If you’ve been around as long as I have, you’ve probably heard that claim made in previous election cycles. I know I have. That being said, this time I think it’s probably true. This may well be THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIME.
The best way to predict what a second Obama term would look like, is to see how he governed in his first term. How did the country do under his leadership? Did he keep his promises? Was he straight with us? Did he tell the truth?
Well, 2008 Candidate Obama famously stated “There’s not a black America and white America… there’s the United States of America. There are no red states or blue states, just the United States.”
Wonderful rhetoric. But that’s all it was, rhetoric. He has chosen instead to run one of the most divisive Presidential campaigns in American history.
He accuses his opponents of an alleged “war on women” simply because they are pro-life, and for example, oppose requiring Catholic hospitals and business owners to provide abortion-inducing drugs and sterilizations, even though such practices violate strongly held tenants of the Catholic faith.
His Administration lashes out at Republicans for allegedly attempting to disenfranchise African American and Hispanic voters just because Republicans favor common-sense voter I.D. laws. His Vice President, Joe Biden, when speaking to a predominately African American group, claimed that Republicans want to see “you all back in chains.” And President Obama refuses to repudiate or disavow the outrageous comment.
Obama tries to appeal to younger voters by alleging that Republicans want to take away their student loans, when in actuality Republicans opposed raising interest rates on student loans. The only difference was, Republicans actually wanted to see that it was paid for, not merely added to the national debt.
And with senior citizens, Obama has bludgeoned his opponents with allegedly trying to “end Medicare as we know it” (not true by the way), when it’s his own health care bill which cut $712 billion out of Medicare to partially pay for Obamacare. And he has no problem with a TV ad being run showing a Paul Ryan look-alike pushing a granny in a wheelchair over a cliff. Shameless.
The bottom line is, Obama can’t run on his own record, so he has decided to take the low road. Demonize your opponents. Play class warfare. Practice the politics of envy and division.
His Stimulus failed. He’s taken the country from $9 trillion in debt to $16 trillion in debt – in ONE TERM. Obamacare is like a wet blanket over a stalled economic recovery. $23 million Americans are out of work. And on and on…
And now we just learn that the American Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, has been murdered by a mob in Benghazi, Libya (I was in Libya a month ago and met with Ambassador Stevens while there and stayed overnight at his residence), and our embassy in Cairo was attacked and the American flag torn down and burned (I was also at this embassy on the same Middle East Codel.)
The Obama Administration’s response to the attacks on our Egyptian embassy was basically an apology to the attackers, expressing sympathy for their hurt feelings due to an anti-Mohammed movie on the internet. Talk about feckless.
There’s no reason to believe that a second Obama term would be anything other than more of the same.
My conclusion: this truly is, the most important election of our lifetime.