BACK IN aught-twelve, I published nine reasons to vote against Barack Hussein Obama. Events of the past two months, culminating in the gruesome press conference yesterday, have proved Reasons No. 6, 7, 8, and 9. They explain Mr. Obama's inept, dishonest, and lawless response to the Obamacare mess.
The snips are from the original posts. Read them for more examples and fuller argument.
Glenn Reynolds charges him with Constitutional Deficit Disorder. "Primary symptoms: disdain for constitutional limitations on power, disgust over the text's original meaning, constipation, and dry mouth."
Proposing to amend Obamacare by press conference, as he did yesterday, is of a piece with all that has gone before. Completely lawless.
7. He has nothing to offer but promises, and his promises are worthless.
That’s why today I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. (Barack Hussein Obama, February 23, 2009)
And if you like it you can keep it.
He lies, then he lies again. The sooner you can say "liar" out loud, the better for your clarity of mind, your integrity, and your mental health.
8. He is a jerk.
OBAMA. . . . But, eh, eh, I think Mr. Romney maybe, uh, has not spent enough time looking at how our mil'tary works. Y--, you mentioned the navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916 [read 1917]. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, becuz the nature of our mil'tary has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. (Barack Hussein Obama, October 24, 2012)
He and his flunkies regularly mock those who rightly oppose Obamacare as, among other things, racists, cretins, and terrorists. He's a jerk and he is surrounded by jerks. Being a jerk is a job requirement at the White House and in the agencies.
"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payor universal health care program." (Barack Hussein Obama, June 2003)
"I have not said that I was a single-payor supporter." (Barack Hussein Obama, August 2009)
If you like it, you can keep it. That was a lie. Last week he tried to explain what he said. That was a lie too.
Here are Reasons No. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. They have already been vindicated by events or will be vindicated in due course.
1. This:
2. Joe Biden.
Mr. Biden is an idiot. If you vote for Mr. Obama, you are saying, "If it comes to that, I'm okay with an idiot's occupying the Oval Office. That's how important Mr. Obama is to me."
3. Bill Ayers.
Mr. Obama has never satisfactorily explained his long friendship with this unrepetent terrorist.
One reason he has never satisfactorily explained his friendship with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers is that his other friends in the media really don't care that we have a president who has palled around with a domestic terrorist.
The Washington region has emerged from the recession looking even more affluent compared with the rest of the country, boasting seven of the 10 counties with the highest household incomes in the nation, new census numbers show. (Washington Post, September 20, 2012)
5. Mr. Obama took untraceable foreign campaign donations.
Obama.com, a website owned by an Obama fundraiser who lives in China but has visited the Obama White House eleven times, sends solicitations mostly to foreign e-mail addresses and links to the donation page on the Obama campaign website. The Obama website, unlike those of most campaigns, doesn't ask for the three- or four-digit credit-card verification number. That makes it easier for donors to use fictitious names and addresses to send in money. (Michael Barone, October 11, 2012)
Unca D got it. Mr. Obama was, is, and forever shall be damaged good, not fit to be president of the United States of America.
Mitt Romney got it too.
Who didn't get it?
A bunch of true believers, immune to evidence and argument; a bunch of good-hearted dupes, their brains fogged by Mr. Obama's self-declared awesomeness and alleged good intentions; and a bunch of racists, including guilty white liberals, who voted for him only or primarily because he was black.
Oh, and our friends in the media, including those at the Houston Chronicle. They didn't get it either, and still haven't. They are deeply disappointed in their man, of course. The evidence of the last two months is too overwhelming for them -- even them -- to ignore. But they hold out hope for a fix, a restoration of trust, blah, blah, blah.
Here's their problem: Mr. Obama is not a liar (and all the rest) because he lied; he lied because he's a liar (and all the rest).
He's a first-class hustler, reared in fits and starts and loosed on the streets by a hippie-dippy mother, abandoned by his father, prey to all the pathologies that attend such a sad and dysfunctional upbringing.
What his startled acolytes are seeing is not a good man brought low; it's a bad man exposed.
Could he turn things around? Sure.
But the problem with the redemption thesis is that what needs to be set right is not a Web site or a flawed law; it is Barack Hussein Obama's prideful character, now resistant and hard.
INSTANT UPDATE: Speaking of Mr. Romney, he's on a well-justified Toljaso Tour himself:
“What starts twisted stays twisted” Mitt Romney said on CBS This Morning on Friday. When asked by CBS host Charlie Rose about the problems associated with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Romney said that the website was not the president’s problem. “It’s dishonesty,” he said.
Amen.
Re: Abiding by the constitution: Yes, the president needs to faithfully execute the law, but by your logic we'd need to launch an inquisition against every patrol officer who lets speeders off easy. There is such a thing as good leadership that doesn't follow the law to the letter.
Re: Rent-seekers in DC: This is a funny comment coming from someone who lives in an area that is thriving off of siphoning money from the rest of the country. That is, Houston is booming because high oil demand and prices are pushing the oil companies to try and scrape up the last bits of (expensive) oil left. Meanwhile, Houstonians are happy to roll around in GMC Yukons to pick up a latte at the Galleria while people all over the country are struggling to pay for gas to get them to work. What's even more sinister is that this money also goes to pay for a media and political campaign that claims we'll never run out of cheap oil and climate change is bunk: therefore keep driving your cars and buying our gas.
All that said, I agree, as a liberal, that Obama is a huge disappointment and is continually stretching the interpretation of the law to allow outrageous things like broad NSA spying and assassinations in foreign sovereign territory. He's also failed to re-orient our economy to a new post-industrial, high-cost energy reality. I've always said it would've been better to be stabbed in the chest by McCain in 2008 than get back-stabbed by Obama in 2009.
Posted by: Houbagger | November 16, 2013 at 09:50 AM