Posted on 10/10/2014 4:46:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A year before his first inauguration, Barack Obama laid out the objective of his presidency: to renew faith and trust in -activist government and transform the country. In an hourlong interview with the editorial board of the Reno Gazette-Journal on January 16, 2008, Obama said that his campaign was already “shifting the political paradigm” and promised that his presidency would do the same. His model would be Ronald Reagan, who “put us on a fundamentally different path,” in a way that distinguished him from leaders who were content merely to occupy the office. “I think that Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not. And in a way that Bill Clinton did not.”
If Reagan sought to minimize the role of government in the lives of Americans, Obama set out to do the opposite. “We’ve had a federal government that I think has gotten worn down and ineffective over the course of the Bush administration, partly because philosophically this administration did not believe in government as an agent of change,” he complained.
“I want to make government cool again,” he said.
Obama believed in government, and he was confident that his election would signal that the American people were ready to believe again, too.
As we approach the sixth anniversary of his election, the Obama presidency is in tatters. Obama’s policies, foreign and domestic, are widely seen as failed or failing. His approval rating is near its lowest point. Obama’s base of support is loyal and fierce and shrinking. Much of the country sees him as incompetent or untrustworthy, and government, far from being “cool,” is a joke on good days and a threat on bad ones.
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He lied from the get go.
Just another sociopath. His presidency may be disintegrating but he still has two years to do incredible damage.
Infectious diseases and felons and terrorists
are murdering children and adults in almost every state.
This was the plan of Obola and the EXEMPT Congress
that calls him their King because he made them
EXEMPT, like all Moslems.
That is not a failure. That is his success.
Cool again? what kind of idiot ever thought the government was cool?
History will remember him as an idiot socialist who should have never been permitted on White House grounds.
...you know, like Disneyland! Fun, enthusiasm, youthfulness, dreams. You know, childlike.
Never dreamed I'd see a slothful, willful, petulant, vindictive child in that office. He has disgraced it almost beyond repair.
He will be able to do less damage if we retake the Senate.
-——History will remember him——
You can never be so bad you can’t serve as a horrible example
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The Fourth Horseman has Arrived
Published on Thursday, October 09, 2014
Tags:Alan Caruba|Domestic Enemy|Ebola|National Security|Obama
By Alan Caruba
The Fourth Horseman has Arrived
Column by Alan Caruba
New Jersey —(Ammoland.com)- “I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.” – Revelation 6:8
The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse as named in Revelation are Conquest, War, Famine, and Death.
It is an apt metaphor for what is occurring in America today. Ebola is now raging in several African nations, Liberia, Sierra Leon, Guinea, and Nigeria.
On September 30 2014 the first African to make it to the U.S. with Ebola was identified. By October 8 he was dead. Ebola has arrived and, despite everything that the various agencies of the Obama Administration are telling us—the Centers for Disease Control and Homeland Security—I have no confidence it will not keep arriving.
Rather than denying entry to those living in the nations where Ebola exists there is no indication that U.S. embassies have been instructed to not issue visas. The notion that airline employees or those on alert in five U.S. airports could spot signs of an Ebola infection is so unlikely that merely scanning those suspected of having a fever provides little protection.
Britain and France have ended flights to or from the affected nations. The U.S. has not. This provides zero protection to flight crews, nor those at the arrival airports who process passengers. No mention is made of our porous southern border that is trespassed daily.
When one considers the evidence of incompetence in the nation’s federal agencies, there is scant reason to believe that either the CDC or HS are up to the task of protecting Americans, no matter how sincere their efforts. These are massive bureaucracies and they have been told not to spread any panic and their spokespersons at press conferences have held closely to this directive. No one wants panic, but neither do we want to be lulled into believing that Ebola cannot penetrate their efforts.
The only protection is to ensure that no one with even the potential of having Ebola is permitted access to the nation. Simply asking potential Ebola victims a few questions in foreign airports is tantamount to no protection.
My guess is that Ebola is already here among us. The notion that you can only be infected by close contact with a victim’s bodily fluids just doesn’t reassure me. An Ebola victim can likely spread it with nothing more than a sneeze.
Then we come to the President’s decision to send what is now in excess of 4,000 U.S. troops to the affected area troubles me the most. The odds that none of them will fall victim to Ebola seems close to zero. Since troops live and work in close proximity the potential spread of the disease among them is high.
I find it disturbing that the President did not hesitate to send U.S. troops to the Ebola zone in Africa, but cannot be convinced to send troops to find and kill the fanatical Muslims of the Islamic State before they gain more territory and pose a greater threat to our national security.
This is a President who has lied to Americans so many times that nothing he has to say at this point, particularly regarding the threat of Ebola, can be or should be trusted.
I find it disgusting that the President is still devoting more time to political fund raising than attending to his greatest responsibility, the protection of Americans by every means possible.
The Fourth Horseman has arrived.
c Alan Caruba
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you beat me to it. GMTA
“Cool again? what kind of idiot ever thought the government was cool?”
Quote Patrick Henry: either give me liberty or give me cool government.
Quote the fonz: cool.
“Cool again”
That expression tells you everything you need to know about the level of academic rigor Obama was held to, during HIS ‘education’!
Not directly at you, FRiend, but HA!
History, or the twisted versions now taught, point as fact that SS is good, Works Programs/gov’t pulled our bacon from the fire during the Big Crash, etc.
They, being the good little Socialist Leftist (but I repeat myself), will never give Dumbo the numerous black-eyes he deserves.
Sorry to burst your balloon.
I didn’t expect this thread to be such a knee-slapper.
Didn’t Boehner just pass a FULLY FUNDED C.R.? Didn’t McConnell just shiv any/all Tea Party types?
Sorry, but I think we have our own deluded kool-aid Party drinkers...IF the last (R) victory in D.C. is the yardstick (TSA, DHS, NCLB, etc.), I WANT a mixed Congress so there IS stalemate
I’m confident that the world will take into account what you want.
Elect a foreigner who practices a religion that is diametrically opposed to freedom and that’s what you get.
He should be executed as a usurper. Most of the mass media executives should be charged as accessories to esipionage. (I’d say treason but technically obama never committed treason. You have to be a citizen to be a traitor and I do not belive he is a citizen)
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