I will say one thing for President Obama, he certainly knows how to keep things interesting. As I watch daily events unfold I cannot help but wonder what it would be like to wake up from a 4, 8 or even 15 year coma to find myself in this new Obama nation. I imagine that one day of watching the news would prompt me to ask, "What the hell happened?”
Conservatives are protesting
Welfare moms are living in luxury condos in NY
Millionaires are broke, unemployed and out on the street
Water to CA almond farms has been cut off leaving 1000's unemployed. Why you ask? To save a 1 inch fish that isn't even indigenous to the area.
The logging industry in the Pacific Northwest is dead because tree huggers are more concerned about hurting the trees than they are about people's lives.
The US government owns General Motors and China owns the US government
We have a tax cheat as our Treasury Secretary and head of the IRS
Taxpayer money is funding porn
Soldiers are required to read Miranda Rights to the the enemy on the battle field. What the hell is that?
We are closing a perfectly good, multi-billion dollar prison that is tucked away safely in Cuba so we can bring the scariest of the scary terrorists to American soil. Wait, I forgot according to the Secretary of Homeland Security they are not terrorists anymore they are bringers of man made disasters or something. The only true terrorists are the Americans who dare question the mighty Messiah. Here I thought Homeland Security was created to protect us from terrorists or was it that we needed to protect ourselves from ourselves? Sorry, I get so confused. It's lucky that I have the Obama government to think for me, I don't know how I would manage without my big brother watching over me.
Our President, Speaker of the House, and many other we put into office have adopted the bizarre strategy of insulting the American people in order to gain support for their liberal agenda.
I could literally go on all day. Welcome to Bizzaro America where nothing is as it should be. Common sense is dead, war has been declared on prosperity and perhaps the saddest part of all... the American dream is fast becoming a fleeting memory. Each morning I wake up and the first thing I do is turn on the news. All day long I watch the Obama administration ignore our Constitution as they lead us down the road to soft tyranny, and they are doing it at break neck speed. I can't pull myself away. It is nothing short of astonishing and I I admit, I am completely addicted. Everyday there is something new and it's playing out for the whole world to see. What makes it so mesmerizing is that EVERYONE can see it and nobody seems to be doing much to stop it. It's truly fascinating. What a great time to be alive.
Our President is certainly a gifted communicator with a talent that comes along once in a generation, if that. He is the master of telling people one thing while he is very clearly doing something else. But he does it with a charming smile, so it's OK. One of the most glaring examples of this is the Federal Government take over of General Motors. He stood before the country (and the world) and stated that he had no desire to nationalize the automaker or the auto industry. OK Mr. President, so why did you? He not only fired the GM CEO Rick Wagoner, and replaced him with Fritz Henderson (this is causes concern because of Mr. Henderson's past dealings with WH Chief of Staff, Rahm "never let a good crisis go to waste" Emanuel. It would appear that Mr. Henderson made Mr. Emanuel a very rich man via Freddie MAC, which we also own), he appointed a Car Czar, he is telling GM what cars they can make, they decided that dealerships needed to be shut down, he bypassed the legal bankruptcy process while vilifying investors for questioning him and not accepting his terms. He told Americans that "he does not stand" with the investors who wouldn't accept $0.29 on the dollar as he so ordered it - wait sorry that was the Chrysler investors. Yet another company that he had no desire to take over. There was an entirely different group of people who invested in GM and had the honor of being screwed over and ridiculed by their President. Can you imagine how it would have been if he DID want to nationalize the auto industry? Sadly, President Obama has shown us that this would not be the last time he'd attack the American people who did not obeying him. He gave UAW a seat on the board, which I am still baffled by. The Unions are supposed to be for the laborers and management is not allowed to be in a Union, so how is that UAW can be part of Board of Directors and still represent the workers? I am not nearly as smart as our President so I'm sure this is all on the up and up. He was doing all this while he insisted that he believes in the free market. Huh? One of us is confused about the definition of free market. No worries, I'm sure it's me again. He did this to save jobs he claimed, a noble reason to turn America a socialist nation, right? Billions were shoveled into GM while other poor souls were left to fend for themselves. We were losing almost 750K jobs a week in March and 1 out of every 9 homes was being foreclosed on. Thank goodness UAW was taken care of though. I know the folks that lost everything feel better knowing that the government was there for the United Auto Workers. Now they can continue to make crappy, over priced cars that nobody wants. Phew! Don't you love a happy ending?
Our very talented President also has an uncanny ability to tell you exactly what he's doing while making it sound like he is saying something else. Case in point, Afghanistan. I watched all of the 2008 debates, the primaries for both parties and of course in the general election for the VP & presidential candidates. I heard him say that he never thought invading Iraq was a good idea. Everyone heard that part, but somehow they all missed it moments later when he said that he intended to have us more engaged in Afghanistan. I heard it and didn't necessarily disagree, yet for some reason many Obama voters were shocked when he announce that the US would be we would be spending billions more on the initiative and sending 10's of 1000's of troops to that God forsaken country. In fact he has requested more money for Afghanistan in 2010 than he requested for Iraq. It's Obama's war now baby. Where are ,and Sean Penn I wonder? He vowed to have the most transparent administration in US history, yet he has all of these Czar's running around doing God knows what and answering to no one but him. Is that even Constitutional? See I'm a bit of a history junkie and a fan of James Madison. He was a smart little guy who was our 4th President and the chief writer of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Madison was very concerned about checks and balances and warned against the Executive Branch in particular becoming too powerful. All of our Founding Fathers were weary of the Executive Branch devolving into an Imperial Presidency. After all there was precedent. Julius Caesar was another gifted communicator who's words and ideas resonated with the people of Rome and scared the hell out of the Roman Senators and aristocracy. He tried to usurp the Roman Senate and proclaim himself Dictator for Life of Rome. He reigned over all of Rome for brief period (4 years, hmmm) but as we know, that didn't work out very well for him in the end. Caesar did alter the course of Roman government forever though; his death did not restore Rome to the traditional status quo system as the murderous Senators had hoped. This sort of power grab has been happening since the dawn of man; Napoleon, Mussolini, yes, even Hitler (and no, I am not suggesting that President Obama is a murderous mad man. A megalomaniac yes, psycho no) are some of the most notorious examples. Applying history to the current Obama administration one can't help but wonder how our Senators (and Congressmen) will deal with our very own modern day Caesar.
Our President makes me nervous. He is a very dangerous man with very dangerous friends and philosophies. I am not sure why the good people (ha!) in Congress aren't screaming their fool heads off. Nobody seems to be paying attention while he appoints Czar after Czar, quietly and systematically building his 2 tier government that will ultimately make Congress obsolete.
So back to the original point: Just imagine waking from a coma to this new Bizzaro America? One could only wonder, "What the hell happened?"
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