Obama"s Hopeless, Liberal Change
There are liberals and there were liberals.
I'm talking here about American libs, not the British types who are a whole different set who have evolved from beliefs in classical liberalism to free thinkers, whatever that means, to what the new Brit PM calls his "conservative liberal" party, whatever that means.
Until relatively recently, British libs and American libs had one value in common: Without qualification, they cared for the well-being of their respective countries above all else, a sentiment absent today from the philosophy of America's new liberals as epitomized by Barack Hussein Obama.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a liberal. So, too, were the Happy Warrior, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, and a whole slew of other Democrats in the past half century, not inclusive of Lyndon Baines Johnson who governed by consensus until Dems turned against him for waging the Vietnamese War and conservatives rebelled because he refused to win that war.
Liberals in days gone by differed in many respects from their more conservative, Republican, opponents but they shared with that opposition a fundamental patriotism, a love of country which superseded base partisanship and the opportunings of special interests groups whose demands were contrary to the best interests of the country.
Not anymore.
That idyllic era came to an abrupt conclusion with Barack Hussein Obama although the end was presaged by Jimmy Carter's inept politics of malaise and fearsome attack rabbits and Bill Clinton's governing from the vantage points of what Dick Morris advised would best get him re-elected and how Monica Lewinsky could best service him.
Today, our president, elected despite his dubious credential of being the most liberal senator in the United States Senate during his remarkably brief two-year tenure in that august body, is locked in a death struggle.
His is certainly not a personal death struggle, to be sure, since he will no doubt outlive most of us thanks to his penchants for repetitive relaxation excursions to golf links, a multiplicity of family vacations in opulent locales, and a studied nonchalance as to the domestic and foreign perils the nation faces.
Obama's stuggle primarily relates to the questions of whether to succumb to his instincts to abjectly cater to the insistent demands of his most restless constituencies or to head to the middle and again sucker a majority of 2012 voters into thinking he isn't as radically liberal as he actually is.
He has many choices on his overflowing plate, including:
. Should he stay his economic course and promote additional monetary stimuli which fail to stimulate, advance job programs which only increase government employment, add even more regulatory constraints which strangle businesses, and allow the EPA to cripple any recovery with its mindless obsession with inconsequential environmental issues?
. Should he stay the course and strive to win what he called the Afghanistan "war of necessity" or bug out and abandon that country to Taliban repression and a return it to a terrorist haven?
. Should he continue to "turn the page" on the Iraq war and concede that 4,474 American troop deaths there were for nought and establish the United States in the eyes of the world as a toothless tiger devoid of commitment and honor?
. Should he extend further support for gay rights and thereby undermine our military more than he already has and render the nation incapable of defending itself due to a lack of morale in the armed forces?
. Should he defy questions of constitutionality and massive unpopularity surrounding the socialist Obamacare abomination foisted on the American people by his fellow Democrat liberals?
. Should he continue to push for green vehicles that few people buy, advocate for expensive and inefficient bioethanol which now consumes over 50% of our corn production, and insist on cap-and-trade legislation which will astronomically raise the costs of energy, home heating, and gasoline?
. Should he maintain his policies of denigrating the importance of the state of Israel and other loyal allies while bowing and scraping to the Arab world, catering to Muslim interests while ignoring our own, and planning to "absorb" even a nuclear, terrorist attack?
. Should he shore up his critical African-American electoral base while denying 50% of his genetic heritage as he did on his 2010 Census form and drive more deadly stakes through the heart of his professed racial healing and govern predicated on what he has described as a "pervasive sense of grievance and animosity toward my mother's race"?
. Should he publicly embrace his socialist history and his close affiliations with extremist revolutionaries such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn and with black racists such as Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan?
So many decisions, so little time.
To say the least, today's new liberal anti-war, pro-gay, pro-green, race-centered anti-Americans would be disenchanted with their leader if he were to opt in favor of America-and this consummate new liberal won't disappoint them.
Master illusionists, over the next fourteen and a half months Obama and his re-election strategists will do all in their prodigious power to create the appearance of a president who gives a damn, who is sincerely committed to restoring America's glory, prestige, and health at the same time they plot even greater changes in who we are and in what America stands for.
If he is re-elected, by 2017, we won't recognize us but contemporary liberals will be dancing in streets cluttered by the remnants of a once great nation.
I'm talking here about American libs, not the British types who are a whole different set who have evolved from beliefs in classical liberalism to free thinkers, whatever that means, to what the new Brit PM calls his "conservative liberal" party, whatever that means.
Until relatively recently, British libs and American libs had one value in common: Without qualification, they cared for the well-being of their respective countries above all else, a sentiment absent today from the philosophy of America's new liberals as epitomized by Barack Hussein Obama.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a liberal. So, too, were the Happy Warrior, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, and a whole slew of other Democrats in the past half century, not inclusive of Lyndon Baines Johnson who governed by consensus until Dems turned against him for waging the Vietnamese War and conservatives rebelled because he refused to win that war.
Liberals in days gone by differed in many respects from their more conservative, Republican, opponents but they shared with that opposition a fundamental patriotism, a love of country which superseded base partisanship and the opportunings of special interests groups whose demands were contrary to the best interests of the country.
Not anymore.
That idyllic era came to an abrupt conclusion with Barack Hussein Obama although the end was presaged by Jimmy Carter's inept politics of malaise and fearsome attack rabbits and Bill Clinton's governing from the vantage points of what Dick Morris advised would best get him re-elected and how Monica Lewinsky could best service him.
Today, our president, elected despite his dubious credential of being the most liberal senator in the United States Senate during his remarkably brief two-year tenure in that august body, is locked in a death struggle.
His is certainly not a personal death struggle, to be sure, since he will no doubt outlive most of us thanks to his penchants for repetitive relaxation excursions to golf links, a multiplicity of family vacations in opulent locales, and a studied nonchalance as to the domestic and foreign perils the nation faces.
Obama's stuggle primarily relates to the questions of whether to succumb to his instincts to abjectly cater to the insistent demands of his most restless constituencies or to head to the middle and again sucker a majority of 2012 voters into thinking he isn't as radically liberal as he actually is.
He has many choices on his overflowing plate, including:
. Should he stay his economic course and promote additional monetary stimuli which fail to stimulate, advance job programs which only increase government employment, add even more regulatory constraints which strangle businesses, and allow the EPA to cripple any recovery with its mindless obsession with inconsequential environmental issues?
. Should he stay the course and strive to win what he called the Afghanistan "war of necessity" or bug out and abandon that country to Taliban repression and a return it to a terrorist haven?
. Should he continue to "turn the page" on the Iraq war and concede that 4,474 American troop deaths there were for nought and establish the United States in the eyes of the world as a toothless tiger devoid of commitment and honor?
. Should he extend further support for gay rights and thereby undermine our military more than he already has and render the nation incapable of defending itself due to a lack of morale in the armed forces?
. Should he defy questions of constitutionality and massive unpopularity surrounding the socialist Obamacare abomination foisted on the American people by his fellow Democrat liberals?
. Should he continue to push for green vehicles that few people buy, advocate for expensive and inefficient bioethanol which now consumes over 50% of our corn production, and insist on cap-and-trade legislation which will astronomically raise the costs of energy, home heating, and gasoline?
. Should he maintain his policies of denigrating the importance of the state of Israel and other loyal allies while bowing and scraping to the Arab world, catering to Muslim interests while ignoring our own, and planning to "absorb" even a nuclear, terrorist attack?
. Should he shore up his critical African-American electoral base while denying 50% of his genetic heritage as he did on his 2010 Census form and drive more deadly stakes through the heart of his professed racial healing and govern predicated on what he has described as a "pervasive sense of grievance and animosity toward my mother's race"?
. Should he publicly embrace his socialist history and his close affiliations with extremist revolutionaries such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn and with black racists such as Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan?
So many decisions, so little time.
To say the least, today's new liberal anti-war, pro-gay, pro-green, race-centered anti-Americans would be disenchanted with their leader if he were to opt in favor of America-and this consummate new liberal won't disappoint them.
Master illusionists, over the next fourteen and a half months Obama and his re-election strategists will do all in their prodigious power to create the appearance of a president who gives a damn, who is sincerely committed to restoring America's glory, prestige, and health at the same time they plot even greater changes in who we are and in what America stands for.
If he is re-elected, by 2017, we won't recognize us but contemporary liberals will be dancing in streets cluttered by the remnants of a once great nation.
