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.
First off, we have to ask that question a (lot) more than we do right now. More often, and louder. Over and over.
I have some ideas, as do some other FReepers.
But specifics can be held off, for a more general discussion of American jobs.
Bush and Rove believed that by pandering to these minorities it helped them get elected. But in reality it helped Democrats.
Normalcy Bias is the core answer to the question.
Were it not for this phenomenon of the human mind, Obama would NOT be president;
Were it not for Normalcy Bias, our national news media would still be the watchdog of our democracy.
Were it not for Normalcy Bias, our educational system would not have fallen to foreign communist influence.
Were it not for normalcy bias, the housing bubble of 2008 would have never happened... our national debt would not have doubled in a 4 year time span.
Normalcy bias is central to the strategies of a communist nation in their efforts to infiltrate and dismantle free societies.
Freedom cannot exist in an immoral society.
Patience has it’s rewards... even for communists.
And we still cannot accept the reality that our country is under attack from within. That would not be normal.
We have taken our freedom for granted, and we have dismissed God as our sovereign.
The loss of freedom is inevitable.
Exactly... who would've thought, on the heels of 9/11, a mere seven years later, a pro-muslim who was raised as a muslim and attended a madrassa in Jakarta, with the middle name of "Hussein," would've had a breath of a chance of being elected to the highest office in the land?
I was SO hoping that was a one-time national error.. one that would be decisively corrected on Nov. 6. And then he won again.
I've lost hope in the future of America.
Even now. The republicans are so afraid of even saying President Bush’s name. During the campaign they could have easily pointed out how Bush was handed 9/11 and two wars and yet we have 5% unemployment throughout most of his presidency. Until the rats took over the house that is. They never even mentioned it.
There are SO many reasons we got here it’s going to take a Herculean effort to get Republicans names out of the mud.
I’m afraid Democrats have so destroyed that brand in the media that it’ll take a huge effort and fighting back in a big way to ever win another national election.
You hit the nail on the head.
They who control the media, control the elections.
Demographics and white guilt.
Stop outsourcing!
Bring back US jobs. Now.
The Media is totally to blame for Barrack Obama.
They still are.
Crazy that 7 years after 911, a muslim would have any chance to even get nominated.
Well it did help Bush get re-elected, Rove strategy.
But in the long term that is a key reason why we are here and why Republicans still have trouble getting voters to trust them on the economy over O.
Bernake played a big role in this too keeping interest rates too low for too long. House prices went up too high too fast, and the poor with bad credit were given those crappy subprime loans which were time bombs to blow up once the music stopped, and the music was the low interest rates, it stopping was them having to be raised as prices soared.
And the Democrats began blocking drilling every chance they got.
What happened to all those promises by Bush of drilling?
Fraud, gimmee promises, God put him in office to put this country through horrible Judgement for rejecting God, etc.
It had to be a mathematical "odds" thing. He took the entire black vote from Hillary and Hispanics would follow. It was all about demographics and dumb Dem loyalty....aka 47%.
What he did was beat the Electoral College.
I really believed that after the Wright (I refuse to call him Rev.) came out, it was over. No American could possibly vote for someone who spent 20 years in that man’s church. I was very wrong.
Enlighten me. How is it the GOP's fault that jobs have moved overseas?
I can understand that businesses have decided to get away from the unions, minimum wage laws, oppressive regulation, and other negative impositions championed by the left.
What role did the GOP play?
No, republicans never wrote down Rules for Conservatives by Ronald Reagan. Alinsky was absilutely correct in his assessment on how to break the capitalist system to a point where socialism is the only solution.
Reagan showed Conservatives how to do the opposite. After 30 years, still no one on the right has listened to Reagan. Well, maybe Palin but she received no support.
We can take back this country very easily.
The Republican party is perfectly content in fighting Conservatives, but does nothing but bend over and take it from the Rats. Just look at Boehner's recent behavior and then remember Breitbart's lament, "Where are the men in the Republican Party?"
Where indeed?
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