This was sent to me by Herman Cain and his Cain solutions. I was an early supporter of Herman Cain especially since I always caught his show on the local radio stations when he would fill in for Neal Boortz's syndicated show. I was extremely disappointed that he withdrew from the race. I understood the reasons but I still was disappointed. This is filled with good information especially since we have to debate the koolaid drinking Obungler supporters and they hate logic since liberals run on emotions not facts.
Obama believes he can’t be wrong
By Herman Cain
President
Obama says very strange things, especially for a guy who presumably
wants very badly to be re-elected. As if it wasn’t enough that he last
week went off on small business owners for having pride in their
accomplishments, this week he actually told a rally audience in
reference to the economy – with a straight face – “We tried our plan,
and it worked.”
It almost seems gratuitous to
start citing all the numbers that obliterate this claim – the 8.2
percent unemployment, the anemic 1.5 percent GDP growth this past
quarter, the soaring federal deficit that will top $1 trillion yet again
this year. It’s like when the head coach of a 1-15 NFL team tries to
make the case that his team is really good. Why sit there and debate
him? You just nod your head and think to yourself, “Whatever you say,
Coach.”
Yet I think Obama demonstrates
something important about himself, and about many politicians like him,
when he makes such a claim. For certain people who are so deeply steeped
in their ideology, their plan cannot conceivably have failed because
their ideas are correct by definition. If they tried their plan and the
economy is still awful, it must be because someone else came along and
messed up their unassailable brilliance.
The stimulus didn’t produce enough economic growth? Republicans wouldn’t let them spend even more!
The deficit is still out of control? Republicans won’t let them raise taxes on the rich!
Unemployment is still way too high? Greedy businesses are hording cash and not hiring people!
Regulation
is crushing business growth? Those horrible CEOs need to stop resisting
the government’s wise rules and do what they’re told.
When
you’re convinced from the start that your ideas are foolproof, and that
any failure must be the result of sabotage, then you’re relieved of the
burden of ever re-assessing your ideas. They can’t possibly be the
problem! They’re right!
Of course, in spite of
the fact that Obama makes all of the above excuses, he does not
acknowledge that overall failure has occurred. Remember, “It worked.”
That’s what he said.
And this is the other
side of the pathological equation. You and I look at the horrible
numbers and say, “That sure doesn’t look like success to me.” All Obama
has to do is claim the numbers would have been even worse without his
policies. It’s absurd but you can’t prove it’s untrue, so it’s good
enough for him. He can point to the collapse of the mortgage market, the
sharp decline in GDP that occurred during the fourth quarter of 2008
and the rapid collapse that was occurring when he took office – and then
he can claim to have stemmed the tide.
When
you point out that his is the weakest economic recovery in a century, he
and his supporters claim that the so-called “Great Recession” was a
unique and special event and that the usual rapid recovery we see after
recessions should have not been expected in this case.
Of
course, the Obama Administration’s own predictions belie that claim.
They said in 2009 that they needed to pass the stimulus to keep
unemployment from topping 8 percent. After the stimulus passed, it
soared above 10 percent and still hasn’t fallen below 8 percent. Oops!
They predicted that economic growth this year would be 3 percent.
Halfway through the year, it’s less than 2 percent and it’s just about
statistically impossible it will get anywhere near 3 percent. Never mind!
This
is failure no matter how you cut it. But you can’t tell that to Obama
and his economic team. They decided long ago that their ideas never fail
and cannot fail. You picture Obama like the mad professor standing
alone in his lab and looking befuddled because his latest concoction
didn’t perform whatever magic function he was expecting: “No! It can’t
be wrong! It has to work!”
That mad
professor is going to try the same concoction again and again, convinced
that he will get the result he wants – no matter how brutally the facts
smack him in the face. And if re-elected, Obama will do the same. Even
now, when he desperately needs to come up with something that will sell
the voters on re-electing him, all he can come up with is more spending
proposals and more class warfare. It’s the same stuff he’s been doing
since he took office, and the rest of us can see that it hasn’t worked –
but don’t tell that to the mad professor.
He
is always right. The problem is the rest of you – you ungrateful
business owners, you rascally Republicans, you dumb people who don’t
really know how much worse it would have been without Obama’s steady
hand at the wheel.
The rest of us sit there
with jaws on the floor, thinking, “Did he really say that?” But it makes
perfect sense to the pathological mad professor who is sadly alone in
recognizing his own brilliance.
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