Obama has introduced a level of corruption to government more suggestive of where he spent his formative years Indonesia; or that other Third World place in which he cut his political teeth Chicago.
One characteristic of Third World nations is corruption woven into the system. When I was in India many years ago for instance I learned you had to offer bribes to get anything done even just to obtain a drivers license. It was pay to play.
There has been much focus on whether Barack Obama is a natural-born American but often lost in this debate is a very significant fact: whatever the president is in letter he is no American in spirit. His governing philosophy is not American; he is not patriotic. And to the point here he has introduced a level of corruption to government more suggestive of where he spent his formative years Indonesia; or that other Third World place in which he cut his political teeth Chicago.
Those outside the Mainstream Media Matrix hear the stories. There was Solyndra where half a billion taxpayer dollars went down a rat hole to Obama cronies; the rape of the GM bondholders; Fast and Furious in which our government gave weapons to south-of-the-border cartels which then used them to murder Americans and hundreds of Mexicans; the refusal to implement aspects of immigration law that the president doesnt like; the support of Wisconsin union brownshirts; and Benghazi-gate just to name a few. And in keeping with the presidents immigration shell game there is the overall flouting of the rule of law which the voters through gross electoral malpractice four years ago traded for the rule of a lawyer named Obama.
A most ominous aspect of this is the presidents power to grant ObamaCare waivers to whomever he pleases. Why does this matter? Well as Thomas Sowell explained just today:
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides for equal protection of the laws for all Americans. To have a law that can cost an organization millions of dollars a year either apply or not apply depending on the whim or political interest of the President of the United States is to make a mockery of the rule of law.
How secure is any freedom when there is this kind of arbitrary power in the hands of one man?
What does your right of freedom of speech mean if saying something that irritates the Obama administration means that you or your business has to pay huge amounts of money and get hit with all sorts of red tape under ObamaCare that your competitor is exempted from because your competitor either kept quiet or praised the Obama administration or donated to its reelection campaign?
This is Third World governance. Its reminiscent of what happens in places such as Argentina where businesses that toe the ruling-party line get rewarded while those that dont get punished and perhaps even nationalized.
It is also how you consolidate power. After all corporate backing is invaluable for political candidates. But how many businesses will support the opposition if they know it means the hobbling and maybe even destruction of their business? This government control over business also is we should note a distinguishing feature of fascism as espoused by Benito Mussolini and its other founding fathers.
This brings us to whats at stake this election. If we want more evil behavior all we need do is reward it through toleration. And there is such a thing as the point of no return. Once corruption is woven into your civilization it can be as inextricable as a virus in the human nervous system. It becomes status quo and then you cant play at all if you dont pay; then even good" people accept it as just a fact of life.
Barack Obama has gotten away with murder figuratively and literally thus far. The media has enabled this through their sins of omission and commission: through their failure to expose the presidents malfeasance and their manufacture of faux dirt on his opponents (e.g. the Bain game). And if the voters re-elect Obama despite in-your-face scandals a listing economy and fraying foreign policy the president will get a clear message.
I can get away with anything."
He will be like a child who crashed his unearned Nissan and maxed-out daddys credit card and then is rewarded with a Porsche and credit-line extension.
This election will tell us if the American people are wearing a collective Kick me" sign. If so we are damning our posterity to a kick in the bottom and a jackboot on the neck without measure and without end.