In 2008 then candidate Barack Obama promised that if elected president, he would clean Washington D.C., bring warring political parties together to work for the common good of our nation and our people, that he would implement policies which would reduce the high unemployment, which at that time was at about seven per cent, that he would heal the fractured relationships that war had brought between US and the nations of the Middle East and Far East, and that he would turn the ship of state around from what he called “the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” He promised he would do all of these in one term.
Perhaps the greatest promise he made that trumped all of these was to eliminate the decades long political infighting and corruption of lobbyists descending on Washington, and bringing accountability and transparency to the Oval Office and how government conducted its business – no more corruption and secrecy, no more politics as usual that predominated the Clinton years, and the second term of the Bush years – no more of the type of politics that characterized the mud-slinging, excrement throwing personal attack and hit job of large political machineries that characterized American politics for almost a generation. He promised he would do every one of these things.
Then he made his most audacious promise; he promised that he would “fundamentally change the United States of America.” The nation was experiencing an economic crisis unlike any it had experienced in thirty years, and it was ready for a sea change, and it voted accordingly. The 2008 elections was a watershed on many levels, and the press was there to capture the historical significance of it. But underneath what people were seeing on the surface, great changes were going on, significant changes being put into place that would secure unheard of power to the Executive Branch of government.
Almost immediately, people and processes were put into place that would all but make every promise Obama made a broken one, while on the surface the rhetoric and the image created and promoted to the public was one of a historical statesman at work to bring the nation around with new and bold fresh ideas. It wasn’t that Obama was not aware of what was going on, as some might assume; he was keenly aware of what was going on, in fact, his people – those in charge of the transition from the Bush Administration to his – were putting these very same elements, processes, people, and teams into place everything that they had planned before the so-called “Honeymoon period was over. The Honeymoon period is that time immediately after taking office when criticism of a new president or elected official’s policies are kept at a minimum in order to give them time to fit into the responsibilities of their new post.
Axelrod, Emanuel, and Team Obama were there to secure the great changes Obama would need to carry out his planned agenda early in his presidency. If they could be called efficient, they were in respect to doing what they wanted to do. Now whether what Obama and they wanted to accomplish was what was sought, with the results as we have had them this three years, is another question. There are those who claim that the economic downturn was planned from the beginning, and that George W. Bush helped set the stage for Obama’s election and facilitated the change Obama was about to initiate once in office. There are others who point to the abysmall history of command economies and the failed policies of socialist nations such as the old Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, the satellite countries of Eastern Europe, and Obama’s embrace of Marxism as inevitable failure; doomed to fail from the start. There is still another group of thought that believes Obama’s misled policies were not planned by him, but by others following the Cloward and Piven model of planned implosion; where an economic system is overwhelmed by the weight of its own spending that it collapses in on itself and allows for it to be replaced by another.
I am of the opinion that what Barack Obama has brought has been a combination of all of these, and much more, much, much more, as we have yet to see.
But, aside from this is the fact that not a single promise Obama made – to clean up Washington, to bring accountability and transparency to the presidency, to stop the decades long politics of recrimination that the Clintons developed into an art which had marked Washington for almost twenty years, to stabilize the Middle East by building strong friendships with our allies and understanding with our enemies, and bring the economy around by fostering an socio-economic policy that would encourage business growth and investment, thus spurring new job creation in the private sector – all of these promises, he broke, and all of these, his policies on all of them without exception; have had the opposite effect of what he had promised on the campaign trail. Obama is a failure, or he is exactly what he wanted to be; the one who would “fundamentally change the United States of America.” After three years, we have a track record to go by of his vision for change, and it is not a good one, and it is not one which the American electorate voted for.
2008 was a watershed. Obama, a Neo-Marxist/Leninist with Maoist leanings and an ideology and world view based on the teachings of Black Liberation Theology couple with pro-Muslim proclivities secured the White House, and the Democrat Party secured both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. They, that is the Democrat machinery already had significant control of the courts throughout the country, especially the federal courts; now they controlled both houses of congress and the presidency. They knew they would never again get such an opportunity to secure their power and solidify their operations throughout the country, though they had done successfully for decades since the Great Depression of the thirties and the post war period. But, now they had unheard of power, and they used it accordingly.
For the next two years – from 2008 to 2010 – Democrats in the US House, led by Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D. Cal.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D. Nev.), worked with the Obama White House to pass every measure, every piece of legislation, and every policy that Barack Obama asked for, including the Affordable Health Care Law; commonly known as Obamacare. Transparency and bi-partisanship went out the window, and every parliamentarian trick they could use, every bribe, every kickback, every threat they could bring to bear upon members of their own party who were wayward and did not know how they would vote on Obamacare, these people made in order to pass the mammoth 2000 plus page piece of legislation that nobody knew anything about; only that they had to pass it for Obama. They didn’t pass it, they rammed down America’s throat, and it will go down as the worst piece of legislation in this country’s history; with far reaching implications years to come upon our economy and our costs of our health care if not revoked. This congress was dubbed as “the Imperial Congress” and this president as “the Imperial President.” Their power however, was short-lived, because the American people had enough of it.
In 2010, the American electorate spoke, and Democrat incumbents, some whom had held their post for decades, whose political machinery back at their states were unrivaled, who had incredible war chests to draw upon; on election night, were voted out of office, and their political careers came abruptly to an end. On every level, in almost every state, district, county, and municipality, Democrat incumbents were thrown out of office. One thing they all had in common besides the fact that they were all Democrats, was their ties to the the White House – that is, the Obama White House, and their support for its policies. The only few exceptions where this was the case, was where moderate to conservative Democrats (a dying breed) ran against Obama’s policies back home.
It has been a battle royal everywhere the large union-backed political machineries throughout the country have felt their decades long power base of operations threatened, such as Wisconsin and Ohio, and they have come out in large numbers from across different parts of the country, but in places like Wisconsin, the people have spoken, and four out of five recalls the DNC made were won by the Republicans being recalled. In Ohio recently, it was a mixed bag, largely because the governor and the GOP allowed the unions to outspend and out campaign them. On election night, the number of union public employees who went to the polls outnumbered the population at large. Yet, it was a mixed victory for the unions and the Ohio Democrats, because a referendum against Obamacare was almost overwhelmingly supported by the electorate. The government/media complex of alphabet soup channels, and their counterparts in radio on cable, of course played it to the hilt. But what they failed to report was the routing the Democrats received in Virginia.
There were seven new seats that Virginia Republicans added to their majority in the House of Delegates, giving them an effecive two-thirds of that chamber's votes; something that some call “the party's largest margin in history.” In results that were nothing short of amazing, the GOP also secured control of the Virginia Senate – “results that were especially notable,” as one writer put it, “given that Virginia Democrats this spring crafted an aggressive redistricting plan that had only one aim: providing a firewall against a Republican takeover of that chamber. Even that extreme gerrymander didn't work.”
What was even more notable was that every Republican incumbent—52 in the House, 15 in the Senate—won. The state GOP is now looking at unified control over the Virginia government for only the second time since the Civil War, and this is after winning all three top statewide offices—including the election of Governor Bob McDonnell in 2009, and knocking off three U.S. House Democrats in the 2010 Midterm Elections. While the media focused on Ohio, it missed – spiked – what occurred in Virginia, a key state if Obama wants to win reelection in 2012.
What do these returns show? They show that the American electorate can make a difference, yes even where DNC money and union muscle and numbers are strongest. How? Because no matter how well organized and well funded, and well coordinated the political machineries throughout the urban areas and other parts of the nation are; they cannot and will not trump the greater numbers and enthusiasm of the once sleeping giant American electorate next year. Obama, your days are numbered. May your days be few, and may another take your office.
The American electorate will have to come out in great numbers; indeed even greater numbers than they did in 2010, and vote consistently against every Democrat running for office, every RINO (Republican In Name Only) running for reelection, and specifically vote against the reelection of Barack Hussein Obama, if they want real and substantive change and recovery bring the country back from the brink of self-destruction and the Red Obama Political Heresy – an aberration and cancer that took the nation for a long season, but that the American people will have the chance to vote out of power in one year, if the Lord wills it.
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