American apologists berated President Bush for the (effective) water boarding of dangerous terrorists. “We don’t torture,” they lectured, overlooking how they were torturing common sense each time their mouths opened. “We must protect our values.”
Now we have a President, and his compliant team of thugs (and czars), intent on “water boarding” American citizens and what we believe in. You know, those Founding Father beliefs.
Nearly 11 months into the Age of Obama, there no longer hangs in the air a suspicion that our “values” are under assault. (Not the rhetorical values used to defend the 9/11 attack; no, real Constitutional, American values). Suspicions have stepped aside amid irrefutable evidence that American core principles, things long taken for granted, are not just being tortured by radical insurgent politicians and their appointees, but are in fact targeted for destruction.
We’re no longer worried that our comfort levels are being exceeded. That’s when mere torture is in play, like listening to Barack Hussein Obama’s nomination acceptance or his condescension toward Joe The Plumber. We’ve blown past torture. We’re red lining. We’re facing a killing machine assembled in the shadows over many years, if not decades, and fueled and lubricated daily inside the White House. Let me count the ways.
Barack Hussein Obama is killing the economy. Killing the jobs market. Killing entrepreneurial spirit. Killing the U.S. dollar. Some will dismiss these statements as right wing, Tea Party insanity. Others might go only as far as conceding that Obama’s incompetence and naivete is alarming, but, c’mon, he’s not deliberately killing America.
Deny it at your peril.
“We cannot spend, tax or devalue our way into prosperity,” writes economic commentator Lawrence Kudlow after Obama’s astonishingly lame performance on his Asia mission. “Nor can we command the respect of other nations by telling them our economy cannot grow as rapidly in the future as it has in the past. … Yet Obama makes no defense of our free-market system and provides no leadership on the leading economic questions.”
And while Obama puts the stranglehold on free-market capitalism in order to launch an era of “Redistributive Justice” across the land, Attorney General Eric Holder is killing Homeland Security by scheduling a Manhattan show trial for the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks; Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are killing health care by vilifying the insurance industry, with an eye toward killing it, too; union imperial wizard Andy Stern, head of the SEIU, is killing on a vast scale, from small businesses to large industries, and this scumbag has even gone on the record to confirm it, saying unions will take on American business using the power of persuasion but will not hesitate to impose “the persuasion of power”; and the list goes on.
The slow death of American Exceptionalism, stoked by Obama’s global apology tour and his inclination to bow to irrelevant foreign royalty, pales in comparison to the sudden, violent deaths of 13 members of the American military at Ft. Hood, Texas, where they were gunned down by a radical disciple of Islam who infiltrated the U.S. Army.
We don’t understand why the jihadists are wired to kill, or how they can plot their attacks so patiently, so stoically as to become all but invisible until the blood begins to flow. And we’re no better equipped to understand why we would risk our way of life to bend over backwards in the name of diversity and sensitivity, by bowing, in a sense, to the enemies of our Judeo-Christian nation.
But we don’t have time to contemplate, sadly. We can’t afford to be distracted by the classic “fog of war”.
The killing machines are closing in.
Please note an important acknowledgment Holder slipped in to his remarks.