It's Okay to Call for Obama's Resignation

The liberal intelligentsia will gasp and scoff at the ‘audacity’ of suggesting resignation, and some segment of the clueless in our society will believe such a suggestion is too soon and unfair, but for the sentient among us—those who make the country work—the case for it is already clear, and will be getting clearer as the days and weeks go by.

It’s really very simple: nothing angers anyone more than the sense of being defrauded. False promises are made to your face (or in your face), reliance and trust are cultivated and encouraged, action is taken—and bam!, the whole picture turns out to have been a lie. The liar seems to chortle, and the victim seethes in the role of fool. This is never the end of the story, of course, and the actual end of the story is never good for the perpetrator. He ends up disgraced, bankrupt, in jail or worse, or some combination of all of these.

We’ve followed American Presidential elections for a long time, and can’t remember one that comes anywhere near the 2008 election in terms of out-and-out fraud on the American people. Sure there have been Presidents whose performance didn’t live up to some expectations (that would be all of them), but this isn’t a case of disappointed expectations. It’s fraud. The list of examples grows on an almost daily basis, but here’s a current sampling:

• Obama the candidate promised greater transparency in government, including very specifically a promise to post proposed legislation on the internet for the public to see at least five days before allowing Congressional action on it. This promise could not have been more cynically and brazenly trashed than in the administration’s conduct surrounding the ‘stimulus’ bill. Putting aside the actual content of the bill (which is itself a fraud), the sheer magnitude of the spending authorized by this bill made it of historical significance. Yet it not only wasn’t posted on the internet five days for all to see; it wasn’t even seen and read by those voting on it. This is not a shrug-it-off, what-else-is-new-in-Washington moment. It is a deeply cynical and destructive breach of trust with the American people, and a shameful violation of basic American democracy.

• From throwing billions at ACORN, to undoing welfare reform, to nationalizing healthcare records and certain healthcare practices—all without any meaningful time or opportunity for debate, and with absolutely no base of campaign speeches to signal that any of these were part of the election decision—to the naming of this legislation as an economic stimulus, and the passage of it under a deliberately whipped up sense sky-is-falling urgency, followed by a Presidential vacation before signing: this is fraud and arrogance on a scale we’ve never seen before. Penny stock frauds aren’t as brazen as this, and their promoters go to jail.

• Obama the candidate promised bipartisanship; a new approach that would unify the country and lift it above past practices. But the answer to virtually all Republican input on the fraudulent stimulus bill was effectively, ‘go to hell, I won.’ The partisans on the left no doubt love the chest-pounding, but it isn’t playing well among the millions who voted for Obama on the belief he really meant what he said. Again, the intelligentsia can argue till they’re blue in the face that this is just politics as usual. It isn’t. People feel lied to.

Obama has no idea just how angry Main Street is becoming. He is living in a liberal cocoon, where polls taken by liberals of liberals and for liberals will proclaim him popular, and liberal media rationalize and justify and engage in revisionism to make it seem like the whole act is holding together. But it’s not. Every day, more and more engaged citizens of this country know they’ve been had, and they are livid.

We said earlier that perpetrators of fraud on this scale usually end up disgraced, bankrupt, in jail or worse. We actually don’t wish any of this on Barack Obama. Given the massively dysfunctional home life from which he emerged (read this) and the perverted and distorted associates he encountered and engaged since then, it’s a little much to expect him to have his head on straight. And in our heart of hearts, we hope he honestly realizes now how far over his head he really is, and how dangerous it is to America and the world for him to try and fake his way through for four years.

We think he could find himself revered for all time if he stepped up to this reality, acknowledged how grossly and irresponsibly he misled the America people about who he is and what his philosophy really is, apologized and humbly resigned the office of the Presidency. This would be an act of character like no other in the nation’s history; this would be a statement of humility before God that by itself might cause the turnaround in confidence that the nation and the world so badly need right now.

We think recognition of the fraud he has perpetrated, and the anger that surely follows that recognition, are only going to spread and rise. Obama and his inner circle may entertain a false hope that either the people don’t see what’s happening, or won’t care. But they do see it, and they do care. They are angry. And they have behind them this fundamental principle: truth always prevails, and it is never mocked.

We won’t be the last, and we don’t know if we’re the first, but in any case, we’re happy to be clear about it: Barack Obama should resign.

Paul Gable

Posted February 18, 2009