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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From your lips to God's ears...
He may not even get his party’s nomination for a second term. After the likely bloodbath for Democratic candidates at all levels in the upcoming elections, some party leaders may push Hillary to again challenge Obama in the 2012 primaries.
Moot Point. He won’t get a second term
America has been flirting with socialism for what now, close to a hundred years? We would never whole heartedly accept it, but if they fed it to us a bit at a time, soon we cold water frogs would be boiling.
And we've had decades of bit by bit. Once upon a time, we could have stopped ourselves, but now we are waaay past 'just say no.' We are hooked.
What we need now is to be scared straight.
We need to get a really good look at the progressive/socialist hell this country is going to be, be absolutely certain we are going to be there soon and know exactly how much it will suck.
No more pretending that it can't happen here. We Must Know That It Is Happening! RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!
And now we do, thanks to obama.
obama could be the very best thing that has happened to the country since Lincoln. Just look what he's done for gun sales.
Regrettably, a national disgrace of epoch proportion, there is a severe shortage of gonads in the Republican Party. Thank God, that affliction has not infected our troops and law enforcement.
What amazes me is that the more rational Democrats (a few are left) don't/can't see that obama will so discredit the Party, it will take a couple of election cycles before they start to recover.
It’s going to take decades for us to recover and for RAT treason to be forgotten or covered up.
“It’s going to take decades for us to recover...”
Probably not. President Reagan reversed Carter’s stupid course and had us sailing straight in less than 4 years.
Americans can move very fast when the way is clear.
He’s just cooling his heels before he moves on an even more important position.
Amen! This writer asks why he’s kowtowing to muslims? We’d have a half a chance of surviving this muslim if more in the press would call him a muslim.
WAS ANYBODY LISTENING ?
The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised “Meet The Press’. The author (Dale Lindsborg) is employed by none other than the very liberal Washington Post!!
From Sunday’s 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, Televised “Meet the Press” THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.
General Bill Ginn USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn’t follow protocol when the National Anthem is played. The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, “Stand and Face It”.
NOW GET THIS!! - - - - -
‘Senator’ Obama replied:
“As I’ve said about the flag pin, I don’t want to be perceived as taking sides”. “There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression..” “The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing.”
(ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???)
Obama continued: “The National Anthem should be ‘swapped’ for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song ‘I’d Like To Teach the World To Sing’. If that were our anthem, then, I might salute it. In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as ‘redesign’ our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It’s my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we, as a Nation of warring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails - - - perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments.”
“When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injustice which is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past”.
“Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path..My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country’s First black Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America “
WHAAAAAAAT, the Hell is that!!!
Yes, you read it right.
I, for one, am speechless!!!
Dale Lindsborg , Washington Post
There has been speculation that if Republicans win control of Congress like they did in 1994, Obama would move to the center for political gain, like Clinton did in 1995. This has a different point of view.
That’s like saying Hitler would have given up killing when he saw the war was lost.
November 2 cannot come soon enough.
Quote Barrack Hussain Obama.....” In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as ‘redesign’ our Flag TO BETTER OFFER OUR ENEMIES hope and love. It’s my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren.”
This man is no American and I don’t care where he was born...he doesn’t belong here in our great country.....he needs to go home to the middle east and teach them how to love.
Elections will not be an issue in 2012. His work will be finished, and what we knew as America will be something to be erased from the pages of the internet.
“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”. “
Any well-informed Libertarian would have a retort to that last statement.
Hell,I don't care about his First Term, ,and there are hundreds of millions like me.
It doesn’t seem like he does. But how does the left ensure another Dem picks up where he left off?
This parasite doesn’t care if he kills his host.
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