THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIII, Issue # 140, May 29, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
600 MORE DAYS OF OBAMA
By Alan Caruba
PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS & NATIONAL LEADERSHIP UNDER THE RULE OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA:
OBAMA'S DETERMINATION TO DESTROY THE AMERICAN NATION -- HIS FAILURE OR REFUSAL TO HELP SOLVE SERIOUS
PROBLEMS FACING THE U.S.A. -- HIS EXACERBATION OF THOSE PROBLEMS -- HIS FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY, PLUNGING THE
NATION DEEPLY INTO DEBT -- OBAMA'S "STEALTH SOCIALISM" -- HIS PLANS FOR ECONOMIC REDISTRIBUTION -- HIS
APPOINTMENT TO GOVERNMENT OFFICE OF LEFTISTS & ENVIRONMENTALISTS BENT ON CRIPPLING THE AMERICAN
ECONOMY -- OBAMA'S DWINDLING "LIKEABILITY GAP" -- THE POSSIBILITY THAT OBAMA MAY FIND HIMSELF IN
INCREASING DIFFICULTY DURING THE REMAINING 600 DAYS OF HIS FIRST & LIKELY LAST TERM IN OFFICE
FULL STORY:
As of May 30, 2011, America has 600 days more of rule by President Barack Hussein Obama.
He is the 44th President and, while we have had incompetent Presidents in the past, we have never had one determined
to destroy the nation. It has taken more than two years for most sentient Americans to grasp this extraordinary threat.
He has not solved problems. He has exacerbated them.
Granted the financial crisis began in 2008, as President George W. Bush was finishing his second term, but President
Obama — aside from blaming Bush for everything that has occurred on Obama's watch — literally tripled the U.S.
national debt with dubious and failed “stimulus” programs, plunging the nation into debt that rivals all others in our
history.
President Obama had a lot of help in getting elected and will no doubt get it in his effort to secure a second term. The
mainstream media has utterly debased itself, sounding more like the state monopolies of Fascist nations.
On June 6, 2008, a reporter for the Associated Press wrote an article, “These men are likely targets in an
anti-Obama campaign,” naming Reverend Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, the former Weatherman domestic
terrorist, among others. One of them, Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, an early Obama supporter, was convicted of mail fraud and
money laundering the same week the article appeared.
By July, 2008, Investor’s Business Daily took note of Obama’s “Stealth Socialism,” when he addressed the
NAACP using the code words “economic justice” four times to a cheering audience. IBD reported that
“‘Economic justice’ simply means punishing the successful and redistributing their wealth by government fiat. It’s a
euphemism for socialism.”
In October, 2008, the Washington Post’s syndicated columnist, Charles Krauthammer, wrote “I’ll have no truck
with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most Liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in
living memory.”
With the election days away in November, 2008, Sammy Benoit, posted on American Thinker.com, wrote:
“Please take a look at these people allied with the
Obama campaign. Some of them are anti-Israel;
others are anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel.”
He named Samantha Power, who had “called for an invasion of Israel to impose a solution to the Palestinian issue.”
Obama’s open hostility toward Israel in recent days demonstrates how prescient Benoit was.
Shortly after the election, Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post’s reporter on the media asked “Are the media
capable of merchandizing the moment, packaging a president-elect for profit? Yes, we are.” Then he touched on the
key role the media had played leading up to Obama’s election and afterward. “We seem to have crossed a cultural line
into myth-making.”
“Whew! Are journalists fostering the notion that Obama is invincible, the leader of what the New York Times
dubbed ‘Generation O’?” asked Kurtz.
In rapid succession, with some rejections, President Obama filled not only his Cabinet posts, but added an
astonishing level of advisors, quickly dubbed “czars,” to the White House. Their ranks included the true believers in
the global warming hoax, including a former Environmental Protection Agency director who had just resigned from a
post as Commissioner for the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society. Czars and Cabinet
members all represented the antithesis of moderation.
Moderation is not a word anyone would apply to the Obama administration. By February 18, 2009, political guru, Karl
Rove, pointed out that “Less than 700 hours after taking the Oath of Office, President Barack Obama signed the
largest spending bill in American history.”
His eligibility to hold the office was already an issue by February, 2009, and it is not going to go away. Dr. Jerome
Corsi’s new book, Where’s the Birth Certificate? is a New York Times bestseller, its sale buoyed by
widespread and growing concerns that Obama, under the terms set form by the U.S. Constitution, was not and is not
eligible. Not only are there questions about his alleged birth certificate, but his Connecticut Social Security number as
well.
After “Obamacare” was literally reamed through the U.S. House and U.S. Senate on a strict party-line vote, the public
began to have some serious concerns. The massive assault on Medicare would bring a million people to Washington,
D.C., to protest it prior to the vote and would spark the Tea Party movement. By November, 2010, control of the
House of Representatives would return to the Republican Party, and Democrats had lost members in the Senate.
By early 2011, Wall Street Journal columnist, Daniel Henninger, commented on Obama’s dwindling “likeability
gap,” citing the passage of time. “Obama 2008 was engaging, patient, open, optimistic, and a self-identified conciliator.
Obama 2011 has been something else — testy, petulant, impatient, arrogant, and increasingly a divider.”
As voters begin to scan the November, 2012, horizon, Henniger wrote “Never forget: That historic 2008 victory came
with 52.9% of the total vote and 52% of independent voters. David Axelrod recently noted ‘how small the margin for
error is.’”
By April, 2011, Gallup reported that “Barack Obama’s approval among the poorest Americans dropped to an
all-time low of 48 percent…leaving the President with less-than-majority approval among all income brackets reported
in Gallup’s presidential approval surveys.” Rasmussen polling showed the same numbers.
On August 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon resigned the Office of the Presidency, the first to do so in the nation’s history.
The sordid events dubbed “Watergate” forced his hand. Earlier, Lyndon B. Johnson had told voters he would not
run for reelection after his pursuit of the war in Vietnam had turned them against him.
It is not beyond the realm of the possible that Barack Hussein Obama may find himself in increasing difficulty in the
remaining 600 days of his first and likely last term in office.
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
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Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven "scare campaigns" designed
to influence public opinion and public policy.
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