November 15, 2011 · 6:47 pm

Not once Obama hears about this

Resources boom creates $200,000 jobs for high school grad miners. You will recall that Mr. Obama, touring a depressed, jobless section of Pennsylvania, declared the region dead and populated by bitter, worthless people who clung to their guns and religion. When oil was (re)discovered in that same area and people began working again, our now-President moved swiftly to shut the mining down. The idea, see, is to move everyone into cities, where they can live on the government dole, occupy federally subsidized housing and eat vegetables by the illumination of CFL bulbs. Welcome to Paradise.

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  1. not so anonymouse
    November 15, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    Look up Agenda 21

  2. Walt
    November 15, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    Dude –
    This is what I meant to post. Sorry for the long cut and paste, but this guy makes some pretty compelling points.
    Your Pal,
    Walt

    The Washington Post
    August 18, 2011 Obama: The Affirmative Action President By Matt Patterson (columnist – Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)

    “Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world’s largest economy, direct the world’s most powerful military, execute the world’s most consequential job?

    Imagine a future historian examining Obama’s pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer”; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote “present”) ; and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator.

    And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s “spiritual mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

    Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:

    To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.

    Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass — held to a lower standard — because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:

    And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

    Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon — affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

    Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.

    Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin — that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn’t racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.

    True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?

    In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people — conservatives included — ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that’s when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth — it’s all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.

    And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

    In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

  3. Al Johnson
    November 15, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    Chris, your WSJ link is subscribers-only. Maybe all your Greenwich readers have a sub, but for the rest of us, here’s a link to the whole article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204621904577016172350869312.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond
    Welcome back, by the way–

  4. Al Johnson
    November 16, 2011 at 1:42 am

    Oops: @Walt: Great article– but it’s from American Thinker, not WaPo.

  5. Peg
    November 16, 2011 at 7:55 am

    I keep on thinking what a tragedy it is that Obama didn’t head for Hollywood instead of DC. I really believe he would have made a superb actor. And, even though he’s gotten wealthy in politics, his riches could have been far more in Tinseltown.

    Instead, The Current Occupant has exacerbated critical problems we’ve been facing, and dished up steaming piles of you know what for whoever is to follow in the Oval Office.

    For those who love him; he’s a great actor, folks. Take away the script and the teleprompter, and you have ummmm, uhhh, ahhhhhh – a guy who is just not up to the job.

  6. Anonymous
    November 16, 2011 at 10:54 am

    WaPo would never publish that article

  7. Saul Alinsky
    November 16, 2011 at 11:22 am

    Boy are you people going to be sad, sad, sad when he’s re-elected. Really guys, is this group the best and brightest of Team Conservative? Come on, Huntsman has a brain, but the rest of them? Willard? Come on, can you be more craven? Mr. 9-9-9? Some spark there. Me, I want to see Michelle Bachman nominated. Some fun that would be. Honestly, stop hating on America, because that’s all your tough-love complaining really is. Reminds me of all your whining about anti-American Bush haters in 2006. Because until you throw up a credible alternative – and you have not (although they exist in large volume on the right) – you are just wasting precious time you could be out there creating jobs.

  8. greenmtnpunter
    November 16, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    Saul Alinsky! The most evil bastard to ever breathe air in the land of the free and home of the brave. His “Rules For Radicals” is the most cynical, bone chilling treatise I have ever read. Alinsky was an evil man. But freedom loving Americans allow creeps like this to “bore from within” and sow the seeds of our own destruction. What a great country.

  9. Anonymous
    November 16, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    Love Reagan or loathe him, can you imagine Obama walking into a room full of students who disagreed with him and handle himself so well and be in such command of the issues?

  10. Peg
    November 16, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    I’m not terrifically impressed with the current crop of Republican candidates – though, 80% of them are significantly superior to The Current Occupant.

    My own opinion is that we have crafted a world where the best candidates have little or no desire to run for the top spot. I could list a dozen reasons why – not the least of which are that we look into every moment of every day for trash about the person, have media manipulation about what they’ve really said and really believe – and so on. This is not party specific; we’ve turned the presidency into People Magazine on steroids. It’s almost to the point that if you really ARE willing to run for the presidency – that oughta immediately disqualify you are semi-nuts.

    Anyway, Saul – the people who really love America are the ones who don’t want it to go the way of Greece, Italy – and God knows how much else of Europe. Love and spend! The way to oblivion…..

    At least we can agree about Michele Bachmann. Mercifully, she clearly has zero chance of becoming the candidate. If she had, I might have had to flee to some large rock in Idaho for four years; Bachmann vs Obama surely would have been more than I could bear.