Why I Oppose Barack Obama

Townhall.com ^ | October 18, 2014 | John Hawkins

[Kaslin]

We keep hearing from liberals that people who oppose Barack Obama MUST feel that way because of racism. As if there couldn’t be another reason or for that matter, dozens of other reasons like…

· The IRS scandal

· Obamacare

· Fast and Furious

· Opening up the borders and illegally implementing the DREAM ACT

· Lying about being opposed to gay marriage in 2008 and then supporting it later

· Refusing the turn away flights from nations with Ebola

· Killing NASA’s manned space program

· Losing America’s AAA credit rating

· Helping radical Islamists take over in Libya and Egypt

· His obnoxious bowing to other world leaders

· He’s doing nothing of consequence to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons

· Cash-for-clunkers

· Benghazi

· 1 out of every 5 Americans is on food stamps thanks to Obama

· Going to war multiple times without congressional approval

· Creating the rise of ISIS in Iraq by not leaving American troops there

· Losing the fight against ISIS

· Losing the war in Afghanistan

· He’s a gun grabber

· Illegally bypassing Congress many times with overreaching, unconstitutional executive orders

· Trading Taliban terrorists for deserter Bowe Bergdahl

· Wasting billions to bail out his union allies at General Motors & the now Italian owned Chrysler

· His nearly trillion dollar failed stimulus program

· Increasing the debt from $10.6 trillion when he took office to $17.8 trillion today

….and the sad thing is, this isn’t even remotely close to a comprehensive list of Obama’s scandals, corruptions, stupidities and lawlessness. It’s just that reciting the sheer number of poor decisions and bad policy choices that Obama has made would cause people to mentally check out, like they do when they’re trying to wrap their minds around the almost unimaginable size of the national debt.

In fact, other than not stopping SEAL Team 6 from killing Osama Bin Laden, conservatives have disagreed with Obama on almost every significant decision of his presidency. When it matters, he either does nothing when he needs to do something, does something when he should be doing nothing or just plain old does the worst thing possible.

To top it all off, Obama doesn’t have that frustrating naiveté of Jimmy Carter or that “Well, he might be a jackass, but he’d probably be fun to chat with over a burger” charm of Bill Clinton.

Obama is both shockingly incompetent AND toweringly arrogant. He’s both habitually ineffective and habitually condescending. The man lies as often as a professional con man, but is so used to having his bumbling excused that he’s not even good at lying.

Certainly Obama would be more tolerable if he were called out for his screw-ups by his supporters, but he’s like the stereotypical no-good-rich-kid who gets away with being a punk because his dad is wealthy and owns the only factory in town. There are liberals who support who support Obama because he’s a liberal. There are Democrats who support Obama because he’s a Democrat. There are black Americans who support him because he’s black. But, there’s almost no one giving any sort of defense of Obama based on him doing a good job or because he’s actually helping the country. In fact, there’s very little defense of Obama at all any more, there are just attacks on his political enemies, bald faced lies that even his own supporters have trouble swallowing and excuses.

Oh and are there excuses.

“It’s George Bush’s fault! The Republicans won’t do what I want! Sarah Palin said this! Rush Limbaugh said that! The media doesn’t support me enough. We didn’t add more jobs because it was cold this winter!”

What exactly does Obama ever do right? Certainly not the economy since there are less Americans working today than the day he took office. How about the fight against ISIS, which we’re currently losing? How’d the roll-out of Obamacare work out? Did everyone who liked their plan get to keep their plan? What do we have to show for all the money Obama spent on the stimulus? Did he ever get to the bottom of the IRS scandal?

On second thought, does Obama ever get to the bottom of ANY scandal? Nixon was a choirboy compared to Obama and if we’re being perfectly honest about it, the only reason Obama hasn’t been impeached is because Americans don’t want to impeach the first black President. For all the talk about “racism” that we’ve heard, Obama’s race has been his #1 asset. He was elected and re-elected despite not being qualified for the job because he was black, he’s been treated with kid gloves by the press even for a Democrat because he’s black and the only reason he’s avoiding impeachment at this point is because he’s black. That’s a pretty big comedown from the high hopes so many Americans had after the first black President was elected. Obama’s election was going to be the exclamation point that proved America had gotten beyond race and instead, it turned out that the Jackie Robinson of the Presidency was the worst player to ever walk on the field and it was easier for his fans to blame “racism” than admit it.

What it comes down is that Obama isn’t just a blithering, bumbling Barney Fife without the charm. He’s dishonest, corrupt, narcissistic -- and no, he doesn’t “mean well.” He doesn’t seem to give a flat damn about the country, the American people or anything other than glorifying himself and his ideology. He’s a vainglorious bush leaguer who was never worthy of the presidency in the first place and who views the American people as his servants, instead of viewing himself as a servant of the people. That makes him a bad President. That makes him dangerous. That makes him a bad guy.

[Kaslin]

Two more things what John Hawkins should have mentioned are: Getting that deserter Bergdhal freed from the Talibans in exchange of the five most dangerous terrorists, and finally refusing to get Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi freed from the Mexican prison where he has been held over 6 month now

[4Liberty]

Right. And where’s Obamacare on his list?

[Road Warrior ‘04]

WOW! Truer words never printed!

[Kaslin]

It’s #2

[Kaslin]

You can say that again

[jsanders2001]

The last two paragraphs are on the head...

[Recompennation]

He/him is in it with deception. In it for the vote. Propagandized everything.
Actually said ———”Vote It’s The Best Revenge “
*@#%-*

[TangoLimaSierra]

When he was elected in 2008 I was disgusted, but I said “Well, then, I hope he turns out to be the best President the US has ever had”. But, of course, he turned out to be what we here already knew he would be.

[Cboldt]

Obama's race has been his #1 asset

Trivial quibble: the piece would have been slightly better if the author had continued to riff off his opening premise. Obama's race isn't an asset (in a colorblind society, we don;t see race. Race is neutral), it is used as a foil against criticism. No criticism of Obama's action is valid, because all criticism of Obama's actions is racist. That's utter nonsense, and exposes the critic (not the author here) as a dullard.

[Caipirabob]

The man is a menace to society.

[GBA]

An excellent read to start my day!

When he was running for POTUS the first time I said that he'd be the last black president for a loooong time.

Sad to say and harder to face, but affirmative action and the racial attitudes that have flowed freely from that well spring of hypocrisy have given US incompetence in the highest places.

Worse, it's incompetence that we cannot criticize because of the color of our skin or cannot recognize because of the color of our skin.

As our common sense has curdled, the one known as obama is our soured cream risen to the top. The more we have of it, the less we like and we've binged enough to be looking for a place to hurl.

People remember that first drunken binge that left them puking their guts out in a spinning world. They often will NEVER drink what they had that first time again.

Here we are in a spinning world and wanting to puke up what's made US so sick. If we survive until morning and the rest of that day, we won't be having any more of that again. Ever.

[Joe Boucher]

Nixon was a chior boy compared to obammy?
Yes but Nixon wasn’t a negro.
And everyone knows you can’t criticize a negro or u b a racist.
Even if the negro is a fraud poser, a mooselimb and a closet fag.

[kinsman redeemer]

THAT IS A GREAT ARTICLE!!

Thanks for posting.

[Dan in Wichita]

As horrible as Obama has been, you’d think people would learn. Yet an Obama clone named Hillary Clinton is the odds on favorite to take his place on Jan 20, 2017. As we speak, the media is paving the way for Hillary!, and the sheeple are lapping it up.

[Honorary Serb]

Also, engineering the coup in Ukraine (allied with Banderovtsy Nazis), and moving us toward World War III!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3151419/posts

[W.]

Good post, have thought for a long while the ONLY reason he was proposed by the left was indeed the fact he was black and they knew in advance they could conveniently cry ‘racism!’ at any and all criticism of their boy, merely over his race. Ergo, the continuous and ever-present employment of their race card, to deflect criticism and foment racial hated, a ‘one-size-fits-all’ deal that silences criticism of the ‘man’ or anything with his name attached to it. At least now, we see the ploy has backfired, finally, he is now viewed as a toxic thing, poison to anything it touches. Sweet revenge, no schadenfreude needed!

[Kaslin]

I did not fall for any of his lies. His color had nothing to do with it. But I saw through him and noticed right away that he was noting but a charlatan

[Nepeta]

And everyone knows you can’t criticize a negro or u b a racist.
Even if the negro is a fraud poser, a mooselimb and a closet fag.

Or even if he's actually an Indonesian street kid.

[Kaslin]

Oh baloney, no one forced you to read it

[ripley]

What about the people who voted for him, the ones who fell for the propaganda, the ones who have a need for a human messiah and the ones who continue to support his policies?

They are the problem.

IMHO