Anathema to America

Here's your ticket pack your bag: time for jumpin' overboard 

The transportation is here 

Close enough but not too far, Maybe you know where you are 

Fightin' fire with fire - Talking Heads, Burning Down the House, 1983

The Pyromaniac in Chief?

 Do you feel the heat yet? Can you hear the groans of the weakening timbers? Our house is in peril of collapsing, my fellow Americans, and it's because of one man; Barack Hussein Obama. To be certain, he could never have wreaked so much havoc alone -- he has had much help along the way, beginning with the sinister machine that launched him into his current status, and our own collective, racist desires to make him our first black president.

He has, however, seized that baton and run like the wind to our doom, and the euphoria that gripped much of the nation has acted as a veil over the eyes of far too many, the media especially. Rush Limbaugh famously said once -- an utterance that horrified his ESPN colleagues -- that the media was so desirous of a black quarterback to succeed, they had glossed over Donovan McNabb's shortcomings as an NFL quarterback in an effort to help him toward that end.

Similarly, the American electorate has been spoon fed a constant train of pablum from a press much too eager for the same outcome. And it is killing us. Worse still, the signs were crystal clear during the 2008 campaign yet no one wanted to believe their meaning. Many of us are still clinging to that protective layer of denial as a matter of survival of sanity. The truth is simply too horrible to face. Winston Churchill once said, "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened".

Nearly two years ago, in September of 2009, I wrote The Beast on the Wing, an article critical of Obama's views of America and an outline of what he'd already done to "transform" it. A lot of time has passed since then, and Obama still tears at our bedrock at every opportunity. While I am grateful for our Founders' wisdom in creating such a figurative fortress -- one that has thus far withstood such an onslaught -- I fear that no edifice or institution is entirely invulnerable.

Third world countries have hated America for decades in spite of our benefactor/beneficiary relationships. Now, however, even old friends and allies look askance at us, unsure of our alliances and wary of our dependability. And long time foes that behaved only because they feared us now laugh at us as they do as they please, thumping their chests and thumbing their noses.

Not even under the frail leadership of Jimmy Carter has our nation and its economy teetered so grievously close to the abyss, yet it has taken Obama just over two years to all but destroy America. Most troubling is that no one seems to care or notice, even though he vowed in his campaign to "fundamentally change America". In response to his nomination acceptance speech in 2008, the McCain campaign -- in a rare moment of contentiousness -- said:

Tonight, Americans witnessed a misleading speech that was so fundamentally at odds with the meager record of Barack Obama.  When the temple comes down, the fireworks end, and the words are over, the facts remain: Senator Obama still has no record of bipartisanship, still opposes offshore drilling, still voted to raise taxes on those making just $42,000 per year, and still voted against funds for American troops in harms way. The fact remains: Barack Obama is still not ready to be President.

Temple Obama, Invesco Field 2008

How prescient those words turned out to be. Sadly, Obama was not only not ready to be president, he is far more dangerous than simple incompetence. That much should have been clear when the DNC erected a temple at Invesco Field in Denver for his acceptance speech. The New York Post even featured on its front page a picture of the Democrats' house of worship with the accompanying headline, "'O', My God".

Obama has behaved as if he's a god ever since. It took God seven days, including rest, to create the world. Although Obama is actually a mortal, I have no doubt that he can tear asunder one country in seven years if given the chance. 

Don't give him that chance. 

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The First Month Of Hope

In just the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama has already succeeded in drawing a multitude of comparisons to former president Jimmy Carter. From a superb run up campaign based on a theme of hope and change, his administration seems to have abandoned hope for the sake of accelerated change. A more accurate description of his philosophy would be crisis intervention rather than hope because his rhetoric has been anything but optimistic.

To listen to Obama's secretary of state in Seoul, South Korea over the weekend, nothing is going right. De-emphasizing the issue of human rights in China, to the dismay of activist groups, Hillary Clinton had this to say (emphasis mine):

"But our pressing on those issues can't interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis."

Obama has used the word "crisis" ad nauseam as well, something that leading economists have been uneasy about in recent weeks, warning that the dour mood created in Americans is only exacerbating the problem. Perhaps that is by design, as the administration seems to have switched from hope to fear to achieve its lofty goals.

During the campaign, I wrote about Obama's philosophy of wealth redistribution, something that is coming to fruition right before our very eyes. The massive stimulus plan recently signed by Obama is blatantly redistributive as is his plan to intervene in the mortgage - dare I say - crisis. As bad as it was that the stimulus was being accomplished through borrowing, the Washington Post is reporting today that Obama is nearing completion of his first budget. In it, his plan is to pay for much of the stimulus and mortgage bailouts by raising taxes on the "wealthy" and corporations. That's right, in a deep recession, the administration plans to raise taxes.

In what some lugubriously refer to as a sinking ship, Obama's apparent solution is to poke holes in the hull. Combine that with an allied congress bailing water into the ship, and we have a real problem. Perhaps there is hope, though, after all. The American people have two years to witness the spectacle of doom, which should provide more than enough evidence that democratic control of the whole enchilada was not a wise choice.

Since 60% of the so-called stimulus money won't be spent until after January, 2011, Rep. Louie Gohmert is calling on the people to elect republicans to congress in 201o. He pledges that under republican control, congress can stop the spending at somewhere around $300 billion.

I am hopeful that republicans will have a rather easy time retaking both houses of congress in 2010, just in time to derail this administrative...crisis.

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