Obama's Make-Believe Life

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http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/01/obamas-make-believe-life.html
Obama's Make-Believe Life
By Alan Caruba

I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.

In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.

His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.

He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?

He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.

And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.

The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.

Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.

Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.

The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.

Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.

Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.

He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.

The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.

Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.

When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.

We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America?

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June 19, 2010
Obama's Plan To Modify Your Behavior
J.C. Arenas


Last week, with much of the news cycle focused intently on the oil spill disaster in the Gulf and the continuously weakening economy, Barack Obama quietly signed an executive order to establish the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council.

While such a council isn't unusual given the president's preferred collegial approach to governance, and may sound innocuous, a deeper look is needed to understand exactly what this council is and what it aims to accomplish.

As the newest expansion to the Department of Health and Human Services, the council is headed by the Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, and is comprised of 13 other high-ranking officials of executive agencies -- including Janet Napolitano, Kathleen Sebelius, Hilda Solis, and Arne Duncan.

Additionally, the council will oversee an advisory group of up to 25 non-federal government officials who will be appointed by Obama. Many of the president's appointees will be licensed health-care professionals with expertise in worksite health promotion, community services, preventive medicine, health coaching, public health education, geriatrics, and rehabilitation medicine.

Beginning this year, until 2015, the council will submit an annual report to the president and Congress that describes the progress it has made with its efforts to advance health promotion and disease prevention. Overall, it is expected to address "lifestyle behavior modification" of the American people, including, but not limited to, smoking cessation, proper nutrition, appropriate exercise, mental health, behavioral health, substance-use disorder, and domestic violence screenings.

Does the council still seem innocuous now?

Just in case a reminder is needed, this is the U-S-A, not C-U-B-A. Americans take pride in living in a free society, and we the people don't need a president who can't quit smoking, a surgeon general who has had to defend her own weight problem, government bureaucrats, and what will likely be an advisory group comprised of the crème de la crème of radical statists, to tell us what we should and shouldn't put in our bodies, in addition to, how to behave.

The last council the President created via executive order was the deficit commission that Congress had previously refused to create -- which came shortly after a New York Times report disclosed the President was preparing to rule more through executive decree -- and an explanation shouldn't be required as to why Obama didn't bother discussing the creation of this health council with the legislative branch.

With the Democratic Party poised to lose its majority in Congress, Obama will have to intensify his presidential usurpation of legislative power to ensure that the re-creation of America in his image comes to fruition; it has to make one wonder, what else is to come?

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He can try all he wants but it is basically make-believe.

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BHO:  An Epic Pretender
-Mychal Massie

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=166609

[Warph]

BHO..... he's a great example of the Peter Principle, taken to the nth degree.  Most of the time the rise of such people stops when they reach one grade above their competence.  But with BHO it's gone on for several more stages; he was already beyond his competence when he was an Illinois state senator.  But, as I have said before, another possibility to consider is that he's a real-life version of Chauncey Gardiner (aka Chance, the gardener) in the movie, "Being There".  Is BHO addicted to television?  Does he "like to watch?"  Is the boob tube responsible for most of his ill decisions?

As someone said many centuries ago, most tyrants are mentally ill.  Add that with our fallen nature as human beings, and you have one big mess.  Add that to the manipulators behind BHO who he has surrounded himself with, people that are equally delusional and a destructive world view and voila, we have what we have, a sick, very misguided child as our leader, who cannot think, be, or grow to anything better without divine intervention.  But America asked for him, at least the majority did.  I think it is well pointed out, that the issue is not so much as our USURPER leader, but where were the BRAINS and the SENSE of the people who voted for him? 

If Obama was an automobile he would be seen as a "lemon".  He was put into office by, and for, his oratorical skills and nothing more.... period.  Unfortunately for his marxoid handlers, his flawed personality and incompetence have now seeped through the once-gaudy wrapper.  Even the Marxi-Crat Media who got him elected is beginning to recognize the Blunder-in-Chief for the fraud he is.  The pressure is always intense in the job of Commander in Chief.  He is appearing to hold up somewhat under it due to his support team who also has to cover for his ineptitude.  The answer to force early retirement is to remove his support team, one by one.  What ever psychological problems he has will become worse with the lack of the insiders that know how to handle him. 

For those willing to see through this guy, he was highly suspect before becoming elected as POTUS (gag...), and like a good little Marxist played the part of savior to perfection.  I knocked around the politics of  Washington for years and I was savvy enough to see what this clown was as he campaigned for the top spot.  You can checkout my earlier posts, which are many, on the man.

....Warph

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There was only one way for O to make it into office and he exploited it brilliantly...By riding the back of a Kennedy all the way into office, digging his spurs into the flanks of that 'horse' all the way to the finish line.  We can only hope that the American public sees his lack of leadership in this BP tragedy, the lack of abilities elsewhere, and votes him out of office when the time comes.