Wannabe Dictator
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When
President Obama said, “I’m not a dictator” on the day the sequester was
activated, March 1st, he should have finished the sentence, “but I intend to be
one.”
Obama has
never treated the office of the presidency as his predecessors did. They knew
it was a temporary job, based on one term or two. They understood it was
political in that they were expected to work with both parties and that
involved compromise. Obama has shown no desire to compromise on anything and routinely
has changed the terms of various agreements in order to negate them.
In
politics, especially at that level, a man’s word is his bond and Obama’s word
is dirt. He cannot be trusted. This may account for Speaker of the House John
Boehner’s barely concealed contempt for the President. It does not help when
virtually all the Democrats join in the festival of lies that passes for
political dialogue these days or their rote repetition by a supine media,
though this is beginning to decrease as even their adoration diminishes.
On taking
office in 2009, Obama created a shadow government of “czars” answerable only to
him. His cabinet choices have implemented policies that led to the first
reduction of the nation’s credit rating, reductions in access to the nation’s
vast oil reserves on federally controlled land, and social engineering within
the military including women in combat roles.
Obama has
no real interest in the “give and take” of politics. Bypassing Congress at
every opportunity, his favored form of “rule” is the executive order. Current
executive orders grant Obama total power over every aspect of life in America
in the event of an emergency or attack.
Where does
one start with this President? Like all wannabe dictators, Obama has made it
clear even when he was campaigning in 2008 that he is anti-gun ownership and,
after the Newtown shootings, he issued 23 gun control executive orders.
Ensuring that citizens have no means to protect themselves or pose a threat to
a regime, dictators take guns away.
On July 2,
2008, speaking in Boulder, Colorado, Obama advocated a “Civilian National
Security Force” that would be “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well
funded as the U.S. Military.”
Alarms are
rising about the unprecedented purchase of ammunition of the Department of
Homeland Security. An astonishing 1.6 billion bullets are stockpiled, mainly 40
caliber and 9 millimeter. News of the purchase of 2,700 light-armored tanks
suggests that the Obama federal government anticipates an armed rebellion by
the citizenry.
Writing in
Investors Daily, Andrew Malcolm noted that is enough “to shoot every American
about five times, including illegal immigrants.” Other government departments,
including Social Security, are reportedly being armed in a similar fashion.
Nationalizing
all power in the central government, Obama’s Affordable Care Act, known as
Obamacare, did that for the nation’s healthcare system, requiring everyone to
purchase insurance or pay a fine if they do not. Though patently
unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled that ACA was “a tax” and permitted it
to go forward. Government bureaucrats will now decide who gets medical care and
how much.
Obama has
consistently rid the top ranks of the U.S. military of any generals who are
seen to oppose or disagree with his policies and politics. The heaviest budget
cuts have affected the Department of Defense, increasing the vulnerability of
America to attack and restricting its ability to project power globally.
The power
to tax is also the power to impoverish Americans and Obama has never ceased to
demand increased taxes while refusing to offset government funding with
reductions in government spending. Americans have seen their personal wealth
diminished due to his economic policies. Millions remain unemployed.
Obama has
never accepted blame for any of his policies such as the multi-billion, failed
“stimulus.” Instead he spent his first term blaming former President George W.
Bush and as his second term begins, he is blaming Republicans who control the
House of Representatives, but have seen their economic and other measures
defeated or ignored in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
If the
nation survives Obama’s second term without martial law or its equivalent,
historians will look back on him as the worst President to have ever held that
office.
© Alan
Caruba, 2013
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