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In a speech before the City Club of Cleveland on March 18, 2015, Barack Obama put into words what, until now, he has only allowed himself to dream about.\u00a0 In his remarks, he launched into a diatribe on how he would choose to run U.S. elections\u2026 if only he could dictate his own terms.<\/p>\n
According to the Associated Press, when he was asked about the \u201ccorrosive\u201d influence of money in U.S. elections, he digressed into the related topic of voting rights, suggesting that \u201cthe U.S. should be making it easier\u2026 not harder\u2026 for people to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
For those who may doubt the wisdom of mandatory voting, he suggested, \u201cJust ask Australia, where citizens have no choice but to vote.\u00a0 If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.\u201d\u00a0 As Obama sees it, universal voting would counteract the evil influence of money in politics more than anything else.\u00a0 This from a man who raised $750 million against John McCain in 2008 (much of it from illegal foreign sources), and $1.12 billion in his reelection bid against Mitt Romney in 2012.\u00a0 So, if money in politics is \u201ccorrosive,\u201d as Obama suggests, then he is the most thoroughly \u201ccorroded\u201d politician in U.S. history.<\/p>\n
He went on to note that, disproportionately, those who fail to vote on Election Day are younger, lower-income, and more likely to be immigrants or minorities.\u00a0 Translated, what Obama yearns for is a nation in which the most ignorant and uninformed people (his base) are required<\/em> to vote.<\/p>\n On Election Day 2008, in an attempt to learn how much Obama voters knew about politics and current affairs, Zogby International interviewed more than 500 Obama voters outside polling places across the country, asking the same fourteen questions in each location.\u00a0 One of those interviews with self-proclaimed Obama voters was caught on film and circulated on the Internet.\u00a0 They were asked:<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 Which party currently controls Congress?<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 Do you know who Barney Frank is?<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Do you know who Nancy Pelosi is?<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 Do you know who Harry Reid is?<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0 What do you think of Bill Ayers?<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0 Which candidate was given $150,000 worth of clothes by a political party?<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0 \u00a0Which candidate has a pregnant teenage daughter?<\/p>\n 8.\u00a0 Which candidate said they could see Russia from their home?<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0 Which candidate said they\u2019d campaigned in all 57 states?<\/p>\n 10.\u00a0 Which candidate won their first political campaign by having all the other candidates of their own party kicked off the ballot on technicalities?<\/p>\n 11.\u00a0 Which candidate had to quit a previous campaign because of a plagiarized a speech?<\/p>\n 12.\u00a0 Which candidate said their policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and cause energy prices to skyrocket?<\/p>\n 13.\u00a0 Which candidate said that the government should redistribute wealth?<\/p>\n 14.\u00a0 where do you get most of your news?<\/p>\n Those\u00a0 interviewed were two white females, aged 20-25; three black females, aged 20-25; one black female, aged 40-45; two white males, aged 35-40; one white male, aged 55-60; and three black males, aged 40-45.<\/p>\n When asked which party controlled Congress in 2008, and what they thought of Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Bill Ayers, one black woman thought Pelosi was a \u201cfair\u201d woman, but none knew that Democrats controlled Congress or had any idea who Frank, Pelosi, Reid, or Ayers were.\u00a0 However, when questioned about which candidate received a $150,000 clothing allowance from a political party, which candidate had a pregnant teenage daughter, and which candidate was charged (falsely) with having said that she could see Russia from her home, nearly all were able to name Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n When asked which candidate claimed to have campaigned \u201cin all 57 states,\u201d which candidate won their first political campaign by having all of their opponents kicked off the ballot, which candidate claimed that their policies would bankrupt the coal industry and cause energy prices to\u00a0 skyrocket, and which candidate said that government should redistribute wealth, most of those interviewed attributed those statements to either Sarah Palin or John McCain… none named Barack Obama.<\/p>\n And when asked which candidate had to withdraw from a previous campaign because he had plagiarized a speech, none knew that it was Joe Biden.<\/p>\n Not surprisingly, when asked where they got all of their information, the respondents mentioned ABC<\/em>, CBS<\/em>, CBC<\/em>, CNN<\/em>, MSNBC<\/em>, National Public Radio<\/em>, the New York Times<\/em>, Bill Moyers, Jon Stewart, and the Colbert Report.<\/em>\u00a0 So is it any wonder then that they knew nothing about current affairs but took yellow journalism from network news and yellow propaganda from Democrats and television comedy skits as fact?<\/p>\n If the Zogby poll tells us nothing else, it tells us that a lot of people are voting who shouldn\u2019t be because they are not representative of the sort of informed voters necessary to the maintenance of a constitutional republic.\u00a0 By relying on yellow journalism and yellow propaganda as their primary sources of political information, they cast themselves, in fact, as enemies of the republic.<\/p>\n In the best of all worlds, voter registration should be open only to those who could provide evidence of property ownership, and their immediate family members, while on Election Day prospective voters should be required to score at least 60% on a simple fourth or fifth grade level civics exam, with multiple choice questions drawn at random from a pool of questions.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, it is precisely the type of voter interviewed by Zogby that Obama and other Democrats are interested in herding into the voting booths.\u00a0 They make up a large enough segment of the Democratic base to sway most elections.\u00a0 Without them, Democrats could never win control of any legislative body, nor could they elect a president or a vice president.\u00a0 Such voters are the life blood of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n As matters now stand, the Democrat Party is totally dependent on the availability of a large pool of ignorant and uninformed voters, such as those produced by the public education system and our colleges and universities.\u00a0 It represents a \u201cdevil\u2019s bargain\u201d between the teachers\u2019 unions and the Democrat Party in which the teachers\u2019 unions churn out millions of ignorant, uneducated, and uninformed voters in exchange for the right to dictate education policy and funding to Democrats in Congress and in the state legislatures.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n In a series of widely circulated remarks, former Clinton operative James Carville is quoted as saying, \u201cIdeology isn\u2019t all that important.\u00a0 What\u2019s important is psychology.\u00a0 The Democratic constituency is like a herd of cows.\u00a0 All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I became an operative working with Democrats.\u00a0 With Democrats, all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole\u2019 cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.\u00a0 Eighty percent of the people who call themselves Democrats don\u2019t have a clue as to political reality.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat amazes me is that you could take a group of people who are hard workers and convince them that they should support social programs that were the opposite of their own personal convictions.\u00a0 Put a little fear here and there and you can get people to vote any way you want\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cTruth is relative.\u00a0 Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I\u2019m a Democrat\u2026 I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Carville\u2019s remarks are unsubstantiated and may, in fact, be bogus, the truth of those sentiments is undeniable and represent what Republicans have always known about Democrats. \u00a0Put those sentiments together with an ethically-challenged politician, motivated by a foreign ideology, and what do you have?\u00a0 We have the United States of America under Barack Obama.<\/p>\n In the March 22, 2015 edition of the New York Post, <\/em>Michael Goodwin says of Barack Obama: \u201cFirst he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department, spies on journalists, tries to curb religious freedom, slashes the military, throws open the borders, doubles the debt, and nationalizes the Internet.<\/p>\n \u201cHe lies to the public, ignores the Constitution, inflames race relations and urges Latinos to punish Republican \u2018enemies.\u2019 \u00a0He abandons our \u00adallies, appeases tyrants, coddles \u00adadversaries, and uses the Crusades as an excuse for inaction as Islamist terrorists slaughter their way across the Mideast.\u00a0 Now he\u2019s coming for Israel…\u00a0 Barack Obama\u2019s promise to transform America was too modest. \u00a0He is transforming the whole world before our eyes…\u201d<\/p>\n In a recent townhall meeting I suggested to our second term congressman that he ask those in attendance if they knew who Valerie Jarrett was and what role she plays in the Obama White House.\u00a0 Only four of us in the room, all Republican activists, knew the answer to the question.<\/p>\n Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett have put us well down the road to a fascist dictatorship.\u00a0 What remains to be seen is whether or not rank-and-file Republicans will be concerned enough and wise enough to turn their backs on establishment Republican candidates in 2016, nominating, instead, conservative leaders with the backbone to lead us back from the abyss.\u00a0 2016 may well be our last opportunity to save ourselves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a speech before the City Club of Cleveland on March 18, 2015, Barack Obama put into words what, until now, he has only allowed himself to dream about.\u00a0 In his remarks, he launched into a diatribe on … Continue reading