OBAMA STORIES FABRICATED WITH EVIL INTENT

The senate candidates for North Carolina debated last night; Kay Hagan verses Thom Tillis debate was interesting. I didn’t keep tract of the number of times but Thom Tills repeated pointed out in almost every sentence that Kay Hagan voted for the Obama programs 96.5% of the time, which I was thrilled to hear. It reinforces my belief in my support for Kay Hagan. The truth of that statement was telling for several reasons, the most compelling of which was that the Republican agenda was to vote in block everything our President proposed; Thom Tillis would be no more than another mindless vote in the block. In addition, the message he unknowingly sent with his remark is that President Obama is the only one doing anything in Washington; he stands alone. He has the entire burden for governing the world squarely on his shoulders. Rather than praise him directly for what he is doing, it has gotten so ridiculous that the Republicans say he should rule by executive order but if he does, they will sue him. Isn’t that a back door way of saying they trust him to rule but they will sever as some sort of oversight committee like a back seat driver who can make all the decisions but will never have to take any responsibility.   

If Obama was an ordinary president, I would be absolutely terrified at the prospects of the a president ruling independent of the Congress and the Supreme Court but he is not an ordinary president in any sense of the word. Under current governing circumstances, I cannot imagine George W. Bush stumbling and bungling though 8 years even with Dick Cheney and his other neo con advisors. He wanted to make his own decisions even though he was not capable. Ronald Reagan had a public relations program that prevented people from knowing the real Reagan and what motivated him. I look at John McCain and Mitt Romney as presidential candidates who stood at the extreme poles of conservative ideology; one a warrior that felt compelled to bomb everyone into submission and the other who seemed to feel if he was in charge, he owned it and had the right to sell it for personal gain. Were the current Congress and Supreme Court been in place with these people who were president or could have been president, I would quake in fear. With Obama, it is different. The man is a liberal to be sure, which means he is altruistic. He cares about “all” people.

I think the greatest crime of our time is not massive mortgage scandals, the corrupt banking industry, or the Korean, Vietnam, Iraqi wars, or 9/11 or ISIS. It is not the dysfunctional congress and corrupt Supreme Court are criminal but the biggest crime is the fact that the press, led by the most obviously unreasonable radical right wing elements in the country, is denigrating the greatest president we have ever had. They do nothing what so ever constructive—nothing, zero. Their sole occupation is fabricating stories and compiling them with evil intent.

It is too early for us to evaluate him but eventually history will judge him. It seems ironic that even now, it takes time for people to appraise his decisions. People seem to think, the only good decisions are the kind they can assess immediately after they are made. With Obama that is not that way; his decisions will have far-reaching consequences hence will take time to consider. It will take another couple of presidents for people to realize how good those decisions were. For some decisions such dealing with foreign policy, it will take years. It is a little ironic that we should have such an especially great president following an especially bad one, which may seem an unduly bias on any current decision. 

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