The unraveling of Obama

Its been an interesting couple weeks in camp Obama. In a desperate attempt to salvage his failed administration, he has once again played his anytime trump card. But with that said, while he retains strong support among blacks, his numbers are down from a high of 97 percent approval among same when he took office to a low of 88 percent approval in July 2010, according to a Gallup poll.

With his left-wing supporters frustrated because his liberal policies aren't being instituted quickly enough, and needing to bolster his sagging approval numbers among blacks, he has likened our nation's free-market economic system to being as immoral, cruel and oppressive as the past practice of one human owning another.

Last week, Obama and company told us the recession ended in June of 2009. They told us the economy began to grow at that time. OK, for the sake of argument, let's say that's true. If that's the case, why was it necessary to take $26 billion from the food stamp program and give it to teachers and unions this summer? If that's the case, why was it necessary to take $50 billion in stimulus to supposedly improve roads, railways and runways, also this summer?

Nolan Finley, writing for the Detroit News, opined: "Obama is defending the $787 billion stimulus package, which failed to deliver the promised reduction in unemployment, by claiming it kept the economy from falling into a depression. And yet, according to some economists, the recession was over before the stimulus dollars were spent.

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"We've been had, folks. Nearly $800 billion of our money was spent to end a recession that was already over. The massive spending didn't put America back to work. So all we end up with is a hugely expanded government and a gigantic debt that will be repaid with higher taxes on either ourselves or our grandchildren.

"Worse, all that spending likely made conditions worse and prolonged our misery because it sucked money out of the private sector, and the policymaking that surrounded it gave job creators the jitters." ("Stimulus didn't save the nation from depression"; Sept. 23, 2010)

As Obama and company clamor for higher taxes on the rich, they say only that the rich aren't paying their fair share. Well, what is their fair share? As I've noted before, the top 1 percent of income earners pay 39 percent of all taxes, which is up 2 percent from 2000 when President Bush took office. The top 25 percent of income earners pay 86 percent of all federal income taxes. So, what is their fair share? Should they turn over all income to the Obama Company and receive a stipend from him instead?

In his exit speech, Rahm Emanuel said that Obama was "the toughest leader any country could ask for in the toughest times any president has ever faced." What does that say for George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, Winston Churchill, Golda Meir, Levi Eshkol, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan? Does that mean their tenures were days of golf, basketball and White House parties?

We're watching the unraveling of a man in over his head, with no moral compass to guide him, who is surrounded by hardcore ideologues convinced America is unworthy of world pre-eminence. But in the cubicles of those who value access more than they do gold, questions surrounding his emotional stability to lead go unasked.

He has taken to telling fanciful accounts pursuant to his being a Christian that would be barely believable in fantasyland. Without enumerating the litany of recent mentions of his self-professed theism – his character offers no fundamental witness that one could remotely associate with true Christianity.

Obama has no one to blame but himself for the collective national outrage and the seething caldron of angst directed at him. People are upset – and race-baiting, inciting class warfare and fanciful tales of piety won't save him. Telling us to "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," ala "The Wizard of Oz," does nothing to assuage a contemptible dereliction.

Rather, it appears that the lower his poll numbers go, the lower he is willing to sink in a futile effort to salvage his presidency.