The Backlash is Looming

Get ready for the backlash. People are beginning to wake up and smell the …ahem … coffee.
A portion of the 52% crowd – those who voted for Obama in ’08 – is finally realizing that Obama’s machinations, (and those of the rest of the fringe left) aren’t bearing the promised utopian fruit for which they had the audacity to hope. Some of them may actually begin to connect the dots to see that the current administration’s socialist agenda is directly responsible for the worsening fiscal crisis we face. The Obama administration is making, in my opinion, a series of mistakes. I’m not just talking about the giant mistakes like seizing control of banks, mortgage companies, General Motors and of socializing medicine. I’m talking about the strategic political blunders they’ve made since winning the election, the first of which is that they haven’t stopped campaigning. We’re almost as tired of Obama’s televised addresses as we are of the Michael Jackson news coverage.
Secondly, his administration demeaned itself by attacking conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh and incessantly pointing the finger of blame at the “previous administration.” A poignant reminder: the “previous administration” defeated the recession it inherited from the Clinton White House by cutting taxes.
To make matters worse for the Democrats, everything they have worked hard to do illustrates perfectly well that they are every bit the socialists that conservatives have said they are. The largest spending bill in history (so far!) was voted on by both houses of (Democrat controlled) Congress without having been read. The public aren’t happy about how the money is being wastefully spent, especially since the economy is getting worse, not better. And with Goliath-sized deficits, no one is being fooled any longer by the press’s attempts to convince us that an economic upturn is just around the corner.
Despite the campaign rhetoric of its beguiling leader, this administration is far less transparent than any administration of recent memory.

On foreign policy it appears that Obama hasn’t met a socialist or tyrant he didn’t like yet. Israel is no longer the ally of choice in the Middle East it seems. Just as we are giving billions of stimulus dollars to corrupt domestic groups like ACORN, we’re also giving billions in aid to organizations who are nothing but front men for Hamas. And does Obama even realize that he’s walking around with Iranian egg on his face following the sham election of June 12? The bromides and promises of respect looked silly and uninformed as the regime's goons sped through Iran's streets on motorcycles beating demonstrators with batons. And just like socialist-dictator-to-be Hugo Chavez, Honduran president (and fellow socialist) Manuel Zelaya tried to illegally remove the term limits imposed by the Honduran constitution, for which Hondurans faithful to their constitution rose up and expelled him. True to his socialist nature, Obama is supporting Zelaya instead of the Honduran people and their constitution. At least the Democrat party had the common decency to introduce legislation to repeal our 22nd amendment, instead of just letting Barack redact it from our Constitution.

Obama’s excuses are starting to wear as thin as the color of his skin, and those who voted for him simply because he’s African American are going to be some of his biggest detractors come 2012. It is sad and unfortunate there are still people who judge others because of skin color, but the fact remains that everyone likes the color of money. As the government starts confiscating more of everyone’s money through new taxes, a lot of his 2008 supporters won’t even bother to make it to the voting booths in 2010 and 2012.