I didn’t know what “mobocratic rule”was till I read this man’s article. It is “rule by mob”which pretty well describes the current administration. Mychal Massie’s column is carried by WorldNetDaily.com and he is a frequent guest on regional and national talk shows.
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An article by Mychal Massie: http://www.wnd.com/speakers/mmassie.asp
At a time when many Americans can barely afford Burger King and a movie,Obama boasts of spending a billion dollars on his re-election campaign. Questioned at a recent appearance about the spiraling fuel costs,Obama said,“Get used to it”– and with an insouciant grin and chortle,he told another person at the event,who complained about the effect high fuel prices were having on his family,to “get a more fuel-efficient car.”
The Obamas behave as if they were sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball,but instead of getting new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck,they moved to Washington. And instead of making possum pie,with goats and chickens in the front yard,they’re spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations,gala balls,resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House,grand date nights,golf,basketball,more golf,exclusive resorts and still more golf.
Expensive,ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States. The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it’s so offensive when we hear Obama say,in order “to restore fiscal responsibility,we all need to share in the sacrifice – but we don’t have to sacrifice the America we believe in.”
The American people have been sacrificing;it is he and his family who are behaving as if they’ve never had two nickels to rub together – and now,having hit the mother lode,they’re going to spend away their feelings of inadequacy at the taxpayers’ expense.
Obama continues to exhibit behavior that,at best,can be described as mobocratic and,at worst,reveals a deeply damaged individual. In a February 2010 column,I asked,“Is Obama unraveling?” I wrote that it was beginning to appear the growing mistrust of him and contempt for his policies was beginning to have a destabilizing effect on him.
At that time,I wrote that not having things go one’s way can be a bitter pill,but reasonable people don’t behave as he was behaving. He had insulted Republicans at their luncheon,where he had been an invited guest. I had speculated that was,in part,what had led him to falsely accuse Supreme Court justices before Congress,the nation and the world,during the 2010 State of the Union address.
It appeared,at that time,as if he were “fraying around the emotional edges.”That behavior has not abated – it has become more pronounced. While addressing the nation,after being forced to explain the validity of his unilateral aggression with Libya,America witnessed a petulant individual scowling and scolding the public for daring to insist he explain his actions.
But during an afternoon speech to address the budget/debt,he took his scornful,unstable despotic behavior to depths that should give the nation cause for concern. Displaying a dark psychopathy more representative of an episode of “The Tudors”television series,he invited Rep. Paul Ryan,R-Wis.,to sit in the front row during his speech and then proceeded to berate both Ryan and Ryan’s budget-cutting plan. Even liberal Democrats were put off by the act. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough questioned the sanity of Obama’s actions.
Today,criticism is coming from all sides. A senior Democrat lawmaker said,“I have been very disappointed in [Obama],to the point where I’m embarrassed that I endorsed him. It’s so bad that some of us are thinking,is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?”(“Democrats’Disgust with Obama,”The Daily Beast,April 15,2011)
Steve McCann wrote:Obama’s speech “was chock full of lies,deceit and crass fear-mongering. It must be said that [he] is the most dishonest,deceitful and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed”(“The Mendacity of Barack Obama,”AmericanThinker.com,April 15,2011).
McCann continued:“[His] performance was the culmination of four years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media,including some in the conservative press and political class who are loath to call [him] what he is in the bluntest of terms:a liar and a fraud. That he relies on his skin color to intimidate,either outright or by insinuation [against] those who oppose his radical agenda only add to his audacity. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character flaws his entire life,aided and abetted by sycophants around him. …”
With these being among the kinder rebukes being directed at Obama,and with people becoming less intimidated by his willingness to use race as a bludgeon,with falling poll numbers in every meaningful category and an increasingly aggressive tea-party opposition – how much longer before he cracks completely?
The coming months of political life are not going to be pleasant for Obama. Possessed by a self-perceived palatine mindset,that in his mind places him above criticism,how long before he cracks in public? Can America risk a man with a documented track record of lying and misrepresenting truth as a basic way of life,who is becoming increasingly more contumelious?
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stated that the US border with Mexico is now,“better now than it ever has been.”However,she added that there is a need to correct wrong impressions about the border region. Napolitano said border towns are safe for travel,trade and commerce. She noted that the total value of imports crossing the Southwest border was up 22 percent in fiscal year 2010,she said. (The Statesman) Perhaps she should talk to some of the border patrol agents in South Texas who have been warning locals and visitors there to stay out of the Mexican border towns. Or perhaps talk to CBS, CNS News ,UP,Fox News,and others who have reported the violence there in recent months. Recently the US Border Patrol Union blasted her for her irresponsible statements. According to them,“Mexico is hemorrhaging violence,and we are being hit with the splatter.”
Great news Ms Napolitano. Especially since there have been three border patrol agents killed within the last three years and hundreds of people killed in and around the Mexican border towns in the last year alone. According to CNS News on March 3rd there were 3111 civilians killed in Cuidad Juarez last year alone! That’s more than in the entire country of Afghanistan,and she is saying the border is safe and “open for business”??
Now we learn that the border is safe. Oh happy day! She even cited as proof that there have been fewer arrests of illegals entering this country. Meanwhile AZ Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County,AZ says he was told by border patrol agents to cut down on arrests of illegals during specific time periods. According to Sheriff Dever he was instructed by senior border patrol supervisors to just intimidate illegals or chase them away from the border according reports by Fox News and others. The Free RepublicThe New American
What kind of message is that? Is Ms Janet manufacturing her reports by instructing her people to arrest fewer of the illegals they find? Or is this just an example of ostrich mentality in the current administration? (If you bury your head in the ground [or elsewhere] the problem will magically go away.) I recognize that for this problem to disappear would be a great political coup for the current administration,but for senior administration officials to to pretend that it doesn’t exist is the height of irresponsibility!
Hardly a day goes by that the news media is not reporting more violence being perpetuated on the citizens in the Mexican border communities by the drug cartels. Napolitano’s disingenuous report is putting American citizens at risk by encouraging them to visit violent Mexican border towns where a number of US citizens have been murdered in recent months. We deserve nothing less than honesty from senior administrations officials,no matter how that might effect reelection prospects. To get less than that just identifies them as being as unreliable as the totalitarian and despotic regimes of the third world.
The decision for our participation in a “no fly zone”in protection of Lybian rebels, right or wrong is now history. What we are left with is a reality of our current involvement in Lybia. Although Obama is receiving heat (rightly so) from both sides of the political spectrum. It is coming first because of his indecision and delay while Qaddafi made significant gains,then by his suddenly entering the fray at the last moment without benefit of consent of Congress. It is interesting that the most vehement words of condemnation are actually coming from his left wing base.
Rep Kasinich (D-Ohio) has even used the the “I word,(impeachment). Although Kasinich spews this venom wrapped in “love of the constitution”he expressed no similar concern for the sanctity of that document while he was supporting the blatantly unconstitutional Obamacare. This is mostly political grandstanding and self serving oratory not serious indignation over a real constitutional abuse of power.
Like it or not,we are stuck with the current state of things,at least for a while. Stuck is a great word here because neither the Arab League,France or NATO wants the responsibility for leadership that Obama states he will be relinquishing in a “few days”. Obama is a reluctant wartime president that was dragged to this thing kicking and screaming and lost the opportunity to vote “present”as has been shown to be his usual preference. Being Commander-In-Chief is only fun when you can sit home and make empty rhetoric and “double-speak”that you can use in your current political campaign. When you have to actually make real world decisions that you can not deny tomorrow it becomes a whole nother thing. Welcome to the real world of leadership Barack.
I pray for the safety of our military personnel and I pray that this strange operation will ultimately succeed. However,will someone please just stand up and clearly explain what “success”is? I hope it means Qaddafi’s 41 year reign of terror in Lybia is soon to be over,but that is currently unclear. I also pray that when it ends Qaddafi’s regime is replaced by one that treats their people better than did Qaddafi. All people deserve better than what these poor folks have received for the past 40+ years.
My fervent hope is that those “rebels”we are supporting there really want the kind of democratic reforms they are proclaiming and are not just another Alkada,Hamas,“Brotherhood”,bunch of Islamacist loonies that are so prominent in the Mideast these days. I am convinced that Obama doesn’t know the difference,I certainly hope Sarkozi does since he was the true leader here.
Incidentally:Note how “The Arab League”screamed incessantly for this “no fly zone”only to crawl away hiding under their normally accustomed rocks when the first shot was fired. Of course is that actually surprising to anyone? Their past history would have predicted no less.
For the past week we have been witness to the depths of depravity of liberalism in Wisconsin. Fourteen elected Democratic representatives in the state’s senate have fled to another state to protect their supposed right to prevent the legislative process while thousands of teachers abandoned their classrooms to wave signs accusing the governor of being a Nazi supporter of Qadaffi and Mubarac. Democratic congressman Rep. Michael Capuano from Massachusetts told union workers in Wisconsin,“Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.” Medical doctors from the University of Wisconsin pass out “sick notes” to union members that left their jobs to protest,some of them,teachers who took students with them closing down the schools while proclaiming they are “protecting the students”. This is not from minimum wage employees,it is from teachers and other public employee union members who are making upwards of $75,000 per year while forcing their state into bankruptcy!
These ridiculous tactics are being encouraged and orchestrated by the DNC with encouragement directly from the White House. Obama was quick to come out with comments about “ratcheting down the rhetoric”just a few weeks ago,but now totally turns a blind eye to the outrageous actions in Wisconson as well as similar events in Indiana, Ohio,and elsewhere as these states try to dig their way out of the looming likelihood of impending bankruptcy.
The national news media is quick to condemn the Tea Party and accuse them of everything from extremism to violence in their protests while they can produce not one single picture or video of such actions. All the while they say not a single word about the hundreds of documented and obvious extremist and fraudulent actions of the activists in Madison. They don’t even condemn Capuano for openly calling for violence in the streets of Madison!
Enough is enough. Everything possible should be done to strip these people of the public feedbag that they have strapped around their neck. The legislators that refuse to legislate should be stripped of their elected positions. Their seats should declared “vacated”by the governor and special elections scheduled to replace them with people that will actually show up to represent their constituents. Rep Capauno should be charged for attempting to incite a riot,a crime under federal law as well as in all fifty states! Teachers that were away from their jobs claiming “sick days”should be identified from the thousands of photos and videos available and fired for the fraud they perpetuated on the taxpayers of Wisconsin. Likewise for other public employees that participated illegally in this debacle should be terminated.
Physicians that falsified “sick notes” should have their licenses pulled and prohibited from practicing medicine in the future. That idiot that kept screaming “Fox lies,Fox lies” attempting to prevent Fox news reporters from accurately reporting the events should be deported just for extreme stupidity or perhaps referred to a local vet for neutering just to prevent the potential of spreading the insanity by breeding. Media representatives that turned a blind eye to the Nazi signs and rhetoric should,well since they are not public employees,they should be just ignored and their outlets boycotted by reasonable people.
We have a federal government that is $14 trillion (that’s a 14 followed by twelve zeros folks) and instead of making a serious effort to work on correcting that problem Obama submits a budget that perpetuates federal deficits for the foreseeable future. Obama and his Democratic cohorts ran up almost as much of that debt in two years as Bush did in eight yet continue to blame Bush for the current financial plight accepting none of the blame for themselves. Now when states attempt to correct for their looming bankruptcies he supports the status quo and advocates for the glutenous public service unions that are raping the taxpayers of the states of Wisconsin,Indiana,Ohio,and elsewhere with bloated contracts.
Enough is enough folks. We have teachers who can’t even spell,showing up with protest signs such as one I saw that proudly proclaimed “Sav are teachers”. They are illegally demonstrating with falsified claims for being out sick while protesting for the indefensibly bloated contracts that are bankrupting our states. Our schools are failing and children are graduating that are functionally illiterate while teachers in WI are protesting for contracts far in excess of what is found in the private sector. Nationally we are broke and quickly approaching the point of default and the situation is becoming more critical day by day. This insanity must stop or we will simply cease to exist as a nation.
On the weekend of February 12,Maksim Gelman,a 23-year-old Ukranian immigrant with a history of drug arrests,went on a rampage in Brooklyn,NY that left him charged with four murders,two assaults,and two robberies. His weapon of choice was an 8-inch kitchen knife. Four other kitchen knives were found in his car.
On February 14,New York City’s Mayor for Life Michael Bloomberg released the following statement: “This tragic event demands that America inject some sanity,some kind of reasonable controls,into its kitchen-knife laws. No one but a professional chef needs an 8-inch kitchen knife. No one but a professional chef needs an entire collection of kitchen knives. Why was this person,who had a criminal record,able to buy kitchen knives with no sort of background check? Because anyone can walk into a hardware or kitchen-supply store and buy any knife they want as easily as they can buy a blender or a colander. “Unlike guns,knives do not have to be reloaded,which increases their lethal potential. They are easily concealable and quiet. No civilian should have access to weapons this deadly. Kitchen-knife dealers should be required to conduct background checks and report multiple sales. It is time to stand up to the kitchen-knife lobby. I call upon my fellow mayors to join me in the effort to place reasonable controls upon kitchen knives and end this madness.”
This is how far the antis will go with their insanity. See the following two links to related items regarding the “Democratic Republic of New York’s”campaign against everything based on the abuse of a handful of kooks. Guns first,sharp objects next,and blunt objects next week. A few more good reasons to stay well away from New York.
by Ann Coulter 02/02/2011 Fresh off of blaming Jared Loughner’s killing spree in the Tucson mall on Sarah Palin,liberals are now blaming it on high-capacity magazines. They might as well imprison everyone named “Jared”to prevent a crime like this from ever happening again.
During the presidential campaign,Obama said:“I don’t know of any self-respecting hunter that needs 19 rounds of anything. You don’t shoot 19 rounds at a deer,and if you do,you shouldn’t be hunting.”It would have been more accurate for him to end that sentence after the word “hunter.”
It’s so adorable when people who wouldn’t know a high-capacity magazine from Vanity Fair start telling gun owners what they should want and need.
In fact,high-capacity mags put a predator like Loughner at a disadvantage because they are so long,unwieldy and difficult to conceal. This may be why the Tucson shooting appears to be the first spree killing involving a high-capacity magazine. It would have been easier for Loughner to bring two guns.
On the other hand,for a homeowner who is a poor marksman,a large-capacity clip could be a lifesaver.
But after every multiple murder,liberals come up with some crackpot idea to “do something”that invariably involves infringing on some aspect of our Second Amendment rights.
The ACLU won’t let us put nuts in mental hospitals and Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik wouldn’t lock up Loughner even after he had broken the law several times.
In an open society that includes Sheriff Dumbnik and the ACLU,deranged individuals may explode into murder and mayhem now and then. The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur.
There’s only one policy of any kind that has ever been shown to deter mass murder:concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public,multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999,the highly regarded economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect.
And the effect was not small. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.
When there are no armed citizens to stop mass murderers,the killers are able to shoot unabated,even pausing to reload their weapons,until they get bored and stop. Some stop only when their trigger fingers develop carpal tunnel syndrome.
Consider just the school shootings —popular sites for mass murder because so many schools are “gun-free zones.”Or,as mass murderers call them,“free-fire zones.”
At Columbine High School,two students killed 12 people before ending the carnage themselves by committing suicide. They didn’t need high-capacity magazines because they were able to stop and reload.
At the Amish school shooting in 2006 in Lancaster County,Pennsylvania,the deranged killer murdered five little girls and then committed suicide.
In 1998,two students in Craighead County,Arkansas,killed five people,including four little girls,before the killers decided to stop and attempt an escape.
And in 2007,a deranged student killed 32 people at Virginia Tech —30 of them in a very short period of time in one building. He didn’t need high-capacity magazines because he had two guns and reloaded.
There was no one to stop him.
School shootings that have been halted were almost always stopped by the happenstance of an armed citizen on school property.
In 2002,an immigrant in Virginia started shooting his classmates at the Appalachian Law School in Grundy. Two of his classmates retrieved guns from their cars,forcing the killer to drop his weapon and allowing a third classmate to tackle him.
Three dead.
In Santee,Calif.,in 2001,when a student began shooting his classmates,the school activated its “safe school plan”—as the principal later told CNN —by sending a “trained campus supervisor”to stop the killer.
Possibly not realizing that he was in a gun-free zone,the killer responded by shooting the trained campus supervisor three times. Fortunately,an armed off-duty San Diego policeman happened to be bringing his daughter to school that day. With a gun,he stopped the killer and held him at bay until more police could arrive.
Two dead.
In 1997,a student at Pearl High School in Pearl,Miss.,had already shot several people at his high school and was headed for the junior high school when assistant principal Joel Myrick retrieved a .45 pistol from his car and pointed it at the gunman’s head,ending the slaughter.
Two dead.
In 1998,a student attending a junior high school dance at a restaurant in Edinboro,Pa.,started shooting,whereupon the restaurant owner pulled out his shotgun,chased the gunman from the restaurant and captured him for the police.
One dead.
See the pattern?
In response to Columbine,schools adopted “anti-bullying”policies;in response to Virginia Tech,eBay ceased selling magazines online;in response to the Tucson shooting,liberals want to ban the particular magazine Loughner used.
And then the next killer will come along with a different arsenal and a different motive,and the only way to stop him will be with an armed citizen with a gun.
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By Ben Stein on 1.28.11 @ 6:10AM A few more humble notes for Mr. Obama about where we are today….
During the run up to the recent Congressional elections,I was on Larry King Live with a super smart man whose name I have forgotten. Larry asked a smart question. The question was,“Is Barack Obama a better campaigner than a President?”One of the men on the panel said,“Of course he is. When he is campaigning,all he has to do is promise things. When he’s President,he actually has to do things.”
The same is true for all politicians,but the problem is acute for Mr. Obama because he has promised things he simply cannot do.
He cannot make the U.S. more competitive with the Far East and with Germany unless and until he gets U.S. education up to a far better level than it is at now. He cannot do this without revolutionizing the lives of young Americans,turning them from sex,drugs,rap,and rock ‘n’roll to studying. This is far beyond his poor power to do. He cannot make an American worker who demands $30 an hour competitive with a Taiwanese worker who will work for $2 an hour with just as good equipment. He cannot make American college students who want to study film production into competitors with Chinese engineers. (Although I should say that America leads the world in making money off mass culture because we have by far the most imaginative and creative people on this planet in this arena living within a small radius in Southern California. Studying film production is not studying engineering but for the nation’s future,it might be better than studying engineering.)
My old dad used to tell me that the reason U.S. workers could get paid so much more than Far Eastern workers was that our workers had so much better equipment to work with. This is not necessarily true any longer,and so our wages must very slowly move towards parity with Chinese wages. This will be a slow,but painful process.
President Obama seems to simply not “get it”about solar power and wind. When we taxpayers spend money to design better solar and wind power systems,those systems wind up getting made in the Far East. How this helps our workers is a mystery to me.
I also love President Obama endlessly referring to “clean coal.”There is no such thing as “clean coal.”Coal is coal. They can use all kinds of technology to immensely reduce pollution from coal. But there is no such magical thing as “clean coal.”This is not a problem for me at all. I am happy with whatever kind of coal anyone wants to burn to keep the lights on. But this idea that there is some magic thing called “clean coal”that is as non-polluting as wind is just nonsense. It is a bit worrisome to keep hearing Mr. Obama,our president,talking about something that is just a fantasy.
You know,I am getting so tired of fighting these battles… I think I will just go to sleep now. I’ll fight more tomorrow.
Attention,all returning and newly elected honorable members of the 2011 legislative session. In this session,you have the opportunity to correct an injustice imposed upon the citizens of Arkansas by amending the Advertising and Promotion Act to (1) eliminate the provision that allows the establishment of the “hamburger tax” by a municipal government without submitting it to the voters,and (2) substitute the provision that the people serving on an A&P commission be appointed with a condition for an open election for membership.
Five decades ago,the Legislature took away the inherent right of voters to determine local sales taxes. It also removed from the citizens’ control their right to vote for or against the people who would be spending the tax dollars collected.
There is no option for the public to vote unless a petition requesting a referendum is submitted within 30 days. The hamburger tax is the only sales tax that can be passed by a municipal government that does not mandate submission to the voters.
Another problem concerns the responsibility for determining how the tax is used. The commission of non-elected individuals has independent authority to use the funds,with a few specified restrictions,where it wishes. When a vacancy occurs,the remaining commissioners appoint the replacement. Never are the voters allowed a voice.
Have we forgotten our motto,“Regnat populus,” the people rule?
Glenn Gallas,local businessman and conservative spokesman will begin a new radio talk show on KZNG 1340 in Hot Springs,AR. The show will air Saturday Jan 8th right after Rush Limbaugh at 2:00 p.m.
Glenn’s show will discuss the various issues of the day and invite conservative guests to share on how we can get “On the Right Road”.
Don’t miss this exciting hour program. Tune in Saturday and then give Glenn a call to help make this first show a really memorable event.
Washington Times May 27,2010. “American gun owners might not feel besieged,but they should. This week,the Obama administration announced its support for the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. This international agreement poses real risks for freedom both in the United States and around the world by making it more difficult –if not outright illegal –for law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.”
“The U.N. claims that guns used in armed conflicts cause 300,000 deaths worldwide every year,an inordinate number of which are the result of internal civil strife within individual nations. The solution proposed by transnationalists to keep rebels from getting guns is to make the global pool of weapons smaller through government action. According to recent deliberations regarding the treaty,signatory countries would be required to “prevent,combat and eradicate”various classes of guns to undermine “the illicit trade in small arms.”Such a plan would necessarily lead to confiscation of personal firearms.”
“This may seem like a reasonable solution to governments that don’t trust their citizens,but it represents a dangerous disregard for the safety and freedom of everybody. First of all,not all insurgencies are bad. As U.S. history shows,one way to get rid of a despotic regime is to rise up against it. That threat is why authoritarian regimes such as Syria,Cuba,Rwanda,Vietnam,Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone endorse gun control.”
“Political scientist Rudy Rummel estimates that the 15 worst regimes during the 20th century killed 151 million of their own citizens,which works out to 1.5 million victims per year. Even if all 300,000 annual deaths from armed conflicts can be blamed on the small-arms trade (which they cannot),governments are a bigger threat to most people than their neighbors.” . . . .
Mobocratic Rule
I didn’t know what “mobocratic rule”was till I read this man’s article. It is “rule by mob”which pretty well describes the current administration. Mychal Massie’s column is carried by WorldNetDaily.com and he is a frequent guest on regional and national talk shows.
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At a time when many Americans can barely afford Burger King and a movie,Obama boasts of spending a billion dollars on his re-election campaign. Questioned at a recent appearance about the spiraling fuel costs,Obama said,“Get used to it”– and with an insouciant grin and chortle,he told another person at the event,who complained about the effect high fuel prices were having on his family,to “get a more fuel-efficient car.”
The Obamas behave as if they were sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball,but instead of getting new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck,they moved to Washington. And instead of making possum pie,with goats and chickens in the front yard,they’re spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations,gala balls,resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House,grand date nights,golf,basketball,more golf,exclusive resorts and still more golf.
Expensive,ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States. The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it’s so offensive when we hear Obama say,in order “to restore fiscal responsibility,we all need to share in the sacrifice – but we don’t have to sacrifice the America we believe in.”
The American people have been sacrificing;it is he and his family who are behaving as if they’ve never had two nickels to rub together – and now,having hit the mother lode,they’re going to spend away their feelings of inadequacy at the taxpayers’ expense.
Obama continues to exhibit behavior that,at best,can be described as mobocratic and,at worst,reveals a deeply damaged individual. In a February 2010 column,I asked,“Is Obama unraveling?” I wrote that it was beginning to appear the growing mistrust of him and contempt for his policies was beginning to have a destabilizing effect on him.
At that time,I wrote that not having things go one’s way can be a bitter pill,but reasonable people don’t behave as he was behaving. He had insulted Republicans at their luncheon,where he had been an invited guest. I had speculated that was,in part,what had led him to falsely accuse Supreme Court justices before Congress,the nation and the world,during the 2010 State of the Union address.
It appeared,at that time,as if he were “fraying around the emotional edges.”That behavior has not abated – it has become more pronounced. While addressing the nation,after being forced to explain the validity of his unilateral aggression with Libya,America witnessed a petulant individual scowling and scolding the public for daring to insist he explain his actions.
But during an afternoon speech to address the budget/debt,he took his scornful,unstable despotic behavior to depths that should give the nation cause for concern. Displaying a dark psychopathy more representative of an episode of “The Tudors”television series,he invited Rep. Paul Ryan,R-Wis.,to sit in the front row during his speech and then proceeded to berate both Ryan and Ryan’s budget-cutting plan. Even liberal Democrats were put off by the act. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough questioned the sanity of Obama’s actions.
Today,criticism is coming from all sides. A senior Democrat lawmaker said,“I have been very disappointed in [Obama],to the point where I’m embarrassed that I endorsed him. It’s so bad that some of us are thinking,is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?”(“Democrats’Disgust with Obama,”The Daily Beast,April 15,2011)
Steve McCann wrote:Obama’s speech “was chock full of lies,deceit and crass fear-mongering. It must be said that [he] is the most dishonest,deceitful and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed”(“The Mendacity of Barack Obama,”AmericanThinker.com,April 15,2011).
McCann continued:“[His] performance was the culmination of four years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media,including some in the conservative press and political class who are loath to call [him] what he is in the bluntest of terms:a liar and a fraud. That he relies on his skin color to intimidate,either outright or by insinuation [against] those who oppose his radical agenda only add to his audacity. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character flaws his entire life,aided and abetted by sycophants around him. …”
With these being among the kinder rebukes being directed at Obama,and with people becoming less intimidated by his willingness to use race as a bludgeon,with falling poll numbers in every meaningful category and an increasingly aggressive tea-party opposition – how much longer before he cracks completely?
The coming months of political life are not going to be pleasant for Obama. Possessed by a self-perceived palatine mindset,that in his mind places him above criticism,how long before he cracks in public? Can America risk a man with a documented track record of lying and misrepresenting truth as a basic way of life,who is becoming increasingly more contumelious?