The title of this article — "If You Like Obama's Failed Policies, Vote for Him" — is a bit of a misnomer. From Obama's point of view, his policies have not "failed," they have been wildly successful. He needs another four years to further consolidate them, such that it would be enormously difficult or even impossible to unwind them.
Bottom line, his policies enact the Cloward–Pivins strategy of collapsing America from within, using Saul Alinsky tactics ("The Chicago Way").
Cloward & Pivins believe that the American system can be destroyed simply by enrolling as many Americans as possible in government benefits of all kinds — welfare, food stamps, healthcare, etc., etc., thus destroying any idea of individual liberty and personal responsibility. All must become "wards of the State."
Yuval Levin, in an outstanding article in National Review (August 13, 2012), explains what's happening thusly:
Again and again, the administration has sought to hollow out the space between the individual and the state. Its approach to the private economy has involved pursuing consolidation in key industries — privileging a few major players that are to be treated essentially as public utilities [which are likely run by big campaign bundlers for the president], while locking out competition from smaller or newer firms. This both ensures the cooperation of the large players and makes the economy more manageable and orderly. And it leaves no one pursuing ends that are not the government's ends. This has been the essence of the administration's policies toward automakers, health insurers, banks, hospitals, and many others.The man who swore a presidential oath to uphold and defend the federal Constitution has gutted that document, has turned it inside out. We inexorably lose our liberty as American citizens in this process.
It is an attitude that takes the wealth-creation capacity of our economy for granted, treats the chaotic churning and endless combat of competing firms (which in fact is the source of that capacity) as a dangerous distraction from essential public goals, and considers the business world to be parasitic on society — benefiting from the infrastructure and resources provided by the genuine common action of the state. Of course, the state's benevolence is made possible precisely by the nation's wealthiest citizens, but the president seems to see that as simply an appropriate degree of "giving something back." His words and his administration's actions imply that he views the government as the only genuine tribune of public desires, and therefore seeks to harness the private economy to the purposes and goals of those in power.
But the worse thing of all, to me, is that this man is a LIAR. He couldn't tell the truth to save his life. Every statement he makes is "upside-down" WRT truth and fact. He is a disgrace to the Office he holds, and thus our national disgrace.
Are there enough sane, reasonable, intelligent Americans out there to remove him from office?
If he gets another four years, you can kiss the America we know and love good-bye.
But the worse thing of all, to me, is that this man is a LIAR. He couldn't tell the truth to save his life. Every statement he makes is "upside-down" WRT truth and fact. He is a disgrace to the Office he holds, and thus our national disgrace
Or worse.
The oath has no power if the one taking it does not believe in God, a higher power who requires truth, knows truth and will mete out punishment if the one so swearing intentionally lies. And indeed, the God we know and worship IS Truth!
IOW, if he actually does believe in God and intentionally lied in taking the oath, then he is in great spiritual peril.
“But the worst thing of all, to me, is that this man is a LIAR.”
He is not a liar, but one who furthers the transformation. Any statement that serves the revolution is not a lie but a courageous step toward change. Any violation of the Contstitution is not a violation but just another movement toward the transformation.
These people have no respect for a bourgois code of morality based upon some book that claims to be the word of a mythical god-being that doesn’t exist. (so say the Progressives.)
They’re confusing the daylights out of everyone because they claim they don’t lie, that they don’t confiscate private property and don’t libel or slander while they accuse the other side of it, as they themselves lie, confiscate private property, libel and slander and call it free speech, helping the middle class or applying the frequently-used cachet of “doing it for the children”.
They’re doing their intentionally-confusing revolutionary dance and getting away with it and they’re absolutely maddening.
IMHO
As others have noted, the problem isn't so much Obama, the problem is the fifty-odd percent of Americans who think he is the cat's meow.
Are there enough sane, reasonable, intelligent Americans out there to remove him from office?
Because if there aren't, we are in a world of hurt.
If he gets another four years, you can kiss the America we know and love good-bye.
Because if a majority of Americans can no longer perceive evil when it laughs in their faces, we are headed for dark days.
Obama and the Obamists are everything you say they are and worse. It shocks me that they can get more than ten percent of the vote in a free election.