And The Fear of the New Year Is:

Yesterday my Best Girl and I were talking a bit about the election campaign when she expressed a fear about 2016.  In so many words it was this -- in 2016, irrespective of what damage it may do to the Democrats' campaign to hold onto the White House, Barack Obama will do whatever he wants to, and what he thinks is in the best interest of Barack Obama and his "legacy."

She went on.  We can't understand now why he is so anxious to bring Muslims to this country under the guise of "refugee" status, nor why he wants completely open borders, nor why he is consciously avoiding effective engagement against ISIS, nor why he insists on releasing prisoners from Guantanamo, even as they reengage in war against us.  But he is doing it anyway, and he is not making a case to the public.

Therefore, we must assume that he has a reason; that he refuses to share it with the public lest they actually debate it. Nothing, she said, was going to change in 2016.  With no one effectively opposing him in 2016, ISIS was likely to make huge strides in attacking the West all year, far more so than in 2015 and possibly a lot more so than that.  And she was scared.

I think she has a right to be, and the other 300 million of us that the president has taken an oath to protect should be scared as well.  Imagine how ISIS is looking at it.  The best friend they have, Barack Obama, is going to do nothing to stop them for a year.  Anyone could get elected next November, and whoever it is is going to be at least 1% less friendly to ISIS (e.g., Hillary Clinton, if she is not in prison by then), and possibly completely dedicated to their eradication (any Republican you can name).

So we go into 2016 not with the usual excitement about the promise of a new year, with the thoughts of what can improve (e.g., the Red Sox) but what we should fear.  And we should fear it because, somehow, we have put ourselves into a position where we do not trust the president of the United States to do his principal job, which is to protect the citizenry against foreign attack. 

We do not trust the current lapdog Congress to do anything else to try to stop him.  We can't even calm ourselves with the comforting thought that in a year we will very possibly have a Republican president, who will be more dedicated to the security of the citizens of the USA than he or she will be to his or her own personal aggrandizement.  We can't be calmed with that thought because a year is a long time, and Barack Obama, unrestrained for an entire year, is a severe threat to the security of our nation. 

The press will not stop him.  Congress will not restrain him.  The people can no longer understand him.  Can you imagine the pardons he'll be giving out after the election?  Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, assorted leftist terrorists?  What about the Islamic terrorists?  Can he pardon Gitmo detainees?  The mind boggles, and not in the good way.

It will indeed be a difficult year.  Fearing our president is now a contributing factor.

Copyright 2015 by Robert Sutton
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