Obama Must Go

The American people know it. Privately, the political elites know it. Even the editorial boards of the Pravda media know it. Only one thing is missing: a reasonably visible public figure willing to come out and say so in calm, rational terms.

Obama must resign the presidency or be removed by Congress.

The first reasonably visible public figure to say this will get the ball rolling, and there will be no stopping it. Even the leftist outrage in response will be obviously feigned, and the real behind-the-scenes battles will be over the shape of Biden’s agenda in serving out the remainder of Obama’s term.

Obama has completely lost the American people. Whether on ideology, competence, or decorum grounds, he’s just not in step with what the American people expect of a President. Most important, he’s not in step with the candidacy he portrayed, and the degree to which he is out of step is unprecedented in American electoral history.

Never has there been such a gap between a candidate’s persona and a President’s performance. The gap provokes bitterness and anger and fear—just like the victims of any fraud (ask Bernie Madoff’s clients). We have said before on this website, that ‘fraud is as fraud feels’. The American people feel defrauded because they were defrauded.

The unprecedented size of this fraud is the reason the country and its more responsible leaders—independent, Democrat or Republican—need to step up and state the necessary and obvious remedy for a fraud: it must be rescinded. And in this case rescission means Obama must be made to resign.

Never mind the talk of American traditions and some concocted notion of ‘the need for stability’. Forget the fear that future Presidents will now be subject to some sort of orchestrated demand for resignation. And drummed up fears of a ‘race war’ are just ridiculous; there will always be race-baiters appealing to a certain portion of the ignorant, but Obama’s loss of the American people has nothing whatsoever to do with his skin color. It has everything to do with his performance as President. That is an inescapable truth.

It is precisely the need for stability in this country that Obama must resign. It is the uniqueness and magnitude of this fraud in historical terms that makes the fear for future Presidents a phony argument. Obama’s continued presence in the Oval Office is simply offensive in the face of this fraud; it is manifestly dangerous to all Americans, and even to the stability of the world.

We wouldn’t be surprised to hear Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin or Beck move in this direction very soon. They may have alluded to it in the past with passing reference as a not-serious wish rather than a principled demand, but they know the time has come to go all-in with a full-throated explanation and a completely serious call. Who knows, maybe Sarah Palin will Facebook it and then say it. Mitt Romney, if he wants to have a chance to be President in 2012, should be the first to stake out this position publicly.

Make no mistake—this will take cajones or backbone or whatever other anatomical part has been missing from American political leadership in the last 20 years, which is probably reason enough why Romney won’t say it, but Palin might. But whoever first steps up and is willing to weather the initial blast of scorn will find the country turning to him or her. Because he or she will be saying what the American people have already concluded: this Obama fraud is not worthy of the United States of America. It is an offense to the very idea of American government, and it must be removed.

America is a bigger idea than any individual. Its democratic system reflects the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of human beings, but its foundational values are anchored in a higher power, an unchangeable Truth. We’re approaching 18 months of denial of the obvious, but the truth keeps hammering away at us. Obama must not continue as the President of this nation. He must resign.

Paul Gable

June 13, 2010