Posted on 11/24/2013 7:23:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Many Americans, including Democrats, are very disgruntled with President Obama. But the real blame for many of our current messes lies beyond Mr. Obama.
It’s amazing how for years people should have seen the warning signs. They saw the unscrupulous ways that Mr. Obama conducted foreign and domestic policies. They saw how he pitted classes and races against each other. They saw how he squandered people’s money on adventurous programs, such as Solyndra, not to mention his and his wife’s expensive vacations. And of course they saw how he favored Muslims over Christians; and Arabs over Israelis.
That is to say nothing of selling guns to Mexican criminals, the betrayal at Benghazi, and the mishandling of the Arab Spring.
And yet his loyal subjects followed him blindly. And his adoring media covered up for him.
Well, at least they all did until they became personally affected by his most famous lie—if you like your plan, you can keep it; if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Now that Mr. Obama’s unscrupulous and habitual mishandling of the truth is hurting them, they are getting all riled up.
Foolishly, the electorate that voted for him again and again could not see the truth even when it stared them in the face. But once it hit a nerve in their hip pocket, they turned on him.
There is nothing new under the sun, however. Two thousand years ago, the Roman philosopher Cicero opposed the dictatorship of Julius Caesar and supported a return to the traditional republican government. But Cicero knew that blame should be cast beyond Caesar.
Cicero said:
"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'"
History repeats itself. May God have mercy on America more than He had on Rome.
Yup. It’s Bush’s fault.
Many Americans, including Democrats, are very disgruntled with President Obama
Not enough and we will never win over the something for nothing crowd.
Friends, Americans and Reporters, we come to praise Obama, not to blame him. New motto of the DC press corpse (sic).
“Down on Obama”
rather not think about that....
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Wow! Outstanding quote. Some things NEVER change!
BTW, that Cicero ‘quote’ looks very suspicious.
Excellent article.
I love to listen and watch Youseff. His teaching is so meaningful in today's world.
Thanks to you Kaslin, for that post.
It doesn’t matter....we are stuck with this puke. His reelection was national suicide.
Does anyone really believe the little islamist cares?
Once he impinged on the media’s ideology, the media changed its tune.
Its nice there is this new antipathy but what really needs to be remembered is that NOTHING about the media’s rotten underlying value structure has changed.
They hate Obama? I’ll believe it when they openly oppose Hillary, Christie and McCain.
NO ONE here expects that.
Our real problem is OUR ROTTEN MEDIA.
And we still do not know anything about him. Who is he? Where did he come from? The media in all its frenzy to get him elected didn’t vet him either.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
“The media” doesn’t get “vetted” so who knows what reasons lie behind their “reasons for not vetting Obama?”
Wonderful post, and oh so true.
LOL
how about
“Comrades, Party hacks, Media ass-kissers .... we come to apologize & makes Excuses for Obama, never to criticize him ....”
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