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

Posted on October 11, 2014 by lawofmarkets

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.

Obama and Team America

Posted on October 7, 2014 by lawofmarkets

I understand America is filled with people of goodwill who find it hard to truly appreciate human evil and depravity. I suppose none of us who have lived in the cushy world of the West have faced true adversity and serious evil. It is why, even now and in spite of everything, ISIS and its reflex cruelties are hard to absorb and accept.

But the true horror of the moment is that Obama is himself entirely part of the problem and in no way whatsoever part of any solution. He is a man filled with hatreds for our Western civilisation. If you cannot see it in the way he has dealt with economic issues, and then with the rise of militants of the ISIL variety, perhaps now, with his response to the Ebola virus, it will begin to dawn on people that Obama is not part of Team America, or indeed Team Western Civilisation. Factor this into the notion of Obama as a man who cares about the country he was elected to lead:

The Obama administration is not considering a ban on travelers from countries most affected by the deadly Ebola virus outbreak, the White House said on Monday.

“A travel ban is not something that we’re currently considering,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at a daily briefing.

“We feel good about the measures that are already in place,” he said.

Ebola is easily contained in first world countries is the mantra of the moment from the people who think that global warming is the greatest problem facing us today. I just hope that this time they do have it right. What ultimately brought the Athenians down in their war with Sparta these 2500 years ago was the plague that overcame Athens. Just for the record:

The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic which hit the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC), when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach.

For more, you might look at Viruses, Plagues and History which as I recall discussed in part how various pathogens at various times have changed the course of history. Everyone, always lives in interesting times.

Why isn’t Keynesian theory dead, dead, dead?

Posted on October 3, 2014 by lawofmarkets

This comes via Powerline but is taken from a document put out by the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee: The Obama Economy: a Chartbook. That 92% of American economists surveyed stated that the stimulus had lowered the unemployment rate below the level it would otherwise have been shows that 92% of American economists haven’t a clue which way is up. You really ought to look at the charts. There really is nothing left to say. Not that the American economy was doing all that well before Obama got his hands on it, but since then the decline has been unbelievable.

Yet the theory that has created this mess is still taught as the mainstream view in economics courses across the world. It’s all Keynesian aggregate demand all the time. But if you are curious about what went wrong, might I recommend you have a read of this.

It will also help to explain this, the incredible fall in median incomes.

What you are looking at here is evidence that the infrastructure that supports the American economy is crumbling. It’s not just GDP, which is a temporary measure that goes up and down, but the actual stock of capital that is falling to bits.

The worst American president ever

Posted on September 29, 2014 by lawofmarkets

I guess on this one he can’t blame George Bush so he blames someone else:

President Obama largely blamed the United States’ intelligence community in an interview broadcast Sunday for giving an incorrect assessment of the capabilities of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“Our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that, I think, they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” Obama said on CBS’s “”60 Minutes.” . . .

Obama’s remarks served as an acknowledgement that the United States in recent years has been largely unaware of the power behind ISIS, which has been characterized as a terrorist group with some qualities of state-backed military forces. . . .

Obama also admitted that the United States overestimated the willingness of allies such as Iraq to join in the fight against ISIS.

Golf and shooting hoops is not the kind of work that will get you plugged into the needs of the moment. It also doesn’t help that he surrounds himself with people who will not criticise what he does. Here’s an article with video that sets things pretty straight about the kinds of associates he has, OBAMA: “Wherever I See Folks, They Always Say… You’re So Great” .

Obama must only be getting his feedback on the golf course as the rest of the country doesn’t think he’s so great these days. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week had Obama at a dismal 35% approval rating.

Even the black community’s support is starting to erode. A Zogby poll from earlier this month had Obama’s support among African-Americans declining form 91% to 78%.

I think there may have been a palace coup of sorts by various Democrats since he is no longer in charge the way he once was. From the man who was going to shut down Guantanamo and pulled the troops out of Iraq things have been changing in some very definite ways in the opposite direction.

Hillary Clinton – Saul Alinsky correspondence revealed

Posted on September 22, 2014 by lawofmarkets

This is with certainty going to be a small story when it should be immense. The Hillary Letters tell us everything we ought to need to know to wish she never becomes president:

Previously unpublished correspondence between Hillary Clinton and the late left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky reveal new details about her relationship with the controversial Chicago activist and shed light on her early ideological development.

That she, like Obama, is on the far-left is perfectly clear to anyone who understands what being an Alinskyite means. Those who have been that way inclined at some stage in their lives, when they walk away from it are forever aware of both the power and the danger of such ideas. That Hillary and Obama have no record of having abandoned any of this is as good an indication of their current beliefs as one could have. That both have pursued policies as far to the left as could be imagined in a nation in which more than half the population describe themselves as conservative is only possible because of the media cover they receive. No one will ask, of course, but it would be interesting to find out her reaction to things like this:

“Dear Saul,

“When is that new book [Rules for Radicals] coming out—or has it come and I somehow missed the fulfillment of Revelation?

“I have just had my one-thousandth conversation about Reveille [for Radicals] and need some new material to throw at people.

All this is hidden right before our eyes. It will not end well.

You can read the actual letters here.

A narcissist can never be wrong since he is always right

Posted on September 10, 2014 by lawofmarkets

From an article by Richard Epstein on Presidential Indecision:

The Obama personal hesitation stems, unfortunately, from reasons unrelated to the military and political issues. Part of his problem is that he cannot bring himself to acknowledge that he was wrong to oppose the Iraqi surge in 2006, and wrong to pull out American troops from Iraq as President. A strong president learns from his past mistakes, but Obama does not.

One reason for his dogged persistence lies in his flawed world view, which deep down, regards the United States (and Israel) as akin to colonial powers, whose actions should always be examined under a presumption of distrust. His ingrained uneasiness with the values of western civilization makes it impossible for him to think and act as the leader of a western nation. Instead, he much prefers to regard himself as a nonpartisan critic and a bystander to world affairs. He has no firm conviction in the rightness of his cause, and hence no confidence in his ability to get others to act as perils mount.

What makes the situation even worse is that Obama receives support from commentators and public intellectuals who think that his reluctance to commit military force should be commended as part of some grand plan to restore American hegemony by gentler means. Just that kind of thinking was evident in a recent column by Thomas Friedman, “Leading From Within,” which refuses to come to grips with the short-term peril that ISIS presents. Friedman accepts the conventional analysis that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a mistake and ignores the current short-term military crisis in order to piece together some long-term strategic plans to make things better.

I am always leery of perspectives that give Obama the benefit of the doubt, that suggest there is actually a strategic view, however wrong it might be, beneath it all. Ill will and hatred for the West are more my thing. But at least he is being driven by the politics of the moment to take actions he would never personally have authorised under any circumstances. In the meantime, he is trying to manoeuvre so that the Democrats in Congress don’t have to take a position right before the election. It is only fortunate that the enemy in this case is so vile, and continues to emphasise just that every day so that no one is allowed to forget, that makes even this limited response possible.

At last someone amongst the American elites has said it

Posted on September 6, 2014 by lawofmarkets

It has been obvious from the start but until now no one who has mattered has said it. Here is the story, Tom DeLay: Obama paralyzed by Muslim sympathies. Tom Delay, please note, had been the House majority leader not all that long ago. And this is what the story says:

President Obama’s left-leaning political ideology combined with sympathies for Islam acquired from being raised by a Muslim stepfather paralyze him as he faces the threat posed by the Islamic jihadist group ISIS, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told WND in an interview.

“In defending America against radical Islamic terrorism, Barack Obama cannot be trusted,” DeLay said.

“Barack Obama was raised a Muslim, and he claims he is a Christian, and I can’t say for sure whether he’s a Christian or not, but he has shown over the last few years that he has great sympathies with Islam,” DeLay explained.

“You combine that with Obama’s political orientation that is far to the left,” he continued, “and you get a president who hates war, hates the military, and you have a formula for military inaction when it comes to combating radical Islamic terrorists like we are seeing in ISIS.”

DeLay’s indictment of Obama did not end there.

“You add to mix that Barack Obama is incompetent, way over his head as president, and the whole combination produces a worldview that makes Obama detached and reluctant to take the type of the military action against ISIS that would be effective,” he said

DeLay concluded Obama “does not want to face the reality of the danger and threat represented to the United States by ISIS, and he does not want to admit the connections between al-Qaida and ISIS, because he refuses to understand that we are in a war against radical Islamic terrorism.”

If Delay is right, it would be like having a Nazi sympathiser in the White House in the middle of World War II or a communist as president during the Cold War. And what is remarkable, although reported at Drudge, it’s not a big story and I haven’t seen it anywhere else. But it would make Obama’s reticence in so much of what he does perfectly clear and consistent.

Obama has been by his own lights the most successful president in American history

Posted on August 22, 2014 by lawofmarkets

If you start from the premise that Obama had the best interests of the United States at heart but that he wasn’t up to the job, then you can reach one conclusion.

If, however, you think his personal mission was to ruin as much of the US and the Western world as he could, both domestically and in international affairs, then he has succeeded beyond his wildest wishes and expectations.

I cannot understand why there has not been at least a mild discussion in the media even on the right side of the fence about such a possibility. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Well whoever it is, they are not amongst those commenting on the news.

Does Obama ever tell the truth, ever?

Posted on August 12, 2014 by lawofmarkets

Video: Obama Repeatedly Takes Credit For Pulling All Troops Out Of Iraq…And yet now he says it “wasn’t his decision.”

BARACK OBAMA ON PRESIDENTIAL VACATIONS IN 2008: “You have to understand that if you seek that office, then you have to be prepared to give your life to it. Essentially, the bargain that I think every President strikes with the American people is, ‘you give me this office, then in turn my fears, doubts, insecurities, foibles, need for sleep, family life, vacations, leisure, is gone. I am giving myself to you.’”

A liar at every turn but not a scandal because although he may be a liar he’s the media’s liar (as in, he may be a bastard, but he’s our bastard).

Both from Instapundit.

Obama seeks to follow in Whitlam’s steps

Posted on July 31, 2014 by lawofmarkets

It does strike me that Obama would like nothing better than for the Republicans to try to impeach him, not just because it would create a great crusade to keep him President, but mainly just to distract from how colossally bad he has been as president. Narcissistic though he is, even he knows somewhere that he will be remembered as a failure as president and will leave office even more discredited than George Bush. He is in this like Gough Whitlam, for whom the dismissal was the best thing that ever happened to him. It wiped from the collective memory of the nation just how awful his government had been. I have an article at Quadrant Online that compares Obama’s desire for impeachment to Whitlam’s salvation through the dismissal The article begins:

It has always seemed plausible that Gough Whitlam sought his own dismissal in 1975. Overseeing a government that, by then and in virtually every respect, was making an absolute shambles of the economy – rapidly rising unemployment combined with rapidly rising inflation – while being caught up in the preposterous Khemlani Loans Affair, Whitlam’s was a government certain to enter history as amongst the worst, if not the worst, in Australia’s history. Having been dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr and gone before the press to declare, “Well may we say ‘God Save the Queen’, because nothing will save the Governor-General”, he then went home and had a hearty lunch, reportedly in the best possible spirits.

The rest of the article is about Obama and his desire for redemption by following in Whitlam’s steps. The article is found here.

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