After almost 100 days in office, it is clear that President Obama has a very ultra-liberal vision for America.
He is guiding America away from its status as a world leader, to that of being an equal or lesser partner with every other country on the planet. This is a very desirable position for many Democrats and lefties, who disdain America for being what many call a "super power." The "blame America first" crowd and those who are anti-American love what Obama is turning our country into. Obama is ripping apart the very foundations our country was created upon.
America has achieved a strong leadership position in the world in a very short historical time. In just a few centuries, America has prospered. Where other countries have stagnated for thousands of years, and some are still back in the middle ages, we have industrialized, invented things through the creativity of our citizens, built the strongest defense systems to keep our world safe, grown, improved the lives of millions, and contributed to the overall well-being of the planet and other nations through our help and generosity. (Did you know that America is the most generous country in the world?) Yet, many do not agree that a strong and powerful America is the "right" America. They confuse leadership with arrogance. Why has America always been known as the "land of the free, home of the brave?" And why do we suddenly find ourselves apologizing to everyone and anyone who will listen, via words from our own President, for all our unfounded "wrongs?" Some say Obama talks so eloquently that he can even make "America sucks" sound good. I, for one, am sick of it.
Our President is one of those people wishing to change America into the utopia that the left desires. Obama has morphed from the moderate he ran as while campaigning to an ultra-liberal, and he even makes Bill Clinton look like a good conservative. Obama is guiding us towards weaker national security, bigger government - government like we have never seen before, less individual freedom, more government take-overs of major businesses, and, of course, higher taxes (ala "spreading the income"). And don't forget, if you do well and are successful at work or owning a business, you will be punished! You must have more and more of your earnings taken away simply because there will always be someone out there who has less! In the world of liberalism, that is simply not FAIR! In short order, Obama's dislike of our capitalist system is becoming quite evident. We are indeed headed towards what many liberals desire - socialism.
The question was recently posed to me on whether or not I consider Obama a "traitor." In the sense that he has made our enemies - like al-Queda - openly aware of the U.S. Military interrogation techniques, as well as given them information on supposed withdrawal dates from Iraq, and seems intent on punishing many who were doing their jobs to protect our country, one really has to wonder. Obama's actions do look like they are aiding the enemy. Yet, what is Obama's intent? Is he just an incompetent liberal, striving to achieve the ultimate liberal goal of re-inventing America to be little more than the same as other countries? Does he actually think that is a good thing? Knocking us off our pedestal as a world power, because the left doesn't see that as somehow being a desirable position? If that is the case, I would say Obama is not a traitor. He is doing what he believes in. There are more than 50% of Americans who don't agree with Obama, and I am one of them. And that number seems to be growing, which is a sign that many people have finally caught on to what Obama is all about.
Hindsight, of course, is 20-20. Americans were privy to Obama's beliefs before the election. Obama had many friendships - and most of them were with people who were known America-bashers, domestic terrorists, as well as anti-white racists. Yet, during the election cycle, we were told to look the other way, that such friendships didn't matter. That these decade-long associations weren't an issue. Well, obviously, such friendships should have given us major clues as to what Obama thinks of America and how he wants to change it. Too late now, Obama is President. To borrow a quote from an anti-American, racist friend of Obama's for twenty-plus years, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright: "The chickens have come home to roost."
As a conservative, I do wonder if Obama should be called a traitor or just incompetent. I'm sure that many of the ultra-lefties out there think what Obama is doing is just wonderful. I find that frightening.
100 days in office and look at how far our country has already fallen. Not for the better, in my view. Weaker national security, warm and fuzzy handshakes with our enemies, a trillion-dollar spending plan with no way to pay for it, and numerous assaults on our Constitution that the media conveniently refuses to point out or report on (such as the U.S. Census falling under the control of the White House for the first time in history, which is unprecedented).
In all of Obama's speeches, does he ever talk about what a great country America is? Does he ever speak with pride about all of America's accomplishments, and why so many people are trying to get into this country, whether legally or illegally? America presents a beacon of hope to many. We have freedoms (at least for a while) that few countries are able to enjoy. We have free will. We have choices and opportunities. It would serve Barack Obama well to remember all the good of America, rather than to continue to point out the bad. By focusing on the perceived ills, Obama seems to be legitimizing his attempts to tear down our country to rebuild it as the next France. Why? Why do we want to morph into another country? What is wrong with America?
Please, President Obama, tell us what you like about our country, other than the fact you got elected. As for being a traitor or just an incompetent leader, the jury is still out. Either way, as I've stated before, 2012 cannot get here fast enough.