Thursday, January 12, 2017
Who He Really Is.
Best description of Barack Obama ever
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler:
The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract, empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.
He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya . Only a small part of him is African Black from his Luo grandmother, which he pretends he is exclusively.
What he isn't, not a genetic drop of, is 'African-American,’ the descen dant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships. He hasn't a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were slave owners. Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for centuries until the British ended it.
Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.
Obamamania is beyond politics and reason. It is a true religious cult, whose adherents reject Christianity yet still believe in Original Sin, transferring it from the evil of being human to the evil of being white.
Thus Obama has become the white liberals' Christ, offering absolution from the Sin of Being White. There is no reason or logic behind it, no faults or flaws of his can diminish it, no arguments of any kind can be effective against it. The absurdity of Hypocrisy
Clothed In Human Flesh being their Savior is all the more cause for liberals to worship him: Credo quia absurdum, I believe it because it is absurd.
Thank heavens that the voting majority of Americans remain Christian and are in no desperate need of a phony savior.
He is ridiculous and should not be taken seriously by any thinking American.
And yet he got elected, not once but twice. Thanks to those that did not think it was important to vote for freedom and those that were willing to give up their freedoms for entitlements.
Remember you don't have to be on a southern plantation to be a slave, if you are dependent on government entitlements you just have a different slave owner.
Why And How America Will Be Great Again
Well, I didn't realize it until now, Obama is my HERO.
One 82-year-old lady loves Obama and she may have a very
good point. She says that Obama is amazing, and is rebuilding the
Americandream
She gives us an entirely new slant on the
"amazing" job Obama is doing, and she says that she will thank God for the President.
Keep reading for her additional comments and an explanation. When
discussing Obama, she says:
1. Obama destroyed the Clinton Political Machine,driving a stake through the heart of Hillary's presidential aspirations -something no Republican was ever able to do.
2. Obama killed off the Kennedy Dynasty - no more Kennedys
trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home.
3. Obama is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!
Dennis Moore had never lost a race. Evan Bayh had never lost a race.
Byron Dorgan had never lost a race. Harry Reid - soon to be GONE!
These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers
Obama has destroyed.
By the end of 2016, dozens more will be gone. Just think, in December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In two election cycles, they had picked up 14 Senate seats and 52 House seats. The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party. However, in just one term, Obama put a stop to all of this and gave the House and the Senate - back to the Republicans.
4. Obama has completely exposed liberals and progressives for
what theyare.
Sadly, every generation seems to need to re-learn
the lesson on why they should never actually put liberals in charge. Obama is bringing home the lesson very well: Liberals tax, borrow and spend. Liberals won't bring themselves to protect America. Liberals want to take over the economy. Liberals think they know what is best for everyone. Liberals are not happy until they are running YOUR life.
5. Obama has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan. In one term, he has rejuvenated the Conservative Movement and brought out to the streets millions of freedom loving Americans. Name one other time when you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America!
6. Obama,with his "amazing leadership," has sparked the greatest period of sales of firearms and ammunition this country has seen. Law abiding citizens have rallied and have provided a"stimulus" to the sporting goods field while other industries have failed, faded, or moved off-shore.
7. In all honesty, 4 years ago I was more afraid than I have been in my life.
Not afraid of the economy, but afraid of the direction our country was going. I thought, Americans have forgotten what this country is all about. My neighbors and friends, even strangers, have proved to me that my lack of confidence in the greatness and wisdom of the American people has been flat wrong.
8. When the American people wake up, no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them! Barack Obama has served to wake up these great Americans! Again, I want to say: "Thank you, Barack Obama!" After all, this is exactly the kind of hope and change we desperately
needed!
9. He has saved Carter’s legacy and made Jimmy Carter happy, since Jimmy is no longer the worst president we've ever had. Credit goes to where credit is due. I feel better now !
THANK YOU OBAMA, The worst President in the history of this nation, we could not have done it without you.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Making America Great Again, some thoughts on why it will happen.
American Uprising - “Everything is about to change” (by Daniel Greenfield 11/9/2016)
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.
It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.
They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.
They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.
The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one by one. Ohio. Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.
They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.
They fought and they won.
This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.
Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover country. They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a Starbucks. They were the white working class. They didn’t talk right or think right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.
They were wrong about everything. Illegal immigration? Everyone knew it was here to stay. Black Lives Matter? The new civil rights movement. Manufacturing? As dead as the dodo. Banning Muslims? What kind of bigot even thinks that way? Love wins. Marriage loses. The future belongs to the urban metrosexual and his dot com, not the guy who used to have a good job before it went to China or Mexico.
They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote.
And they changed everything.
Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America. A billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was no longer your America. It was his.
He was JFK and FDR rolled into one. He told us that his version of history was right and inevitable.
And they voted and left him in the dust. They walked past him and they didn’t listen. He had come to campaign to where they still cling to their guns and their bibles. He came to plead for his legacy.
And America said, “No.”
Fifty millions Americans repudiated him. They repudiated the Obamas and the Clintons. They ignored the celebrities. They paid no attention to the media. They voted because they believed in the impossible. And their dedication made the impossible happen.
Americans were told that walls couldn’t be built and factories couldn’t be opened. That treaties couldn’t be unsigned and wars couldn’t be won. It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into gangland territories.
It was all impossible. And fifty million Americans did the impossible. They turned the world upside down.
It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing. ABC is having a tantrum. NBC damns it. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.
Instead the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies. They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They mailed in their absentee ballots even while Hillary Clinton was planning her fireworks victory celebration. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet on America. And they won.
They won improbably. And they won amazingly.
They were tired of Obama-Care. They were tired of unemployment. They were tired of being lied to. They were tired of watching their sons come back in coffins to protect some Muslim country. They were tired of being called racists and homophobes. They were tired of seeing their America disappear.
And they stood up and fought back. This was their last hope. Their last chance to be heard.
The media had the election wrong all along. This wasn’t about personalities. It was about the impersonal. It was about fifty million people whose names no one except a server will ever know fighting back. It was about the homeless woman guarding Trump’s star. It was about the lost Democrats searching for someone to represent them in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was about the union men who nodded along when the organizers told them how to vote, but who refused to sell out their futures.
No one will ever interview all those men and women. We will never see all their faces. But they are us and we are them. They came to the aid of a nation in peril. They did what real Americans have always done. They did the impossible.
America is a nation of impossibilities. We exist because our forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants. Not from the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done.
The day when we stop being able to pull off the impossible is the day that America will cease to exist.
Today is not that day. Today the Silent Majority Americans did the impossible.
Midnight has passed. A new day has come. And everything is changing.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.
It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.
They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.
They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.
The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one by one. Ohio. Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.
They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.
They fought and they won.
This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.
Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover country. They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a Starbucks. They were the white working class. They didn’t talk right or think right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.
They were wrong about everything. Illegal immigration? Everyone knew it was here to stay. Black Lives Matter? The new civil rights movement. Manufacturing? As dead as the dodo. Banning Muslims? What kind of bigot even thinks that way? Love wins. Marriage loses. The future belongs to the urban metrosexual and his dot com, not the guy who used to have a good job before it went to China or Mexico.
They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote.
And they changed everything.
Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America. A billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was no longer your America. It was his.
He was JFK and FDR rolled into one. He told us that his version of history was right and inevitable.
And they voted and left him in the dust. They walked past him and they didn’t listen. He had come to campaign to where they still cling to their guns and their bibles. He came to plead for his legacy.
And America said, “No.”
Fifty millions Americans repudiated him. They repudiated the Obamas and the Clintons. They ignored the celebrities. They paid no attention to the media. They voted because they believed in the impossible. And their dedication made the impossible happen.
Americans were told that walls couldn’t be built and factories couldn’t be opened. That treaties couldn’t be unsigned and wars couldn’t be won. It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into gangland territories.
It was all impossible. And fifty million Americans did the impossible. They turned the world upside down.
It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing. ABC is having a tantrum. NBC damns it. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.
Instead the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies. They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They mailed in their absentee ballots even while Hillary Clinton was planning her fireworks victory celebration. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet on America. And they won.
They won improbably. And they won amazingly.
They were tired of Obama-Care. They were tired of unemployment. They were tired of being lied to. They were tired of watching their sons come back in coffins to protect some Muslim country. They were tired of being called racists and homophobes. They were tired of seeing their America disappear.
And they stood up and fought back. This was their last hope. Their last chance to be heard.
The media had the election wrong all along. This wasn’t about personalities. It was about the impersonal. It was about fifty million people whose names no one except a server will ever know fighting back. It was about the homeless woman guarding Trump’s star. It was about the lost Democrats searching for someone to represent them in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was about the union men who nodded along when the organizers told them how to vote, but who refused to sell out their futures.
No one will ever interview all those men and women. We will never see all their faces. But they are us and we are them. They came to the aid of a nation in peril. They did what real Americans have always done. They did the impossible.
America is a nation of impossibilities. We exist because our forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants. Not from the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done.
The day when we stop being able to pull off the impossible is the day that America will cease to exist.
Today is not that day. Today the Silent Majority Americans did the impossible.
Midnight has passed. A new day has come. And everything is changing.
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Can't go fast enough?
The Obama Era is Over
by DANIEL GREENFIELD , ISRAEL NEWS November 10, 2016
Obama and his supporters loved talking about history. His victory was historic. They were on the right side of history. History was an inevitable arc that bent their way.
The tidal force of demographics had made the old America irrelevant. Any progressive policy agenda was now possible because we were no longer America . We Were Obamerica. A hip, happening place full of smiling gay couples, Muslim women in hijabs and transgender actors. We were all going to live in a New York City coffee house, work at Green Jobs and live in the post-national future.
The past was gone. We were falling into the gorgeous wonderful future of dot com instant deliveries and outsourced everything. We would become more tolerant and guilty. The future was Amazon and Disney. It was hot and cold running social justice. The Bill of Rights was done. Ending the First and Second Amendments was just a clever campaign away. Narratives on news sites drove everything.
Presidents were elected by Saturday Night Live skits.
John Oliver, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee were our journalists. Safe spaces were everywhere and you better watch your micro-aggressions, buddy. No more coal would be mined. No more anything would be made.
The end of men was here. The end of the dead white men of the literary canon. The end of white people. The end of binary gender and marriage. The end of reason. The end of art. The end of 2 + 2 equaling 4. This was Common Core time. It was time to pardon an endless line of drug dealers. To kill cops and praise criminals. To be forced to buy worthless health insurance for wealth redistribution to those who voted their way to wealth.
This was Obama's America . And there was no going back. We were rushing through endless goal posts of social transformation. The military fell. Then the police. Now it looks as quaint as anything from the 50s, the 70s or the 80s. A brief moment of foolishness that already appears odd and awkward. And then one day nostalgic. It wasn't the future. It's already the past. It's history.
Scalia died. Hillary Clinton was bound to win. And she would define the Supreme Court. Down-ticket races would give her a friendly Senate. And then perhaps even the House.
But there is no right side of history. There is only the side we choose. The Obama era was permanent. It was history.
Now it is history.
It‘s shocking ascendancy has been paired with an equally shocking descent. The Obama era is done. It's gone. It's over. It was wiped from the pages of history in one night that left Congress and the White House in Republican hands.
It would have been bad enough if Jeb Bush had succeeded Obama. That would have been inconvenient, but not a repudiation. Instead Obama's legacy was dashed to pieces. His frantic efforts to campaign for Hillary did no good. The public did not vocally reject him. What they did was even worse. They brushed past him. They sidelined him. They gave him passable approval ratings while dismissing his biggest accomplishments. They forgot him. They made it clear that he did not matter.
And that is in its own way far more brutal and wounding. They didn't just destroy the Obama era. Instead they dismissed it as if it never existed.
Obama didn't make history after all. He wasn't a teleprompter demi-god standing athwart of history. He was Carter and Ford. He was there to be forgotten. He didn't change the world. He wasn't the messiah. He was merely mortal. Just another politician who will sag and age. Who will, in the end, be photographed like Bill Clinton, lonely and lost in a world that has passed him by.
The Obama era ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. With a national consensus that maybe he didn't really matter so much after all. And those to whom he mattered the most were his enemies determined to undo everything he did.
Obama once thought that he belonged to the ages. Now he belongs in the rubbish bin.
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Obama's "Smooth Transition Lies" Read'um and Weep
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Exposed! Obama’s last INSULT to America
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President Barack Obama has said all of the politically correct things to the mainstream media, promising a smooth transition for President-elect Donald Trump’s team. But building tension in Washington proves Obama is doing everything in his power to sabotage Trump’s presidency — and the future of America.
Calling a peaceful transition “one of the hallmarks of our democracy,” and vowing to “show that to the world” in January, Obama proved once again to have no problem lying to the face of the American people.
It has critics in an uproar. In a letter to President-elect Mike Pence, multiple conservative groups addressed concerns that, before the end of his term, Obama will work to pass midnight litigation targeting American businesses.
The letter, signed by nearly 30 conservative groups, says, “It has come to our attention that a number of Departments and independent agencies are working furiously behind closed doors to bring significant, legally tenuous litigation against American business interests before January 20, 2017.”
It wouldn’t be the only way Obama is burdening Trump’s administration with legal fights. In just about every move since the president-elect’s victory, Obama has proven he wants anything but a smooth transition.
Directly following Trump’s election, liberals took to the streets across the country to protest his victory. Many of these protests erupted into violent riots which Obama failed to condemn. Instead, he encouraged protesters, saying, “I would not advise them to be silent.”
And that was just the beginning of his attempts to sabotage Trump’s success.
Trump has been clear about his hopes to vet potential terrorists, increase America’s oil production, remain loyal with our Israeli allies, and lower tensions with Russia.
In the last month, Obama has done everything possible to make those goals as difficult as possible.
On December 22nd, The Department of Homeland Security revoked the rules for the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, which was created by the Bush administration following 9/11 and required male foreigners from Muslim-majority nations, 16 years and older, to register with U.S. immigration authorities.
The system could’ve potentially served as a framework for Trump to vet immigrants from countries involved in terrorism and saved taxpayer money. Instead, it’s completely destroyed, an action that will force the incoming administration to spend time and money to create a system from scratch when there was already a working structure intact.
Trump has made other indications of improving our national security, which have been similarly sabotaged by his predecessor.
While campaigning, Trump promised complete energy independence from foreign nations. The Obama administration took Trump’s appointment of fossil fuel proponents to his Cabinet as a threat to his legacy, and banned offshore drilling to ensure the president-elect cannot fulfill his goal of U.S. energy independence.
On December 20th, Obama used his executive authority to ban the creation of “new offshore drilling in federally owned waters off the Atlantic coast and in the Arctic Ocean” according to The Washington Times.
The American Petroleum Institute official Erik Milito criticized the action, saying, “blocking offshore exploration weakens our national security, destroys good-paying jobs and could make energy less affordable for consumers.”
It doesn’t stop there, of course.
Who could forget the Obama administration’s shocking refusal to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel? Trump criticized the move on Twitter, “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect.”
Obama is making conscious decisions to stall Trump’s success once he takes office.
He is even still desperately blaming the Russians for Trump’s victory.
On December 29th, Obama ratcheted up tensions by imposing harsh sanctions on Russia as a retaliation for allegedly hacking the American presidential election — a claim disputed by Trump.
Four Russian officials and five entities were added to sanctions lists, while 35 Russian diplomats were suddenly kicked out of the country and two Russian compounds were shuttered.
Remember, these intense sanctions are without intense evidence. In fact, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was responsible for leaking the hacked information during the election, provided contrary evidence to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, saying, “we have said, repeatedly over the last two months that our source is not the Russian government and is not a state party.”
It’s clear Obama is abusing his last few days of power to stop Trump from successfully and efficiently accomplishing the goals he promised to fulfill for the American people.
Exposed! Obama’s last INSULT to America
JANUARY 4, 2017 121 Comments
President Barack Obama has said all of the politically correct things to the mainstream media, promising a smooth transition for President-elect Donald Trump’s team. But building tension in Washington proves Obama is doing everything in his power to sabotage Trump’s presidency — and the future of America.
Calling a peaceful transition “one of the hallmarks of our democracy,” and vowing to “show that to the world” in January, Obama proved once again to have no problem lying to the face of the American people.
It has critics in an uproar. In a letter to President-elect Mike Pence, multiple conservative groups addressed concerns that, before the end of his term, Obama will work to pass midnight litigation targeting American businesses.
The letter, signed by nearly 30 conservative groups, says, “It has come to our attention that a number of Departments and independent agencies are working furiously behind closed doors to bring significant, legally tenuous litigation against American business interests before January 20, 2017.”
It wouldn’t be the only way Obama is burdening Trump’s administration with legal fights. In just about every move since the president-elect’s victory, Obama has proven he wants anything but a smooth transition.
Directly following Trump’s election, liberals took to the streets across the country to protest his victory. Many of these protests erupted into violent riots which Obama failed to condemn. Instead, he encouraged protesters, saying, “I would not advise them to be silent.”
And that was just the beginning of his attempts to sabotage Trump’s success.
Trump has been clear about his hopes to vet potential terrorists, increase America’s oil production, remain loyal with our Israeli allies, and lower tensions with Russia.
In the last month, Obama has done everything possible to make those goals as difficult as possible.
On December 22nd, The Department of Homeland Security revoked the rules for the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, which was created by the Bush administration following 9/11 and required male foreigners from Muslim-majority nations, 16 years and older, to register with U.S. immigration authorities.
The system could’ve potentially served as a framework for Trump to vet immigrants from countries involved in terrorism and saved taxpayer money. Instead, it’s completely destroyed, an action that will force the incoming administration to spend time and money to create a system from scratch when there was already a working structure intact.
Trump has made other indications of improving our national security, which have been similarly sabotaged by his predecessor.
While campaigning, Trump promised complete energy independence from foreign nations. The Obama administration took Trump’s appointment of fossil fuel proponents to his Cabinet as a threat to his legacy, and banned offshore drilling to ensure the president-elect cannot fulfill his goal of U.S. energy independence.
On December 20th, Obama used his executive authority to ban the creation of “new offshore drilling in federally owned waters off the Atlantic coast and in the Arctic Ocean” according to The Washington Times.
The American Petroleum Institute official Erik Milito criticized the action, saying, “blocking offshore exploration weakens our national security, destroys good-paying jobs and could make energy less affordable for consumers.”
It doesn’t stop there, of course.
Who could forget the Obama administration’s shocking refusal to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel? Trump criticized the move on Twitter, “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect.”
Obama is making conscious decisions to stall Trump’s success once he takes office.
He is even still desperately blaming the Russians for Trump’s victory.
On December 29th, Obama ratcheted up tensions by imposing harsh sanctions on Russia as a retaliation for allegedly hacking the American presidential election — a claim disputed by Trump.
Four Russian officials and five entities were added to sanctions lists, while 35 Russian diplomats were suddenly kicked out of the country and two Russian compounds were shuttered.
Remember, these intense sanctions are without intense evidence. In fact, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was responsible for leaking the hacked information during the election, provided contrary evidence to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, saying, “we have said, repeatedly over the last two months that our source is not the Russian government and is not a state party.”
It’s clear Obama is abusing his last few days of power to stop Trump from successfully and efficiently accomplishing the goals he promised to fulfill for the American people.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
What Obama's Legacy Looks Like
As President Obama makes preparations to exit The White House, he leaves in his wake a legacy of debt, a broken healthcare system, and a regulatory burden that has crippled American business.
Despite the obvious mess he's made as president, he continues to defend his actions. However, the numbers don't lie.
Here's Obama's legacy of failure, by the numbers (h/t RNC):
$19.9 Trillion: The Staggering Mountain Of Debt Obama Will Leave Behind On January 20, 2017. (“Daily History Of The Debt,” U.S. Department Of Treasury, Accessed 12/23/16)
$9.2 Trillion: The Increase In The National Debt Since Obama Took Office. (“Daily History Of The Debt,” U.S. Department Of Treasury, Accessed 12/23/16)
$1 Trillion: Tax Increases In ObamaCare Over A Decade. (“ObamaCare: Trillion Dollar Tax Hike That Hurts Small Businesses,” U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Ways And Means, 3/31/16)
$870.3 Billion: Estimated Economic Cost Of All The New Federal Government Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)
$750 Billion: The U.S.’s Global Trade Deficit Last Year Under Obama. (U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 12/27/16)
$690 Billion: Increase In Student Debt Since Obama Took Office. (“Student Loans Owned And Securitized, Outstanding,” Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis, Accessed 12/27/16)
$377 Billion: ObamaCare’s Tax Hikes That Effect The Middle Class. (Glenn Kessler, “Does ‘Obamacare’ Have $1 Trillion In Tax Hikes, Aimed At The Middle Class,” The Washington Post, 3/12/13)
$344 Billion: Estimated Economic Cost Of All The New EPA Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)
$292 Billion: Projected Cost Of Obama’s Finalized Clean Power Plan Regulations. (H. Sterling Burnett, “Economic Analysis of Clean Power Plan Shows High Cost, Minimal Benefits,” The Heartland Institute, 12/2/15)
$99 Billion: The Growth In The U.S.’s Annual Trade Deficit With China Since Obama Took Office. (“Trade In Goods With China,” U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 12/27/16)
$29 Billion: Projected Annual Loss Of Coal Production Due To The Interior Department’s New Stream Protection Rule. (“Economic Analysis Of Proposed Stream Protection Rule,” Ramboll Environ, 10/15)
$9.6 Billion: Projected Annual Loss Due To The EPA’s 2012 Mercury Rule. (“Hearing Entitled ‘A Review Of EPA’s Regulatory Activity During The Obama Administration: Energy And Industrial Sectors,” U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Energy And Commerce, 6/30/16)
$1.4 Billion: Projected Annual Loss Due To The EPA’s 2015 Ozone Rule. (“Final Ozone Rule,” American Action Forum, 10/2/15)
583 Million: Hours Of Paperwork To Deal With All The New Federal Government Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)
$500 Million: Projected Annual Loss Due To The EPA’s 2015 Coal Ash Rule. (“Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System; Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities,” Federal Register, 4/17/15, pg. 21462)
$462.9 Million: Projected Annual Loss Due To The Administration’s 2015 “Water Of The United States” Rule. (“Final WOTUS Rule,” American Action Forum, 5/28/16)
$400 Million: What Obama Paid Iran As Part Of Its Hostage Deal To Release Prisoners Held By The State Sponsor Of Terror. (Elise Labott, Nicole Gaouette and Kevin Liptak, “US Sent Plane With $400 Million In Cash To Iran,” CNN, 8/4/16)
$320 Million: Projected Annual Loss Due To The EPA’s 2016 Methane Emissions Rule. (“Hearing Entitled ‘A Review Of EPA’s Regulatory Activity During The Obama Administration: Energy And Industrial Sectors,” U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Energy And Commerce, 6/30/16)
2.3 Million: The Number Of Americans That Could Have Just One Insurer To Choose From Next Year Due To ObamaCare. (Cynthia Cox And Ashley Semanskee, Preliminary Date on Insurer Exits And Entrants In 2017 Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, Kaiser Family Foundation, 8/28/16)
2 Million: Projected Job Losses Under The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal That Obama Negotiated And Lobbied For. (Robert E. Scott and Elizabeth Glass, “Trans-Pacific Partnership, Currency Manipulation, Trade, And Jobs,” Economic Policy Institute, 3/3/16)
301,000: Manufacturing Jobs Lost Since Obama Took Office. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 12/2/16)
280,000: Projected Job Loss Due To The Interior Department’s New Stream Protection Rule. (“Economic Analysis Of Proposed Stream Protection Rule,” Ramboll Environ, 10/15)
82,288: Number Of Criminals Illegal Immigrants Released By The Obama Administration From 2013 To 2015. (Maria Sacchetti, “Criminal Immigrants Reoffend At High Rates Than ICE Has Suggested,” The Boston Globe, 6/4/16)
$8,390: The Increase In The Average Cost Of Tuition, Fees, And Room And Board At A Four Year Public College Since Obama Took Office. (“Trends In College Pricing 2016,” The College Board, 10/26/16)
5,000: Reduction In The Number Of Illegal Immigrants Deported This Year Under Obama. (Rafael Bernal, “Deportations Under Obama Could Hit 10-Year Low,” The Hill, 8/31/16)
$4,370: The Increase In The Average Cost Of Tuition, Fees, And Room And Board At A Four Year Public College Since Obama Took Office. (“Trends In College Pricing 2016,” The College Board, 10/26/16)
2,998: The Number Of New Federal Government Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)
970: The Number Of Counties That Could See No Competition In Healthcare Insurers In 2017 Due To ObamaCare. (Cynthia Cox And Ashley Semanskee, Preliminary Date on Insurer Exits And Entrants In 2017 Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, Kaiser Family Foundation, 8/28/16)
717: Less Democrat State House Representatives Since Obama Took Office. (“2009 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 1/26/09; “2016 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 12/6/16)
231: Less Democrat State Senators Since Obama Took Office. (“2009 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 1/26/09; “2016 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 12/6/16)
183: The Number Of New EPA Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)
98%: Increase In Student Debt Since Obama Took Office. (“Student Loans Owned And Securitized, Outstanding,” Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis, Accessed 12/27/16)
87%: The Increase In The National Debt Since Obama Took Office. (“Daily History Of The Debt,” U.S. Department Of Treasury, Accessed 12/23/16)
63: Less Democrats In The House Of Representatives Since Obama Took Office. (Jennifer E. Manning, “Membership Of The 111th Congress: A Profile,” Congressional Research Service, 12/23/09; “House Election Results,” The New York Times, 12/19/16)
41: States That Saw Deductibles Increases In 2016 Under ObamaCare. (Nathan Nascimento, “The Latest Problem Under The Affordable Care Act: Deductibles,” The National Review, 04/12/16)
28%: The Increase In The Average Cost Of Tuition, Fees, And Room And Board At A Four Year Public College Since Obama Took Office. (“Trends In College Pricing 2016,” The College Board, 10/26/16)
23%: The Increase In The Average Cost Of Tuition, Fees, And Room And Board At A Four Year Private College Since Obama Took Office. (“Trends In College Pricing 2016,” The College Board, 10/26/16)
22%: Average Increase In ObamaCare Premium’s Benchmark Silver Plan In 2017. (Tami Luhby, “ObamaCare Premiums To Soar 22%,” CNN, 10/25/16)
21: The Number Of Tax Increases In ObamaCare That Total More Than $1 Trillion Over A Decade. (“ObamaCare: Trillion Dollar Tax Hike That Hurts Small Businesses,” U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Ways And Means, 3/31/16)
18: Less Democrat-Controlled State Legislative Bodies Since Obama Took Office. (“2009 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 1/26/09; “2016 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 12/6/16)
12: Less Democrat Governors Since Obama Took Office. (“2009 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 1/26/09; Jennifer Duffy, “Governors: 2017/2018 Race Ratings,” The Cook Political Report, 12/2/16)
12: Less Democrats In The U.S. Senate Since Obama Took Office. (Jennifer E. Manning, “Membership Of The 111th Congress: A Profile,” Congressional Research Service, 12/23/09; “House Election Results,” The New York Times, 12/19/16)
11-14%: Projected Rise In Electricity Rates For Most Consumers As A Results Of Obama’s Finalized Clean Power Plan Regulations. (H. Sterling Burnett, “Economic Analysis of Clean Power Plan Shows High Cost, Minimal Benefits,” The Heartland Institute, 12/2/15)
5%: The Reduction Of The Percentage Of Americans Who Self Identify As Middle-Class Since Obama Took Office. (Frank Newport, “Americans’ Identification As Middle Class Edges Back Up,” Gallup, 12/15/16)
4%: Drop In The Rate Of Homeownership Since Obama Took Office. (“State Of Working America Data Library,” Economic Policy Institute, Accessed 12/27/16)
2%: The “Anemic” Average Annual GDP Growth Since Obama Took Office. (Larry Light, “Obama’s 8-Year Economic Legacy: A Mixed Bag,” CBS, 12/23/16)
$0.19: Decrease In The Median U.S. Hourly Wage Since Obama Took Office. (“State Of Working America Data Library,” Economic Policy Institute, Accessed 12/27/16)
0: Excuses Obama Has For Why His Party’s Nominee, Who Ran On His Legacy, Failed To Win In November. (The American People, 11/8/16)
Despite the obvious mess he's made as president, he continues to defend his actions. However, the numbers don't lie.
Here's Obama's legacy of failure, by the numbers (h/t RNC):
$19.9 Trillion: The Staggering Mountain Of Debt Obama Will Leave Behind On January 20, 2017. (“Daily History Of The Debt,” U.S. Department Of Treasury, Accessed 12/23/16)
$9.2 Trillion: The Increase In The National Debt Since Obama Took Office. (“Daily History Of The Debt,” U.S. Department Of Treasury, Accessed 12/23/16)
$1 Trillion: Tax Increases In ObamaCare Over A Decade. (“ObamaCare: Trillion Dollar Tax Hike That Hurts Small Businesses,” U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Ways And Means, 3/31/16)
$870.3 Billion: Estimated Economic Cost Of All The New Federal Government Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)
$750 Billion: The U.S.’s Global Trade Deficit Last Year Under Obama. (U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 12/27/16)
$690 Billion: Increase In Student Debt Since Obama Took Office. (“Student Loans Owned And Securitized, Outstanding,” Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis, Accessed 12/27/16)
$377 Billion: ObamaCare’s Tax Hikes That Effect The Middle Class. (Glenn Kessler, “Does ‘Obamacare’ Have $1 Trillion In Tax Hikes, Aimed At The Middle Class,” The Washington Post, 3/12/13)
$344 Billion: Estimated Economic Cost Of All The New EPA Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)
$292 Billion: Projected Cost Of Obama’s Finalized Clean Power Plan Regulations. (H. Sterling Burnett, “Economic Analysis of Clean Power Plan Shows High Cost, Minimal Benefits,” The Heartland Institute, 12/2/15)
$99 Billion: The Growth In The U.S.’s Annual Trade Deficit With China Since Obama Took Office. (“Trade In Goods With China,” U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 12/27/16)
$29 Billion: Projected Annual Loss Of Coal Production Due To The Interior Department’s New Stream Protection Rule. (“Economic Analysis Of Proposed Stream Protection Rule,” Ramboll Environ, 10/15)
$9.6 Billion: Projected Annual Loss Due To The EPA’s 2012 Mercury Rule. (“Hearing Entitled ‘A Review Of EPA’s Regulatory Activity During The Obama Administration: Energy And Industrial Sectors,” U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Energy And Commerce, 6/30/16)
$1.4 Billion: Projected Annual Loss Due To The EPA’s 2015 Ozone Rule. (“Final Ozone Rule,” American Action Forum, 10/2/15)
583 Million: Hours Of Paperwork To Deal With All The New Federal Government Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)
$500 Million: Projected Annual Loss Due To The EPA’s 2015 Coal Ash Rule. (“Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System; Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities,” Federal Register, 4/17/15, pg. 21462)
$462.9 Million: Projected Annual Loss Due To The Administration’s 2015 “Water Of The United States” Rule. (“Final WOTUS Rule,” American Action Forum, 5/28/16)
$400 Million: What Obama Paid Iran As Part Of Its Hostage Deal To Release Prisoners Held By The State Sponsor Of Terror. (Elise Labott, Nicole Gaouette and Kevin Liptak, “US Sent Plane With $400 Million In Cash To Iran,” CNN, 8/4/16)
$320 Million: Projected Annual Loss Due To The EPA’s 2016 Methane Emissions Rule. (“Hearing Entitled ‘A Review Of EPA’s Regulatory Activity During The Obama Administration: Energy And Industrial Sectors,” U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Energy And Commerce, 6/30/16)
2.3 Million: The Number Of Americans That Could Have Just One Insurer To Choose From Next Year Due To ObamaCare. (Cynthia Cox And Ashley Semanskee, Preliminary Date on Insurer Exits And Entrants In 2017 Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, Kaiser Family Foundation, 8/28/16)
2 Million: Projected Job Losses Under The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal That Obama Negotiated And Lobbied For. (Robert E. Scott and Elizabeth Glass, “Trans-Pacific Partnership, Currency Manipulation, Trade, And Jobs,” Economic Policy Institute, 3/3/16)
301,000: Manufacturing Jobs Lost Since Obama Took Office. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 12/2/16)
280,000: Projected Job Loss Due To The Interior Department’s New Stream Protection Rule. (“Economic Analysis Of Proposed Stream Protection Rule,” Ramboll Environ, 10/15)
82,288: Number Of Criminals Illegal Immigrants Released By The Obama Administration From 2013 To 2015. (Maria Sacchetti, “Criminal Immigrants Reoffend At High Rates Than ICE Has Suggested,” The Boston Globe, 6/4/16)
$8,390: The Increase In The Average Cost Of Tuition, Fees, And Room And Board At A Four Year Public College Since Obama Took Office. (“Trends In College Pricing 2016,” The College Board, 10/26/16)
5,000: Reduction In The Number Of Illegal Immigrants Deported This Year Under Obama. (Rafael Bernal, “Deportations Under Obama Could Hit 10-Year Low,” The Hill, 8/31/16)
$4,370: The Increase In The Average Cost Of Tuition, Fees, And Room And Board At A Four Year Public College Since Obama Took Office. (“Trends In College Pricing 2016,” The College Board, 10/26/16)
2,998: The Number Of New Federal Government Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)
970: The Number Of Counties That Could See No Competition In Healthcare Insurers In 2017 Due To ObamaCare. (Cynthia Cox And Ashley Semanskee, Preliminary Date on Insurer Exits And Entrants In 2017 Affordable Care Act Marketplaces, Kaiser Family Foundation, 8/28/16)
717: Less Democrat State House Representatives Since Obama Took Office. (“2009 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 1/26/09; “2016 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 12/6/16)
231: Less Democrat State Senators Since Obama Took Office. (“2009 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 1/26/09; “2016 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 12/6/16)
183: The Number Of New EPA Regulations Finalized Since Obama Took Office. (“Regulation Rodeo,” American Action Forum, Accessed 12/27/16)
98%: Increase In Student Debt Since Obama Took Office. (“Student Loans Owned And Securitized, Outstanding,” Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis, Accessed 12/27/16)
87%: The Increase In The National Debt Since Obama Took Office. (“Daily History Of The Debt,” U.S. Department Of Treasury, Accessed 12/23/16)
63: Less Democrats In The House Of Representatives Since Obama Took Office. (Jennifer E. Manning, “Membership Of The 111th Congress: A Profile,” Congressional Research Service, 12/23/09; “House Election Results,” The New York Times, 12/19/16)
41: States That Saw Deductibles Increases In 2016 Under ObamaCare. (Nathan Nascimento, “The Latest Problem Under The Affordable Care Act: Deductibles,” The National Review, 04/12/16)
28%: The Increase In The Average Cost Of Tuition, Fees, And Room And Board At A Four Year Public College Since Obama Took Office. (“Trends In College Pricing 2016,” The College Board, 10/26/16)
23%: The Increase In The Average Cost Of Tuition, Fees, And Room And Board At A Four Year Private College Since Obama Took Office. (“Trends In College Pricing 2016,” The College Board, 10/26/16)
22%: Average Increase In ObamaCare Premium’s Benchmark Silver Plan In 2017. (Tami Luhby, “ObamaCare Premiums To Soar 22%,” CNN, 10/25/16)
21: The Number Of Tax Increases In ObamaCare That Total More Than $1 Trillion Over A Decade. (“ObamaCare: Trillion Dollar Tax Hike That Hurts Small Businesses,” U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Ways And Means, 3/31/16)
18: Less Democrat-Controlled State Legislative Bodies Since Obama Took Office. (“2009 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 1/26/09; “2016 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 12/6/16)
12: Less Democrat Governors Since Obama Took Office. (“2009 State And Legislative Partisan Composition,” National Conference Of State Legislatures, 1/26/09; Jennifer Duffy, “Governors: 2017/2018 Race Ratings,” The Cook Political Report, 12/2/16)
12: Less Democrats In The U.S. Senate Since Obama Took Office. (Jennifer E. Manning, “Membership Of The 111th Congress: A Profile,” Congressional Research Service, 12/23/09; “House Election Results,” The New York Times, 12/19/16)
11-14%: Projected Rise In Electricity Rates For Most Consumers As A Results Of Obama’s Finalized Clean Power Plan Regulations. (H. Sterling Burnett, “Economic Analysis of Clean Power Plan Shows High Cost, Minimal Benefits,” The Heartland Institute, 12/2/15)
5%: The Reduction Of The Percentage Of Americans Who Self Identify As Middle-Class Since Obama Took Office. (Frank Newport, “Americans’ Identification As Middle Class Edges Back Up,” Gallup, 12/15/16)
4%: Drop In The Rate Of Homeownership Since Obama Took Office. (“State Of Working America Data Library,” Economic Policy Institute, Accessed 12/27/16)
2%: The “Anemic” Average Annual GDP Growth Since Obama Took Office. (Larry Light, “Obama’s 8-Year Economic Legacy: A Mixed Bag,” CBS, 12/23/16)
$0.19: Decrease In The Median U.S. Hourly Wage Since Obama Took Office. (“State Of Working America Data Library,” Economic Policy Institute, Accessed 12/27/16)
0: Excuses Obama Has For Why His Party’s Nominee, Who Ran On His Legacy, Failed To Win In November. (The American People, 11/8/16)
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