Posted on 07/11/2010 7:24:19 AM PDT by AmericaTalks
Ed Schultz, the lib talker radio and television host, recently postulated that Barack Obama may not really desire to be president. Schultz said it may just not be his "gig".
In an interview with ABC News, Obama had told Diane Sawyer that he'd rather be a really good one term president, than a mediocre two term president. Instead, what we're dealing with is a man who would be happy to serve only one term, provided that he can push his radical agenda on the American people.
Three examples stand out as to what Obama is trying to accomplish in his first (and perhaps only) term as president.
First and foremost, Obama used a recess appointment to make Dr. Donald Berwick the new health-care rationing czar.
Ludicrous, you say?
Berwick is a single-payer proponent, who is enamored with the British model of health-care. He praised what Great Britain has done with their health-care system and said "that any health-care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane, must...must redistribute wealth, from the rich among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition re-distributional".
This is the guy who is going to be heading the $800 billion Medicare and Medicaid agency. He wants to remake the U.S. health-care system from the ground up.
Second, Obama's pick for NASA administrator, Charles Bolden, in an interview with Al Jazeera, said his top priority, was to "find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries." He was supposed to make them feel good about themselves and their contribution to science and technology.
Now there's a great idea. Let's make them feel good about themselves, then perhaps share some missile technology with them, so they can conduct holy "star" wars in space. Why is Obama so obsessed with kowtowing to the Islamic world? Why does he placate the radicals who are hell-bent on destroying us, while throwing Israel under the bus?
Why indeed.
Third, Obama is holding the American people hostage with regard to the problem of illegal immigration in this country.
Arizona recently passed a strict new illegal immigration law which mirrors Federal law. It requires law enforcement to check the citizenship status of anyone being detained or questioned regarding another possible violation of the law. It has more stringent guidelines in place to prevent racial profiling than the Federal law. And it is a measure that was passed by Arizona's state legislature and signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer because the Feds have failed to do their job of securing the border. The Obama administration is suing Arizona over the passage of this law.
Recently, Senator John Kyl (R), met with a group of his constituents from the North Tempe, Arizona Tea Party. He informed them that in a private, closed door Oval Office meeting with the president, Obama told him that the reason the border was not being secured, was that if the Feds did that, then Republicans would have no reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.
Again, Obama's radical agenda is put ahead of the will of the American people. Recent polls indicate that a vast majority support Arizona's law. And at least 17 other states have introduced similar legislation.
It matters not to Obama. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Three things will be on the minds of Americans when they take to the polls in November. They will be thinking about the massive health-care plan that was rammed down their throats despite overwhelming opposition to it. They will be remembering the contentious town hall meetings in which their elected representatives mocked them and pushed back on Obamacare and the failure of this administration to secure the borders.
And still front and center on the minds of the American people is the war on terror, which over the course of the last year and a half has become an "overseas contingency operation", with terrorist attacks being labeled "man-made disasters".
And now Obama bows before other world leaders, including those of Muslim nations, and charges the NASA administrator with reaching out to Muslims, and making them feel good about themselves. Again, over the objections of the American people.
Does this sound like the agenda of a president who plans on running for a second term?
Don't count on it.
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Sounds like a "win-win."
A half term would be good. Impeach him ASAP before he destroys everything.
He may not, but I sure as heck do.
Zero will make a great roommate for Madoff along with Reid and Pelosi.
Big deal!He does not care about his first term either!
He’s taking the RATs down the sewer with him. All the feces can be flushed together.
I suspect he doesn’t care about a second term because he intends to extend his first term though the end of the next decade and beyond.
I believe that he doesn’t want to run again because he realizes that the American people won’t vote him into office again and couldn’t handle that fact. He will most likely use George Washington’s attitude and say he really didn’t want to be President but was talked into it and felt he had to serve the country. The only way he would stay is if he were to be made King of America.
IMO Obama is NOT looking for another term. He wants to become the American Chavez or Robert Mugabe--dictator for life.
If the drones with an R after their name in Congress do not wake up,he is in a fair way to getting DFL.
Orrin Hatch saying the Repubs would be wrong to filibuster Elana Kagan -what a stick he is. This woman is Obama's tool (one of them) to shred what is left of the Constitution.
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Let’s just keep it simple, he does not want to show his birth certificate!
Unfortunately, Barry, there are more possibilities than the two you conveniently stated. Here's my vote for: The worst one-term president in history. (Sorry, Jimmy, he's got you beat.)
My concern is that while Obama may leave, he won't do it unless he can be assured that all his "progress" won't be undone by the Repubs. He will try to protect his "legacy."
he will just pull a race card out of his back pocket, slap it on the table and run again. between that and voter fraud, he thinks he will win. theO wouldn’t stoop to worrying about this, when he plans to just take it.
A second term, in the true sense, was never the plan. Have you ever seen any administration push through so much bs in such a short time? He knows he has 4 years to destroy America and he’s well within and imo far surpassing any goal the commies set. A second term would be a fluke but if things continue, it may happen but with a dictatorship.
Only a bureaucrat would think like this.
I’ve always thought his plan was to ram as much socialism through as possible during his term, with no chance at a second term anyway.
We must make sure this doesn't happen!
There's a fourth: Painfully high unemployment. Everyone knows, or is related to, somehone who has lost a job. In many cases it happened to them.
Will he be on 'vacation' all that time?
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