The Stupid Things People Say

Did you hear the latest from ex-President Obama? Unlike most former presidents, he just can’t help telling us what he thinks of his successor, while at the same time proving that the Obama presidency was unsurpassed in incompetence. Every time he opens his mouth he confirms his inability to understand our nation and its people. Of course this is to be expected from someone who despises the country that was foolish enough to elevate him to its highest office.

As a man who admittedly considers religion no more than a crutch, something the riffraff cling to as a way to deal with frustrations. Yes, indeed, he said this in a closed-door speech when he was first running for president. Here's a link to a recording of his 2008 comments about small-town Americans: Obama 2008.

Today, Obama has shifted his focus to Hispanic-Americans, with whom is is not at all happy. While publicly mulling over the results of the recent election, he criticized the Hispanic voters who cast their votes for Donald Trump. He was greatly displeased because some actually consider abortion an intrinsic evil and gay marriage anything but a marriage. His actual words (listen to him here):

"People were surprised about a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump. But there's a lot of evangelical Hispanics who, you know, the fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans, or puts detainees, you know, undocumented workers, in cages -- they think that's less important than the fact that, you know, he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion, right?"

No, Mr. President, wrong! Certainly, there are many evangelical Hispanics, but there are many more Catholic Hispanics. And many of these Christian Hispanic-Americans consider abortion the muder of innocent children. They also reject so-called gay marriage. They are against these things because as believing Christians most Hispanics know them to be sinful.

But several other facts seem to escape Obama's notice. Many first- and second-generation Hispanic-Americans are intimately familiar with socialism because they lived under it and experienced its deprivations first-hand. They know what life is like in Cuba and Venezuela and Nicaragua, and came to this country to avoide the socialistic hells those nations have become. 

Equally important, though, Hispanic-Americans benefitted tremendously from President Trump's economic policies that drove Hispanic unemployment to its lowest levels in history, and also did wonders for Hispanic entrepreneurs. What Obama likely doesn't know -- because he really seems to know very little -- is that Hispanic-Americans are three times more likely to be entrepreneaurs than other Americans. They strive mightily to live the American dream and pass its benefits on to their families, something that Obama apparently considers a nightmare. 

Then, we had to listen to Obama's comment about Trump putting "undocumented workers in cages." The truth, which the mainstream media has avoided like they avoid the truth about the China virus, is that the "cages" were not the brainchild of the Trump administration, but were actually installed and used by the Obama administration to separate various groups of illegals. Jeh Johnson, Barack Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security, when confronted with photographic evidence, admitted this and told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that the "cages predate the Trump Administration." Johnson went on to say, "You can't just dump 7-year-old kids on the streets of McAllen or El Paso. And so, these facilities were erected...they put those chain-link particions up so you could segregate young women from young men, kids from adults, until they were either released or transferred to HHS. Was it ideal? Of course not." But it was done by the Obama administration.

Thomas Homan, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Trump, stated that "The kids are being housed in the same facilities built under the Obama Administration. If you want to call them cages, call them cages. But if the left wants to call them cages, and the Democrats want to call them cages, they they have to accept the fact that they were built and funded [by the Obama administration] in FY '15, and I was there."

President Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, and dozens of others have all knowingly lied about these so-called "cages" being a Trump travesty. They use the old Lenin-inspired tactic of repeating the big lie again and again until people actually come to believe it's true. ("It must be true because everyone's saying it.") And, of course, the media has supported the left in this effort by repeatng the lie over and over. Eventually, though, the people begin to comprehend the real truth and realize that the lie really is a lie.

I have long considered President Obama to be the most ineffectual and incompetent president of modern times. But he just might be relived of this title when Joe Biden actually moves into the White House.