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Obama’s Dangerous and Disastrous Presidency
Name a single thing that has improved under his rule.
How can any cogent American citizen possibly even consider voting for Barack Obama now? That’s what lots of conservatives and moderates are asking each other, again and again. It’s completely baffling, to those who grew up with any sort of sense of what America means and what the American character traditionally has been, that anybody can look at the man’s record and want more of the same.
Almost the entirety of the Muslim world is now rioting against an American president who promised that his olive branches to Muslims would secure peace. Like Jimmy Carter, Obama has only shown a weakness that has emboldened the Islamist haters. Meanwhile, our closest ally in the region, Israel, a stable representative democracy led by an American-educated, America-loving prime minister, has repeatedly been insulted, abandoned, and undermined. In short, the United States is in worse position with all sides in the Middle East/northern Africa. We are embarrassed, feckless, wounded… and in four tragic cases, dead.
Allies in Poland and the Czech Republic have been repeatedly let down and sometimes insulted. The “re-set” with Russia earned us only Russian contempt. China and Russia ignore our entreaties around the world, with absolute disdain for our wishes, our olive branches, or Obama’s supposedly Nobel-worthy and messianic genius for diplomacy.
Domestically, our debt has increased by 50 percent in just four years, by some $5 trillion, with not a single observable benefit from the spending. Our bond rating already has been downgraded by one agency, and another major agency threatens to downgrade us. Our unemployment rate has never been beneath 8 percent since Obama’s first month in office, even though his economic team said his outrageously expensive “stimulus” package would ensure that it would never rise above 8 percent, and indeed that it would drop below 6 percent within four years.
Our politics is more fractured, less civil, than ever — and as Bob Woodward, of all people, indicates in his new book, this is largely the fault of Obama. He has been the first president in history to push through a major new program without a single vote from the opposing party — and while refusing to incorporate a single major idea from the other party, while ignoring overwhelming public sentiment to pass it, and while bending the rules in multiple ways to force it through Congress. Meanwhile, on the real business of Congress, his Senate allies have ignored longstanding law by refusing to pass a budget for three years now, while twice rejecting the president’s own pitiful budget proposal by unanimous votes.
Obama campaigned with a promise to rein in abuses of executive power, but instead he increasingly rules by executive decrees of dubious constitutionality. Congress won’t pass cap-and-trade, so he orders it anyway. Congress won’t pass amnesty for illegal immigrants, so he orders it anyway. Congress won’t undermine the work requirement in the welfare system, so he guts the work requirements by executive order. And on and on go the abuses.
His Justice Department is flagrantly corrupt and racialist. It told a black majority town in North Carolina that it could not hold nonpartisan elections because voters would fail to elect the black “candidates of choice” if the candidate weren’t identified as Democrats. It intervened against the heroic Fire Department of New York to push racial hiring quotas on the department so outrageous that it would force admittance into the fire academy of candidates who missed as many as 70 percent (!!!) of the questions on a simple entrance exam; and, in blocking all applicants expected to be hired under the previous exam, it prohibited a number of black applicants who actually had met standards from being hired. So outrageous was this abuse that even the leftist Village Voice ran a long feature story taking up for the qualified black applicants whose chances for employment were dashed.
And, of course, DoJ ran an idiotic gun-running program on the Mexican border that led to the deaths of two American agents and countless Mexicans while drawing a rebuke from the Mexican ambassador, and then covered up and even lied about its actions. Also, infamously, it dropped already-won cases against New Black Panther thugs for flagrant voter-intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008 — dropped the cases, indeed, just in time, meaning four days in advance, for one of those thugs again to serve as an official Democratic Party poll-watcher in municipal elections in 2009.
Gasoline prices are twice what they were when Obama took office — and rising again. The housing market remains in the doldrums. Food stamp use is by far at the highest level in history, and poverty is markedly up. Food prices are markedly higher. Small businesses are jettisoning the health-insurance benefits they offered employees until Obamacare made it prohibitively expensive. Doctors are retiring in record numbers rather than face Obamacare’s scourges — and most of the law hasn’t yet taken effect. Coming soon are new taxes on medical device manufacturers: Patients will pay more for wheelchairs, prosthetics, insulin pumps, asthma inhalers, pacemakers, and other essential fruits of modern medical technology.
Taxpayers are on the hook for huge losses from the auto bailouts, even as most of GM’s new jobs have been created overseas rather than here, and even as auto dealerships across the nation were shut down by administration fiat on political bases rather than on the basis of which ones were profitable. Taxpayers are on the hook for politically inspired “investments” to Obama cronies in failing businesses such as Solyndra. Taxpayers are on the hook for higher electricity prices due to a backdoor cap-and-trade scheme imposed by (illegal) administrative fiat.
Religious liberties, meanwhile, are under repeated and sustained attacked from an administration openly hostile to traditional faith. And the president even refuses to defend in federal court laws duly passed by Congress and signed by former President Clinton.
The parade of abuses, incompetencies, extravagances, and illegalities goes on and on. The record of improvements in any sector of American life is… well, nil. Nothing is better, not a single thing, at home or abroad. And Obama has offered no recognizable plans, no new proposals, no substance at all, for making things better in a second term.
This presidency is a disaster. Reasonable people are gobsmacked at the possibility that it could somehow be allowed to continue its degradations of American society.
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Darin| 9.19.12 @ 6:56AM
An honest analysis shows the Obama administration has been a miserable failure. But an honest analysis is not done by the media and branded as "racist" by Obama's minions. I'd like to believe the vast majority of American voters know better. We'll see what happens come November (any margin has to be large enough to overcome the vote fraud I know will occur).
Aristocat| 9.19.12 @ 7:06AM
The Bible predicted that the Anti-Christ would come: " And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders,
and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie
and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
gulfcoastcommentary | 9.19.12 @ 8:04AM
My college campus minister, who was a Hebrew and Greek scholar, said one time that the word translated as Satan could be better translated as "The Confuser". I find that interesting and possibly relevant here.
By the way, my good friend's elderly mother said that she thought that Obama was the Anti-Christ before he was elected. It gave me the chills as I sort of felt the same way.
God bless!
Denver Todd| 9.19.12 @ 10:47AM
Obama isn't the anti-christ, but he is a type of one.
TLP| 9.19.12 @ 3:44PM
Je's not the Anti-Christ.
He's The Beast.
There's a difference.
spike59| 9.20.12 @ 12:49PM
he's the anti-competent
themillenials| 9.19.12 @ 12:58PM
You are an embarrassment to Christianity.
KyMouse| 9.19.12 @ 2:42PM
Wasn't it on the evening of his first day in office that the pick-three lottery number for his home state of Illinois came up 666?
I doubt that Obama is the antichrist, but he is probably paving the way for him.
I do wonder, however, what Obama will do after the presidency, after 2012 or (gasp) 2016. He is still young. Might he audition for General Secretary of the United Nations, and reshape that institution according to his will?
KyMouse| 9.19.12 @ 2:43PM
I meant "Secretary General," of course. Must be dyslexic.
TLP| 9.19.12 @ 3:48PM
He's The Beast.
Revelation 13-5.
Look it up.
spike59| 9.20.12 @ 12:50PM
i would have expected the Antichrist to be a bit more...competent, or brighter, somehow...this one is a dud
TLP| 9.19.12 @ 3:42PM
The Bible says that he will perform Miracles.
I think that I can describe these Miracles.
It's a Miracle that he wasn't Aborted.
It's a Miracle that there are almost 70 Million Dumb@sses in this Country that Voted for this POS.
And, it's a MIRACLE that he's still alive.
florin| 9.19.12 @ 9:36AM
Sept. 19th: Excellent review of Obama's presidency but the mainstream media will continue to prop up the empty suit Obama so we should cut and past this article onto every blog site and paste it into comment space in main stream media internet sites...people just aren't thinking when they say they'll vote again for Obama...why??? a mystery.
Mike G| 9.19.12 @ 10:39AM
Why people don't think isn't really a mystery. They don't think because it involves a sustained effort of the mind, and that is very difficult to do when one has become accustomed to the 6 second sound bites we get from the media. It's much easier to just sit in front of a TV without thinking.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 9.19.12 @ 5:03PM
"Name a single thing that has improved under his rule."
John McCain was prevented from being president , thank God.
Doctor Right| 9.19.12 @ 5:33PM
Slow day at the bath house?
Arimathean | 9.26.12 @ 1:39AM
Then you must be a big fan of G.W. Bush, the guy who previously prevented McCain from being president.
Personally, I can't imagine why anyone would prefer either of those incompetents to John McCain. If McCain had been president for any four of the last twelve years, we would not have a national debt of $15 trillion.
Appleby| 9.19.12 @ 7:26AM
First, "cogent" is the wrong word above. This is a word used only to describe the intangible. Look it up.
Many of my Christian friends have asked each other, "Do you think only Believers can hear what these lunatics are actually saying and see what they are actually doing?" When a person paying only marginal attention can sum up the failure of Obama and his crowd as above, why is it that half the country never hears any of this?
Alej| 9.19.12 @ 4:41PM
"...why is it that half the country never hears any of this?"
For one thing, more than half the country, by scientific definition, has an IQ of 100 (average Caucasian) or below.
JohnTee| 9.19.12 @ 7:27AM
It's nothing short of phenomenal just what this political ghost has done to almost dismantle the American empire. It helps a lot that the electorate has been split, politically polarized, dumbed down and morally weakened when compared to even their recent ancestors. But the attack seems to cover all bases in the attempt to subvert, make useless and replace many of our long established practices and traditions, with nary a peep from the "loyal" opposition. If you want to know just how some ancient civilizations were able to suddenly disappear, leaving not so much leaving a trace of their wherabouts, I suspect that it might have started something like this.
I've commented elsewhere on this site that I think the process has had considerable outside help, but were we so tenuously in possession of our ideals that they could crumble in less than a generation? The jury's still out on that.
TLP| 9.19.12 @ 9:53AM
Why so surprised?
Ronald Reagan, himself, warned us that the Loss of Freedom and Liberty was always "One Generation Away".
I think that some of us are UNDERESTIMATING the Reach of The Muslim's Destruction.
Another Big Coal Mine just shut it's doors. GM is opening up a buncha New Plants - IN CHINA. Manufacturing is Cratering in this Country. Hunderds of Thousands of Car Dealership Workers were thrown out in to the Streets in the United Auto Workers Bailout.
Union Iron Workers, Steel Workers, Welders, Carpenters, Pipe-fitters, Riggers, and Truckers are Shopping at Pay Less, while Drilling for America's Energy Recources on Federal Land, is VERBOTEN. As The One tells Canada to stick their Pipeline up their XL.
People living around the Border. People who've been outta work for as long as they can remember.
Our Military Personell, and their Families.
We got 28 MILLION people outta work.
That's a lotta Votes.
Oldefarte| 9.19.12 @ 2:17PM
Excellent [as usual].....BRAVO!!!!
Aristocat| 9.20.12 @ 1:17AM
"Political Ghost"...I like that phrase..
rjh| 9.19.12 @ 7:35AM
As has been written by others in several places: We can survive obama, but we cannot survive an electorate which would put such a man into the office of the President.
Gary B| 9.19.12 @ 11:49AM
"It's completely baffling, to those who grew up with any sort of sense of what America means and what the American character traditionally has been..."
Isn't that the problem? Many people voting today did not grow up this way. They're products of a corrupt education system, lead by immoral people. In short off-the-chart political correctness had undermined traditional American society.
There is hope. We're not outnumbered yet. And, regardless of what many Republicans think of Romney's conservative bona fides, he's a moral man. After being soaked neck deep in Obama's and Hillary's so-called leadership, how refreshing is the prospect of simple morality returning to the White House?
Belianis | 9.19.12 @ 12:40PM
What is plus-refreshing to me is the election of a NORMAL man as President; can anybody describe the Obimbos and the Klingons as NORMAL people?
Curtis Rasmussen| 9.19.12 @ 3:39PM
I have a financial adviser who's in her 70's. During our last meet I brought up concerns about insulating myself from another stock market crash directly tied to Obama's policies.
Do you want o know what an elderly, educated individual who knows a thing or two about economics told me? IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!
This is how an incompetent clown like Obama gets elected. People are so enthralled by him that they'll ignore the truth. Just like entitlement slaves who will do anything to keep the checks flowing, these cult-o-personality slaves are in the Dem's back pocket, no matter what happens.
TLP| 9.19.12 @ 3:55PM
You might wanna get a New Financial Advisor, before this Dumb@ss sinks your Life Savings into Solar Panels, Windmills, Tofu, and The Clapper.
I'm just sayin.
Alej| 9.19.12 @ 4:43PM
A compelling reason for re-instituting strict voter qualifications.
Alej| 9.19.12 @ 4:44PM
Why'd this get stuck way down here ? I was talking to rjh !
gulfcoastcommentary | 9.19.12 @ 7:59AM
Great list of failures of the Administration. Check out my "36 Good Reasons to Defeat Obama" at my blog at http://gulfcoastcommentary.blo.....bama.html. I could add about 10 more reasons if I updated it!
Frank Drackman| 9.19.12 @ 8:10AM
before y'all get your tar and feathers(how come nobody gets tarred & feathered anymore?), the only DemoKKKrat I've ever voted for was Zell Miller, and I thought there was a printing error on the Ballot...
Butttt................... I can think of 3 thangs that are better
1: Auburn increased there number of National Football Titles by 100%*
2: The Senator from Mass-a-chus-etts, who incidentally, abandoned a young lass to asphyxiate(NOT drown, there's a difference) finally got into Jehovaha's sites.
3: The DemoKKKrat Senator from West Virginny, also slipped into The Surpreme Be-ings Kill Zone.
4: Bin Laden, who despite his Evil-ness, never left a young lass to asphyxiate(not drowned)went down like the Pussy A-rabs have been through out his-strah.
OK, that's 4,
Frank "Gone Atone-in" Drackman
SUBVET| 9.19.12 @ 12:15PM
Frank...........that would be "Mass - a - to - sh*ts".
TW in SC| 9.19.12 @ 9:32PM
2a: ...and has been sober for 37 months.
Controse| 9.24.12 @ 10:52AM
About that Senator from Massachusetts. What does it say about the moral compass of the citizens of a state that would vote such a man into such a high office time and time again? If they are not depraved what are they? His political career took priority over her life and he is their hero.
c. j. acworth| 9.19.12 @ 8:26AM
"Name one thing that has improved under his rule"
Gun sales. The firearms industry is doing great. What does that suggest to you?
TLP| 9.19.12 @ 9:54AM
Contest on Friday.
Prizes.
mike 3/505| 9.19.12 @ 11:04AM
DW-S Pinup!
TLP| 9.19.12 @ 7:22PM
I don't get it.
mike 3/505| 9.19.12 @ 11:44PM
Check my post from yesterday! I explained why...in detail. HardyHarHarHar! :-)
spike59| 9.21.12 @ 6:13AM
i just threw up in my mouth a little
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.19.12 @ 4:22PM
cja;
That was my thought when I read the headline, along with ammo sales, gold sales, survival food sales, etc.
Louis Jenkins| 9.19.12 @ 8:55AM
And I thought Bill Clinton was the supreme liar. Obama has beaten Bill Clinton hands down. Clinton can not even cast a shadow compared to Obama. And since Obama can't seem to get his act together, and never will, just lie. Now I know Obama comes from a long list of liars. There's his mother, his father (which ever one), his grandparents, Bill Ayers, the Reverend from Chicago, and so, but what's more interesting is I haven't seen a president who didn't stretch the truth to suit their needs, but Obama just plainly lies. In fact, the last four years have been nothing but that. The American public (at least 47%) believes every word that dribbles from his fat lips. They do not search for content or truth, he said it, therefore it must be so.
Mike G| 9.19.12 @ 10:44AM
Wow-is 'fat lips" a racist term? Nah, can't be...look at Mick Jagger.
Doctor Right| 9.19.12 @ 5:34PM
I think the PC-term is "soup coolers"...
ElGordo| 9.19.12 @ 8:55AM
Jimmy Carter lost Iran
.
Pres. Obama lost Egypt and Libya
.
Either Obama is naive about the Muslim Brotherhood or he wants them to take over the Mideast.
.
See O'Reilly's Super Bowl Interview of Pres. Obama on Youtube where O'Reilly warns Obama about the Muslim Brotherhood....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6HyXCHndmk
.
DID YOU KNOW THAT OBAMA GAVE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD FRONT ROW SEATS AT HIS 2009 CAIRO SPEECH
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THE FACTS PROVE THAT OBAMA WANTS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO TAKE OVER THE MIDEAST
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A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS A VOTE FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
Frank Drackman| 9.19.12 @ 9:35AM
Hey Fatso,
Tu ere Maricon,
sorry, just practicing my S-spain-ol,
Por que,
WHEN YOU TYPE WITH ALL CAPS ITS LIKE YOUR SHOUTING, HOMO.
So stop shouting, before I go all Yunel Escobar up side yo' Haid'
Frank
Anthony| 9.19.12 @ 9:00AM
Well Quin, if Obozo wins re-election, say goodbye to the Republican Party and America.
However, we will fight to save America, we will not lift a finger to save the R Party.
Somebody please get that message to Romney and his braintrust.
It's time Romney act like a leader and not a John McCain wannabe. Mark Levin was right last night, the Ds seek a dictator, we seek a leader.
So far, the Ds have what they are wishing for.
delahaya| 9.19.12 @ 9:18AM
What can you do in a country where less than half poulation is both working in the private sector AND paying taxes? What can you do in a country where ALL the major media outlets, save one, are liberal to the point of subjectivity? What can you do in a country that has imported millions of poor, uneducated peasants from Third World countries? I still have some hope, but I'm beginning to think even Reagan couldn't win in today's climate.
phadras| 9.21.12 @ 12:06PM
You have a revolution or a civil war, that's what happens when things are like this. If Obama is reelected this is our future. I live in a very red state and secession is a common topic at the COURTHOUSE!! A house this divided simply cannot stand. We all know this.
Derek Leaberry| 9.19.12 @ 9:20AM
Obama has failed on most fronts. But there has been some achievements from a conservative point-of-view. His failings helped fuel the 2010 landslide election. He's getting us out of Bush's miserable failure in Iraq. He's getting us out of the non-nation of Afghanistan. And he did the right thing in having Osama bin-Laden killed.
delahaya| 9.19.12 @ 9:26AM
I guess, but we are NOT out of Afghanistan. As a matter of fact, more than twice as many troops have been killed there in Obama's first 3 years as died in all of Bush's eight years. You can look it up since the media won't cover it.
Frank Drackman| 9.19.12 @ 10:14AM
Tell the USMC Harrier Squadron Commander who was murdered in the Stan' last week that he wasn't in Afghanistan.
Oh yeah, you can't, cause he's dead, I mean "daid"
Frank "Pulling for the Small Cell" Drackman
delahaya| 9.19.12 @ 9:24AM
The media won't even do the simplest of vetting of Obama. Most Americans still don't even know he's a smoker. Would say "was" but the admission he quit seems to be another lie. Now, I'm not even saying smoking is necessarily bad, what I'm pointing out is the fact its a pretty obvious fact about someone. For the American people (other than political junkies) to not even know this requires more than just oversight and neglect by the media - it requires active suppression. That is just one small example. The other is his pothead days. Without blogs and small conservative outlets NO ONE would know Obama was a "choom master" in his youth. Unfortunately, most of the American people still don't know. They are too busy working and taking care of their families and the MSM all around them won't cover it.
Boar Hunter| 9.19.12 @ 11:32AM
Marijuana and cocaine "when he could get it" purchased from an older homosexual man whom he wrote fondly of in his year book.
Obama is the biggest charlatan to ever be foisted on the American people. It would be funny except he is evil to the core in everything he does. Obama is the spawn of evil and was trained in evil ways.
Maybe someday people will pull back the curtain and find out the truth hidden in Oz. Unfortunately Obama will have flown away in his balloon long ago, leaving those who worshiped him sounding pathetic in their excuses and those who knew him with an empty I told you so.
Obama had the chance to be the most beloved and honored presidents in the history of the United States. He has degraded the office and shamed America. Obama has set back race relations 50 years. He is a liar and a fraud. Obama is a sub-par man on any level you care to name.
Thanks to the evil that is Obama, and a Republican establishment that is comprised of cowards, America is on the brink.
Obama, in all his arrogance said we could absorb another attack. I wonder? Will the weakness of his policies manifest themselves here on our soil?
Everyone is worried about Israel attacking Iran before the election.
What if the Muslims attack here first? Would they perceive more benefit before or after the election?
Frank Drackman| 9.19.12 @ 9:36AM
Looks like the only hope for America is Small Cell Lung Cancer....
Frank
Bob Grant| 9.19.12 @ 9:39AM
Quinn,
What a great synopsis of the obama presidency. You left out nothing.
Highly readable even for the "confused knuckleheads", michelle o's description of the undecided voters.
And more importantly, all factual.
To put it succinctly. As the Great One (Mark Levin) recently stated: Reelecting Barack Obama would be tantamount to national suicide!
Al Adab| 9.19.12 @ 11:17AM
Gosh Bob:
I can think of many statistics that have improved under Obama.
1. The number of government employees
2. The numbers of people receiving food stamps
3. The number of people receiving unemployment paymants
4. The number of people believing govt can solve their problems
5. The economic strength of China
6. The amount of unrest in the Moselm world
7. Fundraising by the GOP
All these measurements represent the greatness of this administration. I'm sure others could list even more.
mike 3/505| 9.19.12 @ 5:01PM
"I can think of many statistics that have improved under Obama."
AlAdab, "increased" does not equal "improved." But we know what you meant. :-)
Regards,
Mike
Al Adab| 9.19.12 @ 6:26PM
Mike:
Thanks for the comment but I did use the word I meant to. To The Left increases in dependency are improvements. It means more of "the needy" are getting other peoples' money just as they deserve. It is, after all, the function of government to provide charity under compulsion is it not?
I doubt though that they would approve of #7.
mike 3/505| 9.19.12 @ 11:45PM
Ahhhhhh.
Frank Drackman| 9.19.12 @ 10:16AM
Don't worry y'all.
I've got video of Obama joking with Jerry Sandusky about bu-foo-ing little boys.
gonna wait till November 1st, there's a reason you don't pull out the 2 minute offense in the first 1/2.
Frank
Controse| 9.24.12 @ 11:05AM
Won't help. His voters would ask "How do I sign my son up?"
Kwan| 9.19.12 @ 10:23AM
The suckers, saps, and morons that are voting for Obama are not realizing that Obama is a one-trick pony. While he is a master of rhetoric he is a colossal failure in actually manifesting anything positive that he can campaign on. Which is why he must try to convince us that Romney is evil personified. We actually have a man running for President of the United States that is begging the electorate for four more years in office, so that he can continue his reign of destruction. The fact that the failure Obama is anywhere close in the polls is that we have a population that has become balkanized, no longer considering themselves Americans, but members of this group or that group. America has remained free and prosperous for a long period of time due to a set of values that have paved the way to success. We don't need some skinny, jug-eared, Chicago street hustler telling us that we must now be transformed into a Communist People's Republic so that he can be El Presidente-for-Life
capesailor| 9.19.12 @ 10:27AM
Obama did do two very poitive things--he prolonged the recesion so long fewer inllegals are crossing the border and he devalued the dollar so much that it is now cheaper to hire American auto workers than send the work North to Canada
Who Knows?| 9.19.12 @ 10:29AM
It’s easy to understand why Obama still gets a stable 47% or so approval.
He’s black.
The depredations you list ARE devastating. But, consider his base.
With over 90% approval by blacks, he gets an automatic 16%. That leaves a mere 30% or so. Can you say “totally uninformed hard core Democrats”?
Who would have thought that putatively electing a black man to purge us of the sin of slavery would result in so much trouble? Just proves that the world always bites, and BITES BACK. Karma.
Perhaps that’s the simple reason the race appears to be so tight.
When one guy automatically has 16% of the voters always locked up, no matter what he does, do the math. His opponent needs 51 out of the remaining 84, or 61%!
Also, there exist more robotic voters in the Hispanic cohort, who know nothing about the troubles Obama has brought.
However, it’s probably NOT just the racial crap, but the utter ignorance and willful blindness of Obama supporters that makes the difference.
Opinions and facts always fight. Eventually, reality either affirms or negates one’s opinion.
May facts win, this time!
Denver Todd| 9.19.12 @ 10:41AM
But he is black and wears glasses like a rockstar!
Pecos Pete| 9.19.12 @ 10:45AM
Why has DHS bought/buying 1.4 billion rounds of ammunition?
Maybe chaos from hyper-inflation and the results of everything caused by King O and his czars?
Gary B| 9.19.12 @ 6:54PM
Unless DHS is preparing for a foreign war, the bullets are for us. That they're lying about it doesn't increase one's comfort factor.
The government has redefined honest citizens as domestic terrorists. High time we redefine the government as Public Enemy Number One and quit thinking DC politicians are on our side, which is the side of the Constitution. Washington DC is anti-American through and through.
Frank Drackman| 9.19.12 @ 11:13AM
top 10 Thangs that have improved since 1-20-2009
#10 Rodney "I have a Scheme" King failed to obey basic safety rule: wait 90 minutes after smoking Crack to go into pool.
Frank
SUBVET| 9.19.12 @ 12:24PM
Mr D..........you the man.
Who Knows?| 9.19.12 @ 11:35AM
From Jennifer Rubin---
It is remarkable that anyone pays attention to the mass of pundits, both left and right, who have gotten so much so wrong in this election cycle. You'd think after three or five or even 10 goofs, the pundits would be more sheepish and the readers and viewers more wary.
Here’s a brief recap of some of the media assertions, delivered with great certitude, which proved to be dead wrong.
1. Romneycare would prevent Mitt Romney from getting the nomination.
2. Romneycare would prevent Romney from making an argument against Obamacare.
3. Texas Gov. Rick Perry was a sure thing.
4. The GOP would pick a tea party favorite as its nominee.
5. Romney’s $10,000 “bet” in a primary debate was going to wreck his campaign.
6. Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom’s “Etch-a-sketch” remark was going to kill Romney’s chances.
7. Romney’s remark about owning two Cadillacs was going to doom him in Michigan.
8. Romney’s comment that he was most concerned about the middle class and not the very poor who have a safety net, which may need fixing, was going to cripple him.
9. Romney’s Bain experience would kill his campaign.
10. Romney’s foreign trip would kill his campaign.
11. Romney would have to release more than two years of his tax returns.
12. Romney’s remarks on the embassy attacks were the most important issue and would kill his campaign.
Who Knows?| 9.19.12 @ 11:36AM
More--
13. The Democratic National Convention bounce for President Obama was meaningful.
14. Clint Eastwood was a disaster.
15. Picking Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as a VP was a mistake
You do have to wonder if anything the media have propounded as political wisdom has been right. No one gets everything right in a campaign, but if a pundit or reporter got most of these wrong, why pay any attention?
Nancy in NC| 9.19.12 @ 4:08PM
I don't. Unfortunately too many get their news from Bill Maher and Jon Stewart...and believe everything coming out of their swarmy mouths.
The truth beknown is America is ill...very ill. Our culture is as corrupt as the politics. Not only do we have million on food stamps, few of them have any shame, and the left wishes to remove the stigma. Can you believe credit cards at fast food resturants now?
When anything goes, everything's gone.
Frank Drackman| 9.19.12 @ 11:41AM
#9 West Vir-ginny Senator Robert KKK Bird begins eternal Fili-bluster....
Frank
themillenials| 9.19.12 @ 1:03PM
Fear is an impediment to critical thinking, as this site exemplifies. Bush led us into the biggest economic disaster since the great depression, and while the recovery has been slow, 30 straight months of job growth is obviously a good thing. And some of us have access to health care we didn't have before. The US has a powerful auto industry again, and car companies are paying back the government. You are every bit as free as you were four years ago, but with a bit less economic uncertainty hanging over your head. Obama is an average/good president, and quite centrist. I recommend you get out more.
Frank Drackman| 9.19.12 @ 1:22PM
I recommend you suck my Yunel Escobar.
Frank
rjh| 9.19.12 @ 2:26PM
Did you drink the grape or the orange?
Nancy in NC| 9.19.12 @ 4:17PM
Does anyone wonder why Obama will be reelected. This moron thinks the Marxist in chief is a centrist. You know the guy who hates everything about capitalism, freedom and liberty.
The US auto industry sucks, and even GM wants the government to be gone. They don't like being called "government Motors". Be willing to bet "themillenials" has never read the Constitution and has little knowledge of checks and balances. After all, Maobama thinks he's the emperor and finds Congress to be an impediment to his desire to be King of the World.
Wonder what little surprise(s) Ozero has for us after the election. You know, the little whisper to Medvedev to be passed to Putin?
Economic uncertainty?? The dollar is almost worthless and we owe over $16T to China and the Fed. Yep, great we are indebt to the banks of the world. And you numbskull? You think you're free? God help you. Oh, I'm sure you don't believe in God either...how about the tooth fairy?
Anthony| 9.19.12 @ 4:43PM
56 consecutive months of over 8% unemployment. Where the hell did you get the 30 straight months of job growth? G. M. wants out of the bailout, Obozo said NO.
Man, you be a serious crack smoker.
Conservative Bob| 9.19.12 @ 4:52PM
The US has a powerful auto industry again... that is news. GM will never pay back the government nor will its subsidiary financial services arm which got money from TARP. The value of the stock would have to increase 400% for the tax payer to break even. The Volt loses about 49K per sale and has halted production. GM’s market share and Chrysler’s market share continue to decline.
As to freedom a fool who made a stupid movie was taken into custody in the middle of the night for the high crime of expressing his opinion. The Gallop agency published polls that the administration didn't like and found itself in federal court. Gibson Guitars was punished because its CEO gave money to the wrong political candidates. The government is now free to compel us to buy or do anything it wants without limit so long as it is called a tax.
My suggestion is that you loosen you belt take you head out of your ass and take a look around.
Oldefarte| 9.19.12 @ 2:28PM
Excellent accumulation of facts of the last four, but I remain somewhat depressed. Do the American people GET IT [which they failed to do pre 11/4/08]? It's now being reported on Braitbart that there were no US military guards at the Libyian embassy where four diplomatic personnel were killed, and that the Secty of State signed off on the employment of a private security firm for same who's contracted demanded NO BULLETS be used by same. Also the result of TAS's notification of a Alabama statewide referendum concerning the application of its rainy-day funds to pay for general fund expenses resulted in a 65% to 35% approval of same. Where is the outrage? People still don't GET IT and the extreme possibility is that this POTUS and his fellow Democrats will not be defeated in November. When will America WAKE UP [and will it been too late when/if it does occur]?????????
Kwan| 9.19.12 @ 3:34PM
If this is true the election is already over.
1.) The Obama Government has outsourced the counting of votes for the 2012 election. But since WHEN does the nation need to outsource a task as uncomplicated and straightforward as vote-counting?
2.) Obama outsorced the counting to a Tampa Florida company, named SOE, that had previously been used to administer the vote counting process for over 500 American jurisdictions.
3.) But recently, SOE software has now been sold to a company named SCYTL, owned by George Soros, headquartered in Spain.
4.) The votes will go to SCYTL, the question becomes as to WHY Must local votes for each precinct will be downloaded to SCYTL’s main server – leaving no TRACEABLE record of how many, and what votes were scored! Which of course means that said votes will be MERGED; and any discrepancies at lower levels will be IMPOSSIBLE to track.
5.) But wait, it gets murkier: SCYTL is shadow owned by Pere Valles, a former CEO of Global Net; who just HAPPENS to have been a maximum level contributor to the Obama Campaign in 2008. Not surprisingly, Valles is also has contacts with Media Matters, a communication consortium owned by: George Soros.
FBX1999| 9.19.12 @ 3:38PM
All this talk of Obama being a "failure." He's NOT a failure. He is doing exactly what GatesBuffetSoros hired him to do - bring down the United States and thus the rest of the world so that a one-world oligarchy can be imposed on the survivors from the ashes. If you look at all that he has done from this perspective, he's been extremely successful.
World economy on the brink, Middle East about to go nuclear, race war on the horizon in the USA - it's all good! (If you're a deluded Lefty or uber-rich oligarch - for the rest of us, not so good).
Ronsch| 9.19.12 @ 4:45PM
And in today's news....DOJ's IG has decided that Eric Holder knew nothing (despite emails to the contrary) about F&F until February 2012!
Still, the lemmings are out in force to ensure NerObama gets another four years to trash this once great country.
Parker| 9.19.12 @ 5:23PM
And, while no one is watching, the MSM feeds the masses polls which are skewed and show Obama winning. Now, why would that be? Nah, it couldn't possibly be to mislead the takers into thinking that when Obama is defeated, that it must have been some sort of malfeasance on the part of 'them'. Just watch boys and girls. The middle-east is coming to a neighborhood near you. I know, I know, it could never happen here. But, don't doubt me, it's coming and it will be here before you can say, "Forward."
pomdter| 9.19.12 @ 7:14PM
Obama has made great strides in stopping illegal immigration. Between Mexico's 4% growth and our lousy economy, the illegals are heading back.
MTB| 9.19.12 @ 7:30PM
When the President of the United States says, "We can't wait for Congress," that's not a Republic, that's a dictatorship. There have been many instances of high crimes and misdemeanors that should have resulted in impeachment and expulsion, but the Democrats in high office no longer have any morals or scruples. It's all about the party and for the party, not the country. As many Democrats as possible must be voted out this and every future election until the party has been rendered moot.
Tafuna| 9.19.12 @ 8:56PM
The entire Obama presidency should be declared a disaster zone. Compared to the damage that say Hurricane Katrina wrought, Obama has created far worse in that he has not damaged one area but the entire country. It won't easily be repaired either. Like the damage Jimmy Carter did this nation, it will take many years to fix, and some of it irrepairable. Let us not forget that the Iranian crisis that festers today and the problems we are having throughout the Mid East all hark back to Carter's clumsy foreign policy in which he surrendered Iran to the fanatics.
KennesawJack| 9.19.12 @ 10:30PM
Quin, Did you dump my post?
Fiscal| 9.19.12 @ 11:49PM
There are always at least two sides to a story and Quin's "analysis" is simply skewed by a lack of objectivity.
1. It isn't ALL of the Muslim world rioting, it is a small group of extreme terrorists with cells in a number countries. That's why it's called asynchronous warfare.
2. It is the Bush administration that set the course for Eastern Europe. While it's true Obama hasn't improved our relations with countries like Russia, I am not convinced that any President could have changed the course.
3. The increase in debt is directly related to permanent increases in entitlements, the military, and interest expense. The biggest increase in entitlements is due to the unfunded prescription drug plan and retirement of baby boomers -- neither of which is due to Obama. It wasn't Obama that got us into two unfunded and undeclared wars. In addition, we have reduced revenues due to the Bush tax cuts which as not resulted in significant GDP growth.
4. We were losing jobs when Obama took office and we are gaining jobs now. Most of the jobs lost were federal and local government jobs. Ironically, under Obama, there has been a decline in the TOTAL number government jobs -- something we want...
See next post...
Fiscal| 9.19.12 @ 11:54PM
5. The month before Obama took office, Republicans agreed not to support anything Obama wanted whether or not it was good for the country because their primary goal was getting rid of him. They have been successful at making government more fractured than ever.
I could go on, but there is another side of the story for those who are not glued to Fox News. The public IS smart enough to understand both sides and agree more with these points than Quin's. The real problem with Obama is not the skewed views of the right, but the fact that he has not put forth a real solution to our problems. That's the reason we should be supporting Romney, because we need more than a "country coordinator" in the White House, we need a leader.
If there was anyone objective and competent in the Romney campaign, they would put forth specific plans to solve these issues and show that Obama doesn't have any answers. Convincing people with highly skewed "facts" is a really stupid approach.
rjh| 9.20.12 @ 8:31AM
You are absolutely correct. There are two sides to everything, and obama consistently comes down on the wrong one. P.S. I do not watch Fox News.
Fiscal| 9.20.12 @ 9:12AM
Really? Continuing the Bush tax cuts? Was that wrong? Getting Osama - was that wrong? Putting more troops in Afghanistan -- was that wrong? You really can't make that argument objectively. The only way you can make that argument is ideologically -- and that is not convincing to someone with a different ideology. Like most people in this country, I'm fiscally conservative but socially moderate (i.e., more libertarian). So your social conservative arguments will fall on deaf ears to most of us.
rjh| 9.20.12 @ 12:16PM
I am so sorry, I did not realize that you were the spokesman for "most of us". As far as "trying to convince" someone of a different ideology, I will not waste my time. The Marxism being peddled by obama and the Dems needs to be defeated...they will not be convinced by any argument. As for the rest of your post: obama did not have any choice on the matter of extending the Bush tax RATES, any President or citizen with a room temperature IQ would have given the order to get Bin Laden (and they would not have postponed the decision as obama/Jarret did), and how's that Afghanistan thing working out...our "allies" are killing more of our troops than the enemy...smart diplomacy huh?
Laura| 9.20.12 @ 3:49PM
I am a Democrat but I always try to get different perspectives on the issues. I can honestly say after reading these comments that there are just as many right-wing nuts as I thought. Obama as the Anti-Christ? Really? Pure Evil? You are a bunch of wackos!
spike59| 9.21.12 @ 6:25AM
No, Laura, we really DON'T believe that ObaMao is the Antichrist; mainly because the Antichrist wouldn't be so utterly and totally incompetent and clueless...as for evil? that's debatable, although i can't find much evidence that this vainglorious and childish blowhard is in any way a 'good person'; actually, he's a jerk.
Ogemaniac| 9.21.12 @ 10:09AM
The Dow. NASDAQ. S&P. The deficit. GDP. Domestic oil and gas production. Carbon emissions. Your 401k, unless you are a blithering idiot.
Got a hard question?
E B | 9.21.12 @ 10:50AM
Ah, but we conservative know the answer to that question. People don't distrust the media yet. It is conservatives' job to inform these people, along these lines:
How many anti-Obama headlines have you seen compared to anti-Romney ones? It doesn't say so much about the two men as it does about the bias of those writing about them. And why are most polls weighted unrealistically for Democrats, above even 2008 levels which haven't been that high since then? You have to read both sides for balanced coverage because it doesn't exist in one place and both sides leave stuff out. How can you make an informed opinion on any topic if you rely on one point of view? You can't. Thanks for listening.
www.conservativemormonmom.blogspot.com
47pcenter| 9.21.12 @ 11:23AM
What a bunch of simplistic, unsubstantiated arguments! "Almost the entirety of the Muslim world is now rioting against an American president who promised that his olive branches to Muslims would secure peace." - where is the proof of that statement?
Here's another one that is especially silly: "Religious liberties, meanwhile, are under repeated and sustained attacked from an administration openly hostile to traditional faith."
And oh, you asked for ONE thing that has improved under President Obama: Dow Jones Avg. 1/20/2009 = ~7,900; Dow Jones 9/20/2009 = ~13,600 or over a 70% bump.
How do such obvious propagandists become "senior fellows"?
47pcenter| 9.21.12 @ 11:24AM
Should have said DJ 9/20/2012 = ~13,600.
elithium11| 9.21.12 @ 11:54AM
The comments here prove it...republicans in this country have just gone bat-chit crazy.
Mr Tibbs| 9.21.12 @ 12:33PM
My income is up about 35% and my 401K has doubled.
peterrr73| 9.21.12 @ 1:03PM
Wow, what an article. And pretty amazing set of comments.
Name one thing? ok, the most obvious. Bin Laden is dead. Oh, right -- Obama had nothing to do with it. Anyone could have given that order, or maybe Romney somehow did it, or George W. Bush. Except they didn't. Obama did.
Another thing? General Motors is alive. Sure, you can argue about that. But it is alive. And the stock market is about double where it was in Nov 2008: check out your 401K. And let's not start on the people who now get health insurance thanks to the new rules who could not before. And so on.
Seems Mr Hillyer, and most of his readers, belong to the imaginary universe described by Joe Klein in http://www.time.com/time/magaz.....7,00.html. You know that universe. Where Obama was born in Kenya, has a secret agenda to Destroy America (thank you, Dinesh D'Souza), planned Fast and Furious as a cunning plot to subvert the gunlaws.
Come on. Grow up. Join the real world. There is some excuse for Quin Hellyer, who we can guess is being paid to spout this rubbish. But there is no excuse for anyone else.
Bob Doll| 9.21.12 @ 2:20PM
Name a single thing that's improved under his Presidency? Easy.....
(1) Heath care reform which is enabling millions to get medical care.
(2) Ending the disastrous wars in Iran and Afghanistan.
(3) Helping to removing Muammar Gaddafi from power in Libya without a single US death.
(4) Lowering taxes for millions of Americans.
(5) Killing Osama bin Laden.
(6) Ensuring the survival of General Motors and the US auto industry.
(7) Passed tougher regulations on Wall Street firms that contributed to the 2008 financial meltdown.
(8) Passed the economic stimulus package in face of the 2008 financial meltdown and lessened the severity of the recession.
(9) Repealed the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy that discriminated against gay and lesbian service members.
(10) Improved US reputation and standing abroad by disavowing the previous administration's "with us or against us" approach to diplomacy.
That was easy. And it's why the President will be reelected in November.
Purp| 9.21.12 @ 3:36PM
Clearly, we can see why President Obama is far ahead of Mittens. He HAS been successful ...
EqualTime| 9.21.12 @ 4:26PM
I know right? And how 'bout that the stock market is only up100% since he took office. How high should it have gone under McCain Palin? And how about that second and thrid bullets his defense department used on Bin Laden when it only should have taken one? And even though we aren't on the brink of economic collapse as we were in Nov 2008, why aren't we soooo much better off? Why couldn't he have done more despite a Congress who was rooting for him and the Country to fail? Right on Quinn. You keep writing it, and I'll support you, but I'll leave all that high level anti-Christ stuff for the real intellecutals on this site.
Arimathean | 9.26.12 @ 1:54AM
The cause of the rise in the stock market is the same as the cause of the housing bubble five years ago: loose money from the Fed. And it could end the same way - with the bursting of the bubble and the crash of the stock market. I think the current level of stock prices is unsustainable - that's why I've sold half of my stocks in the past two weeks.
Controse| 9.24.12 @ 11:36AM
To all the brave Obama, or whoever he is, acolytes who commented above a question: What conclusion have you drawn about the ultimate success of your leader from the results of the 2010 election?