Obama's Follies

The High Water Mark

There’s hope for the US & California!  Government employee unions may have seen their high water mark after Governor Walker’s convincing & unprecedented win in the Wisconsin recall election – one of the bluest of states.  And in blue California, the 2^nd & 3^rd largest cities, San Diego & San Jose (hardly a conservative bastion), similarly reversed course on the unions. 

These are bell weathers that seem to precurse another 2010-type nationwide trend, just as Scott
Brown, Gov. Christie, etc.  June 14 – Obama’s polls are trending down in every demographic – ethnic, economic, gender, religious, age, etc.

Obama’s Keystone Cops

The Obama administration has had some rough weeks lately, and is starting to look like the Keystone cops.  More blame for Bush, and instead of hope & change, it’s the same scare tactics Obama deplored in the last election – now he tries to scare people about Romney.  The trouble is that Romney has a solid performance record – the opposite of Obama.  June 10 – Ann Coulter said that Romney has the “Midas touch” with everything he’s done as governor, Bain Capital, SLC Olympics, etc.

“The private sector is doing just fine”

In a June 8 press conference on the economy, Obama said that if Europe & we apply too much austerity, it will kill the economy.  This goes counter to empirical evidence cited in my last post that countries in crisis do better if they cut spending than if they increase taxes.  Playing to his government expansion base, he said that the weaknesses in our economy are in the public, not private, sector – “the private sector is doing fine.”  Romney seized on that, saying he’s clearly out of touch.  We just learned that the average US citizen’s worth dropped 40% in the last 3 years. 

I see an interesting parallel between the European bailouts (the stronger German/French economies bailing out the failure Greece, Spain, etc.), and the U.S. government bailouts of failed companies.  It seems the more bailouts given, the less incentive those countries, or companies, have to reform and become viable, and the more they tend to continue, voting in socialist governments that reject austerity or fiscal responsibility, and expecting more bailouts – “eat, drink, and be merry.”  Bankruptcy provides natural incentives, as Romney has said.  As Ann Romney has said in interviews, she increasingly hears on the campaign trail how concerned Americans are about the burdens the national debt will be on their children – the opposite of most parents’ desire to leave their children a better life.

But Obama continues to resort to the tread-worn
"blame Bush" tactic.

Security Leaks

They certainly can’t tout any success with the economy, and with the election imminent, they can’t seem to help themselves from leaking secrets that they think will put Obama in a better light in the national security arena.  But their calculus is no better than their integrity, because those who care about national security (even liberals like Feinstein) realize how harmful such leaks are to the nation’s security, and how blatantly self-serving the leaks are.  The only ones who are impressed are those who never cared about national security or the need for secrecy, oaths of office, etc.  Good luck winning with that constituency. 

Obama said he found offensive the charge his administration is leaking classified information for political gain, and people need to understand how seriously he and the people around him take security.  Well, because of their nature, it was someone in his administration, and now we understand, after repeated offenses (Iran cyber attacks, Yemeni bomber informant, Israeli deal for airbase use in countries north of Iran, the Pakistani bin Laden informant now in prison for 30 yrs, etc.) just how seriously they take it – i.e., not at all. 

They couldn’t do much more damage to this country economically, militarily, etc. if they tried, and I’d even question whether a fair number of them would love to see us weaker so there’d be less to apologize about, and more love for us.  As for me and I think the majority of Americans, I think we’d rather be respectable and respected than loved – the “last best hope.”

Executive Privilege

June 21 -- Reince Priebus:  “Yesterday, the President claimed executive privilege to hide documents on his administration's botched "Fast and Furious" operation. Because, for President Obama, protecting his liberal ally Attorney General Eric Holder is clearly more important than protecting the interests of the American people.

As a senator, Obama railed against the use of executive privilege, criticizing former presidents for using it. Furthermore, as a candidate, Obama promised to be honest with the American people.

“The hypocrisy is stunning!”

Well, now the House Committee investigating has held Holder in contempt of Congress for stonewalling for a year.  Likely a civil suit will follow, with no result until after the election.  Exactly what Holder & the administration were no doubt counting on, and why the stonewalling for a year -- for political purposes.  They can now claim the Republicans are bringing it up in an election year.  No -- it was last year.  And whatever year, it certainly warrants an investigation, and a cooperative AG.

Supreme Court & Obamacare


Stay tuned for the imminent (likely this week) Supreme Court decision on Obama’s signature piece of legislation -- Obamacare – likely a major reversal for Obama. What a waste of legislative (& judicial) time and energy that only hurt the economy, at a time when help was most urgently needed.

The Race Card

Things have been so bad for Obama of late that he & his cohorts have been resorting to the race card out of desperation – the last card they apparently hold.  Like Obama’s unilateral executive order basically implementing the Dream Act for illegal aliens (largely Latino). Just another case of racial pandering and division.  And another flip-flop -- on executive orders.

And the Politico reporter saying Romney is uncomfortable around any groups but white.  And of course now, once again, any attack against Holder, another Black man, must be because of his race (as Ms. Pelosi declares – saying the ulterior motive is voter suppression) – as if there couldn’t possibly be any other good reasons to not just let him continue in his merry way.  Just because Liberals seem to have a one-track mind doesn't mean the rest of us do.  Talk about projection.

I’ve had it with this race card business – they’ve played it more than one too many times.  See the following piece by a conservative Black.  America, as anyone knows who’s travelled, is the most racially diverse and tolerant, unbigoted nation on earth – enough with the guilt trip, already.  We paid dearly already in the Civil War, massive entitlement spending, etc.  And the history of the Republican Party is far more favorable to Blacks than the Democrats who are Johnny-come-lately political panderers perpetually keeping too many Blacks down on their own plantation.

A Black Man's Point of View

By Lloyd Marcus

  

As millions of my fellow Americans, I am outraged, devastated and extremely angry by the democrat's unbelievable arrogance and disdain for We The People. Despite our screaming "no" from the rooftops, they forced Obamacare down our throats. Please forgive me for using the following crude saying, but it is very appropriate to describe what has happened. "Don't urinate on me and tell me it's raining." Democrats say their mission is to give all Americans health care. The democrats are lying. Signing Obamacare into law against our will and the Constitution is tyranny and step one of their hideous goal of having as many Americans as possible dependent on government, thus controlling our lives and fulfilling Obama's promise to fundamentally transform America .

I keep asking myself. How did our government move so far from the normal procedures of getting things done? Could a white president have so successfully pulled off shredding the Constitution to further his agenda? I think not.

Ironically, proving America is completely the opposite of the evil racist country they relentlessly accuse her of being, progressives used America's goodness, guilt and sense of fair play against her. In their quest to destroy America as we know it, progressives borrowed a brilliant scheme from Greek mythology. They offered America a modern day Trojan Horse, a beautifully crafted golden shiny new black man as a presidential candidate. Democrat Joe Biden lauded Obama as the first clean and articulate African American candidate. Democrat Harry Reid said Obama only uses a black dialect when he wants.

White America relished the opportunity to vote for a black man naively believing they would never suffer the pain of being called racist again. Black Americans viewed casting their vote for Obama as the ultimate Affirmative Action for America's sins of the past.

Then there were the entitlement loser voters who said, "I'm votin' for the black dude who promises to take from those rich SOBs and give to me."

Just as the deceived Trojans dragged the beautifully crafted Trojan Horse into Troy as a symbol of their victory, deceived Americans embraced the progressive's young, handsome, articulate and so called moderate black presidential candidate as a symbol of their liberation from accusation of being a racist nation.  Also like the Trojan Horse, Obama was filled with the enemy hiding inside.

Sunday, March 21, 2010, a secret door opened in Obama, the shiny golden black man. A raging army of democrats charged out. Without mercy, they began their vicious bloody slaughter of every value, freedom and institution we Americans hold dear; launching the end of America as we know it.

Wielding swords of votes reeking with the putrid odor of back door deals, the democrats landed a severe death blow to America and individual rights by passing Obamacare.

The mainstream liberal media has been relentlessly badgering the Tea Party movement with accusations of racism. Because I am a black tea party patriot, I am bombarded with interviewers asking me the same veiled question. "Why are you siding with these white racists against America's first African American president?" I defend my fellow patriots who are white stating, These patriots do not give a hoot about Obama's skin color. They simply love their country and oppose his radical agenda. Obama's race is not an issue."

Recently, I have come to believe that perhaps I am wrong about Obama's race not being an issue. In reality, Obama's presidency has everything to do with racism, but not from the Tea Party movement. Progressives and Obama have exploited his race from the rookie senator's virtually unchallenged presidential campaign to his unprecedented bullying of America into Obamacare. Obama's race trumped all normal media scrutiny of him as a presidential candidate and most recently even the Constitution of the United States . Obamacare forces all Americans to purchase health care which is clearly unconstitutional.

No white president could get away with boldly and arrogantly thwarting the will of the American people and ignoring laws. President Clinton tried universal health care. Bush tried social security reform. The American people said "No" to both presidents' proposals and it was the end of it. So how can Obama get away with giving the American people "the finger?"  The answer:  He is black.

The mainstream liberal media continues to portray all who oppose Obama in any way as racist. Despite a list of failed policies, overreaches into the private sector, violations of the Constitution and planned destructive legislation too numerous to mention in this article, many Americans are still fearful of criticizing our first black president. Incredible.

My fellow Americans, you must not continue to allow yourselves to be "played" and intimidated by Obama's race or the historical context of his presidency.  If we are to save America , the greatest nation on the planet, Obama must be defeated.

African Americans for Obama (from a forwarded email)

: 

“President Obama Announces the 2012 Launch of African Americans for Obama

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN THE MEDIA IF ROMNEY RELEASED A VIDEO ANNOUNCING A WHITE AMERICANS FOR ROMNEY CAMPAIGN???????

Need we say more!!

This is truly racist.  It is racism at its worst. Can you imagine what the NAACP, CORE, ACORN and hundreds of other black organizations, as well as the media, would say if a white Republican put up an ad that said that the white people need to vote for the white candidate?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjoHA5ocwU 

(and excuse me, but isn't Obummer 1/2 white?)”

From another forwarded email:

“One of the best lines I have heard lately was from a retired shop foreman at the old Republic Steel Plant in Cleveland , Ohio when a young black kid was being laid off.

The black kid said to the shop foreman,
"You're firing me because I'm black!"

The foreman thought a moment and said,
"No, we hired you because you were black. We're
firing you because you are useless."

Sounds like a possible slogan for the 2012 election!

“We Elected You Because You're Black, We're Voting You Out Because You're Useless.”