"There’s nobody more self-critical than President Obama. Part of the burden of being so bright is that he sees his error immediately.” - Valerie Jarrett, White House Senior Adviser
October 31, 2012
They have been bullied by their president and his administration. They have been told "no you can’t” by the president, Hillary, the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, the mainstream media and every flunky from Chris Matthews to Snoop Lion.
You cannot have opinions and freely express them, they say. We can talk, you can’t. We can mold the news to what we want it to be. We can ridicule you whenever we like. We can even threaten to riot if Obama loses the election and it will be overlooked by the press and the Secret Service.
This is the new normal.
Since Barack Obama took office, everything he touched has failed.
Unable to make a decision, when he finally does, it’s usually the wrong one, from the no-go for the Keystone XL Pipeline and dragging his feet for months during the BP spill, to taking too long to send requested troops to Afghanistan.
So if you are waiting for this president, burdened as he is by his brilliant intellect, to recognize the error of any of his ways, you have a long wait ahead of you.
If has been a month-and-a-half since Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were murdered on American soil in Benghazi, Libya, and still there are no answers coming from the White House.
Procrastination, denial and indecision have become this president’s middle name and it has not gone unnoticed both here and around the world.
It has changed the way America runs.
In the past four years, Obama has created an unhealthy, uncertain, "anything goes” environment for the country -- whenever he refused to admit fault, whenever he refused to hold press conferences to explain important decisions, when he trivialized and lied about the deaths in Benghazi, and when he apologized for America, her policies and her history in every country he visited.
In the past four years, Americans have been brainwashed by the administration and the press into accepting that there is a "Chicago politics” and that’s okay; that we are racists if we didn’t vote for the first black president or if we question the first black president in any way; and that we are homophobic if we oppose same sex marriage.
And now we are told our consulate was attacked because Americans are Islamophobic.
This is according to former Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, who was named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to head the "Accountability Review Board,” ostensibly to investigate the deaths in Benghazi, but more accurately, to clean up the mess Hillary and O made in Benghazi.
Pickering, critics say, is unfit to head any probe of events in Benghazi because of his pronounced sympathy for Islamism and ties to pro-Iran Islamist front group National Iranian American Council (NAIC). He believes, as does Obama, that Americans just need to be kinder and more understanding of Islam.
Pickering says Americans’ lack of familiarity with Islam -- and not Islamic terrorist attacks on Americans – fuels hostility toward Muslims.
So it would be my guess that the bottom line in Mr. Pickering’s report to Hillary will be that the attack on our consulate was America’s fault, not Islamic terrorists, not Libya, and surely not the White House nor the State Department.
Which is just another way of saying we got what we deserved, a view shared by Louis Farrakhan and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
There is nothing but talk, talk, talk, from the president, from the mainstream press, about things that need no discussion, by people who are not interested in clarifying the issues. Like Benghazi.
We don’t need a written report from the "Accountability Review Board,” written by an Islamic sympathizer.
Americans already know the president and his secretary of state dropped the ball, that they left American citizens in a hostile Libya without backup, that they ignored cries for help from Americans who died horrific deaths for their country and that this administration lied about it.
Americans already know what is really needed is not another investigation, but for our government to take a strong stand against the terrorists in Libya for this blatant attack and act of war on America.
So we watch and we see the trickle down affect from this president, bad decisions begetting bad decisions.
We read about the mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts banning the term "illegals” when referring to "illegal aliens” because teens in his town find it "hurtful.”
We see New York’s Mayor Bloomberg plowing ahead with the New York Marathon two days after Hurricane Sandy left 22 people dead on Staten Island and other citizens homeless with just the clothes on their backs.
And we listen as the head of the New York Road Runners petulantly tell us that cancelling the New York Marathon was the hardest decision Road Runner Girl ever had to make. Really? She’s been a very fortunate girl.
These are the kinds of decisions we are seeing being made and then discussed endlessly and mindlessly in Obama’s America where common sense is never part of the decision-making process anymore, but where finger-pointing and denial of responsibility is.
It has changed the way our country runs.
It has hurt America’s place in the world community.
Allies whom Obama has insulted and enemies to whom he ingratiates himself look upon him with disdain. They see a weak leader who has deliberately put his country in jeopardy by working against its best interests. But most importantly, they see a president who has weakened his country by committing a cardinal sin against it, one noted by Professor Fouad A. Ajami, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and writer on Middle Eastern issues:
"No one told Mr. Obama that in the Islamic world where American power is engaged and so dangerously exposed, it is considered bad form, nay a great moral lapse, to speak ill of one’s own tribe in the midst, and in the lands, of others.”
It is bad form in America, too.
And then there are the leaders, like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who do not hesitate and do the job they were elected to do.
This week, immediately after the hurricane slammed into the east coast, the governor hopscotched the state by helicopter, walked the streets of storm-ravaged New Jersey towns and then dug in and made hard decisions.
He gathered the power companies and made them commit to a plan of action. He worked across the aisle with his own legislators to problem solve and he asked the federal government for help because he had a promise to keep to the people of his state – to serve them and keep them safe.
And when the press accused him of being a turncoat, of snubbing Gov. Romney by asking President Obama for federal assistance, he said he didn’t care. This was no time for politics, he said. He had a state to run.
"I have a job to do in New Jersey that is much bigger than presidential politics…If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don’t know me.”
It’s what leadership looks like. You know it when you see it and you know it when it isn’t there. And when it comes down to it, we know how we got here and we know what we have to do to take our country back.
On the eve of Election 2012, Obama was right at least about one thing: Voting will be the best revenge.
Hold the line, America.
October 31, 2012
By: Linda Case Gibbons
How in the world did we get here?
Since Barack Obama took office, Americans of all color and stripe have been marginalized and forced to stifle their opinions.They have been bullied by their president and his administration. They have been told "no you can’t” by the president, Hillary, the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, the mainstream media and every flunky from Chris Matthews to Snoop Lion.
You cannot have opinions and freely express them, they say. We can talk, you can’t. We can mold the news to what we want it to be. We can ridicule you whenever we like. We can even threaten to riot if Obama loses the election and it will be overlooked by the press and the Secret Service.
This is the new normal.
Since Barack Obama took office, everything he touched has failed.
Unable to make a decision, when he finally does, it’s usually the wrong one, from the no-go for the Keystone XL Pipeline and dragging his feet for months during the BP spill, to taking too long to send requested troops to Afghanistan.
So if you are waiting for this president, burdened as he is by his brilliant intellect, to recognize the error of any of his ways, you have a long wait ahead of you.
If has been a month-and-a-half since Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were murdered on American soil in Benghazi, Libya, and still there are no answers coming from the White House.
Procrastination, denial and indecision have become this president’s middle name and it has not gone unnoticed both here and around the world.
It has changed the way America runs.
In the past four years, Obama has created an unhealthy, uncertain, "anything goes” environment for the country -- whenever he refused to admit fault, whenever he refused to hold press conferences to explain important decisions, when he trivialized and lied about the deaths in Benghazi, and when he apologized for America, her policies and her history in every country he visited.
In the past four years, Americans have been brainwashed by the administration and the press into accepting that there is a "Chicago politics” and that’s okay; that we are racists if we didn’t vote for the first black president or if we question the first black president in any way; and that we are homophobic if we oppose same sex marriage.
And now we are told our consulate was attacked because Americans are Islamophobic.
This is according to former Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, who was named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to head the "Accountability Review Board,” ostensibly to investigate the deaths in Benghazi, but more accurately, to clean up the mess Hillary and O made in Benghazi.
Pickering, critics say, is unfit to head any probe of events in Benghazi because of his pronounced sympathy for Islamism and ties to pro-Iran Islamist front group National Iranian American Council (NAIC). He believes, as does Obama, that Americans just need to be kinder and more understanding of Islam.
Pickering says Americans’ lack of familiarity with Islam -- and not Islamic terrorist attacks on Americans – fuels hostility toward Muslims.
So it would be my guess that the bottom line in Mr. Pickering’s report to Hillary will be that the attack on our consulate was America’s fault, not Islamic terrorists, not Libya, and surely not the White House nor the State Department.
Which is just another way of saying we got what we deserved, a view shared by Louis Farrakhan and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
There is nothing but talk, talk, talk, from the president, from the mainstream press, about things that need no discussion, by people who are not interested in clarifying the issues. Like Benghazi.
We don’t need a written report from the "Accountability Review Board,” written by an Islamic sympathizer.
Americans already know the president and his secretary of state dropped the ball, that they left American citizens in a hostile Libya without backup, that they ignored cries for help from Americans who died horrific deaths for their country and that this administration lied about it.
Americans already know what is really needed is not another investigation, but for our government to take a strong stand against the terrorists in Libya for this blatant attack and act of war on America.
So we watch and we see the trickle down affect from this president, bad decisions begetting bad decisions.
We read about the mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts banning the term "illegals” when referring to "illegal aliens” because teens in his town find it "hurtful.”
We see New York’s Mayor Bloomberg plowing ahead with the New York Marathon two days after Hurricane Sandy left 22 people dead on Staten Island and other citizens homeless with just the clothes on their backs.
And we listen as the head of the New York Road Runners petulantly tell us that cancelling the New York Marathon was the hardest decision Road Runner Girl ever had to make. Really? She’s been a very fortunate girl.
These are the kinds of decisions we are seeing being made and then discussed endlessly and mindlessly in Obama’s America where common sense is never part of the decision-making process anymore, but where finger-pointing and denial of responsibility is.
It has changed the way our country runs.
It has hurt America’s place in the world community.
Allies whom Obama has insulted and enemies to whom he ingratiates himself look upon him with disdain. They see a weak leader who has deliberately put his country in jeopardy by working against its best interests. But most importantly, they see a president who has weakened his country by committing a cardinal sin against it, one noted by Professor Fouad A. Ajami, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and writer on Middle Eastern issues:
"No one told Mr. Obama that in the Islamic world where American power is engaged and so dangerously exposed, it is considered bad form, nay a great moral lapse, to speak ill of one’s own tribe in the midst, and in the lands, of others.”
It is bad form in America, too.
And then there are the leaders, like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who do not hesitate and do the job they were elected to do.
This week, immediately after the hurricane slammed into the east coast, the governor hopscotched the state by helicopter, walked the streets of storm-ravaged New Jersey towns and then dug in and made hard decisions.
He gathered the power companies and made them commit to a plan of action. He worked across the aisle with his own legislators to problem solve and he asked the federal government for help because he had a promise to keep to the people of his state – to serve them and keep them safe.
And when the press accused him of being a turncoat, of snubbing Gov. Romney by asking President Obama for federal assistance, he said he didn’t care. This was no time for politics, he said. He had a state to run.
"I have a job to do in New Jersey that is much bigger than presidential politics…If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don’t know me.”
It’s what leadership looks like. You know it when you see it and you know it when it isn’t there. And when it comes down to it, we know how we got here and we know what we have to do to take our country back.
On the eve of Election 2012, Obama was right at least about one thing: Voting will be the best revenge.
Hold the line, America.