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Copyright: © 2010 Gregory J. Rummo
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HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED IN MASSACHUSETTS

By: Gregory J. Rummo

What bothered me the most about candidate Barack Obama was the revelation of his attendance at a church whose minister preached hate-America sermons on a number of occasions. Obama ultimately threw him under the bus and the largely un-churched mainstream media ignored it as a non-story.

But for a faithful churchgoer like me, it was really everything I needed to know about the man. A church is not a building per se but an assembly of people. It is described in the New Testament as “the pillar and ground of the truth.” You attend a specific church because you like being there. It is a place where you learn more about your faith, where there are opportunities to serve the local community. 

it is above all the place where you choose to have fellowship with like-minded people. And the Obama’s were members of this church for two decades. 

This warped theology of “Goddamn America,” to quote one of his pastor’s oft repeated sermon sound bites, played a part in shaping candidate Obama’s ideology.

To him, the American system was unfair to minorities. It was a bully aggressor nation under George W. Bush. Fairness was not equal opportunity but equal outcome and therefore the wealthy should be forced to share their wealth with the poor through a punitive tax system.

This was all couched in one word—“change”—and many Americans fell for it.

Barack Obama was elected to the presidency for many reasons. There was strong anti-Bush sentiment, mirrored by the nominating committee that made its decision to award Obama the Nobel Peace Prize only 12 days into his presidency. There was the racial component—African-Americans voted for him in huge numbers.

Independent voters were willing to give him a chance. As long as one ignored his voting record in the Senate, he got away with campaigning as a moderate promising an open, transparent government and a new age of accountability. He talked about reforming health care, a middle class tax cut, a fiscally responsible government that would fix the economy and restore jobs. He said he’d bring the soldiers home from Iraq and that he’d close GITMO.         

And John McCain ran an anemic campaign.

But something happened along the way to Election Day 2009 that has continued to gain momentum across America, erupting in Massachusetts where a Republican beat a Democrat in the race to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s seat in the U.S. Senate.

How did this happen? How could the man who won the presidency with such a huge margin in the popular vote and with a Democratic House and Senate fail to deliver on just about everything he promised? And why has he become, the incredible shrinking president, sinking in the polls to the point where his unfavorable ratings are higher than his favorables?

The answer is simple: Liberalism laid bare for all to see. In the spirit of “Don’t Tread on Me,” a majority of Americans have finally reawakened to see what Barack Obama is all about. They are scared and they are angry.

When he assumed office, he was quick to remind the opposition party, arrogantly and at every opportunity that “we won.”

In the style of Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, he nationalized two-thirds of the U.S auto industry and the major banks.  

There was his World Apology Tour for America under his predecessor, which now appears to have sent a signal to Iran to ignore us and for al-Qaida to assume we are again fair game despite Obama’s stunning epiphany that there is evil in the world made during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Our enemy, emboldened in Afghanistan and regrouping in Yemen is again posing a real threat not only abroad but here in the U.S. The underwear bomber who managed to sneak past all security checkpoints and almost bring down a commercial airliner over Michigan on Christmas Day was a frightening reminder of 9/11.

But this terrorist will be tried in a U.S. civilian court and afforded all the rights of a citizen under our Constitution as will Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind courtesy of Obama’s Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder—another liberal ideologue.

A stimulus bill that was promised to keep the unemployment rate under eight percent has been a total failure as ten percent of Americans are still without jobs.  

Last summer when the so-called health-care opposition tea parties were at their fever pitch, Democrats not only ignored their constituents but also denigrated them.

Obama’s response has been to try every slick, behind closed doors manipulation including an initial attempt to rush health-care reform through Congress before anyone had read the bill.

And the same shills in the mainstream media who never bothered to learn who this man really was—a community organizer with several months experience in the U.S. Senate—continue their appalling performance of giving the man a free pass.

What happened in Virginia and New Jersey on Election Day last November and in the special election in Massachusetts may not be the next conservative revolution in America.

But I’ll take a renaissance of true populist Americanism along with the rejection of Obama’s socialism as a big step in the right direction.

Gregory J. Rummo is a businessman, journalist and the author of “The View from the Grass Roots,” and “The View from the Grass Roots – Another Look.” Contact him at GregRummo.com.

"Real Answers™" furnished courtesy of The Amy Foundation Internet Syndicate. To contact the author or The Amy Foundation, write or E-mail to: P. O. Box 16091, Lansing, MI 48901-6091; amyfoundtn@aol.com

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