Posted on 01/16/2010 3:50:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If we had a Winston Churchill in the White House, America would still be in mortal danger and we would have a long, tough fight for survival ahead. We face a threat of Islamic terrorism as dangerous as any of the many threats of our history including that of Nazi Germany, Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, and Japanese Imperialism. We face economic problems and international competition that call into question our ability to maintain the productive economy necessary to support the military machine needed for survival. We have a failed educational system that will not provide the scientific innovation and educated personnel and other advances necessary to maintain economic viability in the 21st Century. We have a biased, dishonest, and fraudulent mainstream media that misleads and deceives rather than informing and educating the public on the issues of our times.
But we don’t have this best-case scenario in the White House — we have the worst-case scenario. Yes, it’s about time America wakes up to the fact that we have a radical, leftist, socialist politician who still carries the trademark of the corrupt Cook County Chicago political machine from which he came and who has populated the White House with wild radicals and thugs willing to use intimidation and anything else if needed to achieve their goals. The Chicago machine adopts the Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals that says the end justifies the mean, i.e., anything goes. On top of that our president is incompetent. At this time of the greatest danger to America, we have another even greater danger: a president not up to the job and not fit for the job.
Someone has to ask the president, “Have you no decency? Have you no character? Have you no honesty? Do your words and your promises mean nothing? Are you willing to justify any means to achieve your ends?” Yes, we are well past the tipping point, and it is time for the obvious conclusion, “The emperor has no clothes.” If we don’t recognize Mr. Obama for what he is by now, we must be clueless and hopeless.
President Barack Hussein Obama has clearly demonstrated he is exactly what many expected and even much worse. For example, right from the beginning, early in the last presidential campaign, I said Mr. Obama was a world-class fraud, phony, faker, fibber, and four-flusher and a radical, liberal, leftist socialist, America-hater to boot. Now, I realize that description may sound strong, but it wasn’t strong enough. Mr. Obama is much worse than that.
Every politician may break campaign promises. But even the most corrupt ones have limits. Mr. Obama has no limits. At the very core of his campaign, he claimed to be the great post-partisan, non-partisan unifier to bring us all together and listen to every side of every issue. He told us a gazillion times there are no Red States and Blue States but only the United States. He claimed a new politics, with openness and transparency in all matters. He was the great courier of hope and change. But that was just campaign rhetoric and even post-election rhetoric. He has demonstrated he is the exact opposite of his basic claims. He is highly partisan, content to shutout, shut up, and ignore Republican ideas and Republican voices. He rejects transparency, and is as secretive and opaque as possible. Other politicians have broken campaign promises, but never on a scale such as this involving the promises most central to their campaigns, and never before so openly and brazenly with so little regard for the citizens who were sold this fraudulent bill of campaign goods.
For proof of Mr. Obama’s breaking all of his core promises, look at what is going on with ObamaCare. Everyone probably remembers his promise, repeated at least eight times, that negotiations on the health-care bill would be televised on C-SPAN and would be streaming on the Internet. Among his statements: “We’re going to do all these negotiations on C-SPAN…We will work on the process publicly … These negotiations will be on C-SPAN.” He constantly explained that putting all negotiations (yes, he said, “all”) on C-SPAN would assure that everyone could see for themselves whether their Congressmen were putting forth arguments on behalf of insurance companies, drug companies, and other special interest groups or making arguments on behalf of most of their constituents. You can hear him make this promise by going to the Internet, where at least eight videos of Mr. Obama making that promise are collected (www.thenakedemperornews.com).
The other examples of Mr. Obama’s breaking his promise of transparency and openness in every way can be cited that are just as extreme as the C-SPAN promise. The negotiations to reconcile the Senate and House version of ObamaCare are being carried out behind closed doors in secrecy. Republicans are not even represented.
And his core promise of bipartisanship has also been demonstrated to be a total fraud, which is what Mr. Obama is. He called for bipartisanship and a new politics all during the campaign and continues to do so (apparently in an attempt to silence Dick Cheney and other leading critics of his policies that are making America vulnerable to terrorism). But Mr. Obama’s words and rhetoric have no connection with his actions and programs. Republicans have had no part in drafting the legislation and their ideas and amendments have been ignored. There has been no real attempt to adopt the many sound suggestions and legislative proposals made by Republicans, such as permitting the purchase of health insurance across state lines and doing something to curb malpractice lawsuit abuse. Mr. Obama and the Democratic Congress have been strictly partisan, and haven’t even been willing to adopt a token idea from across the aisle. They do not want one note of dissent and not one baby compromise. They have made it clear that ObamaCare will be jammed down the throat of the American people regardless of their views and regardless of democratic values and traditions. Even a question about the constitutionality of Obamacare was fobbed off by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, as if the reporter asking the question must be deranged for even raising the issue. In fact, there are serious questions about aspects of the ObamaCare proposals.
What is even more outrageous than breaking the most fundamental Obama promises is the attempt to pretend they are not being broken. Obama’s White House actually refuses to explain why these promises are being broken. In fact, they won’t even respond to questions about the C-SPAN promise. When Mr. Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, was asked about it, he simply ignored the question and did so the next day when the same question was asked. When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was asked about it, she went into a speech claiming this was the most open and transparent legislative process in memory. Her reply was Orwellian, being the exact opposite of the truth. The Obama team apparently thinks the Americans are totally idiots willing to believe brazen, blatant, bold-faced lies.
This isn’t hope and change. This isn’t politics as usual. This is worse than politics as usual. This is the corrupt Chicago-style machine politics of thugs and intimidators. Recall that Mr. Obama came out of the corrupt Chicago machine and even refused to work with those trying to bring about its reformation. And now we see he has brought the corruption and thuggery of that style of politics to the White House. We not only have that style of politics in control in the White House, but even worse, its agenda is the radical, liberal, leftist, socialist program that runs contrary to American values and the very principles of our Founding Fathers. As we know, right before his election, Mr. Obama said he was going to fundamentally transform America. And that’s what he is doing, but transforming it by destroying its constitutional structure.
He is involved in an unprecedented expansion of government, explosion of spending, national debts and deficits, taxation, and regulation of every aspect of American life. His debt is unsustainable, and his expansion of government is so great that it is going to squeeze out and kill the private sector. That government expansion will also kill American entrepreneurship upon which America’s productivity has always depended. At the same time, it is contracting our liberties. A gargantuan government controls almost everything and that means the private market and the private citizen control almost nothing. His signature legislation on health-care is an attempt to control America and Americans. The Obama agenda is nothing more than the “road to serfdom.”
If that’s not bad enough, this corrupt Chicago-style politician has demonstrated he is incompetent, as this column has documented. (See, for example, “Time for a Change? Obama’s Mistakes Say So,” Jan. 10.) In addition, he seems detached from our major threat of Islamic terrorism. As Charles Krauthammer has pointed out, his initial responses to the Christmas terrorism in Detroit sounded more like a police report than a leader responding to an existential threat to American survival. Mr. Obama spoke of a “suspect” who was an “isolated extremist” who “allegedly” committed certain acts. It took him three days to come up with that initial, pathetically lame response. Only on his fifth attempt did Mr. Obama finally recognize we are at war. But, his earlier responses probably reflected his true views and feeling, and his fifth attempt was probably an act, scripted by his advisors who realized his early statements were turning the public off.
Mr. Obama and the radicals and thugs now entrenched in the White House are bad enough, and are a certain formula for the destruction of America. But making a bad situation worse is the mainstream media, which acts more as an advocate for Mr. Obama and his programs and less like a fair and balanced source of information the public needs to have. Further compounding this lethal formula is a Democratic Party, led by the Obama/Reid/Pelosi triumvirate that is a virtual rubber stamp of any program. And that party has adopted the Obama philosophy based on Rules for Radicals that says the ends justifies the means. In other words, anything goes. That’s why they are content to ignore the public’s views and the traditions and precedents of Congress, and jam through legislation that is not analyzed, debated, or even read. They are immoral, unprincipled zealots that put their agenda above that of the American people, American values, and the American Constitution.
So, it should be past the tipping point. We should be at the point when most Americans can say, “The Emperor has no clothes.” If Americans don’t stop this headlong rush to destroy America, there will soon be no America left to save. Now is the time. The citizens of this greatest nation on earth have to rise up, protest the Obama agenda, and stop it before it succeeds in transforming America into something our Founding Fathers of yesterday and our citizens of today would not even recognize.
We’ve had more than enough of Mr. Obama’s plans. And we have to start acting like we mean it. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country… and to stop Mr. Obama’s plans to destroy America, as we know it.
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Herb Denenberg can be reached at advocate@thebulletin.us
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan think he's OK. As long as he remembers to look after the real government's interests, he isn't going anywhere - nor do senior Republicans want him to. They are hoping some day to get the Big Bosses' blessing, themselves, and don't want to set any unhelpful precedents...
I cannot be absolutely certain without further study but a preliminary examination of this article leads me to suspect that Mr. Herb Denenberg may not be exceptionally well pleased with our current president.
And I danged sure ain’t!
“...a radical, leftist, socialist politician...”
...a communist...
There, all fixed-up for you.
Oh, and if my theory is correct about this Administration, and their many strange international connections, then with all that is happening, an event should take place before the end of March.
This is not supernatural stuff, but I think they will switch to force, or a false flag operation, now that their “soft” measures are failing them.
Tinfoil hat firmly in place, I know, I know.
But I’ve had this “feeling” in my gut for a long time now.
The Hope-ocalypse begins on Tuesday at 8 PM.
RE: “Pitchforks and torches?
Tea Parties?
Or?”
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All of the above and more — the citizenry has finally had enough and those of us who called out Obama for the socialist fraud he is knew it all along —
Now it’s time to DO something about this worst president ever!
Holy crap, was this actually published in the Philly Enquirer?
Well said. Many of us have been saying what Herb Denenberg has said so well. I also donated to Brown’s campaign. We cannot wait until 2010 elections. Obama may declare martial law. Of Harry Reid, Obama said, “He is on the right side of history.” Actually he is on the left, but the right will win at the end. Whittaker Chambers in “Witness” explained how communists can convince themselves they are the righteous ones even as they kill millions. Have you seen thePostEmail.com/2010/01/12/his-name-is-steve-dunham/
Obama said his name was Steve in a speech in 2008.
I agree that something is going to happen bad enough to declare martial law. Obama has been groomed for his role in globalization. He will try to surrender our sovereignty (INTERPOL), devalue the dollar, or some other crisis. He will not stop so long as he has breath.
Neither do I.
>>>Hyperbole never helps an argument.
Is Islamic terrorism going to invade, conquer and rule the US? Nope, they don’t have anything close to the capability, despite the fact they would love to do so.
Is Islamic terrorism going to kill hundreds of millions of Americans in less than an hour, as was quite possible during the Cold War? Nope. See above comment.
So how is Islamic terrorism dangerous. Only because we let it be. That’s an entirely different kettle of fish. Islamic terrorism in an irritant, not a genuine threat. And it’s only an irritant becaue we let it be one, out of PC, multi-culturalism and other aspects of our own society, which is the real threat.<<<<
Please allow me to politely disagree. I can see your heart is in the right place, and your thoughts are shared by others.
The mere fact that Islam wants to conquer the West is sufficiently threatening. Communism from the Soviets couldn’t harm the United States in the 1920s, either; it took decades of spying and forced labor to achieve nuclear parity with the West. During World War II, neither the Japanese nor the Germans had the means in 1941 to conquer and subdue the United States. The fact that they sought to do as a long-term goal was sufficient.
Likewise, we haven’t had a megadeath attack from Islam - yet. However, they are planning to do so. The “permission” to use nuclear weapons against American targets has already been “granted” by Islamic authorities. The target death toll I’ve read about was four million, two million of which must be children. That, too, is sufficiently threatening.
I would agree wholeheartedly that political correctness and multiculturalism are also enemies of the American way of life. In that regard, we’re in a two-front war - with Islam from the outside, and with the Left from the inside. I also agree that the Left has gone out of its way to reduce our effectiveness against Islamic attacks.
However, I disagree that Islamic terrorism is a mere irritant. I’m more in agreement with Samuel Huntington in his book “The Clash of Civilizations,” where he points out that everywhere Islamic culture meets another culture there is war. That irritant shows up worldwide, and not just against us, but against all non-believers. An irritant that is not attended to develops into an infection, and then moves on to kill the victim. In fact, that’s one of the strategies of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood - death by 1,000 cuts. A more modern term is asymetrical warfare.
Anyway, please be well, and I hope that I maintained politeness here. It’s hard to tell sometimes when I’m just sitting here typing.
The very idea that Islam is a mere annoyance rather than a genuine threat is the most asinine thing I’ve seen in a while.
I Need to Repeat the Above and add;
You are sounding like Micheal Moore,,,
See my post #10
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