- James Freeman Clarke, American theologian
April 25, 2012
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
When President Obama looks in the country’s wallet, it’s empty. But that doesn’t slow him down when it comes to spending money.
And when he hears something he doesn’t like, he stamps his foot and demands it go away.
Offering to throw money at any problem that comes up or closing his eyes and making believe he can wish away "bad” things, Obama wants to be the "fun” uncle who plays magical games and open-handedly dispenses money and trinkets to the kids, even though he’s broke and afterwards the parents (taxpayers) end up cleaning up after him.
Given this, his re-election plan isn’t that hard to figure out. His approach is to sit back and divide people into groups and then tell each group he’ll give them what they want for Christmas.
He does this by figuring out what votes he needs, finds the groups and off he goes.
In a page borrowed from his first election, Obama wants his "focus groups” to believe that if they elect him president they won’t have to worry about putting gas in their cars or paying their mortgages, as You Tube’s Peggy Josephs said during the 2008 campaign. She added proudly, "I never thought this day would come…If I help him, he’ll help me.”
The problem is, as we have all come to learn during this president’s tenure, his and the Democratic party’s approach does not concern itself with uniting the country, long-term problem-solving or figuring out where the money is going to come from, but instead adopts a grasshopper approach to life: Leave the heavy lifting to the ants.
Creating a daisy chain of voters and ingratiating himself to them in any way he can, this is President Obama’s focus because he realizes he cannot run on his record.
Today the courted group is college students and the rising interest rates on their college loans.
Yesterday it was the underwater homeowner on the brink of foreclosure.
He wined and dined the illegal immigrant portion of our population by sidestepping Congress and enacting the spirit of the Dream Act by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive.
In an attempt to win over female voters, he jumped in with both feet and praised Sandra Fluke to further insurance-backed contraception, then created a paper tiger, "The War on Women.”
To garner the black vote, he weighed in on the Trayvon Martin case, in an unlikely and some would say inappropriate way by stating, "If I had a son he would look like Trayvon.”
Is that called stacking the deck?
In plain fact, some groups are favored by the president and some groups have made their way onto his enemies list.
In the case of Trayvon Martin the president directly contributed to the racial tensions by the divisiveness he has cultivated throughout his administration.
As Thomas Sowell observed in his column,
"Whatever the ultimate outcome of the case against George Zimmerman for his shooting of Trayvon Martin, what has happened already is enough to turn the stomach of anyone who believes in either truth or justice.
"An amazing proportion of the media has given us a painful demonstration of the thinking and lack of thinking that prevailed back in the days of the old Jim Crow South, where complexion counted more than facts in determining how people were treated.
"In the same vein were the repeated references to Zimmerman as a ‘white Hispanic.’ Zimmerman is half-white. So is Barack Obama. But does anyone refer to Obama as a ‘white African?’
"All these verbal games grow out of the notion that complexion tells you who is to be blamed and who is not. It is a dangerous game because race is no game.”
Except to Obama.
Recently, insulted and displeased one more time, the president added the Supreme Court to his enemies list. Attempting to make the "assault" on his health care bill go away, the president bypassed legal principles to make his case in a public forum, but instead opted to bully the Court, with the president of Mexico at his side for backup.
Accusing the Court of "judicial activism” and "lack of judicial restraint,” Obama characterized the Supreme Court review process as analysis by an "unelected group of people.”
"I am confident the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically-elected congress,” the president said.
Constitutional lawyer and teacher that he is, Obama pulled out all the stops with this legal analysis,
"As I said, we are confident this will be over – this will be upheld. I am confident this will be upheld because it should be upheld.
It is interesting to note that while bridling very publicly at the high court’s deliberations on his "signature healthcare law,” Obama is nonetheless perfectly content to have Arizona’s Immigration Law SB 1070 scrutinized by the same Supreme Court’s process.
It’s all so confusing.
What we are witnessing is a president who is angry, because he is not appreciated the way he believes he deserves to be, but mostly because he knows he has been a failure.
If the American voter recognizes the tactics we are seeing for what they are, come Election Day 2012 we can be confident that we will have Hope and that we will get the Change we need.
Hold the line, America.
When President Obama looks in the country’s wallet, it’s empty. But that doesn’t slow him down when it comes to spending money.
And when he hears something he doesn’t like, he stamps his foot and demands it go away.
Offering to throw money at any problem that comes up or closing his eyes and making believe he can wish away "bad” things, Obama wants to be the "fun” uncle who plays magical games and open-handedly dispenses money and trinkets to the kids, even though he’s broke and afterwards the parents (taxpayers) end up cleaning up after him.
Given this, his re-election plan isn’t that hard to figure out. His approach is to sit back and divide people into groups and then tell each group he’ll give them what they want for Christmas.
He does this by figuring out what votes he needs, finds the groups and off he goes.
In a page borrowed from his first election, Obama wants his "focus groups” to believe that if they elect him president they won’t have to worry about putting gas in their cars or paying their mortgages, as You Tube’s Peggy Josephs said during the 2008 campaign. She added proudly, "I never thought this day would come…If I help him, he’ll help me.”
The problem is, as we have all come to learn during this president’s tenure, his and the Democratic party’s approach does not concern itself with uniting the country, long-term problem-solving or figuring out where the money is going to come from, but instead adopts a grasshopper approach to life: Leave the heavy lifting to the ants.
Creating a daisy chain of voters and ingratiating himself to them in any way he can, this is President Obama’s focus because he realizes he cannot run on his record.
Today the courted group is college students and the rising interest rates on their college loans.
Yesterday it was the underwater homeowner on the brink of foreclosure.
He wined and dined the illegal immigrant portion of our population by sidestepping Congress and enacting the spirit of the Dream Act by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive.
In an attempt to win over female voters, he jumped in with both feet and praised Sandra Fluke to further insurance-backed contraception, then created a paper tiger, "The War on Women.”
To garner the black vote, he weighed in on the Trayvon Martin case, in an unlikely and some would say inappropriate way by stating, "If I had a son he would look like Trayvon.”
Is that called stacking the deck?
In plain fact, some groups are favored by the president and some groups have made their way onto his enemies list.
In the case of Trayvon Martin the president directly contributed to the racial tensions by the divisiveness he has cultivated throughout his administration.
As Thomas Sowell observed in his column,
"Whatever the ultimate outcome of the case against George Zimmerman for his shooting of Trayvon Martin, what has happened already is enough to turn the stomach of anyone who believes in either truth or justice.
"An amazing proportion of the media has given us a painful demonstration of the thinking and lack of thinking that prevailed back in the days of the old Jim Crow South, where complexion counted more than facts in determining how people were treated.
"In the same vein were the repeated references to Zimmerman as a ‘white Hispanic.’ Zimmerman is half-white. So is Barack Obama. But does anyone refer to Obama as a ‘white African?’
"All these verbal games grow out of the notion that complexion tells you who is to be blamed and who is not. It is a dangerous game because race is no game.”
Except to Obama.
Recently, insulted and displeased one more time, the president added the Supreme Court to his enemies list. Attempting to make the "assault" on his health care bill go away, the president bypassed legal principles to make his case in a public forum, but instead opted to bully the Court, with the president of Mexico at his side for backup.
Accusing the Court of "judicial activism” and "lack of judicial restraint,” Obama characterized the Supreme Court review process as analysis by an "unelected group of people.”
"I am confident the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically-elected congress,” the president said.
Constitutional lawyer and teacher that he is, Obama pulled out all the stops with this legal analysis,
"As I said, we are confident this will be over – this will be upheld. I am confident this will be upheld because it should be upheld.
It is interesting to note that while bridling very publicly at the high court’s deliberations on his "signature healthcare law,” Obama is nonetheless perfectly content to have Arizona’s Immigration Law SB 1070 scrutinized by the same Supreme Court’s process.
It’s all so confusing.
What we are witnessing is a president who is angry, because he is not appreciated the way he believes he deserves to be, but mostly because he knows he has been a failure.
If the American voter recognizes the tactics we are seeing for what they are, come Election Day 2012 we can be confident that we will have Hope and that we will get the Change we need.
Hold the line, America.