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FROM THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR

President Barack Obama’s Six Months of Blunders
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR.

WASHINGTON — The other day another pundit came to my side. I have been watching this steady trickle of sages joining the cause ever since the spring of 2012 when I pronounced, at book-length complete with footnotes, The Death of Liberalism.

Now the veteran columnist Daniel Henninger of the nigh unto infallible Wall Street Journal has pronounced the glum news. On July 10 Dan wrote, “July 3 was the quiet afternoon that a deputy assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy announced in a blog that the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate would be delayed one year.” And Dan stated with marmoreal solemnity: “Mark July 3, 2013, as the day Big Government finally imploded.” Others too have made similar discoveries, none more memorably than Victor Davis Hanson who celebrated July 4, 2011 by stating that the Founding Fathers’ vision of government had been vindicated. Obamacare had been rushed into law and with its trillion-dollar overruns atop all the other federal overruns would prove to be “unsustainable.” He called the Liberals “Frankensteins.” I called them zombies. Nonetheless, whatever living corpse you choose, with Obamacare, came the last gasp of liberal overreach.

As Wes Pruden said in the Washington Times on July 5, this “one-year delay in enforcing the employer insurance mandate for Obamacare, which might not even be legal,” had top White House advisors heading for the exits and “Minions…hastily assigned to explain the delay.” He added, “Obama and his gang obviously don’t know what to do next.” That is correct. This White House has already transcended that of Warren Gamaliel Harding and of Jimmy Carter. It is the most incompetent in modern American history.

Just consider President Barack Obama’s recent catastrophes. There is Benghazi. It took place during the last election (which should have sealed Obama’s fate), but this spring it became obvious that Ambassador Christopher Stevens should not have been there, was not given proper security even once the attack began, and the event suffered various cover-ups. For instance, all that nonsense about the anti-Islam video that mysteriously appeared in the talking points without having ever been suggested by the CIA. Where did the claptrap about the video come from? That should not be too difficult to establish.

Then there is the IRS scandal. Quite obviously the IRS was politicized to such an extent that its investigators prevented Tea Party groups and other conservatives from participating in the 2012 election. One defense offered by the IRS was that the agency is too vast to be held accountable. Congress should continue its probe and hold the IRS accountable.

Congress also ought to be looking into the Obama Administration’s subpoenaing of journalists’ records and the allegations of a State Department cover-up of irregularities by our ambassador to Belgium. Then there is the NSA disaster. It now appears that the dimwit Edward Snowden walked off with a vast horde of intelligence. We are even hearing that he has in the cozy confines of the Moscow airport the manuals for keying into NSA intelligence gathering projects. How did he get them? Who is responsible?

All of this incompetence took place under President Obama’s watch. Now comes word that the president is popping off about Trayvon Martin again. Initially he blustered, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” With the acquittal of George Zimmerman he is saying we can “honor Trayvon” by putting an end to “gun violence.” Still worse is his outburst this past May on sexual assault cases in the military. Commenting on them he — the president of the United States and commander in chief of the military — pronounced that the accused should be “prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged…” You can be sure that his outburst put in jeopardy sexual assault cases all over the country. Thomas J. Roming, a former judge advocate general of the Army, told the New York Times, “His remarks were more specific than I’ve ever heard a commander in chief get…. Every military defense counsel will make a motion about this.”

I can think of no previous president who has so blundered in his first six months in office — and this was his second term, after he had four years to learn on the job. We are now faced with three more years of the community activist serving in the White House. Joe Biden, help us.

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HOW THE PRESIDENT PROMOTES PEACE

When you look at the evidence and testimony at the actual trial (not the trial by President Obama or the MSM), you realize that this case should not have been brought to trial in the first place.

Emotions aside, the actual evidence showed that Trayvon Martin was the aggressor in this incident. A jury approved by both the defense attorneys and the prosecutor acquitted Zimmerman. That should have been the end of it.

But the left loves to promulgate racism. They are at the least race hustlers and at the worse, racists. People like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson flail about with their racist proclamations while people demand the death of George Zimmerman. MSNBC works closely with Sharpton, Jackson and others to make certain the racist left fans the flames of unrest.

Some leftists use words like “wannabe cop” and “vigilante” to describe Zimmerman. All the while, they ignore the actual evidence of the violent troubled past of Martin. Convenient. They have gone so far as to include Zimmerman’s home address with a photo of someone posing with a semi-automatic rifle and the caption “Zimmerman we comin for yo life….” I have noticed that the so-called anti-gun Justice Department has not announced any investigations into these comments, the legality of the gun, or the seriousness of the death threats.

Even before the trial, President BO (the amateur president) sided with Martin, pointing out that he could have been his own son.

After the trial, President BO (the amateur president) should have reminded Americans that we have a jury system that had done its job, that the prosecution put forth its best case and could not prove Zimmerman’s guilt. Proving guilt is the basis of our judicial system. One is not guilty under the law unless he can be proven guilty.

We now know that Zimmerman was not guilty of manslaughter, because the jury said so. In our system, that’s the way it works. Zimmerman was not guilty of anything until a jury said he was, and no jury said that.

President BO (the amateur president) followed the trial with a speech in which he made no mention of the stress of the Zimmerman family through all of this. Instead, he fanned the race flames by saying, “…(the) outcome and the aftermath might have been different” if Martin were a “…white male teen.” That, my ignorant liberal friends, is racist.

In his July 19th speech, President BO (the amateur president) said the attack on Trayvon Martin was like a personal attack on himself. He said, “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.” Now I’m not certain whether he was admitting to having been of the same character as Trayvon Martin or was just an attempt to enrage the left to the level of violence and threats of death. Either way, it was a very amateurish, stupid thing to say.

Not being satisfied with omission and racism, President BO (the amateur president) went on to accuse the Sanford Police Department of “racial bias.” He said that they did not perform their job in a “fair, straightforward way.”

The sad thing is, there are hundreds of things President BO (the amateur president) could have said to lessen the racial tension. But he didn't say any of them. He chose the low road, the road to political profitability. He keeps portraying himself as the poor, hard-done-to black man.

The real racists in this country are liberals, the liberal MSM and our fearless leader, President BO (the amateur president).

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HOW TO RUN A CITY (INTO THE GROUND)

According to the Chicago Tribune, Detroit will have a long road through bankruptcy.

In the first 12 years of the new century, Detroit lost more than 26 percent of its population. That is in part because of the “cruel” exodus of General Motors and the outsourcing of American manufacturing, Both of those happened because of the long-term failure of the idealistic, liberal governmental intrusion into the market place and the unsustainable demands of unions.

Last year, the FBI cited Detroit as having the highest violent crime rate for any major American city. We read much less of that than of the Zimmerman verdict. That’s because the Zimmerman verdict could easily be spun to be about race, which it was not.

Detroit has been spending on average $100 million more than it has taken in for each of the past five years. The city’s $11 billion in unsecured debt includes $6 billion in health and other retirement benefits and $3 billion in retiree pensions for its 20,000 city pensioners, who are slated to receive less than 10 percent of what they were promised. Between 2007 and 2011, an astounding 36 percent of residents lived below the poverty line. Last year, the FBI cited Detroit as having the highest violent crime rate for any major American city.

And now Detroit’s desperate request for a bailout has been turned down by the Obama White House.

Who could have possibly known in advance that liberal policies and unions would wreak such economic havoc? Answer: Conservatives, but the only response to their warning was to call them the radical right.

And so we learn from our mistakes. Or do we?

As suggested by David Burge, the Iowahawk:

Turn Detroit into a national park, to show our kids the wonders of "Government Help."