THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 199, August 10, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
A LITANY OF OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FAILURES
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE U.S.A. UNDER BARACK OBAMA'S STEWARDSHIP DURING THE PAST TWO & A HALF YEARS: THE DETERMINED
ENDEAVOR OF THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY TO RADICALLY TRANSFORM AMERICAN SOCIETY -- CONCERTED ASSAULTS BY
AMERICA'S LEFTISTS ON THE INSTITUTIONS & FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN NATION -- EFFORTS BY THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO RADICALLY CHANGE THE NATION'S ECONOMY FROM ONE OF FREE
MARKETS & INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE TO A COLLECTIVIST SYSTEM IN WHICH THE PEOPLE'S RESOURCES ARE CONTROLLED &
DISPERSED BY THE RULING POLITICAL ELITE -- IMPLEMENTATION OF A CLEARLY ANTI-CAPITALIST, ANTI-AMERICAN, &
ANTI-WESTERN AGENDA -- THE SERIOUS DANGER THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, &
LEFTWING LIBERAL SOCIALISTS CONTINUE TO POSE TO THE U.S.A., INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, & WESTERN CIVILIZATION
FULL STORY:
By now everybody who regularly receives e-mail “forwards” has seen the one showing Barack Obama ostensibly standing
in front of a devastated landscape that clearly is meant to represent the United States of America under his stewardship.
The caption reads, “My work here is done.” Accusations of partisanship and racism aside, the message conveyed is so
profound because it succinctly reflects the determined efforts of the Obama White House to radically change America over
the past two and a half years.
The Standard and Poors downgrade of America’s credit rating during this past week, and the market upheaval that has
followed, are certainly not the first financial fiascos fomented and overseen by the current administration. Unfortunately,
they are not likely to be the last. Nor has the country fared any better in other areas, whether on the diplomatic front, the
culture war, or in regards to America’s dwindling technical prowess.
So fast and furious have been the concerted assaults on the institutions and foundations of the American nation that the
erosion and destruction is no longer easy to assess from the perspective of individual events. Rather, in retrospect, it now
appears more as a grim and depressing blur of havoc inflicted continually on the nation in the past thirty-two months, with
little immediate relief in sight. Nevertheless, some (but certainly not all) of the more reprehensible milestones need to be
revisited, in order to maintain a proper evaluation of the Obama administration and the danger it continues to pose with
each passing day.
The financial upheaval of the past week is only a snapshot of efforts, begun even before Obama’s inauguration, to
radically transform the nation’s economy from one of free markets and individual initiative to a collectivist autocracy in
which the resources of the people are controlled and dispersed by the ruling elite. The recent anxieties experienced by
everyone from professional market watchers to average citizens on Mainstreet are fully warranted. If this administration is
able to achieve its ultimate goals, the former means of pursuing individual livelihoods and exercising freedoms will be soon
eradicated, and the nation’s place on the world stage ultimately eliminated.
From the first days of the Obama White House, an anti-capitalist, anti-Western agenda was clearly being implemented.
Among Obama’s first acts after being inaugurated was the removal of a statue of Winston Churchill (a gift to America by
the government of Great Britain) from the Oval Office. But the item was not merely relegated to some lesser location. It was
sent back to the British government as an obvious insult against a staunch and reliable ally.
Following on the heels of that childish and petty act, were a series of groveling visitations before foreign leaders who
harbor unrestrained hostility towards America. At the expense of the nation and its reputation, Obama did his best to
elevate himself above former U.S. policy and actions, on which he repeatedly laid blame for any simmering resentment
among America’s enemies. Muslim despots and South American Marxists could count on warm embraces and adulation
from him, while he repeatedly expressed scorn for the U.S.A. in their presence.
Meanwhile, he very proudly dismantled the nuclear shield that America had been establishing over Eastern Europe, thus
leaving the entire region vulnerable to attacks from rogue Middle-Eastern nations and conceivably susceptible to the
lingering musings of Russian expansionists. With cold deliberation, he took a situation that had been quietly moving
towards stability and security, and shredded the protections it offered to potential allies. Meanwhile, amid empty
platitudes and reassurances from his Cabinet that America’s new outreach would garner stable and devoted friends in the
Muslim world, the Iranians have stepped up their efforts to build both nuclear weapons and the missile technology
needed to deliver them.
It is a sad testament that, on July 21, 2011, the final landing of the Space Shuttle Atlantis at Cape Canaveral Florida
signaled not only the end of that program, but the dismantling of America’s ability to even put a human being into orbit.
Having cancelled the Constellation program, which was planned both as a successor to the Shuttle as well as a
stepping-stone towards renewed American exploration of the moon and beyond, Obama decried it as excessively
expensive and unnecessary. In this, he reflected the attitudes of American Leftists during the 1960s, who castigated the
nation over the cost and aggressiveness of the Apollo program which, in a defining battle front of the “Cold War,”
achieved President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of that decade.
According to the Leftwing Liberal Socialists of that time, that money could have been better spent back here on earth by
handing it out in various social welfare programs. Clearly, Barack Obama stands in agreement with them, having
squandered $787 billion with the single stroke of his pen on February 18, 2009, when he signed his bogusly titled
“Stimulus” giveaway. That incomprehensible sum was more than thirty times the cost of getting Neil Armstrong and
Edwin Aldrin, Jr., to the moon’s surface. Yet now, barely two years later, the nation has absolutely nothing to show for
that enormous raid on the nation’s coffers.
Elsewhere, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Obama’s minion at the U.S. Department of Justice, saw to it that the
nation’s top law-enforcement agency was henceforth mutated into a thoroughly politicized tool of the Left. Most
notably, by refusing to prosecute members of the “New Black Panthers” who interfered with voting in the 2008 elections,
Holder has since made it clear on numerous occasions that, under his watch, the ultimate purpose of the Justice
Department is to advance the Liberal Leftist agenda. Selective enforcement of “justice,” based on the political ideology
of those in question, is no justice at all. But it is par for the course for the current White House.
While no discussion of the horrendous damage done to America by Obama and his cronies would be complete without
mention of Obamacare, their crowning affront to the nation known, space does not allow a thorough examination of the
manifold threats it poses. Nor can anything less than an entire volume be properly devoted to the many affronts to the
U.S. Constitution in both Obamacare's passage by a corrupt Democratic Party majority in the U.S. Congress and the
manner in which the lesislation is intended to be implemented.
Suffice to say that the devastation to the nation is real and ongoing. If America is to avoid the slippery slope facing it on
so many fronts or, the catastrophic end game the current situation portends, at the next election, the government must be
expunged of both this current administration and any remnant of the mindset that has enabled its abhorrent actions.
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American Government & the U.S. Congress:
Congressional Legislative Politics & National Public Policy
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
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Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
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Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state
levels for many years. His contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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