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Obama Has Just Begun
National Review ^ | 11/24/2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/24/2015 5:07:02 AM PST by Servant of the Cross

How much damage can he do in his last year in office?

Insidiously and inadvertently, Barack Obama is alienating the people and moving the country to the right. If he keeps it up, by 2017 it will be a reactionary nation. But, counterintuitive as it seems, that is fine with Obama: Après nous le déluge.

By sheer force of his personality, Obama has managed to lose the Democratic Senate and House. State legislatures and governorships are now predominantly Republican. Obama's own favorable ratings rarely top 45 percent. In his mind, great men, whether Socrates or Jesus, were never appreciated in their time. So it is not surprising that he is not, as he presses full speed ahead.

Obama certainly has doubled down going into his last year, most recently insisting on letting in more refugees from the Middle East, at a time when the children of Middle Eastern immigrants and contemporary migrants are terrorizing Europe. What remaining unpopular executive acts might anger his opponents the most? Close down Guantanamo, let thousands more refugees into the United States, free thousands more felons, snub another ally, flatter another enemy, weigh in on another interracial melodrama, extend amnesty to another million illegal aliens, make global warming laws by fiat, expand Obamacare, unilaterally impose gun control? In lieu of achievement, is the Obama theory to become relevant or noteworthy by offending the public and goading political enemies?

An Obama press conference is now a summation of all his old damn-you clichés ... fantasy strawman arguments ... demagogic litany of the sick, the innocent, and the old ... affected accentuation ... in lieu of learning foreign languages; the ... let-me-be-clear empty emphatics ... flashing temper tantrums mangled sports metaphors; factual gaffes; and the monotonous I, me, my, and mine first-person-pronoun exhaustion.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dangerous; gop4obama; impeach; mcconnell4obama; obama; obamavsamerica; ryan4obama
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To: Servant of the Cross

obama is a limp waisted, empty suit punk.... the people who use the puppet on the other hand are dangerous... soros... jarrett. ayers... they ALL hate America ... and see this puppet as their tool to bring it down


21 posted on 11/24/2015 7:03:40 AM PST by zzwhale
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To: zzwhale

And they are using their tool very effectively too.


22 posted on 11/24/2015 7:12:41 AM PST by sport
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To: Servant of the Cross

Guess if he goes crazy with his pen & phone, it will be too little time to impeach him.

Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if the people rose up as a militia (if police and our military are inactive for whatever reason). People in rural areas are fed up with losing our values/culture, and the politicians saying “There’s nothing we can do”


23 posted on 11/24/2015 7:16:22 AM PST by ncpatriot
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To: Awgie

If all that stands in his way is McConnell and Ryan, he is home free then. Far from standing in his way, Ryan and McConnell will do everything in their power to aid and abet him. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi would have provide more opposition to him than McConnell and Ryan will. So you are depending on a broke stick if you are depending on those two.


24 posted on 11/24/2015 7:22:08 AM PST by sport
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To: Servant of the Cross

Hang the man from the neck until dead. Hussein Obama is guilty of treason.


25 posted on 11/24/2015 8:01:01 AM PST by exnavy (good gun control: two hands, one shot, one kill.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

“Insidiously and inadvertently...”

No, he knows precisely what he’s doing.


26 posted on 11/24/2015 8:10:42 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Awgie
All that stands in his way is McConnel and Ryan...

And the French had the Maginot Line...i.e. we're screwed.

27 posted on 11/24/2015 8:11:43 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Ha, y’all just think there will be elections next year.


28 posted on 11/24/2015 8:19:51 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

Do you mean “real” ones or the kind where the polls are open for two weeks while democrats bus welfare queens from precinct to precinct?


29 posted on 11/24/2015 8:24:18 AM PST by The Toll
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To: Junior_G
He will reach peak anti-American, dictatorial insanity in the 2 1/2 months between the November 2016 election and his last day in office in January 2017.

This is when the power to pardon anyone and anything becomes a huge risk to the country.

30 posted on 11/24/2015 9:05:25 AM PST by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: The Toll

Real. As in next November.


31 posted on 11/24/2015 9:10:23 AM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Servant of the Cross

I very rarely feel embarrassed by the bad actions of others that I am associated with. I leave sins to the originator. I have enough of my own.

But last night, I was feeling ashamed because of Obama’s hatred and insanity performed on the world stage. He’s like an infant tossing a fit in some ways and demonic in others.


32 posted on 11/24/2015 9:58:53 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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