The Dark Heart of The American People
Filed under: Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, U.S. Economics
Why don’t we just accept the truth: President Barack Obama’s class-warfare campaign is as Marxist as you can get.
When President Obama raises the bloody flag of anti-business and infers corporate corruption inherent in the capitalist system he knows that he is reaching into the dark heart of the American people. From the inception of our government the American people have always harbored a sense that while the wealthy have produced the ability of our nation to provide ample food and material abundance far greater than any other nation on earth the wealthy can be arrogant, indifferent to our national values and at times even act in a manner inconsistent with our national interest. But the American people also know instinctively that to destroy the wealthy or to limit or restrain their power and influence will ultimately adversely redound to the preservation of the American people’s personal individual freedom. However ironically it is this tension that provides our nation its greatest advantage. But for a President of the United States to use this constructive tension for the sole purpose of promoting his political success is nothing less than demagoguery and nothing more than the tyrannical aspirations of a tin horn dictator.
Do we, as a people, the American people, have the political perspicacity, the moral fiber, the courage to look at Barack Hussein Obama in the face and call him out for who he is and for what he is doing? Our constitution has given us the ability, nay, the right to do just that on November 6, 2012. Go forth.
Christian Fundamentalism
Filed under: Elections, National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
Finally, the Republican Party must address the issue as to how to deal with those members who subscribe to the belief that to be president of the United States one must adhere to the tenets of Christian Fundamentalism.
Last week at a gathering of social conservatives Pastor Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church in Texas told a group of reporters that Mormonism was a “cult” and definitely “not Christian.” This was a veiled reference to the GOP front-runner former Gov. Mitt Romney. More importantly it was also a signal to those Christian Fundamentalists that social conservatives should have no place for anyone other than a Christian when it came to running for the president of the United States.
Modern day Republicanism, starting with Barry Goldwater in the 1960’s and ultimately coalescing with the advent of Ronald Reagan in the 1980’s, contains three active centers of support: those who adhere to social conservative beliefs, usually Christian Fundamentalists, and those who are concerned with national security and free markets. Pastor Jeffress represents a small but outspoken minority within the social conservative group which ignores Article VI of the U.S. Constitution which states that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust in the United States.”
According to Pastor Jeffress therefore Jews, Muslims or non-believers are to be denied their constitutional right to run for public office. It should be no surprise therefore Republican Party elders vehemently objected to this statement, including many social conservatives. It is time that those bigoted, intolerant and narrow minded Republicans who hold beliefs inconsistent with our beloved Constitution, even at the risk to losing their support, are censured and castigated. For this the Republican Party will be more than compensated in votes for whatever loss in support it may experience by doing so.
Apply The Abraham Lincoln Rule
Filed under: Courts, Elections, Health Care, Immigration, International Reflections, International War, National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, Terrorism, U.S. Economics, Unions, United States at War
When it comes to beating Obama in the 2012 presidential election Republican candidates should apply the Abraham Lincoln rule: Give up every single argument of your opponent with which you agree and beat him up mercilessly on those with which you disagree.
I realize that it is difficult for a Republican candidate to agree with President Obama on anything but the truth is there is an area of agreement which no Republican candidate can deny. When it comes to national security President Obama has adopted the George W. Bush doctrine and then some. He refuses to abandon the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq recognizing their strategic national security value by placing American boots on the necks of al-Queda operatives located throughout the Middle East. American military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq provides our armed forces the ability to fix the enemy while we kill their leadership by Special Forces or drone attacks. The killing of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki are recent examples of this successful strategy. President Obama has kept open the prison at Guantanamo and treats its prisoners as enemy combatants and therefore will try them in military tribunals. He has signed an even stronger amended Patriot Act. And the Justice Department has kept the heat on domestic terrorist organizations. In effect the Obama administration gets an A+ on National Security.
By recognizing this fact and thereby applying the Abraham Lincoln rule, a Republican presidential candidate will have a clear field to beat the hell out of the Obama administration for its oversized and systematic failures in matters economic, energy, environmental and everything else it has deemed to touch.
Secretary General Obama
Filed under: International Reflections, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
We are deep in conversation about politics in America on a flight from La Guardia to Chicago. She then pauses in mid sentence leans toward me and announces under her breath: Obama will not run in 2012 because he will be appointed by the United Nations General Assembly to be Secretary-General.
At first I don’t fully comprehend this seemingly outlandish statement but then I begin to parse its significance. First, it reflects what a large number of Americans are beginning to suspect: Obama’s presidency is in serious irreparable trouble. And ironically the very momentous, game-changing legislation for which he proudly takes credit and which he claims defines his presidency is in fact the very cause of his diving approval ratings.
Members of his own party whisper among themselves whether Obama will be able to reverse these devastating numbers. Republicans, on the other hand, do not wish to speak of the matter for fear that such talk will only alert Obama’s supporters thereby providing them more time to prepare for the oncoming presidential election.
But what no one seems to have taken into their calculations is that President Obama himself does not want the Presidency for another 4 years. The responsibilities of being an American President, especially while the country is fighting 2 unpopular wars, is too daunting an experience for a person of Obama’s character: lazy, unfocused, fearful of making tough choices, legalistic and lacking the necessary deep and abiding love for America as an idea in History.
However being Secretary-General of the United Nations fits his character like a glove. The position is filled with pomp and protocol. He will receive the adoration of leaders of countries who share his Socialist beliefs many of whom are corrupt and who he believes he can influence with his unchallenged rhetoric. And from that lofty position he can promote policies without having to be concerned with their achievement or practicality.
Think about it boys and girls, United Nations Secretary-General Barack Hussein Obama takes the podium of the first meeting of the General Assembly in the year 2013. And, and we are free at last of this Socialist aberration.
The Obama Debt Ceiling
In the debt ceiling debate President Obama is guided by 2 overriding unalterable principles both of which have little to do with the August 2nd default deadline: His demand that taxes be raised for the wealthy and that there can be no short term agreement.
President Obama knows that a short term agreement, which is the most feasible that Congress can pass, will probably sink his bid for a second term if it expires before the 2012 presidential election. The media has convinced itself that the American people will blame Republicans for the impending August 2nd default. Perhaps at first but as the various effects of the default begin to weigh upon the American economy and thereby felt by all Americans, rich and poor alike, Americans will inevitably blame Barack Obama. And once that blame is affixed it will be unmistakably reflected in the November 2012 election. President Obama therefore would agree to most any deal that extends beyond election day and will veto any deal that expires before it.
However there is one more Obama principle which is that taxes on the wealthy, you know the “millionaires and billionaires” must be increased. But this principle has little to do with his election or with the improvement of the economy for that matter. What it has to do with is President Obama’s socialist adherence to his unalterable creed that the wealthy must be punished for their wealth. Moreover he knows that by taxing the wealthy it is no more than an excuse to tax the middle class. To paraphrase that infamous bank robber Willy Sutton should Barack Obama be asked why he wants to tax the middle class he would answer “That’s where the real money is.”
Obama Uses His Wild Card
Filed under: International Reflections, International War, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, Terrorism, United States at War
As much as most Republicans want Barack Obama to lose the 2012 presidential election the fact is whether he wins or loses has become, in the scheme of things, inconsequential, at least in the short run.
The decision to find and kill Osama bin Laden belongs to President Obama and in the last 2 weeks, because of his decision, his approval rating has soared. The American people are now convinced that when the matter involves national security President Obama can be trusted. Whether he or any member of his administration admits it or not President Obama has clung to those national security doctrines and practices laid down by President Bush: Support of the Patriot Act, enhanced surveillance techniques, military trials, if not enhanced interrogation at a minimum its use of information culled from its application, expansion of counter insurgency in Afghanistan, keeping Gitmo open for business, maintaining American troops in Iraq and the willingness to fight a third or even a fourth front against certain dictators who deny freedom and democracy to its people. Americans also know that the economic philosophy of this president is inconsistent with their best interests. However they are unconvinced that the Republicans have the answer to addressing the economic tsunami that awaits them in the decades to come.
It is fairly improbable that the Republicans over this next year and a half will convince the American people that Congressman Paul Ryan’s Plan should be adopted and therefore will require a president to sign off on its passage. Therefore the 2012 election has a good chance in resulting in a political stalemate: A socialist president and a challenging congress. This is just the outcome for which the U.S. Constitution was designed.
The Unlearning, Tides Change
Filed under: Elections, International Reflections, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, Terrorism, U.S. Economics
When the American people elected Barack Hussein Obama to be president of the United States they knew he was inexperienced. What they failed to realize is that he would not be learning on the job, he would be unlearning on the job, if we were lucky.
Well last week we got lucky. Take for example the recent killing of Osama bin Laden. Immediately upon taking office two years ago President Obama directed that the CIA interrogation program, the very one that lead to bin Laden’s death, to be done away with entirely and that interrogation be limited to the techniques set forth in the Army Field Manual. So the techniques used to obtain information that lead to bin Laden’s whereabouts were not used on President Obama’s watch. Moreover, it is President Obama’s current policy to jail those CIA operatives whose dedicated work lead to bin Laden’s death. There’s lots more to be unlearned by this president: the permanent closing of Gitmo, providing Miranda warnings to terrorists, believing that prosecution of terrorists is more important than interrogation. The list goes on.
The United States is unique in that our Constitution provides that our president need not have any experience in foreign affairs, national security or knowledgeable about domestic issues. President Obama has fit that bill perfectly. All of our presidents, even George Washington, in fact especially George Washington, came to office with little experience about the presidency and in the beginning of their term have relied on that part of their character for which the American people elect our presidents in the first place, good judgment. And it is in good judgment that President Obama is failing miserably. With a little bit more luck we may survive these next 2 years of unlearning.
Conflict Of Freedom
Filed under: Elections, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, U.S. Economics
There has never been a conflict in this country as great as the one facing our nation today other than the issue of slavery in the 19th Century which was ultimately resolved by a civil war.
In the first half of the 19th Century the country struggled with half the nation supporting an economic system that required that labor be performed by human chattel, the ownership of human beings, and the other half rejecting it as immoral and in violation of the Declaration of Independence. This latter group relied on the Declaration’s pronouncement: “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, which among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Today the nation is united in this precept. However, today this nation is divided once again. One half the nation believes that if we don’t change our spending habits we will become a third world country, a nation which we will no longer recognize as our own. The other half believes that the country should continue to provide the current level of benefits and have those benefits paid for by those whom they define as the “rich.”
What will ultimately resolve this great debate this time will not be a civil war but rather the election of 2012 by the overwhelming votes of a free and liberated people.
Bases Are Loaded!
Filed under: Elections, National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
It was the astounding black baseball player Satchel Paige who said “Don’t look back—something might be gaining on you.” Well President Obama, something is and her name is Hillary.
If the biggest problem that Barack Obama will have as he approaches the 2012 presidential election is to convince the American people that he is doing the best possible job he can do as president and therefore they should vote to keep him in office, he’s a shoe in. But that’s not his problem.
You see I live on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. That’s where all the Socialists hang out….and they will crawl on hot coals to vote for the re-election of President Obama. But they will give him up like a soggy bowl of Rice Krispies if Hillary Clinton decides she’s sick and tired of working her tail off for a bunch of armatures. The Middle East crisis and Obama’s indecisive responses seems to have Hillary in a twist. And could it be that the reason Republicans did so well in the 2010 election cycle is that Democrats stayed home dreaming of a Hillary come-back?
We all know President Obama likes basketball better than baseball and his throwing arm is a bit awkward but Satchel Paige said something else which should give him some guidance: “If a man can beat you, walk him.”
Lucky “O”
Filed under: Elections, Health Care, International Reflections, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
In yesterday’s New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, describing the complex issues facing the fires currently burning in the Middle East, prays that President Obama is lucky. The problem with luck is that it usually requires courage and vision.
Barack Obama has never disappointed with respect to his courage. He made choices in his life that took courage and he wouldn’t be President today if he hadn’t. Associating himself with the vanguard of American radical socialists throughout his life, openly and notoriously, took a great deal of courage in spite of the fact that his ambition was so overpowering. He knowingly sat in the church of a radical, hate mongering preacher for 20 years in order to gild the lily of his political aspirations. When it came apparent in the summer of last year that the Health Care Reform Act was floundering and would not pass with Republican support he resolutely inspired the Democratic Congressional leadership encouraging it to garner the needed Democrat votes to accomplish this monumental achievement. He had to know that the result would lead to the most devastating political defeat his party has ever experienced, yet he remained undaunted.
There is little doubt that when it comes to domestic affairs Barack Obama has the necessary courage to attain his vision of a socialist America. It is not his lack of courage that has girded the independents and those on the right for a massive brawl with the socialist left that will inevitably occur in the Presidential and Congressional campaigns of 2012. Rather it is President Obama’s vision of America that compels so many Americans to take to the ramparts to defend freedom and individual liberty.
However, when it comes to matters involving America’s role on the stage of international affairs President Obama lacks a comprehensive vision. His Monday night speech concerning Libya reveals a president who is uncertain or unwilling to move this country into its 21st Century responsibilities and obligations. He believes America must step back from its leadership role in world affairs. He believes that America is not an exceptional country and has no greater international responsibilities or obligations than the countries of Chad or Denmark. Thomas Friedman prays that our President gets lucky. I pray that in the presidential election of 2012 America gets lucky.
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