By John Stallings
The 2012 election will decide far more than simply the name of America's next president. It will decide the fate of the nation.
The voices lamenting that Obama has failed just don’t get it.
Obama’s failure looked at from the perspective of most of us would be a proper reading of the situation. But from Obama's perspective, he’s succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. The President sees his position as “wildly successful” because of the support of his party, the “state-controlled media,” and their determination to hide the truth from the American people.
I believe Obama sees himself as having succeeded because his real aim was and is to diminish the footprint of America, because in Obama’s mind -America is bad for the world.
In order to achieve his idea of global justice, Obama has appointed himself America’s Architect of Decline.
He has by and large succeeded in concealing his methodical agenda- to nudge America over the cliff.
In his first term Obama has laid the foundation for his dream. If he’s given another four years, by 2016, America will be just one of the herd.
Film-“2016, OBAMA’S AMERICA”
Because of all the recent word of mouth about the Documentary “2016, Obama’s America” we found out where the movie was playing here in the Orlando area.
I thought maybe we‘d have to fight for a seat, but Juda and I were 2 of only about 16 at a recent 11:30 A.M showing.
Information and education are high in my book. I want to know about society’s trends, nuances, coming “slippery slopes” and-well- just information/truth!
I’ve been aware of the first attacks against the aforementioned Documentary, and efforts to impugn the motives of the filmmakers, questioning how the project was funded and by whom, all in an attempt to dissuade people from watching it.
I don't remember anyone in the mainstream press questioning Michael Moore in like manner about his movies. As far as I could see no questions were asked about where his funding came from, although this was the media’s mania for Obama’s America-2016.
I’m not one to jump on a bandwagon easily, as I feel it my calling in communicating to verify as far as I’m able to do so the accuracy of the things I communicate to others. Does the information at hand align itself with the correct world view and does it pass the test of credibility and what we already know to be true? This is very important, especially with our children’s future in view.
Again, we were surprised at how the theater we visited was so sparsely filled. Maybe news media companies have banned promotion, I almost expect that anymore. I noticed that our local theater didn’t even have a poster up to announce the film being shown there.
If we hadn’t had a computer, I doubt we could have ever found where the movie was playing. Moreover, the film didn’t play every day—you had to constantly check when the showings would be. Sometimes it would show on Tuesdays and then skip to Fridays with no prior announcement-that I knew of.
I have “The gift of suspicion” so all this made me a little---well- suspicious.
In the showing we attended most people we saw were older, retired folks. We might have been the youngest ones there. But after all we didn’t go to see “The young guns.”
I enjoyed the film’s writing. The writer showed his view point, and his relation to the information. He was honest and upfront. I liked his supportive data and documentation about what he presented. I haven’t read his book, indeed was unaware that there was a book until I saw the movie. My bad!
In the end the writer didn’t presume to tell you what to think or what to do, he just presented facts to inform you. Those facts were very, very sobering.
When Juda and I left the theater we were silent for a few minutes, but then I said, “You know, that man has done America a great service in making this Documentary.” What he did was what the American media should have done before Obama was ever elected. I also said, right or wrong, “No one who sees this documentary will ever vote for Obama, period.” My bad!!
Before we left the theater we parted for a short time to visit the rest-rooms. An elderly woman who’d just sat through the movie close to us muttered to Juda, “Well a lot of that is just speculation. They could probably do that about Romney too.” There went my prediction. But never fear, Juda stood up for the documentary as she’s want to do.
2016 is one of the few recent examples of true journalism which asks important questions, based on facts about an issue that really matters i.e. -What is the origin of the vision our President has for America and does it reflect that of the average American? The main question the movie seeks to answer is- what will America look like in 2016 if President Obama is re-elected in November. This would give him the opportunity to carry out his real vision for America, without the political implications of running again.
Based on Dinesh D’Souza’s best selling book – “ The Roots of Obama’s rage”, the film examines President Obama’s own words in his book “Dreams From My Father.” This documentary chronicles specific events; the timeline of President Obama’s birth in Hawaii, his years growing up in Indonesia, his college years, (records of which President Obama has gone to great lengths to protect), interviews with people who have direct background knowledge of the President’s past and ideas, people who directly influenced or nurtured the ideology of the President, and his devout fascination and determination to live out the perceived dreams from his father.
This documentary does a thorough analysis of Mr. Obama’s own autobiography that the infatuated media ignored during the glamour of his Presidential run in 2008. A major problem since then has been-- any attempt to ask legitimate questions of Mr. Obama is seen as “Obama bashing.”
The film starts with the emotional visit of Barack to the grave of his father. Based on Mr. Obama’s own words and actions since, it’s only fair to wonder if his motive is to carry out the ideology of his father. If so, that contradicts the virtues which make up the American dream.
The President’s father, Barack Obama senior harbored the view that rich countries became rich due to the exploiting of poor countries, [Colonialism] and that the conditions of poor countries would improve if the influence of ‘rich’ countries were diminished or their wealth ‘redistributed.’
Absent from these views is the knowledge of a key element of the American success story. That is, a country becomes richer due to the free market system and economic freedom, which spurs individual ingenuity and growth. Among the absurd things that were said at the recent DNC, one person was overheard to say. “The free market system is destroying America.” Can we say, “Ignoramus?
The root of the senior Obama’s philosophy stemmed from his anti-colonialist and imperialist view of England of which his native Kenya was a colony for many years. One of the most interesting interviews in the film is with President Obama’s half-brother George Obama which highlights how some of his views differ from that of their father and president Obama.
George Obama who still lives in poor conditions in Kenya, avoided questions about why his brother President Obama has not reached out to help him.
Shortly after the interview, George Obama reached out to D’Souza to ask for money (who in turn gave it to him) because his son was sick in the hospital. He did not reach out to his brother the President of the U.S who so likes the idea of free health care.
George Obama made the observation that Kenya after it won its independence from England was in better economic shape than countries like South Africa, Singapore and others who also were former colonies.
But now those countries have developed faster than Kenya and others who became independent. In short, he believes the current conditions of countries like Kenya cannot be blamed on past colonialism or the present wealth of ‘rich’ countries, but instead on how a country is individually managed.
LET’S FACE IT!
Obama is a proponent of failed economic policies that have left much of the Third World mired in poverty.
Rather than acknowledging that centralized economic planning is a failure, Obama faults America’s industrial might as the cause of economic malaise that has crippled much of Africa. The answer, therefore, is not to abandon the discredited economic policies, but to disable America so as to level the playing field.
Once America is bankrupt, Kenyan economic programs are bound to succeed!
As someone who follows politics and current events closely, I thought that I was well informed about President Obama’s radicalism. Nevertheless, the film exposed me to much more information than I had previously been aware of. Obama is not as bad as I thought. He’s worse, much worse.
If you subscribe to American Exceptionalism or believe in American ideals, as I do, maybe you could see this film with an undecided voter who is persuadable. Other than prayer, and making sure we vote, there’s not much else we can do.
THE RACE QUESTION!
Are we who oppose an Obama presidency/re-election upset because he’s black? I think not.
We’re upset because of what he’s doing to our country.
Put racism aside when seeking reasons to criticize those who oppose this president. Those of us who support our Constitution and believe in free markets and limited government-oppose this administration.
Obama promotes redistribution of wealth,
Government ownership of auto companies,
Banks, Student loans,
And- nationalizing health care.
He doesn’t attempt to slow down spending and sues a state that’s trying to do what the government refuses to do. He continually makes fun of the Tea Party people all the while stretching the truth regarding jobs, the economy, and misrepresenting what the stimulus has done.
Try counting “jobs saved” and you’ll realize how this president is misleading the nation.
The Democrats were in charge of the purse strings for the last two years of the Bush administration. They say Bush left us with a $100 billion deficit, but now our deficit is in the trillions. I’m hearing words nowadays I thought I invented as a kid; bazillions, quadrillions and gazillions.
Since before Obama took office and until the present, the narrative has been and is:-
“ if you oppose anything Obama does, there must be an underlying racist motive to your opposition.
And if there's not underlying racism, as they claim, then you MUST agree with everything he does.”
Those who wave the flag of progress in the face of America-in-decline -- and in defense of this president -- do so behind accusations that sensible, hard working Americans of all colors are displaying their chagrin toward Barack Obama simply because he's black.
NO MATTER how long these accusations go unproven or how many times they are actually disproved, they continue to raise the cry of racism.
Again, hard working, common people can't possibly identify with the astonishing assessment that we all acted out of our whiteness and turned our wrath of "horrific racial violence" on non-whites.
So far as I can see there's not a thread of truth in this “elitist claim;” -that many Americans don't like Obama simply because of his color.
THE TRUE DIVIDE
There IS a divide in America that's hardly ever mentioned in this debate, but it's not a color divide.
IT’S NOT A SEXIST DEVIDE!
IT’S NOT A RELIGIOUS DEVIDE!
IT’S THE DIVIDE BETWEEN THE “ELITES” AND EVERYBODY ELSE!
Most American's don't see Barack Obama's color as a problem, but they do recoil from his intellectual elitism! We read more and more about people this president has snubbed because of his arrogance.
During one of President Obama’s vacations at Martha’s Vineyard, he took in a round of golf at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, playing golf with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Democratic lawyer and business man Vernon Jordan; and White House trip director (and former golf pro) Marvin Nicholson.The pool report at the time said “We are told Bloomberg and Obama talked in the clubhouse for about 15 minutes about the economy. They then went to the driving range.”
Apparently the Obama-Bloomberg conversation could have gone better. In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch says;
”Bloomberg said it was a pleasant day. In conversation he put a few ideas … He said it was like verbal ping pong.”Bloomberg, according to Murdoch came back and said ‘I never met in my life such an arrogant man.”
We’re witnessing Elitism like we’ve not seen in our lifetime, which includes living through the presidency of Jimmy Carter. Average Americans inherently reject this kind of alleged intellectual superiority.
But we don't just see Obama's elitism; we see the elitism of politicians from ALL parties and the media elites that support them.
For this White House and this president, there seems to be only one branch of government - the executive branch. And, no doubt, the president will continue to rely on what many have called his executive command authority to push through his agenda.
This is the issue of the 2012 election:
Do we believe in our capacity for self-government or will we abandon our God-given role in the world as Americans and capitulate to elitists planners who believe they can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
It's the elitism of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed who pushed the unpopular ObamaCare through Congress in spite of, and some would say in the face of, the American people who opposed it. It's Eric Holder's fight with Arizona in spite of popular support for the law and for immigration law enforcement by the states. And it's the President himself leading this group of liberal elites with numerous acts of defying the will of the people and congress.
“Intellectual elites” of this type, think those who oppose them are not just ignorant, they’re stupid. And there must be racism at the heart of the opposition because it makes so much sense to them.
Make no mistake; America's response to 9/11, opposition to ObamaCare, resistance to a government increasing in size with out-of-control spending has nothing to do with color and everything to do with common sense patriotism.
Americans see their freedoms eroding under this administration and that's the source of their resistance to this president!
Hear this. President Obama declaring a change in U.S. immigration law, no Congressional action, no court decision, just another executive decision; this time changing immigration law to permit young people who were brought to this country illegally to stay, rather than face deportation, has become
a tactic and a hallmark of his presidency.
WE SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS ONE COMING!
The Wall Street Journal points out that President Obama actually revealed his intentions a year ago. "In a speech last year to La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights organization that has criticized the White House for the lack of progress on immigration reform, President Obama mused that he'd like 'to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own.' He added, 'Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you.'"
Well, the temptation he talked about then proved to be too much for the president. Just recently, he gave in to political temptation relaxing restrictions on illegals. Another power grab.
So we have President Obama and his imperial presidency, acting alone in deciding which laws to enforce, which to ignore. A constitutional scholar- who isn't following the constitution. A president who doesn't worry about the separation of powers, circumventing the traditional checks and balances of our constitutional system.
It's this kind of arrogance that already has drawn a sharp rebuke from many.
Sen. Lindsey Graham called Obama's action "at best unwise and possibly illegal." Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said he is planning to file suit against the Obama Administration to challenge the president's action.
REMEMBER THESE WORDS?
“…..I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back & tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick & good jobs for the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow & our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war & secured our nation & restored our image at last, best hope on earth.
This was the moment….this was the time…when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves & our highest ideals.”
If Obama is able to slow the rise of the oceans then ending poverty & securing peace should be a cakewalk.
I’m just guessing now but I suppose Obama would only be able to accomplish such feats as long as he’s America’s President.
It’s not about the tint of his skin. It’s not about his race. It’s not about his ethnicity, it’s not about his charisma, gravitas, his personality or whatever you call it. I don’t work that way. It’s about his policies & I disagree with Obama on policy.
Because of the policies I’ve mentioned here, & others of his values that would take too long to enumerate, I oppose Barack Obama as President of the United States.
Respected commentator Charles Krauthammer put it more bluntly: "Beyond the pandering, beyond the politics, beyond the process - is simple constitutional decency. This is out-and-out lawlessness. You had a clip of the president himself say months ago 'I cannot do this on my own because there are laws on the books.' Well, I have news for president - the laws remain on the books. They haven’t changed."
Listen to a quote from David Limbaugh: “If we re-elect him we are committing national suicide, I fully believe that. It might be cliché to say this is the most important election we’ve ever had but I don’t think it’s a cliché, I think most elections have incrementally been more important than previous elections because liberalism has been on a steady incremental march during my entire life. We pushed it back during Reagan and some other areas, but they always seem to move the ball towards statism overall and they are continuing to do it.
Obama is already acting like a flaming leftist, radical, socialist. Can you imagine what he’ll act like if he is re-elected and perceives himself to have a mandate to take this country completely over the cliff.”
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
We want God to bless America. But we must confess that America as we know her now has forgotten God and totters on the brink of destruction. Even so, I believe there is a way for America to recover.
I firmly believe this nation with its Christian beginning was a nation God planted. America didn’t come into being by happenstance but by the will and plan of God Himself, who placed the American dream in the hearts of our Founding Fathers.As you and I read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the spiritual heritage of America runs all the way through them. When the little rag-tag Continental Army was fighting the British at Valley Forge, General George Washington went out to kneel in the snow to pray for his army. When a stranger came to the Continental Congress and wanted to know which man was Washington, a friend said, “When the Congress begins to pray, Washington will be the tall man who will go to his knees.”
Why has America been the richest nation on earth? Because the sun shines more here? More rainfall? Because we’re stronger? No! These are blessings from God. “Blessed is that nation whose God is the Lord.”
Today godless, violent forces come against America — from both outside and within. Corrupt politicians and clueless pundits mock God’s principles and those who honor them.
We must acknowledge our sin, deal with it, and confess it. Psalm 80 shows us how to pray for national revival. This is the prayer God will bless:
14Return, we beseech Thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 15And the vineyard which Thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that Thou madest strong for Thyself…. 17Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand….18So will not we go back from Thee: quicken us, and we will call upon Thy name. 19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
This is the gracious national deliverance God promised Israel — the deliverance we need and can be ours if we will confess, repent, and call upon His name.
Satan’s strategy is to keep good people silent in evil times. Will you speak up? Do you know what the issues are? For instance, are you letting your voice be heard against pornography, perversion, corruption, and the murder of the innocents?
God is still a God of mercy. What God could do for Israel, He can do for any nation that repents. Today America must look to God. The Pentagon — economists — politicians — educators — cannot save us. Only God can save America.
Without a spiritual revival there is no hope for our nation. We must return to God so God will return to us.
What time is it in America? It is knee time.
Blessings,
John
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