Obama: it was a very good year
Have you noticed all the end-year political summaries about how great Obama has been in 2014, despite some setbacks? Not to mention Obama’s own glowing assessment? And the approval polls climbing upward into comfortable territory again?
Its the meme the media and the administration have been pushing, relying on the ADD and suggestibility of the American public. Obama and the MSM count on most people not paying close attention; after all, life contains a lot more than boring old politics.
Don’t ever forget, either, that some of Obama’s earlier low approval ratings came from people on the left thinking Obama was not being leftist enough. His more recent boldness on that score despite the 2014 election results have delighted them.
The threat Obama represents to the Constitution? Most people neither know nor care about the Constitution—just results, and if they like the results they don’t see any danger. To way too many people the Constitution is some fusty book written by old white men, something they were told long ago to learn about and respect but didn’t and don’t. They have no idea what the Constitution protects them from, or how brilliant it is, or why, or how. And it is the design of those who would thwart the Constitution to keep them ignorant, helped along by laziness, the press, and human nature.
But I hate to be so negative, especially on New Years Eve. Here’s to a wonderful 2015!
With Obama’s new diplomatic initiative announced today I am sure 2015 will be even better. See here
Why do you hate Our Last Black President? He is a dreamy shade of chocolate and he tastes like chocolate flavored chicken, too. I guess Haters gotta Hate.
Happy New Year.
If your intent is to neuter and isolate this country; divide the citizens by race, gender, and sexual preferences; and generally cause havoc I suppose it has been a very good year. Mission accomplished Mr. O!
Its the meme the media and the administration have been pushing, relying on the ADD and suggestibility of the American public..
If that really is the case for the American public, then they deserve everything they are about to get.
I would like to think otherwise, but given the fact that this empty suit has been elected twice, albeit dishonestly the second time, I am pessimistic.
On that note, here’s hoping everyone has a happy New Year and let’s also hope that the American public is smarter than Obama, the media, and the left give them credit for.
It was a good year according to Obama and his followers; Did they hire Baghdad Bob to work for them?
Charles: “Did they hire Baghdad Bob to work for them?”
His three Press Secretaries – Gibbs, Carney, and Earnest (what a perfect name) – all seem to have attended the Baghdad Bob school of journalism. They prevaricate perniciously.
We are not Keeping our Republic, it seems, so this year, and the previous several, are accursed in my eyes.
I’m not wearing shades now either.
It’s time to leave the USA – GIVEN ALL OF YOUR POINTS, I HAVE NO HOPE OF A ONCE GREAT SHIP OF STATE EVER BEING RIGHTED.
The power of evil is not a small thing.
It’ll be funny if in a few decades the US is dark as hades at night seen from the sky, just like North Korea, except for the Democrat communities that get power due to special favors.
While I agree that the average person knows little about the Constitution, I don’t think this really matters. It’s when the people who do know or should know (like Obama who taught it, or judges) ignore it where we really run into trouble. They should be self-limiting and use their knowledge of the Constitution and its precedents to guide their decisions accordingly. It shouldn’t matter what the polls or the other political party says.
To use a sports analogy. The spectators don’t need to know all the rules of the game – but we expect the umpires/refs to. We count on them to get it right, and they do most of the time. Of course, if all the spectators know nothing then they wouldn’t know if any mistakes were being made. And to keep with the theme – we couldn’t count on the sports writers to point out any mistakes (since they are in favor of the team they are rooting for).
Tom Murin:
But umpires are by their very nature objective appliers of rules. Politicians are by their very nature people who are likely to want to usurp power and take advantage of the rules. The politicians are not really there to enforce the rules but to abide by them. The politicians are more analogous to the players, and the people and the judges more analogous to the umpires—and the judges are suspect because in many cases they are appointed by and approved by the politicians.
And the pundits are there to sell newspapers and/or increase TV ratings.
No, in the end it is up to the people.
Ymarsakar: I don’t see that happening unless the Chicoms take out our power grid. We need to keep the bread and circusses running – so the lights will stay on.
Tom:
Neo is entirely correct, the power seekers have never been willing to abide limits. They are like cows that continually push against the fence lines seeking the weak spot where adventurism awaits. The People have to do the advising, the umpiring, the overseeing, the course correcting, the limiting; always riding the fence lines, chasing back the escaped cows and mending the fence behind them, making it stronger than it was before.
No one else has the stakes, nor the numbers, that the People do. It’s the way our system of government was designed to work, and it cannot work otherwise.
An educated, morally sound, informed and engaged populace jealous of their freedoms is a must. From such a populace can be drawn better politicians, and their overseers.
My family has been in Chicago since the beginning, so I was born knowing that government is a form of racketeering, albeit necessary and sanctioned. I recall the names and faces of the Chicago pols of my childhood. Cynical? Yes. Certainly, they were crooks; sneaky and greedy, but not nearly as anti-American, perverse, malignant or stupid, as today’s coiffed, and credentialed suits. They mostly knew better than to ….kill the golden goose, …..or eat the seed corn. In that time frame, for the most part, Chicago was the city that worked.