His greatest success is rate at which he is manufacturing conservatives and libertarians, the ranks of which are expanding at an unprecedented clip. The only mystery left for the coming November election is how bad this beating will be.
Why has this happened?
There are several obvious answers. Obama, too inexperienced for his office, never expected to accede to it so quickly in the first place. The public (correctly) has no stomach for a multicultural foreign policy. Almost 20 years of liberal economics, (as much congressional as presidential) has reached the end of its Ponzi scheme road. Adding Obama’s & congress’ doubling down on war & foreign sourced debt and we’re in a recession/depression with no end in sight. Then there is that little eco-catastrophe in the Gulf that Mr. Obama manages with a summer golf tour.
All of that aside, there is another reason, perhaps more important than all of them. Obama has been unable to use the Bully Pulpit. No one pays attention to him. The vaunted Demosthenes of the campaign trail disappeared literally upon inauguration. He hasn't’t been able to convince anyone of anything. He only succeeds when he acts purely as a thug, muscling through legislation.
Some say and I strongly concur that this is because he wasn’t such a great orator in the first place. He just reads well enough from the teleprompter and with the prompter gone the emperor has no clothes.
But I think it is something more complex and deeper. There have been plenty of presidents with limited abilities. Many who were not orators and some with limited executive experience, although not many with NO experience. Even his less than experienced challenger and current Sec. of State could at least claim 1600 Pennsylvania Ave as her mailing address for 8 years.
No, I think it is because Obama was elected on a lie and not the lie you think. ( Although anything is possible) A big lie that was enabled by the mainstream media, and that by the time he was in office he had spent his all his credit. Belief was gone. Everyone knew he was a liar, including many liberals, even if they can’t or won’t admit it to themselves and even if they had colluded with him in the lie.
I am referring to the Reverend Wright affair. I thought it was serious at the time. In retrospect, I think it was disastrous, probably fatal. There isn’t a bus big enough to throw The Reverend under to cover this attempted deception.
Obama told us on several occasions then that he had not been aware of Wright’s extreme Black Nationalist views during the candidate’s twenty years in the reverend’s church. That made no sense at the time, but for many it flew. Obama had dedicated his book to Wright, had his children baptized by him, etc.
Wright’s separatist brand of black liberation theology was no doubt quite familiar to Obama. More familiar than it had been to many of us for decades. But likely quite unfamiliar to those 40 & under white voters who pulled the change lever. Especially the Jewish ones.
How would those too young to remember the sixties, those who wouldn't know Bobby Seal, John Africa, Elijah Muhammad or Angela Davis as anything other than names from a modern history curriculum with a nostalgic leftest bias for those wonderful 60's, and the hate and anti-semitism that they were all about. How would those sheltered from this particular brand of hate detect this lie for it gravity?
Because, the mainstream media paid little attention, or tried not to, certainly did not investigate in any depth. Indeed they went so far that many of them declared Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race a masterpiece of the MLK level, when it was no more than an assemblage of clichés and mendacious clichés at that, since they covered up the obvious uncomfortable truth that the candidate knew all about Wright and his ilk. Unlike Oprah Winfrey, who left the Trinity Church years before, Obama chose to ignore it for reasons he could or would not be honest about.
So we were lied to about this by Obama and the MSM winked. Yet it was a far more significant lie than those Presidential lies we have become all too familiar with. Obama’s prevarication was about the very essence of his political zeitgeist. Widely desirous of electing its first black president — I felt this myself but did not act upon it — the nation closed its eyes and ears, and swallowed the lie. But, whether consciously or unconsciously, it did not forget.
We have a president that no one wants to listen to because we do not believe him. His own party ignore him and not just because they fear his growing unpopularity. They also know he is unable to convince anyone of anything. He has 0 credibility because we the voter have shut him off. When his face appears on the tube, I can hear millions of remotes switching to anything – infomercials, World Cup Soccer – anything.
And now the testimony of the Christian Adams has shown that his Department of Justice has a racial bias not entirely dissimilar to those of Reverend Wright. Again the MSM is doing its best to ignore this, but the damage is still there and growing and Obama will not be able to make a speech in his defense.
I am reminded of something I was taught about people by a business mentor. It was, “when someone says to you that money is no object, you better believe that money is the ONLY object.” Now, when Obama or his surrogates try to say that race isn’t the issue, America will hear that race is the only issue.
With this fundamental obfuscation of one of his core fundamentals, his whole political persona becomes a lie. Sure, everyone tries to project the image we want people to accept and respond to, but this man's arrogance seems pathological and he has plenty of enablers.
In this short time, we are already at the “diagnoses stage” with this president. Even Nixon had a longer run of trust before his pathology caught up with him and the diagnoses began. For Nixon it was “paranoid.” For Obama? Socialist will be the least of his labels. I’m betting on narcissist.
It’s over. For all the excitement of his election, having lied his way into office, Barack Obama was essentially DOA his first night at the White House.
Obama’s place in history is assured as the 1st black president, but that fact may only be the byline. The subtitle and his real legacy may be for the shortest tenure of trust of any president in our history.
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