For Marco Rubio being right on Barack Obama was a Pyrrhic victory

Flopping Aces ^ | 02-10-16 | Vince

[Starman417]

Marco Rubio's campaign seems to have crashed on the rocks because of his...shall we say somewhat repetitive use of the phrase "Obama knows what he's doing", but the truth is, he was 100% right. The reason that so many people scoff at the notion that Obama knows what he's doing is because the very notion of an American leader who seeks to destroy that which he leads is anathema to most rational Americans. And the truth is, Barack Obama doesn't seek to destroy the nation he leads, he seeks to "fundamentally transform" it. Splitting hairs you might say, but there is a big difference between the two.

For Barack Obama the American glass is half empty. Sure, there's water in the glass, but only what's left after two centuries of whites stealing from blacks, Indians, Hispanics, after men taking from women and the rich taking from the poor. As such, it's his goal in life to fill that glass up by redistributing that which has been stolen back to its rightful owners. At his very core Barack Obama is a divider – by race, by income by nationality among others - he is an anti-capitalist, anti western populist with fascist tendencies and no love for Christianity.

It's only with that understanding that Rubio's assertion makes sense. The nation that Barack Obama leads is not the same one most Americans live in. They inhabit the same geography, but they are not the same nation. It's like the movie The Martian. Anyone watching it will recognize that it's a serious movie that has a bit of levity scattered throughout. But somehow it was nominated for "Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy" at the Golden Globes. Most people would recognize that regardless of the category the Globes’ voters put it in, The Martian is no comedy. Similarly, the United States most conservatives inhabit is an imperfect one, but one full of opportunity, fueled by freedom and largely a force for good. For Barack Obama those same 57 states represent a nation defined by racism, inequality and oppression.

That is the nation that Barack Obama thinks he is leading and the one which he is seeking to fundamentally transform. And it's easy to see that Rubio is right… he knows exactly what he's doing. From Obamacare to the kneecapping of Chrysler shareholders to the using the IRS to muzzle Tea Party groups, it makes sense in the nation Barack Obama leads. This has been going on for seven years and most of the examples never find their way into the news. Here are three that recently did.

1. The Internet. The Internet may be the most egalitarian invention in the history of man. It has connected more people and given more opportunity to more people than any tool in all of human history. It was created by the United States and has been largely free from censorship and government controls since its inception. Barack Obama sees the Internet as a tool of American domination and therefore is moving to remove American control of it and give it to an international body that will leave the Internet's freedom subject to veto and manipulation by such freedom loving nations as China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
   
2. Economic freedom. American economic freedom is the engine that drove most of the world's prosperity for a large part of the last century. The resilience and freedom of America's markets and her entrepreneurs have led the world in almost every major economic development since 1900. American free enterprise has been the greatest driver of prosperity ever in human history, but under Barack Obama the United States has tumbled in economic freedom, to number 11 in the world (from number 6 when he took office.) And what causes such slippage? One thing: Regulation. Barack Obama sees America's success as one of imperialism and outright theft, and he has used government regulation to stifle economic freedom at every turn, and the results have been devastating, resulting in the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Chippendale dancer?

[ETL]

From the transcript...

RUBIO: And let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Barack Obama is undertaking a systematic effort to change this country, to make America more like the rest of the world.

That’s why he passed Obamacare and the stimulus and Dodd-Frank and the deal with Iran. It is a systematic effort to change America.

-snip-

CHRISTIE: We’ve heard it said on the stage that President Obama knows exactly what he’s doing.

-snip-

RUBIO: Here’s the bottom line. This notion that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing is just not true. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

CHRISTIE: There it is. There it is. The memorized 25-second speech. There it is, everybody.

RUBIO: Well, that’s the — that’s the reason why this campaign is so important. Because I think this notion - I think this is an important point. We have to understand what we’re going through here. We are not facing a president that doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows what he is doing. That’s why he’s done the things he’s done.

That’s why we have a president that passed Obamacare and the stimulus. All this damage that he’s done to America is deliberate. This is a president that’s trying to redefine this country. That’s why this election is truly a referendum on our identity as a nation, as a people. Our future is at stake.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-eighth-republican-debate-new-hampshire-2016/

[Hugin]

It’s funny, I didn’t see the debate, and I didn’t get the point Rubio was making until I saw him defending it in an interview the next day. And he was right. Christie was wrong about ascribing Obama’s damage to America to inexperience rather than ideology. And how many times did Christie repeat his stock phrase “when you are a governor you have to actually get things done”? I don’t like Rubio, but I despise Christie much more.

[napscoordinator]

Everybody knows he is right. That wasn’t the problem. The debate cemented the notion that most had that he is just not ready to be President at this time. He needs to run for Governor of Florida and prove that the Gang of 8 was a mistake and he learned from it through ensuring he runs Florida as a conservative. If he had run in 2012 for Governor instead of Christ and Scott, he may right now be better off then in the senate. However, he is 44 years old so he has 30 plus years to try again IF he learned his lesson from Gang of 8.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Michael B Dougherty ‏@michaelbd 9h9 hours ago

Rubio’s argument was dumb: Obama was inexperienced but his ideology mattered, therefore hire me, your inexperienced ideologue.
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[Lurkinanloomin]

Marco Rubio signed up to help Obama fundamentally transform America when he joined the Gang of Eight.

He’s a phoney Memorizer Bunny.

[Lurkinanloomin]

He didn’t learn that abandoning the rule of law is wrong.
He thinks he has to lie about it better.

[iontheball]

There was nothing wrong with the point he was making, it was the robotic, rehearsed repetitive manner in which he did it. It appeared as if his needle got stuck on a scratched record where he kept going around and around in the same groove. Generally, he appears to be capable of speaking extemporaneously, but like so many politicians he is affraid to do so and throw the script away. I find this shows youthful immaturity instead of seasoned experience.

[ETL]

There was nothing wrong with the point he was making, it was the robotic, rehearsed repetitive manner in which he did it.

A critical point like that often needs to be repeated. What bothered me was the way fat boy pretended like he didn't know what Rubio meant and used that critically important point to get across to the American people against him. That's real sleaze ball stuff. It helped to cover up the fact of what Obama and co are doing to the country.

[grania]

Which one of the candidates doesn't repeat his important points? It was a "find something to blame on Rubio" set up.

Irony is, it looks as if the small percentage of votes Rubio lost didn't go to Christie, but jumped Cruz and Jeb ahead of him.

Rubio did a real good AM interview this morning. Trying to destroy Rubio is dumb, while Jeb and Kasich are still in there and Cruz has become just another pol with a "politics as usual" game plan.

JMHO

[Zhang Fei]

A critical point like that often needs to be repeated. What bothered me was the way fat boy pretended like he didn't know what Rubio meant and used that critically important point to get across to the American people against him. That's real sleaze ball stuff. It helped to cover up the fact of what Obama and co are doing to the country.

Christie hugged Obama. Attributing Obama's moves to inexperience and incompetence rather than the malice it is - that's just one sleazeball (Christie) covering for another (Obama). What I find amusing is that none of the candidates attacked Trump. They must really be afraid of him.

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The important thing was whether a first term senator like Rubio or Cruz really has the experience to be president.

Obama was just an example of a first term senator who wasn't a very good president.

Why he wasn't a very good president -- whether it was ideology or lack of experience -- really didn't matter.

It was a distraction that Rubio got hung up on, and he didn't really answer the experience question or put the doubts to rest.

[sergeantdave]

Don’t try to save Rubio’s flaying campaign. It’s not worth anyone’s effort. He’s a McCain RINO.

[ballplayer]

Of course Rubio was right,but the fact he could not rattle off that Spread the wealth around comment,the Fundementally transform Amerca comment instead of having the pee in his pants look,is what sold me,he is not prepared and will be easy pickings for Hillary