At a time when the country was feeling poorly, Barack Obama came to America's door selling his "snake oil socialism." He slathered us with pretty words, promised miraculous healing and sold us on Dr. Obama's magic elixir. Unfortunately, Dr. Obama's prescription was nothing more than massive doses of government with instructions to relinquish our American penchant for liberty. Never a day passed that he didn't counsel us to abandon the founding principles of our nation and slip quietly into his collectivist, mega-government ideology.
Now, at election time, he must defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable. Moreover, he must convince voters that his lies are truths in order to hide from his own record. In his re-election campaign Obama finds no lie too outlandish and no truth worth telling in his desperate attempt to, once again, hoodwink the American people and win another election.
His fanciful narratives and the ferocious attacks on freedom-loving people divert attention from his abysmal record and broken promises. The president must somehow reset America's memory to four years ago and make people forget the ruinous consequences of his presidency.
In short, this president must attempt a psychological and cognitive lobotomy on the country to make us forget his promises and his entire presidency by doubling down on his blame game, excuses and diversions of deceit and personal attacks.
It's essential to this president's re-election that voters stop discussing the failed, wasteful stimulus, Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, unparalleled regulations, $1.84 gasoline, crushing the Canadian pipe line and the unconditional refusal to allow drilling. We must not recall the "contempt of court ruling" when he illegally stopped offshore drilling, nor his unlawful amnesty to illegal aliens that takes more jobs from beleaguered American workers. He must connive to make voters forget about Fast and Furious, the war on coal, and his fiat eliminating the lawful work requirements for welfare recipients.
Lastly, he wants us to forget the $5 trillion of new "Obama debt," the slowest economic recovery in our history, and record numbers of people on welfare and disability. Additionally, forget the thousands of businesses afraid to hire or expand because of his anti-free enterprise policies.
One must remember that Obama defines success by the number of people he shifts from work to government dependency. Do we need, or can we afford, four more years of Doctor Obama's ruthless force-feeding of his deadly "Hope and Change" elixir?
Jim Mullen
Parkersburg
