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Do We Finally Give Obama a Pass?
Recently I wrote a post about Obama’s visiting a mosque affiliated with terrorist groups; it was his first visit to a mosque in the U.S. I was thinking it over, wondering if I’d seen any other recent posts about Obama, and I couldn’t think of any. Then it hit me. We’ve all checked out on Obama.
Here’s my thinking: Obama is now old news. He’s betrayed the Constitution and our allies, our citizens, and our mission in the world. He’s violated the presidential office and run circles around Congress by legislating through executive orders. And it seems that there’s nothing anyone can do about it. We just have to muddle through the next nine months. No point in beating a dead horse, right?
Really?
I guess I’m wondering if we’ve fallen into the pit with the mainstream media: Ignore Obama’s outrageous acts ‘cause there are far more interesting things going on. After all, there’s the election and Trump and Sanders and Trump and Cruz and Trump. Oh sorry, I’m repeating myself. We’re having so much fun beating up each other’s candidates, celebrating Hillary’s e-mail debacle, Sanders’ idealistic fluff, and everyone’s hatred of Cruz and you-know-who that who’s got time for Obama?
Except there are things like values and principles. Railing against obscene political actions from the Executive level. Holding Obama accountable through our pens until the very end. Celebrating virtue and condemning evil when displayed a consequential level, by the President of the United States. Are we simply giving up on Obama for more amusing and interesting events? Are we really prepared to let Obama coast along for the last months without continuing to challenge his unprincipled and illegal behavior?
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I think part of the lack of interest is that Obama has governed exactly as he said he was going to do. I don’t think there is a lot of interest in posts/stories about “yep, he kept his promise”.
Additionally, conservatives/center right, etc. tend to be optimistic and forward looking. God gave us a big windshield and tiny rear view mirror. We are looking forward and focusing on areas we can influence, not the road we traveled.
Not screaming into the wind is not quite the same as a pass. There is little President Obama does that I approve of but I realize there is far less I can say that will actually make a difference.
I see your point and Brent’s. I’m not encouraging people to be “screaming into the wind.” This isn’t about dwelling in the past; this is pointing to outrageous acts that are still going on. Don’t you think that if we stand up for our principles against these kinds of behaviors that there is some virtue in that? Might we not be saying to those we are aligned with that evil will not prevail because we’re just plain tired out? Maybe not.
When was the last time you had an IRS audit? This is a vicious vindictive man holding a big mallet. Speak loudly and you could be the next gopher smacked on the head.
I have lost all the hair I am going to lose over the SOB
Yes, and no, and not necessarily.
Yes, not screaming into the wind is not the same as a pass.
But, no, there’s not little that can be said that would make a difference. The statute of limitations won’t have expired by next January (and yes, in the manner Brent intimated above, I’m optimistically assuming); we’ll still be able to hold Obama accountable for any of his actually illegal actions.
And not necessarily regarding outrageous-isms still going on. Next January, they’ll be in the past but they’ll still be outrageous. All of it adds up to a situation full of opportunity and rife with things with which to hold Obama accountable and for the next two years (especially) to burn the Democratic Party and its politicians for their complicity in Obama’s misbehaviors.
Keep your data current and your powder dry.
Eric Hines
Just win the next election. Fire every person hired in the last 7 years by the Federal government, especially at DOJ, then find ways to jail as many as possible. You’ll be called racist, so jail Hillary first and all the whites at the top of the IRS.
First, how did you find this post?? I seem to be missing the latest posts on the Members Feed. I can only get through the post through alerts. Where am I???
Second, thanks for sharing your thoughts, Eric. Maybe I have to comfort myself that there isn’t much that can be done, and he hasn’t done anything horribly outrageous–lately. I’ll keep my powder dry.
I don’t plan to speak THAT loudly! ;)
The treasonous and treacherous manifestation of Satan that he is, Obama deserves no quarter, ever. I don’t hate too much, trying to be a Christian and all, but there are exceptions supported by the Word, and I hate Obama with a white-hot fervor for what he has done to my country, which I love and have fought for, earning me, luckily, poorly aimed communist bullets and rockets.
Do you think it is hyperbolic to label him the Prince of Darkness?
Let’s give him a pass in the way he has given George W. Bush a pass…
I think that it worthwhile to keep our attention on Obama, or at least Obama’s policies, because while he seems to be mostly immune to the harm he has done, other Democrats are not. Hillary is embracing Obama’s legacy, so we need to criticize that legacy at every opportunity.
I don’t know what to make of it. Obama has been repeatedly anti American. Chalk this up as another one, and when the chalk marks get so frequent, one just expects it of him.
From my perspective I’m not giving him a pass, I’m giving him a miss.
Are there any reports on whether he recited the shahada while there? (I am sure he spoke it in his youth.) Was this part of Rev. Wright making it easier for him to become a Christian? Let us hope we will all have the leisure to read the many deconstructions of the Obama presidency instead of having to focus on the clearing of the rubble.
Give Obama a pass?! Even a dead rattlesnake is poisonous.
Now THAT is a very good point. If she gets in (please, not), we’ll have more of the same–maybe worse.
He hasn’t upheld his oath of office. He’s given aid and comfort to enemies of the United States. He has committed impeachable offenses, and I live for the day he’ll be held to account.
You got moved to the Main Feed.
Eric Hines
…yet.
Eric Hines
The only comment in your post that I disagree with is the following:
He’s violated the presidential office and run circles around Congress by legislating through executive orders. And it seems that there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
There were things that people could have done. They simply chose not to do it.
Too late now. Time to worry about the next problem.
Heart, I know some issues have gone to court. Do you think they could have stopped the executive orders in other ways?
We still have to be wary. Up until the replacement takes the oath of office, Obama is still very dangerous. We need to publically oppose his policies, and try to minimize additional damage. It will take many years to recover from what he has done, if we can do that at all.The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Not too late. In addition to taking up the next problem, it’s time to start correcting the damage from his current failures.
Eric Hines
Like others have commented, I’m spent when it comes to mustering outrage over BHO’s actions, at least on a visible level to others. I’m in Obama country, so I keep my head down mostly & keep it ambiguous to those who don’t know me. Inside, the rage continues tho…here we are with 9 months left of his godforsaken presidency, & I *still* can’t believe this guy got in again in 2012! I feel completely powerless over what he’s wrought in our nation, how our optimism, civility & goodwill is circling the drain, & in the uncertainty of my own job these days (private medical practice). I am one of those people who is pissed off to no end as to where we are now, and am ready for The Reckoning in 2016 (Trump is my first, Cruz is my second – but I will support any GOP candidate in the general). To that end, I try to stay forward-looking, like Brent said. But I agree with Tom on that Prince o Darkness thing…
It’s not just ‘giving a pass’ its complete fatigue with this feckless narcissist president and this government which is complicit in giving a pass to almost anything… and both parties wink, blame the other and go have cocktails.
Just announced today: ‘National Debt hits 19 Trillion’. That’s 41,000 dollars for a child born today. In 24 years, with this spending spree, that total will be 142,000 dollars.
‘O’ just keeps telling everyone that, that smoke is not fire and that Rome is fine. And congress sends out a press release on their concerns then orders another cocktail and laughs at the rest of the rubes not in power.
Hi Susan,
I read somewhere – it may have been a comment by a Catholic priest – but it was a comment that said that we need to call out right from wrong every chance we get – write letters to the editor, post stories (like this one), challenge wrong when it rears its ugly head – we cannot ever become complacent to the erosion of evil. That may be an extreme comment in some ways, but no, we should not give Obama a pass – or anyone else. You bring out a good point – take your eye off the ball is exactly what many of the dark underbelly in this world hope for – sleepiness – or annoyance – like his remaining presidency should be viewed as fly-swatting. I am for the bull horns – he may very well do his best hope and change in the final hour. By the way, it is a reason why I admire Cruz – he calls out the sneakiness or lack of attention that passes for governing these days.
Thank you for a great post! Soldier on!
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Obama’s gonna Obama. The GOP-controlled Congress isn’t going to stop him, or even chide him en passant. The courts will abet him.
To some extent, there’s nothing that can be done. May as well not weary ourselves trying. Save our energy for a winnable fight: preventing the Clinton Crime Family™ from taking possession of the White House.
I’d quote relevant passages from the Bible, or Shakespeare; but it’d be too depressing.
Thanks, FSC. I think I’m suggesting a paradoxical idea: that we shout loudly the next time he acts–well, not necessarily outrageously, but badly, and we do it dispassionately. We find a way to put aside our outrage and disgust about all that he’s done. It’s kind of a Buddhist concept. It requires that we let go of the past in the moment and still look to the future, while we let go of our useless desires to find ourselves in a different place. Most of our suffering is not about what is going on right now, or even what will happen tomorrow; it’s about the past, which we can’t change. We can transform our righteous anger into fuel for continuing to speak to truth and principle and as Eric has said, plan for the future.
As long as we put someone in office who is willing to go down that road and have a congress willing to back it up.
Essential!