Obama's Scorched Earth & Legacy

Obama’s Legacy & Benediction

8 years ago I was motivated to start my blog, "High Ground Underground," because the GOP had basically gone underground after losing both houses of Congress & the presidency. I thought conservatism needed all the voice it could get. I was looking back in the archive for my first post, about Obama's first week in office, out of curiosity, and couldn't find it (being new, I may have messed up). So I have now (re-)posted it, with a link below. Interesting to see how consistently bad he's been for 8 years. I'll be posting shortly about his horrible last weeks in office. But gladly, it's nearly over. And the tables are turned, with the Democrats now in the position we were in 8 years ago. But the title of my blog may still be appropriate, considering the liberal/Left dominance of the mainstream media, academia, etc.
I had thought this was my first blog post, 8 years ago, but is not in the archive, so I am (re-)posting it. It is telling what Pres....
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 More delicious words of wisdom & prescience on the election from President Obama for his dining pleasure, and to bolster his legacy.
And remember such all-time greats as "If you want to keep your doctor (& plan), you can keep your doctor (& plan)?" And the "red line" in Syria. And "shovel-ready jobs." And "The 1980s are calling, they want their foreign policy back, because the Cold War's been over for 20 years." And ISIS being the "JV team." And Benghazi due to a You-Tube video. And the Russian reset. And people around the world will love us. And he would heal race relations. But I wax nostalgic. Obama will at least have plenty to eat in retirement.


Wrong!
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What Mitt Romney might like to say to Obama: "The '50's called, and said 'welcome back to the cold war'."

President Obama criticized Mitt Romney's inconsistent statements about foreign policy concerning Russia,…
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Gallup Poll article:  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Asked about the state of the nation over the past eight years, Americans say the U.S. gained ground in four of 19 policy domains, and they say it lost ground on 14 and held steady on one.



Obama’s Scorched Earth & Landmines, Including the Anti-Israel UN Resolution

Charles Krauthammer noted that Obama & crew are laying figurative landmines for Trump as they leave office, to oppose and de-legitimize him.  E.g., opening the Comey investigation (implying his Clinton email investigation statements influenced the election) & the focus on Russian hacking (that also supposedly influenced the election) & diplomatic retaliation after glossing over the hacking of 20 million clearance holders a couple years ago.  And to entrench his Leftist policies – like setting up the federal takeover of state election mechanisms (reported only by Mark Levin), and the US abstention in the anti-Israel UN vote that entrenched de-legitimization of Israel, and gives fuel to the boycott & divest movement, and to the radical Palestinians.  Of course Obama clearly has had all along an anti-Israel bias, even meddling in their election.  He’s got their back, alright – just like the Roman senators who stabbed Caesar in the back.  And Obama’s been quietly (at least the liberal media hasn’t reported) giving record numbers of pardons in his waning days.

The UN anti-Israel measure came on Hanukkah (& Christmas) eve.  It was a cowardly US abstention in the vote, orchestrated by the US.  It views all Jewish occupied areas since before 1967 as Palestinian – including West Jerusalem, Wailing Wall, etc.  These were areas previously part of Jordan, who lost them in the 6-day war that gave Jews access again to their holiest site – the Wailing Wall.  Palestinians know they now have to do nothing to pursue peace because the UN & US have given them a green light to their anti-Israel propaganda & actions, including legitimizing support of terrorism.  In a sense, just another of Obama’s unprecedentedly large number of mass pardons – adding Palestinian terrorists to the US criminals pardoned.  It adds fuel to the boycott, divest & sanction (BDS) movement against Israel.  And threatens the security of Israelis living in “occupied” territories.  More moral equivalence. 

12/27/16
Krauthammer addresses the shameful UN Israel resolution that the US was complicit in:


12/14/16
Russian/Syrian atrocities in Syria are decried by this administration, but after 8 years of inaction, nobody believes they will do anything about it – least of which the Russians or Syrians. 

China stole our underwater drone in international waters – more adventurism (on top of their takeover of disputed islands in the South China Sea) with no consequences other than verbal protests. 


1/17/17
Obama is really going off the deep end in his final few days.  Today he commuted the sentence of the traitor Manning who disclosed many thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.  What kind of message does that send to the many thousands of “chumps” who fastidiously guard classified information?  Of course it’s in keeping with the nonchalance of Hillary regarding classified information.  But Obama isn’t even consistent – at the time of the conviction, he said that we are a nation of laws.  It’s also consistent with his release of Guantanamo prisoners back onto the battlefield, the reduction of our military, the policies that weaken us in the world like the Iran nuclear deal, policies towards Syria, Russia, China, etc.  He’s definitely leveling the playing field – to our & the world’s detriment.  He’s clearly not had our country’s best interests at heart.


Obama’s Farewell Address vs Real Legacy

The farewell address contained many aspersions on Trump and those who elected him – their xenophobia, etc.  It was short on real significant accomplishments, because there were few.  But in keeping with his campaigns, there was plenty of “hope” for the future.  Hope springs eternal, despite proven policy (e.g., foreign) and legislation (e.g., Obamacare) failures.

Sean Hannity does a nice summary of the many failures of the Obama administration:

President Obama spent much of Tuesday’s farewell address boasting about his success, but the facts paint a much different picture. The truth is, he oversaw the…”

Among other things, Obama is the only US president to never have more than 3% economic growth – not even in 8 years.  He doubled our national debt by $10 trillion (remember how he called Bush's increasing it by half that "unpatriotic"? What, then, is his -- treasonous?).  He diminished our military at a crucial juncture.  And his legislative record is the worst in U.S. history – which means that since he relied more on executive orders than compromise and bipartisanship, those executive orders can and are being just as easily undone by his successor.  And together with his signature “achievement,” the disastrous Obamacare which is already being repealed and replaced, so much for his “legacy.”

http://constitutionalrightspac.com/articles/obama-scores-the-worst-legislative-record-in-history  -- even worse than 1-term presidents Carter & George HW Bush.


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