Hope to Change

I found an email in my inbox today labeled “George Will:  We Have A New Worst President”, in which the widely published columnist George Will hits on several of the reasons Barack Obama is the worst president we have ever had. This is not a new concept. I have heard many people remark that Jimmy Carter no longer holds that title. Almost daily, I get comments about Obama’s failings as president.

Worst president ever.  That’s an interesting concept, considering that William Henry Harrison only spent 31 days as president. That means Harrison did a better job in the month he served than Obama has in the five years he has sat in the Oval Office (when not on vacation).

So, what does “worst” mean in this instance? Judging by the explanations and reasoning given, it means Obama has done a poorer job of safeguarding the wellbeing and liberty of our country than any other president in the history of our nation. I’ll buy that. In fact, I would even say that Obama’s actions have been detrimental to the wellbeing and liberty of our nation. Under his administration, we are deeper in debt and spending more on frivolous and unnecessary programs than any previous president.

But that is not the only detrimental product of this president. Besides apologizing to the world for the success of our form of government, Obama has driven us deeper into dictatorial socialism with his czars and rule by executive order.

The Obamacare fiasco – which, by the way, is simply a form of wealth distribution -- is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface of this administration lurks a foundation of lies and outright deceit, from the Benghazi affair all the way to, “if you like your health insurance plan you can keep it.” This sure makes Bill Clinton’s lies – for which congress voted impeachment – look tame.

There was a time when a person wouldn’t (maybe couldn’t) even appear interested in being president. Someone would place a name in for nomination, and the candidate wouldn’t even appear to actually campaign for the job. These days, presidential candidates present a somewhat less humble posture. Obama has taken that a giant leap further. He is narcissistic enough to believe he is a ruler rather merely an executor of congressional legislation. He treats the US Treasury as his own private piggy bank by taking multi-million dollar vacations and giving his wife her own taxpayer subsidized staff.

One can study every character and punctuation mark – even read between the lines – of the constitution, and nowhere will you find the official position of “First Lady.” The president’s wife is not an employee of the US government. Why does the government furnish her with a staff and government funded “vacation” trips replete with government transportation, security, and “staff.” Although the First Lady doesn’t get a salary (not an employee?), she does receive a “budget”, thanks to (who else?) Jimmy Carter. I’m sure somewhere in the White House accounting mess there is an item titled First Lady Budget, but I couldn’t find it. There are 460 employees of the White House, most make around $100k +/- salaries. Maybe the First Lady’s staff is in that bunch. We pay Obama $400k per year, but this president seems to have brought bennies to a new level.

As Sarah Palin said during the last election, “how’s that hopey-changy thing working for you?” Well it’s not working for me. Let’s hope our next president is a dramatic change for the better. Only a reincarnation of Joseph Stalin could make it any worse.

Our Bizarro Legislature

As a youngster, I read a few comic books. I remember one Superman comic that featured a parallel planet that was the inverse of ours. I think it was called planet Bizarro in which everything ran backward, good was bad, bad was good, up was down. Of course, on planet Bizarro, Superman was a green, ugly character in a filthy costume that destroyed everything. It was not unlike the way liberals would like to make our planet.

Since its founding, our country has vigorously promoted the individual freedom and capitalist values that made our country the most successful form of government in the world. We worked hard to insulate our country from the Marxist concepts that enslaved many other nations. Eventually, even the staunch Marxist countries -- China, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovokia, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, and even today’s Cuba – realized the utopian ideals of Karl Marx are altogether unobtainable without free markets and individual freedom.

During the ‘60s and ‘70s the revolutionary spirit struck our nation and some people latched on to the Marxist tenets. Most of these people weren’t actually Marxist – many didn’t even understand the principals of Marxism. They were mostly antiwar and for free-love, loud music, and drugs. But the “establishment” stood in their way, so they rebelled. Many of these “Hippies” were well educated and highly indoctrinated by the communist infestation in our institutes of higher learning.

The “Hippies” grew up. Many are the leaders of today. They have infiltrated corporate boardrooms, schools, Hollywood, the media, and all levels of our government. These people are still left-leaning, just not as openly radical as in the “Hippie” days. Their revolution is slowly taking place, and it is a clear erosion of the values that made America great. With no fewer than 70 members of congress registered, proud, card-carrying members of the American Socialist party and a president who openly associates with avowed Marxists, is it any wonder that America is progressively resembling life on planet Bizarro?

Our Grand Old Party is not looking quite so grand these days. Once the party of the workingman and woman, the Democratic Party evolved to become the party of tax-and-spend liberals, and now it is even the party of socialists promoting the tenets of Karl Marx and Mao Zedong. New York City just elected a radically left-leaning mayor, and the Virginia governor’s race narrowly went to a liberal Democrat.

Once in power, the liberals work to ensure that anyone with conservative ideas is locked out of government by promoting “open” primaries and the demise of the Electoral College. Open primaries allow liberals to manipulate the slate of candidates to ensure a Democrat win. Without the Electoral College, the more populous – and liberal – states swamp the voice of the conservative rural states. It is simply the erosion of the checks and balances that America’s founding fathers worked so hard to achieve.

Nonsense, you might be thinking, America is a democracy. Every citizen gets a vote. Wrong! Our form of government is a Republic. Citizens vote for a person to represent them in the business of the government. Does your representative present your views in governing? It’s up to you to make sure he or she does.

“Ask not what your country can do for you. Rather, ask what you can do for your country.” These momentous words were spoken by a Democrat, John F. Kennedy. Today’s mantra of the Democrats seems to be, “vote for me and I will give you whatever you want.” The Democrats keep the electorate poor and drive jobs away with taxes and asinine regulations then dole out tidbits for votes. Does this sound like the party of the workingman and woman?

Sure, the liberals decry the Tea Party – as if it were a party unto itself. There is no Tea Party. There are people within the Republican Party that denounce the taxes and regulations that are killing our jobs. These people have taken a patriotic stance against the onerous taxes and regulations in the same manner as those patriotic men who threw British tea into Boston harbor over 200 years ago – one of the major actions from which the United States of America grew.

Please, before it’s too late, help stop America from sinking into the quagmire of socialism. Vote for people who will represent your ideals and ideas in government, not those intent on creating a Bizarro planet on earth.