Don’t Misjudge Obama As "Lame Duck"

by JASmius



Dr. Thomas Sowell joins the burgeoning ranks of Americans who now agree with me:

Pundits who depict Obama as a weak, lame duck president may be greatly misjudging him, as they have so often in the past. Despite the Republican sweep of elections across the country last week, President Obama has issued an ultimatum to Congress, to either pass the kind of immigration law he wants before the end of this year or he will issue executive orders changing the country's immigration laws unilaterally.

Does that sound like a lame duck president? On the contrary, it sounds more like some banana republic's dictator. Nor is Obama making an idle bluff. He has already changed other laws unilaterally, including the work requirement in welfare reform laws passed during the Clinton administration.

The very idea of Congress rushing a bill into law in less than two months, on a subject as complex, and with such irreversible long-run consequences as immigration, is staggering. But there is already a precedent for such hasty action, without congressional hearings to bring out facts or air different views. That is how Obamacare was passed. And we see how that has turned out. [emphases added]

BANG!

People who are increasingly questioning Barack Obama's competence are continuing to ignore the alternative possibility that his fundamental values and imperatives are different from theirs. You cannot tell whether someone is failing or succeeding without knowing what they are trying to do.

When Obama made a brief public statement about Americans being beheaded by terrorists, and then went on out to play golf, that was seen as a sign of political ineptness, rather than a stark revelation of what kind of man he is, underneath the smooth image and lofty rhetoric.

The president's refusal to protect the American people by quarantining people coming from Ebola-infected areas — as was done by Britain and a number of African nations — is by no means a sign of incompetence. It is a sacrifice of Americans' interests for the sake of other people's interests, as is an assisted invasion of illegal immigrants across our southern borders.

Such actions are perfectly consistent with Obama's citizen of the world vision.... [emphases added]

I'll say it once again, ladies and gentlemen: Barack Obama is not an American president.  And he is not a lame duck - he has been liberated to be the fully unmasked communist dictator he's always been and spent his entire adult lifetime aspiring to be.

Now if we can just cure Dr. Sowell of his last vestiges of optimism:

The big question is whether the other branches of government — Congress and the Supreme Court — can stop him from doing irreparable damage to America in his last two years. Seeing Obama as an incompetent and weak, lame duck president only makes that task harder.

Sorry, Doc, that ship sailed two years ago.  And the Obamadency has a lot longer than just two years left. The One's pen and phone will see to that.