After a summer haitus, I’m back, just in time for the final
grind to this most momentous election.
This has been a most unsettling time, one in which I believe that
Western Civilization could hang in the balance.
We have a clear choice in front of us.
This election features Barack Obama, who, in many ways, represents the
antithesis of all that is truly American—hostile to individualism, private
enterprise, and American exceptionalism pitted against Mitt Romney—the
embodiment of those ideals. Crucially,
the main stream media has picked its candidate and acts as an uncompensated PR
arm of the Obama campaign, effectively multiplying Obama’s fundraising.
It was almost with disbelief that I heard the MSM talk about
Romney’s “bad week” last week because of the release of the surreptitiously
obtained video in which he decried the 47% that are dependent on government and
whose vote he will never get. My
reaction was—big deal. Maybe he got the
number a bit wrong—it’s probably more like 30%.
But the principle is correct. The
overarching strategy of the Democrats is to get as many people hooked on
government largesse as possible to create a permanent coalition supporting the
Democrats.
But it was Barack’s bad week, but we heard little about
that. It has really been Barack’s bad
year. Despite the stimulus, despite
unprecedented help from the Federal Reserve Board, the economy is going
nowhere. Second quarter GDP was revised
downward to 1.3%. Durable goods orders
are down. Unemployment is stuck above
8%. Family income is down. Regulations promulgated by the EPA, Obamacare
and Dodd-Frank suffocate our economy. Our rank in economic freedom and competitiveness has tumbled. Millions of job seekers have lost hope.
Overseas, the picture isn’t any prettier. Obama’s interventions in Egypt and Libya have
enabled radical Islamism, and further imperiled our ally, Israel. The Middle East has been in flames. Our Afghan strategy is in disarray. Japan and China are nearly at war. The Middle East peace process is dead. Iran’s centrifuges continue to hum, and each
day, they unveil a new weapons system design to damage us while we are happily
snipping away at our defense budget to make even more room for the Obama
welfare state. In the 2008 campaign,
Obama pledged to meet with any of our adversaries without precondition. In 2012, he will not extend the same courtesy
to our friends, preferring time with Letterman, Jay-Z and Beyonce to our only
steadfast ally in the Middle East.
Most egregious has been the patent falsehoods put forth by
this administration concerning the rape and murder of our ambassador to
Libya. Blaming this horrendous incident
on a kooky anti-Islamic film produced by an American citizen, the initial
reaction was to decry the filmmaker and take him into custody for questioning
about his alleged parole violations and to once again apologize to the Muslim
world (for the free exercise of a private citizen’s First Amendment
rights). Now we are learning that
Benghazi was a huge foreign policy and security blunder covered up by the Obama
administration.
Both at home and abroad, Obama has been a disaster. That Obama is polling ahead of Romney (or at
best is dead even) is extremely troublesome to me. I have deep worries about the America that
my children and grandchildren will inherit if America renews Obama’s contract.
