Fear, Anxiety, and Anticipation
I will watch
the next and last presidential debate, but only reluctantly. It is the job of
pundits to keep informed, but I have been suffering from an overload of
information about Barack Obama since before he was elected and all of it
suggested he would do a lot of damage before he left office.
The fact is
we are all stuck with him through January 20, 2013 when—and if—Mitt Romney
takes the oath of office. One can only ponder how much more damage Obama could do
between November 7, the day after the election and then?
And, of
course, one hopes the election results will not end up with the kind of
situation that occurred when Bush defeated Gore, but not until the Supreme
Court ruled. I keep seeing signs and indications that it may not be a close
election insofar that significant numbers of Democrats—many of whom may be out
of work or know someone who is—will vote for Romney.
It’s the
waiting that is weighing on my mind and spirit. The first debate lifted my
spirit and that of many others, but the second has been deemed a tie of sorts.
For me it was just a cascade of more lies from Obama who is so crazy he
actually believes what he is saying or so sly he doesn’t care.
There is a
school of thought that Obama really doesn’t want a second term and the more I
watch him, I am leaning toward that theory. I know he is raising money,
appearing on late night talk shows, giving speeches in key swing states, but
that doesn’t mean he isn’t just doing it to avoid the stigma of throwing the
presidency away in favor of a life less rigorous.
One former
White House aide to both Clinton and Obama has said Obama “doesn’t like
people.” That is an odd trait for a politician, but not odd when you consider
that he rather absently referred to the killings of our Benghazi diplomats as
“bumps in the road.” It astounds me that liberals keep saying he loves the
common people, but he surely does not comport himself like one of them.
It is, of
course, the waiting that is beginning to wear on my nerves. Just about the only
thing my fellow pundit-friends are writing about these days are analyses and
jeremiads concerning Obama’s lies and lack of qualifications, failed policies,
and such. Listening to the chattering class on Fox and other news channels is
an endless dissection of polling data, most of which seems to be dubious at
best, wrong at worst.
I confess
that, having voted since the age of 21, starting with John F. Kennedy in 1960,
I have never feared so much for the future of the nation, dependent on the
election of a candidate. And I was a Democrat right up to Reagan’s campaign and
have voted Republican ever since. My late Mother, a Democrat her entire life,
changed her registration status after Clinton’s first term in office. She was
in her 90s by then, but better late than never.
Put simply,
another Obama presidency for four years terrifies me. He doesn’t like America.
That may sound
simplistic, but no other President heaped so much public debt on the books.
From Washington through Bush43, Obama has managed to add more debt than all of
his predecessors combined.
Beyond our
shores, an America that stood strong against the former Soviet Union for over
45 years until it collapsed has a President who reassures the present leaders
in the Kremlin that he can be “more flexible” if and when he’s reelected. I
don’t like the sound of that, do you?
All positions
of power attract a legion of sycophants and, in our system of government,
supporters who seek access to that power—often through “bundling” campaign
funds—or who have just concluded they like him.
It remains a mystery to me that
the polls show how closely divided the nation is between Obama’s supporters and
detractors. I doubt it has ever been this divided since just before the Civil
War.
And that is
what worries me the most. It’s those people who just don’t hear his lies or
even know he’s lying.
It’s the mainstream media that has always been liberal,
but which now sees its job as protecting Obama against the truth that everyone
can see on countless outlets for information, including of course Fox News that
often seems fair and unbalanced given the liberal puppets that spout more lies.
I am
compelled to do what every republic expects. I am compelled to wait on the will
of the people as expressed through the electoral system. It makes me anxious.
It makes me fearful.
© Alan
Caruba, 2012
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