Obama’s Next Phase Now In Motion

By Scott A. Robinson

Filed Under General, Race for White House 2012 on Jan 5 

The next phase of the Barack Obama’s political machine commenced on November 4th. This is the “get elected to a second term so I can really do what I want” phase. So how do you get elected to a second term?

The first step is to get permission to violate the GSA rules governing government domains by moving your propaganda machine to a “.gov” url.

Next you put on a good show, giving the media something to talk about, demonstrating you are “actively working” with the outgoing administration.

After that, you seem to be right in the middle politically, to get along with everyone, to really be a man of the people by “reaching out” to create a moderate cabinet (as if anyone keeps those jobs for long) and selecting a popular conservative pastor to give your to give the invocation at your inauguration.

Then you begin work on your first “big” plan which happens to contradict your campaign position on the national debt* because you realize that few will actually remember your positions when you were campaigning for President because you were just “campaigning” so it didn’t really matter what you said. Oh, what’s $800 billion more added to the national debt anyway? It’s not as much as a trillion dollars, so it can’t be that bad.

This $800 billion is so called “economic stimulus”. Obama’s plan is nothing short of a plan to buy your next vote in four years (just as the “economic stimulus” bill in 2008 was intended to do). Where do you think those funds are coming from? That’s right, Obama plans on putting each of the approximately 200 million US adults about $4,000 further in debt by adding to the national deficit. That’s change I can believe in!

Unfortunately, most people do not actually pay attention to this problem and especially its long term consequences because, hey, people are generally concerned about themselves in the here and now. In Obama’s case, long term doesn’t really matter, only reelection. It’s only four years away. The mainstream media certainly won’t focus on the added national debt. The story will most certainly be “Obama saved the US by providing so many public works jobs”. Reality will be that the jobs will be an inefficient use of Americans’ hard earned capital. Because the government always spends our money efficiently, doesn’t it?

Welcome to the beginning of the next Presidential campaign. Repeat after Barack’s cronies, “Four more years”.**

*”The cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and states of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on … If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we’d see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.”

- Barack Obama, Speech in the U.S. Senate, March 13, 2006, quoted on barackobama.com/issues

Yes, I have really the entire statement on the national debt, about how Obama plans to “evaluate what works and what doesn’t”, but it really is a bunch of gobblety gook that doesn’t mean a thing. He is really saying nothing in his statement. Obama basically says he is the ultimate authority on what is useful spending and what is not. That sounds more like a dictator than a President.

**I’ll stop clinging to my guns for the next few minutes, but never my religion.

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  1. Alaina on 06.01.2009 at 01:29 (Reply)

    Except that it looks like his stimulus bill will be delayed since his Secretary of Commerce just got thrown under the bus… then again, maybe we’ll get lucky and someone will come up with a plan that will actually help the economy between now and then.

  2. Chris on 06.01.2009 at 05:56 (Reply)

    wow, talk about cynical.

    had he picked a liberal cabinet you would have had a go at him, he picked a cabinet which is pretty moderate and you still have a go at him

    Perhaps your ideal cabinet is Ann Coulter as Secretary of State, Bill O’Reilly as Treasury Secretary, Rush Limbaugh as culture secretary and Dick Cheney as CIA director?

    Across the world different governments have come up with different strategies for fixing the economy. No one knows which plans will “actaully help the economy”, they might all work, they might all fail.

    Senator Obama was right in March 2006 but then again the world and the economy looked a hell of a lot different back them. And who wracked up this huge debt, yep the Republican White House, Republincan Senate and Republican House. Bet you still voted Republican didn’t you, well done.

    Perhaps the stimulus package will work, will secure jobs, allow people to pay their mortgages the country might survive the recession, but this is needed before the national debt can be tackled

    Or lets look at it the other way, how about paying back the national debt but abandon the workforce, let there be higher unemployment with more people losing their homes. Nevermind, social security is not allowed, there is plenty of place to camp out and build shanty towns in Central Park

    You could be right though, shame on you Barack Obama, you only want to stop a new depression to get re-elected

    1. Scott A. Robinson on 06.01.2009 at 08:40 (Reply)

      Come on now. Most economist believe that FDR’s Keynesian government spending programs only prolonged the great depression. Most of the rest of the world was out of the depression far earlier than the United States.

      Short-term “stimulus” does not work. Most economists agree on this. Short term financial gain usually leads to saving or paying down debt, neither of which create a multiplier effect, which is the idea behind “economic stimulus” or its other name “trickle down economics”.

      As for the Republicans currently in office, I’m not exactly a fan of them either. They have spent and spent and spent and they disgust me.

      1. Chris on 06.01.2009 at 08:59 (Reply)

        that’s a completely different argument, yes his plans might not work, time will tell

        I don’t buy it as re-election strategy nor do I think it fair to use a March 2006 comment on the economy in January 2009.

        1. Alaina on 06.01.2009 at 09:51 (Reply)

          How is it not fair to use when he uses it himself on his own website?

          Why not buy it as as re-election strategy? When as he ever done the job he was elected to do? As far as I can tell, he gets elected and then starts running for another office.

          1. Chris on 06.01.2009 at 10:48 (Reply) (Comments won't nest below this level)

            sorry, to clarify, I think it is unfair to say he is only doing it for re-election which seemed to me to be the original implication

    2. Gary Russell on 06.01.2009 at 09:44 (Reply)

      Dick Chaney as head of the CIA???
      Hmmmm…I like it!

      (only partially kidding).

      1. Chris on 06.01.2009 at 10:48 (Reply)

        “paritally” is why we are terrified of the American right wing!!

        1. Gary Russell on 06.01.2009 at 23:46 (Reply)

          The “American right wing” are your greatest allies.

          The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself.

          1. Chris on 07.01.2009 at 05:39 (Reply) (Comments won't nest below this level)

            actually, I fear a govt that believes in torture, I fear a govt that goes to war unnecessarily, I fear a govt that rides roughshod over international law, I fear a govt that allows a banking crisis to devlop that threathens my job (I work in the banking industry in the UK which is being hammered due to the credit crunch caused by the sub-prime mortages), I fear a govt that restricts civil liberties in the name of national security when it really does it for its own power (and yes my govt is probably worse than yours in many of these respects)

            Do you know that is now illegal to protest outside Downing Street or the Houses of Parliament? did you hear that an 82 year old was arrested under anti terrorism laws for heckling the prime minister during a speech at their parties convention. Or that an opposition Member of Parliament was arrested for being in possession of information leaked to him by a whistle blower, again under anti terrorism legislation? Or that the UK govt used its anti terrorism powers to freeze the assests of Iceland when that country was going bankrupt.

            Power corrupts.

            I truly believe in the special relationship between our countries, I just don’t think we have been using it for good

  3. East of Eden on 06.01.2009 at 10:24 (Reply)

    Scott…well said! I’ve been thinking thesse same things myself. I am very curious to see how Obama is going to save us from ourselves and part us from more of our money….

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