Can America Survive Obama?
By Alan
Caruba
After a
series of events that continue the decline of America’s global reputation along
with increasing questions about the level of Obama administration corruption
within the Internal Revenue Service, these and other factors lead inevitably to
the question of whether America can survive Barack Hussein Obama.
By March
12, a Wall Street Journal/NBC news poll indicated that Obama’s popularity had
declined to an all-time low with 48% approval versus 54% disapproval. This is
unchanged from December when the Obamacare rollout dominated the news. The rate
of disapproval among Democrats stands at 20%.
The question
of survival might sound absurd under normal circumstances, but there has not
been anything “normal” about Obama’s first term in which he lied repeatedly to
Americans to secure the passage of the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—and then
claimed that what he and Congressional Democrats said was an inadvertent
misstatement of the facts. His namesake legislation has been a disaster from
the beginning. Nothing about it works and it costs more while destroying the
healthcare insurance system.
And he has
continued to lie to the point where anyone above the age of five has concluded
that nothing he says can be trusted. So, if he weren’t President, he could be
fired, but he can’t. He can be impeached, but he won’t because Republicans
tried that with Bill Clinton and it failed. So that leaves only the forthcoming
November midterm elections as a means to curb his further destruction of the
economy and all other aspects of life in America.
It is
useful to keep in mind that Americans have survived hard times, from the long
Revolutionary War to the Civil War through many financial crises and, of
course, the Great Depression in the last century. In these and other hard
times, many suffered, but the nation was sustained.
I know the
headlines out of Wall Street continue to be good. The bankers and the
investment crowd know how to turn a dollar, but there are scores of opinion
pieces saying that the collapse of the dollar is eminent or that another
financial crisis like the one in 2008 is just around the corner. For the record,
the banks that survived that crisis, the ones that were “too big to fail”, were
not only bailed out with taxpayer dollars, but paid it back and thereafter enjoyed
enormous profits thanks to a Federal Reserve that charged no interest on the
money it loans them.
On March
6, Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger opined that “Putin Carterizes Obama, Totally.” I remember Jimmy Carter
mostly for the lines I had to wait in to get gas for my car. Then there was the
seizure of American diplomats in Tehran, Iran in 1979. Every
day since then the Iranians wake up
crying out “Death to America. Death to Israel” and they mean it. So with
whom
is Barack Obama and his idiot Secretary of State, John Kerry,
“negotiating”?
The same Iranians. You know, the ones who were shipping dozens of
Syrian-made
surface-to-surface rockets to the Palestinians in Gaza until the
Israelis
boarded the ship in the Red Sea last week and put a stop to that. The
same ones he relieved of the sanctions regarding their nuclear weapons
program.
What makes
me ask the question about survival is the way the ideologies that Obama
believes—Communism, Islam, and his ability to influence other nations—blind him
to reality. Thinking that diplomacy will get the Iranians to stop their quest
to build their own nuclear weapons isn’t just stupid, it’s insane.
It’s the
same with his views of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. Having
“re-set” the former Cold War relationship with Russia, Obama has just
discovered that Putin has not. Given the political turmoil in Ukraine, Putin
did what all of his predecessors did for hundreds of years; he decided to take
control of the Crimea. Why not? Russia has essential shipping ports there and
some airfields. The Crimea was part of Russia for hundreds of years. Putin
knows that Obama will not go to war over these events. He wouldn’t even take on
Syria when it used poison gas.
While
Russian troops were moving into Crimea, the President had his Secretary of
Defense, Chuck Hagel, announce reductions in the Pentagon budget that would
reduce our military power to pre-World War Two days. Last week, China announced
it was going to increase its military budget 12.2% within a week or so of the
U.S. announcement it was reducing its military budget to pre-World War Two
levels.
Obama’s
weakness and his policies that weaken America economically and militarily have
not gone unnoticed around the world.
It’s hard
to win wars with stateless fascist Muslims that call themselves al Qaeda and
other names. Throughout the Middle East, despite their increase in numbers, the
states there are trying to fight them. The Taliban will regain Afghanistan
about a week after we leave while Egypt has allied with Russia after Obama
backed the Muslim Brotherhood. A third of Iraq is now controlled by al Qaeda.
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates just withdrew its
ambassadors from Qatar for backing the Muslim Brotherhood. It is home to al Jazeera, the
television channel.
At home
the Environmental Protection Agency continues to play havoc with the economy and,
in particular, our need for electricity with its “war on coal.” It is
undertaking a regulatory storm to control all aspects of our lives.
The question
of whether America can survive Obama is not inconsequential.
He’s all
for same-sex marriage, the legalizing of marijuana, and forcing people to
violate their strong moral and religious convictions. He keeps talking about
jobs but there are millions unemployed and millions on government welfare programs.
The nation’s economy has gotten worse since Obama was elected in 2008 to fix
it. And he prefers to rely on executive orders than to work with Congress.
Elections
have consequences. Let’s hope the voters keep that in mind in November.
© Alan
Caruba, 2014
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