EDITOR'S CORNER:
by Jimnasium
8th November, 2012
I was hoping
to write an article today about the defeat of President Barack Obama. Sadly it
is not to be as voters returned him back to the White House. But the question
on many people's lips at the moment is, HOW did this happen? No doubt, plenty
of column inches will be devoted to this very question in the coming days and
months and I'd like to add my voice to this.
I've been involved with politics, in one way or another, for a while now and in that time causes i've supported have won a few elections and lost a few elections. None of those defeats make me as sick to my stomach and as fearful as the 2012 edition of the United States presidential election. This wasn't just an election defeat, it was a travesty.
A time of
economic stagnation which see many losing their jobs in record unemployment and
where there is a $16 trillion debt hanging over the heads of every American, a
component of which is that $218,000 is owed per person under 18, should have
been more than enough to see off Obama. After all, better politicians have been
skewered by better news.
It was not
enough for many Americans that Obama kept his history a mystery either. His birth
certificate, indeed all documents which would shed light on his life, including
his college details, are under lock and key despite the best efforts of people
to try to force Obama to show them. Questions over his Connecticut social
security number remain up in the air. Even Trump offering $5 million to Obama
to unlock these records proved futile.
The scandal
and maladministration that has dogged Obama from the start of his first term to
the finish; Acorn, Solyndra, Fast and Furious, NDAA, TSA (the list goes on and
on) couldn't shift the voters attitudes either. Indeed, they seem accepting of
scandal now. Neither were links to George
Soros, and his manifold innocent sounding but dubious organisations, were enough
to frighten the public about the real agenda at play.
His overt
big government socialist agenda was not enough to scare a sufficient amount of people, who valued their freedom and
individuality, into voting him out. The lure of government "free
stuff" it seems was too strong. But
there is warning here in that if you vote for socialism/marxism you better be
pretty sure it is what you want because, as many countries can attest, it is
very difficult and painful to reverse course once established. People
inevitably see the government that takes that 'free stuff' away from them as
being puritanical and mean.
Moreover
Obama has made it clear he has a pro-Islamic view of the world, he has said as much himself.
This is also evident in shameful dealings with Israel who, whilst perhaps not being
everyone's favourite country, is nonetheless strongly in the mould of a western
democracy, light years ahead of its theocratic neighbours. Additionally if
people think Obama is going to prevent the United States from getting into wars,
as they complained about with Bush, then they are sadly mistaken. He has his globalist masters to follow as well.
It was not
enough that his running mate Joe Biden, had shown signs of dementia all
campaign stumbling and bumbling over his words and forgetting names and places.
People weren't sufficiently warned by this to realise this man is the next in
line should anything happen to Obama. Biden is ultimate proof that anyone can
be Vice President and that careful selection is not necessary to win the White
House.
The saying
"a week is a long time in politics" was clearly evident first during
the Benghazi scandal and then Hurricane Sandy. Before the hurricane, Romney had
upward momentum however the media, shamefully, did their level best to ignore
this important issue completely, becoming in the process lapdogs and not
watchdogs. Once Hurricane Sandy struck Obama had the distraction he desperately
needed. Obama was able to demonstrate
his "caring" side in photo-ops and therefore win over enough of the
fickle public, indeed the states hardest hit by the storm went to Obama. Even
when a bloated, bureaucratic, over-funded nightmare like FEMA failed to provide
food and water as per its remit, the political damage was done, America didn't
care. Romney was right to ask for a review of this organisation but he was
hammered for that position by the media.
Well
documented reports of election shenanigans, bordering on outright fraud, from Obama murals in polling stations to ballots being changed
on machines from Romney to Obama and Republican polling officers thrown out of
polling stations by Democrat election judges, lost military ballots in a plane crash, the Obama administration suing Ohio to ensure that the military could not vote early, 141% voter turnout in St Lucie, Florida and 99% votes cast for Obama in Philadelphia and some parts of Ohio, add more than a touch of sham to
the whole result. When bearing in mind that the leftist mantra is "by whatever means necessary" we see that fraud is not such a far-fetched idea.
Curiously, there seems to be appetite by the Romney camp, just as there wasn't with McCain before him, to challenge the veracity of these results. A campaign should be throwing all resources to pubically and legally investigate the multitude of anomalies present to make sure everything is as it should be and only then officially conceede defeat. Otherwise, if a nation is happy to accept voter fraud, whoever does it, and lets the result stand then the electoral process becomes worse than meaningless, no better than elections run by Saddam Hussein or Mugabe who we have denounced so readily in the past.
Curiously, there seems to be appetite by the Romney camp, just as there wasn't with McCain before him, to challenge the veracity of these results. A campaign should be throwing all resources to pubically and legally investigate the multitude of anomalies present to make sure everything is as it should be and only then officially conceede defeat. Otherwise, if a nation is happy to accept voter fraud, whoever does it, and lets the result stand then the electoral process becomes worse than meaningless, no better than elections run by Saddam Hussein or Mugabe who we have denounced so readily in the past.
A further look at polling problems can be see here:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/poll-watcher-sees-romney-ballots-changed/
Another reason
Obama won has been touched on by conservative commentators elsewhere but is an
issue that gets no play in the "mainstream" media, for reasons noted
above, and neither does it get aired on the campaign trail. That is immigration.
America, and indeed the rest of the West, is changing demographically
thanks to the nightmare of multiculturalism. Although figures on election night
suggest that whites make up somewhere around 77% of the population they are badly
fragmented and vote on party lines, not ethnic lines. Hispanics and blacks on the other hand make
up growing voting blocks which do vote on ethnic lines and they vote overwhelmingly
Democrat Party (or should that be Demographic Party?). This situation is only getting worse hence the confidence many
minority leaders have when expressing their anti-white racism without sanction
and why we have groups like the black congressional caucus.
So where do
we lay the blame for this? I am sorry but the average voter is very much to blame.
With a limited attention span they are easily distracted, ill-informed and
show a desperate inability to "fart and chew gum at the same
time". They stumble into the polls
with bumper sticker notions of what the candidates say, if they bother to go at
all. Last time round it was the vague
"Hope and Change" which saw Obama score an historic victory, this
time it was the obviously Communistic "Forward" but people didn't
have a clue what it actually meant. The old adage of "hiding in plain sight"
has been evident once again. There is an ever increasing section of society who
are on the government payroll and these people will not vote against their own
self-interest. The next four years will see an even greater expansion of this
section of people, further entrenching the 'progressives'.
Given all
this the Republican Party faces an uphill battle to win the White House but it is not
about the party. Political parties come and go and it is entirely conceivable
that they put up a more 'progressive' candidate and sweep to office in 2016, or
achieve a great result in midterm elections, these things happen. It is all part of the establishment
game played on us every couple of years. The real question is in what state will the United States be in once Obama is finished with it? Will it embrace the european socialism, itself groaning under the weight of its contradictions? Or will it maintain the traditional direction where free enterprise, hard work, entrepreneurial spirit, freedom and independence are encouraged and admired?
Even with
Romney's record when Governor of Massachusetts, conservatives did not, and will
never, confer god-like status on one man, as the left have done with Obama. Romney may have been a good President, maybe not, but even at his best Romney was not going to single-handedly
turn the country around and right all the wrongs. This is because of a
fundamental tenet of conservatism which is expressed in the words of Ronald
Reagan "government is not the solution to the problem, government IS the
problem". In other words, the solutions come from the people themselves.
After the election Romney talked about "ending partisan bickering". This is clearly an insult to anyone who considers politics and the direction of the country a bit more important than a superbowl contest to shrug off and say "better luck next year". There is a war on and our freedom is at stake.
Let's roll our sleeves up and take the country back.
After the election Romney talked about "ending partisan bickering". This is clearly an insult to anyone who considers politics and the direction of the country a bit more important than a superbowl contest to shrug off and say "better luck next year". There is a war on and our freedom is at stake.
Let's roll our sleeves up and take the country back.
