Why am I mean to President Obama and his Administration?
One of my readers asked why I was so pessimistic in my viewpoint involving the Obama Administration. Asking me to give the President a chance to achieve some meaningful gains before unloading on him. The reader went so far as to cite the media’s self-imposed honeymoon period as an example.
I have a problem …
My problem is that I am conditioned, by training and profession, to indentify and anticipate negative consequences which may affect an enterprise. It is therefore with a somewhat jaundiced eye that I view individual and institutional actions; assigning almost equal weights to motivation for action as well as to the action itself.
I cannot overlook human nature, history or common sense …
My viewpoint is conditioned by the very nature of human behavior which dictates, except in a few rare instances, that a person will act in their own self-interest before considering society as a whole.
Also by the fact that I do not consider our government, be it local, state or federal to be monolithic. It’s actions are the sum total of the actions of its people, as directed by the individual layers of leadership. The bureacracy can serve as an anchor to weigh-down the over-broad initiatives of the leadership as well as a sail that increases the motion toward a designated goal.
I ask myself, in what parallel universe does Orwellian speech (wrong is right, down is up, evil is good) and the appointment of a 31 year old “almost lawyer” to lead the negotiations over the car industry occur?
The Obama Administration …
When I view the Obama Administration, I see a number of Clintonistas pushing their personal agendas. I see a number of professional politicians making a personal calculation that their personal self-interest would be better served by “going along to get along” – and thus be entitled to a share of the spoils. I see a far-left agenda pushed by a socialist coalition that wants to enlarge their power base and funding while weakening the United States, both domestically and on the foreign stage.
But most of all, I see a telegenic, glib leader who uses a TelePrompTer to stay on message, lest he reveal he is not the magnificent extemporaneous orator that people think him to be or says something that reveals his true agenda.
Believing what you see as opposed to what you are told …
Part of my skepticism is hearing President Obama and his Administration say that they don’t want to own and run a car company. Only to see both Congress and the Administration interfere in the matter. Dictating, through legislative standards and Administration directives regarding fuel efficiency and emissions control what type of cars must be developed and sold. I see that there is a disregard of the 5th Amendment in regards to taking the private property of individuals without just compensation. I see the gross disregard of common and contractual law to force the senior secured bond holders to receive less money for their investment than the unsecured claims of the unions who are receiving a disproportionate amount of money and control over the new company. I see a subversion of the bankruptcy rules – telling the public that they must invest billions in taxpayer dollars in car companies to prevent a damaging bankruptcy, only to provide for a stage-managed bankruptcy which subverts the power of the court to set aside onerous and toxic union and vendor contracts. I see a firm taking billions of dollars in aid, only to convey some of that aid to a private investment company to purchase one of the firm’s ailing vendors – all on behalf of the unions who also provided some of the additional investment funds.
Systems and procedures …
Part of my skepticism is based on my knowledge of the systems and procedures which are involved with data processing -- hearing the President and his Administration claim savings where only costs truly accrue.
Corrupt and complacent politicians …
But most of all, I feel that my trust has been violated by a generation of corrupt and complacent politicians and their nominees. People who have failed to uphold their oath of office and their fiduciary responsibilities to the American taxpayer.
I have no respect for the President and his circle of friends which rose from the depths of the Illinois political cesspool. I have no respect for asshats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid or the great majority of apparently corrupt politicians like House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd. Don’t get me wrong, I also have problems with the other side of the aisle as they sit silently and watch the government screw over the American people. Concentrating on getting their share of the political pork in return for the silence and complicity.
Mainstream news is indistinguishable from propaganda …
Likewise, I have no respect for the mainstream media which has, for the most part, surrendered its journalistic ethics and oversight for some, as yet undetermined, advantage to their corporate owners.
Pushing the cult of celebrity and airheads like Paris Hilton as being newsworthy when Iran is building a nuclear bomb and North Korea is thumbing their nose at America as they allegedly prepare to shoot a long-range missile towards Hawaii.
Pessimistic, you bet …
You show me any real progress in America today that involves a partnership between the government and business? Show me where the government is busy repairing or replacing our crumbling infrastructure instead of paying out dollars to build freeway sound walls?
If you think you are smarter than I am, point out the benefits of carbon cap and trade which sells indulgences to gross polluters to allow them to keep polluting – placing people further at risk – and passing the cost on to their ratepayers and, by extension, the general public?
Show me how CO2 is driving the rise in global temperatures when I can show you research that indicates that CO2 levels lag temperature rise by 600 – 1000 years depending on which datasets are used? Especially when I can tell you that the CO2 phenomena can be simply explained as the outgassing of warmer ocean waters much like a cold beer giving off carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as it warms.
I know enough about modeling to know that one does not accept the output of computer models as scientific fact. Especially when assumptions underlying the models are suspect, the underlying data has been manipulated in order to achieve pre-determined results and the interpretation of the results exceeds common sense and human timeframes. So why is the government listening to those scientists whose opinions have been purchased with billions of dollars of grant money which is likely to stop if it is proven that we cannot mitigate global climate change? Why is the government attempting to enlarge its bureacracy, funding and restrict our personal freedoms, if not for a malignant and corrupt – dare I say evil, purpose?
Explain to me why we are pushing for strict gun controls to disarm the law-abiding citizen when common sense and your own observations tell you criminals do not abide by any laws? To me, a posted gun-free zone might as well read shooting gallery. Is the American public so stupid as to believe that the police can be everywhere they are needed, when they are needed? Is the public too stupid to realize that crime pays – for the attorney’s, judges, jailers, police, unions, and that the incentive to reduce or eliminate crime is conditioned on public opinion and outcry?
What type of morality in the government allows them to regulate and tax alcohol and cigarettes and draw the line at marijuana? They can see that cigarettes and alcohol produces a quantifiable number of deaths – but look the other way as the tax revenues roll-in.
I cannot even expect the government to correctly administer the death penalty in a timely manner or even trust the actions of the Courts. Self-serving investigators and prosecutors have so-compromised the system as to make me side with those who do not believe the death penalty is fairly administered.
Look at the asshat from Illinois, Roland Burris. You know, they guy that is under investigation in connection with Rod Blagojevich’s alleged sale of Barack Obama’s Senate Seat. How many people know he sent an innocent man to death row for political purposes while running for governor? How many people know that the assistant attorney general and lead investigator resigned in disgust over this mishandled case? Why has the press remained silent on the issue – and the Senate remained silent when they seated this immoral and corrupt individual?
Why is an impeached judge sitting in our legislature? What about those who advocated the violent overthrow of the United States in the sixties?
Why are we giving a pass to criminals and their cohorts – I am speaking about the white collar ones – when they should be prosecuted?
We are not even sure that terrorist events have not been instigated by government officials looking for a high-value, high-publicity arrest. Consider the evidence of Waco and Ruby Ridge.
I am disgusted with the cesspool that has become American politics and even more disgusted with the lowlife bottom-feeding politicians who are bleeding the American public dry.
So before you ask me why I am negative and refuse to give Barack Obama a pass, look around you. The answer will become as apparent to you as it is to me.
The solution …
-- steve
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OneCitizenSpeaking: Saying out loud what you may be thinking …
Steve an absoutely perfectly written piece. You have a gift man, and idea, ask you readers to contact by fax the members of the Democratic party, Emails aren't read. I have a list of where to get the numbers at the bottom of my blog roll. I faxed about all but two in an hour, we will be waiting in long lines longer than that. Talking to ourselves is great but letting them hear from us is what determines how they vote. All they want to do is stay in office. Thanks Jim
Posted by: jim campbell | June 28, 2009 at 08:52 AM