It became evident this evening that the President’s defeat at the polls next year is a virtual certainty. They say that people made their decision not to elect Jimmy Carter in 1979 when the Iranian hostage crisis occurred. May I suggest the same mental process is playing itself this time. We know that his jobs program is dead on arrival. All anybody has to hear is the 447 Billion figure and they just think “more government spending that won’t work”. We saw a poll this evening on the Mc Laughlin group that Obama’s approval number was 40% and that his disapproval number is 52%. We know that in the NY congressional race on Tuesday that former NY mayor, Ed Kotch, a Jew and a Democrat, refused to support the Jewish democrat running but instead supported the Republican candidate, who won. It was perceived that the President has abandoned Israel, and this will be underscored next week when the UN votes to make the Palestinian state an official “observer” at the General Assembly. The democratic candidate lost in Nevada by 22% pretty much dooming Nevada to going Republican next year despite being virtually even in 2008. We have that Solindra company that made Solar cells that the President floated a bit loan to in the spring of 2010 giving the company a big build-up as an example of the future. Now that company has gone bankrupt and that loan money is lost. This tends to neutralize charges of “Pay to Play” against Rick Perry taking money from various companies for political consideration. The worst blow of all to Democratic changes next year comes from the fact that he will not be “Primaried” by any Democrat next year, even Dennis Kasinich. They, too, all want to go down with the sinking ship. Obama is like an ineffective quarterback that the coach refuses to replace because he’s afraid the other team might think “we are divided”. Of course not every single Democrat is remaining silent. James Carville and Willy Brown have chimed in saying that the President ought to at least- - fire somebody or indict somebody or “show a little action”. Carville thinks it’s “time to panic” and I agree. Personally I will not vote for Obama next year and I don’t care what happens between now and then. I’m voting for the green party or something. At this point any generic Candidate X will do. Anybody but Obama. I think there are vast numbers of people who think exactly like I do. I don’t care how unified the other high ranking democrats are. The average person only feels disgust when they look at Obama. His first “character flaw” came when he disowned a church he’d been a member of for twenty years and he and his wife got married there and his children were baptized there. This was the first “shot across the bough” of a whole chain of disappointments and let-downs to follow. Essentially it’s going to be a one party contest between now and then, and that is the Republican primaries.
You know that it could be that President Obama will get a major schlacking in next year’s Presidential race against Rick Perry. First of all Perry probably will out-spend him. This was not the case with Mc Cain. Obama’s languishing in the polls will severely hamper his ability to raise donations. But more importantly, Rick Perry will be continually reminding us all of his “Texas Miracle” and all that he’s accomplished for his state in the terms of Jobs and financial prosperity. What will the President have to point to in the way of accomplishments? Usually Presidents seeking re-elections have something. He sure can’t talk about Health Care. He probably made a major mistake in waiting till 2014 before he implements it. And Rick Perry will be there to remind him that Republicans don’t plan to fund a penny for it. But that’s pretty much all he’s got and he doesn’t have that. Maybe he can talk about the credit card and banking reform legislation, but the banking part is so useless people won’t care. Just like the people don’t care about getting a fairer deal with the credit card agencies or that Obama has cut their taxes. In the mind of the republicans it didn’t happen. As you-know-who put it yesterday “Now Obama is getting desperate and he’s starting to use the language and terminology of the republicans”. That’s not good. But the thing that’s really going to kill Obama is one he doesn’t want to talk about. Perry fights dirty and will do anything to win. Obama will continue to be a “nice guy” and continue to let Perry pummel him. While the President will never use the term “Tea Bagger” or mention people like John Boehner by name, Perry and the rest use the word “Obama” in every other sentence as the object of all their loathing. Wall Street has gone up 30% since Obama took office and corporate profits have skyrocketed. They say 88% of the rise in GNP is from corporate profits. Yet Wall Street hates Obama. Romney and others are still calling him a Socialist. They want their own guy in there they can feel “confident” with. Since the death of Bin Laden the whole “Obama is a Muslem” charge has lost its punch. Now it’s suddenly no big thing we got Bin Laden. But these Republicans maintain that “Obama is fundamentally hostile to Wall Street despite the numbers. And they pummel him with these various charges and don’t let up and Obama just takes it. So that Obama will appear weak before the public, but Perry will appear strong. And you know, as Clinton said, that “Strong and wrong beats weak and right every time”. (Selah)
Sometimes it’s interesting to read books written by politicians a long time ago. As you know I’ve been reading Newt Gingrich’s book “To Renew America” that came out in 1995. One can immediately see a byfercation of style in the book. When he talks about science and technology, for example- - he’s way in the Future. First he does a review of this Future Shock Third Wave song and dance about how we are now in the age of information and presumably no longer in the industrial age. The immediate problem here is that our bridges and roads and water works are crumbling and we are in desperate need of putting these “obsolete workers” back to work to get the needed jobs done. Who would have guessed there would be a time, and I doubt Newt did in 1995 that a jobs speech like the President gave last week would be met with only scorn by the opposition party? But Newt speaks of the present era as being one of cell phones and notebook computers and big screen high definition TV, even though HDTV would not become a reality in America till 2006. While notebook computers are common now, they were far less so in 1995. There was this kiddy show about ten years ago on NBC that depicted this young girl moving to Africa in the remotest part of the jungle. But somehow out there they were wired for computer cable and she had an internet cam, and each saw the other in perfect lighting on the screen. Newt spoke of visits to the doctor being obsolete and you could take blood samples at home and wire them into a world wide medical data base. He spoke of the smog and traffic congestion problems solving themselves because people would no longer comute but do all of their business at home. Newt also spoke of D N A gene modification become common place, if not the normal method of treating diseases. Well, we aren’t exactly there yet. Newt also spoke of the wave of the future being that big corporations might even become obsolete, if I read him right, and also of increased employee participation in management decisions because this would be good for moral and increase overall employment efficiency. If only this were the case. The truth is that things have a hell of a way of taking a whole lot longer to become a reality than people suppose, as per the example of HTDV. I keep hearing that rotating disk drives on computers will be obsolete soon, yet I haven’t heard even a hint that this is becoming reality. It would sure save a lot of access time. And then there are those so called 3 D computer chips that are much faster. Where are those? Only now are “picture phones” becoming standard, and we’ve been hearing about those since the ‘sixties. You will remember that in “War Games” that came out in 1983 they had “The Internet” and the protagonist in the movie was used to playing lots of video games on-line, presumably using dial-up. The first time I heard the term Modem was late January of 1990 when I enrolled in a computer class I quickly dropped out of. They’ve had computer viruses since at least the fall of 1990 when I was at R O P, and ways to get rid of them. The people that bought my parents’ house had internet in July 1991, the one time when I was over there. Of course some people say “The Internet” didn’t exist till after 1992, which is of course rediculas. But Newt does a good job of portraying trends in science and technology, even if the reality takes a lot more time to arrive.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said about matters of Government and the economy in general. Newt announces “Keynseanism is dead”. He tended to be negative about the prospects of reducing the deficit in 1995. He kept invoking images such as the dollar losing its value, as though that were a new thing. Garner Ted Armstrong was talking about that on the radio in 1970. The pure fact is that the best way to insure that our balance of trade is restored is to keep the price of our currency down. But Newt seems far more concerned about rich people not being able to vacation in Europe as often with a reduced dollar, even if it would work wonders for our exports. Keep in mind our complaint is that China has been keeping their currency artificially to low, and not too high. Newt speaks of “liberals blaming society for things like crime and jouvenile delinquency”. This line is like something right out of fifty years ago when such talk was actually fashionable. So basically Newt is setting up straw men and knocking them down. He spoke of Ben Franklin calling for prayer during the Constitutional Convention so that the founding fathers had to wisdom to come up with their statemen-like decisions such that Blacks constituted three-fifths of a human being. At least back fifteen years ago the rage of the right was not as evolved as it is now. Newt in his fondest dream would not have envisioned anything like the Tea Party taking over the reins of national government. The problem is that many now in congress who are in their early forties, are not really old enough to actually remember what Ronald Reagan was like but they are told this fairy tale by their elders and they believed it. There is always talk about returning to some sort of “Spiritual” dimension in the land. Well you know what scripture says, don’t you, “He who has heard Neil Savedra’s program on the radio has experienced God first-hand”. With that as your guiding light, you’re in major trouble.
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