Coming to Grips with Fraud

Don’t fear it; confront it and defeat it with truth…

It’s a little disheartening to observe prominent and generally pro-America (that is to say, conservative) commentators who refuse to entertain the possibility that in BHO, America is dealing with an unprecedented ‘situation’ that will require unprecedented or nearly unprecedented action to correct it.

Most recently, we noted Charles Krauthammer racing to proclaim that the resistance to ‘Obamacare’ will merely stall and perhaps defeat some of its more radical elements, but ultimately something will pass in the way of health care or health 'insurance’ reform, and BHO will declare victory and move on.

Peggy Noonan also writes on healthcare, providing a cheery alternative strategic approach for BHO to succeed in some way.

On a different subject matter, James Lewis of the American Thinker has great concern over the implications of not only BHO’s infamous and missing full-form ‘certificate of live birth’ and many related unanswered questions about who this man really is, but repeatedly laments that nothing will come of it because the practical reality is that no judge would remove an elected President no matter what the grounds.

And to complete the tour of out-of-synch conservative commentators, Powerline recently weighed in with a major diss of Glenn Beck for his comments suggesting that BHO has a serious problem with the ‘white culture’ and is in that sense racist.

These seemingly disparate pieces reflect an underlying fear of really coming to grips with what to do about the fraud that is BHO. The scope of fraud he (and the Pravda media) committed in the 2008 election campaign is unprecedented in American history. Yes, we know all campaigns involve exaggeration and false or misleading characterization of the opponent’s positions, but never has a candidate so willfully concealed and deliberately misrepresented who he was and how he thinks of America and the American Constitution. We’ve called him Barack Madoff —which is not a quip but a serious effort to place what BHO did in the proper context.

The American people now sense the fraud, and that is why they are turning on him so rapidly. The energy and animosity at the town meetings of Congressional representatives is the tip of the iceberg. When people know they’ve been had—suckered—the reaction is anger. The anger doesn’t go away when BHO engages in more political cleverness; it increases. That’s why the healthcare overhaul is either going to be scrapped in its entirety (the wiser course), or Congress will plow ahead and pass something in complete disdain for the people—which will set the anger level into the stratosphere. Krauthammer is wrong—neither will be a win for BHO. The wiser course of shutting it down entirely is going to light a match under the senior Democrat Party leaders who are going to be exceedingly nervous that BHO is leading them into a black hole of public repudiation from which they will have trouble emerging for decades. The ‘plow ahead’ may bring upheaval to the streets.

Which leads to Peggy Noonan. She wants so much to place BHO somewhere in the acceptable realm of American Presidents because she simply is afraid to contemplate what her own gut is telling her. In one column she’ll note fears of secessionist movements arising in parts of America (why would that be if BHO is within some definition of mainstream?); in another she offers gratuitous strategic political advice to turn BHO into a more normal Democrat. BHO is a radical leftist, a would-be dictator, and he’s not in this gig mostly to get laid (ala Bill Clinton). He—and even more important, the people behind and around him—are America destroyers. They are not seeking a middle ground. They are going to have to be dealt with as people not seeking a middle ground in their effort to destroy the American Constitutional republic. Peggy Noonan and many like her have never faced this life-or-death kind of decision; they want to write words that will make it all go away.

Mr. Lewis’ resignation to his view of the realities of what a judge will or will not do if faced with a Constitutional eligibility question is shared by 99% of commentators. We’re not sure, but also don’t think there’s an eligibility question in terms of the ‘natural-born’ citizen requirement (we believe BHO was born in Hawaii). But we do think, as Andy McCarthy so thoroughly described in his recent column, that the concealment of the full-form certificate of live birth is of a piece with a pattern of concealment and misrepresentation of personal history and character. That pattern is itself part of the larger fraud that was BHO’s campaign in 2008, and is at the foundation of the American people’s turn against him. He’s lost their trust.

Bernie Madoff is not going to make a comeback. Neither will BHO. When the people are angry at having been fooled, and have permanently lost their trust in BHO, his tenure is not assured, no matter what Mr. Lewis or anyone else thinks of practical realities. When the politicians start to fear the people, things change. We think that has already started, and is going to accelerate in the month of August.

The real source of Mr. Lewis' resigned view of what is possible is his fear that anything other than BHO continuing in office will lead to violence in the streets. We’ve disputed this many times, and still do. Fraud offends everyone, and truth is liberating for everyone. Sure, there will always be a segment of people who will not see the fraud or will refuse to see it, but that’s a very small segment. The black woman Cambridge police officer is a good example of the large majority of Americans of every skin color—she is repelled by the attitude and actions of BHO in the Gates case—they are not what she thought she voted for in 2008, and she said she wouldn’t vote for BHO again.

And last, the Powerline guys’ indignant attitude toward Glenn Beck’s comments is again just born of fear. BHO is a racist in exactly the sense Beck portrayed. BHO’s autobiographies; his 20 years in a racist church; his nomination of a racist “latina”; his DOJ dismissing default judgments against Black Panther voter intimidators; his prepared ‘police acted stupidly’ remark on the Gates’ case—good grief, how obvious does racism have to be in order to call it what it is? Again, we think the Powerline guys are way too smart not to see the racism for what it is, but we do think they are deathly afraid of the direction they believe such talk can lead. They want to be a responsible voice of the right defusing what they think is so dangerously explosive. But the irony is that this entire mindset is itself is a kind of racism—it holds to the view that most blacks (and Hispanics) approve of racism and will take to the streets to defend their black President’s right to engage in it. That’s just not true. Nobody’s heart approves of racism—the Cambridge police officer is hardly unique.

The real danger emanating from all of these commentators is a loss of faith in the correcting and healing power of truth; a fear that there is no truth, or that if truth is voiced, dangerous things will happen. Actually, they are 180 degrees off. Dangerous things are happening and will continue to happen if we don’t speak the truth and stand for it.

BHO is a fraud. He committed fraud against the American people in the election campaign of 2008. He is not who said he was. He is a racist, radical leftist with a racist radical leftist agenda. He needs to be removed from office or forced to resign. The American people are going to insist on it.

Paul Gable

August 2, 2009