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.
(bingo)
How was he chosen by the elite so many years ago?
I think most people didn’t think he was a muslim. Plus he was black and promised free stuff.
Due to demographics, we may never have a conservative president again.
That is a very good question.
Do we have a Manchurian candidate on our hands? I think so.
He only does what his masters tell him to do.
I don’t know about that. We have many conservatives who are minorities.
For instance. Look who Oklahoma just elected as Speaker of the House.
http://www.okhouse.gov/District.aspx?District=62
Nonsense,
But Conservatives must support AMERICAN JOBS.
That is the point. What we have been doing, is eliminating our own voters.
Support American jobs.
Bring them back now. Grow our jobs base, and decrease our deficit.
Stop buying imports.
Advocate for America. For a change.
The construction and agricultural lobbies in Texas are very influential. They have contributed mightily to Gov. Perry’s campaigns for re-election as Texas’s Governor and towards the state’s legal stance on tightening up security along the border.
There are a huge number of Texans who have close family and business ties to Mexico, and this has a tremendous weight with how the state votes on the issue of border security.
Now it has become too dangerous for Americans to travel casually into Mexico, even to go there for a day’s shopping or an evening out to dinner.
Oh yes now I remember that story!! Gosh.. imagine if that had been Obama’s church?
Bush was having trouble getting 60 in the Senate and so he made yet another deal with the devil, dems and the corn states.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 and then the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 both mandated increased us of (corn) ethanol gasoline which was a complete disaster, it was as stupid an idea as subprime loans for those with bad credit and no money was, another time bomb. It made us more dependent on oil not less because it is so inefficent and is dirty to produce.
I remember about 2005 as oil prices went up O Reilly bitching how we could become energy independent on mandated (corn) ethanol and my alarm bells rang..
At the time I knew there was no way it would work, but now Iowa corn farmers make sure we are prisoners to it. Burn the food supply is great idea
Bush is a big reason why we are here, but obviously not the only one.
Funny Obama STILL blames Bush. But quite honestly.. Bush hasn’t had much to do with anything since 2005ish.
He was a lame duck President after those mid term elections.
I remember that now. Agreed, terrible idea.
Winner!
-——Now it has become too dangerous for Americans to travel casually into Mexico——
Yesterday I visited a company that has a plant in Chihuahua Mexico. On site preshipment inspection is often required for their products. They have begun shipping products to their American plant for inspection because Americans are reluctant to visit the Mexican facility
bump!
bump!
The media refused to vet because they were afraid of being called racist.
Isn’t Oklahoma considered the “most red state”?
Obama handily won the Black, Hispanic, and Asian votes. I hope you’re right about minorities becoming conservative, but I am not optimistic.
“Nonsense”
Do you mind backing that up with an actual explanation?
As for bringing jobs back and buying American, I agree with that.
I agree....and they continue to do the same thing:o(
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