Posted on 11/08/2014 7:43:22 AM PST by Kaslin
“Remember,” said Ronald Reagan, “we have opponents; we don’t have enemies.”
That’s why President Reagan was so successful in gaining the respect and affection of the American people. Even people who did not like his policies liked him.
President Obama’s troubles in office stem in no small part from is willingness to treat American opponents as enemies. (He treats America’s true enemies as friends, but that’s another matter.)
The readout from Election Day is that Mr. Obama’s Democrats suffered “a massacre.”
That word from Britain’s prestigious Economist is being used even as Christians and Muslims in Syria and Iraq are suffering genuine massacres at the hands of ISIS.
Still, we can soberly describe the Mid-term Elections as a rout, as a massive rejection of President Obama’s policies, if not the president himself. He had told voters that his policies—“every one of them”—would be on the ballot this November. He also told voters that the endangered Democratic incumbents “vote with me.” As a result of Tuesday’s massive rejection, those folks will vote with him no longer.
The popular analysis of all this is not that President Obama is “irrelevant.” Alaska’s Mark Begich tried to save his seat by that absurd description of the Chief Executive. It didn’t work. But there is a growing consensus—especially among conservatives-- that Mr. Obama is “incompetent.”
But what if President Obama is, instead, intentional? He has said it again and again. He told interviewers he would rather be “a consequential one termer” than an inconsequential two-term president. He was echoing his previous remarks during the 2008 campaign when he paid a left-handed compliment to Ronald Reagan. He said then that the 40th president had “changed the trajectory of the country” in ways that Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton had not.
We should take Barack Obama at his word. He said he wanted to “fundamentally transform this nation.” He pledged in his 2009 Inaugural Address “to remake America.”
Let’s remember the bitter joke of Communist playwright Berthold Brecht. When it appeared clear the workers of East Germany were rejecting their Marxist proletarian paradise, Brecht said the party bosses would simply have to “elect a new people.”
This is what, in all seriousness, Barack Obama is doing. He is planning to go ahead with an Executive Order to make millions of new Americans of the illegal aliens currently residing here. He will probably stiff-arm Congress and act in defiance of the Constitution and the laws. He will probably nominate a new Attorney General—and press a lame-duck Senate to ram through the confirmation vote.
Socialism is inherently undemocratic. Its adherents believe they are “on the right side of history” and thus they feel entitled, empowered even, to bend and break the rules in order to achieve an ever-greater central control over Americans’ lives.
Now that the celebratory champagne has lost its fizz, we need to soberly assess where we stand with this administration. President Obama can veto any repeal of Obamacare. He still maintains control over college student loans. Common Core (fairly dubbed “Obamacore”) is still advancing despite fierce grassroots opposition. He is still converting a severely weakened military into a laboratory for radical social experimentation. He is packing the federal judiciary with radicals. He will rely on these black-robed rogue judges to force the changes he wants but cannot achieve through legislation. He is staffing the federal bureaucracy with his devotees—and creating new “Czars” not subject to Senate confirmation. He will use Executive Orders to limit or even frustrate the intent of Congress on major issues.
In foreign policy, he is presiding over the recessional of American power and influence in the world. In order to achieve socialism at home, America must only“lead from behind” abroad. He has said we are only “exceptional” in the same sense that Britain, Greece and every other nation regards itself as exceptional. With this exception: He has publicly apologized to the world for America’s perceived transgressions.
It is good that the voters came out in their millions to try to pull the country back from the brink. But President Barack Obama is a most serious adversary. He knows what he wants and he knows how to get it.
There’s another reason to reject the “incompetence” label. President Obama is telling Black Americans that he is the victim of racism, that opposition to his policies is the result of opposition to his historic status. The more conservatives cry “incompetent,” the more we feed into that liberal narrative. And the stronger support he gets in the Black community, the better able he will be to pursue policies we sincerely believe are injurious to the Black community itself as well as to the majority of all Americans
Committed commies have a different mode of thought from ordinary people. They consider their ideal to be the true reality. And any difference between the actual perversity of result of their policies and their ideal is just illusion. That is why they are clueless and stuck on stupid and will not change their ways.
I Won , you all have to do what I say(stamps feet)
People have motivators that cause them to behave in a certain way. They can have several motivators. What are Obama’s motivators?
1. His strong belief in the teachings of Jesus?
2. His hatred of white people?
3. His strong belief in the Moslem religion?
4. His experiences as a boy?
5. His readings of Karl Marx?
6. The influence of Pastor Jeremiah Wright?
7. What he learned at Harvard?
8. His wife?
9. Valerie Jarrett?
10. Saudi Arabia?
11. George Soros?
12. The Democrat Party?
13. His daughters?
14. The desire for personal wealth?
15. Choom and the Choom culture?
16. Sports?
Etc......
He is a man. He has many motivators. A person can tell you many things, but actions speak louder than words.
intentional
no one is this stupid
Little bathhouse barry bastard boy (L4B) is a puppet/tool of a much more insidious agenda. A true We The People Republic with a strong military is a hindrance to the globalist oligarchs’ agenda, so America must be ruined.
I agree. That’s a quote I’m going to keep at hand.
He feels it his calling to train candidates and activists instead via the Leadership Institute. They do excellent work. He may be right in believing that he can multiply himself by empowering others.
Can’t believe articles are still written about those questions after 6 years in office. We have an ENEMY president whose main objective is to destroy!!
I’m going to make a prediction, which I never do (lol).
The Sunshine state will come in third.
There, I said it...
5.56mm
You are amazing since your predictions are always right on! ;-)
“We should take Barack Obama at his word. He said he wanted to “fundamentally transform this nation.” He pledged in his 2009 Inaugural Address “to remake America.”
Obama’s election was a bloodless communist revolution; fixing this will require the same as it did in other countries. The most basic lesson for conservatives is that average people need to have a stake in things to oppose or suppress the communists. Opportunity to advance is key; too much of the population is content to sit back and take the freebies if busting their humps leaves them with little more at the end of the day anyway.
Moslem. From that all else reasonably follows.
Obama is anti-heterosexual enough for all three
As a Moslem pursuing the diminution and disruption of the most powerful Infidel society, Obama has been quite successful to date. It is a miscalculation to see him as incompetent. That misidentifies the source of his intentions and actions. Know your enemy.
Please do know your enemy, the man is incompetent, I didn’t say that he isn’t destructive or successful in some ways, I explained why he is, and it isn’t from his own personal brilliance and competence.
Obama is the tool, not the master.
He sees himself as a Sultan. Valery Jarret is his Vizier. She and whoever runs here, run the government while the sultan plays. That is what sultans did throughout history. They put their hand back into management when the vizier screwed up like being whipped in front of Vienna. In the old days the mis-stepping vizier was strangled (Ottomans) or halved (Mamelukes). Sultan Obama shows up to make statements occasionally and spends his time playing golf and luxuriating in Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii as the sultans of old spent their time in the Harem or at their Hunting Lodges. When one speaks of the sultan’s “competence” one is referring, really, to the actions of the Vizier and minions. What has happening is entirely by intent, his intent. He may be where he is due to grooming and preparation by certain Saudis and Communists but he is who he is, a Moslem competently and successfully accomplishing Jihad goals.
Obama is 1/2 white, 3/8 Arab, and 1/8 black. Obama is a tan-skinned muslim. Obama hates this country and is doing as much damage as he can in the time he has left. If he gets bored, he’ll come up with a sick spell and resign.
Reagan was a political genius who got what he wanted while being opposed by everyone, Obama is a boob that has the protection of the media and is destroying his party, destructive yes, but in spite of his lack of genius, not because of it.
If Obama had been the political genius you think he is then he would have been much more effective than he is, instead he took the hand that was dealt to him in 2008 and has repeatedly overplayed his hand and made major incompetent mistakes that keep undermining, and weakening his destructive successes.
A political genius would have wrapped things up by now.
1/8th black, got it.
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