Elections matter. Issues matter. Voters matter. To all of those voters who stayed home last November because they were not happy with John McCain and Sarah Palin, I hope they are happy with the drastic downward direction our country is headed under the Obama regime.
From our federal government simply ignoring years of bankruptcy law when it gave control of Chrysler Motors to the unions while giving the company’s secured lenders pennies on the dollar for their loans; to dictating to the State of California that it could not fire certain employees or it would lose federal bailout money; to its attempts to mandate what salaries can be paid in the private sector; and to its desire to create a new nationalized health plan which will crowd out private plans, our federal government is going down the slippery path to socialism if not fascism.
When I tried to educate my friends and family of the potential danger of an Obama victory to our country’s core foundation, many said we needed “change” from the Bush years. Is having the federal government expand its tax base by billions of dollars by raising the price of your electricity and gasoline to fund its healthcare plans (as opposed to its initial lie about wanting to save the environment) the kind of change you wanted? Is having the federal government borrow trillions of dollars from foreign governments to fund its porkulas and bailout plans to allegedly stimulate the economy while burdening our future generations with unbelievable debt the kind of change you wanted? I don’t think so. But with Obama at the helm and Pelosi and Reid running Congress for now, historic change is coming our way.
To me, Obama’s potential presidency was easy to predict. The guy unfortunately grew up in a broken home, has admitted being envious of other kids whose family’s had material wealth, and has written that he felt unwanted by society because of his upbringing. If only the government could make things fairer for all seemed to be his goal in life. Well now he is having his chance. From having his first opportunity to put someone on the Supreme Court who supports his belief that the U.S. Constitution is wrong to focus on limiting the power of a centralized federal government instead of his preferred mandates on what the government must do for its citizens; to trying his darndest to penalize high income workers in order to redistribute their wealth through taxes and fees to less fortunate citizens, Obama is moving full speed ahead on his lifelong goals.
But I don’t blame Obama for any of his plans and intentions. He is simply living his dream. It is the shortsighted American voters and the enamored national media that I blame for this unfortunate predicament our 233 year old representative democracy is facing. And I am especially upset at the Republican representatives in Washington from when they controlled Congress and the White House for completely blowing their opportunity to show America how our country could be run with proper fiscal and ethical controls. Instead, they spent billions on the very pork they had previously criticized and got involved in more ethical lapses than the country could stomach (not that the Democrats are currently doing any better!).
So what other damage has Obama done to this country’s reputation and future in his first four months in office? Below are just a few of his many disasters:
* Obama went on a worldwide apology tour telling foreign leaders and audiences that he was not George Bush and that our country had been bad but he would make it all better. He then showed his humility by bowing to the head of another country and gladly accepting a book from Hugo Chavez which lambasted our country for its imperialistic ways. Pardon me for remembering that our country helps fund and staff the majority of humanitarian and security efforts around the world and has nothing for which to apologize. If the world does not want our help, stop asking us.
* Obama authorized the release of certain military documents to make his point that we had been tough interrogators of terrorists while that release endangered the lives of those military personnel and private citizens whose identities were in those documents. And his ridiculous stand on ending certain types of interrogation techniques has signaled to our enemies to just stay quiet if they are caught since we will not do to them as they do to our citizens and soldiers when captured.
* Obama pushed Congress to pass his $787 billion dollar porkulas plan with no time for citizens or Congressmen to review it (which he had promised), only to leave town for a 4 day vacation before coming back to DC to sign it which again proves that the Obama regime is perfecting the Gerbel approach to public relations by learning to just keep lying about its intentions until the public starts to believe it.
* Obama promised a new era of bi-partisanship only to tell his Republican adversaries in one of their first meetings that he had won the election and they had lost. And then he worked with the national media to make it seem as if the Republicans had no unified leader or voice. Of course erroneously making fun of Nancy Reagan at one of his first press conferences wasn’t a good show of bi-partisanship either.
* Obama has yet to ask Congress for fast track international trade negotiation authority since he does not think international trade is an important issue despite our country’s need to increase its exports and obtain affordable imports to keep our cost of living low. I suppose being the successful ACORN street thug that Obama was only a few years ago (I mean community activist), he just does not understand basic economics and the importance of being the salesman-in-chief for our business community to the world.
* Obama spent the first weeks of his regime continuing to talk down our economy in order to scare the public into wanting federal government help. Even former President Bill Clinton told Obama he was being overly negative. What Bill did not realize was that Obama was just following the teachings from avowed Chicago radical Saul Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals which stated “They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.”
* Obama picked numerous candidates for his cabinet and top administrative offices that had not paid income taxes for years which is proof that Obama must believe in Leona Helmsley’s credo that only little people have to follow rules. And despite pledging otherwise, he hired nearly two dozen former lobbyists to serve in his administration. If a Republican President had nominated so many tainted appointees as has Obama, the media would have simply continued its well-orchestrated mantra that Republicans have a culture of corruption. But they gave another pass to the inexperienced Obama.
If the first 100 days of this disastrous Obama regime is an indication of what we can expect for the remaining 3 years, 8 months of his days at the White House, our country’s core foundation will forever be changed for the worse. Let’s hope the American public shakes things up in 2010 and elects enough Republicans to stop this train wreck of a Presidency.
