Posted on 11/24/2015 9:41:21 AM PST by Kaslin
Way back in 2008 while candidate Barack Obama was beginning his quest for the White House I recall hearing him during a campaign speech make a statement to the effect that, "we live in the greatest country in the world, join me as we fundamentally transform the United States of America".
I recall thinking at the time, if America is the greatest country there is in the world why does it need to be "fundamentally transformed"? When you fundamentally transform something doesn't that mean you significantly change it? So why would we change something that is "the greatest"?
A candidate calling for a massive overhaul should have resulted in at least the news media asking for a few more specifics. Unfortunately by that time the media had leaped headlong into supporting the Obama campaign and wasn't particularly interested in questioning anything about their favored candidate. As was revealed by them ignoring all the questionable relationships and details from his past.
But what specifically was Barack Obama talking about transforming the United States into? Looking back on it now it still seems to me to be to be a rather curious comment for an aspiring president to make about the country he hopes to lead. "Our country is the greatest, but I'm going to change it". Thought provoking, or at least it should have been.
Let's ponder this for just a moment. If Barack Obama was saying that the United States is "the greatest country on the face of the earth", then that would mean only two things. As the greatest nation one would logically believe that "fundamentally transforming" the United States wasn't necessary at all. As the old saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Of course that's never stopped Democrats from trying in the past to fix things that weren't broken, that's for certain.
The other possibility is that Barack Obama wasn't being quite truthful to all of us about how he felt about the United States. Barack Obama not truthful? To quote the young little baseball fan from the Chicago Black Sox scandal during the 1919 baseball World Series imploring Shoeless Joe Jackson to, "Say it ain't so Joe !"
Those of us who have been paying attention for the last seven years have certainly come to learn that what Barack Obama says isn't always necessarily the truth. In fact, for the most part if his lips are moving, he's lying. A trait one can also attach to Hillary Clinton as well.
Barack Obama has devoted his entire presidency towards some far off vision of 'social justice' that he believes doesn't exist in the United States. On many occasions while campaigning he has claimed to want to ensure that "everyone gets a fair shake". Apparently believing the notion that just dedicating oneself to hard work and initiative in America alone simply won't bring one success. A contradiction considering the many Americans throughout this country's history who have rolled up their sleeves and worked hard and in fact did achieve success. Including countless people of color.
And that contradiction is exactly where the real 'injustice' lies. Were Barack Obama to promote hard work, obtaining an education, and personal initiative as the ticket to success instead of handing out ObamaPhones and offering the same liberal garbage that has held back far too many people of color for decades now, everyone would indeed have a "fair shake". It is the liberal policies and shackles placed on the poor by the Democratic Party that has kept them from achieving the American dream.
During his recent press conference following the Paris terrorist attacks Barack Obama once again not his first time - exhibited petulance and annoyance at reporters questioning whether or not his administration had misjudged the threat posed by ISIS, having previously referred to them as the "JV team". Obama went on to challenge anyone who had a better policy to present it, but that "he was too busy" to engage in such a dialogue.
Yet while Europe is on its highest alert level since World War II and is searching for additional ISIS terrorists thought to be planning more attacks, and with the threat of terrorism from ISIS even reaching America's shores over concerns about Syrian refugees the Obama Administration wants to bring to the U.S., the Obama Administration has the time to present a list of "guidelines" to college administrators to help them deal with allegations of racial mistreatment and "white privilege". There's an argument to be made that "while Rome burned Nero fiddled" applies to the Obama presidency.
And Barack Obama has once again revealed where his true passions lie and what he is most concerned about. Not in protecting and defending the United States of America that he views as a racist and unjust nation, but in continuing his pursuit of the so-called social justice agenda that has defined his administration from the very beginning. And his pursuit of a "fundamental transformation" of this country into something that very few Americans want.
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Jokes on libs. America was the greatest and Obutthole didn’t like that so he is fundamentally changing it. Duh!
I’ve been wearing that term out, “fundamentally transformation of America”, realizing the GOP has been in on it.
TPP/illegal immigration/Cheap Labor Express are all donors buying our candidates. Except for that one big one, who is over performing and making the globe very nervous.
In the meantime, THERE he is.
He’s the LEAST qualified, LEAST experienced, LEAST traditional, LEAST patriotic, LEAST capable, LEAST discerning President in the history of this country... and he’s only IN office because this nation of ‘racist’, ‘minority-hating’, stingy taxpayers paid his way and PUT him there!
He meant that he would eliminate Christianity, Judaism and whites, after taking their money of course.
The Democrat Party’s policies are punitive to the core. This Social Justice has been brewing for decades. Obama was just in the right place at the right time to foment such demographic changes. He’ll leave office but how ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm after they’ve seized DC?
Ive actually seen a couple..partially removed....obama 2012...and obama 2008 bumperstickers....in this nieghborhood..
I sense that this isnt the only area in the Nation where people have had some very serious Buyer’s Remorse!
I recall after the Clinton admin left office, former SoS Mattie the maid and BJ gaves speeches. IIRC, Mattie’s was at Georgetown U.
Both spoke about the US needing to handle other nations with care, as WE, the US, would be a 3rd world nation one day and would need to depend on the then superpowers to be nice to us.
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Then, with Obama’s fundamentally changing remarks in 2008, I think the progressives have had a long-range plan for a long time to take the US down from its superpower status.
They do it bits at a time, but look at how much the nation has suffered under various Dem prez’s since Carter.
The next prez will inherit a mess. With Carter, we are still feeling ramifications. It will take decades and maybe even a century or more to heal from the Obama administration — if the nation ever can.
One helluva time to ask the question.
Should have been vetted in 2008.
One thing to be thankful for, we have survived 7 yrs of Il Douche and only have 1 more to go.
Could be the worst though.
Globalism... at the expense of nationalism. Power, thru the ascendancy of the UN.
It was Mark Stein who said that, as a joke, an example of any politician’s stump speech. It certainly sounds like something The 0ne would say but I don’t think he did.
As was revealed by them ignoring all the questionable relationships and details from his past.
With all those ads, Townhall should be able to afford a copy editor to put its columnists' thoughts into English sentences.
Simply put, he was counting on the fact that his supporters would not know the meaning of transform. He was right.
Sad
I had no problem reading the article and English isn’t even my first language
Excellent.
You said it.
Exactly
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