The Fantasy of Obama’s
Re-election

Barack Obama will not win re-election to the Presidency; through resignation or impeachment, he may not even complete his term. This is the reality the Pravda media and liberal establishment are trying to fight off with every story and every headline. It is an amazing thing to watch.

Remember, this is the same Pravda media that just two years ago, following the inauguration of Obama, told the American people that the era of Reagan was over, that Democrat control of government was assured for the next 40 years or more, and that would have laughed and scoffed at the mention of even the possibility that Republicans would win any seats in the US House of Representatives in 2010. Why would anyone believe anything these institutions say today?

In the intervening two years, there have been national protests against this administration in Washington and elsewhere throughout America (they are called tea parties), with citizen participation on a level that dwarfs any public protest in American history—orders of magnitude higher than the civil rights protests of the 1960’s and the Vietnam War protests of the 60’s and 70’s (a fact wholly unreported by Pravda). This culminated in November 2010 in the most massive off-year election rebuke in modern American history, yet Pravda would have Americans believe all of this was a sort of tantrum (as the late Peter Jennings would have described it) that is now dissipated and gone.

Now, according to Pravda, (1) if they keep repeating that there is an economic recovery, the American people will believe it and drop their concerns over the economy; (2) if they peddle long enough a false narrative of the Tucson shooting as a tea party phenomenon, they can consider that movement neutered; (3) if they stick to a narrative of the astute and adaptive Obama, the student of Reagan, the clever crafter of rhetoric, who needs only to stay the course, snap his fingers and raise a billion dollars for his re-election, and let the brilliance of Axelrod and Gibbs, now freed from day-to-day operating responsibilities, direct the campaign to victory—then the American people will relax and settle in to their manufactured reality that the great leader Obama will continue as President after 2012.

This is a fantasy world. Entirely a creation of lies.

There is no economic recovery, and Americans know it. There is no way the nation or any of its states can continue on the path of reckless spending that Obama shows no signs of abandoning, and Americans know that, too.

There is zero connection of the tea party movement and the leftist, atheist, dysfunctional insanity of Jared Loughner, and yes, Americans know that. The issues that gave rise to the tea party—an overall sense of a government completely out-of-control and out of touch in relation to the nation created by the Declaration of Independence and Constitution—have hardly gone away. On the contrary, they are rising in visibility and importance across broader and broader segments of the American population. The tea party movement is growing, not subsiding. And the notion that Obama is anywhere near the substance and conviction and competence of Ronald Reagan is cringe-level shallow, even stupid.

Even the idea that there is a billion dollars of campaign support awaiting Obama is fatuous—at least in the sense that there will be any grassroots momentum in support of his candidacy like there was in 2008. Soros and his henchmen and the greater leftist movements of the world may violate every campaign finance law on the books and funnel a billion dollars to Obama, but it won’t be a reflection of popular support, and it won’t buy the ability to change truth. Americans have taken the measure of who this President is and what he believes; they believe that he lied to them in 2008 and is still trying to lie to them, and they do not want him or any part of his administration to continue in office. The election of 2012 is likely to be a bigger landslide than 2010.

That’s the reality, and don’t believe any poll that tries to suggest otherwise. (Or maybe believe them the same way you would now believe a January 2008 poll that said Republicans would be out of power for 40 years.)

World events are the last refuge of Pravda to try and salvage Obama, but again, the liberal establishment just can’t read the American people. The latest Axelrod effort to spin Obama’s sage advice to Egypt’s Mubarak to get ahead of the risk of public protest will fall flat. So will Pravda’s effort to portray the upheaval in Egypt as a positive development for America, deftly supported and managed behind the scenes by Obama.

Americans know there is a large and growing problem with Islam and Islamists in America and the world that is going to have to be confronted and not appeased. They know the ‘religion of peace’ is not a religion of peace, and they know an uprising in an essentially all Muslim country like Egypt is as likely to lead to hard-line Islamist tyranny as it is to some pipedream of western style democracy (think Iran after the Shah; elections won by Hamas or Hezbollah in the Palestinian territories; even the current drift of Turkey).

But Americans also see that they are represented by a President who is an obvious Muslim sympathizer, who runs an administration that thinks the differences between religions are no more significant than the differences in the colors of crayons; that also thinks the magnificence of the American experiment in human history has no connection to its Judeo-Christian foundation and heritage.

Put it all together, and Americans are deeply worried about every day that this administration continues in power. They are fatigued and disheartened by a patently biased and unserious media that seeks to preserve this administration. They are impatient to see results from the conservative majority they just elected to stop this administration. They want conservative presidential candidates to get off the sidelines and join the battle sooner rather than later. And if someone—anyone—in the political office-holding world rise to start making the case that this “WTF” administration is unfit to continue in office even now, the American people would applaud.

Obama’s re-election is a fantasy.

Paul Gable

January 29, 2011