Doing Nothing is Actually Doing Something

Townhall.com ^ | September 6, 2014 | Charlie Kirk

[Kaslin]

Resident Obama has come under attack from critics lately for the pandemic chaos evident at home and abroad. The President has been called “aloof,” “bored,” “disinterested,” and “incompetent.” Pundits universally decry his inaction. Inaction seems to be the criticism leveled by all with their own preferred adjective attached.

Amidst all of the criticisms of the President’s inaction, has it even been considered by mainstream commentators or by the average citizen that his inaction is, in fact, action? When he’s accused of only being concerned with political appearances instead of solving problems, is it possible that to him creating the right political appearance is the problem?

When then candidate Obama said back in 2008 “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming America” many people scoffed. Others expressed contempt for someone with the audacity to suggest that the greatest nation in the history of mankind needed to be transformed from anything to anything. Scattered among the reactions were people who felt neither dismissive nor angered over the statement. These prescient few felt the hairs rise on the back of their necks as if Halloween’s Michael Myers had just appeared behind them in the bathroom mirror.

The terror they felt came from hearing themselves ask the question: If he’s going to fundamentally change America, exactly how is he going to go about it?

While America as an idea marks it birth with its Declaration of Independence in 1776, as a nation its true beginning dates to March 4, 1789 when the first Congress met and Washington became President. We are 225 years into this bold experiment of applying Natural Law, the “invisible hand”, and Madison’s corralling of factions. We’ve built inertia which still rewards individual initiative, protects private property, and projects an image around the globe of a mighty superpower, who, like John Wayne’s character in The Shootist, won’t be wronged, won’t be lied to and won’t be laid a hand on. All of this, well, it took a bit of time.

And so should a fundamental transformation away from these ideals of individual freedom to collective decision-making; from private ownership to state seizure; from mightiest nation on earth to bit player in Game of Thrones. President Obama is playing a long game. He doesn’t view his Presidency as an eight-year run. He sees his Presidency as the very beginning of a Utopian, shovel-ready, construction project.

Consider some of the “scandals” over which he has presided and which have generated such great derision from his critics. First, under his watch the IRS has blatantly used its power to punish his political adversaries, alter the trajectory of the Tea party missile from 2010 through 2012, and cover up the entire misadventure with deliberate destruction of email evidence and deceitful testimony blaming everything except Gremlins for the data loss. The President first feigned outrage over the incident but then closed the matter on Super-Sunday by saying there wasn’t a “smidgen” of corruption.

To the Texas border and the Central American migration that flocks of geese now envy. When the President issued his fiat version of The Dream Act in 2012, many people protested. Many didn’t. Public outrage quickly died and the President’s action sent an unmistakable message to countless families south of our border who concluded “if we can just get there, he ain’t sending us back. Now as they arrive they are being shipped around the country, without notice to local officials who must feel as though Ed McMahon has just shown up at their door to tell them that they’ve won the Immigrant Clearinghouse Sweepstakes. Protests were swift, severe, and ephemeral.

Off to Syria where the President drew a line in the sand only to have a bear-like Russian kick the sand in his face. The President picked up his shovel and pail and went home, looking weak and leaving the world to ask “Did General Patton have any grandchildren?”

Despite these and numerous other abuses and embarrassments, the American people seem to be turning their attention elsewhere. The President has counted on that. According to Joseph McCormack, author of “Brief”, since 2000 the average American’s attention span has declined from 12 seconds to 8 seconds. How can a nation that can’t hold its attention accuse a President of not paying attention?

With every scandalous action he undertakes, the President increases our nation’s collective tolerance. We have become comfortably numb to the ever increasing dose of pervasive government control. Hello, America, hello. Is there anybody in there? Nod if you can hear me.

[Baynative]

If Obama were to take a more supportive of ISIS as he did with the brotherhood his whole game would come crashing down and the democrat party would suffer for decades. He knows that.

He also knows that he can be of great assistance by doing nothing. Every day that he waits, every week that he stalls, every issue that he talks around gives the blood cult more money, more power and more recruits willing to serve Allah.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Keep in mind: No decision is a decisian.

[right way right]

Affirmative action in the highest.

[Caipirabob]

Up is down. Left is right. Blue is red. Sad is happy. The economy is improving. 100 million Americans are not out of work. The liberals are not batsh@t out of their flipping minds...

[Paine in the Neck]

Not to derail the thread but since this is coming up more and more often with regard to BHO, i.e., The President has been called “aloof,” “bored,” “disinterested,” and “incompetent.” 'Disinterested' [doesn't have a dog in the fight] does NOT mean 'uninterested' [doesn't give a damn].

[mrsmel]

With every scandalous action he undertakes, the President increases our nation’s collective tolerance. We have become comfortably numb to the ever increasing dose of pervasive government control. Hello, America, hello. Is there anybody in there? Nod if you can hear me.

That's exactly what I've been thinking. The "gates" come and go so quickly, and are so ignored by the media, that people just become inured to them, that "frog in a pot of boiling water" thing, again.

[mrsmel]

True. And whether or not he himself is either disinterested or uninterested in a given subject, his puppet masters certainly are, anyway. Hussein doesn’t have to do anything but move a little, artificially, when they pull the strings. For the rest, they have it covered.

They knew that a black president, one with all the qualities, characteristics, and ideology close enough to their own, would be almost untouchable. He, and they, could just whip that race card out every time someone makes a legitimate criticism. And anyway, I don’t think much gets Hussein himself personally moved and moving except his Islam and his hatred of whites. The rest is meaningless to him, except insofar as it touches on those those two things.

[reed13k]

Premise is correct and basic economics it’s called opportunity cost and O is wasting it

[driftless2]

"if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Rush, the rock group..... not the Great Maja Rushie.

[Usagi_yo]

The best thing that happened in the Obama administration so far has been the repudiation of the Muslim Brotherhood by Egypt. Then their further refusal to give an inch to Hamas.

I agree with what I believe the article presents, that is ‘inaction’ is Obama’s plan. When the world wants the U.S to participate let them come begging for our military might, and come with fists full of cash to pay for it too. No more freebies for EU interests.

[Airwinger]

“Affirmative action in the highest.”

AMEN!

The Peter Principle in all its glory.

[Baynative]

"When the world wants the U.S to participate let them come begging for our military might, and come with fists full of cash..."

I never thought of it that way. Maybe voting "Present" has some potential.

[airborne]

FREEWILL - by RUSH

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=rush+freewill+lyrics&FORM=VIRE7#view=detail&mid=7DA31E633883F9322AAA7DA31E633883F9322AAA

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There are those who think
That life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors
To direct our aimless dance

A planet of playthings
We dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceive
“The stars aren’t aligned or the gods are malign”
Blame is better to give than receive

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear
I will choose freewill

There are those who think
That they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren’t born in Lotus land

All preordained, a prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face, you can’t pray for a place
In heaven’s unearthly estate

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear
I will choose freewill

Each of us, a cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends with uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that’s far too fleet

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear
I will choose freewill