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Barack Obama’s so-called "Forward" re-election strategy is the most
un-presidential in memory as his policies are the most offensive and
anti-constitutional.
The man who seemed to have all the answers in 2008, and
convinced enough people that he was going to be the post-racial and
post-partisan president, has turned out to be the “most-racial and
most-partisan” president (as Rush Limbaugh described him), and he is doubling
down on his class warfare themes that the evil rich should be paying a
substantially larger share of income taxes, and the not-rich should have perpetual
government-paid benefits from cradle to grave, starting with Head Start (which
doesn’t work), and ending with Medicare (which he is going to be raiding further
for the benefit of Obamacare).
Never mind that there is no mention of cutting anything
except defense, with cuts which would gut our defense readiness and leave us
more vulnerable in terms of national security. Any dollars cut from defense (or
anything else) will never be used to reduce the deficit, but only to increase
spending on liberals’ beloved, bloated social programs.
The president’s ideal of American life is pictured in the
Obama campaign’s presentation “The Life of Julia” which pictures a woman relying on government help from age 3
onward, as though she could barely function if (shudder!) the awful Romney
actually reduced spending on such stuff. She evidently must receive
government-(i.e., taxpayer)-paid contraception, education grants, student
loans, and healthcare lest she perish for lack of government funding. Obama
nowhere hints of self-reliance or independence from the public trough. His
ridiculous “War on Women” and “Buffett Rule” propaganda illustrate the
class-warfare-based pandering to groups he hopes will support him as they did
in 2008.
His support for re-election must come from hardened
socialists, radical feminists and environmentalists, and other leftist fringe
interests, and people who are not paying attention to economic realities, but
like his “sincerity” and think his promises are somehow trustworthy.
President Barack Obama has no record that he can run on. He
has empty promises, fear and resentment among various groups, the pathetic pleading
of ignorance of the actual economic situation that existed when he took office,
and blaming of George W. Bush, bad weather, an uncooperative Congress, etc.,
etc., for the continued bad economic and business environment characterized by
continued massive unemployment and “growth” so slow it still doesn’t look like
a recovery. But not to worry, increased government spending, more entitlements,
more job-destroying EPA and Dodd-Frank-type regulations are his answer, along
with more golf outings and vacations for the First Family.
Unemployment figures for April 2012 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics include the
following: 8.1 per cent official unemployment rate; 115,000 jobs added in
April; teenage unemployment rate 24.9 per cent; Number of unemployed persons at
12.5 million; number of people “marginally attached to the labor force” (not
counted as unemployed) at 2.4 million (these had looked for work sometime in
the last 12 months, but not during the 4 weeks preceding the survey, and their
number includes 968,000 “discouraged workers” who had given up looking for
work; persons unemployed for 27 weeks or longer at 5.1 million; persons working
part time because their hours had been cut or because they couldn’t find
full-time work at 7.9 million.
These numbers indicate a great deal of economic difficulty
and misery for many American families. The Administration seems to have very
little with which to improve this situation, and one must suspect that in the
socialist/Marxist world, government dependency is a good thing, and people in
economic distress tend to look to government for the help they need. In this
case, they would be looking to a government that is more interested in
restructuring American society to their socialist/Marxist model than in
correcting the economy, which would actually recover quite well if left alone
by government.
Mitt Romney is made out to be a villain because he’s (1)
“rich,” (2) “out of touch,” and (3) planning to cut spending on some of Obama’s dear
socialist programs, (4) and maybe even restore the defense budget so that it
won’t be so deeply into the danger zone.
Romney is, politically, our only hope at present for any
kind of “return to normalcy,” which we very urgently need. Four more years of
Obama? More coddling of “Occupy,” more forced unionism, more illegal
immigration, less freedom, and lots more spending until our debt has to be
dealt with via cheap, cheap dollars, and savings and investment are all but
wiped out, along with our currency. That could make Greece’s present situation look
positively desirable by comparison. We won’t get another Reagan, but we can
hope for a pretty good non-Obama. If Romney is half as good a president as
Calvin Coolidge, we will be immensely better off than if Mr. Obama is re-elected.
With the recent hubbub about Obama’s dog-eating, and Obama’s
desperate attempt to be all things to all people of the leftist extreme, I can’t
help but be reminded of Benjamin Franklin’s proverb and its potential political
applications: “He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.” (Poor Richard, 1733)
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