The Poisonous Presidency
When the leaders of the United States, the President, his
Vice President, his Secretary of State and others deliberately lie to its
citizens, knowing full well that the facts about the tragic killing of an
American ambassador and three of his staff are widely known, the nation has
reached a point where it is paramount that he be removed from office.
The forthcoming election is the
instrument and current
indicators are that President Obama will be defeated. It is to be hoped
that
power in the Senate will be returned to the Republican Party and
retainedl in the House of Representatives. This is the only way steps
can be taken
to avoid the financial collapse that faces the nation and achieve the
repeal of
Obamacare that Mitt Romney has promised if elected.
What worries me most, however, is the utter disdain for the
truth that has marked the presidency of Barack Obama. It has been nearly four
years of sustained lies about the steps that were taken to respond to the financial
crisis facing the nation when he took office. The so-called “stimulus” wasted
billions, becoming little more than a slush fund for Democratic fund-raisers,
unions, and other connected parties to the administration.
Instead the administration literally seized control of
General Motors and Chrysler, then in the normal process of bankruptcy, claiming
to save the jobs of auto workers. What they did was shunt aside the legitimate
creditors and investors in GM. They arbitrarily discontinued its often long
relationship with several hundred auto dealerships, adding their employees to
the unemployment lines. They then insisted that GM invest millions in the
creation of an electric car that cost $47,000 to purchase and ended up
purchasing them for government use with taxpayer’s money.
Obamacare, more than 2,700 pages in length and incorporating
more than twenty new taxes, was passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress with
little evidence that any of those who voted for it had even read it. Arguing
initially that he was not a tax, when challenged in the Supreme Court, the
administration then said it was a tax. For some inexplicable reason, the Court
permitted it to stand despite its clear over-ride of the Constitution’s
Commerce Clause that forbids the government from requiring a citizen to
purchase anything.
Under Obama, the foreign policy of the nation has now
seriously weakened its position in the world and combined with cuts to defense
spending, put its ability to protect the homeland and project power abroad at
risk. The administration failed to negotiate an agreement with Iraq that would
permit U.S. troops to remain in place, as they do at the invitation of many
nations around the world, leaving Iraq vulnerable to al Qaeda. Setting a date
for withdrawal from Afghanistan only emboldened the Taliban.
The so-called Arab Spring has mutated, not into the
establishment of democratic institutions in nations like Egypt or Libya, but an
opportunity for the Muslim Brotherhood to at least ascend to positions of power
in opposition to America’s interests in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
We now know that President Obama skipped some sixty percent
of the daily CIA briefings that presidents long have made a part of their
duties and this no doubt led to its ignorance of the impending tragedy in
Libya, but the fault lies, too, with the State Department that ignored the
slain ambassador’s pleas for increased security for the embassy and consulate.
This is a president who has been missing in action as the Islamic jihad began to
heat up across the face of the globe.
The hostility of President Obama’s administration to the
vital energy sector of the nation has denied access to oil extraction on the
vast acreage of federal lands. It has denied permits for offshore drilling to a
far larger degree than previous administrations. It has mercilessly attacked
the coal industry, responsible for nearly fifty percent of all electricity
generation in the nation. Plants for electricity have closed down under the
pressure of costly EPA regulations. Only the natural gas sector has grown,
thanks to the technology of fracking, but both oil and gas is being extracted
mostly on private land.
The economy, which could have recovered in much the same way
it did during the Kennedy and Reagan administrations, has barely increased
while 23 million Americans remain out of work or have stopped looking for jobs.
There are 47 million Americans on food stamps, utilizing eighty percent of the
budget of the Department of Agriculture. There are millions who have seen the
value of their homes decrease while others have faced foreclosure. The Labor
Department was just caught rigging the data on new jobs to get it below 8
percent in a record-setting 43 months.
Barack Obama, a man whose personal life history is mostly a
construction of lies, whose personal records have been hidden from public
examination, and who stunned viewers of his first debate with Mitt Romney by
appearing so unprepared and so willing to repeat past lies, has been at the
heart of a poisonous presidency.
Americans, no matter what their political affiliation or as
independents, are now saddled with $16 trillion in national debt, four to five
billion of which was imposed in just the last four years, have a common
interest to defeat Barack Obama. The nation will not survive four more years if
he is reelected.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
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