Posted on 05/13/2013 1:51:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Being president was always easy for Barack Obama.
That is, it was easy up until the time he actually was elected president. Then things got a little tougher.
In part, Obama’s troubles stem from the rigidity of his broken ideas. They admit of no compromise. Consequently, he has subsumed his whole personality into an unworkable ideology that was dead outside of academia- and news rooms- until he resurrected it.
It’s the idea that a benign government of technocrats and academics can engineer near perfect justice at the trivial cost of liberty to most.
His life and presidency can only be understood by recognizing this Obama idée fixe goes beyond merely his ideology and merges into that of his personality. Because only when one realizes that he personally identifies with his ideology in the same way that he identifies himself as a father or husband, can one finally understand how tightly he clings to it.
It’s an ideology that he clings to, like some do guns and religion, despite a century of abject failure when implemented- as his own disastrous record as president shows on a fairly small scale.
Unlike guns and religion, however, which both have long records of reliability, his ideology depends upon the unreliable magic trick of redefining of words to mean the opposite of what any plain speaking person in the USA would understand them to mean.
For example, if you redefine liberty to mean that most everyone outside of the ruling elite has the same amount of “things,” then Obama’s materialist ideology ensures “some liberty for most.” Therefore, it is only when you have a static majority, a majority that can neither rise nor fall, that “good, kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people,” as Twain describes them, can assure honest poverty for the rest of us.
In that case, why wouldn’t good, kind-hearted, fat Warren Buffett pay a tax to ensure he and his fellows maintain an ascendancy that can’t be compromised by the majority? Why wouldn’t donor good, kind-hearted, fat George Kaiser go knocking on the door of the White House for a subsidized loan for his failing private venture? The first rule of capital is to preserve it in the same way that politicians first preserve power.
And thus, in Obama’s world, everyone is happy.
It was so much easier for Obama to be president when all he had to do was come up with sunshine words and rosy promises, as opposed to, say, executing unworkable legislation, controlling a suspicious congress, creating policy that gave to the rich in order to secure “some liberty for most;” or following a budget that isn’t even written down on a napkin.
Talk is cheap- as is writing- but when you claim the mantle of leadership you actually have to do something. And in doing something Obama has revealed to Americans the underside, unspoken ideology that belongs to the spirit of the Bastille, rather than that of the Boston Tea Party.
It’s the spirit that talks about immigration reform, but ignores immigration law -or not- depending on how the spirits move him. It’s the spirit that plays the part of constitutional law professor, while ignoring the duty to defend the constitution. It’s the spirit that tells banks to lend money to poor people, but punishes banks through extra-legal means- because they loaned money to poor people.
And those spirits create misgivings in most Americans; and those misgivings are strongly confirmed by the economic failures they have engendered.
When you measure those failures against the expectations that the liberal left pinned on Obama via speeches and skin color, and subtract out the deepening number of Americans who think the country is on the wrong track, we can quantify how cheapened the presidency has become. All you have to do is subtract the Obama expectations from the Obama result.
What you are left with is a remainder that confirms that this president is broken.
How broken?
Utterly, 100 percent, non-fixable broken.
It is interesting to note that the essential defect of this president was pegged by Sarah Palin early on.
“But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform,” said Palin at the 2008 Republican convention while she was accepting the spot as vice president on the McCain ticket.
Obama still hasn’t authored anything much but speeches; speeches which contain nothing new; “not one” new idea, say his friends.
Even his signature healthcare bill wasn’t his own creation but rather a compilation of ideas from lobbyists and Senators.
Because if Obama authored legislation, on say, immigration, or the debt ceiling or his own version of healthcare- if he told us what he really thought of the Main Street American bank or those who truly occupy Main Street - Americans would understand how bankrupt the man is.
They only have to look to the funeral dirge from Benghazi, where the man, the president, hugged and consoled a widow, with false explanations- explanations that he knew were false- to shift blame from himself.
“On most days it's hard to tell him he's wrong about anything,” recently confessed one top Democrat about the Commander in Brief. That apparently applies to his lies as well.
All you have to do is subtract his words from our reality to see the result: broken.
He’s made a broken Washington, D.C., even more broke.
And despite the words- the now hollow words, not hallowed words- and brave promises from Obama, he’s not the guy who will fix the mess we’re in.
We have to do that all by ourselves.
But that’s the good news.
Really, it is.
Accurate until the end. Obama doesn't care about the cost -- someone else is paying for it. That would be most of us. And he is more than happy with that -- in his thinking, it's about time we all got our comeuppance.
Never underestimate the power of resentment. Obama seethes with it. And he doesn't care who gets hurt.
Kaslin, do you EVER sleep?
Another excellent post.
“And he doesn’t care who gets hurt.”
Unless it’s a fellow muslim. THEN watch him jump into action. Every time.
You nailed it. This is exactly what drives him.
His presidency may be “broken” but one accomplishment, his Affordable Care Act, has accomplished what he said from the beginning he wanted to do, transform America. He has firmly put America in the fast lane of the freeway to socialism where before we were on the lower speed limit two lane. I doubt we will be able to shake obamacare. Too many new hires. Republicans, save 2 or 3 will not countenance putting all those government employees out of work, no matter what they say about repeal. It will all come down to tweaking around the edges for the apparent benefit of this small constituence or that pressure group, just like with NHS in Britian. The economy must stay depressed because this law will be, already is beginning to be, a fatal drag on capital formation. It will have the government sucking 50% or more of GNP soon enough and we will not have the twenty year luxury of indulging in socialist fantasies with little apparent cost that Europe enjoyed because the US has financed Europe’a defense since WWII. To be sure our defense costs will decline because our economy will no longer be able to support them but they will still be far larger than Europe has experienced since 1945.
His presidency may be “broken” but one accomplishment, his Affordable Care Act, has accomplished what he said from the beginning he wanted to do, transform America. He has firmly put America in the fast lane of the freeway to socialism where before we were on the lower speed limit two lane. I doubt we will be able to shake obamacare. Too many new hires. Republicans, save 2 or 3, will not countenance putting all those government employees out of work, no matter what they say about repeal. It will all come down to tweaking around the edges for the apparent benefit of this small constituency or that pressure group, just like with NHS in Britian. The economy must stay depressed because this law will be, already is beginning to be, a fatal drag on capital formation. It will have the government sucking 50% or more of GNP soon enough and we will not have the twenty year luxury of indulging in socialist fantasies with little apparent cost that Europe enjoyed because the US has financed Europe’a defense since WWII. To be sure our defense costs will decline because our economy will no longer be able to support them but they will still be far larger than Europe has experienced since 1945.
> Kaslin, do you EVER sleep?
Apparently not at 3:51 am...lol
Spot on. People who think the “Affordable Care Act” is going away, will get repealed or cut back, are living in a fantasy world.
It isn’t going to happen.
From day one and even before, the government has been hiring people, making org charts, opening offices, buying computers, software and office furnishings and so on.
In other words, when they got the word, they began putting it in place as fast as they could, because they knew once the tentacles were in place, it couldn’t be removed.
Shame on every single one of those politicians who supported and voted for it.
Shame.
Shame.
Exactly. And then came November 6, 2012.
The man was brought up on hate.
Communist Mentors, Father Muslim. Mother Atheist, Stepfather Muslim, Grandmother Communist, Grandfather Communist, his preacher a Black theologian with ties to the hateful Farrakhan. His wife a nasty racist.
Tie that together with complete incompetence , arrogance, racism,, and you get the worst mess this country has ever seen.
You forget one important thing... it will never work and it cannot be implemented as written. baccus is retiring over it and he helped to write much of it. It will be changed into a benign form because it cannot work... it is repressive and anti-American... it is un-workable... broken by design etc etc etc.
LLS
The author is too kind, the model for obamacare was and is romneycare and that is the reason it couldn't be an election issue.
A large majority already hated obamacare and the republican candidate couldn't say squat about it.
Hate and revenge on a capitalistic free society are his prime motivators. Hate is a powerful motivator, and an emotion that can be easily manipulated with the weaker of mind and character. And lies are accepted as truth when people are in this state of mind.
While that may bury Obama in the end, don’t expect it to stop or even slow. Obama is cornered by his hatred on several fronts now, and I expect him to double down, and it will be his undoing as he isolates himself from all but his most loyal, brain dead ideologues.
For Obama there will ultimately be only one way out; Over the top.
Of course, I do. LOL I went to bed a little bit after 9:00pm woke up at around 03:40 this morning, posted this article and went back to sleep until my alarm woke let me know it’s time to wake my grandson up at 06:00AM
I went back to sleep, after I posted the article. LOL
> I went back to sleep, after I posted the article. LOL
You’re not alone. Odumbo constantly keeps a lot of our stomachs tied in knots so it’s hard to get a decent nights rest...lol
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