Posted on 04/24/2011 4:54:28 AM PDT by IbJensen
Gas prices have more than doubled since Barack Obama took office. His deficit spending makes George Bush look like a rank amateur. 78% of Americans recognize inflation is on the rise. One dollar bill buys less and less. We’re a little bit more pregnant in Libya, but just barely. Our foreign policy is rudderless and often against our best interests.
Today comes news that for the first time since the Great Depression, more Americans get government money than give the government money. Americans are dependent on Washington for the livelihoods.
Also out late yesterday, CNS News reports that we will hit the legal limit on the national debt in less than a week. This is surprising news to pretty much everyone. But the data comes from the Treasury Department itself.
This is no way to enter a re-election campaign. Barack Obama cannot run on hope or change. Instead, he is going to run on fear. It is abundantly apparent and confirmed to me by several Democrats who’d know. Barack Obama’s re-election strategy will be a scorched earth campaign.
Over the next few months, Barack Obama will seek to define the Republicans as willing to kill the old and young, pass radical legislation, and send us into the league of the third world. “But wait,” you say. “Barack Obama has already done that.”
In essence, yes. So Obama is not going to run on defending his record. He’s going to run on saying that Republicans will be even worse than him and, oh by the way, none of it is his fault.
Barack Obama has largely gotten a pass his whole life. He’s never been in a real executive role. By his own admission in his book he was largely a failed community organizer. And now he is failed President.
The only way to hang on to his job is to peddle fear and intimidation of those who’d stand in his way. This is also one reason so many Republicans are waiting to announce their runs. They all know the moment they come out swinging, Obama’s union goons and money will savage them.
At the same time, the GOP has yet to mount a successful attack on Obama to make him own high gas, high inflation, declining dollars, and our declining standing in the world. If they don’t get out there soon, the hill they have to climb will be even higher. Obama himself may leave tracks, but you can be sure that there are individuals within the ranks of the union goons, race warriors and other assorted leftist maniacs who are willing to do violence. Indeed, quite a few tea partiers have been physically assaulted and injured. Republican state senators in Wisconsin have received detailed, credible death threats. Michelle Malkin has compiled a tip-of-the-iceberg summary of the violence and threatened violence by Leftist individuals over just the last few years.
Saul Alinsky, Obama’s great community-organizing model, apprenticed himself to Frank Nitti, the right-hand man of Al Capone.
And please remember that Obama didn’t just sit on boards with Bill Ayers, didn’t just launch his political career in his living room, didn’t just appear at a few public forums with him. No, Obama shared an office with the killer for three years. Shared an office with a terrorist who once held a meeting in which the “elimination” of 25 million Americans was calmly discussed.
And it’s not just mass murder that the Left is so fond of. They’re willing to “eliminate” individuals who get in their way. (Think Don Corleone.) Just ask David Horowitz, whose good friend was bumped off by the Black Panthers. (It became the turning point in David’s life when he began questioning communism). The Left is willing not only to lie through their teeth, steal elections, bully and intimidate people, they are willing to commit murder.
This is still America, supposedly the land of the free, and if someone speaks out against the thugocracy, millions of us will rise to support him or her. There are people who evidently are not one bit intimidated by Obama, not even in face-to-face encounters.Consider the born-alive babies that he voted three times to abandon and let die of exposure in hospital dirty-linen closets.
Up here in Canada, a well-known drug/grocery store is selling a 1 kilo (2.2 lb.) jar of Kraft peanut butter for $7.47. That is scary!
In short, he is an absolute psychopath.
Obama’s policies have been disastrous so he can’t run on his record.
People want to hear solutions, not fear mongering and blame.
He is toast, no matter what he says or does. Just like his mentor Jimmah the Killer Rabbit man.
“There is no silver bullet” - Barak Hussein Obama Hmmm, Hmmmmm, Hmmmmmm...
His Republican opponent’s campaign theme should be Hope and Change, or some play on it. It would be a very good strategy to use against him.
Four years ago I was paying 79 cents a dozen for large eggs. Today they’re $1.99.
Obamanomics.
“Hope and Change” should be the campaign theme of whomever is his Republican opponent.
It is truly “the second Carter term.” We’ll soon get BO’s “malaise speech,”
It is truly “the second Carter term.” We’ll soon get BO’s “malaise speech,”
It reminds me of a slogan I came up with during the Clintoon/Waco years...
Locked and Loaded and Ready to be Exploded! ;^)
That’s outstanding! There is a sticker to slap on gas pumps.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. FReeper freebie.
Thanks, I already stole it. lol
Carter was better than bam a.
Carter was better than bam a.
I agreee totally with this piece.
He is also right that repubs are going to get out there soon and make Obama own this nightmare.
It seems they are all holding out. That does no one any good.
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