Obama, The Emperor, Has No Clothes(We've Reached The Tipping Point And His Programs Must Be Stopped)

The Philadelphia Bulletin ^ | January 16, 2010 | Herb Denenberg

[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

[2ndDivisionVet]

See my post #10

[2ndDivisionVet]

See my post #10

[DNME]

Pitchforks and torches?

Tea Parties?

Or?

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That little two-word question — Or? — is the deadliest question of all.

There is a chance, a slim one, that we can turn this mess around at the ballot box, and that process starts on Tuesday. (Even a narrow loss by Brown will send a shock wave through the Establishment announcing that things have changed.) We’ve waved our pitchforks and torches and they ignored us. The Tea Party is our next, best hope.

After Tuesday, the momentum must build, intensely, leading up to November. We’ll need candidates who are ferocious Constitutionalists, the election must be a near sweep, and the voting must be watched and closely guarded. (Just a thought: If their “thugs” threaten our polling places, why can’t we react with more and bigger “thugs” of our own?) Then we must DEMAND that our new “leadership” do the right thing, with our closest supervision!

But if the November election results are disappointing, or if the inevitable dirty tricks succeed, or if a thousand other things go wrong — what then?

Do we then pull the shotgun out of the bedroom closet on the day after the November election and load up? And take aim at whom, precisely? At our next door neighbor because he has an Obama bumper sticker on his car? At any symbol of authority we can find? No ... there lies madness. None of that!

The right to keep and bear arms gives us the strength to resist tyranny, which is a grand and radical concept. Thank God the Founders saw that truth and put it into law!

But an armed individual is just a nut case, not a soldier. Ten armed individuals is a terror cell, on their way to jail cells. And a hundred armed individuals is just a dangerous mob. Unless there is leadership, then it becomes Second Company, Massachusetts 1st Volunteer Militia. (Yes OF COURSE I’ll be voting for Lt. Col. Brown on Tuesday! My whole family will!)

So I guess my question is — OR? OR ELSE WHAT?

I think it’s time to start talking politics with your neighbors. And everyone else you meet. It’s time to start taking sides.

[Boucheau]

Hot Damn! That was one good read!

I missed this, somehow.

I was going to post some highlights but there are too many.

THAT is an American, if anybody needs a definition.

[Boucheau]

“Would that qualify as a ‘false flag operation’?”

Absolutely.

Another FReeper noted that is was “odd” that all these liberals are backing Brown.

Odd, indeed.

We’ll see.

FReepers in Mass., keep your eyes peeled, and your camcorders recording. Take video of EVERYTHING, every chance you get. Definitely take a camcorder when you vote. If you see something odd, get it on video, as law permits, of course.

Post it on YouTube.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Hyperbole never helps an argument.

Nor does silence. Mind defending your ridiculous assertions?

[deks]

Your comment reminded me of something I read from 2003... I recall there were rumors and/or speculation that an ultimatum like the one described below was given to al-Qaeda secretly, and that it prevented a nuke attack on America. Credible? Possibly.

Deterring Islamic Extremists

exerpt...
"So, what deterrent threat could we make to stop al-Queda from using a nuke if they got one?

The only thing I can think of as being of sufficient value that al-Queda would not risk it is the city of Mecca.

Fortunately, for our purposes, it is the city itself, not the population, that is valued.

So I think we should announce that, if Islamic terrorists detonate a nuke on American soil (or the soil of any of our allies, except maybe France), we will give one week of notice so that anyone who wishes to leave Mecca may do so, and then we will nuke Mecca until there is not left one stone upon another. And we will do it with the dirtiest nukes we can devise, so that a pilgrimage to Mecca will be deadly for the next three generations.

By allowing innocent people to leave, we make the threat more credible because it is in keeping with our desire to avoid civilian casualties where possible. And, with the one week deadline, we also make it possible for idiots who wish to martyr themselves in the destruction of Mecca to do so.

Of course, the announcement of such a policy would be greeted with howls of protest from Islamic nations. And our response should be to point out that it is therefore in the interest of every Islamic nation to ensure that terrorists never obtain a nuclear device."

http://www.ericjamesstone.com/blog/2003/11/26/deterring_islamic_extremists/

[Shooter 2.5]

Please take this off the banglist. If every thread that mentions obama was on the list, there wouldn’t be any Second Amendment discussions.

Thank you.

[editor-surveyor]

Yep, we need a “Bum” list for O!

[LucyT]

"Yes, we are well past the tipping point, and it is time for the obvious conclusion, "The emperor has no clothes."

IS HE WILLING TO JUSTIFY ANY MEANS TO ACHIEVE HIS ENDS?

. . . Excellent article; check out some of the comments, too.

[Thanks, Fred Nerks.]

[thecodont]

Thanks for the ping. Great article.

[danamco]

Send this guy some more dough,

and do it all for Mary Joe!

[Munz]

This was an excellent read. Thanks for posting

[Munz]

>But I’ve had this “feeling” in my gut for a long time now.<

I think your right. They need a “crisis” to take control that is slipping away from them.
they have come this far and have used every deception possible.
They are not about to give up just because we the people are not happy and starting to exercise our rights. They WILL step up to the plate and do whatever they have to do to squash the people who are uprising against them.

He told us flat out, he is going to transform America, unfortunately people took it one way when he meant something entirely different. They will probably try martial law or some restrictions to stop free speech and dissemination of information.

It is what dictators do.

[Munz]

>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.<

You are right, but current events have changed the number I am VERY sorry to say.

I keep abreast of these developments and it looks very bad.
Within a few hours of this new FATWA the United States intel sources stated that there is a credible threat to American interests.

Yemen also stated that it would attack the United States if they were attacked for terrorism. Open source Intelligence indicates that they have the ability to cause enough damage to fulfill at least half of the new number.

see:
http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.com/iscc-fatwa-against terrorism.htm

(excerpt)
On January 8, 2010 Twenty Imams affiliated with the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada have issued a Fatwa today declaring the attacks on Canada and the United States by any extremist will be the attack on 10 million (people)

I’m sorry to deliver such disturbing news, but you seemed well informed to begin with and I see no reason to withhold the frightful news. :-(

[Munz]

> The only thing I can think of as being of sufficient value that al-Queda would not risk it is the city of Mecca.

Fortunately, for our purposes, it is the city itself, not the population, that is valued.

So I think we should announce that, if Islamic terrorists detonate a nuke on American soil (or the soil of any of our allies, except maybe France), we will give one week of notice so that anyone who wishes to leave Mecca may do so, and then we will nuke Mecca until there is not left one stone upon another. And we will do it with the dirtiest nukes we can devise, so that a pilgrimage to Mecca will be deadly for the next three generations. <

I hate to point out that Obama would NEVER do this since he himself is probably a Muslim.

[redpoll]

I’m reminded of that statement by Benjamin Netenyahu to Glenn Beck.

Beck asked him to define the lesson of the Holocaust.

Netenyahu answered, “When someone says they’re going to kill you, believe them.”

Thanks for delivering the news to me. Yes, it’s frightening, but I have to deal with the world as it is, not as I would like it to be.

[Admin Moderator]

Listen to this - don’t drag your dispute with the poster in question from thread to thread, and especially threads that have nothing to do with the NRA.

[Munz]

>Thanks for delivering the news to me. Yes, it’s frightening, but I have to deal with the world as it is, not as I would like it to be.<

I am happy and sad to at the same time if you understand my meaning.
I just wish more people would wake up and smell the coffee, because it is been on the back burner far too long.

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” —John Adams