Sunday, September 9, 2018

Obamaland, Gaslight Galaxy

* Washington Examiner Obama prosecuted Staff Leaker, Gave Lie-Detector tests, ‘Paranoid’
Breitbart Big government.

“This is the most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered,” said David E. Sanger, veteran chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times, in the report

USA Today said of the report, it “portrays an administration gripped by strict policies about information flow and paranoid about leaks across all executive branch departments.”

* Fact Check: Obama’s Speech Attacking Trump at University of Illinois
Breitbart Big Government 

Obama thinks he deserves credit for Trump’s economy. See, Obama’s miserable eight-year economy was actually Bush’s economy so it’s natural that Trump’s booming economy is actually Obama’s economy due to lag.

And that pretty much plumbs the depth of Obama’s knowledge of economies. Obama thinks stimulus bills get the economy going,  increased taxes (Obamacare), regulation frenzy, actual attacks on business that do not support him (Gibson guitar for example, Hobby Lobby, etc.) coal because it gets your hands dirty, you didn’t build that, and a general antipathy for people and groups who actually create wealth, all have nothing to do with the most dismal recovery in recent memory. While all those things removed with a new attitude about the general brilliance of people and their ambitions, from someone actually successful in business and deal-making; along with tax reduction, stripping regulation, and general business friendly and with  fair trade proactive policies change the scene completely, a precise 180, but to Obama they also have nothing to do an economy suddenly bounding, rather, to Obama it’s all economic lag. In Obamaland in Gaslight Galaxy, Obama gets the credit for Trump’s national policies, not Trump.

He cannot sit back and learn. He must criticize and attack and take credit.

Obama mocked Trump’s promise to bring back manufacturing jobs to the U.S. “What magic wand do you have?”

That wand  is common economic sense.

Many more ridiculous Obama conceits at the link. Obama thinks he made the world safer, he who presided over the rise of the Islamic State. He claims to have achieved having Iran abandon its nuclear program when he actually emboldened Iran, he did nothing to stop N. Korea. Obama completely forgets his own appeasement toward Russia. He forgets, at lest omits, his own Russia “reset” and his rush to eliminate America’s nuclear weapons, his retreat from Syria, His attack on Libya that opened the floodgates, His support of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the disruption that caused, his open mic promise to show more flexibility to Putin after the 2012 election.

Obama is telling his audiences that "Trump is appealing to tribe", something that Obama would be acutely aware. Still dividing. Still separating according to tribe.

On and on with Obama’s fallacious claims.  There are dozens at the link.

* Obama cracks up with Trump Derangement Syndrome. American Thinker.

“Obama is angry.  He called on his followers to get out and vote in November to defeat Trump.  He is angry that the voters rejected him in 2016 by electing Trump instead of Hillary.  He knows that this was a rejection of his policies, and more importantly, it was a rejection of Obama personally.  Obama cannot accept this.  He and Joe Biden campaigned for Hillary daily, and Obama even said he would take it as a personal insult if black voters didn't vote for Hillary.”

Article after article the writers discuss how ridiculous Obama sounds in his speeches in Illinois and in California, how odd to have him break with tradition and suddenly appear before mid-term elections to sway voters toward Democrats. The writers all accept this is typical Obama being himself. They all leave out one critical element that defines the entire activity.

Obama is worried. Deeply so. Not just for protecting his legacy but also protecting his legitimacy. He's protecting himself. He’s behaving obviously as a man who knows that a midterm win for Trump means all the discovered corruption during Obama’s administration will surface to general knowledge. Obama says today, “things can get worse.” While things are obviously better. What he means is “things can get a lot worse for Obama.” A Republican win means further disaster for Obama, for Democrat politicians, for former administration officials who distorted government departments to retain power.

Obama looks like he’s merely breaking tradition, he’s actually trying to save himself. Desperately. We’re seeing a magnificent flounce, with swirls of money. Money tornadoes you say? We can expect Hillary to be right there drawn to the eye of it. 

2 comments:

edutcher said...

Sharyl Atkisson has a dandy series of quotes regarding Zippy's reign of terror among the White House press corps (yet even now they love him; talk about your Stockholm Syndrome).

He’s behaving obviously as a man who knows that a midterm win for Trump means all the discovered corruption during Obama’s administration will surface to general knowledge.

He's also probably concerned about his freedom. Consider:

F&F
FISA
Benghazi
etc.

Unlike Der Fuhrer, there is a trail here.

rcocean said...

Fortunately, no ever cared about Obama but the D's. McCain threw the election and Romney was a disaster.

Obama's preaching to the choir.

All three of our last President's have zero popularity with real people. Clinton - an impeached clown. Bush - goofy guy who got us into Iraq. Obama - a complete zero.

That all three loved McCain and hated Trump, tells you all you need to know.