Looking back at the nearly six years since Barack Obama stunned the world and was elected the first Black president in American history, it is not hard to see how he was more suited as a cast member of the movie Great Expectations than the reality of leading a nation full of Great Expectations.
Whereas Charles Dickens' 13th novel, Great Expectations, was
the story of a young lad coming of age, so was Obama's election that of a young
lad coming of age. Dickens' Great Expectations is a graphic book, full of extreme
imagery, poverty, prison ships, "the hulks," barriers and chains, and
fights to the death.
I see the same
kind of extreme imagery in Obama's journey through the presidency. Surrounded by powerful bankers and other
insidious scoundrels and dependent on a host of close advisors and friends
whose principal purpose was the exercise of self-serving greed, experience
proved a very tough lesson for Dickens' Pip and America 's Obama.
"Welcome to
the presidency Barack," came the deafening roar of the liberal left and
socialist lefter with every special interest group East of Eden clamoring for a
piece of the fat cat Wall Street 1% of the wealth in America.
His embedded
constituency never believed in Obama's message of HOPE plastered everywhere
during the campaign. They had no
intention of "hoping" for anything, all along they were prepared to
take what they wanted from whomever they wanted.
That might work
in the smoke filled rooms of a long forgotten political yesteryear but this is
not yesteryear, the public soon found out that those rascal fat cats could be
disguised as either Republicans or Democrats with the results being much the
same.
Well into his 7th
year as president Obama still has no meaningful tax reform to keep the rich
from getting richer and the poor poorer.
There is no immigration reform, no massive defense spending cuts so we
could finance Obama's big government social agenda.
Health care and
education in America are the world's most expensive disasters as the more money
we throw at the problems the more entrenched the crooks and vast the crannies
where billions of dollars just seem to disappear.
We almost have
wound down war to the point where we have the worlds most powerful and angry
fighting force and no war to go play in.
Powerful because the military industrial complex that really rules the
world has had a siphon sucking our defense billions into their R&D, new and
useless weapons systems, and war after war.
Obama was greeted
into the presidency by the worst recession since the last time Wall Street was
caught with their fingers in Uncle Sugars' federal cookie jar, the Great
Depression.
In 2008 it was
home mortgage fraud on a scale beyond imagination.
It was securities
fraud and deception enabling crooks to control the stock markets.
When the bankers,
home mortgage financiers, powerful labor unions, Wall Street securities experts
and of course the politicians and bureaucrats all share in the illegal wealth
being generated well, is it any wonder why the rich get richer and the poor get
screwed?
Of course the
Main Street media, that Constitutionally protected force in America that went
from reporting the news to manufacturing the news in order to serve their own
special interests, jumped on the Obama bandwagon either because they saw him as
the Messiah of a New Social Order or they were ordered to by their advertisers.
So let us review
history.
Obama #44 was
greeted into the presidency by an economic disaster.
Bush #43 was
welcomed into the presidency by the 911 Twin Towers
catastrophe.
Bush, Sr. #41 was
welcomed into the presidency by Desert Storm.
Reagan #40 was
welcomed into the presidency by the Iran hostage crisis and the
economic crisis.
Carter #39, was
welcomed into the presidency by the Watergate scandal aftermath and public
skepticism.
Ford #38 was
welcomed into the presidency when the prior president disappeared on a
helicopter.
Nixon #37 was
welcomed into the presidency with the Viet Nam war raging out of control.
Johnson #36 was
welcomed into the presidency when his predecessor was assassinated.
Kennedy #35 was
welcomed into the presidency by the Cuban missile crisis and Berlin Wall.
Eisenhower #34 was
welcomed into the presidency with the Korean War.
Wait a minute, do
you mean the last 14 presidents have all faced foreboding events in national and
world affairs before or very early into their presidency? Why on Earth didn't the Main Street media tells us about our
history instead only focusing on Obama?
Every single one
of the last 14 presidents with the exception of Clinton whose problems were kept pretty much
undercover faced huge problems when taking office.
So maybe Obama
didn't have it all that bad. Maybe the
Democratic leaders just need to stop whining about all their problems and
roadblocks and roll up their sleeves and get to work.
There are still
some issues of such importance to our future and magnitude to our present that
if Obama and his enemy, the Republicans, could work together they still might
leave a legacy of never losing sight that they are first and foremost
Americans.
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