Obama's Moment of Truth---About His Lies
By Alan Caruba
I think
the bulk of the U.S. population, particularly likely voters in 2014, have
reached the point where they no longer believe anything President Obama says.
It
coincides with what may be the lowest level of confidence in the U.S. Congress.
Its Democratic members all voted for Obamacare without reading it and the harm
it is doing to millions of Americans, along with its total lack of
constitutional legitimacy, will likely see those running for election and
reelection in the 2014 midterms defeated.
As the
first year of Obama’s second term is completed in January, the nation is at a
point that I don’t think has existed since the days leading up to the Civil War
in 1861. It took until 1865 to conclude that split and a hundred more years to
make right the many wrongs that led up to it.
In my
life, more than seven and a half decades, I cannot recall a President who has
generated such a deep sense of distrust. I say “distrust” because that differs
from just disagreeing with a particular President’s policies. I say “distrust”
in the context of what people believe no matter their political affiliation.
What we
all know now is that President Obama cannot be trusted when he speaks about
anything whether it is his signature legislation, the Affordable Health Care
Act, or his rejection of decades of U.S. policy toward Iran that began in 1979
when they seized our diplomats in 1979. In the United Nations and in Congress,
sanctions were applied that were, until his recent announcement, working
effectively to influence its determination to make its own nuclear weapons. All
that effort has been undermined by a process conducted in total secrecy because Obama knew it would be rejected. It should
be noted that this occurred when Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State.
Obama is
the fulfillment of a long effort by the former Soviet Union, begun in the
1920s, to transform our society from one whose values and policies led the
world in the effort to oppose communism even as it and European allies embraced
socialist programs that are now threatening theirs and our economic stability.
“Social justice” is the term adopted and exercised through “political
correctness”, a philosophy that paints the U.S. as a heartless, rapacious, racist,
capitalist nation more to be hated than admired.
Political
correctness played a major role in the election of a virtually unknown first
term Senator from Illinois because Americans wanted to demonstrate to the world
that a black man could be elected President.
The
failure of the Republican Party to strongly advocate the traditions and
patriotic beliefs of Americans led to his reelection. The other factor was the
adoption of the Alinski-inspired methods of character assassination and the
distortions of our history that is heard and read daily in the mainstream press
and taught in our nation’s schools from kindergarten to college.
America
has fallen prey to the infiltration and takeover of our education system that
is filled with lessons and books that distort our history, denigrate our
Founders, and teach disrespect for our Constitution, if it is taught at all.
Our culture has been degraded by a Hollywood that turns out films depicting
capitalism as corrupt and fills our lives with cultural messages that degrade
our society.
From the
earliest days of his first term, Obama has publicly attacked America in ways no
previous President ever did.
In April
2006, in a speech delivered in Strasbourg, France, Obama said, “America has
shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive (towards Europe)” when, in
fact, America had twice come to the aid of Europe, first in World War One, and
saving it from the worst totalitarian threat in World War Two. The graves of
U.S. soldiers are found in cemeteries throughout Europe and it was the
expenditure of trillions during and after WWII that attest to our long-term
policies, not of conquest, but of liberation.
At home,
Obama has striven to fulfill the “politically correct” policies of dividing the
nation ethnically, emphasizing the national and religious differences that have
existed in a culture of tolerance that earlier accepted waves of immigration of
those who were eager to assimilate and become “Americans” as opposed to those
who arrive, now often illegally, and demand the rights of native-born and
nationalized Americans.
Obama has
by-passed the limits the Constitution imposes on the executive branch with little
or no opposition in a Senate controlled by the Democrats. The effort by the
Republican controlled House led to the government shutdown and is now used
against it despite the refusal of the President to negotiate and avoid it.
Even among
“low information voters” the accumulated awareness of the many Obama
administrations scandals is beginning to exercise some influence. From Fast and
Furious to the Benghazi lies, even those who pay little attention to the
government are growing aware of the massive waste of money the stimulus
represented and the increase of U.S.
debt, the failure to pass a budget for five years that the Constitution
requires, suspicious huge purchases of ammunition by Homeland Security, and, of
course, Obamacare. They may not understand what these scandals mean, but they
sense something is very wrong with America.
A President
who is widely perceived as a liar has lost the most important factor that all
Presidents require to function, his credibility.
What is
needed now more than ever before is a Congress that vigorously opposes his
actions and the months between now and the midterm elections will be critical
for Republicans and independents to assert the role of this branch. The attack
on a long established voting rule in the Senate has made this more difficult.
It can
only be hoped that enough Americans, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and
independents will wake from their stupor and demand action.
© Alan
Caruba, 2013
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