I saw this from Sultan Knish He did a very good job stating the case
"To vote for Obama after years of grotesque economic mismanagement that
has no precedent in history, that exceeds the worst actions of Andrew
Jackson or Ulysses S. Grant, is not the instinct of an American, but a
selfish greedy looter scrambling to grab a few dinner rolls off the tray
while the ship is going down. There is no policy justification for
voting for a man with the worst economic and foreign policy record in
the country's history. There is no American justification for voting for
him. Only the Un-American motivation of carving up a dying country into
group fiefdoms privileging identity politics over the common good.
This is an Un-American campaign. It is an Anti-American campaign. It is a
campaign by those who hate and fear what America was and who resent
having to care about anyone outside their own group. Its group jingoism,
its dog whistles and special privileges are repulsive and cynical,
treating the people of a great nation like a warren of rats eager to
sell each other out for a prize from the Cracker Jack box of identity
politics entitlements."
In 1980, when President Reagan asked Americans, "Are you better off now
than you were four years ago", it was still possible to campaign on a
theme as simple as the job performance of the other guy. But now, 32
years later, the campaign hinges on a much more fundamental split among
the voting population.
Romney appeals to voters who are dissatisfied with the last four years.
Obama appeals to voters who are dissatisfied with America.
This basic gap was obscured in the 2008 campaign by the window trappings
of inspiration. Among all the plastic pillars and stolen quotes from
poets who stole them from sermons, it was harder to see that the
underlying theme of the campaign was dissatisfaction with America. But
in 2012, Obama can no longer run as a reformer or an optimist.
The coalition that he committed to last year is a coalition of those who
are unhappy with America, not in the last four years, but in the last
two-hundred years. Its core is composed of groups that fear democracy
and distrust the will of the people. There is no optimism here, but a
deeply rooted pessimism about human nature and the country as a whole.
It is the Democratic Party's coalition against democracy.
After 2010, the numbers were crunched, and it was clear that Obama and
the Democrats could not win a mainstream campaign. Instead, they
targeted narrow groups, stirred up conflicts over issues aimed at that
group, whether it was union pensions, racism or birth control. There was
no more pretense of a national election, only a frenzied rush to
polarize as many groups as possible and join them together into an
acrimonious coalition, not so much for anything, as against Republicans.
There isn't any inspiration here. Just paranoia over everything from gay
marriage to abortion to racial profiling to illegal immigration. A
dozen illegal benefits being handed out with the explicit threat that
they will be lost if Romney wins. A dozen mini-civil wars being stirred
up to divide Americans and set them at each other's throats for the
benefit of the Obama campaign.
From Occupy Wall Street to Wisconsin, from Trayvon Martin to
Chick-fil-A, the goal of these manufactured conflicts has been to divide
and conquer the electorate by emphasizing group rights over individual
economic welfare.
Obama can't win on the economy. He can't win on foreign policy. He can't
win on any aspect of his administration. All he can do is stir up
violence and then promise to heal the country in his second term while
winking to all the representatives of the grievance groups. It's not a
new game, but the Democratic Party has never played it quite this baldly
in a national election. And if it succeeds, then national politics will
have finally been reduced to the level of a Chicago election.
We were expected to believe that the typical Obama voter in 2008 was
hoping for a better country, but in 2012 there is no more hope, only
hate and fear. The typical Obama voter is not acting as an American, but
as a representative of an entitled group looking to secure and expand
those entitlements at the expense and the detriment of the country at
large.
To vote for Obama after years of grotesque economic mismanagement that
has no precedent in history, that exceeds the worst actions of Andrew
Jackson or Ulysses S. Grant, is not the instinct of an American, but a
selfish greedy looter scrambling to grab a few dinner rolls off the tray
while the ship is going down. There is no policy justification for
voting for a man with the worst economic and foreign policy record in
the country's history. There is no American justification for voting for
him. Only the UnAmerican motivation of carving up a dying country into
group fiefdoms privileging identity politics over the common good.
This is an UnAmerican campaign. It is an Anti-American campaign. It is a
campaign by those who hate and fear what America was and who resent
having to care about anyone outside their own group. Its group jingoism,
its dog whistles and special privileges are repulsive and cynical,
treating the people of a great nation like a warren of rats eager to
sell each other out for a prize from the Cracker Jack box of identity
politics entitlements.
There is not a single Obama voter anywhere in the land who believes that
another four years of him will make this country better. Not a single
one from coast to coast. No, what they believe is that he will make the
country a worse place for those people that they hate. That he will have
four more years to sink their ideas deeper in the earth, regardless of
how many families go hungry and how many fathers kill themselves because
they can no longer take care of their families. What they believe is
that Obama will grant their group more special privileges and the rest
of the country can go to hell.
In his DNC keynote address in 2004, Obama said, "There is no Black
America or White America or Latino America or Asian America, there is
just the United States of America." And now he has completely disavowed
it. He isn't campaigning to lead the United States of America, instead
he is running for the presidency of a dozen little Americas, Trayvon
Martin America, Abortion America, Illegal Alien America, Sharia America,
Gay Marriage America, Starbucks America and any others you can think
of. And if he can collect enough of these little Americas together, then
he may get the privilege of running the United States of America into
the ground for another four years.
Obama has never been the President of the United States of America. He
has been the president of Washington D.C., of Wall Street and of
Solyndra. He has been the President of Green America and of Chicago. He
has been the President of Warren Buffett, George Soros, Bill Gates,
Penny Pritzker and James Crown. He is the President of George Clooney,
Harvey Weinstein and Anne Hathaway. And now, facing disaster, he still
isn't running to be President of a country, but of a dozen little
countries with money from freshly bailed out Green America and Wall
Street, not to mention Hollywood.
The Obama campaign is not accidentally divisive. It did not stumble into
divisiveness. It is not even divisive as a byproduct of its real aims.
Divisiveness is its aim. Divisiveness is the only way that a divisive
administration can hold on to power. The anger and the violence are not
an accident, they are the whole point. Set one group against another,
feed the hate, massage the grievances and very soon there is no longer a
nation but a handful of quarreling groups being roped into a mutual
alliance to reelect their lord protector whose appeal is that of the
outsider becoming the insider.
Bain is a metaphor whose details don't truly matter. The target audience
for that swill doesn't really care where Romney was when a steel plant
was shut down. It doesn't care that like so many private equity bigwigs,
the man who actually was in charge is one of Obama's bundlers. This
isn't about truth, it's about menace. The Bain message is that Romney is
a man who takes things away. That is the image that the UnAmerican
alliance is meant to take away. The ominous sense that Obama's era of
giving them things is about to come to a close and Romney's era of
taking away things will begin.
It doesn't take much prompting for the UnAmericans to come to this
conclusion. Thieves are always looking over their shoulders. They always
expect to have their ill-gotten gains taken away from them. And that is
Obama's true achievement. Like Tammany Hall, he has corrupted a massive
section of the population and made it complicit in his criminality.
What the old political machines did to cities or small groups of vested
interests, the Zero has done to tens of millions, if not a hundred
million people, who want him in power not because they think he's the
best man for the job, but because he's their crook. The middle man for a
crime ring that begins with him and ends with them.
The true insidious evil of the man is that he is the face of a machine
of power and privilege that turns Americans into UnAmericans, that
corrupts and degrades every ideal and principle, suborns every office
and picks every pocket, while wrapping that thievery in the flag and
every bit of history that it can filch. The Hussein Way is the clearest
expression of the rot at the heart of the Democratic Party, the marriage
of leftist agitation and powermongering with the old urban political
machines for a level of abuse usually seen only in banana republics.
The abomination in Washington is a welfare-state technocracy that mixes
crony capitalism with radical social policy. It steals from everyone and
gives back to some. It plays the game of divide and conquer with the
panache of marketing executives knowing that the worse the economy is,
the more likely everyone is to look in everyone else's mouth. Its worst
aspect is its insistence on cloaking its cynicism as righteousness,
wrapping every ugly means in the glorious flag of the ends when the
truth is that its means are its ends.
Divide and conquer isn't just a means to the greater end of giving Zero
Hussein another four years. And perhaps another four years after that.
It's also the end. Every tyrant from Joseph Stalin to Saddam Hussein
knew that a divided people are easier to rule. The more you divide them,
the less likely they are to give you any trouble when you're raiding
their last pennies to pay for the latest Green gimmick that your
billionaire backers have thrown up all over Wall Street.
Obama is the ultimate Post-American figure passing himself off as the
embodiment of all that is truly American. But the UnAmericans got the
real message in 2008 and in 2012 there is no other message. There is no
more hope and faith, and the ones who have been waiting for are the
UnAmericans who think that they are about to come into their own, when
they are little more than pawns being used to rob and destroy a great
nation.
This is the Post-American, Anti-American and UnAmerican campaign to
divide up, carve up and toss aside the laws and traditions of the United
States and replace them with the power of arrogance. It is the last
stand of a beleaguered nation facing barbarians inside its gate. Every
previous election was a contest between two American candidates who
wanted to preside over the United States.
This is an election contest between the United States and an emerging
Post-American order. That entity will be an American EU run by unelected
bureaucrats, governed by politically correct technocrats and upheld by
corrupt financial pirates disguising the collective bankruptcy with
numbers games so elaborate that they make every billion-dollar con game
and pyramid scheme that has come before seem as simple as child's play.
The entity is already here. Its czars are running things in D.C., and
its judges are dismantling both constitutional government and democratic
elections. It creates a crisis and then makes sure that it doesn't go
to waste. It has excellent design skills and terrible planning skills.
It has all the money in the world and none at all. It is the
Post-American America, and 2012 is its big referendum. The one that will
decide whether this Post-American America, this horrid graft of E.U.
governance and Mussolini economics, Soviet propaganda and FDR
volunteerism, Tammany populist criminality and U.N. foreign policy will
be permitted to devour the United States of America.
Obama cannot win an American election. But he isn't running in an American election. He's running in a Post-American election.
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