THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XI, Issue # 26, January 22, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
OBAMA MANIA WILL EVENTUALLY COLLIDE WITH REALITY
By Christopher G. Adamo
WITH BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A. & WITH DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITIES IN THE TWO
HOUSES OF THE U.S. CONGRESS, WISE & EFFECTIVE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN WASHINGTON, D.C., DOES NOT EXIST.
IN THE CONGRESS, THE REAL LEADERSHIP THAT IS NEEDED EMINATES NEITHER FROM THE LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS
NOR FROM SPINELESS, "ME TOO" REPUBLICAN COLLABORATIONISTS. NOR DOES THE NEEDED LEADERSHIP
EMINATE FROM THE NEW PRESIDENT, WITH HIS ABSURDLY GRANDIOSE PROMISES TO LOWER THE OCEAN LEVELS BY
GOVERNMENT STRANGULATION OF PRIVATE INDUSTRY, HIS STATED INTENTION TO CONFISCATE THE NATION'S WEALTH
IN THE NAME OF ECONOMIC "STIMULUS," & HIS PROMISES TO "UNITE" THE COUNTRY, WHILE INFLAMING THE FESTERING
SORES OF RACIAL DIVISIVENESS
FULL STORY:
Conservatives, real Conservatives, are, by now, thoroughly nauseated from all of the inaugural gushing and fawning
over Obama. But, if they think that this slobber-fest was going to end now that he has assumed the Presidency, they
are going to be sorely disappointed. The Leftist cheerleaders will continue trumpeting the supposed grandeur and
majesty of this day, long after its fabricated luster has thoroughly dulled in the eyes of the thinking public.
Such unbridled jubilation is particularly disturbing, given the degree to which those on the political Left sought to
demean and undermine every facet of the Bush Presidency from the very day the U.S. Supreme Court told the State of
Florida to stop playing games with the recount, thus declaring George W. Bush the winner of the 2000 election.
Ever since, virtually every presidential event in which President Bush participated has been subject to widespread and
juvenile caterwauling from the Left. From the price tag for his 2001 inauguration (less than a third of the cost of
Obama’s, but we hear no complaints now), to his May 1, 2003,carrier landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln, to his exit
from the White House last Tuesday, the Liberal establishment was shameless in its determination to disparage every
official statement or act of the former President.
It makes no difference to Liberals that their derision exacted an enormous toll on America’s reputation in the world. The
political stakes are too high to allow mere concern for country to interfere with the advancement of the Liberal Leftist
agenda. All that matters is political gain for the Left, and, if Americans suffer as a result, that is only “collateral damage.”
The Liberal media/Democratic Party cabal well knows the power of political “momentum,” and, therefore, just as they
incessantly sought to undermine George Bush’s standing among average citizens over the past eight years, they now
intend to capitalize on their current energy to its fullest extent. Truth is not necessary to this effort. Rather, it is enough
to simply declare Obama’s inherent greatness and the glory of the hour, while castigating all who would dare to argue
otherwise.
Yet, none of this is really new. In the days following Bill Clinton’s decidedly unspectacular electoral victory in 1992
(with a paltry forty-three percent of the popular vote), Democratic Party mouthpieces, predictably accompanied by their
media parrots, declared the event a “national mandate” for the Clinton agenda. And, while the election of the Arkansas
Governor broke no new demographic ground, the nation was nonetheless bludgeoned incessantly with talk of his
potential greatness, along with that of the overbearing new First Lady.
The song, “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” was repeated so frequently that it took on the qualities of a pagan
chant. All that had gone wrong in America under twelve years of Rightwing extremism (read: Ronald Reagan and
George H.W. Bush) was about to change. The advent of the Clinton administration would certainly be, in the words of
Inaugural Poet Maya Angelou, “Morning in America.”
Facing this tidal wave of orchestrated pro-Clinton euphoria, Republicans feared appearing as “sore losers.” So, they
did their best to sound supportive of the new President. But, with the involvement of the race issue, the propaganda
deck has been stacked even more severely against the Republicans this time around, and they know it. Admittedly,
their excessive accolades and well-wishes towards Obama, and their virtual unwillingness to raise questions regarding
any disqualifying characteristics of his dubious Cabinet nominees, leave many grassroots Conservatives disheartened
and concerned that accountability, at least among Liberals, is extinct.
Nevertheless, the overarching lesson of the Clinton era, for those whose memories can span any further than the time
between episodes of "American Idol," is that political fortunes can change substantially and quickly. Furthermore, unlike
all of the flowery campaign rhetoric for which Obama is so famous, the brass knuckles reality of presidential decision
making and its often grave consequences will guarantee that, despite a media propaganda machine rivaling Tass
or Joseph Goebbels, the truth of Obama’s capabilities, or, more accurately, his total lack of competence or experience,
will ultimately be known to the American people.
Bill Clinton marketed himself as the Pied Piper of the Woodstock generation. And, to be sure, the rats dutifully followed.
But, in retrospect, it was his narcissistic and reckless idealism, accompanied by a generous dose of selfish
irresponsibility, which most distinctly characterized his Presidency.
Major consequences from the Clinton misjudgments were not always felt immediately. The 9-11 Islamist terrorist
attacks, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, and America’s energy woes did not occur until years after the mindless
idealism of the Clinton White House set the stage for them. And, despite a technology based boom that boosted
markets and incomes during his term in office, history will tell that the Clintonian intrusions into the banking/housing
industry set the stage for the economic meltdown that America currently suffers.
It may be decades before the full extent of damage resulting from Clinton’s willingness to allow American military
technology to hemorrhage into China is fully assessed. And, when that verdict is reached, those seedy bags of cash
and dubious “White House Coffees” cannot and will not be excluded from the picture. Nevertheless, until the Clintons
became a liability to Democratic Party political strategies, Liberals heralded the Clintons as being among America’s
truly great leaders of all time.
Similarly, the Obama mania is expansive, but ultimately empty. Far too arrogant to recognize the nature of the tide he
now rides, Barack Obama remains unaware that his seeming popularity really represents a new low in racial tokenism,
even for Liberals. And, if Obama is sufficiently self-absorbed to play along with the ruse, thinking his political strength
results from a grand and wise vision for America’s future, so much the better.
In these dangerous times, real leadership is needed. But real leadership, on either side of the aisle, is absent. It does not
emanate from the new President, with his absurdly grandiose promises to lower ocean levels by government
strangulation of private industry, his stated intention to confiscate the nation’s wealth in the name of economic
“stimulus," or his promises to “unite” the nation, while inflaming the festering sores of racial divisiveness. Nor is
leadership to be found among those “me too” Republicans who enthusiastically follow him.
Ultimately, the Barack Obama house of cards will not endure. Let the Liberals of Capitol Hill and on the nightly news
tell the nation that its future lies in the rotting carcass of collectivism. And let all of the “Bandwagon Republicans,” who
shift to and fro with every prospect of a new political trend, display their spineless devotion to the Washington power
structure that feeds itself at the expense of real America. Phony conservatives need to be smoked out, and this situation
provides a prime opportunity to do so.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics, Political Competition, & the Control of
Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, & Special Interest Groups
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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