OBAMA'S VICTORIES ARE MOUNTING

Obama fights back and so should we. The more I think about the president’s speech concerning the successes of health care the more I think that we should join him in fighting back against all the crazy—often boarding on the insane—rhetoric coming from the right wing media. I listen to #+Joe Scarborough in the morning (MSNBC) because, as I am prone to say, “to get my daily dose of right wing poison” I also read Bob Livingston’s distortions of the truth as well.

I remember when President Obama said that he is proud of having people call the Affordable Health Care Act “Obamacare”. He also said that a good indication of knowing when it is working is when they stop calling it that; that happened yesterday. What should be more notable is that a number of other similar victories should be recognized. I might start with his drawing a red line in the Syria crisis. The objective was to cause President Assad of Syria to destroy his supply of poison gas. Russia, with Putin’s stranglehold on the United Nations with their veto power on the Security Council, opposed any such effort. In addition, there were then and still are strong anti American terrorist groups fighting to take over the Syria government if Assad were to be deposed. Our president was clever enough to realize that if he bombed and rid Syria of Assad the situation would be worse than with him in power.

Obama also knew that European powers would not back him in any armed aggression in Syria because of Putin’s power over their energy (Germany), arms market (France) and banking (Great Britain). In context of this diplomatic nightmare, President Obama offered Syria the opportunity to negotiate the current severe economic sanctions or face the vague threat of the United States unilaterally bombing their poison gas facilities. If Syria crossed a “red line” and used their gas, Assad knew he was taking a serious chance; still, he crossed the "red line" and used the gas. However, he knew that if the United States either bombed or increased economic sanctions, he would lose power. Obama moved to increase the sanction and Assad caved and came to the negotiating table. The first thing negotiated was that he gives up his poison gas—he did and the "mission was accomplished". He did not have to use a flight suite on the deck of an aircraft carrier to broad cast his message. All the radical right wing heard was what they wanted to hear: bomb, bomb, bomb.  They were so disappointed that Obama had such a smashing success, they denied the truth and still deny the truth.

Obama is winning the Crimea as well. He will bring Putin to his knees with out dropping a bomb. In addition, he is putting Russia in its place as well when it comes to Syria. It is too complex for me to understand but if Obama can unite the European Union behind him in Crimea he will unite them behind him in Syria and then be prepared to remove Assad and replace that government a democracy and not a caliphate in keeping with the sentiments of the Arab spring. That is a victory!

Iran is on the verge of being a great success for Obama as well; they have stopped purifying uranium and are at the negotiating table over their nuclear arsenal. That is a victory! Obama has been able to take on the great tragedy of the Palestinian people. The association of Egypt, Iran, and Iraq with that tragedy is yet to unfold but with Israeli’s Netanyahu’s cries of despair, it sound like Obama is the first president that is making great progress toward middle east peace; even more that Jimmy Carter.

All of these foreign policy successes are driving the neo cons crazy. At home, many other successes are driving the Republicans crazy. It is true, the Obamacare success is tremendous and left Scarborough with his mouth open, but there are many others. The ACA success is equivalent to Social Security of FDR’s new deal of 1935 and is so great and long lasting that it may overshadow his many other domestic and foreign successes. The right wing is struggling and attacking every thing they can find, unfortunately the can find nothing so they are making things up to attack.

They attacked Benghazi. Terrorists provoked by a right wing inspired “hate Muslims” film attacked our Benghazi mission and four American died—just as attacks were taking place across the entire Muslim world. The radical right wing political machine mounted an attacked against “Obama’s “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for not responding to a phone call for help, for not protecting our embassies, for not being able to predict the embassy would be attacked, etc. The truth is that there was never a call to Clinton; the call was to the African Command that the State Department had been warned such a call for assistance might come but they did not respond; in other words, it was the Pentagon that failed (a general in that command was silently fired for alcoholism). Investigation revealed Benghazi was not an embassy but a supposedly clandestine CIA outpost that did not want to be outed. Also, it came to light that the most vocal senators criticizing Clinton were the ones that cut State Department funding intended for protecting state department outposts.  

There was nothing to the charges of failure in Benghazi. They were fabricated. That means they were right wing lies; worse of all they had a despicable anti-American objective as shown by there calling the State Department Obama’s State Department. In addition, it was obvious that the right wing backed  “hate Muslim” film that inspired the terrorist, which makes a full circle right back to the Obama attackers.

The so-called IRS scandal backfired as well. Dirt ball Karl Rove found a glitch in the IRS law that allowed him to cheat on paying taxes on money he collected from big money donors. The 504c4 laws relate to charitable organizations. The government does not tax money collected for charitable purposes. During the Eisenhower administration, a low-level administrator changed the word ‘exclusive’ was change to ‘primarily’. Lawrence O’Donnell, an ex capital hill staffer and now MSNBC newscaster discovered the change and broadcast the information on his show. Instead of the discovery shaming them as it would descent people, the government hating right wing did what Republican’s always do, they attacked. Rove and his colleagues immediately claimed the IRS gave liberal political organizations preference for tax-exempt status; investigation easily proved that was not true.

When are the American people going to get tired of campaigns built on hate and not reason? My guess is that they will do that when they realize just how great this president is.

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