David Limbaugh - Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama

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This book is about a young presidencyyoung, but already the most destructive in American history.

Everything about Barack Obamas radical background signals his visceral contempt for Americaits culture, its values, and its political and economic systems. His unmistakable goal is to bring America down to sizean America that has been, in his view, too big for its britches, selfish, exploitive, unfairly wealthy, arrogant, and dismissive.

Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly promised to bring fundamental change. The week before the election, he ominously declared, We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America. That same week, I expressed these concerns in my syndicated column:

I wish I had been wrong, but it turns out my fears were hardly exaggerated. Though Obama denied his extreme liberalism during the campaign, he couldnt conceal it entirely. Since his first day in office he has been trying to uproot our national moorings and transform the country into a land consistent with his socialist, secular, multicultural vision for Americaan America that in his view has squandered its power and potential for good by: a) failing sufficiently to atone for its racial sins; b) subscribing to an antiquated and discriminatory system of values; c) having an economic system that fosters an inequitable distribution of wealth; d) selfishly consuming a disproportionate share of the worlds resources; and e) imperialistically projecting its power in the world.

But Obama does have some ambivalence about America. On the one hand he deeply dislikes this country; on the other, he sees in it great potentiala potential he believes, immodestly, he can personally unleash as president. He admires Americas wealth and power, even if undeserved in his view, but he is passionate about redirecting them and remaking us into a truly great nationa part of the global community that shares rather than exploits its resources. In 2007 he told a Rolling Stone reporter he has faith in Americas capacity for acts of outstanding virtue, but as a black man, he feels very deeply that this countrys exercise of its great inherited wealth and power has been grossly unjust. Obama added, Im somebody who believes in this country and its institutions, but I often think theyre broken.

Tragically, Obamas ideological blindness precludes him from recognizing Americas unparalleled record of benevolence as the worlds greatest superpower. It numbs him to the wonders of Americas free-market system, which has produced unprecedented prosperity for Americans and contributed to the advancement of civilization throughout the world. It obscures a realistic assessment of global politics that comprehends the existence of rogue nations, evil empires, and Islamic terrorists who intend us harm and who cannot be mollified through pandering and engagement, but must be approached from a position of strength.

His abundantly documented radical background soured his taste on America, compelling him to believe Americas wealth and power were inherited, rather than inspired by Americas god-fearing founders, who crafted a government designed to establish and maximize individual libertiesa government that has been preserved with the blood, sweat, and tears of generations of Americans.

Ironically, Obamas domestic policy, foreign policy, and national security prescriptions are the opposite of what America needs. In transforming America to spread the wealth around, he is actually spreading the misery around, burying us in debt, and potentially enslaving us to our foreign creditors. In the name of improving our image in the world, he is compromising our national security.

He is reaping destruction in Americas culture, its Constitution, and in every sector of the American economy (save the public sector), administering one kick in the gut after another and inflicting damage from which it will be difficult to recover.

While holding himself out as a post-partisan, post-racial president, he has exacerbated racial tensions, inflamed partisan divisiveness, engaged in acrimonious class warfare, and demonized anyone to the political right of the late Ted Kennedy.

For someone who inspired so much hope and had so much goodwill upon taking office, even among certain commentators and media professionals who consider themselves conservatives, it is striking how far he has fallen so fast. His approval ratings have cratered more rapidly than those of any modern president. He has squandered more political capital than most presidents ever possessed. And he has done it all himself; his popularity freefall hasnt occurred as a result of circumstances beyond his control. But that hasnt prevented him from milking the economic crisis excuse ad nauseam and endlessly scapegoating his predecessor for the multitude of problems Obama allegedly inherited. He owns our current set of problems, which if he did inherit, he greatly exacerbated through a series of deplorable policies and actions.

He promised to lead a transparent, ethical administration, free of corruption and sanitized of conflicts of interest generated by the revolving door between lawmakers and lobbyists. But he appointed a host of tax cheats, lobbyists, and leftist radicals, and has cloaked many of his policy actions in secrecy. He has reportedly used his appointment power to offer high-ranking government jobs and other benefits in exchange for votes supporting his agenda. He has brought Chicago-style politics and Saul Alinsky street organizing tactics to Washington, diverting federal funds to the now-defunct ACORN as his political and re-election arm, using the Justice Department as an advocacy bureau and his campaign organization as an ongoing war room. He fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin after Walpin filed two reports implicating one of Obamas prominent supporters in the misappropriation of federal AmeriCorps funds, and then used the power of his office to wrongfully discredit Walpin and whitewash his allegations.

He presented himself as an exemplar of honestya new kind of politician with unique character and integrity. But he has been one of the most fundamentally dishonest chief executives in our history. He has broken promises on a broad range of important issues, from his pledge not to raise taxes in any form on those making less than $250,000 a year to his expedient promise to end the practice of extraordinary rendition. Nowhere has his pattern for dishonesty been more apparent than in his obsessive drive for socialized medicine, from his slandering of the nonpareil quality of American healthcare, to his promise to televise the healthcare debates on C-SPAN, to his pledge not to force the uninsured to buy insurance, to his varying claims about the numbers of uninsured, to denying his support for a single-payer plan, to dismissing allegations that the public option was a Trojan horse for a single-payer plan, to his dissembling about whether abortion would be federally funded, to whether his plan would cover illegal immigrants, to his promise that he would not interfere with the doctor-patient relationship and would expand healthcare choices, to his pooh-poohing the legitimate charge that his plan would lead to rationing.