Everyone is so panicky for no reason – just ask Obama how well everything is going

No one would go to West Africa anyway, but would you go to the US? Matt Ridley is expert in people worrying about trifles that never amount to much but even he is worried about where this could go. No government tells the truth if it will harm their prospects, but Obama has taken lying beyond anything seen before in large part because he has a media that lets him. Who would you really trust to tell you the truth? Today’s Drudge round-up on Ebola:

NYT THURSDAY: EBOLA ANXIETY GROWS…
WASH POST: Threat of virus might interfere with commerce, daily routines…
BOEHNER URGES TRAVEL BAN…
NIGHTMARE: NEW PATIENT FLEW DAY BEFORE…
Knowingly Traveled With ‘Low-Grade Fever’…
Called CDC before boarding flight…
PLANE MADE 5 FLIGHTS BEFORE TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE…
Airline Stocks Nosedive…
Passenger Wears HAZMAT To Dulles Airport…
Panic Hits TV News Divisions…
CDC says missed opportunities to contain…
Nurses outraged: ‘There was no protocol, there was no system’…
Obama cancels fundraising trip…
‘Confident we can prevent serious outbreak’…
COULTER: We’ll Tell You How Dangerous Ebola Is — After Election!
SAVAGE: ‘If you like your Ebola, you can keep your Ebola’…
LEVIN: CDC ‘trying to cover its ass’…
LIMBAUGH: Obama’s Deadly Failure…

“The Obamas have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge, and obfuscation to new depths”

I have just been sent a copy of a column originally written in February 2012 and then reprinted in January 2013 but which could be reprinted every day before or since and would not grow stale in the retelling. Between the allowing of Ebola to cross so easily into the US while blatantly only pretending to fight a war against the Islamic State, Obama is everything that this column says and more. The one aspect that makes this particular column so untouchable is that the author is a black American and therefore cannot be accused of racism as is the norm for critics of the President. The article was titled, Why I Do Not Like the Obamas but it goes well beyond not liking into the kinds of disgust I feel for him (and his wife) and everything they have done. He also takes note of the singular role the media has played in protecting Obama from any serious oversight. Not surprisingly, this is not an issue often raised in the media, but what is more surprising is now seldom it is mentioned on blogs and in other writings by conservatives.

The author is Mychal Massie and he blogs at The Daily Rant. This is what he wrote:

The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn’t like the Obamas? Specifically I was asked: “I have to ask, why do you hate the Obamas. It seems personal not policy related. You even dissed their Christmas family pic.” The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation.

I’ve made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don’t like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state.

I don’t hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America. They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama’s raw contempt for white America is transpicuous.

I don’t like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no, I demand respect for the Office of President and a love of our country and her citizenry from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagans made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs?

Presidents are politicians, and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie; but, even using that low standard, the Obamas have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge, and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility.

I do not like them because they both display bigotry overtly: as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates when Obama accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and as in her code speak pursuant to now being able to be proud of America. I view that statement and that mindset as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely; but he could rise to the highest, most powerful position in the world. Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do same.

I have a saying, that “the only reason a person hides things is because they have something to hide.” No president in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. And what the two of them have shared has been proved to be lies. He lied about when and how they met; he lied about his mother’s death and problems with insurance; Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 in bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father’s military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nauseum.

He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address. He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly radical, socialist academicians today. He has fought for abortion procedures and opposed rulings that protected women and children — that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel.
His wife treats being the First Lady as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world). I condemn them because as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements – he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare.

I don’t like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority.

Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their playing the race card.

It is my intention to do all within my ability to ensure their reign is one term. I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the media for refusing to investigate them as they did President Bush and President Clinton and for refusing to label the Obamas for what they truly are. There is no scenario known to man whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.

As I wrote in a syndicated column titled “Nero In The White House” –

“Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequalled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood…Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement – while America’s people go homeless, hungry and unemployed.” (WND.com; 8/8/11)

Oh, and as for it being personal, you tell me how you would feel if a senator from Illinois sent you a personally signed card, intended to intimidate you and your family because you had written a syndicated column titled “Darth Democrat” that was critical of him.

It’s the media – Obama is just a low grade leftist with a high grade media defence

obama cover up team

Obama could not have gotten away with even a quarter of his mis-rule if he were not supported to the hilt by the American media, the academic world and the far left. But it is the unbalance in the media where nothing negative about Obama ever becomes a raging news story that has mattered the most. It is only Obama’s fantastic level of incompetence that has been able to breach the defences that surround the president. The media are stone cold ignorant and live in as much of a fantasy world as Obama, completely unable to understand the nature of the world as it is and what is required to maintain a civilised community.

The ABC is a threat to our national unity

And I might have added, national unity in time of war. This is from Andrew Bolt:

Now former host Jonathan Holmes insists the real threat of Islamic terrorism is nothing compared to the imagined threat of global warming:

Tony Abbott did not attend Tuesday’s United Nations climate change summit in New York. But he will, of course, be in New York on Wednesday to help decide what to do about the Islamic State of the Levant…

ISIL, as the federal Attorney-General told the ABC last week, “represents or seeks to be an existential threat to us”. An existential threat!…

ISIL is brutal, and merciless. It undoubtedly threatens the lives and well-being of some hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of people in northern Iraq and eastern Syria. It has made clear that it wants its followers to kill Australians too. But, whatever it “seeks to be”, it is not and never will be an existential threat to Australia.

Yet so far as I know, only Crikey’s Bernard Keane has called George Brandis out on his alarmism…It was one call … that precipitated last week’s raids … and … one young man was charged with a terrorism offence.

As the government made sure we knew in double quick time, he had been urged by an ISIL activist in Syria to cut off the head of an innocent Australian. One Australian. There’s an existential threat for you…

More and more laws to stop terrorists; fewer and fewer measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

The ABC is an organisation captured by the far loony left and as such is a danger to the peace, order and good governance of this community. It really does have to go.

It’s the media that keep Obama’s presidency alive

It’s not as if everyone doesn’t know. It’s not the fear of speaking truth to power, it is the certain knowledge that pointing out the facts will have the media attack you as viciously as it can. Michele Bachmann tried to do what she could but who even amongst her own colleagues was willing to put their political future on the line. Still what Horowitz says is the truth, but saying it to us at National Review Online makes no difference of any kind to the way the world continues to evolve:

Barack Obama deliberately set out to lose the war in Iraq, and he did. He defied the advice of his joint chiefs of staff to secure America’s formidable military presence and keep 20,000 troops in country, and left Iraq to its own devices and the tender mercies of Iran. In doing so, he betrayed every American and Iraqi who gave his life to create a free Iraq and keep it out of the clutches of the terrorists.

Iraq is now a war zone dominated by the terrorist forces of the Islamic State, whose rise Obama’s policies fostered. Both his secretaries of state praised the animal Bashar Assad as a “reformer” and a man of “peace,” helping him to thwart his domestic opposition. The Islamic State was born out of the Syrian chaos that ensued.

Far worse was Obama’s open support for America’s mortal enemy, the Muslim Brotherhood, spawner of al-Qaeda and Hamas. During the “Arab Spring,” Obama essentially put America’s weight behind the legitimization of this murderous organization that had been outlawed for 40 years for its assassinations and conspiracies against the Egyptian regime. Secretary of State Clinton gave totally unfounded assurances to the world that the Brotherhood was ready to become part of the democratic process and give up its 90-year holy war against infidels, Jews in particular but also — and explicitly — America. During the Brotherhood’s brief tenure as the government in Egypt Obama gave these genocidal zealots more than a billion dollars in American aid and F-16 fighter-bombers that could easily reach Israel’s major population centers, which for 60 years the Brotherhood had sworn to destroy.

The word Horowitz then uses to describe Obama is “feckless”. Spare me. What a pathetic useless word. How weak and insipid! The right word is traitorous. Obama’s sympathies are with those who would wish to tear down Western civilisation. But unsayable and therefore unsaid even by David Horowitz.

Failure of leadership

It has been difficult to the point of impossibility for political leaders in our democratic systems to succeed. The problem to me seems to settle around the fact that leaders from the left pursue policies that are almost certain to fail since they are based on false premises. At the same time, leaders from the right are instantly met by an overwhelmingly left-side media that will never permit itself to say a positive word for policies from the conservative side.

The media is amongst the most important domestic problems we have. Its anti-capitalist, anti-freedom, collectivist mentality make it a dangerous obstacle to good government since even governments on the left are seldom able to satisfy the demands the media have.