I started this blog in 2009 at a time when our domestic and foreign policies were all headed in the wrong direction. The Democratic campaign slogan, Hope and Change changed liberals into mindless Zombies and they cheerfully digested everything the Obama campaign told the media, and if you disagreed – there would be hell to pay.
The media was still legitimate before Obama was nominated by the Democratic National Committee, and journalism was still an honorable trade. However, journalists quickly learned that if they asked Obama something he didn’t want to hear or respond to, that they were banned from future interviews, banned from the White House and banned from Air Force One.
Journalism died in 2008 and “reporters” also learned to digest Obama’s talking points and repeat them to the masses. Failure to do so, ensured a short career in any type of news media.
Following Obama’s nomination in 2008, he gave a speech that became the bread, butter and steak for liberals. He said, “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.”
Barack Obama actually believed that he alone had the power to keep the oceans from rising. He alone could end wars. The truth is that climate change is a money game, and those leading the charge will make a fortune from over regulating and over taxing businesses.
The other truth is that during eight years of the Barack Obama presidency, he dragged America into more foreign conflicts than any other president in our history.
What he didn’t say was that he would start his presidency with a world-wide Apology Tour. He did not restore our image, but instead inflicted a gash that will take decades to heal.
Obama still cannot say that ISIS is a terrorist organization. He is still supporting ‘rebels’ that are actually terrorists. Our troops are still hamstrung because of his senseless Rules of Engagement. And today, November 18, 2016 while Hillary supporters riot in multiple states, Barack Obama will not tell them to stand down, or stop. Barack Obama is his own worst problem.
The GOP: Losing the White House – Twice
The GOP trotted out Senator John McCain as the 2008 nominee. McCain, being a career politician choose to remain on that path, and literally gave the presidency to Barack Obama.
The GOP trotted out Mitt Romney as the 2012 nominee. Liberals had learned over the previous four years that anything the White House, local or national media told them was the only gospel to trust. Romney lost his bid because he chose not to face the vacuous rumors about his income, taxes, Romneycare or anything else. Mitt Romney gave the presidency to Barack Obama.
Barack Obama won the presidency twice. But those wins were not based on executive leadership, his ability to work with people, or experience. He was a mixed race 2-term Senator with a microphone and people listened. They didn’t vote for him because he was qualified. They voted for him because of his color. His character, temperament and true ideology were ignored by the media because they couldn’t afford to expose him.
Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and had done nothing to deserve it. Liberals loved the fact that Hope and Change had given him the opportunity to do great things and he got a trophy. Liberals love getting trophies for not doing anything.
Two years later, in 2010, the voters weren’t happy with Democratic leaders. It was the worst loss for Democrats in 62 years. Obama agreed that they “got shellacked”. It was the biggest power shift since the 1948 election. Republicans picked up 59 seats in the House.
Obama’s promise of “Transformational Change” was fading and so was his power.
Democrats learned an important yet tedious lesson. Voting for, and implementing Obama policies came with a price. The passage of ObamaCare by Democrats was costly.
Barack Obama also campaigned about ‘transparency’. But America didn’t agree with the White House controlling the message, the photo opps and pre-arranged media questions.
Do What I Say, Not What I Do
The quote below from CJR.org shows that there is little truth or transparency flowing from the President to the Press Corps, or any other media. Even after the historical 2010 “shellacking”, there was no improvement in transparency.
“An exhaustive study of every official exchange Obama had with the press corps in 2014, supplemented by a review of daily press briefings and interviews with more than a dozen current and former correspondents and White House press secretaries, reveals a White House determined to conceal its workings from the press, and by extension, the public. The research, paid for by a fund established in memory of former White House correspondent Helen Thomas, makes clear that the media most responsible for covering the president and his inner sanctum are given little insight into how decisions are made or who influences those decisions, whether from inside or outside the White House.”
For the first time in our history, the President used social media to issue sound bites, talking points and radical ideas. His voters loved it because they felt closer to him. They could share and respond to his media posts and they felt empowered. Obama gave a speech in 2012 entitled, “Yes We Can” that became a chant, a feel-good moment, and a family-like atmosphere for his voters.
And Journalism was neutered and put out to pasture.
Here are a few of Obama Policies from 2009 – 2013 that will seal his legacy of failure.
2009: ObamaCare or the Affordable Care Act.
The Promise: If you like your doctor/health insurance you can keep it.
– The Lie: Jonathan Gruber, architect of the bill admitted that it was “The stupidity of the American voter” that allowed Democrats to hide the true costs of ObamaCare. Otherwise it never would have passed. None of them read the bill, and Nancy Pelosi famously and ignorantly said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”
– Pros: 20 million people now have insurance
– Cons: 20 million people cannot afford the rising premiums or deductibles
– The Promise: Donald Trump will make changes to ObamaCare to make it work for everyone.
2009: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (also called The Stimulus)
– The Promise: To Save or Create Jobs and keep unemployment from rising, and it would jump start the economy. Obama promised to cut the deficit in half and it would only cost $1 Trillion.
– The Lie: “Shovel-ready was not as…uh shovel ready as we expected”. (Barack Obama) In fact, those jobs never existed.
– Pros: There are no pros to spending $1 Trillion by an administration with no executive experience.
– Cons: Unemployment rose but the White House uses statistics to make it appear that Obama’s policies are working for America. They are not. In Obama’s 8th year as President there are over 90 million unemployed Americans.
2010: Withdrawing American troops from Iraq
– The Promise: To scale down US combat operations in Iraq
– The Problem: An Iraqi government had not been established and the Iraqi foreign minister stated that Obama’s decision was “an embarrassment”.
– The Truth: Obama’s popularity was plunging and he had a campaign pledge to fulfill, consequences be damned
– The Lie: Iraqi security forces were functioning at high levels and were capable of controlling the violence
– The undeniable fact is that withdrawing troops without having an Iraqi government in place created a power vacuum. Al quaeda filled the void and by 2016, ISIS had retaken Mosul and other areas. American troops are on the ground and are being killed by ISIS.
2009: War and Obama’s New Rules of Engagement
– The Facts: Troop deaths increased because they were restrained from firing in order to spare civilian casualties, cut back on airstrikes and artillery strikes — the types of support that protect troops during raids and ambushes. They literally could not fight back when they were being attacked.
– By 2012, our media stopped reporting on troop deaths because it would have proved Obama’s incompetence in leadership.
2011: Libya and the Lawless American President
– Obama intervened in this conflict without the approval of Congress and without the War Powers Act.
– The Fact: Obama used fear tactics to convince the world that Colonel Quaddafi was moving towards Benghazi and could massacre tens of thousands of people. Europe was proposing a No Fly Zone. Libya was not a direct threat to America, so this was an overreach of authority.
– The Problem: Quaddafi was using ground forces, not airplanes. The CIA was on the ground in Libya and was supplying arms to the rebels.
– The rebels were made up of terrorists. We armed terrorists, and nobody knows how we paid for this conflict because it was not approved by Congress.
2012: Benghazi – the failure of the White House and State Department to protect American
– The Fact: The State Department, under the leadership of the President is responsible for providing security for American assets (embassies) in foreign countries. Ambassador Chris Stevens made 600 requests and concerns for better security in Benghazi. On the night of September 11, 2012 the consulate was
– The attack lasted for 13
– Requests for reinforcements were ignored by Obama and
– Ambassador Stevens was kidnapped, tortured, raped and
– Three other Americans were killed that night as they fought to protect the
– The White House and State Department failed these men, and they continue to lie about what happened. Hillary Clinton during a Congressional Investigation, yelled, “What difference at this point does it matter?!”
– It matters because you failed to do your job
– It matters because you covered it up
– It matters because you have proven your level of incompetence
2012: Iraq, Afghanistan and al quaeda
– The Promise: “We have put al quaeda on a path to defeat.”
– The Truth: The Obama administration was funding al quaeda
– Obama’s Lie: ” “I ended the war in Iraq, as I promised. We are transitioning out of Afghanistan. We have gone after the terrorists who actually attacked us 9/11 and decimated al Qaeda.” This was a speech to cover his failures. The war in Iraq did not end and al quaeda became ISIS, or ISIL as Obama prefers to call the terror organization.
– Repeating the Lie: Obama repeatedly stated that “al Qaeda is on the path to defeat.” The path al quaeda was on, was the march to Libya where our President and Secretary of State allowed them to murder four Americans.
2013: Obama’s Drone War in Afghanistan
– Using drones to haphazardly execute terrorists ended up killing families that had nothing to do with terrorism.
– Using drones to kill American’s overseas goes against our very Constitution and a person’s right to a fair trial.
2013: Foreign Policy of Failure
– Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Libya: all failures
The legacy of Barack Obama will be written about for decades. His failed foreign policy, our failed economy, his insatiable spending appetite and all without passing a single budget. He strode into the White House after winning his second campaign which was coined Forward! However, after eight years of failed policies, lack of transparency and the rise of racism, America voters decided that Forward! has pulled us so far backwards that we need to change everything.
Republicans now control the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, and we will hold legislators accountable. If they fail to represent us, they too will be replaced.
The real win for America is that we saved the Supreme Court. Hillary Clinton would have packed it full of radical judges that would have made decisions against America. Decisions like Justice Roberts on ObamaCare.
President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again”, because he knows that we cannot afford to keep moving backwards.
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