Why We Should Be Thankful To The Obama Administration For...

Pres. Obama is brewing his own at the White House. Actually, the White House beer is a lot like the Obama administration---great buzz, weak finish...Leno

I know what many of my regular readers are thinking right now: You're kidding right? Actually, I'm not. In fact, I want to ask you to lend me your eyes for just a few minutes. I promise you'll understand why we should be thankful for the Obama administration.

We should be thankful to the Obama administration for...

• Showing the nation just how incompetent progressives are when it comes to leading and managing anything. Not long ago, when I wrote about Hillary Clinton, I described her as the perfect progressive politician: Good at nothing; bad at everything.
• Showing the nation how dangerous it is for a progressive administration to have any power at all. In the case of this one, we've seen the law used against American citizens often selectively and arbitrarily. The IRS scandal is evidence of this. In addition, even the Supreme Court found the administration violated the Constitution, e.g. recess appointments.
• Showing the nation and the world how dangerous it is for an administration to lose all respect of its allies. Just as dangerous, showing our enemies how truly spineless and feeble the administration is in dealing with them. This is the direct consequence of "leading from behind" instead of being a leader of the free world. This inevitably leads of our allies and enemies disregarding our intentions as well as our threats.
• Showing the nation just how good a president Ronald Reagan was---a president who was respected by his allies but feared by his enemies.
• Showing the nation and the world that Jimmy Carter was a better president. 
• Showing the nation and the world what happens to that nation when its leader appears disengaged from doing his job. The result of this "benign neglect" is that it leaves democracies in peril (to paraphrase Amir Taheri).
• Showing the nation how a progressive ideology trumps the security and well-being of the country. The recent immigration debate and border crisis supports this observation.
• Showing a nation that being a Caesar at home and a Chamberlain abroad (to borrow a phrase from Michael Goodwin of the NY Post) shows weakness and sends conflicting messages.
• Showing a nation and the world just how dangerous it is for the leader of the free world to lack any ability to project optimism.
• Showing a nation just how dangerous it is to make so many poor appointments to important positions. The office of the Secretary of State comes immediately to mind. Adding new meaning to the "blind leading the blind."

Pelosi, Reid + Biden Just A Few Of Many Unfit To Hold Any Political Office

Q. According to a recent survey, 7 out 10 Americans think the country is going in the wrong direction. Who are the other three?
A. Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid

While it's true most politicians make stupid comments and statements on occasion, there are a handful that make both stupid and dangerous comments on a regular basis. In fact, their statements alone should make them unfit to hold any political office. The following list is only a partial one, but it shows how politicians raise stupidity to an art form. 

Just this week, Nancy Pelosi described Hamas as a "humanitarian organization."  Some of her other gems include the following:

• "It's almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem."
• "Every month that we don't have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs." (this former Speaker of the House has no idea there are only about 320M people in America).
• "But we have to pass the bill {Obamacare} so that you can find out what is in it."
• "I don't think {Obama's} done anything for political reasons."
• Obamacare's implementation is "fabulous."
• Last April, Pelosi implied that the Founding Fathers wanted Obamacare.
• "What we're trying to do is to save the world from the Republican budget. We're trying to save life on this planet as we know it today." It's obvious she's not only a lunatic but she just might be from another planet.

And then there are these Harry Reid gems:

• "Our system of government is a voluntary tax system. Of course, you have to pay them."
• "You can literally smell the tourists coming in the Capitol." In other words, according to Reid, we stink.
• In 2008, Reid described Obama as a "light skinned African-American with no Negro dialect." (So how did he get away with such an obvious racist remark? Hint: Democrats and progressives almost always get a pass).
• In 2007, during the Iraq War, Reid said the war in Iraq is "lost." You can be assured our troops fighting in Iraq then were a tad pissed off at this miserable prick.
• During the last presidential campaign, Reid accused Romney of not paying his taxes for 10 years. He said he heard it from an anonymous source. PolitiFact later reported that the Romney's paid over $3M in taxes in 2010 and 2011. In fact, Politico even reported that Romney gave more to charity than even Biden and Obama did. In 2011, the Romney and his wife gave over $4M to charity or about 30% of their income. That same year, Biden's gave $5,540.00 or about 1.5% of their income. The Obama's gave approximately $173,000 or about 22% of their income.

Charlie Daniels said it best when referring to Harry Reid: "Harry Reid, you should be put in jail for impersonating an American."

And who can forget some of the quotes by the nation's knucklehead, Joe Biden:

John F. Kerry: The Poster Dufus For Repeated Foreign Policy Failures

John Kerry Poses With Masseuse To Get A Few Minutes With Putin...The Onion

Regular readers of my blog know how much I despise John F. Kerry, a back-stabbing pompous ass. He proved that by maligning an entire generation of Vietnam and Iraq War veterans. 

But now the entire nation---in fact, the entire world---is finally realizing he's also the poster dufus for repeated foreign policy failures. Since he became Secretary of State,  Kerry's failures are countless. But some of the more egregious include the following:

• Leading the collapse of Middle East Negotiations. Just this past week, his proposal for cease fire between Israel was rejected largely because it was weighed heavily in favor of Hamas. One reason: there was no mention of demilitarization of Hamas or destruction of their tunnels. These were both conditions for Israel.
• In  April, he said Israel HAD to make concessions to the Palestinians or risk becoming a "apartheid state." In fact, Kerry even threatened boycotts against Israel agreements were not reached.
• He, as well as Obama, appeared weak and helpless against Putin's aggression into the Ukraine. Putin eventually took over Crimea. 
• Kerry's Syrian diplomacy was a miserable failure. It's now estimated over 150,000 Syrians have died in their civil war.
• When Kerry showed up in Cairo, he was actually wanded by Egypt's security guards. In other words, even the Egyptians don't trust this prick.
• When Kerry met with Qatar and Turkey representatives in Paris recently, even the Palestinians objected considering Qatar and Turkey have long been in bed with Hamas. Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post took notice and wrote: "Secretary of State John Kerry is in the wrong place, talking to the wrong people about the wrong thing." Ouch! She points out that Kerry didn't even invite Israelis to this meeting.
• The New York Daily News reported John Kerry is the only American Secretary of State to fail to get combatants on either side of the Israeli/Palestinian equation to agree to a ceasefire in more than 20 years.

The Obama Administration + Congress Inflict Lasting Wounds On The Entire Nation

An actress was sentenced to 18 years for sending ricin to Obama. BHO was never in danger because the poison was sent to the Oval Office...WH Press Secretary

In a few six years, we've watched how this administration and Congress were able to converge incompetence in domestic and foreign policy. While other administrations were not immune to doing  some of the same, this administration actually felt and often boasted about how this type of transformation was good for America as well as the rest of the world. Instead we've seen many destabilized regions in the world become even more destabilized. Domestically, we seen much of the same. In the past, on this blog, I've asked many questions. I've also challenged  the credibility and validity of many of the policies of this administration. Some of these included, but were not limited to, the following:

• "Leading from behind" leads to a leaderless nation. In other words, the problem with leading from behind is eventually no one will be following.
• Is America becoming a nation of broken windows under this administration? I asked that question one year ago last month. I asked it after reading a piece by Thomas Sowell. At the time, he wrote this: "When Barack Obama squanders his own credibility with his glib lies, he's not just injuring himself during his time in office. He's inflicting a lasting wound on the nation as a whole." Sowell added we have only ourselves to blame considering Obama was elected twice. I'm obliged to add most of these wounds have been self-inflicted.
• After reviewing these last six years, I'm also obliged to ask---as I have in the passed---can this administration and Congress do anything right? To be fair, government does do some things right. For example, the FAA does a pretty good job of keeping our skies safe considering the number of aircraft in the air at any one time (by the way, 5000 according to Flightradar 24). CDC does commendable work. And although they are under construction much of the time, the interstate highway system is a wonder to behold. But beyond those, it certainly appears much of what this administration touches turns to crap.
• Regarding foreign policy, it's not even necessary to list all the failures here (it's a damn long list). All anyone needs to know is we've had two people in charge of that foreign policy in the last six years: Hillary Clinton and J. F. Kerry now. That's all you need to know. In addition, American "leadership" in foreign policy has been ambiguous and ambivalent. We saw that on display with Syria (the disappearing red line) and our initially taking sides with moderate rebels who only committed moderate war crimes. In short, from Libya to Israel, our foreign policy has been inept.
• And just as inept, this administration doesn't appear to have a clue how to deal with Islamic homicidal maniacs. Even as I write this, Christians are being slaughtered on a daily basis in the Islamic world.  For example, Persecution.Org reports that Boko Haram alone has murdered over 1600 Christians in the last six months alone (two times as many as last year). Iraq is being emptied of most of its Christian communities. Yet, this administration has largely been silent about this ongoing holocaust. Hashtag diplomacy doesn't appear to be working.
• And while I can go on a list a plethora of addition problems created and/or not managed well by this administration and Congress,  more dangerous failures and actions have been apparent in the attacks on our freedoms and liberties. We've seen how political ideologues used the nation's laws (when they don't break many of those laws themselves) against American citizens.  Wayne LaPierre, executive VP of the NRA, wrote recently: "Obama's promise of the 'most transparent administration in history' has morphed into the 'most lawless administration in history.'"
• We used to be a nation that was both feared and respected. The global community turned to us for guidance, protection and leadership. That's fading quickly and the damage will most likely last for decades. We can only hope the good people step up before it really is too late.

Postscript: Since this was posted, we now know---via Gruber---that Obamacare was indeed based on lies. In addition, Obama announced his immigration plan and vetoing the Keystone Pipeline flipping Americans the bird yet again.