by Barry Kelly | November 8, 2012 · 4:07 pm

Eight Decades of Insights #26

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WHAT NOW

There is no mystery to what will happen in President Obama’s second term. He will continue to do the same programs he talked about in his first term. His goal is power. He will use this power to transform America. To transform anything you must destroy or render obsolete what is. The destruction of the individual freedom we know today must go. Capitalism and the free market are major impediments to transforming America. Higher taxes, including the death tax, will weaken our foundation of small businesses and larger corporations, as will a cascade of new regulations giving more power to the Government. Under President Obama we will never be energy independent. He doesn’t want us to be. In his heart and mind I believe he is a far left socialist. But labels are not important. So lets forget the labels and focus on the link between the President’s words and his actions. Remember in the socialist or communist world a level playing field or giving everyone a fair shot does not mean everyone doing the ‘best they can do.’ It means pulling everyone down to the same level. Cap and Trade regulations or laws are not for a healthier America but to give the Government control of the ‘means of production.‘ An historical goal of all socialist or communist politicians. Green energy means growing an energy industry the Government can control. You must look behind the words. Remember the President saying several times during the long campaign, he wanted to hire a 100,000 new teachers. Since when has the Federal Government ever been responsible for hiring teachers. That power resides in the States and localities. Control medicine, control education, control manufacturing and interstate commerce and you have power only achieved by totalitarian governments. In my lifetime I have lived in Socialist, Monarchial, Military Dictatorships and Communist countries. None of the people so anxious to support President Obama’s objectives would want to live under those types of regimes.

WHAT CAN WE DO? We must demand transparency in Government. We don’t have it now despite all the spin doctors assuring us an investigation is underway. That is government talk for delay and obfuscation. Even kindergarten students could figure out Benghazi and the Fast and Furious debacle. I believe the Benghazi affair is many times more dangerous to our nation than WaterGate. A fumbled burglary by small people working working for a President who surrounded himself with wimps trying to be tough. No one died and no earth shattering information was gained or lost. The punishments for the President and his crew were appropriate. Where is the media on the Benghazi incident? Like it or not our freedom depends upon an aggressive and alert press. No journalist should be in the tank for either party or any Administration. We must demand fiscal responsibility and resist increasing the deficit. We must watch the growth of government size and power, for increasing the size and power of the Executive diminishes individual freedom. Freedom is bestowed quickly but is lost bit by bit. As President Reagan said, “Government is not the answer. It is the problem.

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Eight Decades of Insights 25

Before You Vote

Conservatives, Liberals, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and Progressives please look over the following checklist before exercising your right to vote.

All of us should think twice before putting a person in the White House who:

* Has not shown he or she is willing and eager to undertake the difficult job of being a hands on President;

* Has not demonstrated an ability of working with political opponents;

* Does not believe in the doctrine of the separation of powers among the three equal branches of Government;

* Believes in growing the powers of the Federal Government over the Constitutional powers of the States;

* Does not believe there is a distinct difference between civil crimes committed by US citizens and acts of war/terrorism committed by foreign nationals;

*Does not believe Capitalism and the doctrine of Free Markets are the foundation of the American Economy;

* Believes Socialism, Government spending, and Government jobs are the path to an expanding economy;

* Believes in the cradle to grave care of a centralized Government over Individual initiative and personal responsibility;

* Does not believe in American Exceptionalism;

* Does not recognize that national strength is the road to peace;

* Speaks and acts as if the world is the way he believes it is and not the way it actually is;

* Uses the rhetoric of class warfare to govern America;

* Believes in government conducted in secrecy using Czars rather than Senate confirmed Cabinet members to govern;

* Believes an annual budget accepted and approved by Congress is unnecessary;

* Does not believe a balance budget is a good near term goal;

* Believes the role of the Attorney General is to protect the Administration from Congressional Inquiry;

* Does not believe the protection of Americans serving abroad is his responsibility;

* Favors Islamic nations over Israel in middle east disputes;

* Is afraid of regular press conferences to inform the American people;

*Conducts foreign policy negotiations with Russia through whispered messages to Putin via Medvedev; (caught by an open mike)

* Doesn’t accept that the President gets all credit for the good his administration accomplishes, but also the blame for all failures.

http://www.factsandfictions.com by the author of the Jack Brandon thriller series

EIGHT DECADES OF INSIGHTS #24

EIGHT DECADES OF INSIGHTS #24.

EIGHT DECADES OF INSIGHTS #24

OBAMA’S WALL

President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney exchange views during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. They interrupt each other, bicker and ignore the moderator. Romney poses his own questions and demands answers. Thats not true, Obama huffs over and over. This is presidential conduct? It was squirm-inducing for some viewers. But the candidates have little to lose by cranking up the heat in a tight face, where the focus is on persuading the undecided and firing up their fans.

Throughout history, totalitarian regimes have erected brick and mortar walls as well as more subtle barriers to the flow of information. Often the walls and barriers are to prevent those outside the walls from seeing what the regime does not have, more than to protect what they have, from prying eyes. The Soviet Union was certainly ultra-sensitive to protecting their shortcomings when they built walls to hide behind. Outside their missile program and other militarized areas, the Soviet Union was a wet paper tiger. What they did not have in the 1970s was truly astounding. I spent two years in the Soviet Union from 1973 to 1975. I left being convinced they were a dangerous enemy, not because of their strength, but because of their weakness. Fear of the growing power of the West might have influenced them to strike before the gap widened further.

President Obama, with his totalitarian approach to governing and arrogance that only he and his Chicago mafia know what is right for America, have erected walls to hide mistakes and weakness as well as denying anyone outside the walls to see what has not been done. The president’s fiscal policy is non-existent. His military strategy for an increasingly dangerous world is not even a work in progress. His plan for job creation, beyond hiring 100,000 more teachers, infrastructure improvements, and green energy jobs, has never been seen. Unemployment numbers are seriously flawed. His energy policy is beyond understanding. He is not a brilliant or even a bright man and must hide his deficiencies, at least those David Axelrod cannot fix. Now there is a brilliant political strategist struggling with a hard-to-manage pupil. I cannot believe Axelrod told the president to cover up the Benghazi fiasco. In my opinion, Obama doesn’t even realize the importance Americans place on the protection of its fellow citizens, especially those sent in harm’s way without the tools to work and survive.

The presidential debates are beginning to tear down the walls erected to hide the failed promises, fantastic accumulation of debt, inept foreign policy, ignorance of economic development, amateurish military strategy, and the extreme left-wing objectives. You see a debater who is far better at displaying arrogance, anger, petulance, denial, and how-dare-you question me than he is at presenting a rational defense of his record or a cogent plan for the next four years. Don’t expect things to improve, no matter where your political allegiance resides. What you see is what you have. If you are a voter, push past the words and carefully consider if you and the nation can stand another four years of government behind the walls. Pull the walls down. Let the daylight in.

www/factsandfictions.com The author of the Jack Brandon Thriller Series.

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by Barry Kelly | October 10, 2012 · 7:14 pm

EIGHT DECADES OF INSIGHTS #23

FINALLY TRANSPARENCY

In the fourth year of the Obama administration, the president has delivered on his promise to have the most transparent presidency ever. Just look at the president’s actions, the rulings of his czar-led cabinet, speeches by the president and his surrogates, the fumbling statements of his press secretary, the infamous five Sunday talk shows by Secretary to the United Nations Susan Rice to blame the murders in Benghazi on a despicable anti-Islam film, the vicious campaign ads blaming the president’s inept performance on the debate stage in Denver by stating governor Romney lied. Are these actions hard to see through?

What you saw on the stage in Denver’s presidential debate is the true Obama A man uncomfortable with a level playing field where petulant arrogance is no defense against a well prepared articulate opponent. President Obama showed clearly that he is not presidential. He desperately needs his teleprompter and cannot think on his feet. When the same old cliches no longer work in the presence of an opponent who has better answers and no fear, Obama is lost in confusion and shows us who he really is, a man so far out of his depth that he cannot provide the leadership we need to restore economic prosperity and equal opportunity. His policies of class warfare, divide and conquer, breaking rules, regulations and even laws by ignoring Congress are compounded by cover ups and delaying tactics to prevent citizens from learning the truth.

What we have is straightforward politics from the depths of Chicago. The president’s advisers come from the Chicago political school where the truth is whatever works the best for them. Their guru Saul Alinsky has written brilliantly about the process of the “end justifying the means.” Anything that might diminish the Obama administration has to be spun, delayed by investigations or covered up. The attorney general is a master of protecting the administration above everything else, including the dictates of the rule of law. Example: fast and furious where he took the fall when he was found to be guilty of contempt of Congress, the first time in our history for an attorney general.

Other areas of increasing transparency are: downplaying the war on terror, lawlessness on our borders, failed policies in Afghanistan and Iraq damaging our relationship with Israel, growing the size and scope of the federal government at the expense of the states and the Constitution, controlling the means of production (socialism on the march) destroying capitalism and the free market, seeking a behind-the-scenes arrangement with Putin.

Transparency in the Obama administration is increasingly easy to see. Just focus on the growing cracks and peer inside. You won’t like what you see.

http://www.factsandfictions.com Author of The Jack Brandon Thriller Series.