Larry McDonald often made that remark about the folks who surrounded him in Malfunction Junction.
Posted on 07/15/2009 5:59:24 PM PDT by pissant
Barack Hussein Obama is not a stupid man. Regardless of how and why he was accepted to Columbia and Harvard Law School, he apparently was intelligent enough to achieve passing grades. (I say apparently, because no one has actually seen his college transcripts). It is also true that he is not a slothful man. Through his well-rehearsed, savvy, and populist political rhetoric and demeanor, he has been able to inspire left leaning Americans to follow and support him with great enthusiasm. The type of enthusiasm that has been decidedly missing from conservative American circles for the past 20 years.
But if history’s scars have taught us anything about national leaders and politicians, it is that intelligence and cunning do not necessarily equate to wisdom. And Barack Hussein Obama has yet to demonstrate that he possesses even the vaguest ability to produce wise and reasoned judgments.
You are not wise if you claim to be a constitutional law professor, yet do not comprehend the basics of the Constitution. Where, pray tell, in the US Constitution does it allow for the federal government to seize private companies, such as GM and Chrysler, and then have the president’s underlings decide which auto dealerships are allowed to stay in business? Where does the Constitution permit the Feds to create a government run health insurance entity -that will surely undercut private providers - in order to “keep them honest and help keep prices down”? Toss in a career-long hostility to the Second Amendment, and it becomes obvious that Obama subscribes to the nebulous “living breathing document” school of constitutional study.
You are not wise if you neither understand nor appreciate America’s standing in the world, as a beacon of freedom and righteousness; and the enemy of evil. In his travels, Obama has never once failed to apologize for America to people who are either envious or disdainful of our nation. He apologized in Turkey for America’s “strained relations” with that country and with islam in general. He apologized in Cairo for the US flat lining Saddam and establishing an Iraqi democracy in the Middle East. He apologized during his campaign in Berlin for “our actions around the world that haven’t lived up to our best intentions”. He apologized at the recent G8 summit in Italy for America causing fictitious ‘global warming’. And perhaps most egregiously – standing the Monroe Doctrine on its ear, he apologized that the United States has “not always stood as it should” in Latin America, while attempting to justify his jaw-dropping support for reinstating a Hugo Chavez sidekick back into the Honduran presidency.
You are not wise if you do not understand the nature of our enemies and rivals, or the history of nation-states. Promoting unilateral nuclear disarmament that will sacrifice our arsenal for leftist, politically correct “peace in our time” may put a smile on Vladimir Putin’s face, but it is dismantling the leverage that generations of patriotic cold warriors constructed. De-funding missile defenses and advanced space-based weaponry may be the cause of Champagne celebrations in Beijing, Pyongyang, and San Francisco, but it will leave our military in a position of inferiority for the first time in decades. And coddling terrorists by handing them US Constitutional rights on the battlefield may please the ACLU and Bill Ayers, but it a policy of national suicide.
So how do conservatives fight this onslaught of misguided, unwise, and dangerous policies?
1. Conservatives must reject ‘political correctness’! It was the GOP’s and John McCain’s politically correct instincts that prevented them from exposing Obama’s radicalism during the campaign. The best they could cough up was that Obama’s policies seemed “socialistic”. Balderdash. Obama’s policies then and now are rank marxist constructs. Obama has never had anyone other than far left radicals for mentors. Even when the MSM handed the McCain camp the anti-American, racist Jeremiah Wright on a silver platter, they refused it. McCain gave some sorry excuse about not wanting to impugn a man’s religion. What does hate for Israel and America and gross distortions of US history have to do with a man’s religion? Conservatives must be willing to point out that everything Obama stands for goes directly against the grain of our Constitution, our history, capitalism, and common sense. When Obama nominates a racist “wise Latina” for the Supreme Court, conservatives have the obligation to point out that racism and defeat her, instead of excusing it. The radical Latino groups that threaten conservatives by vowing to work against them have no intention of EVER supporting a conservative. John McCain’s Spanish language Amnesty ads, which aired throughout the SW during the campaign, earned him absolutely nothing but scorn from Latinos, as evidenced by his precipitous drop of support in comparison to George Bush. And keep in mind that in 2000 and 2004 George Bush was dead set against “amnesty”. Instead of dismissing out of hand the research that conservative bloggers uncover - because afterall they’re just bloggers - patriotic politicians need to assign staff to monitor these efforts and chase hard after the facts (while dismissing the chaff). If they had done so in 2008, Barack Obama would still be a harmless back bencher in the US Senate.
2. Conservatives must fight relentlessly to block Obama’s marxist agenda. The most effective way to resonate with the American people is to fiercely defend the constitution while advocating American Exceptionalism, local control, tradition, and rejection of the nanny state. We must consistently draw attention to the deficiencies of the existing federal bureaucratic cluster-f*ck and the horror stories it produces. If the democrats can trot out “victims” of the – you name it – insurance industry, second hand smoke, the mining industry, big pharmaceuticals, etc, then surely conservatives can find scads of genuine victims of the IRS, the EPA, OSHA, Medicare, and judicial activism. No compromises on the socialist fantasy called ‘Cap and Trade’. No compromises on a health bill that expands the reach of the federal government in any way, shape or form. Conservatives must work tirelessly to expose and deflect Obama’s myriad plans to neuter our military - with everything from repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, to slashing our Missile Defenses, to canceling funding for our best fighter jet, to unilateral nuclear disarmament. If Obama “wins” these legislative battles, the consequences must rest solely on the shoulders of the president and his cohorts Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Giving these plans the legitimacy of “bi-partisan” cover is a recipe for conservatives to remain in the wilderness.
3. Conservatives must offer Conservative solutions. There is no lack of great ideas to address the pressing issues of the day. The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Club for Growth, and dare I say the Falcon Party all have some excellent ideas to move America forward towards liberty, security and prosperity. And there is no lack of data to support jettisoning the FALSE pressing issues such as ‘global warming’, gays in the military, and amnesty for illegal aliens. Instead of a 2nd or 3rd stimulus plan that wastes trillions, advocate slashing capital gains and corporate tax rates to be the most business friendly nation on earth. Instead of regulating coal out of existence for the ruse of saving the planet, advocate fast tracking nuclear power and clean coal plant permits, with donations of federal lands to build them on. Instead of letting Obama pick the winners and losers of the emerging “green” technologies, advocate tax incentives to further their development and demonstration. Instead of surrendering to the siren song of socialized, federally run healthcare, advocate the elimination of regulations that force insurance providers to include things like abortion and mental health services for those who have no desire to have this crap in their policies. Instead of dangling federal dollars over the heads of state/city run schools to have them standardize per the wishes of federal bureaucrats, advocate the elimination of the Department of Education altogether; and refund all the billions of dollars to the states that are currently being collected, skimmed, and then returned with sticky strings attached. Instead of drastically cutting dollars out of the defense budget to pay other government expenses, advocate the elimination of 25% of the federal government departments and personnel. Americans will be shocked at the amount of useless, expensive, anti-constitutional nonsense that exists in the federal leviathan, if conservatives take the time to fully illustrate it.
With the confidence our founders had in capitalism, individual liberty, private property, and constitutionally limited government, conservatives must move forward to challenge and destroy the entire premise of government hyper-activism that has led us to where we are today. And with Obama now in the oval office, this activism, better known as marxism, threatens to take America from a free enterprise superpower to a sickly vassal state. America is worth saving – and only a return to conservative governance can spare her from this decline.
Wisdom is what our founding fathers had. And they created a constitutional republic. Cunning is what Saul Alinsky had, and what David Axelrod, Hillary Clinton, Bill Ayers and Barack Obama have. And their efforts to tear down this republic will fail when conservatives stand proudly on the shoulders of America’s giants and reclaim our heritage.
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This blister will pop eventually.
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Be sure not to miss this. He will discuss Hussein’s background as well as the bc issue
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Brilliant strategy!
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We gotta pop it. Slick Willie had two terms and 911 is what we got in return. Obama is much worse than slick, and he has both houses of congress.
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The best summation I've seen of this regime changer. Worse, I feel he's in bed with these dictators and hopes to pull-off a 'quiet' revolution here, north of Venezuela and Cuba.
It takes balls to try to pull it off in a country where a 'gun' may be found behind each blade of grass. Sodamayor looks like a riding mower, but she ain't gonna 'cut' it.
I would put all the loathesome crew around him in ads. Never waste a crisis, right Rahm?
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Larry McDonald often made that remark about the folks who surrounded him in Malfunction Junction.
Worldwide conservatives seriously need to work together to successfully defeat all forms of worldwide leftist politics for always! This isn’t just a U.S. problem, it’s also a worldwide problem! Political indoctrination in government run schools, at each and every level, is a worldwide problem, and leftist bias in the MSM and in the entertainment industry is a worldwide problem! Political correctness is a worldwide problem, and the ongoing “dumbing down” of the general public is a worldwide problem!
There’s only one thing that’s going to stop the Obama/Left
juggernaut from building its Leviathan, and that is a MASSIVE show of strength in DC and at all statehouses during the summer. Whatever bills might pass before this grassroots “uprising”, we must demand they be rescinded and reversed. I am beginning to think only what used to be called ‘civil disobedience’ is going to work this time around, and on an unprecedented level and scale.
Something is askew. He has allegiances other than the US constitution, and other than run of the mill liberalism
Great strategy. Too late. But great strategy.
Not too late. We need to defeat him, and his policies, going forward. We have managed to infuse a spine in some republicans, so we need to keep the pressing, every day, every issue.
Hell, they would enthusiastically support Satan himself if he said he was a liberal.
True, but somehow idiots like Fritz Mondale and John Kerry couldn’t pull it off.
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