The latest attack meme pointed toward Mitt Romney is the idea that he is an evil capitalist pig that fired people and sucked the blood of money out of their unemployed corpses while laughing all the way to the bank. Newt Gingrich recently bashed Romney, and the left is all over this including the LA Times, Politico and the NY Times among others.
The problem with this approach is that the attackers expose themselves as economically ignorant. They simply ignore or don’t understand how businesses work, succeed or fail. Funny thing, the president seems to be in the same boat, but I digress.
In order for businesses to survive they need to adapt with the supply and demand of their product. As economic conditions change they might find that they need to hire more people, or downsize. This is a natural occurrence in the business world. Most people have probably worked somewhere where they were laid off during slow times, or where a business shut down because it could not adapt.
Unions go through the same process when they negotiate the reduction of hourly employees to make sure tenured employees remain employed. It’s the law of the business jungle.
But Romney’s attackers don’t understand that. They want fairness and justice, even if it ends up closing down a businesses. After all, keeping more people employed for a few months before closing the company down is better than firing some of them so that the company can fight through a down period. Everyone gets a trophy, right? Why reduce a workforce by 20% when you can reduce it by 100% six months later if you just act with compassion and fairness in your heart? That worked out great for Solyndra, Caterpillar, or Chet’s, among others.
Mitt Romney created a multi-billion dollar company that employed hundreds itself while saving the jobs of thousands of people at the companies that he worked with. Some of those companies had to fire people in order to save the jobs of those that remained. That is how it works in the real world! If you have a problem with that, I suggest you move to another country where goods and services are created each according to his abilities, and distributed to each according to his needs.
The Washington Post recently posted a list of its Best/Worst Political Quotes of 2011. As you might expect from this kool-aid drinking rag, there’s not a single Barack Obama quote in the mix. Imagine that, our own president failed to make a best of list of political quotes? Hmm. But the Post list does includes Cain, Huntsman, Cuomo, Palin, Bachman, Romney, Christie, Kyl, Weiner and Perry. You can see where they are going, it’s basically just a sucker punch list of low hanging fruit and another sign that some of the press won’t dare print anything to offend the president.
Therefore, in the name of historical accuracy and political fairness I offer the following list of quotes to remind people that our president is quite capable of saying and doing stupid things. Last year I listed 49 presidential gaffes. this year I could only make it to 37 before giving up out of disgust. I’m sick of our president, which is something I’m not really proud of. I would love to respect the leader of our nation, but in my world respect is earned, not assumed.
A shout out to Ed Morrissey, whom I consider one of the best and most consistent conservative bloggers out there. The following list was culled from the ongoing Obamateurism inventory posted regularly by Ed and his team at HotAir.com.
- 12/5/11 – Hypocrite Vacationer - “Now is not the time to slam the brakes on the recovery. Right now, it’s time to step on the gas. We need to get this done. And I expect that it’s going to get done before Congress leaves. Otherwise, Congress may not be leaving, and we can all spend Christmas here together.” Then the president announced his 17-day Christmas vacation. Update: Obama smartly decided to stay home and let his wife and daughters go without him. Kudos for that. But you have to wonder what sort of man would say that and do that in the first place?
- 11/22/11 – Hoover Sucks - ” We’re not going to win it if we just hand out more tax cuts to people who don’t need them, let companies play by their own rules without any restriction, and we just hope somehow that the success of the wealthiest few translates in the prosperity for everybody else. We have tried that, by the way. We tried it for 10 years. It’s part of what got into the mess that we’re in. It doesn’t work. It didn’t work for Herbert Hoover, when it was called trickle-down economics during the Depression. It didn’t work between 2000 and 2008, and it won’t work today.” To quote Ed Morrissey at HotAir, “Obama is dead wrong. Data from the White House’s own website shows that Hoover increased, rather than cut, spending in the Great Depression, and ran up deficits that were huge by historical standards.
- 11/16/11 – Pass the Poi - “One other thing that I want to say about this: When I meet with world leaders, what’s striking — whether it’s in Europe or here in Asia.” Um, Hawaii is not in Asia.
- 11/14/11 – Lazy as a dog - “But we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — well, people will want to come here and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America.” Ed Morrissey’s response: “Gee, why wouldn’t people want to come to the US to invest? After all, it’s not like we have a government expanding costly regulation at a breakneck rate, or a President sounding the dog whistle for class warfare, or his allies in the unions fomenting unrest aimed at financial institutions, let alone a corporate tax code that makes investing in Congress and the White House more lucrative than investing in American business. The problem isn’t that America is lazy. It’s that we picked bad leadership in 2008.”
- 11/9/11 – Oy Vay! - French President Sarkozy, ’I don’t want to see him anymore, he’s a liar.’ “Presidenet Obama, ‘You’ve had enough of him, but I have to deal with him every day!’ Stay classy, Mr. President.
- 10/17/11 – Sake kudasai! - Obama’s crack protocol team strikes again. A dinner to honor leader from South Korea features an all Japanese menu. I guess they all look the same, huh Barack?
- 10/11/11 – Get a job, work for free! - Given the chance to generate an actual job, albeit short term, the Obama team fails miserably by having a contest for free artwork. Why pay when you can steal for free? Official rules state “All submissions will become the property of Obama for America.”
- 10/7/11 – Losing money, but making it up in volume. - ”At a White House press conference on Thursday, President Barack Obama said the legislation he has proposed to create jobs could “grow the economy as much as 2 percent.” However, the White House estimates that the plan itself will cost $447 billion — or 2.97 percent of the 2011 GDP of $15.012 trillion that is currently projected by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis.” For those not good at math, gaining 2% by spending 3% is known as a loss.
- 9/23/11 – Define Violence. - During a UN speech Obama said “The Qaddafi regime is over. Gbagbo, Ben Ali, Mubarak are no longer in power. Osama bin Laden is gone, and the idea that change could only come through violence has been buried with him.” As Ed Morrissey says, “Qaddafi’s regime is only “over” — we hope — because NATO bombed the hell out of his army and Libyans fought a war of rebellion for the last several months. If Obama has forgotten, it would be strange indeed, since he’s the man who ordered the bombing to start in the first place. What is that if not “change through violence”?
- 9/22/11 – Balanced What? - In a Rose Garden speech about attacking our financial problems President Obama said “We can’t just cut our way out of this hole. It’s going to take a balanced approach.” But actual analysis of his proposal shows that “When that $1.8 billion is removed from the equation, the true nature of the president’s “deficit-reduction” “plan” is laid bare: $1.4 trillion in net deficit reduction consisting of $150 billion in spending increases combined with $1.6 trillion in tax increases.” Where’s the balance? And don’t forget that Obama has said he won’t wait for Congress if he doesn’t get his way. That’s not balance, that’s ego.
- 8/29/11 – Slow down there, farmer! - ”When a farmer complained to Barack Obama two weeks ago at a townhall meeting about rumors of regulations that would force him and his colleagues to get a commercial driver’s license to operate his farm equipment, the President assured him that it was probably nothing. “Folks in Washington” like to get “ginned up” and shout “Look what’s coming down the pipe…” So Politico decided to give it a try. When a Politico reporter decided to take the president’s advice and call the USDA for an answer to the Atkinson town hall attendee’s question, he found myself in a bureaucratic equivalent of hot potato — getting bounced from the feds to Illinois state agriculture officials to the state farm bureau. The advice took Politico’s MJ Lee on a two-day odyssey — and still ended up with no answer. Instead of demonstrating how silly regulatory rumors are, the exercise proved that no one really knows what regulations we have, what has been proposed, and who’s responsible for them. It turned into a great example of just how overregulated we are and how inefficient the government is at applying regulation.
- 8/25/11 – Let them eat jet fuel. - How out of touch can the Obamas be with reality? Perhaps they could have thought about the message sent when Michelle and Barack took separate flights to Martha’s Vineyard, 4 hours apart? Where are the greenies screaming about the CO2 footprint? Could Queen Michelle not find four hours of activity while waiting for her King so they could travel together?
- 8/23/11 – Do Nothing President - Obama demands action from Congress (something he does a lot, like a spoiled child), yet fails to realize that he needs to send the bills to Congress first. Furthermore, the bills from this particular tantrum have been delayed by Harry Reid’s senate, not the Republican-controlled congress. One more thing: the bills Obama is demanding are actually trade agreements that were signed under the Bush administration and stonewalled by Harry Reid.
- 8/18/11 – Under the bus, eh? – “We’ve got folks in America driving Kias and Hyundais. I want to see folks in Korea driving Fords and Chryslers and Chevys. I want to sell goods all over the world that are stamped with three words: “Made in America.” Quoted standing in front of his Canadian-made bus.
- 8/8/11 – Cha ching! - Obama railed against “big money flooding the airwaves and slash-and-burn politics, sometimes I think that core belief in what is possible here in America gets lost.” Said while speaking at a $35k per plate fund raising dinner.
- 8/8/11 – Don’t Worry, Be Happy! - “But what I want the American people and our partners around the world to know is this: We are going to get through this,” said Obama. “Things will get better, and we are going to get there together.” Nine ours later S&P downgrades America.
- 7/24/11 - I see dead people - “Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.” Sadly, Obama awarded it posthumously two years ago.
- 7/11/11 – Define Rhetoric - On July 10 Obama said “It’s my hope that everybody is going to leave their ultimatums at the door, that we’ll all leave our political rhetoric at the door.” The next day he says “The debt ceiling should not be something that is used as a gun against the heads of the American people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners, for oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars.”
- 6/15/11 – Shoveling It - Demanded spending of nearly a trillion dollars to get the economy going with shovel-ready jobs, then later admits that “Shovel-ready was not as … uh .. shovel-ready as we expected.”
- 6/10/11 – More coffee? - ”The Wrangler you build here directly supports 3,000 other jobs, with parts manufactured all across America. Doors from Michigan. Axles from Kentucky. Tires from Tennessee. And this plant indirectly supports hundreds of other jobs right here in Toledo. After all, without you, who’d eat at Chet’s or Inky’s or Rudy’s?” Well, not enough people. The restaurant Obama said would be helped out by the auto bailout went out of business a week after this quote, partially due to the bad economy and partially due to the no-smoking ban created by local politicians.
- 6/13/11 – Family Guy - Pens an article for People magazine and pines for more time with his kids. Then he goes golfing again.
- 5/24/11 – “Cheers!” - Obama’s crack protocol team fails him again, he starts toasting the Queen of England way too early and embarrasses himself in the process. Watch the pain here.
- 5/10/11 – Look! - Bush was ripped by the press over a photo of him looking out of the window to see Katrina damage. Obama flew over the flooded Mississippi River on the way to two fundraisers in Texas and didn’t even look out the window.
- 5/9/11 – Massive Ego - Any rational person recognizes that the killing of Bin Laden was a massive military victory. He was not found by a president or congress. He was found thanks to the efforts of our stellar military carrying out plans launched by President GW Bush and rightfully continued by President Obama. You would think a president would tip his hat to his predecessor, but not this one. That would be classy. It took a week for the administration to acknowledge the former president, and even that was delivered by an aide, not Obama himself.
- 4/27/11 – I Don’t Remember - During a Facebook town hall, Obama describes a double payment scenario with Medicare as a reason we need healthcare reform. well, the problem he used was actually fixed by the Republican congress in 2005. Obama voted on the issue, the one that would fix the problem he told his Facebook audience. He voted against the fix.
- 4/26/11 – No Easter Bunny? - President Obama failed to release a statement or a proclamation recognizing the national observance of Easter Sunday, Christianity’s most sacred holiday. By comparison, the White House has released statements recognizing the observance of major Muslim holidays and released statements in 2010 on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha. The White House also failed to release a statement marking Good Friday. However, they did release an eight-paragraph statement heralding Earth Day.
- 4/6/11 – Cap This - President Obama claimed that his Energy Secretary Chu designed cap that stopped the BP Gulf oil leak. Not only is this a ridiculous like, but Chu’s involvement actually delayed the capping of the well.
- 4/1/11 – Shhh, its a secret. - ”President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday. The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool.”
- 3/24/11 – Getting It Wrong About War - ”Speaking in Chile to defend his decision to launch Operation Odyssey Dawn, President Obama couldn’t resist taking a swipe at George Bush, in a clumsy attempt to make himself look superior. As reported by Fox News, the President declared: “In the past there have been times when the United States acted unilaterally or did not have full international support, and as a consequence typically it was the United States military that ended up bearing the entire burden.” As the folks at Fox quickly pointed out, Bush actually had twice as many international allies for the invasion of Iraq as Obama has put together for his adventure in Libya.”
- 3/31/11 - Signs of Hypocrisy - ”But it was also the height of political season, so you had a lot of slogans and gimmicks and outraged politicians waving three-point-plans for two-dollar gas – you remember that-’drill, baby,drill’-we were going through all that. And none of it would really do anything to solve the problem.” So the president is complaining about Republicans using slogans and signs, while giving a speech in front of a wall covered with his latest slogan “Winning The Future.” WTF?
- 3/25/11 – Politically Correct Stupidity - The Obama Administration refuses to use the word “war” when referring to our military actions overseas. First they rename it “Kinetic Military Action” then two weeks later change it to “time-limited, scope-limited military action.”
- 3/14/11 – Dum Dum - President Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, “No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.” Maybe that pesky communism and fear of being shot over free speech has something to do with it? No pity for you.
- 3/1/11 – Flying to Stretch It Out - Out of touch, round 27. What would the press have said if George W Bush flew his personal trainer to DC from Texas every week? Perhaps they would call it wasteful and arrogant? Well, Obama does this and the press says nothing.
- 2/28/11 – Pay up, or die. - Americans being rescued from violence in Libya expected to reimburse government. “Those who take the ferry will be expected to reimburse the government for the cost, estimated to be equivalent to the one-way commercial ferry crossing of the distance from Tripoli to the Maltese capital of Valletta, it said. Any onward travel from Malta must be paid for by the passengers, the notice said.”
- 2/2/11 – Overreachy Overreach - Judge Vinson in the Northern District of Florida ruled that ObamaCare was not constitutional. You could say that the federal mandate for all citizens to purchase something they may not want or need as an overreach. Wanton use of executive orders and EPA regulations to avoid that pesky checks and balances concept might be an overreach. But the president considers this judges ruling an overreach. Pot, meet kettle.
- 1/18/11 – Do as I say, not as I vote. - The White House warned that voting to oppose the increase would be “highly irresponsible.” Yet when Obama had the chance to vote for it, he voted no. He then said “America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership . Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.”
- 1/14/11 – Hypocritical Campaigner - Obama scolds republicans John Boehner and Mitch McConnell by saying “there will be plenty of time to campaign for 2012 in 2012,” Two weeks later the White House announces Obama’s unprecedented early as hell campaign program.
Forbes has published a brief essay on the top worst cities in America for finding a job. That tea-bagging racist organization known as MSNBC posted an article about it too, so it must be true. The top ten worst cities to find work are:
- Miami, FL
- Los Angeles, CA
- Riverside, CA
- Las Vegas, NV
- Detroit, MI
- Sacramento, CA
- Memphis, TN
- Rochester, NY
- St. Louis, MO
- Orlando, FL
It might be interesting to see how these cities are being led. What are their policies? What side of the political spectrum do you think they might fall on? Are the pro-business or pro-entitlement? It turns out that nine out of the ten cities are led by mayors of the same political persuasion.
- Miami has been run by a Democrat mayor since 1947.
- Los Angeles has never had a Republican mayor. The last time a Republican ran was back in 1977.
- Riverside is historically Republican, but has been Democratic since 1994.
- Las Vegas has had a Democrat mayor since 1959.
- Detroit has had a Democrat mayor since 1962.
- Sacramento has had a Democrat mayor since 1975.
- Memphis has historically been Democrat territory, I can’t find specific mayoral party history.
- Rochester has had a Democrat mayor since 1970.
- St. Louis has had a Democrat mayor since 1949.
- Orlando has had a Democrat mayor since 1956.
Have you heard that the NAACP is going to petition the UN over what it considers a racist effort to suppress minority votes through new Motor Voter legislation. According to the Guardian, “The NAACP contends that the America in the throes of a consciously conceived and orchestrated move to strip black and other ethnic minority groups of the right to vote.”
How exactly is requiring photo ID a racist act? It isn’t, but the idea is the only divisive and emotional concept the NAACP can cling to in its own effort to divide communities and stoke the flames of hatred throughout the country. There is no evidence whatsoever showing that the requirement of a photo ID is racist. So I thought it might be interesting to turn the focus 180 degrees and look more closely at the NAACP itself.
What is the mission of the NAACP? According to its official web site “The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.”
All persons? I don’t think so. Talk a walk through the NAACP web site and show me where any race other than black is represented. This isn’t a racist statement, it is simply an observation. Look at the awards from the most recent “Image Awards” and find me a non-black reference. You have to go back to 2010 to find a non-black reference for “Dora The Explorer.” (Personally I think Little Bill is a ton better than Dora. The music is awesome, and Little Bill lacks the incredibly annoying voice that Dora has.) Claiming that the NAACP promotes the welfare of all racist is like saying that ACORN promotes the welfare of all political parties. Prove me wrong.
Last year the NAACP took a page from the Obama playbook and removed any and all transparency surrounding the creation of its official resolution aimed at tea party members. Thanks to Philip Klein at the American Spectator, we know of a few portions of the current draft of this resolution:
- “Some Tea Party members have used racial epithets and verbally and physically abused African-American congressman and others, and have been charged with making dangerous threats against duly elected public officials…”
- Another line of the resolution called the Tea Party movement a “threat to the pursuit of human rights, justice and equality for all.”
- “BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the NAACP call upon all people of good will specifically but not limited to all political parties and human rights organizations to publicly repudiate the racism and expel the racial instigators of the Tea Party, and to stand in opposition to its drive to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era.”
Hmm. I’ve been to several tea party events including the original 9/11 DC rally and the 4/15 Alamo rally. I can say with confidence that these events were outstanding examples of courtesy, patriotism and camaraderie. To suggest that these events were racist in any way is dishonest. To assert in writing that they are an attempt to “push our country back to the pre-civil rights era” borders on insane. I would also like to ask where the resolution toward the OWS movement is. Given that it is now approaching 400 crimes nationwide (compared to none for the Tea Party), you would think such an upstanding group as the NAACP would have an opinion on the topic. Oh wait, it does. It supports the group.
Yet these stereotypes exist because the press continues to spread lies, and our president and first lady continue to willfully mislead the American public about race issues purely for their own personal gain. This disgusts me and it should disgust you too.
Remember when Michelle Obama first played the race card on 60 Minutes? Instead of using their own life as an example of what minorities can achieve in America, she chose to remain divisive. And now, at a time when race relations appear to me to be as tense as they have ever been in my lifetime, does she take the high road and use her pulpit at the NAACP to try and unite people? No. Instead, the NAACP feels compelled to craft a condemnation of an organization that it does not understand, based on evidence that does not exist. Of course, you cannot defend yourself against something you are not, but that is besides the point.
I would like to see the NAACP summit try to join communities, not divide them. I would like to see our president creating racial harmony and understanding, not poking his nose into racial issues only when the white community can be blamed (see the Cambridge Police, the freedom of the Philadelphia New Black Panthers, or the lawsuit(s) against Arizona for a crime that does not exist). I wish I could say that our president was a uniting force. Instead, I sadly see a man focused on his legacy, not his leadership. Perhaps he could learn something from the following excerpt from a speech from a great man, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oh, there will be a day, the question won’t be, “How many awards did you get in life?” Not that day. It won’t be, “How popular were you in your social setting?” That won’t be the question that day. It will not ask how many degrees you’ve been able to get. The question that day will not be concerned with whether you are a “Ph.D.” or a “no D.” It will not be concerned with whether you went to Morehouse or whether you went to “No House.”… On that day the question will be, “What did you do for others?”
Given that President Obama has barely any success to use as campaign fodder for the next year, he and his supporters are left with mudslinging. After all, if you were Obama would you focus on the facts as they stand today? We have 9% unemployment, job loss claims hovering around 400,000 per week, anemic economic growth and presidential approval ratings worse than Jimmy Carter.
So how does Team Obama and the media circus get the Great Uniter re-elected? By attacking the GOP front runner du jour as much as possible. Mitt Romney, despite the angst of many on the right, is the obvious front runner and Newt Gingrich has caught up in the polls. Both men are articulate, experienced and will present well in the debates.
But they are flip-floppers! ::queue the dramatic music::
Let’s talk about that for a moment. Since when did changing your stance on a topic become a bad thing? Have you held the views you hold today for your entire adult life? All of them? We all go through experiences that form our opinions, and sometimes opinions change. Here’s a shocker: I’m not a Republican. I consider myself a right-leaning independent, but this has not always been the case. I voted for Bill Clinton both times (::music again::) and voted for George W Bush neither time. However I consider myself largely aligned with Tea Party goal of a return to Constitutional values and the desire to greatly reduce the size of our government. Why am I sharing this with you? To point out that opinions change, sometimes drastically. Life events change you, for me it was fatherhood and 9-11.
The biggest dig against Romney is that he is a flip flopper. Given the state of our country I personally don’t give a crap about that. The same for Newt. Both of these men can get things done that will help America, which is exactly what we need right now. They aren’t perfect, and yes Newt carries enough baggage to fill a 737. But I can get past that because we are in a national economic crisis and we need action.
But they flip flop!!! ::music::
So does President Obama. So, using logic that liberals might be able to understand, if you can elect a charismatic yet inexperienced candidate who now has an extensive list of flip-flops under his belt, all without comment or concern, why can’t we elect a Republican that has changed stances? You can’t have it both ways: if changing positions is bad, condemn Obama for it. If not, shut up and let’s get to fixing our country.
If you are still drinking the kool-aid and think I’m making up my own faux news, read the following. I can find more of this but I actually have a life and need to get back to it.
- My first Obama flip recollections when he reneged on his vow to accept pubic-fundraising dollars. ““If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.”
- He flipped on Guantanamo. Close it, keep it open? Accused President Bush of “running prisons which lock people away without telling them why they’re there or what they’re charged with” Never mind, carry on.
- He flipped on military tribunals. In 2008 he said “To build a better, freer world, we must first behave in ways that reflect the decency and aspirations of the American people. This means ending the practice of shipping away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far-off countries, of detaining thousands without charge or trial, of maintaining a network of secret prisons to jail people beyond the reach of law.” Then he decided that they were necessary and continued them.
- He flipped on small business contracts. In February of 2008, President Obama stated, “It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants.” The Small Business Jobs Act contains a loophole to allow large businesses to get funds by misrepresenting themselves as small businesses. Companies that have already received money in this manner include Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Xerox and Dell Computer among others.
- He flipped on terror suspect renditions. Said they were bad as a candidate, continued them as president.
- He flipped on Libya. In 2007, Obama was adamant that the president did not have the power to authorize an attack if there was no imminent threat to the U.S. Then he authorized just such an action.
- He flipped on Mubarak and Egypt. Did he support the uprising, or support Mubarek? White House comments changed almost daily during the uprising. Obama called Mubarak a “stalwart ally” then dumped him for the uprising.
- He flipped on NASA funding. In ’08 he called for $2B in funding to reinvigorate NASA.” He said “I’ll make our space program a priority again by devoting the attention and resources needed to not only inspire the world with feats of exploration but also improve life here on Earth.” Then he later focused on using NASA to improve Muslim respect in the scientific community and let the Shuttle program die without a viable replacement even on the books.
- He flips on Wall Street and “fat cat” Big Banks (depending on who his audience is). He slams them in campaign speeches and expresses support for OWS, while at the same time appointing bankers to his cabinet while also soaking up millions in Wall Street donations.
- He flipped on European missile defense. In Prague he told the lemmings: “So let me be clear: Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat, not just to the United States, but to Iran’s neighbors and our allies. The Czech Republic and Poland have been courageous in agreeing to host a defense against these missiles. As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defense system that is cost-effective and proven.” Six months later, on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Poland, he dropped the plans to try and make friends with Russia.
- He flipped on the “Bush” tax cuts. Liberals can’t tell if they are bad or not.
- He flipped on counterinsurgency. He attacked Bush insisting that it could not succeed in Iraq, then he ordered more troops to Afghanistan (while refusing to call it a surge or admit later that it worked).
- He’s flipped on medical marijuana. Before getting elected he supported states’ rights on medical marijuana. Under his administration US attorneys are now threatening legal marijuana landowners and real estate agencies with the seizure of their property.
- He flipped on the Gitmo photos. He originally agreed with the ACLU demand to release them, then reversed.
- He flipped on Darfur. In 2004 he was a supporter of humanitarian intervention to halt state-sponsored mass killing in Darfur. He said “we cannot, in good conscience, stand by and let the genocide continue.” Four years later, as president a hand of friendship to Omar al-Bashir, the regime leader there.
- He flipped on national debt. He campaigned for fiscal responsibility but is acting the exact opposite. In his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, he pledged to “go through the federal budget line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work.” Even now, he says he’ll “cut the deficit . . . by half by the end of his first term in office.” Yeah, how’s that working out?
- He flipped on healthcare, during the campaign he called government-run healthcare “extreme” saying it would lead to “higher costs.” Then he raped America with Obamacare which has already proven to be extreme while increasing costs.
For the sake of time I will stop here. I’ve done enough of the work for you. I encourage my liberal friends to do the same about Romney and Gingrich. But you probably won’t because that involves effort and time and you would rather get your news from John Stewart and Saturday Night Live. And Oof course, I’m sure my liberal friends might say that none of the seventeen Obama flips I’ve listed count since they are all somehow Bush’s fault. Obama is a genius and can do no wrong.
So, there it is. Obama flips like Cirque de Soleil and its ok. A GOP candidate flips and they are unelectable. I’m not buying it. So can we all just DROP the “flip flop” description and move on like grownups to make our country better? Thank you.
