Showing posts with label Obamaville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obamaville. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Obamaville July 28 - The Calm before the Storm - Dark Clouds on the Horizon

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Campaign 2016

The clock keeps ticking with about 16 months left before the general election in November 2016 and already the political silly season has started.


The Republican candidates for president see nothing but Red and the Democratic candidates see nothing but Blue and I do not mean in terms of states on the election board.


Why is it the GOP gang of 16, 17, 18, or whatever cannot just leave Obama out of the election?  No one can change history and Obama did break a huge barrier when elected as our first African American president.  If he did nothing else, it was a significant historic achievement.


Many Americans did not approve of his agenda, his foreign policy, his intellectual indifference and other things but Obama is not going to be president any more.  American decency suggests the herd of candidates should focus on explaining what they would do as president, instead of threatening to tear down everything President Obama accomplished.


If I remember correctly, Obama got elected twice to serve as Commander and Chief of all the people and we owe our president respect if nothing else.  The GOP candidates seem incapable of giving us their agenda for the future choosing instead to mount goofy and demeaning attacks on every last thing the president says or does.


Of course, the National Republican Party just magnified the political partisanship when they limited the GOP debates to the top ten candidates leaving at least half a dozen out in the cold.  They could have had two debates of nine each to showcase all the candidates but no, that makes too much sense.


The only result was all the candidates turning up the volume and competing for who can make the most outrageous and incendiary sound bytes to the media in an effort to boost them into the top ten for the debate.


The GOP has no stranglehold on stupidity, however, as Hillary has flip flopped so many times already her Democratic base has no idea what she advocates.  She pleads she is a pauper with $200 million in the bank as she raises $2 billion for the campaign.  Duh...


Her wobbly and Pollyanna-like explanations for violating federal law by keeping top-secret files on her home computer, then erasing all the records before anyone could check her drive, may be one of the biggest blunders in presidential campaign history.  This was her election to lose and she is doing a very good job at it.

  
Running our Government
Now that the Republicans have control of both Houses of Congress, nothing has changed, much like Obama's first two years when the Democrats controlled both Houses.  It is a miracle when any little thing good happens in our nation's capitol and that is a very sorry state of affairs.


Campaign Finance Reform

The failure by Obama, the Democrats, the Republicans, and the presidential candidates to address campaign finance reform is tantamount to criminal neglect and insures the one to three percent of the people with all the wealth in America will continue to control our politicians like puppets on a string.


Foreign Policy Follies

The Obama administration foreign policy of negotiation with our enemies has resulted in a policy of appeasement and undermined whatever international credibility we might have had in the world.  Instead of a Super power, we are a Super wimp, and it may take generations to get past the morass.


Dark Economic Skies

After seven years of empty promises from Obama and both parties, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will still bankrupt our nation in time.  Our health care is the most expensive in the world and we still rank around nineteenth in terms of quality of service.


All the stock markets are the playground of the rich and pushed Joe six-pack out of the market with computers and crooks, crooks the Obama administration has failed to prosecute.  We still have a lot of corruption, discrimination, and even human trafficking, but we never miss a chance to blast other nations for their faults while ignoring our own.


International Terrorism

Terrorism thrives because of the foreign policy stupidity of both political parties.

Wish you voted different?
Economy

Our economy may very well be on life-support, as only the rich seem to have benefited from the economic recovery.  If the American public no longer has faith and trust in our many institutions it is for a very good reason, they do not deserve it.


Hope or a Dope

Still I have hope and remain optimistic that in the end the people will regain control of their government and force our politicians to fix the mess.


The Silent Majority

I never lose sight of the fact that when Obama won re-election in 2012 by the largest margin in his two campaigns, he still only won the overwhelming support of just twenty-six percent of the eligible voters in America.  An astonishing seventy-four percent of the eligible voters did not support him or his agenda.


One day all of our silent majority will finally register and vote and when they do all the money and professional politicians in the world will not be able to stop the tidal wave of reform the people will unleash on America.

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Friday, March 27, 2015

Obamaville March 27 - Our Middle East policy - no more good guys, or bad guys - are we at war with ourselves?

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It used to be we needed a scorecard to figure out what the Obama Administration was doing in the Middle East, as the policy seemed to be all over the place.


Obama milestones


We pulled out of Iraq


We sent troops back to Iraq - at least 10,000


We start massive bombing of ISIS positions in Iraq and Syria


We want Syrian President Assad overthrown


We help Assad fight ISIS terrorists


Iran is biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world


We negotiate with Iran to restrain their nuclear program


We help overthrow Libyan dictator


Libya destabilized thanks to us


Terrorists kill Americans in Libya


Jordan troops attack rebels in Libya


We pulled out of Afghanistan


More troops will remain in Afghanistan


We like Israel


We are reassessing our relationship with Israel


We might send arms to the Kurds fighting the ISIS terrorists


Iran sends troops to help fight ISIS in Iraq


We bomb ISIS targets around Iranian troops in Iraq


Coalition troops in Iraq refuse to fight if US continues to bomb Iraq


Obama likes our position in Yemen


Yemen throws out the US from Yemen


Saudi Arabia announces war with Yemen rebels


100 fighter jets and 150,000 troops committed by Saudis


Sunni and Shi'a sects under Islam bitter enemies throughout Middle East


Russia holds key to working with Iran


Obama condemns Russia and imposes sanctions


Up to 10% of Arab population is Christian Arab


US does nothing to help Christian Arabs


Israel is only real ally of US in Middle East


Israeli PM Netanyahu travels to China and Russia to hedge bets


In politics, there is an old saying that we will double cross that bridge when we get to it.  Our current foreign policy in the Middle East has mastered the theory of double-crossing our opponents and allies alike.


Now it seems we have gotten to the point that our strange alliances and initiatives have pushed us into a war with ourselves in our efforts to appease every faction in the Middle East.


Beyond that, is there anyone on earth who trusts the word of the Obama Administration or believes we will stand behind what we say?

Sometimes the bizarre foreign policy of the Obama Administration seems to have come from an Ouija board gone mad.

Will it ever end?


Is this really the legacy we should leave the world?

We should be ashamed!
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