The Remains of an Administration

National Review ^ | May 26, 2020 | VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

[SJackson]

Each day that the Obama administration fades into the past, its wrongdoings manage to wander back into the present.

After years of suppression, all sorts of strange events keep popping up to remind us of what little is left of the Obama years

[a little elbow grease]

THERE NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. HE IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

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I'm glad that you stick to that.

(Real) history will prove you completely correct.

[a little elbow grease]

"Obama entered with a supermajority in the Senate and a large majority in the House, with the likelihood of remaking the Supreme Court. When he left eight years later, he had lost both houses of Congress, lost the Supreme Court for a generation, and lost more than 1,000 state and local offices.

Once Obama discovered in his last year in office that the more he disappeared, the more the public liked the idea rather than the reality of Obama, his polls recovered. His designated successor, armed with Obama’s endorsement, a captive media, and a vast preponderance of money lost to outlier Donald Trump in the greatest upset in U.S. election history. Trump, remember, ran on being the antithesis to Barack Obama."

........... excellent

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VDH is an American Jewel.

[a little elbow grease]

"The Obama-administration appeasement of China is over and in retrospect seen as disastrous. “Reset” with Russia was as mythical as Russian “collusion.” The much-heralded Asian “pivot” is a forgotten divot."

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“One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.” — Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

[JonPreston]

I liked the way American relations were with communist China prior to 1972, but yes Obama was a disaster.

[a little elbow grease]

LOL ....... great cartoon.

Fantastic Tricky Dickie piano playing fingers and good old Henry on the accordion. How can that not work?

;-)

[a little elbow grease]

Early on VDH was also a never-Trumper until he saw the light.

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Oh no!

Do you think some folks did not believe in the Tooth Fairy before they got hip?

[9YearLurker]

That’s nothing. They are just getting started. Look what the CT guv plans for future phases of our supposed recovery from the coronavirus:

https://www.courant.com/coronavirus/hc-news-coronavirus-reopen-roadmap-clb-20200527-cqazzy5wtvco3nqdmdiykt3b44-story.html

If anyone who is diagnosed with the virus, even if asymptomatic, lists you among their “contacts”, you will be quarantined for 10 days and required to report to a health professional on your symptoms for each of those 10 days of quarantine.

Note: they are going for universal administration of the flu vaccine this year too.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SJackson.

• Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What’s Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]

  Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks a little elbow grease.

[Berosus]

I always wondered who put the words on Obama’s teleprompter, figuring that person was the real president. Do you think it was Jarrett?

[MHGinTN]

If anyone doubts Barry Soetoro was behind the entire illicit affair, just remember how he managed to get elected in IL, by ‘unmasking’ the sealed court documents of a man’s divorce. The Soetoro bastard child is an evil SOB, make no mistake. And that is why the demon rats love and worship him. They are of the same ilk, corrupt to their core ... and I include those scum who voted repeatedly for him and his demon rat enablers.

[MHGinTN]

Liz, too many folks do not get the gist of why the unmasking was done. It did not reveal any unlawful behavior, BUT it was used via the complicit enemy media fith column to IMPLY guilt.

[laweeks]

I always wondered who put the words on Obama’s teleprompter, figuring that person was the real president. Do you think it was Jarrett?

Absolutely. Don't forget that she stopped the idiot 3 times from getting Osama; on the 4th time she finally gave him the go-ahead. He spent too much time with Reggie Love, if you know what I mean.

[Dick Bachert]

Another typically spot-on & excellent VDH essay. That said, the ROT & CORRUPTION in this "culture" (if it can be called that) continues and deepens. If it isn't halted, what sense does it make to save the place on the map called "America"?

[lewislynn]

OH no!

Do you think some folks did not believe in the Tooth Fairy before they got hip?

No. Actually, I think some (lots of) folks DID believe in the Tooth Fairy before they got hip?

Maybe you still do?

[Dick Bachert]

Sorry for the fouled up formatting. Can't sleep until criminals still at large are brought to justice. While we wait...and wait...and wait...and...READ AND SHARE THIS!

https://speakingaboutnews.com/acts-of-treason/

[Liz]

The devious mind of Obama at work

[Lurkinanloomin]

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
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Insightful.
Explains nicely how they were able to use the Alinsky “birther” slur to convince Americans to acquiesce to ignoring the Constitution.

[SunkenCiv]

Or to put on a mask, or stay home for months, or repeat the Russia collusion lie, or claim that there’s no bias in so-called journalism.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Pretend that men are women and it’s completely normal.....

It is sometimes bizarre to be in this age and remember when America really was normal.