The Anti-American President, Pt 10—Obama the Smarmer

Lindsay Perigo

January 30, 2012

The brazen deceitfulness that pervaded President Obama's State of the Union address last week has been duly noted in the days since. Many commentators have wondered publicly what I asked incredulously of the innocent TV set privately: “How can you say that with a straight face?!”

The President's claim, for instance, to embrace an “all-of-the-above” approach to energy, having just kyboshed the Keystone XL oil pipeline and advocated hard for the fashionable anti-carbon superstition—jaw-droppingly mendacious!

His boast that “America is back” and “anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn’t know what they’re [sic] talking about”—his America that recently received an unprecedented credit downgrade and is running debt at over 100% (and rising) of GDP.

His (premature) celebrating of the outcomes of wars which he opposed and from which he is prematurely retreating.

His pledge to “advocate for those values that have served our own country so well. We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings—men and women; Christians, Muslims and Jews. We will support policies that lead to strong and stable democracies and open markets, because tyranny is no match for liberty," when he, the master-appeaser, conspicuously, gutlessly and disastrously refused to support the Tehran uprising of early 2011.

Or how's this for breathtaking effrontery?: “In 2008, the house of cards collapsed. We learned that mortgages had been sold to people who couldn’t afford or understand them. Banks had made huge bets and bonuses with other people’s money. Regulators had looked the other way, or didn’t have the authority to stop the bad behavior.It was wrong It was irresponsible. And it plunged our economy into a crisis that put millions out of work, saddled us with more debt, and left innocent, hardworking Americans holding the bag.” Excuse me? Would that be the house of cards created by the Community Reinvestment Act of Obama's pin-up, Jimmy Carter, whereby for politically correct reasons of ethnic equity banks and other lenders were cajoled into making loans to those who could not afford them? The same Community Reinvestment Act put on steroids by President Clinton?

The fork in the presidential tongue must have nearly severed that slime-coated organ altogether when he got to: “We don’t begrudge financial success in this country. We admire it.” This from the President who has made “millionaires” and “billionaires” pejorative terms, who went on to insist that people earning a million dollars or more should have at least 30% of it confiscated in taxes in order to be paying their “fair share.” Never mind that the unjustly reviled 1 per centers already account for 36% of federal tax revenues. “Fairness” when seeping from Obama's orifice is fair in an Orwellian sense, as in the Newspeak of 1984, whereby freedom is slavery. In Obamaspeak, fairness is unfair, unfairness is fair.

But none of this is what really bugged me the other night. We already know the anti-American President is a socialist, a liar and a hypocrite. That's not what disturbed me about the State of the Union address—it was just vintage Obamugabe. What really got under my skin was his shameless smugness, the contemptuous confidence he oozed that he's getting away with it all and is openly laughing at the voters for being cretinous enough to be taken in by it. Look at his concluding paragraph:

Each time I look at that flag, I’m reminded that our destiny is stitched together like those 50 stars and those 13 stripes. No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together. This nation is great because we worked as a team. This nation is great because we get each other’s backs. And if we hold fast to that truth, in this moment of trial, there is no challenge too great; no mission too hard. As long as we are joined in common purpose, as long as we maintain our common resolve, our journey moves forward, and our future is hopeful, and the state of our Union will always be strong.

The problem is not that it's a bunch of risible platitudes, though it certainly is that; nor that to the extent that it means anything, when emanating from Obama's mouth it means “one neck, ready for one leash,” in Ayn Rand's words. No, the thing that consternates me more than anything is that Osmarmer knew he could emit such unmitigated dribble and have it work for him out there in Airhead America. The Gramscified generations are now so much in the ascendancy that a president spouting such malignant mush will be cheered to the echo—and re-elected. We saw it in 2008 with “change you can believe in.” The “change” in question of course was from semi-socialism to full-blown socialism; Generation Airhead thinks "socialism" is what it engages in on Faecesbook.

Yes, the President knows he has hordes of dumbed-down voters in his palm and is relishing playing to their dumbness. Never mind that he has wrought economic ruin and consummated the abandonment of Americanism begun and expedited by certain of his predecessors. He is swaggering inexorably and with insufferable smugness towards victory. And that bugs me like hell.
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