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.
His grandfather was CIA. His mother worked for CIA from time to time and who is to say Obama was not brought into the fold. I also always remember the story of Bill Ayers’ father’s home. The mailman was invited into the home for his Christmas tip. He met a young Obama who told him he would be President someday. Obama knew a long time he was going to be in the White House.
I believe if we continue on the sell-out path we are on now, the GOP is finished.
However I strongly believe if the GOP takes to position that US jobs are to be built and strengthened, and turns to American jobs strongly ... RIGHT NOW.
The GOP can embark on a massive regrowth.
It must stop outsourcing. Now though. As things are headed, the GOP is bound for historical irrelevance.
a large swath of dependents
labor unions
fear mongoring
illegal immigration
voter fraud
a dirt stupid electorate
a compliant and complicit media
sports/alcohol/porn
low opposition voter turnout
and of course, as mentioned above... free stuff
And a live for today mentality
He came out of the Chicago Marxist scene back in the 1990s, made some early Commie friends, joined Wright’s Black Liberation church, and then punched all the right tickets in local thug politics, gaming the system then entire way.
I would add that the 2008 financial meltdown appears to have done some sort of lasting psychological damage to the country. People now seem far less trusting of Capitalism and free markets than they were previously. I think the desire for bigger government is sadly real, and is the result of some pent-up desire to see banks and Wall Street punished for 2008.
I think if we had experienced a normal recovery cycle people would have shrugged this off and figured that the markets are self-healing. But because it has dragged on so long (part of deliberate Obama strategy, I’m now thinking) they are beginning to give up on this faith, and are now questioning our entire economic system for the first time since the 1930’s.
Reagan did a very smart thing in that he prosecuted hundreds of bankers in the S&L scandal. It reaffirmed people’s faith in the system. In this case no one has gone to jail for the ‘08 meltdown, and in the minds of many that represents a lack of justice.
True that Obama is the one who did not go after them. But the media has taught the public to always blame Republicans when a businessman gets away with something shady.
45 years of Third World immigration. Obama is their President.
Demographics have changed. In California Americans are a vanishing species.
Thank your local Open Borders Republican. The Democrats sure do, they just don’t do it openly.
Okay, we are in agreement on those points. Thanks for the explanation.
He had help from bigger people than that.
“How can the GOP bring back jobs to the U.S.?”
For a start, by not electing Republicans who push bills like this:
“For example: VDARE.com has good friends in the DC-based immigration patriot groups. But they would be the first to admit that they have been unable to prevent the GOP House Leadership celebrating Obama’s re-election by passing, in the lame-duck session, a bill (H.R. 6429) to increase legal immigration, by giving visas to foreign students who get U.S. advanced STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics] degrees—at a time of massive unemployment among American-born graduates!”
I’m not disputing that, but once he got hold of the Chicago thug machine, he was able to tap into larger Illinois politics (getting himself “elected” to the State Legislature), and then the DNC, which put him front and center as keynote speaker at the 2004 Rat convention, thus naming him as Kerry’s most likely successor (as either president or candidate). Through crook and hook, he won his U.S. Senate seat in 2006, and instead of going to work for his constituents, he hit the 2008 campaign trail.
Good summary of events.
Np.
It is time to reverse course.
America first.
Either with the GOP, or if they won’t lead with another party.
Stop selling out American jobs.
Now.
Is that bill for workers to work in the US? How does it affect bringing jobs back to the US?
Yes, there IS that (the free stuff); and then, too, there’s the fawning, pseudo-intellectual lamestream MEDIA that hangs on every word of the “Teleprompter King”, strews his path with rose petals, and falls all over themselves becoming in reality what they’ve accused us Conservatives of being all these years.
If he stole the election in 2012 who is to say he didn’t steal it in 2008..
Republicans don’t to know how he did it, and most don’t even CARE..
Thats WHY the republican party is today doing “WeekEnd at Bernies”..
With Boehner and McConnell holding “IT” up by the arms..
Republican “Bernie” Smoking a joint..
Republicans are leaving this corrupt party in droves..
Many I know of personally..
Bush and Juan McLaim were BAD but Romney was beyond the pale..
The republican party is quite dead you know..
Remaining; Republicans have become Morticians..
You are the ultimate broken record.
Unions hate competition. Democrats hate competition. Conservatives thrive on it.
Your position on trade is the same as Bernie Sanders (Socialist) Vermont and the major labor unions.
I do not, and never have, advocated unions.
A big difference.
Whether you advocate them or not, your position is the same as people like Bernie Sanders and the big labor unions.
You don't like competition and don't understand why it is such a boon to the consumer. If your policies were in place we'd still have the big 3 auto makers in Detroit churning out garbage, union made vehicles.
Competition is a good thing. Bloated, corrupt unions and terrible government policies that prevent us from competing properly are bad things.
Buy American.
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