Thread: Will Ignorance Lead to a Second Obama Term?

There remain too many Americans who simply do not understand just how incompetent and ideologically driven The Obama administration is

April 06, 2011

Will Ignorance Lead to a Second Obama Term?

By Lauri B. Regan
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There is a wonderful quote that has been making its way around the internet over the past year. It apparently was translated from an article published in the Czech Republic newspaper Prager Zeitung last April and reads as follows:

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency...Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

The first time I saw this, the Tea Party enthusiasm was in full force and Republicans were on their way to taking back the House and gaining ground in the Senate. Optimism prevailed and the light at the end of the tunnel began to appear. But as Barack Obama announces his reelection bid and the GOP has yet to produce a strong, viable candidate for President, it would be prudent to question the present mindset of the electorate who got the country and the world into the current mess and whether it is possible that "the confederacy of fools" will elect him to a second term.

When Obama won in 2008, I wrote an article for AT in which I analyzed the various reasons that people had for voting for a person who was clearly incompetent, unprepared, unpatriotic, and basically void of any substance other than his own ego and disdain for American exceptionalism. The five categories of Obama voters included (i) individuals suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome, (ii) followers with a mob mentality of assuming that if everyone liked the guy, he must be wonderful, (iii) socialists, (iv) people with racial guilt looking for a post-racial America, and (v) those suffering from simple ignorance due to a lack of intellectual curiosity to understand the man who would be king.

Now, with over half of Obama's term complete, the only relevant categories of Obama supporters are those falling under items (iii) and (v) -- Americans who reside on the far left of the political spectrum and those who remain completely ignorant about world affairs, economics, and the person who is the current leader of the free world. The far left will continue to support and vote for Obama no matter how many flip flops he makes on closing Gitmo, military trials for terrorists, intervention in Mideast revolutions, and other policies that raise their ire.

However, in the face of a dishonest and complicit mainstream media, it is up to all thinking Americans to make efforts to educate themselves, their neighbors, friends, colleagues, and family as to the dangers of four more years of Obama as President. For while the world can withstand four years of incompetence in the White House, eight years will likely result in a world forever changed, with America reduced to mediocrity and powerlessness, Islamic fundamentalism on an unimpeded rise to triumph over the West, and liberty and freedom replaced in many more parts of the world by tyranny and human rights abuses.

While many Americans who voted for Obama in 2008 have woken up to the fact that it was a colossal mistake, there remain too many Americans who simply do not understand just how incompetent and ideologically driven his administration is. There are too many people who would rather watch Joy Behar's ineffectual interview with Helen Thomas, who continue to watch MSNBC's idiotic news programs hosted by the likes of Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow, or who consider Jon Stewart and Bill Maher reliable sources of news. There are also those who read The New York Times without any critical analysis of its editorial board's disconnect from reality and publisher's extreme bias resulting in disingenuous reporting.

And then there is the matter of Israel and the Jewish vote. While having little impact in terms of numerical votes, American Jews' continued monetary support of Obama makes explaining the irrationality of that voting bloc extremely difficult. While Israel was not a voting issue for the majority of American Jews in 2008, it may very well become one in 2012 -- and not necessarily because American Jews have suddenly woken up to the fact that the existential threat to Israel is increasing daily under Obama. I believe that Jews overwhelmingly supported Obama in 2008 due to their willful ignorance and lack of interest in his predictable contempt for Israel. Since that time however, Soros-led initiatives such as J Street have led to many American Jews, who have not taken the time to investigate these organizations' missions, to grow contemptuous of Israel and supportive of the least Israel-friendly President since the creation of the Jewish nation.

American Jews are not only living on the left side of lala land, they are blinded by their progressive passions. How else can one explain supporting a President who has spent the better part of the past two and a half years weakening the only Mideast democracy and US ally, the world's only Jewish nation, and a beacon of hope and freedom that welcomes people of all faiths, especially Jews. How else to explain a rabbi who stands before a congregation of thousands and calls Israel "an occupying entity," 900 rabbis who say amen as Obama explains that "We are God's partners in matters of life and death" and orders them to sell his socialist policies to the nation, and hundreds of rabbis who ran a Wall Street Journal ad criticizing Glenn Beck and FoxNews notwithstanding that both clearly stand with Israel.

Just as Richard Goldstone allowed the UN Human Rights Commission to use his name and status as a Jew to demonize Israel in the Goldstone Report, the American Jewish community has allowed Obama to turn them into a bunch of useful idiots. And this combination of stupidity and ideology does not bode well for the future of the Jewish homeland.

So as Obama enters into campaign mode (not that he has ever left campaign mode) and pivots right by agreeing to try KSM in a military court, appearing to care about human rights abuses by striking Libya, and pretending to work with Republicans on a balanced budget, the American people need to wake up. They need to focus on the extremists making decisions and policies in Obama's administration, beginning with Samantha Power and ending with Eric Holder; they need to remember the bipartisanship and dirty tricks used to pass ObamaCare; and they need to recall his abandonment of the freedom fighters in Honduras and Iran, while supporting the "moderate" Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and al Qaeda rebels in Libya.

And while they are at it, the U.S. electorate might want to take one more look at Obama swaggering up to the podium for his campaign and post-election speeches and question the intelligence of a man who cannot speak without a telepromptor, who refuses to disclose his college transcripts (let alone his birth certificate), who chose Cairo for his most famous reach-out to a people who hate America, and who appears to care more about enjoying the life of Riley than he does about the free world. If Obama represents the level of intelligence of the American people, then I fear our Republic will not survive the "multitude of fools" who may very well hand the prince a second term.

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Team Obama knows it will not be able to honestly campaign on the President's record of accomplishments. There is little option but to replay the 2008 campaign

April 06, 2011

Obama Re-Election and the Cult of Personality

By Steve McCann
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Barack Obama has made it official: he is running for re-election. The 2012 presidential election campaign has officially begun. The election will ultimately be a referendum on Barack Obama regardless of whom the Republicans choose as their nominee. Deep in the bowels of the White House and in strategy sessions in Chicago, the Obama team is formulating its campaign strategy convinced that their guy's charisma and delivery combined with a willingness to say anything will result in re-election.

Team Obama knows it will not be able to honestly campaign on the President's record of accomplishments. There is a risk in basing their campaign solely on blaming everything on President Bush and the mantra that things would have been worse if they had not pursued their policy agendas. After all Barack Obama will have been in office for four years by Election Day 2012.

Even the most optimistic of economists and the Federal Reserve itself predict that the economy will not have completely turned around by November 2012, as the unemployment rate will remain around 8-9%. The annual budget deficit will still be in the $1+ Trillion range and the total national debt will have increased over $5.4 Trillion dollars during Obama's first term (more than the debt from the founding of the country in 1789 through 2001). There is also a consensus that the Middle East will still be in turmoil, the threat of terrorism markedly higher and our foreign policy in shambles.

There is little option but to replay the 2008 campaign.

Therefore the White House will, as its primary tactic between now and November 2012, focus on re-instituting and re-enforcing the "cult of personality" strategy so successful in 2008 (particularly against Hillary Clinton) while contrasting Obama against the dull and bland personality of any of the Republican candidates. Secondarily and in concert with the once-mainstream media and the unions, the well-worn and threadbare accusations of the nominee as being mean-spirited and in league with the "rich" will be on full display. In reserve will be the heavy artillery of racist accusations to be used to create headlines and sidetrack the Republicans whenever the opportunity, real or imagined, presents itself.

The cult of personality can be best summed up as: a country's leader using the mass media, staged public events and government assets to create an idealized and celebratory public image often through unquestioning flattery and praise as well as outwardly sincere empathy with the populace.

This term in connection with Barack Obama was first brought up in 2008 campaign by the Hillary Clinton supporters and notable left-wing commentators such as Paul Krugman in the New York Times in reaction to the tactics of the Obama campaign and the adulation of the media.

In the past "cult of personality" was most often associated with various dictators and brutal communist leaders such as Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. While no one is comparing Barack Obama to those vile and evil leaders, there is one trait that is necessary if a cult of personality is to flourish. That is a determination, without any moral scruples, to say or do anything (true or false) in order to accomplish one's goals. Therefore every action of Obama from this day forward, from the most pronounced to the least noticed, must be viewed through the prism of his re-election.

That trait was recognized by many Hillary Clinton supporters in 2008 as they watched the Obama campaign lie about her positions, pull out the race card whenever possible and utilize underhanded and in some cases illegal tactics to win in various caucus states. In the meantime Obama was going around the country holding combination rock concert and religious revival campaign appearances mouthing infinite platitudes but no substance. The Obama campaign succeeded into making him into a combination of a messiah/celebrity in what has become a celebrity driven culture. Hillary or no one else for that matter could compete in that environment.

Whoever the Republican candidate will be in 2012, he or she would do well to study the 2008 Obama campaign against Hillary Clinton and not the just focus on the failed candidacy of John McCain.

The first step in defeating Obama is to not to acquiesce to "political correctness" and racial intimidation. Mr. Obama has been President now for four years, he is of African descent therefore there is no new ground to break or national guilt to assuage. His is no longer an historical candidacy. Both Hillary and McCain were so intimidated by that factor that they refused to figuratively take the gloves off and challenge his many statements and outright lies.

When, not if, the race card is used, the accusation needs to be firmly refuted and turned back on the Obama campaign as being their deliberate attempt to incite racial animosity, anger and a diversion at a time when the country if facing so many problems created by the Obama administration.

The English language contains some short but blunt words that need to be used more often. When someone deliberately tells an untruth it is not spin or a fabrication, it is a lie. The person that repeatedly does so is not someone who is a master of spin or obfuscation, he or she is a liar. Based on Mr. Obama's myriad of false and misleading statements over the past four years, he is a congenital liar and needs to be called out without trepidation each time he reverts to another lie.

The American people can expect to see President Obama on as many sympathetic television talk shows as possible and he will grant innumerable interviews to sycophantic news anchors and talk radio personalities as he can get into his schedule when not interfering with golf or White House parties. The Obama family will be prominently featured in all the celebrity worshiping magazines and news shows, which will also highlight the various White House functions with whoever is the entertainment or sports superstar of the day.

The Republican candidate cannot compete with this onslaught as well as the attention-getting power inherent in the office of the President. He or she should not try to follow in Obama's footsteps in trying to curry favor with the celebrity or the once-mainstream media. Instead, make a campaign issue of the President; while the country is sinking into a financial and economic abyss and the rest of the world has become a more dangerous place under his watch, he is more concerned about being a pop icon and having a good time. The Republican candidate must make some obligatory appearances with the "old" media but he or she should focus full time on the alternative media.

The Obama campaign knows their best chance to win re-election is to firmly establish Obama as an unbeatable cultural icon who saved America from even worse circumstances had he not been President. The Republican candidate must not be intimidated to speak the truth in plain language and aggressively attack the failures and foibles of Barack Obama realizing that he and his team, including the media and the unions, are without scruples and will do or say anything to win. The Obama "cult of personality" must not succeed. Only a genuine accomplished conservative that is determined and unafraid, not those the Party has traditionally nominated in the past, can achieve that goal.

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Ignorance elected him first time along with a bias media and if anything we are in the same situation again.

The title of this thread says It all. An Ill Informed electorate has been our problem for the last couple of decades Thats why we got Obama,and thats why CALIFORNIA Is melting Into Mexico. The entire United States Is In danger of becoming a third world bananna republic If voters keep electing the people that got us Into this mess ....

I didn't vote for that Anus brain the first time around. Certainly ain't going there now.........

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