Inheriting Hope and Change

Inheriting Hope and Change

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Inheriting Hope and Change
Perspective on the News
Thursday, May 03, 2012
J.L. Robb
Over the past three years, I have heard the term “inherited” used over-and-over but not in a good sense; not an inheritance that one might receive from an unknown, rich uncle. President Barack Obama seems to have an obsession with “inherited” and usually links the word to President George W. Bush.
President Obama inherited a financial crisis; he inherited a mess; he inherited a healthcare crisis, he inherited high unemployment; and on and on.  Yawn…
One year ago, Osama bin Laden was killed.  Unlike The Butcher of Baghdad, whose pictures were spread all over the media-world to prove he really was deceased, no such pictures are available for Osama, the ultimate Taliban, aka al-Qaeda, bad guy.  If you Google for photos of the deceased bin Laden, there are plenty there; but none look the same, and Photoshop is a wonderful thing.  There are many Islamists who believe Osama is alive, but not well, in a U.S. interrogation shop.
Here are a few other things that President Obama inherited from President Bush, though for some reason, he fails to give the former president recognition:
Obama inherited a rebuilt military that President Bush engineered after eight years of President Clinton’s “budget cuts.”  When going to war with Afghanistan, for not turning over bin Laden, our military suffered from a lack of spare parts, often robbing parts from one helicopter to make another one flight-worthy.
Obama inherited the best intelligence network in the world, a network built and rebuilt by President Bush, who “inherited” a broken system from President Clinton, due to “budget cuts.”  Remember, it was Clinton who suggested to the CIA that we (the USA) not deal with “shady” informants.  Of course, they are all shady.  President Clinton had been way too busy taking care of the Oval Office to worry about “intelligence” capabilities, if you get my drift.
Obama inherited an Iraq that was no longer paying Palestinian families $ 25,000 to blow up cafes of innocent Israelis or throwing their citizens from the tops of four-story buildings.  The Butcher of Baghdad, and there is a reason he was called that, is now in the land of never.  Of course, President Obama wonders why we are in Iraq to begin with, even though Saddam Hussein tried toassassinate a retired U.S. President, a cause for war in most countries.
Obama inherited an Afghanistan that no longer allows the training and indoctrination of jihadists who want to convert or kill the entire West, East, even their own cousins who may be of a different sect.  Ishmael’s descendants, the Arab nations, were doomed since Genesis for war and fighting.  Ishmael is described below:

“He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers." (Genesis 16:12 NIV)

Obama inherited an Afghanistan where women are no longer “forced” to wear tents with little eye-slits and young girls can actually go to school.  Of course, there is that Taliban poison threat to the little girls going on.  The government is “elected” with Afghanis waiting in lines to vote, there are no jihadist training camps and a few hearts and minds have been won over, maybe.  It’s difficult to change the hearts of those who have been programmed since birth that Jews, Christians and everyone else is the devil.
Obama inherited a presidency that, thanks to President Bush, no longer “forced” citizens to pay for abortions in third-world countries or anywhere else.  One of Obama’s first Executive Orders was to overturn that legislation.  The policy, established in 1984 by Reagan, is often called theMexico City Policy.
Obama inherited the U.S. Navy SEAL Team, a team which now has record losses under his watch.  More United States soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan during Obama’s three years in office than in the entire eight years of Bush’s presidency.  Why have so many of our brave soldiers been killed during the reign of Obama?  Maybe because he changed the “rules of engagement” that he inherited from Bush.
Obama inherited an enhanced U.S. Drone program, a program that has successfully destroyed our enemies while preserving our soldiers.  While brutalizing Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheny over the cruelty involved in “torture,” Obama has decided that targeted killing is more humane than water-boarding.  How much information could we have accrued from Osama bin Laden?
Obama inherited a relatively secure and stable Arab Middle East, if there ever was such a thing; and peace treaties with Israel were intact.  Libya had given up their nuclear program out of fear of the wrath of Bush.  Mubarak, the leader of Egypt and U.S. and Israeli ally, was thrown under the bus in the name of getting rid of corruption, kind of like President Carter did with the Shah of Iran.  As bad as our economy is, the U.S. did manage to give $ 162,000,000 to the Palestinians last week.  These are the same Palestinians who danced in the streets in celebration as the World Trade Center crashed to the ground.  Please!  Give me corrupt over jihadist fundamentalist Islamic terrorists who want to cut the heads off Christians, Jews and atheists.
I never really heard President Bush speak of “inheriting” any hardships from Clinton, though with the 9/11 Commission Report, his inheritance was evident.  Had President Clinton acted instead of reacted, we wouldn’t be having this keyboard conversation.  But he didn’t.  Instead, President Bush inherited Clinton’s Great Blunder.
President Bush inherited a failing economy.  We often hear about the fictitious “budget surplus” under Clinton, but any of us invested in the stock market at the time of President Clinton has a good idea what Bush inherited.
Did President Obama “inherit” a floundering economy, like President Bush?  Absolutely.  Is the economy still floundering three and a half years later?  Absolutely.  What is the excuse?
President Bush not only inherited a weakened military, a weakened intelligence network and a weakened economy, he also had to deal with five of the worst hurricanes in U.S. history, includingKatrina.  Most Gulf of Mexico oil wells were shut down due to hurricane Ike during the last year of the Bush reign, so there was a reason for $ 3.50/gallon gas.  What is Obama’s reason?
Then there was the high cost of the destruction of four planes of innocent passengers, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon because of the terrorist attack he “inherited” from Clinton.  There were nine terrorist attacks on U.S. property during the Clinton administration.
President Obama flew to Afghanistan this week to once again take credit for “his” plan to send in the SEALs to get OBL.  He has taken much credit for the capture and killing of OBL but has never thanked President Bush for equipping him with a top-notch military machine.
April, 2012, had the most U.S. casualties of the year, and it looks like a record year in the works for U.S. troop deaths.

“Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the Lord is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.” (1 Samuel 2:3 NIV)

“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God- having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.” (2 Timothy 3:1-5 NIV)