We’ve been told repeatedly since 2008 that Barack Obama is a genius. He is the smartest man ever to hold the presidency. Sure enough, he proved it almost immediately after he was sworn into office — he won the Nobel Peace Prize! (Even though he couldn’t deliver the Olympics for his hometown of Chicago.) Yes, he is fawned over by the elite. Chris Matthews told the nation he gets a “tingling sensation up my leg” when Mr. Obama speaks. His adorers consider him the “anointed one” or some type of secular “messiah.” He even has the power to redefine “success,” as he continues to label his “stimulus” bill even though it has saddled us with debt and the loss of four million jobs. He is worshiped and glorified by people who have no frame of reference. He does nothing wrong.
Except say the U.S. has 57 states (YouTube.com), confuse Memorial Day with Veterans Day or any number of other gaffes that would’ve left Conan O’Brien in business if it was a conservative president making the embarrassing pronouncements. Now comes this: We know he can’t give a speech without a teleprompter, but a teleprompter can’t pronounce words for you. So, just the other day, even with the ‘prompter working, the commander-in-chief showed his ignorance of the military he leads by mispronouncing “corpsman” as “corpse-man.” Watch and hear for yourself. With what kind of feeling does it leave you?
He’s commander-in-chief, but can he create a new rank? Maybe a “corpse-man” buries the dead?
I remember that when President Bush was a lame duck, not wanting to force his way on the country, Obama said he wouldn’t reveal his plans after he was inaugurated. He had solutions for everything, but we just had to wait so he wouldn’t be stepping on the toes of President Bush.
I wondered then, why, if he really had such great connections or solutions for Iraq and Afghanistan, and the economy,
he didn’t go ahead and reveal them to spare the lives of our brave soldiers, and to save jobs and help families!
It’s obvious he didn’t have a clue then, nor does he now. He’s had to hire all those expensive czars to help him
find his way, even though they don’t represent the will of the people at all. And look at the “good” they have accomplished!
I find myself praying for our country and for myself to be totally trusting in God, more than ever before.
Ok, let’s look at the the pre-Obama years. Let’s look at what those years of “prosperity” did for us. When I watched Obama take questions at the Republican conference in Baltimore I could only shake my head. The Conservative cure-all solution to everything that ails our economy is “tax cuts.” Pre-Obama we had 25 years of nearly uninterrupted growth until this recession. That growth and low unemployment was experienced under BOTH party’s leadership nationally and in Virginia. A relatively tax-friendly environment contributed to that growth yet we keep hearing the broken record that reducing taxes even more is the key to job creation. Also, many conveniently ignore the consequences of low taxes. Let’s look at those aforementioned 25 years of “prosperity” that were the result of lower taxes and see what that prosperity did for us – our roads and bridges were crumbling, new roads didn’t get built, school children attended school in trailers, public libraries didn’t have the funds to order new materials, police forces were strapped and prisons were overflowing. Does that reflect “prosperity”?
I wish I had saved the many snide commentaries from the economic “happy times” when conservative columnists and Fox News contributors gloated about U.S. economic prosperity. They attributed our growth to less government regulation and lower taxes in the US while deriding the inferior Euro-socialist economies and even mocked the introduction of the Euro. Now, with U.S. unemployment higher than many of those Euro socialist states, a dollar weaker than the Euro and an economy that struggles to stay afloat, those same gurus would have us believe the U.S. meltdown was caused partly by excessive government regulation that they previously said didn’t exist!
Unfortunately, a retail/service-based economy like ours depends on gluttonous consumerism and reckless lending to achieve the type of growth experienced during the happy times. Having lived abroad for those years in various countries I never saw a culture that was so consumer driven as ours. It’s that penchant for MORE that drove the economy as much as policy. Politicians from neither party ever cite this because they don’t want to come across as criticizing their own people. It’s an inconvenient truth. If we think policy alone can fix the job situation we’re dreaming. What WOULD fix the job situation is persuading Americans to spend their money as freely as they were before. Cutting taxes to promote more of the same in order to stimulate the economy is akin to giving a drug addict in rehab more drugs to lessen the effects of detoxification. It may make us feel better in the short term and it may win elections but it won’t fix our crumbling infrastructure and add needed services. It would be a mistake to measure our recovery from this current recession by comparing economic data and unemployment stats to the good years. This will lead us back down the path to the mess we’re in now. The reality is President Obama inherited a mess that was not of his making. If McCain and Palin had been elected we’d still be in the same boat.
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