The Republican presidential campaign thus far has been so
bizarre and, frankly, depressing, that some of us have failed to
adequately cover worrisome developments on a number of other
important fronts. By ineptness and, worse, by deliberate design,
Barack Obama daily makes this nation weaker abroad, less free (and
more authoritarian) at home, economically more feeble, and in the
civic realm
more bitterly divided than ever. Meanwhile, ominous
developments crowd the world stage. In short, we’re in a big heap
of trouble.
The recent litany of Obama’s odiousness begins with his
growing, unambiguous war against traditional Christianity. He has
now left no room for any pretense otherwise to be believed. Right
on the heels of a unanimous Supreme Court, including his
own two appointees,
smacking down his administration’s attempt to kill the
“ministerial exemption” for employment practices of faith-based
institutions, an unchastened Obama has
decided that even faith-based organizations must provide
insurance that covers contraception — even including
abortifacients.
This is not just a narrow policy disagreement; it is, as
Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh
wrote, the president’s way of saying “To Hell With You” to
people of faith — “To hell with your religious beliefs. To hell
with your religious liberty. To hell with your freedom of
conscience.” Zubik continued: “This is government by fiat that
attacks the rights of everyone — not only Catholics; not only
people of all religion. At no other time in memory or history has
there been such a governmental intrusion on freedom not only with
regard to religion, but even across-the-board with all
citizens.”
Obama’s broadsides, plural, against religious liberty are
only a part of his radical transgressions against the U.S.
Constitution. Conservatives are
rightly up in arms about Obama’s illegal
recess appointments. Obamacare, of course, contains several
anti-Constitutional
abominations, including the “individual mandate” and the
Independent Payment Advisory Board. Meanwhile, his administration
is flagrantly violating precedent by trying to force explicit
hiring quotas on the Fire Department of New York, in a case in
which a key amicus brief was filed on January 24 at the U.S. Second
Circuit Court of Appeals.
And so on.
Abroad, this man leading the Occupy the Oval Office
movement is even worse. He threw away a clear victory in Iraq and
may be doing the same in Afghanistan. His fecklessness regarding
Iran, perfectly in line with his long record of favoring Shia
interests, is now leading to a crisis of the first order. His
strange mishandling of the Egyptian revolution has left the United
States with very little leverage in a country that for more than
three decades was a major American ally, and has left Coptic
Christians
scared to death. He long ago insulted allies such as Israel and
Great Britain, repeatedly and with malice aforethought. He seems to
have no real relationship of any positive nature with any allied
foreign leader, perhaps with the exception of those in Brazil,
whose oil exploration he subsidizes while blocking tens of
thousands of jobs that would come from domestic energy production
he has snuffed out. And he seems hell-bent on a mission to starve
the American armed forces to dangerous thinness.
Killing the private college-loan industry. Hobbling
private for-profit colleges. Illegally seizing auto companies.
Whoring for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Turning public policy over
to thuggish union bosses and destroying jobs in South Carolina to
do so. Turning the Justice Department into a thoroughly corrupt,
lawless, racialist, hyper-politicized, gun-running,
vote-fraud-enabling, bullying arm of the left wing of the
Democratic Party. Regulating the life out of almost every aspect of
the economy. Buying political support by funneling taxpayer money
to failing private alternative-energy companies. Lying with the
Supreme Court sitting in front of him about what they decided in
the Citizens United case. Lying about so many things that
one loses count. Roiling racial tensions every chance he
gets.
This is a man who has no interest in serving the United
States that most of us know and love. Instead, he’s a man who, by
hook and definitely by crook, serves the despicable vision of the
utterly foreign America he wants to impose on us.
Four more years of this guy in power, and we are doomed.
He is a menace, and, by every legal means possible, he must be
stopped — and his maladministration reversed and thoroughly
buried.
