Posted on 06/12/2015 5:04:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
It's to be expected that I hardly agree with President Obama on any political issues, as we have radically different worldviews, but what I don't understand is why there isn't more alarm from all quarters about the potentially existential threats to this nation posed by his policies.
Obama's ideas, policies and actions in office are often so outrageous that when you describe them or the threat they represent, people discount your comments as extreme on their face. The trouble is it's hard not to sound extreme when what he's doing is extreme.
I probably disagreed with Bill Clinton 80 percent of the time, but I never feared that the country was in serious jeopardy under him. As bad as I believed Obama would be in 2008, I never thought those in the political establishment (sympathetic Democratic politicians in Washington and too many ineffective or gun-shy Republican ones) would either join him or abdicate their responsibility and let him accelerate the demise of the nation as rapidly as he has. It would be impossible for one man to do this much damage alone.
Matt Drudge recently tweeted: "Next 18 months going to be EVERYTHING. Bigger than campaign news: Obama's scorched Earth exit. You've been warned..." This makes me nervous. How could he get any worse?
Obama has already made serious headway in "fundamentally transforming" this nation for the worse. He so obviously rejects the American idea that I don't believe I should waste words proving it here. He is bitter about our founding and bitter about our current state -- even though he's been radically changing it for six years. There's no satisfying a revenge appetite.
I am quite serious: On any one of a number of fronts, this country, without a dramatic course change, could be in dire trouble.
Let's look at the war on terror. Obama has been in such denial about radical Islam that he refuses to recognize even undeniable acts of terrorism for what they are -- here and around the world. He holds to the painfully warped idea that Islamist terrorism and the violence that intrinsically springs from it are rooted in poverty, empirical evidence to the contrary be damned. If you don't recognize and identify your enemy or if you unilaterally declare a truce, you can't effectively fight it. But declaring a war over when your sworn enemies have told you they are committed to your utter destruction and are becoming even more aggressive is objectively insane -- and suicidal.
Then there are Obama's negotiations with Iran. Even many Democrats admit that his actions make no sense and are dangerous. You can't possibly trust this radical, Islamo-fascist regime to honor its agreements when it has already broken promises it made to us on the very issue we're discussing -- not to mention that this regime also is committed to our destruction and the destruction of Israel.
Our fiscal condition? Actuaries and other experts uniformly predict that entitlements will swallow our entire budget -- 100 percent of our federal revenues -- within a generation or so, and when it comes to budget projections, the gloom-and-doom predictions are always understated. Democratic politicians will not even acknowledge we have a problem with our discretionary budget, so the entitlement budget is beyond off-limits to them. All the noisemakers are talking about the mythical threats of global warming and completely ignoring -- suppressing, actually -- the incontrovertible fact that we are fiscally done if we don't get our entitlements under control, yesterday. But Obama is determined not to let anyone touch them and has even added another egregious offender -- Obamacare -- and don't even get me started on the fiscal and health care dangers it poses.
Next, our deliberately porous borders. I don't care if the perennially unexcitable tell you that our rate of immigration has slowed or if certain monomaniacal libertarian-oriented people tell you we need more people for more jobs. Far too many people (just one is too many) who hate America and want to destroy it are streaming over the border. Forget assimilation or acculturation. To leftists, you're a hero if you agree with them that America stinks. The more the better -- because they'll vote Democratic.
On to racial, gender and class tensions. This administration is deliberately fanning the flames of division in this nation, and this distrust is tearing away at the fabric of our society. But if you support proven conservative policies, you're a racist, sexist, bigoted homophobe. If you call for tax fairness, you hate the poor. If you promote the free market as the best method to produce the most prosperity across the board, you are unspeakably reactionary, evil and bereft of compassion.
Our Constitution? Obama is making a mockery of its limitations on his power, the most recent example of which is the Obamacare subsidies. So little has been done to check Obama's power that some political analysts reasonably believe that future presidents -- Hillary Clinton has been named, God forbid she wins -- will trample even more heavily on the Constitution.
I talk to far too many people to believe I'm alone in my concerns. But the wrecking ball that is Barack Obama and his army of enablers in his party and the media proceed unabated in their destructive march.
God help us, and God save the republic.
Unless the bastard moves to another country, he will be living under what he has created except for the fact he has accumulated more wealth than he came on board with and lived the life of luxury while doing so. BUT, before he jets off to some secluded island, he must be made to answer for his deeds as POTUS, meaning “prison time” with no pardons.
The big question is "Why?"
Why are they allowed to do this?
The arrival of Obama has allowed many in the Republican Party to finally act on things they have believed in all along, beliefs they had to suppress as long as the conservative majority appeared ascendant. Now they can take the cash they’ve been offered and act like the whole process is inevitable, using Obama as cover.
Liberals and Mohammedans. Next.
That's about the way I see it too. Obama is a convenient scapegoat. Not that Obama isn't sincere in his actions, just that the main stream Republicans are insincere.
Existential threats:
1. Border control. Amnesty would be the last straw in the death of America as a free country. We cannot import tens of millions of illegals (11 million in California alone) who do not share our values, give half of them welfare and all of them the vote, and expect America to survive.
2. Obamacare. We cannot mandate a private contract, issue unconstitutionally unreasonable fines for failure to obey that unconstitutional order, compel employers to pay for abortions that violate their constitutionally-protected religious values, and expect the Constitution to survive.
3. The Second Amendment. Crossing that red line would be a trigger event. Given the massive threats to freedom, the final constitutional defense of our basic human rights is the fundamental, individual, and unrestricted right of the people to keep and bear arms. Of all the rights in the Constitution, the Second Amendment carries the highest level of protection “shall not be infringed”, which is a big step beyond “Congress shall make no law”. We have that God-given and constitutionally-protected right, and with it comes a moral obligation to exercise that right and to protect it as an absolute, inviolable and essential human right. There are no “reasonable restrictions” on that most fundamental of all rights.
Liberals claiming to seek compromise on any of the above issues need to be shut down. A nice cookie recipe calls for:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups sifted flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
If a liberal wants to add 1/2 cup horse manure, my answer is “no”. If the liberal wants to compromise and only add 1/4 cup horse manure, my answer is still “no”. Even if they want to negotiate down to 1 tbsp horse manure, I am unwilling to compromise. Any amount of horse manure would destroy the recipe. The same is true for the existential threats posed by any amount of Amnesty, Obamacare, or gun regulations, for the same reasons.
“BUT, before he jets off to some secluded island, he must be made to answer for his deeds as POTUS, meaning “prison time” with no pardons.”
Oh, I expect that that will certainly happen and you will know that the event is imminent when you hear the whistling of many wings overhead accompanied by the squealing of a flock of flying pigs and then suddenly find yourself seated on the back of a flying pink horse with a strange horn on his forehead.
Actually, about the only things you can be certain will NOT happen are things that SHOULD happen.
That reminds me of a fellow I knew who was trying to teach a new employee how to develop photo negatives in the darkroom of a print shop. She kept carelessly getting stop bath in the developer which tends to make things turn out rather badly. She didn’t understand when he told her that a little developer in the stop bath didn’t hurt but a little stop bath in the developer ruined it. Finally he said he told her, “Look at it like this, the developer is ice cream and the stop bath is cow manure, I am sure that you can understand that a cup of ice cream in a barrel of cow manure doesn’t hurt it but a cup of cow manure in a barrel of ice cream ruins the whole barrel, okay? From then on he said there was never a problem.
“Border control. Amnesty would be the last straw in the death of America as a free country. We cannot import tens of millions of illegals (11 million in California alone) who do not share our values, give half of them welfare and all of them the vote, and expect America to survive.”
Well said.
They never had any intention of America surviving, its being summarily destroyed to make way for increased power and control to a very select few,
Obamacare was never about healthcare, it was about getting their hands into our bank accounts, we have nowhere to run now and someone else can take our place even if we did manage it,
I like that.
Obamacare is about a lot of things - all bad:
Obamacare is about giving FedGov literal life and death power over individuals - leverage. Who will stand up to the ruling class when they can decide your child's surgery (or your parents') is unnecessary?
Obamacare is about giving FedGov absolute power over your day-to-day activities. If FedGov is paying the medical bills, then they think they are justified in telling you what size soda you can drink (if any), how much meat to eat (until that is banned), how much to exercise, and everything else they want to control.
Obamacare is about redistribution of wealth. This is yet another opportunity to enrich the welfare class and make sure they have everything that the most productive among us can earn.
Obamacare is about rewards for insiders and their cronies. The 2,000 page bill is full of subsidies and giveaways for dozens of industries with the right connections.
Sorry at this point in time I view the GOP as the most existential threat to the country.
You’re not going to be happy until the rats are in complete control, aren’t you?. I can see through you
Really David? Says a lot about you . I was 100% sure Klinton was wrong and I feared for the country every day.
You say that now.
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