Posted on 08/10/2012 6:33:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Those who understand that America is now on the wrong track cannot reasonably vote for Obama in November, because he is absolutely unwilling to change, perhaps even ideologically incapable of changing, course. Evidence abounds.
First, consider his disastrous economic record and his rejection of any semblance of a course change. He and his economic advisers told us his stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent. It didn't. He didn't consider for a second that his policies exacerbated the economic crisis. He blamed Bush and said that if anything, he -- Obama -- hadn't spent enough. He demanded more stimulus packages -- high-speed rail, other infrastructure, American Jobs Act. He continued to grow government in a wide variety of areas; things continued to get worse. No sign of any significant economic recovery; we had the worst recovery in 50 years. No sign of unemployment relief. He didn't change course.
Despite his failed performance, he told us in 2009 that only the government could break this business cycle. He told us in Osawatomie, Kan., that the private sector couldn't lead us back to economic vitality on its own. Recently, he told us that successful entrepreneurs didn't build their businesses -- or roads or bridges or whatever claptrap he pretended to have meant. He refuses to reconsider his flawed notions. Arrogance, as much as ignorance.
If you think that despite all this, Obama may have learned his lesson and will change course going forward, you are fooling yourself. Obama won't change his economic policies, because he is addicted to spending and to growing government on several levels. His economic philosophy, his ideology and his political survival demand that he stay the course.
He firmly believes that only government spending -- Keynesian pump priming -- can stimulate a moribund economy. He believes it to the point that he's willing to bankrupt the nation to do it. His philosophy countenances no other alternative methods of recovery, specifically letting the private sector breathe and recover on its own. That's the economic philosophy component.
He also knows that the most efficient way to redistribute wealth and otherwise reallocate resources from groups he believes less deserving to those he believes more deserving is through an increasingly progressive tax code and more government spending. That is, even if he shared the ordinary American's debt aversion and reasonable anxiety about our horrifying financial predicament, he wouldn't discontinue (hasn't discontinued) his pursuit of ever-greater taxing and spending, because to do so would be tantamount to abandoning his quest, his obsession to fundamentally transform America. That's the ideological component.
Finally, he fully realizes that even if he didn't firmly believe in expanding the welfare state -- incentivizing states to expand their food stamp rolls, extending unemployment benefits, sabotaging welfare reform, increasing the percentage of people not paying income taxes and otherwise presiding over the unprecedented swelling of the welfare state and those dependent on government aid of one form or another -- he would still be compelled to continue expanding it because he believes a great majority of his constituents depend on this expansion. He couldn't win re-election without doing so. That's the political component.
The same general themes hold true for Obama's extremist environmental agenda. His policies are enormously destructive to our coal, oil, nuclear energy and natural gas industries, but he shows no signs of letting up, even though these policies are also manifestly destroying American jobs and otherwise harming the economy. Why would he? He telegraphed his actions, and he's merely fulfilling his promise.
While sabotaging our reliable energy sources, he is also throwing as much federal money as he can at failed green energy projects, which are so ill-conceived that a reasonable person might conclude his goal is to waste money. Solyndra wasn't the only such failed enterprise, as we've shown. There were a dozen others, and despite these failures and the unconscionable waste, he has revealed nothing but a defiant determination to double down and spend more on other such projects. It's mind-blowing.
Likewise, he pursued Obamacare with maniacal intensity, even when the public clearly and emphatically registered its dissent. His response was more haranguing speeches to browbeat the recalcitrant, ignorant masses into seeing his superior wisdom. Even after the stated purposes for his grand design have been shown to be fundamentally flawed -- it's going to bend the cost curve up, not down, and dramatically so, and it's going to leave 30 million people uninsured -- he is more determined than ever to implement it against the people's will.
I am just getting warmed up here; I haven't even discussed his politics of division or his wars on business, our defenses and the Constitution. The bottom line is this: If you like Obama's record, vote for him, because you're only going to get more of it -- way more if he wins and thinks he has a mandate.
Never underestimate peoples capacity to repeat stupidity. Obam could very well be re-elected. “The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter’’.— Winston Churchill.
But the worse thing of all, to me, is that this man is a LIAR. He couldn't tell the truth to save his life. Every statement he makes is "upside-down" WRT truth and fact. He is a disgrace to the Office he holds, and thus our national disgrace
Or worse.
The oath has no power if the one taking it does not believe in God, a higher power who requires truth, knows truth and will mete out punishment if the one so swearing intentionally lies. And indeed, the God we know and worship IS Truth!
IOW, if he actually does believe in God and intentionally lied in taking the oath, then he is in great spiritual peril.
Indeed. This is my supposition: The very act of swearing the oath involved a conscious, deliberate lie. (This alone should qualify as an impeachable offense.)
The fact is: Obama thinks he can lie with impunity, precisely because he does not believe in God, and therefore has no objective standard of truth. The "truth" is what Obama says it is. That is, he is his own standard and measure of "truth." Which is essentially the Cloward–Pivins school which posits a "second reality" designed to dislodge and replace the "first reality" of American society as lived; IOW, Obama seeks to utterly destroy absolutely everything uniquely American, which has made this country truly great and prosperous, and an enduring, indefatigable defender of God-given human rights worldwide.
And of course, this does put him in great spiritual peril. But it is a peril that HE DOES NOT SEE, and so will not/cannot acknowledge, let alone redress.
Meanwhile, this godless hard-left Progressive who lies by instinct is taking a wrecking ball to American society and its most precious institutions; i.e., institutions designed to minimalize state power to the benefit of individual well-being and liberty under God.
This being the case, it just makes me sick to hear the drum-beating for Virgil Goode and/or Gary Johnson that I do hear around here.
I'm wondering: Just what planet do these people think they live on? It seems to me that, failing to see the big picture here, they are constructing second realities of their own that will not do this country any good at all.
JMHO, FWIW.
Thank you dearest sister in Christ for your most eloquent essay/post!
“But the worst thing of all, to me, is that this man is a LIAR.”
He is not a liar, but one who furthers the transformation. Any statement that serves the revolution is not a lie but a courageous step toward change. Any violation of the Contstitution is not a violation but just another movement toward the transformation.
These people have no respect for a bourgois code of morality based upon some book that claims to be the word of a mythical god-being that doesn’t exist. (so say the Progressives.)
They’re confusing the daylights out of everyone because they claim they don’t lie, that they don’t confiscate private property and don’t libel or slander while they accuse the other side of it, as they themselves lie, confiscate private property, libel and slander and call it free speech, helping the middle class or applying the frequently-used cachet of “doing it for the children”.
They’re doing their intentionally-confusing revolutionary dance and getting away with it and they’re absolutely maddening.
IMHO
I gather, dear ripley, that you were speaking "tongue-in-check" in your last. But I did not see the /sarcasm tag in the above lines. That being the case, it appears you might be [mis]understood by an unsuspecting reader as possibly endorsing and "legitimating" the Obamanian tactics....
Other than that defect, you explain what Obama is up to, very clearly and concisely. Thank you so very much for that!
I know you "get it": for you wrote, "They’re confusing the daylights out of everyone because they claim they don’t lie, that they don’t confiscate private property and don’t libel or slander while they accuse the other side of it, as they themselves lie, confiscate private property, libel and slander and call it free speech....
But really, no one could be less committed to free speech than this crowd. If you don't agree with them, then you have no free speech, and can be penalized for what you say.
Of course, all of the above is precisely what "they" are doing. Their political philosophy totally inverts universal human understandings WRT human nature and the natural order of things, both of which are God-given from the Beginning, unto the End.
They say our universal God — the Source of Being and Truth — is a fiction of the imaginations of stupid, superstitious, moronic human beings. The very sort of people that the State must protect against their own "bad" decisions.
IOW, we are not created free and rational by nature by a loving and just God — Who evidently wants us to collaborate with Him as His stewards on earth. Rather, we are so stupid and confused about the nature of Reality that the State has to intervene and protect us against the fallout of any and all free decisions we make as human beings under Natural Law.
Obama does not in any way, shape, or form respect Natural Law. It imposes tests that he cannot meet. What Natural Law posits for its Truth is the necessary correspondence between what goes on in the human mind and the facts of the natural world, including the worlds of nature, of specifically human nature, and of human societies.
Romans 1:20 sums up this problem exquisitely:
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.I just don't understand how an entire class of people, who have earned very pricey higher-level degrees from prestigious universities, can understand so little about the nature of universal reality that specifically human people have experienced for some 44 millennia by now....
Are such folks being deliberately trained for amnesia WRT the human story as depicted in cultural and artistic records going back to the very beginning of the human race?
They say God is a fiction.
This would be surprising news to most of the people who ever lived on this planet, from as far back as the historical records go, to the present time.
Talk about "transformation!!!" Bottom line, it seems Obama and his ilk are trying to "transform" man into something he absolutely isn't: a robotic ward of the state, who gives his free consent to being governed by other mortals deemed wiser than he is.
But these theoretically "wiser" people don't even live in the same Reality that the rest of us do. For they deny universal Truth in order to gain the "liberty" necessary to thoroughly trash the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God. [As the Framers of our society/government put it, what is best and most precious in each and every human person. Thus, it cannot be truthfully said that man is simply an interchangeable machine that can be manipulated by "programmers." There is no Natural Law test that can show this result.]
In such a situation, what a squandering of God's gifts of reason and free will!
I'm gladdened by your reply, dear ripley. Thank you so much!
If you like your SCOAMF, you can keep your SCOAMF.
“I’m gladdened by your reply.”
And I by yours.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ, and thank you for your encouragements!
“Are such folks being deliberately trained for amnesia...?”
amnesia, brainwashing, re-programming...whatever it might be, they’re doing it and the elimination or marginalization Christianity is the key to success.
IMHO
Absolutely, dear ripley!
Which brings to mind the famous dictum of Ivan Karamazov. Although he is a fictional character, he told an immensely great truth when he said that "if God does not exist, then 'all is lawful'."
The takeaway here is: Only by bumping off God can man find his own proper sphere and scope in determining what is to happen on earth, according to the judgment of human instrumental reason in the service of fulfilling human mortal desires.
But if you "kill God," you necessarily kill the lawful and moral order of the world of which He is the exclusive Source.
Not to mention that to say "all things are lawful" is (logically) tantamount to saying that there are no laws at all.
Thus man is "free" to create them according to his own tastes.
I do believe that Obama has taken a page from Ivan Karamazov. As a consequence, his administration and its enablers and codependents are living out of a cesspool of moral degeneracy.
He may not "sound" like an atheist. He "says" all the "right words" of assurance that he is not one. Even today, in America, that identification would be politically risky for him.
But judging from his actual works in office, it is abundantly clear to me that he is one. God places demands on human souls that he simply does not wish to acknowledge, let alone to bear. And he is bringing our nation to wrack and ruin as a consequence. In the process, destroying the legitimacy of our foundational values as a nation — with which he has exactly zero sympathy. In consequence, any person who espouses them is his natural enemy and will be "dealt with," Chicago-style.
I do not understand why so many of my Christian friends seem undisturbed by this situation. It seems they want to fight another battle entirely — i.e., by making Romney the "real" Adversary, thus focusing their angst and energy against him.
To them, it is clear that Romney is the demon in this piece, not the Liar-in-Chief — who only needs four more years to thoroughly ruin us....
Oh well.... FWIW
Thanks again, dear ripley, for sharing your astute insights!
If God does not exist, meaning the living God Who exists outside the space-time universe, then envy, the most-cold-blooded sin of all, becomes both permissable and fashionable.
In his book, “Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior,” Helmut Schoeck calls our humanist age the “age of envy.” By this he means that fewer people than ever are ashamed of being envious, seemingly believing that the fact of their envy is proof that social injustice has been done, that the envious one is in fact justified in crucifying the object of his envy. Schoeck comments:
“Suddenly it has become possible to say, without loss of public credibility and trust, ‘I envy you. Give me what you’ve got.” (p. 148)
But what if the object of envy is the real masculinity of a straight male, or his ability to beget children? Do we dare consider that envy is the driving force behind the “gay” movement to feminize straight males, ridicule those who refuse to submit, and sexually pervert their children?
And what ugliness fuels the virtually nonstop crucifixion of Christianity, the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, “right-wing fundamentalists” et al but envy.
Evil is so frightening because it looks just like us. This being the case, if instead of Jerry Springer’s face and the faces of Katie Couric, Hollywood limo progressives, and Obama and his handpicked henchmen, to name but a few, Americans saw instead the face of the envy-bitten, black-toothed, ever-oily Grimma Wormtongue there would be no more confusion. No more tuning into Jerry and Katie or idolizing Obama and Hollywood progressives.
“...if G-d does not exist, then all is lawful...”
Ask the Khmer Rouge, the V.C., Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh,
Josef Stalin, Herr Mengele, to mention a few, and expecially Uncle Karl Marx. (Honorabel mention to
Uncle Che also, the favorite of American Progressives.)
IMHO
As others have noted, the problem isn't so much Obama, the problem is the fifty-odd percent of Americans who think he is the cat's meow.
Are there enough sane, reasonable, intelligent Americans out there to remove him from office?
Because if there aren't, we are in a world of hurt.
If he gets another four years, you can kiss the America we know and love good-bye.
Because if a majority of Americans can no longer perceive evil when it laughs in their faces, we are headed for dark days.
Obama and the Obamists are everything you say they are and worse. It shocks me that they can get more than ten percent of the vote in a free election.
Talk about the problem of "the tail wagging the dog!!!"
Just goes to show that any expectation that "man is the measure" is doomed from the get-go.... That expectation is utterly false.
Such a belief reflects pure idiocy — a refusal to be human.
The Christian tradition teaches that Envy is a mortal sin, thus something to be shunned and feared if we find it in ourselves — because it is literally soul-killing.
Indeed, it is second only to Pride in its destructive power.
The list goes like this:
PrideThat envy can be justified as a "norm" of human behavior pretty much suggests to me that the "human project" left up to the discretion and direction of envious souls is utterly hopeless.
Envy
Anger
Sloth
Greed
Gluttony
Lust
And that those who think Envy reflects some truth about the universe of human existence are destined for the Second Death, lest they mend their ways....
Early Church Fathers held that pride + covetousness + hate = envy and when unbridled leads to the physical murder preceded by the spiritual, i.e., verbal crucifixion. This means that Abel and then much later Jesus Christ were spiritually crucified before being physically murdered.
In this light Schoeck’s concern is understandable in that the verbal (spiritual) crucifixion of the envied, i.e., straight white males, Christians, Tea Partiers, Palin, et al is already politically and even socially acceptable.
Not to mention that to say "all things are lawful" is (logically) tantamount to saying that there are no laws at all.
Thus man is "free" to create them according to his own tastes.
Indeed, modern man I suspect would like to take scissors to the Scriptures to render a "religion" more convenient to his lusts.
But God's Name is I AM.
Sad but true, dearest sister in Christ!
For instance, just take a look at what a majority of Catholic nuns are doing right now. I didn't realize they were "unionized." But it appears they are....
But if there are no laws at all, then what you have is a state of anarchy. Thank you ever so much for your kind words of support!
p.s.: I'm going to be totally offline the next two days. Got some moving to do, FBO my parents....
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