare I will never again buy said newspapers,nor watch their channels nor purchase anything advertised in them and of course never watch a movie or television program again populated with these Obama loving assholes. I’ll find something else to do I’m sure.
And black people of America.. wake up. He screwed you big time! I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to postulate it will be about a hundred years before another black man gets into the Whitehouse other than to serve coffee
or vacuum the carpets.
And the irony of our nation voting a black man into office to prove we’re not racist is that four years later the issue of racism seems to be more alive and more divisive than it has been for quite a while–thanks to the leader and his followers.
The emperor has no clothes…despite the oohing and ahhing from the lying media lapdogs.
Beautiful plumage….
“… In the next three weeks, he has only three hours left to save his presidency….”
Obama wrecked his presidency; all he can save is his re-election. If successful, he will give us another four years of hate-mongering, divisiveness, f***ed-up foreign policy, wasteful federal spending, economic recession, business and state government bailouts, etc.
I take heart in NOT seeing very many Obama bumpers stickers and SEEING many comments under articles in liberal press (HuffPo, NYT, Wash Po, USA Today, etc.) that tell a story of Americans saying enough is enough. ALL OF US should hit those blog posts hard with our wisdom and LINKS to articles like this one, to give our fellow citizens hope. TRUE change is three weeks away!
The cover-up is of the hours when the Ambassador was missing. Obama’s timeline for those hours show he ran out of town when we were under attack.History has few equals in such explicit cowardice.
Surely a debate located in Hempstead, New York will allow someone to sneak in the question: “What is the capital of Israel?” ora question about why New York just can’t frack the Marcellus Shale like PA and OH do?
or not.
btw, the 3rd debate in Boca Raton on foreign policy is only 60 minutes. CBS must not have a clock that goes beyond 60 Minutes.
Its over! The stinking rotten corpse that is the liberal/progressive experiment has been laid bare for all to see. Will it die soon? Hard to know. I will eternally thank Obama – Biden – Pelosi – Reid & the MSM (and a supporting cast of thousands) for exposing themselves (and their progressive rank and file) for what they are – small minded greedy little men and women who would control every aspect of our lives from cradle to grave – if only we’d let them.
Finally – this country is saying enough is enough and no you can’t!
Obama is not operating in a vacuum, according to some narrative fable: he has a lot of support from people that have no respect for the country or the political process.
The question will be how to utterly break this bloc once and for all: America is the declared enemy, and if they have not done more, it is only because like Muslim extremists, they lack the will and resources. That is no reason to see them as anything other than they are.
vote once for obozo to show that you were concerned and wanted better,
vote against him this time, to show you have a brain.
Obozo reminds me of the joke about a person, that is hired, minority hire, because of political pressure, and is a failure in the job. Human Resource director who didn’t want to hire him, now has to fire him.
He calls the minority person into his office and the minority goes into a rant that he is only being fired because he is a minority person,. the Human Resource Director looks him in the eye and tells him he is being fired because he is imcompetent, he was hired because he was a minority.
Dr. H. your logic is flawless, so what? Obama was not elected because of his record but because of his emotional appeal. Few of Obama’s supporters have suffered because of his incompetence. Few know and fewer care about his performance with regard to Honduras, the ME, Libya, Obamacare or inflation. Their concern is whether his calls about television or football are correct. The problem is the electorate,and unfortunately because of that problem he will probably be returned to office and America will stay a big sad joke.
What Obama has planned for his second term is detailed by his actions and tips, which he seemingly lets slip, from time to time: Namely, complete his sell-out of America to China. Note the new aircraft carrier China has in sea-trials this month, it can carry 10,000 marines, Chinese, marines. May be cruising the West Coast shortly. Build the high-speed train from the Mexican border to Oregon to carry Mexicans moving north to take possession of the confiscated homes.
Then give the original Latino lands back to Mexico. The list goes on and on…
This election is a referendum on us. Say what you will about 2008 – whether people were sick of President Bush, or of war, or just wanted to tinker with the very fabric of their country out of idleness and boredom – there were many unknowns about Obama. At least to the un-informed or mis-informed – of which there are legion.
But this time the facts and the record are out there in plain sight. If America’s choice is to again select Obama then Franklin’s challenge will have been answered. And we will have been found wanting. And the world will rapidly become a far grimmer place.
Way to go, VDH…!!! Why aren’t you on CNN as a republican pundit? Mary, Ali and Ana need some help.
Distilled down to the simplest answer and to use a cliche line – ‘the emperor wears no clothes’, or as the young child said, “But he has nothing on at all!”.
There are many parallels to the fable, and it may be that in Obama’s case he was a co-weaver of his own wardrobe, which became quite transparent when stormy weather cast water upon it. Try as they might, all the ‘king’s men and all the MSM’s umbrellas couldn’t keep dear emperor’s clothes dry enough to cover his nakedness.
If Ob☭m☭ gets re-elected this becomes our new symbol:
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I am non American and so can only be an observer to your date with destiny (This no over dramatization! ) Your choice is crystal clear : either you follow the socialist path of Obama and further become another European nation clone sliding to doom Or you reclaim what made America great ie its private initiative and enterprise genius
What you have now is not what you truly ARE !
All strength to Victor DH He is 100% on the button !
If some wished to prove that they were not racist in 2008 by voting for Obama, this time around they can prove they are not stupid by voting for Romney.
It’s not so much Obama’s breaking point as Hillary’s. Obama can, and will, brazen it out. He knows the election will happen. He might lose but he’s also confident he”ll win. Double or quits.
But for Hillary, and for Bill (Billary), the risks are of an entirely different order. She knows what Obama is doing … Obama is trying to run the clock down.
But she also knows the evidence is exploding out of the closet so fast that no one can put a lid on it. She knows, if not by November, then soon after, the cover-up will be over.
Surely she must know by now that whatever chances she had for 2016 are gone now. So, she’s left between a rock and a hard place.
If she blows the whistle on Obama, she’ll be forever labelled as a traitor by the Democratic base. If she doesn’t, she’ll be pilloried by the nation.
Can’t say I feel sorry for her. She made her bed and must now sleep on it. She should never have joined up with Obama. Pity, though, she had the makings of a great Democrat, more loved around the world than Obama could ever hope to be.
Sometimes, We Must Remember History or Be Doomed to Repeat it!
I Could Have Been one of those who were, exempt from Service,
Burned my Draft Card and Stayed in the Country, Gone to California with Flowers in my Hair, BUT:
After Trying to Join the Navy in June 68, At the Recruiting Center in Chicago;
I was all ready to Raise my Right Hand and Say the Oath,
When the First Class Petty Officer in Charge said: Marvin? You Don’t!
He Handed me My Paperwork and Said; Go Straight Home, Don’t Pass Go.
When I Got Home, My Mom was in the Hospital, and My Sister was in Hysteric’s,
A Sergeant was in the Living room and we were waiting for my Stepdad to get home. What Followed was the Worst Summer of My Life, Riots in the Streets,
and all that went on with the DNC in Chicago. Sept after My 18th Birthday,
I Couldn’t take any More!
Then, and , I also was just joining the Navy in Oct 68 and served till 77.
Things have not changed much in politics’ not my views then, After My Brothers Birthday,And Still to this Day, Remember My Oath! and Committing Myself then As Sole Surviving Son, My Brother was MIA/KIA 26 May 68.
Three Purple Hearts, The Bronze Star with V and The Silver Star.
His Birthday Was Oct 14th. Thank You For Your Service.
And For Standing Up For Me When I was Young.
Since then, I have been Fighting in the War, That Has Never Ended!
Since I Joined the Navy To, Protect and Defend the Constitution From All Enemies, Foreign or Domestic, ever since.
I Could Do No Less, nor, Give His Honor and Service to His Sacrifice than to Stand Up to, Tyranny Both Here in America, and Abroad. I am Forward Deployed as I Write this.
When Our Own, Citizens’ or Representatives of the Government, Give Aid and Comfort , To Our Sworn Enemies’ and/or Collude with them,as Jane Fonda, John Kerry and The Weather Underground, and As Hillary Did, As Our Current Secretary, Of State with the SDS Have Done?
And ALL-lying-ski Rules For Radicals And Now? With the Benghazi Fiasco, along with Fast and Furious Cover-ups, and Executive Privileges, used as a Shield for the DOJ and Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, the FBI and ATF and Then,
Throw Our Intelligence Community Under the Bus, and Sue Our Sovereign States for Exercising their,“ Tenth Amendment “ Rights to Protect and Defend their Bill of Rights for Their, Citizens to be Safe in their State, from Invasion and Murder by ILLEGAL, Aliens, Funded by The Federal Government?
And Cover-ups ensued and, Usurpation of their Sovereign Person, to be Secure in their Homes,Property, Papers and Possessions’?
With All of Our Civil Rights Intact, and the Constitution In Front of them;
They Ignore it? And US?
Just, Another Example of Why, We Need to Pay Attention to the Local, as well as National, Federal and State Elections. If We Do Not, Monitor and Reject these Rejects and Partisan Political Hacks from, Attacking our Constitution and Laws, that think, “Well, Obama doesn’t have to Obey His Oath?
Nor does the DOJ Holder ,So You Can’t Hold Me Accountable Either? After All I Am a UNION Member, Remember You Can’t Fire Me? Attitude of The Teachers Unions, SEIU and ACORN by Any Other Name, IS Still Just the Same, and Smells Just as Bad!
As A General Once Said to the Germans asking For Our Surrender!
NUTS!
Wait till the Town Hall, Debate, then Bring it Up There!
Let’s Hold Them Accountable and Put them on Record,
For the Voter Fraud, and Breaking the Laws of the State,
as Well as Federal Laws!
After All, All is Fair in Love and War,
Which, We Are In with the DNC as Well as Al’ Qaida,
and National Security, IS the ISSUE!
Election Fraud is a Real Part of the Problem,
That Put these People in Office in the First Place!
So Time to Clean House, Both Congress, Senate and the White House,
all the Way down to the State Legislators,
Mayors and Sheriffs that Will Not Obey?
The LAW! ………………………………… PERIOD!
It Is, Not Too Late!
We Did It in 2010!
We Must Do It Again!
2012! With Resolve!
Kerry L. Marvin/USN/DAV/68-77.
OATHKEEPER!
My sincere and heartfelt thanks for your service. May the Lord bless and keep you and your family in the palm of His hand.
Thank You Mary,
May the Lord Bless you and Yours, and Keep this Nation Safe as Well.
We Who Serve and Served Do Well, to Remember our Brothers and Sisters, Fathers and Mothers that are Left behind. POW/MIA’s Included from All War’s, Korea, Viet Nam and WWII and WWI..So Many Unaccounted for, While I and My Family have the Solace of Having a Sealed Casket, we could see Him and Know it Was Him through the Glass Top. Most Don’t have that Closure. So I Grieve with them too. As For the Ambassador, and Seals, and The Other Member of the Team, they were Closed Caskets. No Information to the Families, But Stall Tactics and Obfuscations, Finger Pointing and No Answers To Date! Apologies to the Whole Muslim World, But None to Our Families? Such a Disgrace, and Such a Waste in the White House. Let’s Never Forget, and I for One, Will Never Forgive Them. Hold Dear What You Value, Your Word, Your Signature and Your Honor, and With Secure belief in Divine Providences, Let the Lords will Be Done. There will only be Two Types of People Left on Judgment Day. Those Who Say Thy Will, Lord. and Those Who Say My Will Lord. We Know Which Side this Obamination Stands For, after their Convention don’t We! So For Your Response, Please Pass it On. and Keep The Faith, the Lord is Not Done with This Great Nation. There will be Times of Tribulation, But Not the Final Curtain Cal,, YET I think. Onward Christian Soldiers! In His Hands and On Wings of Eagles!
We Soldier On!
Kerry L. Marvin/USN/DAV/68-77. OATHKEEPER!
Nice to see the Oathkeepers are here with us, in our hour of need.
Every new day points to a landslide on Nov. 6th.
Obama theme song should be ‘Slip Sliding Away’.
Tomorrow night’s debate could be the nail in the coffin of the Obama era.
Hate to tell you Mr. Hansen, but the biggest problem is still the “Enemy media”! The right can do all they want, but until they start taking a tougher tone with the media, they are going to be the punching bags they’ve shown themselves to be. The level of respect(liked or not) that Newt Gingrich receives, from the Enemy media, is specifically due to the fact that he will not accept the media meme & he will humiliate them, if he has to, so his message gets out! I’ve stated repeatedly, “It’s time to take on the Obama Enemy media”. Here’s a simple formula for doing just that: http://paratisiusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-those-who-should-know.html?spref=tw
God Bless America!
Yes, Mr. Hanson, I agree with the line about people “not caring anymore” about political correctness. This is very significant, as I believe that Obama’s plan all along was to implement the Cloward/Piven strategy as much as he possibly could during his first term, with the belief that the media would shame the electorate into not allowing the first Black (oh, excuse my political incorrectness), I mean the first Schvatz-American (there, that’s better) POTUS to be a one termer, no matter how badly he screws things up. Then, once he gets re-elected, he’ll really finish this country off.
Looks like enough people have a bad enough feeling about what Obama’s 2nd term would be like to not let that happen. Not to mention the fact that they’re sick of hearing about racist dog whistles every time someone dares to criticize Jesus Lincoln King Jr.
I really hope everyone is right about Romney winning. But, I just feel that you can lead the Horse to water, but you can’t make it drink…more importantly, if it doesn’t understand what water is, it is doomed. All the information is laid out for people to read and verify, yet, time and time again, I hear people who just don’t want to believe the truth. And they vote.
Don’t blame me, I voted for the other guy.
While I am in agreement with the heart of the article, I am completely put off by the style.
It’s crap.
A gauzy, frivolous, pretentious piece, reminding me (not “reminding one”), of the old, yet brilliantly apt bumper sticker:
“ESCHEW OBFUSCATION”.
Plain, persuasive speech, clearly written, is a joy. It is enriching, quotable, memorable and effective.
This…thing, was none of the above.
Effulgent magniloquent synopses, redolent of thesauri en suite with struggling, tortuous constructions are the bier of scintillating communication.
See? Crap.
Or, as one might far more reasonably say: Pompous bullshit sucks and makes me hate you.
Kill this technique. Kill it with fire.
..invest in a dictionary, a thesaurus, and one of those word-a-day calendars. VDH is just folks and his style fine.
all your base are belong to us
Dr. Hanson’s output is an acquired taste; so is yours, my dear, but I don’t imagine too many coming to your table.
This that you wrote, “Effulgent magniloquent synopses, redolent of thesauri en suite with struggling, tortuous constructions are the bier of scintillating communication.” could apply to your own comment.
No, wait, DOES.
This entire debacle of “president obama’ can be ended on Election Day. Don’t be complacent and allow a minority of 30% of the electorate have their way again. Keep remembering that Obama was elected by only 30% of registered voters. There was a 58% turnout and of the people who actually voted, 52% voted for Obama. Multiply 0.58 and 0.52 and you get 0.30. Just 30% of registered voters saddled us with Obama. Forget about the polls and just vote.
Vero Possumus!
Absolutely brilliant.
Ceterum censeo: Regnum Obamae delendum est!
WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO LOVES AMERICA AND RESPECTS WHAT THIS COUNTRY STANDS FOR. WATCH “THE UNVETTED” HERE: http://bwcentral.org/2012/08/the-unvetted-2/
This theory by Dr Hanson tapped into something I had been thinking about over the last couple of weeks. For you FNGs, the Reagan landslide hit us about 15 minutes after we got out of the polling booth. They said that the shift started when VDH claims it did but those of us who lived through it only had the alphabet MSM outlets and they weren’t saying squat about the shift (that hoary old 1980 poll scatterplot graph notwithstanding) because they loved them some Drooler from Plains.
Today — i.e., in 2012 — we have much more than the MSM and we are seeing this shift AND the futile attempts by the MSM to stifle it with their manipulation of the polling samples and incredible partisanship. But it’s all coming apart on them and..
..it could not happen to a nicer bunch of idjuts!.
Breaking news on CNN… 8:24 p.m. est
Hilary takes blame for Benghazi.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/15/us/clinton-benghazi/index.html
Lima, Peru (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the buck stops with her when it comes to who is to blame for security ahead of a deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
The Obama era is officially over.
“How, millions of Americans are starting to ask, did this man become president?”
look in the mirror.
I have always been opposed to Obama, but what most of us face every day is the price of gas and food – my budget has been hit hard by both of those, and that hurts.
But my property taxes have doubled, so there is that.
I am SICK (as in: almost 5 yrs. of sick) being called raaacist b/c I didn’t and will NEVER vote for Obama. It has N O T H I N G to do with his race, color, ethnicity, etc., etc., ad nauseum. It’s his policies, stupid! If Romney were propounding Obama’s ideology and Obama was sounding off on Romney’s, then and ONLY then would I vote Obama. B/c I don’t give a sh!t how someone looks; it’s what in their heart & brain, and comes outta their mouth that concerns me.
Although I didn’t vote for him, I believe President Obama has the potential to become a great leader. His biggest error was getting elected before gaining the real-world experience a US President needs. If he’d waited 12 or 16 years he may have come closer to realizing his potential. He’s like a fabulous high school quarterback w/ all the talent and physical ability anyone could want who thinks he’s too talented to play college ball and goes directly to the NFL.
And guess what? He didn’t realize that everyone in the NFL is as talented and quick as he is, plus they have a lot more experience.Obama couldn’t read a defense or complete a pass and he got concussed on the first series.
While he has been in way over his head, the country has suffered for it. And who put him in the game? The Organized Media (I’m using the word ‘Organized’ as in Organized Crime and Organized Labor). Dazzled by his gifts they aided and abetted the creation of a creepy personality cult, which the organized media happily sold.
That is absolute nonsense. The media didn’t put him in the game, he and his Chicago pals put him in the game, one step at a time. Illinois legislature, speech at 2004 convention, US Senate, presidential primary. Only then did the media take over. If that is what you meant then OK, we agree.
Doesn’t Barack Obama make for a perfect Anti-Christ? How ironic if the most Christianized nation on earth votes in Barack Obama not once, but twice!
Check out the serious treatment of the scriptural “coincidences” at
http://www.satanasbarackobama.com . The entire book text download is free.
I really need to seek some disability payments from ya’ll folks who break your backs working like fools [WORD!]
Ya see (cue tears), this life a (or o’ in Irish) mine got all effed up when I was masturbatin’ one night and my fist was so furious that it raged up right ‘tween my eyes and I went blind. See? That whole ‘if you touch it too much’ urban legend sheeeeeeeet is fer realz!
When the furious strokers under-cum the ,i>true strokers, society…? She is screwed.
“Actually, I think you have it backwards. If Romney wins, the scandal is old news and who wants to look backward since everyone who is at fault is out of office. Investigations at that point just look like piling on and the media and everyone else will be on to something new.”
When an American citizen is killed it is not “piling on” to determine those responsible and punish them for it. A lot of people will not “be on to something new”, they will relish “looking backward” to ensure that justice is served for Fast and Furious and Bengazi.
I’m not tired – I’m exhausted.
I’m not exhausted.
I’m pooped!
Kudos to Dr. Hansen…brilliant analysis, as always.
To some of the comments, I think the ‘bumper sticker/yard sign’ meter is broken. It means little this time, as Dems may not be so enthused to openly identify with Obama, but doesn’t mean they won’t vote at all. I live in a very red area of a blue state, and see no signs of either party.
I feel like I’m in a crowd looking at the first signs of billowing black clouds on the horizon, threatening a mighty storm. To me it’s obvious, but many in the crowd seem not to see the impending danger, or don’t seem to care.
That’s what these polls seem to be saying. There simply is no other way to explain why Romney/Ryan is not 10pts up in every survey. For him to be ‘even’ or fractionally behind, at this point, still bothers me. How can so many still not see the impending danger?
I know, I know, the polls are biased, bad samples, skewed numbers, and meant to discourage republicans, but I still lose sleep over it. Has Obama so inoculated himself against the awful outcomes HE has caused that many voters seem him as a ‘victim’, rather than the perpetrator?
So, for us, it must be massive action in the face of uncertainty. We must work like our lives depended on it, like our families will be wiped out if Romney loses, like every decent person’s future is hanging by this election thread.
I volunteered at a local campaign office (first time ever) and donate online every few days. I hope everyone reading this will do the same. I want to be able to say, win or lose, that I did not sit on the sidelines.
After watching Obama over the past 4 years who could possibly be undecided ? Gathering these folks for a town-hall debate will surely be nothing but a gathering of idiots. Who would be swayed by anything these folks could say or ask ? For the citizens who have been awake the past 4 years the Tuesday debate would be a waste of time. Unless you want to see Candy have one last crack at helping save Obama’s sorry a** .
“Only Obama could have brought out the worst side of a James Earl Jones, Chris Rock, and Morgan Freeman to accuse others of racism to divert attention away from Obama’s failure. Once such celebrities transcended race, now Obama-fed racialism has engulfed them.”
what a poignant and compassionate gem of insight. i would have bluntly observed that obama has outed these fools as the racists they are. you, mr. hansen, identify them as victims of obama, as well. again, you are the better man and thank you.
Dr. Hanson’s list of Obama iniquities is impressive and depressing (and he even left out some items) but you bring them up to an Obamite and suddenly you’re an obsessed nutter. Obama and his wrecking crew have indeed learned much from Stalin. But, as Dr. Hanson states here, it’s the insidious drip-drip-drip of outrages that eventually turns the tide.
Obama reminds me much of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, a nihilist of many secret sins who will clash even with Fate itself rather than come clean. He like Macbeth will be dethroned in the end which, I believe, is very, very near, perhaps within 24 hours.
this all sounds swell, dr. hanson, but the fact is that most folks don’t follow all of these details of political failures and shenanigans…and even those who think that they do quite often get their information from ‘news’ outlets that don’t even bother to report on some 95 percent of these stories in the first place. there’s still plenty of voters who think that obama has been fairly successful because he’s ‘cool’ and half-black…and republicans are mean. what i guess i’m trying to say is, ‘don’t get cocky’.
In my Six Decades I have been a hotel desk clerk,[17 years old in the late 70's] and an inspector of heavy construction. {among some other trades}
Both required an active B S meter, to enable me to keep earning a living.
The instant I saw Barry give his Oracle Speech at the 2004 DNC Convention, I knew for a certainty that he was not going to go away any time soon, and that ‘Brown 25′ ran in his veins.
Then The GOP gave someone “their turn” at running in 2008, and we got HimSelf in our faces 24/7/365, almost by default.
Each and every time since, this Blight of Humanity has spoken, the Dishonesty and Treachery of ‘this little man’ oozes out of him like a creeping, crawling pestilence.
It truly time to put him out of our minds, lives and consciences. Four more years is simply not acceptable to a majority in this country.
I hope for an awakening here, a start towards real objectivity and reason.
I know that the endgame is not in sight in my lifetime.It took us 100 years of The Dialectic to get us to ‘this place’.
But it would surely ease my mind if I could see it beginning, right about now.
{I know i should not Hate anyone but Barry makes it so damned easy…}
The bigger frustration is that the extreme leftists are dissatisfied with Obummer, Reid, Pelosi et al. because they didn’t move as quickly or as extremely as they would like… and the tea partiers and the tens of millions of un-employed and under-employed and mal-employed US citizens like them are dissatisfied that both Obummer and Mittens have openly declared war on their livelihoods. In the face of 60 years of vastly excessive legal and illegal immigration, the party bosses of both the Dems and Reps are demanding to make it worse, and there’s no relief in sight. That lack of hope for improvement leaves everyone stressed out, agitated, dissatisfied.
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I’m with you Victor. I thought from the beginning that he’s goal is to destroy America. So far, I feel more confidant that he in part way to achieve his goal. He wants a second term to finish us off.
October 11, 2012
The Questionable “Jobs’ Number Mystery”
(September 2012 Unemployment % from 8.1% to 7.8%)
Many have thought that the “books were, somehow, cooked” when the recent unemployment percentage was reported to have improved from 8.1% to 7.8%, an incredulous number, given the various contributing factors. No one has been able to understand or explain the math. And the close proximity to the election served only to increase suspicions.
But one might look elsewhere and consider a possible hidden influence and consequence of the illegal waiver, granted by President Obama through Executive Order, of the requirement in our Welfare Law for welfare recipients to continue to seek employment. A couple of months ago, the President granted this waiver of requirement in the Welfare Law, although when, previously, signed into Law by President Clinton, it was mandated that such a waiver shall not be allowed. Thus, all of those who were, previously, required to seek employment have, now, been released from the employment rolls! This executive order/waiver creates the process by which various basic numerical factors can be manipulated.
Could this quietly, executed waiver have facilitated an artificial “manipulation” of the base numbers used in these and other calculations? Could this be one of Obama’s motives in issuing the waivers in The Welfare Law?
What additional consequences will continue to emerge as a result of this reduction in the number of people seeking employment? There always seems to be a very personal definitive agenda in the policies and actions of this administration, full of shadows and hidden agendas!
J.P.L.