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I change my self-definition from "pro-American" to "pro-West"

It's not every day you change your self-definition, but I think after the re-election of Barack Obama I have to reconsider my long-standing self-definition as "pro-American".

Yes I am pro-West, and for all my life America was the leader of the West. But if enough American voters want America to withdraw from that role, to become just another unassertive, apologetic, former great power like Britain and France, then "pro-West" starts to define my world view better than "pro-American".

America is still the greatest country in the world, the scientific and cultural leader, and the most interesting place on the planet. But it seems it is no longer the political leader of the free world. The West is now multi-polar. It has no leader.




Nov 2012: American Muslim Dzhokhar Tsarnaev celebrates Obama's re-election and Romney's defeat.
Apr 2013: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev bombs the Boston Marathon.



Nov 2012: Bryce Williams, a black TV reporter, is disciplined for breaking impartiality by wearing an Obama badge during the election.
Aug 2015: Bryce Williams murders two whites live on TV. He blames "racism".
(In reality, the black killer was racist, not his innocent white victims.)






I blame the American people

Why did the Republicans lose? For me, it wasn't really the campaign. It wasn't the choice of Romney and Ryan. It wasn't their policies or message. It wasn't "gaffes" or ads or debates. The campaign was imperfect, but ultimately the choice was clear.

It's something worse. It's the American people. There was a clear choice this time, and the American people knew what they were voting for. After 4 years, they know what Obama is, and they chose more of it. Obama's America is what they want.




Men went for Romney 52 to 45.
Whites went for Romney 59 to 39.
Married men went for Romney 60 to 38.
Since I am a white, married man, it is no wonder Obama does not represent me!
See full size. From here.

Note how Obama is the candidate of the young and single and childless and urban. While Romney is the candidate of the grown-ups with jobs and families and children and mortgages.

Note also the racism of American blacks, versus the non-racism of American whites. (*) 93 percent of blacks voted for the black candidate. Only 6 percent voted for the white man. But a massive 39 percent of whites voted for the black candidate.







Barack Obama is re-elected, 6 Nov 2012

Shocking. Americans re-elected Jimmy Carter. Incredible.

Americans vote for four more years of economic decline. Four more years of apologies to Islam. Black America votes for massive black unemployment. Jewish America votes for abandoning Israel.

I could believe that Americans made a well-meaning mistake in 2008. But now I think something different - that the America I knew has fundamentally changed. If the last 4 years of Obama appeal to you more than Romney-Ryan, and you want another 4 years like that, then I cannot relate to you. If you are the majority in America, then America is no longer the country I admire.




From here.

Comment: "At the end of the next 4 years,
I wonder who Obama is going to blame for the economy?"



From here.



Obama first appears on my website in March 2007.
I am negative about him from the start.
Obama has always looked like this to me, ever since he emerged in early 2007.

Side note: My first mention of Obama in 2007 is a link to the then-anti-Obama but now-pro-Obama Little Green Footballs. It was a good blog to read once!









Before the election

I can't believe that the Americans, the leaders of the free world, chose a left-wing defeatist as President in 2008. I hope Americans get sense in 2012 and get rid of this guy like they got rid of Jimmy Carter.



Come on Americans, choose greatness not decline.
See original.



"Morning in America", Reagan's 1984 re-election ad.
Come on America, you've proved you're not racist.
Now you can move on, elect Romney, and get rid of Jimmy Carter.



The media didn't see the 1980 election result coming.



Irish Times leader, election day, November 4, 1980.
They didn't see the Reagan victory coming.





Obama is destroyed in the first debate

The first debate on 3 Oct 2012 shocked Americans with the contrast between Obama and Romney. It may be the night that tipped the election.

This was perhaps the first time Obama had to face a real tough opponent who would take him on without mercy, and Obama would have no teleprompter, partisan crowd or compliant media to help. It was perhaps the first time America saw the real Obama: "the 60 million TV viewers tuning in to the debate were no doubt surprised at what they saw: A thin-skinned, ill-prepared, smirking, at times bored president, who stumbled over his own words and didn't seem to have answers for Romney's laserlike ripostes. ... And who is this real Barack Obama? A man with a murky, leftist past who never ran anything in his life ... A man who distrusts business, the backbone of job creation ... In Denver, voters saw the real Mitt Romney go toe-to-toe with the real Barack Obama. It was no contest."

Victor Davis Hanson, 14 Oct 2012: "The election is not over, but it is starting to resemble October 29 or November 1 in 1980, when, after just one debate, the nation at last decided that it really did not like Jimmy Carter very much or what he had done, and discovered that Ronald Reagan was not the mad Dr. Strangelove / Jefferson Davis of the Carter summer television ads. ... millions of voters - quietly, on their own, without much communication - are becoming wearied by Obama, in a way that is quite miraculous. They are coming to the conclusion not just that it is now OK to vote against Obama, but that even if it is not politically correct, they don't much care anymore."




If even Obama worshipper Andrew Sullivan thinks he is losing, then maybe he really is losing.

The spell is broken. I don't want to get too excited. I can't believe that 4 years after falling for Obama, the American public is waking up. Better late than never.





Obama and the war against Islamism



"Bow to Nobody", an election ad from "Special Operations for America" (SOFA), a super PAC led by former Navy SEALs. I guess they're not that impressed with Obama saying "Oh, alright" to their request to kill Bin Laden.



Obama's Democrats prove they are patriotic with this display at the Democratic National Convention, Sept 2012. However, I was amused to discover that they put up images of Russian warships thinking they were American. This is in fact Russia's Black Sea Fleet. The nearest ship (on the right) is the Cold War era Soviet warship the Kerch! Hilarious!
Fascinating comments from military veterans, including: "I was a radarman during 1970-74 mostly in the Med and Atlantic. Seeing those silhouettes behind Kerry & Adm. Nathman that is the first thing [I] said to folks at my house. "Those are friggin Russian warships" and everyone laughed at me. Saying I was crazy."





The Obama worship has faded, but some people still believe



"One Term More!" of the deranged cult of personality.
This is not a parody. These people actually worship Obama. They are not making a parody of people who worship Obama.



Actor Samuel L. Jackson's tedious, preachy, 2012 Obama ad: "Wake The Fuck Up". Here, a brainwashed 10 year old girl worries about funding for Planned Parenthood. Earlier she is worried about threats to gay marriage. Whatever happened to innocence?
Of course, all these boring Democrat talking points are beside the point. Samuel L. Jackson himself declared that in 2008 he voted for Obama because he was black.



Actor Russell Crowe still believes.
Tweet of 20 Oct 2012.





Paul Ryan



Amusing piece from The Onion, 13 Aug 2012.
When even The Onion thinks the humour is in the discomfort of the Democrats, we know Romney and Ryan have got a real chance here.



 

"You Didn't Build That"

Obama's instantly infamous "You Didn't Build That" speech of 13 July 2012 attacking small business: "look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. .. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something - there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

Obama's speech is spawning countless images and videos.



From didntbuildthat.com.



From didntbuildthat.com.




Very funny. And very true.
This is just another form of re-heated marxism.
From here.



The contrast with a truly great President.




Jews vote for an anti-Israel candidate




Are American Jews going to vote for an anti-Israel president again?



Israel-haters and Jew-haters across the world claim that American Jews vote for the pro-Israel candidate. If only that were true! In fact, the opposite is the case. American Jews always vote Democrat. They never vote for the most pro-Israel candidate.



Anti-counterjihadist Reza Aslan agrees that Obama is anti-Israel.
(He thinks that is a good thing.)
Tweet, 4 Sept 2012.


In 2013, it was reported that Obama's idiot Secretary of State John Kerry is now learning about Islam from Reza Aslan's book.




Blacks vote for a man who doubles black unemployment



Black unemployment under Obama, as compared to the "racist" Republicans.
Stats from here and here. Bar chart made here.









Black unemployment under Obama.



Funny video from here.




Obama's record





"Lemmings": Don't tell me Americans are going to re-elect this guy??



From cafepress.com.



2016: Obama's America by Dinesh D'Souza.
An unsympathetic account of Obama's past, influences and worldview.
Sounds great. Doing the job the media refused to do.
See full video. Search for more.








  

Barack Obama

Obama and the War

Obama's advisers

Media bias for Obama

The left and "civility"







  Obama's     church

Obama's links to terrorists

Obama conspiracy theories

The worship of Obama

Child worship of Obama






America is the greatest country in the world.
The leader of the West.
The heart of science and technology.

So it was shocking  that    Americans   have    elected this 
naive, innocent and weak President.

The world does not need America to become like Europe. A strong, assertive America benefits all mankind. Americans, you've proved you're not racist. (I never thought you were.) So can we move on. Can you elect a strong President, please.





 
  

  





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