Posted on 12/11/2012 5:18:10 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
So how did we get here? How did Barack Obama, a relative unknown get elected to the Presidency of the United States? With much of the public not knowing who he is, where he was born. Almost nothing of his background was investigated.
Besides election fraud, I think you have to look way back from 2004 to 2006 to see how we headed down this road. Starting in 2004 George Bush was re-elected on the heels of an early Iraq effort.
But that effort soon became another Vietnam, at least in the media, as Americans were faced with daily and sometimes hourly reports of US Soldiers being killed by bombings and terrorist attacks in Iraq.
Bush's popularity began to wane. High approval numbers in the 60's and 70's soon bottomed out into the 40's and below. By 2006 Bush had been so demonized by the media that Democrats were able to gain control of the House and Senate.
Here is an article from that time for some perspective from the Washington Post.
Democrats win control of House and Senate.
"Democrats captured a majority in the House of Representatives in midterm elections Tuesday, as voters delivered a rebuke to the Bush administration and the governing Republicans amid an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq and a rash of scandals tainting GOP incumbents in several states."
With the Democrats now in control of both chambers they went to work right away. Barney Frank became Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
Frank began pushing for banks to give home loans to almost anyone. Michael Bloomberg, as much as many of us don't like him, makes a good point in this article below.
"But they (Congress) were the ones who pushed Fannie and Freddie to make a bunch of loans that were imprudent, if you will. They were the ones that pushed the banks to loan to everybody. And now we want to go vilify the banks because it's one target, it's easy to blame them and congress certainly isn't going to blame themselves. At the same time, Congress is trying to pressure banks to loosen their lending standards to make more loans. This is exactly the same speech they criticized them for."
Frank said at the time it was the American dream for people to own homes and banks should make it super easy for everyone to get loans.
Problem is after a few years many people could not afford those loans and the bottom dropped out. Causing the home mortgage crisis.
Here is an article from CNN for some perspective on how things began to take a dip in less than a year from Frank's policies.
"The fall of housing prices from peak levels reached earlier this decade cut deeply into home building and home purchases. This also caused a sharp rise in mortgage foreclosures, which in turn resulted in losses of hundreds of billions of dollars among the nation's leading banks and a tightening of credit."
During this time the price of oil began to skyrocket as well.
"In 2008, the price of oil went ballistic, but the U.S. was already in a recession [it began in Dec. 2007]. There was no rational reason oil should have gone ballistic. The Fed’s easy money just fueled a bubble. It was like a $500 billion tax on consumers courtesy of the Fed. That’s the added amount that it cost you, and it helped push consumers over a cliff in late 2008."
During the election of 2008 this is why you heard Sarah Palin constantly saying "Drill baby drill". But the press was more focused on demonizing her than what she was actually saying.
So by 2007 the economy was in free fall due to the home mortgage crisis and skyrocketing gas prices. Both of which, if you remember, were blamed on Bush at the time.
Plus there was still the shadow of a failing Iraq war effort. All of the problems were blamed on Bush, whether they were his fault or not.
Democrats blamed Bush for everything.
He was so demonized that he barely even showed his face during the 2008 campaign. Bush refused to fight back againt Democrats and a press that slandered him.
Democrats beat into the American people's brains that Bush was responsible for the free falling economy and problems overseas. As if they hadn't been in power at all!
Obama, riding on a wave of anger against Republicans at the time won the presidency based on hope and change.
So recapping here, the villains are.
The American Media - for making it possible for Democrats to continually blame Republicans even when they're not in power! That continues today.
The Democrats and Barney Frank for helping cause the home mortgage crisis which sent the economy into a free fall.
And the Republicans such as George Bush, for allowing themselves to be defined and blamed for problems not of their own making.
And by the way that continues today. The Republicans only control the House, but a recent poll taken said most people would still blame Republicans if taxes go up.
Why you ask? The Media tells them who to blame.
1- Dem vote fraud (about 2 Million critical votes)
2- Stupid conservatives who’s hate for Romney, blinded them to Obama’s evil intent for America. (about 3 million idiots)
3- Terrible messaging by Romney. (about 5 million “undecideds”)
Wow.
We are under complete Soviet domination of media and entertainment as they planned long ago. The reason that we are not sent to the gulags for what we are posting here is because they realize that we are utterly powerless to change it.
We either bring jobs back to America, or we will fall.
It is that simple.
The GOP has played the international game and now is running out of room.
Either we bring back US jobs, or America is gone.
And let’s not forget about that attempt on the lives of dozens of members and families at the Wasilla Bible Church, which was set afire as Obama’s thugs were departing the Wasilla and Anchorage area after the 2008 election. Sure it was just a coincidence... Obama’s thugs in town and the church fire... sure it was...
Anyone else notice how that attempted mass murder conveniently dropped out of “media” coverage?
Race card
They’ve also been outsourcing jobs here at home, by bringing in foreign nationals.
Texas is a great example of that practice. The Texas Democrats want to expand the number of Democrat voters and the Republicans want to exploit cheap illegal workers. Together they have created Hell for the this nation with millions of illegal aliens invading our nation.
Now before Texans get all uppity, it is also happening in California, Arizona, and New Mexico, but no nearly to the extent it has occurred in Texas.
How can the GOP bring back jobs to the U.S.?
Because he is not white, that is, he is negro
I’d never even heard of that! And I consider myself someone who reads the news every single day. lol.
I’ve been trying to figure that one out,too. Especially in the light of 9/11. I mean, for-cry-eye, there should have been such a level of distrust towards Muslims after that, that no one with a name remotely close to a muslim name should have been in any office! I mean, for pity sake, after WWII, politicians were shaving off their mustaches so people wouldn’t think of Hitler!!!
Then why is Texas still solid GOP? Everyone has been predicting it going blue for years but it still goes GOP.
Do you think it is slowly trending that way? Arizona is the same way. Arizona is one of the most solid GOP states around.
I think what helps is that Conservatives currently control these states. Oklahoma for instance has passed immigration laws and voter ID laws. And we now have a Republican super majority.
Many red states that passed voter ID laws became even redder, especially at the state level.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28213500/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/chief-palins-home-church-damaged-arson/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2406387/posts
Jobs will not “be brought back to America”
A return to American full employment will result from the creation of new products and new capabilities.
I agree. And Keith Ellison, a Muslim got elected. I think it’s Americans short term memory loss.
They have been raised up on the Snooki’s, David Lettermans and Jon Stewarts of the world.
Bush pushes minority homeownership (FR post | June 15, 2002 | By KATHY A. GAMBRELL)
Bush seeks to increase minority homeownership (FR post USA Today ^ | 1-20-04 | Thomas Fogarty )
President Bush Mortgage Speech 2002(Helping those w bad credit buy houses)
Compassional conservative was proved to be a huge failure under Bush as all those minorities voted Democrat by 2008 after they lost all those homes promoted above.
And I’m afraid that’s going to get stopped when Obamacare begins to take hold...
The goal of Obamacare, to destroy the United States.
Revelation: He's not really black, it's not really free.
You asked :)
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