A Year-End Wrap Up Of The Obama Presidency

It’s pretty amazing when you take a look at all that has taken place since Barack Obama has become President.

The man who promised America Hope and Change has really delivered on that promise.

Which may explain why his popularity numbers are dropping like a stone.

Victor Hanson at Pajamas Media sums it up for us:

The China Presidency

I have an heirloom china pitcher on my mantle that has dozens of glued cracks—so much so that it is now purely ornamental and will not hold water. When I was a boy I’d ask my mother when, and under what circumstances, did the china crack apart.

She would provide stories about each fissure and mend, many of the break narratives handed down to her from her own grandparents in the house. There wasn’t one single accident, but instead dozens that rendered a once useful pitcher into an non-functional art object.

Something of the same is happening with our President. He is experiencing the sharpest popularity decline in the history of first-year administrations. The problem is not just that he inherited a bad economy; Reagan did too. Or that the war in Afghanistan heats up, since it is not nearly as bad as the mess Nixon inherited in Vietnam.

Instead, after 11 months there has emerged a series of bothersome incidents that the public has come to associate with Obama, both the man and his philosophies. Some are major policy issues; others trivial acts of no cosmic importance. None in themselves matter all that much. Each gaffe or mistake was contextualized and mended, or attended to by Robert Gibbs. Some are Obama’s fault; others the work of associates. Sometimes mere chance is the culprit.

I know Bush had his own list of catastrophes; other Presidents did as well. Again, my point is not trying to adjudicate relative culpability, but rather just to remind us all how and why Obama dived over 20 points in the polls in just 11 months—and his speeches transformed from inspirational to caricatures.

In short,  taken together, after nearly a year, these fissures have nearly ruined the once pretty texture of the Obama administration, and almost rendered it incapable of effective governance.

Here is a random selection. I provide no chronology or theme. Nor do I judge the relative importance of any one incident. The point, again, is only that each was a fissure, some small, some major—all were glued over. The result is that now the public understands that its china presidency is fragile and held together by mere glue.

Here it goes:

Constant apologies abroad for everything from slavery to Hiroshima

Bows to Saudi royalty, the Japanese emperor, and Chinese autocrats

The on-again/off-again Guantanamo shut-down mess

The fight with the former CIA directors

The public show trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed

The reach out to Ahmadinejad Castro, Chavez, and assorted thugs

The Honduras fiasco

Czars everywhere

The serial “Bush did it”/reset whine abroad

The Queen of England/I-pod fiasco

Gordon Brown gets snookered in his gift-giving

Unceremoniously shipping back the Churchill bust

The end of the special relationship with the UK

The New York on-the-town presidential splurge

Anita Dunn and her Mao worship

Timothy Geithner/Tom Daschle/Hilda Solis and their taxes

What ever happened to Gov. Richardson?

“No lobbyists” = gads of them

The Podestas’ insider influence-peddling empire

Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” chauvinism

The Special Olympics silly quip

Trashing Nancy Reagan

The Skip Gates/police acting “stupidly” mess

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When Is An Oath Of Office Not An Oath?

One of our subscribers has some serious (and well founded) concerns with the lack of a vetting process regarding President Obama’s “Czar” appointments.
She has written a sample letter to send to members of Congress in the hope of seeing some accountability.
After the recent Van Jones debacle, we urge all of our leaders to contact their Senators and ask them the following:

Dear…

When you were sworn into office you took an oath to”protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”.

 

My question to you is;  did you believe it when you said it or was it just more of the pomp and ceremony that accompanies
such an event?

 

 Our Constitution is being assaulted daily with the intent to systematically destroy it and make it non-relevant.

 

Those calling themselves “progressives”, as if that covers up their statist intent, are using numerous strategies to attain their end.

 

The most dangerous of those strategies is the proliferation of special advisors appointed by the president.

 

These czars undergo no scrutiny by the senate and their true powers are undefined.

 

I am not writing to make accusations about the political and social beliefs of these people.

 

This strategy allows the president to gain significant power.

 

The balance of power between the executive, legislative and judicial branches is critical to maintaining our republic as the founding fathers  had intended.

 

Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution states in part:

 

The President shall have power and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls.

 

WHERE IS OUR SENATE?

 

WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THIS TRAVESTY TO CONTINUE?

Obama Designates Sept. 11th As National Socialism Day

We don’t need to rehash the events of September 11th, 2001.

All true Americans have their memories of that fateful day, and remember it in their own ways.

As the anniversary of 9-11 approached, some pinhead member of Congress made a motion that the day be made a national holiday.

For once, common sense prevailed, once it was pointed out to this moron that it was not proper to honor the memories of the people who lost their lives that day with a day off from work and a backyard cookout.

Now President Obama has taken common sense and kicked it through the West Wing windows.

In another move toward creating the United Socialist States of America, the Obama administration wants to turn September 11th into a “National Day Of Service.”

Up till now, September 11th has been a day of reflection and rememberance of the nearly 3,000 people murdered in one single day by Islamic terrorists.

Now, the President wants it to be a day of global warming awareness, activism, food banks and voter registration drives.

Obama’s plans were outlined in a teleconference call with, among others, Lennox Yearwood, head of the Hip Hop Caucus.

Van Jones, Obama’s “green jobs” czar, appeared in a video on the official White House blog claiming that the “National Day Of Service will be chance “for people to connect, to find other people in your peer group who are passionate about repowering America but also greening up America and cleaning up America.”

Perhaps in the world of the Kool-Aid Brigade all of this makes sense.
Do a food drive, tell each other lies about “climate change”, and register some new members of Obama’s Army.

But why in the hell pick September 11th, one of the darkest days in the history of this nation, to do it?

Simple.

Because on that day, for the majority of Americans, their thoughts turn to the innocent men and women, going about their day to day lives, who died.
They think about the bravery of the first responders who made the ultimate sacrifice in trying to save people’s lives.
And more than a few of us are still filled with a terrible resolve to see to it that such a thing never happens again.

This scares Obama and his followers.

They don’t want people thinking about patriotism and love of country.
They don’t want people to think that terrorist attacks are still the number one danger facing this country.

I think that what amazes me the most about this administration is that every time I think that they have come up with the ultimate hair-brained, un-American proposal, they devise an even more outlandish plot.

Well, this September 11th you nitwits enjoy your National Day Of Service.
Sit around, hold hands and sing Kumbaya.

As for myself, as well as anyone else with any grip on reality, I will spend the day reflecting on what it truly means.

Continuing Czar Corruption

The man who promised America “The most ethical administration in history” sure knows how to pick ‘em.

We  reported earlier on the corruption and incompetence of Obama’s Czars,  however it seems like this will prove to be a story that will continue to unfold.

The most recent news regards Car Czar Steve Rattner.

Rattner has been the focus of a long running probe by the Securites and Exchange Commission as well as the Attorney General of the State of New York.

The investigation is focusing on a “pay for play” scheme involving Rattner’s former firm, the Quadrangle Group.Although Rattner has not (yet) been accused of any wrongdoing, two former members of the firm have been indicted on federal corruption charges.

The probe is centered on a 100 million dollar deal Quadrangle made with a state pension fund.

With the American auto industry still teetering on the brink of disaster, it seems a little odd that the man tasked with overseeing it’s rescue would resign of his own accord after less than a year.
Unless he had bigger things (like possibly facing prison time) on his mind.

Congressman James Sesenbrenner is seeking a Congressional investigation of Climate Czar Carol Browner after learning that she demanded that auto industry executives were to keep no records in regards to talks with those same executives regarding new fuel economy (CAFE) standards for American automobiles, as first reported by Michelle Malkin.

Taxpayer funds are being used for these programs, you would think we would be entitled to a record of the proceedings.

That aside, the stringent standards that Browner demands will add hundreds of dollars to the cost of the average American-made vehicle, making them even less desirable to the average consumer.

Green Jobs Czar Van Jones is a  self-proclaimed Communist, and has also spent time in jail.

In a 2005 interview, Van Jones stated “I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.”

How is it that I have not seen any media reports regarding the President Of The United States appointing an avowed Communist to a top-level position in his administration?

To come back to Carol Browner for a moment, until she was picked to be Climate Czar, she was one of the 14 leaders of the Socialist organization Commission For A Sustainable World Society.

Hey, let’s give Obama credit where credit is due.

He may be falling flat on his face in regards to having an ethical administration, but at least he is practicing diverisity.

He’s a Marxist.
Van Jones is a Communist.
Browner is a Socialist.

An administration loaded with tax cheats, former jail inmates, ex-lobbyists, Communists and Socialists.

Mr. Obama has a different version of the word ethical than does the average American, wouldn’t you say?