Obama’s Jekyll and Hyde Routine: Disturbing Mixed Messages
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by Wynton C. Hall 08/15/2011
humanevents.com
President Obama has become so detached from the economic realities Americans are suffering that he has failed to realize just how muddled and inconsistent his message and presidency have become.
The following, then, should help him understand why Republicans, moderate Democrats, Independents, Tea Party members, and increasingly his own liberal base have tuned him out and moved on.
Here’s the schizophrenic political message the American people now hear when they listen to Obama speak: Big Government can improve lives and create economic prosperity … except right now, because the economic catastrophe my reckless spending has triggered has left me and my administration impotent and unable to redistribute ever-dwindling wealth. My team of economic advisers has the smartest plans and strategies for creating jobs … except that jobs are nowhere in sight, 16.2% of people can’t find enough work, one in five men doesn’t work, and one in seven now relies on food stamps to put meals on the table.
I am the arbiter of hope and change, and I’m a strong leader who can navigate us through the worst economy since the Great Depression … except that, even though my party controls 66% of the government, I still send my advisers out to blame America’s first-ever S&P downgrade on the Tea Party, whose members I believe are crazy and insignificant … except that they are, apparently, smart and significant.
My benevolence and compassion can be seen in how I seized control of 1/7th of the U.S. economy and created government-run ObamaCare … except that my Big Government good deeds have been deemed a colossal budgetary nightmare by more than half of all the states, 28 of whom are suing the federal government in an effort to escape my benevolence and compassion.
Still, you can be sure that my “balanced approach” to deficit reduction is serious and sound … except that I just increased the U.S. debt limit to the highest levels in American history.
As the first black President in American history, I am uniquely suited to understand and address the needs, concerns and exigencies that impinge upon the African-American experience, and my status as a black male makes me a role model to other black men … except that I have overseen the complete elimination of the black middle class and Depression-era levels of black unemployment, and I have done nothing to address the most crippling reality confronting the black community: a near fatherless culture, marked by a jaw-dropping 72% out-of-wedlock birth rate (as compared with 28% for whites).
I am also the greenest President in American history, and my ability to use the awesome power of the federal government to protect the environment means that my leadership will ensure that this is “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal,” as I infamously said back in June 2008 … except that I oversaw and mismanaged the largest-ever oil spill in U.S. history and proved once and for all that a federal government that can’t even put a plug in a hole is hardly equipped to manage and plan the lives of more than 300 million citizens.
I have also energized young people in ways no U.S. presidential candidate or President had ever dreamed of by urging college students to believe in “Hope” and “Change” … except my moribund economic stewardship has now rendered their expensive college degrees hollow and made the likelihood of them finding a job out of college go from 90% under President George W. Bush to an abysmal 56% under me.
Best of all, I am a peacemaker, and I've got the Nobel Prize to prove it. I was elected on a platform of ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, within one year of my election, shutting down that blight upon America’s ethos and goodness, Guantanamo Bay … except that, presently, I’ve left 49,700 troops in Iraq, doubled down in Afghanistan and sent 30,000 more troops there, launched a brand new war in Libya, and after much education and coming to grips with the realities of evil that exist in the real world, grew up and decided that Guantanamo must remain open, just like Mr. Bush and Dick Cheney tried to tell me.
As I said during the election, I don’t just want to be the President of the blue states or the red states, but the United States ... except that I’ve managed to infuriate and alienate liberals, conservatives and moderates, due to my disastrous decisions and nonexistent results.
Had enough yet, America? |
