It was in a recent letter addressed to the American
people that Barry, once again, set out to explain the progress that he believes
our nation has made under his stellar leadership. And it was in that letter that Barry again
made the claim that today it’s “almost” the entire planet that now believes
this nation has become stronger and more respected during his time in
office. I’m guessing that Barry must
figure that if he makes this claim often enough people will come to believe that
it’s true. Frankly I’m not sure who he’s
trying to convince, himself or the American people.
But be that as it may, it was in this letter that
Barry said, “And almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and
more respected today than they did eight years ago.” And in making the case for his claim, Barry
cited, among other things, what he considers to be the nation’s progress in
Iraq and Afghanistan and in “breaking the back” of the Islamic State, the Iran
nuclear deal, and the opening of relations with the Communist government in
Cuba. Barry also cited a global “climate
agreement” that he claims “could save this planet for our kids” as why America
is more respected.
It was in this very same little fairytale of a
letter that Barry went on to write, “We’ve drawn down from nearly 180,000
troops in harm’s way in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000.” And he went on to make a rather idiotic claim
by saying, “With a coalition of more than 70 nations and a relentless campaign
of more than 16,000 airstrikes so far, we are breaking the back of ISIL and
taking away its safe havens, and we’ve accomplished this at a cost of $10
billion over two years — the same amount that we
spent in one month at the height of the Iraq War.” A claim that is
patently false.
And as one who takes every possible opportunity to
pat himself on the back, whether warranted or not, Barry went on to write, “At
the same time, America has led the world to meet a set of global
challenges.” And he added, “Through
diplomacy, we shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons program, opened up a new chapter
with the people of Cuba, and brought nearly 200 nations together around a
climate agreement that could save this planet for our kids.” Barry’s rather rosy picture of all that he
has done ‘for’ America bears very little resemblance to reality. It’s just all so bizarre.
All of which begs the question of just how
delusional one man can possibly be. Remember the red lines he drew, and then
ignored? I really do have to wonder, is
anyone really buying any of this political BS? Or is this all just politicking in an effort
to get that cushy U.N. job that he so badly wants? I have yet to talk to any rational individual
who actually believes that Barry has done anything other than to severely
weaken our standing in the world! My
God, pick a spot, any spot, anywhere on the planet and more often than not it’s
in much worse shape than it was in 2009.
There are new conflicts in Yemen, Syria, in Africa
where the radical Islamists have taken hold.
Our arch rivals, the Red Chinese and the Russians, see Barry as a
defeated if not disgraced American president. The last time an American president left the
office in so much disgrace was probably Jimmy Carter after the Iran fiasco.
Vlad Putin reportedly said negotiating with Barry is like playing chess with a
pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, craps on the chessboard and then
proudly struts around like he won the game.
I think Vlad has hit the nail on the head.
And there were several things that were noticeably missing
from Barry’s little letter to the American people, and for very good
reason. For instance there’s the little
fact that the supposed economic ‘expansion’ that began in June 2009 has been
the weakest since World War II, with real gross domestic product growth
averaging 2.1%. At 7 1/2 years and counting,
it is also among the longest on record. But it hasn’t packed much of a
punch. Cumulative growth of 16.5% since
the trough is well shy of the 38.4% increase during the 1982-1990 expansion and
42.6% from 1991-2001.
Now to be sure, the process of digging out from a
financial crisis is more arduous than recovering from your basic
recession. And an aging population is
curtailing labor-force growth, which in turn constrains how fast the economy
can expand without generating inflationary pressures. Barry doesn’t mention
that fewer regulatory impediments would have encouraged new business formation,
which increased in 2015 for the first time since 2009, and capital investment,
giving productivity a needed boost. Stronger economic growth would have lured
folks back to the working world.
And there’s the matter of his ‘legacy’. Barry doesn’t talk about how his continued personal
popularity hasn’t had much of a trickle-down effect. Or how in the eight years since he was first
elected, Democrats have lost more than 1,000 seats at the state and national
level. He doesn’t mention how Republicans
now control 4,170 state legislative seats compared with 3,129 for the
Democrats, an all-time low. Republicans now hold 33 governorships and will have
full control, governorship and both houses of the state legislature, in 25
states compared to 5 for the Democrats.
Add to that the fact that during that same period of
time the Democrats lost 12 governorships, 13 Senate seats and 69 seats in the
House of Representatives. Barry’s two
terms were highlighted by “a devastation up and down the party across the
nation.” A legacy is generally thought to be a gift
handed down from one generation to the next. For the Democrat Party, Barry’s legacy is
anything but. And if you chose, at the
time of Barry’s first election, to believe James Carville, the legacy of Barry
“Almighty” was going to be 40 years of solid Democrat rule. Oops!
And Barry also failed to mention his year-end press
conference which was short on questions, long on answers, where Barry spoke
about his response to the Russian hacking of Democrat National Committee emails
during the election. He said that when
he met with Vlad Putin in China in September, he told him to “cut it out” in
terms of the hacking. Sorry, Barry, the
world isn’t afraid of you and your empty threats. Eight years of leading from behind has left
America’s standing in the world diminished, its moral authority compromised and
its foreign policy in tatters.
Barry left unsaid how the wars he inherited are
still going on. And how the Taliban has made a comeback in Afghanistan and Syria
is in shambles. And how Secretary of
State John Kerry-Heinz has been so ineffective that no one even bothered to
invite him to the Syrian cease-fire negotiations among Russia, Turkey and
Iran. And Barry also said nothing about
how he broke with 36 years of U.S. policy by abandoning its ally Israel and
allowing the passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2234, declaring
Israeli settlements, including the Western Wall and Temple Mount in East
Jerusalem, illegal.
And Barry made no mention that while he may have
broken racial barriers when he became the first African-American president of
the U.S., his election has done nothing to improve race relations. In fact, a majority of Americans (54%) say
that race relations deteriorated under Barry “Almighty”. And Barry didn’t mention how he has
continually promoted the idea of a police force biased against blacks, or how
he vehemently denied FBI Director James Comey’s explanation for the surge in
violent crime and homicide rates last year were a result of the “Ferguson
effect.”
Also Barry didn’t include in his letter to the
American people how his hometown of Chicago witnessed 762 homicides last year,
the most in two decades, and up from the 459 that occurred in 2009. Barry’s protests to the contrary
notwithstanding, the reason is the Ferguson effect, according to the Manhattan
Institute’s Heather MacDonald. What’s more, statistics show that police are now
three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than white ones. Barry is not entitled to his own facts. If he
doesn’t want to talk to those on the front line, he should listen to those who
do.
And finally I think it’s worth mentioning how it was
that Barry once again failed to mention that which must never be named, aka Radical
Islamic terrorism. Barry has spent eight
years deftly avoiding using those three words to call an act what it is. He has
intellectualized his position by claiming the phrase “equates Islam with
terrorism,” which is counterproductive to U.S. counterterrorism efforts. Instead, Barry prefers terms such as
“workplace violence,” even if the terrorists in question pay homage to Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State.
I’m quite sure that everyone remembers the gilded
setting, complete with Greek columns that served as the backdrop for Barry’s
acceptance speech at the 2008 Democrat convention in Denver. However, don’t expect the same pomp and
circumstance at next week’s farewell address.
Because unlike in 2008, when Barry was all about “Hope and Change”, the
2016 audience will have results in hand to determine if the hope was misplaced
and the change worthwhile.
And I noticed how our Liar-in-Chief chose not to list
those countries where we are "more respected". Maybe he means "Cuba", but he fails
to recognize that they’re laughing at him, just like the "back of
ISIS" has been broken. He either
lives in some sort of alternate universe or some weird fantasy world, or is nothing
more than an inveterate liar. Personally,
I choose the latter, because I think that he knows full well just how much of a
"failure" he truly has been but just can’t bring himself to admit it. But the good thing is that in two weeks he’ll
be gone. Thank you Jesus!
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