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Obama, Reid, and Pelosi: Weathering the Storm

 

Whilst the presidential election results are parsed and explained elsewhere in this site, we still need to interpret their meaning.  Allow me to shed some light on the issue.

 

The election of Obama may seem to indicate a mandate of change, but what change is that? As explained in other articles on this site, the Obama administration has a radical far-left socialist agenda that includes the following:

• Higher taxes for businesses, businesspeople, and most people that pay taxes
• Increased handouts to those who don’t pay the income tax and don’t work
• FOCA: Freedom of choice act to allow abortions without question in all situations
• An act to overturn DOMA: the defense of marriage act requiring 1 man, 1 woman
• Overturning the 2^nd amendment right to bear arms for individuals
• Appointing only radical unconstitutional judges with litmus test of pro-abortion
• Preventing new oil drilling and nuclear plants to ensure foreign energy dependence
• Leaving Iraq a quagmire by taking our troops out before it is resolved
• Expand government provided social welfare to new heights
• Create a massive income redistribution program run by the bureaucrats in DC
• Increase federal government spending for all social programs
• Decrease defense spending
• Appease enemies by having friendly talks and letting them do whatever
• Get rid of all our nuclear weapons

 

That’s a very frightening agenda by most standards. Next, we have to look at what the people actually voted for on specific issues:

• Lower taxes (many believe in the 95% tax cut impossibility)
• AGAINST homosexual marriage acts in all states, including CA who elected Obama
• To protect our borders against illegal foreign invaders

 

Other than the vote for Obama, it doesn’t look to me like people voted for a radical communist, leftist, or socialist agenda. It looks like people voted for lower taxes, less corporate welfare, and an end to the Iraq war, and they thought Obama could provide that.  

 

So the question remains, will President Obama attempt to implement his radical far left agenda, or will he govern from the center as the people have voted?  So far all signs are in favor of the radical agenda. Obama may have run as a populist, but he is so far to the left that he must be classified as a communist.

 

Senator Reid and Rep Nancy Pelosi are far left individuals too. Note how all the leaders of the Democrat Party are. This is why they failed to win the Presidency in 2000, despite a strong economy and incumbent VP, and in 2004 despite an unpopular incumbent President whose position on the global war on terror baffled most people who have forgotten 9/11 already and were brainwashed by the media.

 

They thought they had won out with Bill Clinton, telling him to run as a moderate and then unleash the far left socialist agenda.  However President Clinton, always putting his own popularity first, didn’t want to push any unpopular measures and continued to govern as a populist, enraging the leftists, including his wife, but keeping him in good standing with moderates, Democrats, and even many Republicans.

 

Alas, the Democrats have their radical president. They dressed him up, gave him some talking points and told him to run as a populist who will protect the little guy. He even stole the tax cut issue from the GOP!  The only thing stopping him from enacting the left’s communist agenda will be his own ego. There will be a backlash against raising taxes on anyone making under $250k, most of which are middle class.

 

If Obama is to enact the radical socialism, he will have to deal with a middle class revolt and increasing unpopularity, just like Jimmy Carter faced. If he continues with his appeasement policy towards our enemies and they begin attacking our people on our soil, people will become disgruntled and eager to show him the door, similar to President Carter. If our economy continues to tank like it did under Carter, the Misery Index will encourage people to fire him at the earliest possible time.

 

President Obama now faces the most serious decision of his life, and has two choices:

1. Stand up for the communist principles he has been taught and espoused his entire life, and enact a radical socialist agenda, raising taxes on businesses and working people, and increasing social welfare via wealth distribution; appeasing our enemies and show weakness in foreign policy.

2. Work towards his own popularity, govern from the center, and try to find common grounds between the left and right, and work to bring them together and try to make the ends meet. Continue the strong measures on foreign policy and the national security that we have had since the fateful terrorist attacks on 9/11.

 

Choice 1 would results in the most failed and unpopular presidency since Carter, which will result in a single term administration that will go down in history as a political and economic disaster of Carter proportions, that will take years to recover from. Remember, it took the economy four years just to recover from President Carter, and more to start improving again.

 

Choice 2 would result in a steady increase in Obama’s popularity, and ensure at least some success of his administration. It might even get him re-elected once he has the faith from people on both sides, that the radical agenda is not being pursued. This would also increase the respect that other counties have for our country and its President.

 

What will it be, President Obama? Fame or Infamy.