“Seven years ago, we made a huge mistake,” Christie said at Wellman’s Pub in West Des Moines. “We elected a first-term United States senator to the presidency of the United States. Somebody who had never managed anything more than a 30-person Senate staff, and who never had made a decision of consequence that they were going to be held accountable for where people’s lives were on the line.”
No, Obama’s problem wasn’t that he was a first term Senator cum President. If you look at what he said he was going to, fundamentally transform the US, I would he has succeeded. He has made Congress irrelevant, cowered the Republican, neutered the will of the We the People by ignoring election results, embraced and enriched (in terms of power and money) his friends and allied groups, and weaponized the Federal Government against those that oppose him (the EPA, the IRS, Labor Department, DOT), and unilaterally instituted every Lefty group’s idea of deindustrialization, regionalization, removing “offending” industries (e.g., coal) and hamstringing others (e.g., Frank-Dodd), reduced religious liberty (via Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate as well as pushing the LGBTQRSTUV agenda), and further taking over and nationalizing our education system. And insulted our former allies and made a mockery of the US in the sight of our enemies. And I predict that his “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” will result in Iran getting AND USING the Bomb.
And vastly increase the transfer of wealth from his version of Haves to the Have-Nots. Yeah, I think he’s been quite successful in gaining most of what his goals actually were.
The problem for Christie is that he views Obama from the wrong lens – that of the role and outlook of how we normally view the responsibilities and outcomes of a traditional President. That is Christie’s failure – to actually see a given situation for what it is. Obama, IMHO, hates the America in which he grew up in – his intent was to take the US down more than a few notches. In doing so, he does believe he has made the world safer from the US and in doing so, made the US safer from itself. After all, a weak nation cannot be blamed for the ills of the world, can it? And if its citizens must suffer, well, welcome to what most nations’ citizens must endure. “Share the misery” is not a phrase that Obama worries about – after all, he’s lived the high life these past eight years and will continue to do so for the rest of his life.
The problem was not being a newbie Senator advancing too fast – the problem was / is his governing philosophy and a severe lack of “love of country” as it is – he can only love the country that should be what he believes it should be. That’s what drives Progressives – that our freedoms must be curtailed not only for our own benefit but for that of the wider world. For someone that sees himself more as a citizen of the World (a transnationalist) and no bound by the strictures of the Constitution but only the end goal of Socalism, he has implemented policies and philosophies that have moved the country and the Overton Window far Leftward. How else do you explain how an openly avowed Socialist (er, either one of them) That Christie either cannot see this or say this is a lacking in Christie in and of itself.
(H/T: The Blaze)
