The writer Maya Angelou once said, "When somebody tells you who they are, believe them."
Barack Obama has been telling us over and over and over again just who he is. Many Americans heard him the first time. Many more still don't get it, or choose not to believe him.
He has been telling us, in more ways than one, that he is a wealth distributing, socialism embracing progressive. His beliefs and policies are so radical that some Americans have a difficult time processing that this man is actually the president of the United States---and using that high office to fundamentally remake America in a European socialist model. They try to explain or justify it away, by claiming to themselves and others that he's "really not that bad" or that "his critics attack him over every little thing." The defensive crouch sometimes expresses itself in a benign way ("Obama may be naive or in over his head") and sometimes in a much darker way ("his critics are racist"). Instead of seeing the man and his ideology clearly, these folks want to ascribe every possible explanation for his radicalism other than the obvious one: that he is, in fact, a radical.
We have seen it with his associations with radicals of all stripes, from domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers to anti-American hatemongers like Jeremiah Wright to communists like Van Jones. We have seen it in his wealth redistributing policies, from the $1 trillion "stimulus" to cap and trade to ObamaCare. We have seen it in his giving the bum's rush to close allies like Great Britain and Israel while sending mash notes to enemies like Iran and Russia. We have seen it through his massive expansion of government, unprecedented spending, record-breaking deficits and debt, and socialized medicine. We have seen it as he perseveres with this agenda, even as it continues to fail in epic ways (witness today's 9.1% unemployment rate, a still-collapsing housing sector, and anemic, barely-there economic growth of 1.8%).
All of this is shocking to the American psyche, but none of it should be surprising. After all, during the 2008 campaign, Obama said this to Joe the Plumber:
"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance at success, too.I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
Of course he wants to punish your success. That's what his entire regime of wealth redistribution ("spreading the wealth around") is all about.
And remember this similar 2010 socialist classic from Obama?
"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I do think at a certain point you've made enough money, but you know, part of the American way is, you can just keep on making it if you're providing a good product."
There he goes again, claiming he doesn't "begrudge success." He protests too much. And by the way, he thinks you've "made enough money." Whew---so glad to have Obama around to tell us when we've hit that point, huh?
And who could forget his more recent socialist classic:
"I believe that we can't ask everybody to sacrifice and then tell the wealthiest among us, well, you can just relax and go count your money, and don't worry about it. We're not going to ask anything of you."
As if "the rich" became rich by sitting around, doing nothing, relaxing. As if the country "doesn't ask anything" of them, when they carry the vast majority of the tax burden. As if "the rich" spend all day eating bon bons and "counting their money."
The arrogance and condescension and complete anti-Americanism inherent in these statements---by the president, no less---is breathtaking. No wonder so many Americans wonder if he's truly "one of us." (The birth certificate controversy was merely a manifestation of this gnawing and deep concern that the country elected a man whose beliefs are so utterly alien to the nation's.)
If you need any more proof, here is his Solicitor General this week, arguing on behalf of ObamaCare to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, telling the court that if an individual doesn't like the individual mandate, they can just earn less money:
"So I guess one could say, just as the restaurant owner could depart the market in Heart of Atlanta Motel, someone doesn't need to earn that much income."
Say what?
Judge Jeffrey Sutton interjected, "That wasn't in a single speech given in Congress about this...the idea that the solution if you don't like it is make a little less money."
He is correct: no Democrat in Congress made that argument when they were pushing ObamaCare down our throats. But it's completely consistent with the wealth redistributing agenda this administration has put in place from Day One.
And if we were listening to Obama during the campaign, if we were listening to what he's been saying through his policies, none of this should be a surprise.
This is what his presidency is. This is who HE is. When somebody tells you who they are, believe them---the first time.
this imo, goes case & pt. with all that is wrong in our society, "leadership", "representation" & why the American public in general doesn't give a ratz azz about the direction we are heading................ (-Buck)
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Yes, as Bob Grant puts it: "It's sick out there and getting sicker!"
Posted by: DJ | June 06, 2011 at 05:28 PM
Three blogs a week, Monica,,,?
Posted by: LongRifle | June 06, 2011 at 05:48 PM
slow news week I guess..................
NO RINOS 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | June 06, 2011 at 06:37 PM
slow news week I guess..................
NO RINOS 2012
POSTED BY: THEBUCKSTOPSHERE | JUNE 06, 2011 AT 06:37 PM
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LOL
HAHAHA !!!
Nothing goin' on but the Weiner!
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 06:45 PM
so will he make it or not? I sincerely HOPE not.........
NO LYING RINOS 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | June 06, 2011 at 06:48 PM
"Just last week it proclaimed that there is no Wienergate." - UG
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Weiner will justifiably have a longer career in Congress than Barney Frank.
Might even make Mayor.
One day America will actually grow up. After all the conservatives die off.
Posted by: xbjllb | June 06, 2011 at 07:05 PM
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Shirtless Republicans are forced out within hours. I want this Wienershnitzel GONE.
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 07:13 PM
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First he must be forced to resign. Then we run a fake Communist to split the vote and get revenge for the 26th!
THAT is how the GOP needs to play!!!
THAT is why we liked Palladino!!!
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 07:17 PM
XBJLLB,
Noticed what you're saying. Never seen before on a blog where people have talked about giving the Southwest back to Mexico. Or, to solve it militarily.
What's next? Getting rid of the Scandinavians and Germans in the Northern plains?
Posted by: jay | June 06, 2011 at 07:24 PM
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THE GERMANS AND THE SCANDINAVIANS GOT HERE LEGALLY VIA ELLIS ISLAND YOU MORONIC MOTHERF*CKER!
THERE ARE NO GERMANS AND SCANDINAVIANS BREAKING ACROSS THE BORDER BY THE MILLIONS, YOU LIE-BERAL DIPSH*T!!!
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 07:35 PM
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Go cry to your Wiener and Frank-lovin' X-lax you DUMB DUMB DUMB PIECE OF SH*T.
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 07:36 PM
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Wiener & Frank
LOL
In the old days this would have been a great name for a hotdog stand. These days.. a gay dating service perhaps?
Nomen est Omen.
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 07:37 PM
THE GERMANS AND THE SCANDINAVIANS GOT HERE LEGALLY VIA ELLIS ISLAND YOU MORONIC MOTHERF*CKER!
THERE ARE NO GERMANS AND SCANDINAVIANS BREAKING ACROSS THE BORDER BY THE MILLIONS, YOU LIE-BERAL DIPSH*T!!!
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 07:35 PM
Hey! I know how my forefathers got here.
Just never seen a political blog where people spoke of getting rid of those who are not like them in the manner spoken here.Unless maybe a militia blog might. The Timmy McVie crowd.
Bomb Tucson, Bomb Florida, bomb this, bomb that.
Interesting!
Funny thing is. This country was NEVER PURE WHITE!
Posted by: jay | June 06, 2011 at 07:48 PM
6 June 2011
Los Angeles Catholic Diocese Promotes Bilingualism, Not Assimilation
[Brenda Walker]
In former Governor Richard Lamm’s ironic opinion piece, “I have a plan to destroy America”, item #1 on his list of sabotage actions is to make the country bilingual:
//We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. One scholar, Seymour Martin Lipset, put it this way: “The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon - all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with its Basques, Bretons and Corsicans.”//
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America is afflicted with a multitude of diversity hustlers, who think that national sovereignty and culture are what’s wrong, rather than the protectors of all we value. Perhaps the diversity blowhards haven’t heard of Czech President Vaclav Klaus’ declaration that “you cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.”
Read more >>
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2011/06/06/los-angeles-catholic-diocese-promotes-bilingualism-not-assimilation/
Posted by: DJ | June 06, 2011 at 07:55 PM
I feel that the official language should be English. Just like French is in France, etc.
But, for those who feel that we can become an all white country. Never will happen. They should go back to the days of the pilgrims and trade with the Indians. LOL!
Posted by: jay | June 06, 2011 at 08:02 PM
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GAY's idiocy is beyond exhausting.
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 08:11 PM
Jay is so F'ing stupid mere words can't describe it! Clue to dumb-fucks like Jay: The Mexicans are conquering our country by way of invasion....aided and abetted by dispicable white-libs.
Posted by: DJ | June 06, 2011 at 08:12 PM
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GAY keeps repeating his LIEberal mantra talking points, IGNORING the fact that the vast majority of Mexicans CAME HERE ILLEGALLY.
Simply too exhausting to deal with.
Maybe Debbie Wasserman SCHULTZ is sending him some special tweets to distract him from logical thinking.
How can anyone be THAT thick just all by himself?
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 08:13 PM
How can anyone be THAT thick just all by himself?
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 08:13 PM
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And to think fucktards like Jay can vote.
Posted by: DJ | June 06, 2011 at 08:25 PM
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Voting should be only with THREE tax returns AND VALID PICTURE ID.
PERIOD
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 08:30 PM
Ummah et al.
See for yourselves how the Southwest is increasingly being conquered:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391346/The-changing-face-America-Time-lapse-map-reveals-non-whites-majority-U-S-30-years.html
Posted by: DJ | June 06, 2011 at 08:46 PM
how far will this go? imo pubes should have beat her skank azz to it..............
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/06/06/oh-my-pelosi-calls-for-house-ethics-investigation-of-weiner/
NO RINOS 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | June 06, 2011 at 08:50 PM
DJ, in the great state of Texas, some of the most out spoken critics of the present regime are from Mexico, legally..............
NO RINOS 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | June 06, 2011 at 08:55 PM
no sh!t, with the crap with voting I wouldn't mind going back to property owners ONLY............
NO RINOS 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | June 06, 2011 at 08:58 PM
DJ, in the great state of Texas, some of the most out spoken critics of the present regime are from Mexico, legally..............
NO RINOS 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | June 06, 2011 at 08:55 PM
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Yes. And some of the most outspoken critics of Obama are black and live in Detroit. The most salient fact is most Mexicans vote Democrat as do most blacks. That ain't gonna change and EVERYONE knows it!
Posted by: DJ | June 06, 2011 at 09:06 PM
Voting should be only with THREE tax returns AND VALID PICTURE ID.
PERIOD
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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 06, 2011 at 08:30 PM
There is a Conservative push to make everyone who votes must be literate.
When they did that decades ago, it was to keep the blacks from voting.
Jay is so F'ing stupid mere words can't describe it! Clue to dumb-fucks like Jay: The Mexicans are conquering our country by way of invasion....aided and abetted by dispicable white-libs.
Posted by: DJ | June 06, 2011 at 08:12 PM
No, just see what those on the memo are saying. This give the Southwest back to mexico. Or, we need to solve the problem with our military.
Having lived throughout the South. In states with a huge hispanic population. Do agree that we need to solve the illegal question. But, the comments that no Mexican, Black etc will live in our country.Have seen those comments on the memo.
Folks it ain't gonna happen!
Posted by: jay | June 06, 2011 at 10:50 PM
more promised transparency...........
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/06/06/white-house-says-it-wont-even-bother-responding-to-bipartisan-house-resolution-asking-for-answers-on-war-in-libya/
WAR ON ERROR 2012
Posted by: thebuckstopshere | June 06, 2011 at 11:45 PM
"What's next?" - Jay
Unfortunately, endless Anthony Weiner penis-obsession is next. Apparently they think it will keep all the attention off Obama's birth certificate issues.
Posted by: xbjllb | June 07, 2011 at 01:25 AM