Reaction to Obama's re-election
Re-elected Obama Pushes Anti-2nd Amendment Gun Grab. Within hours of re-election, the administration fast-tracked a treaty in the United Nations that transcends borders and tramples our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. It was no coincidence.
What can we expect for America's economy in a second Obama term?. Obama's desire to increase taxes and regulations will drive investment out of the US to other countries.
America pronounces judgment on itself. For many of us, the unthinkable has happened. America has decisively turned the corner away from the constitutional principles of limited government and self-government with the re-election of Barack Obama. There may be no way home for us. For those of us who fundamentally reject Obama's policies, things are going to get very rough for the next four years.
The day America opted for Third World governance. Some eerie coincidences are noted: Barack Obama and Woodrow Wilson are the only two American presidents in history to receive fewer electoral votes for their second terms than for their first. Buyers' remorse in both cases, but not enough. More importantly, both Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama were/are deficient in foreign policy acumen: Mr. Wilson dragged us into a European conflagration to "make the world safe for democracy." We're still waiting. That war set the world on a course of rolling international disasters that continue to this day.
Prepare for the worst. During his first term, Obama enacted, or made overtures toward enacting, everything I anticipated he would. I expect that the economy will continue to deteriorate, as will our standing in the international community. Islamists here and abroad will become bolder, and efforts to stultify this domestically will be met with accusations of racism and intolerance, and occasionally, resistance and prosecution under civil-rights statutes. Our liberties under the First and Second Amendments in particular will be directly and vigorously attacked under this administration. Illegal immigration will soar, and violence along the southern border will continue to escalate.
Four more years to crush personal freedoms. Only in America can a president who inherits a deep recession and whose policies have actually made the effects of that recession worse get re-elected. Only in America can a president get re-elected who wants the bureaucrats who can't run the Post Office to micromanage the administration of every American's health care. Only in America can a president who kills Americans overseas who have never been charged or convicted of a crime get re-elected. Only in America can a president who borrowed and spent more than $5 trillion in fewer than four years, plans to repay none of it, and promises to borrow another $5 trillion in his second term, get re-elected.
Morning in Amerika. Barack Obama didn't begin the process that changed us from a democratic republic to a democratic socialist country, but he will finish it, or at the very least, take us to the point of no return. He is a charismatic ideologue, a true believer in a Marxist collective society where the people are best served by a government that redistributes wealth in order to take care of the basic needs of the people, who become wards of the state.
The End of an Empire. After 236 years of existence, a new country emerges today, run by secular progressives who rejected our Constitution, what we stand for, and who we are as a nation. The Supreme Court will be forever altered after its last conservative members will be replaced by the liberal academics who call themselves "progressives." The rule of law will be implemented by Executive Orders, making Congress irrelevant.
America Commits Suicide. What is most baffling is why a majority of voters looked at the estimated 23 million of their fellow citizens who were out of work or had stopped looking for work, and whose lives along with their own were even further encumbered by the massive debt Obama had run up; currently $16 trillion and climbing, and thought that was okay?
Harsher energy regulations seen in Obama's second term. Energy producers braced for tighter regulation in President Barack Obama's second term, with coal companies expecting more emissions restrictions and drillers anticipating less access to federal land even as his platform promotes energy independence.
A Few Things I Never Want to Hear Again: [#2] "Mitt Romney was only the nominee because of a thin primary field." Phooey. He was the nominee because the entire GOP establishment threw everything it had at all the other candidates, in order to guarantee that it would get the candidate most likely to succumb to their advice and direction. As of September 2012, Romney was the only candidate left in the primary field whom no one had ever described as a conservative, let alone a constitutionalist. That, in short, is why he was the nominee.
Obama's Election Seals Our Fate. The United States and Europe have abandoned the fundamentals necessary for progress. Both are hopelessly committed to the failed ideas of Socialism. Both are headed for great catastrophe. The catastrophe extends beyond economic well-being and touches the foundations of society and civilization itself. We are headed into an economic dark age, where standards of living will continue to decline and may collapse. Societies and civilizations will also regress.
Turning a political decision into your spiritual mandate. Tuesday, for the second time in four years, the majority of Americans decided in favor of Obama despite the vocal and visible moral objections made by many Christians of all denominations. I have no doubt that many people who profess to be Christians cast their vote to reelect Barack Hussein Obama, somehow justifying their vote over any moral or ethical concerns residing in their spirit. How is this possible?
Keystone pipeline pushed to forefront. With a second term now in hand, President Obama no longer can delay a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline and must either side with environmentalists within his party or greenlight a major step toward North American energy independence.
Hello Obama second term; bye bye Western Civilization . On the evidence of Obama's four years in power so far, what exactly have [the Obamaphiles] seen that augurs so well for the next four years of the American presidency? Was it his resolute decision to sacrifice the lives of four brave men in Benghazi, perhaps? Or was it his truly heartwarming eagerness to reward his friends at Solyndra by handing them $500 million of taxpayers' money for a business that was essentially worthless? Or his inspired decision to hit the already struggling US economy with the bill for a whopping new, NHS-style disaster in the making called Obamacare?
Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption. What is left to hope for? That the American people will soon regret their choice? That another four years of economic stagnation and escalating debt will cure them of their insane appetite for charismatic liberals? If four years of endless failure have not rid them of this madness, the disease may well be terminal. [...] At the moment, I am convinced America is doomed beyond all hope of redemption, and any talk of the future fills me with dread and horror.
Obama didn't win on turnout alone. Our country has changed.
We're Not in 1980 Anymore. In 1980, Americans would not tolerate rising unemployment. In 2012, not only is high unemployment accepted as a fact of life but receiving food stamps is encouraged. There was also no concept of gay marriage in 1980. [...] Thirty-two years ago, being wealthy and successful was considered something to aspire to and be proud of. Today, it is a source of bitterness, envy, resentment and, in some quarters, the very epitome of evil.
Irrationally strong Democrat vote is not the GOP's fault. The menace of 40+ years of liberal education indoctrination, entitlement mentality, decline of faith-based values, and increased dependency has produced a populace that rewards epic economic failure in favor of Democratic Party-loyalty as religion.
The End Of America As We Knew It. Our four year nightmare is about to morph into a forty year fiscal swamp that will swallow everything in its path. [...] We now have a two term President who is hell bent on turning America into a second rate country, and it citizens into dependents who look to government for their every need from birth to death. We have a President who has decimated the three branch system by working around the Congress and Supreme Court with executive orders and agency directives. He has set aside many in his duly appointed cabinet in favor of hand-picked "Czars" that would never pass Senate confirmation.
Third-through-Twelfth Party Candidates give Florida to President Obama. An analysis of the numbers shows that Obama won Florida by a margin of 46,039 votes compared to his 2008 margin of victory of 204,577. What was different then from now? According to the voting results for Florida it was the third party candidates that gave the President the state and a second term. The ten Independent candidates drew a total of 70,949 votes.
Obama Victory Proves Money Can Buy an Election. In the 2012 election, one candidate took advantage of the loosening of campaign finance to rack up over a billion dollars in donations, spend nearly three times as much as his opponent on mostly negative ads, and break records for total amount of spending. His name was Barack Obama.
Life After America. It will be profoundly dreadful: confiscatory taxes; massive government growth; exploding deficit; widespread unlawfulness protected — nay, promoted — by the government; uncontrolled illegal immigration; open, unbridled racial preferences in every facet of life; hostility and grave threats — and perhaps dismantling — of various Free Speech sources, especially Talk Radio and Any Media unsupportive of Obama. Oba-Medicine, the absolute end of personal choice in medical care, including — Yes — Death Panels, for real; the gutting of our military; Obama's promised post-election "flexibility" (i.e. surrender) toward our blood enemies and other forms of Gangster Government by a Gangster President should be expected. Ultimately, America will be presided over by an un-American domestic enemy of the Constitution of the United States of America. Someone who isn't, has never been, American in any sense of the word.
The Reckoning — And What It Means. When Obama came into office in January 2009, he had three main, overarching goals: first, to expand government as fast and as widely as possible; the ultimate objective of that was to expand the number of people dependent of government as fast and as widely as possible; and the ultimate objective of that was to leverage it into a permanent Democrat voting majority. If you are getting a constant stream of freebies from a government promising to stick it to the other guy while providing you with cradle-to-grave "security," you are less likely to vote out the guy doling out the free stuff.
Coping. Eugene Debs once said that he would not want to be considered by his fellow socialists their leader, for if they trusted him "to lead them into the promised land, then someone else can lead them out." Last night this type of leader-worship won. Obama the Messiah, Hail Obama (as one boy joyously proclaimed at a rally), the political figure that Woody Allen believed should assume dictatorial powers won because of robotic leader worship. Obama already has delusions of Godhood, and he will not doubt regard this victory as a mandate from "his" people.
Environmental Activists Tell Obama, Climate Change First in Your Second Term. Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp, in congratulating President Obama on his re-election, said he expects the president and the 113th Congress to make "global climate change" a top priority: "We look forward to working with them to solve our country's most pressing environmental problems, including global climate change. As the President declared last night, 'We want our children to live in an America ... that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.'"
The Editor says...We already live in such a world. We are not threatened by the weather nearly as much as we are threatened by socialist tyranny.
The Tea Party Got It Right, Mitt Got It Wrong. The Republican comeback did not begin with innocuous candidates; it began with angry protesters in costumes and Gadsden flags marching outside ObamaCare town halls. The 2010 midterm election triumphs were not the work of a timorous establishment, but of a vigorous grassroots opposition. And once the Tea Party movement started the fire, the Republican establishment acted like the Tea Party had sabotaged their comeback and cut the ties with their own grassroots movement.
The night we waved goodbye to America. Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell — or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead. The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation.
The Death of Ordinary Decency. This has been a mean-spirited campaign, and the meanest, most destructive people won. [...] Every society has normal, decent people and the other kind. The America we grew up in was fundamentally decent. Decency was the expected standard. Now the balance has changed.
Victory of the Demagogue. [Scroll down] What is that Democratic base? It's quite simple, a cobbled, bare majority of "victims" comprised of blacks, browns and women. It didn't matter to them that their unemployment was at record highs and their communities and lives devastated the last four years. It didn't matter that the President deliberately killed the oil, gas and coal industries and hundreds of thousands of jobs, or supported the teachers' unions over the right of their children to get vouchers to go to quality schools of their choice, or supported the auto unions over the mom and pop shareholders who owned stock, or that he crushed the middle class.
Where We Go From Here: So where do we go from here? First, we must stop rationalizing and look truth in the eye. There are no national ballot-box solutions, and America's winter is nigh.
Catastrophe. The United States of America faces huge problems as a nation. [...] In the face of these problems, the American people chose to throw almost none of the bums who got us here out. The US House remained in Republican hands, the US Senate remained in Democrat hands, and the White House remained in the hands of Barack Obama.
Why Obama Won — and What Conservatives Must Do. [Scroll down] My own belief is that the president will argue that the nation has given him a mandate and endorsed the policies he sought to pursue, and that he will do all he can to move the United States to the "fundamental transformation" he said was his goal in the 2008 election campaign.
The Meaning of Yesterday's Defeat. [Scroll down] But there is a much more important proposition that, I think, was proved false last night: that America is a center-right country. This belief is one that we conservatives have cherished for a long time, but as of today, I think we have to admit that it is false. America is a deeply divided country with a center-left plurality.
Against Despair. I understand and appreciate the impulse to "come together" and put aside the partisanship. That's a good and necessary impulse in politics. But so is honesty. And I think the voters made a terrible mistake.
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