By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee

Be careful. Be very careful. Obama sees the world as “us versus them.” And he seems to always be trying to punish “them.” If you didn’t vote for Obama, look out — it’s clear that he’s going to try to even the score. He is relentless in trying to punish the groups that he sees as “enemies.” He let that one slip a year ago, when he said in an interview on Hispanic television that anyone who wants to stop illegal immigration is an “enemy.”

Perhaps Obama needs a refresher course on the tragedy of this kind of thinking. As a Jew who lost many relatives in the Holocaust, I remember well the old Holocaust warning: First they came for the Jews and no one said anything…then they came for the mentally disabled and no one said anything…then the gays…then the priests…and eventually when they came for me, there was no one left to say anything.

While Obama has no interest in hurting anyone physically, he certainly is trying to divide us and hurt the finances of people who don’t support him or his policies. In every speech and proposal he seems to divide the country among his voters and…“them.” Are you watching? Are you worried? Are you on the “Obama enemies list?” Word to the wise — start paying attention.

Just days ago Obama spoke to an African American audience and divided the country by race. He exhorted black Americans to “put on their marching shoes” and follow him into battle. Battle? Enemies? What if a Tea Party leader (like me) asked white voters to vote a certain way based on race? Would the media let it slide, or would the Tea Partier be called a racist? What if a Tea Party leader described an election as a “battle?” Would he be accused of inciting a civil war? What if this kind of rhetoric by Obama incites a supporter to hurt or kill someone? Will the media hold Obama accountable?

What if a conservative political leader said the same thing as union leader Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. — “Let’s take these sons of bit__es out!” Would the media ignore or downplay this kind of statement coming from the right? What exactly did Hoffa mean by “take them out?” Did he mean kill them? Hunt them down and hang them? Or perhaps break their legs, as union goons have a history of doing? Why didn’t Obama publicly criticize Hoffa, or question his intent? Instead Obama was not only silent, he was soon busy dividing the nation by race, and using war analogies.

But let’s put aside Obama’s words for the moment. What about Obama’s actions? Are his proposals and policies intended to purposely punish his opponents…aka “enemies?” It sure seems that way. Is it pure coincidence that Obama never proposes a tax increase or spending cut that would affect his voters — the poor,  union members, government employees, blacks, or Hispanics. Those groups are untouchable to Obama. In Obama’s America do we now have untouchables like India? In Obama’s world can we ever cut spending on union members, government employees, or minorities? Are Obama’s voters “off limits?”

Obama’s proposals always just happen to be aimed squarely at his political enemies — small business owners (massive taxes aimed at job creators), high income earners (Obama wants to take the income cap off FICA taxes), homeowners (eliminate or drastically reduce mortgage deductions), churchgoers (eliminate or drastically reduce charitable deductions), stock investors (new Obamacare taxes on stock sales), Tea Party members, and now the latest Obama enemies — veterans.

Have you heard about the new proposals aimed at veterans that Obama snuck into his new deficit reduction plans? Obama quietly snuck in provisions to increase the retirement age and dramatically reduce pensions, benefits and health care expenditures for veterans.  While some of those proposals should be in the national discussion, I’d ask why now? Why that group? Why not propose the same kind of reform and cuts for government employees? For seniors? For green energy?

The answer is simple. Obama loves to say “it’s just math.” What he really means is that it’s cynical political and electoral math. Obama’s pollsters certainly know that veterans are bitter opponents of Obama.

Ever talk to a military man? I’ve never spoken in-depth to one military vet who had anything nice to say about Obama. Not one. Do you suppose Obama knows that? He most certainly knows he can afford to anger that group, without affecting his re-election in the slightest. Obama knows he has nothing to lose with vets — they already seethe with anger towards him. This is how Obama treats his “enemies.” As Obama’s mentor Saul Alinsky would say–the ends justify the means. The not-so-subtle message to Obama opponents: Dare oppose Obama and risk your comfortable retirement.

But vets should be honored to join a long Obama enemies list – the wealthy, small business owners, homeowners, suburbanites, gun owners, church-goers, stock investors, and Tea Partiers. Those groups are very much against Obama. Result? Every Obama tax increase or “cut” just happens to be aimed at that “enemies list.” Obama makes it crystal clear who he is marching into battle against.

Obama has divided America into enemies and friends. Black and white. Rich and poor. Unions versus private sector. Business owners, stockholders, and homeowners versus those who can’t afford to own. Veterans and patriots versus America apologizers. Sad. Disgusting. Disturbing.

Which list are you on? It’s time to pay attention. Perhaps it’s time to start speaking out, before everyone is afraid to speak out. Who is Obama coming for next?

Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts.” His web site: www.ROOTforAmerica.com

By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee

It’s all over for Mr. Obama. He is a one-term President, destined to go down in the record books as the man who presided over a second Great Depression, the destruction of the middle class, and the loss of America’s Triple A credit rating. The proof is found in the historic, almost unimaginable, GOP victory in Anthony Weiner’s old Congressional district in Queens. Yes, I said Queens- as in New York City. Heavily Democratic, heavily liberal Jewish, Queens, New York. The center of blue-collar white Democratic Party power. Republican Bob Turner pulled off one of the biggest upsets in U.S. political history there last night. He became the first Republican elected from this heavily Jewish Democratic Queens, NY district since 1923.

There are no excuses. In a district that is 40% Jewish and filled with Orthodox Jews, a 70-year old Catholic Republican upset a Orthodox Jewish Democrat from a prominent Queens political family. Democrats pulled out every stop. Big labor campaigned day and night for the Democrat. Former President Bill Clinton and popular New York Governor Andrew Cuomo lent their voices to get-out-the-vote robo-calls to Democratic voters. And none of it mattered. The Jews have abandoned Obama.

The average voter doesn’t understand the “inside Baseball” of politics. But here is the “Monarch Notes” of the GOP’s historic victory. First, the anger of white middle class voters towards Obama is boiling over across the country. If Obama has lost Jewish support in Queens, he’s lost support from white middle class voters everywhere. Second, Obama’s mishandling of the economy is destroying the middle class, and even lifelong Democrats in Queens, NY are feeling the pain (and clearly seeing Obama’s incompetence). But this picture is incomplete.

Here’s the big reason for this historic GOP victory that few outside New York understand: This race really was about much more than the economy or jobs. Sure those issues were a constant backdrop. But in the end, it was about common sense issues for Jewish voters: Israel and the Mosque at Ground Zero. Jewish voters are outraged at how Obama has treated Israel; disgusted with Obama’s support of the Palestinians, led by terror groups; and shocked by the support of both Obama and the losing Democratic Congressional candidate for the Mosque at Ground Zero.

The heroes of this once-in-a-century historic upset are former New York Mayor Ed Koch and the Republican Jewish Coalition, both of whom worked hard to spread one simple but powerful message to Jewish voters: “Send a message to Obama that Israel is America’s best friend, and you do not accept the way Obama has treated Israel.” The Jewish voters of Queens were told by Koch and the Republican Jewish Coalition that there was only one way to send this message- elect a Republican Congressman for the first time in modern history.

Message sent. Game. Set. Match.

But it wasn’t just Obama who heard the message. It was Hillary Clinton too. Hillary now knows Obama is weak and vulnerable…among Democrats. And among Jewish Democrats who have loyally voted Democrat their entire lifetimes. If the Jews have abandoned Obama, turn out the lights and close the door behind this President.

This political pundit predicted on Fox News Channel over 18 months ago that Hillary Clinton would challenge and defeat President Obama in a Presidential primary in 2012, once voters experienced the carnage wreckage of the economy under a socialist President. I believe Hillary is weighing her options at this very moment. She now knows that blue-collar white Democratic voters across America have broken with Obama. The Jews are the final straw that broke the camel’s back. It is now clear that in places filled with white blue-collar voters- like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Texas- Hillary could defeat Obama in a Presidential primary- just as I predicted 18 months ago.

Only one thing is holding Hillary back from a decision to jump into the race. I believe she is concerned with political strategy. She now knows she can defeat Obama in a Democratic primary. Her only concern is the loss of black voters for the general election. If black voters see Hillary as a back-stabber of their beloved Obama, and sit on their hands for the 2012 general election, Hillary cannot possibly defeat her Republican opponent. That is the debate now raging in Hillary’s camp of political advisors. Her question is simple- Is there a way to defeat Obama but still retain the support of black Democratic voters for the general election? If Hillary and her advisers can come up with a positive answer, she will soon announce that she is running against the incumbent Democratic occupant of the White House for President of the United States.

Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts.” His web site: www.ROOTforAmerica.com

 

 

 

 

By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee

 

 

President Obama delivered a masterful and forceful speech on jobs last week. He must think we are all lambs, sheeple, or complete idiots. He must be counting on business owners being as ignorant as the traditional Obama voters who cry at his rallies and gush to the camera, “Now I’ll never have to worry about paying rent, or putting gas in my car.” He must assume we are so naïve that we have forgotten or forgiven all Obama has done to demonize and punish business owners, and damage our businesses.

 

 

Obama must think we work so hard, we have no time to read the news. He must think that he can fool all the people, all the time. He must think we listen to what a man says, but we ignore what he does. He must be hoping we’ll all remain silent, while he redistributes our money, targets and punishes business owners, destroys the U.S. economy, and poisons capitalism. He is counting on “the Silence of the Lambs.”

 

But I won’t be silenced. Neither will over 30,000,000 American small business owners. We aren’t lambs, or sheeple, or complete fools. You can fool some of the people Mr. Obama, but not all of the people. Some of us watch what you do, not what you say. Count business owners as your opposition.

 

Obama gave a flowery speech about creating jobs; cutting taxes; rewarding small business; giving us all apple pie and saving motherhood, but business owners across America understand Obama’s idea of a “tax cut” is raising taxes on the job creators and business owners to hand welfare checks to his voters, who pay no taxes and create no jobs. We know that his version of “it’s already paid for” means massive new tax increases on us- the producer class- while the fake spending cuts are put off into the distant future. With Obama it’s always about punishing the top 2% to bribe the masses. That’s how you get elected and re-elected. By making the masses hopeless, helpless, clueless, and desperately dependent on government handouts. By stealing from the rich to redistribute to the Obama voters.

 

So while Obama was talking so beautifully about creating jobs and saving the economy…you know, the same economy he has wrecked, crippled, and almost completely destroyed for almost 3 years now…let’s take a look at what he was actually doing to ruin the economy:

 

*All across America government agents were busy closing down lemonade stands run by 4 year olds, because they had no government license.

 

*Farms were being raided by SWAT teams, for “the crime” of selling raw milk. How’s that strike you for encouraging job creation?

 

*Gibson Guitar’s Nashville factory, employing over 2000 Americans, was raided by government agents and SWAT teams with guns drawn for “the crime” of importing wood from Madagascar that supposedly wasn’t properly treated by Madagascar citizens. Yes, you heard correctly. We just cost America’s finest guitar manufacturer $1,000,000 in lost productivity, plus millions in legal fees, to enforce a law that might have been broken in a foreign country. This from a President that wonders why American business won’t create jobs?

 

Maybe it’s because he is killing them from sea to shining sea. Maybe if Obama wasn’t so busy sending SWAT teams with automatic weapons into our businesses, American business owners might have more spare time to create a job or two.

 

*In South Carolina, Obama’s National Labor Relations Board just made an unprecedented decision to kill a new non union plant, thereby costing jobs in favor of Obama’s union contributors.

 

*In my hometown of Las Vegas, Obama’s union goon buddies are engaged in a harassment campaign against major Las Vegas employer Station Casinos and their successful company UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) for “the crime” of remaining non union. The Culinary Union is trying to kill business (and jobs) for a company (UFC) that contributes $100MM in economic impact to the Vegas economy. Worse they are targeting convention clients, banks, sandwich shops, even entertainers- literally anyone who does business with Station Casinos in an effort to intimidate and unionize their workforce.

 

*Obama’s National Labor Relations Board recently announced new regulations forcing every small business in America to post rules for unionization and collective bargaining on their walls. This is the most radical attempt in U.S. labor history to damage and unionize small business.

 

*Obama has instituted new rules that, for intents and purposes, give amnesty to illegal immigrants, hoping of course they all become future Democratic voters.

 

The message from this administration is clear: conduct business legally in the private sector and you’ll be harassed by the IRS, or union goons, or perhaps raided by federal agents and SWAT teams with automatic weapons.

 

But come to America illegally and bankrupt taxpayers by using food stamps, welfare, aid to dependent children, housing allowances, free meals at school, and of course free medical and education for your kids, and Obama welcomes you with open arms.

 

Forget what Obama says. We all know what he does. He thinks we are all lambs, sheeple and fools. He is counting on our silence.

 

But the Silence of the Lambs is over. We either speak up, or we lose our businesses and our homes. We lose the American Dream. We lose capitalism- forever. Business owners understand the disdain Obama has for the private sector. We understand the battle we are in versus Mr. Obama. It is the battle of our lives.

 

And that is why there will be no new jobs, as long as Obama is in the White House.

 

 

 

 

Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts.” His web site: www.ROOTforAmerica.com

 

By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee

 

President Obama has the most important speech of his Presidency on Thursday. A speech built around creating jobs and economic recovery. You want an economic recovery? You want jobs? Two magical words are needed to change the course of history. Two words change the future for millions of desperate unemployed Americans. Two words transform a depression into a boom. Two words motivate and inspire every business owner in America to create jobs. Two words free the U.S. economy from the current doom, despair, debt, depression, misery and malaise. Only two words need to be uttered by President Obama’s lips:

 

“I resign.”

 

Imagine an Obama-Free America.

 

Overnight 2 ½ years of pain are erased. Trillions of dollars and millions of jobs are brought back into the USA. Millions of business owners breathe a sigh of relief and begin to plan their recovery. Investors begin investing again, unleashing a torrent of buying and business expansion.

 

In Obama-Free America (OFA) Obama’s policies of demonization, persecution, punishment, and income redistribution are over. Jobs are created. Lower taxes are paid. Hope is restored. The American Dream is no longer a nightmare. The business of America is once again BUSINESS.

 

Overnight in OFA “the Obama Axis of Evil” disappears- no more is the country run by socialists, Marxists, and America-apologizers based solely on their tenets of taxation, regulation, government strangulation, unionization, litigation, and illegal immigration.

 

Overnight in OFA the waste of trillions of dollars on stimulus and corporate bailouts is over. The idea that unemployment checks and food stamps are good for the economy loses currency.

 

Overnight in OFA “Saving the Union” no longer means saving the teachers union, government employees union, and auto union. Losing billions bailing out auto unions is no longer called “a profit.” Pension plans for government employees are changed from defined benefit to defined contribution, so they pay for their own retirement. The National Labor Relations Board is terminated and the nation is no longer held hostage by radical union hacks and lawyers.

 

Overnight in OFA the euphemism “undocumented worker” disappears from standard usage and we restore the integrity of our borders. The Justice Dept ends the lawsuit against states for enforcing U.S. immigration law. No longer is it legal for non-citizens to collect entitlements and government aid.

 

Overnight in OFA the government treats its citizens with respect. The Constitution is in effect again. Power once again belongs to the people, not the government. We stop sending Nanny State police to close down lemonade stands run by kids. We stop sending SWAT teams to raid farms for the crime of selling raw milk, or guitar factories employing thousands to protect endangered wood in Madagascar.

 

Overnight in OFA we end the curtain of darkness against oil and energy exploration. We stop allowing environmentalists to impede our pursuit of energy independence. We remove the shackles from American energy companies. We encourage exploration of the plentiful supply of oil, shale, natural gas, and clean coal right here on American soil. We allow the building of nuclear plants and new oil refineries for the first time in 30 years and drive the price of oil and gas down dramatically, instantly improving life for every American.

 

Overnight we allow and encourage medical freedom. In OFA doctors are allowed to compete for patients. Insurance companies are allowed to compete for customers. Consumers are allowed to shop nationwide for the best policy for their family and unique situation. Tort reform dramatically reduces insurance rates, reducing the cost of medical care for every American.

 

In OFA we end the Environmental Protection Agency’s reign of terror against business. We end the Department of Education and the teacher union-sponsored destruction of America’s educational system. We end the IRS’s abusive practices against business owners and taxpayers. We end the FDA’s campaign against vitamin and nutritional companies. We end the ATF’s war against legal gun owners. And that is just a start.

 

Overnight in OFA the heroes of society are no longer unions, lawyers, IRS auditors, and government bureaucrats. The heroes are once again the people who made America the greatest nation in world history- small business owners, financial risk-takers, taxpayers, and job-creators. America is once again open for business.

 

In OFA it is cool to love and respect capitalism. It is cool to love Israel. It is cool to believe in American exceptionalism. Once again, it is morning in America.

 

Oh, and one more thing…in Obama-Free America, no President can play golf, if unemployment is above 7%. And Presidential (and Congressional) vacations are cancelled if the budget is out of balance, inflation is raging, real estate collapsing, or GDP is below 3%.

 

One man stole hope and prosperity 2 1/2 years ago. Now with the magical words “I resign” that same man can restore our country, our economy, and the American Dream.

 

“I resign. I resign. I resign.” Say it with feeling Mr. President. Say it like America’s future depends on it.

 

Because it does.

 

 

 

Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts.” His web site: www.ROOTforAmerica.com

 

By Wayne Allyn Root, Former Libertarian Vice Presidential Nominee

 

 

I’ve made some uncannily accurate predictions in the past 3 years.

 

Back in 2008, as I ran for Vice President of the United States on the Libertarian Presidential ticket, I made a prediction I’m very proud of today. I said, “Voting for McCain is voting for four more years of Bush. But voting for Obama is voting for four years of Karl Marx.” How’s that working for you?

 

I also predicted that Obama’s entire Presidency would be devoted to saving the union- the teachers union, government employees union, and auto union. Sure enough, the White House now comes adorned with a union label. If you look closely at Obama’s forehead, you’ll find it’s stamped SEIU. Obama’s signature initiative Obamacare affects every American citizen, except union members. Real life under Obama is more shocking than fiction.

 

A year ago, while economists and Obama administration lackeys talked of a recovery, I publicly stated we’d never left the last recession and the worst was yet to come. I predicted that “Obama’s Axis of Evil” policies of taxation, regulation, government strangulation, unionization, litigation and illegal immigration would turn a serious economic crisis into The Greatest Depression Ever. It’s all unfolding before our very eyes on a daily basis.

 

As conditions got progressively worse during 2010, I predicted the Tea Parties would pull off one of the great landslide victories in U.S. political history that November.

 

Then when matters got even worse in the summer of 2011, I predicted Obama’s strategy would be to blame the victim (the Tea Party) that was merely trying to save America from financial ruin. On Labor Day, union goon Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. screamed to a crowd at an Obama rally, “Let’s take these Tea Party sons of bitches out.” When times get desperate…as the economy crumbles…as it becomes clear the progressive scam is ending…the oldest trick in the book is to demonize the victims. It has only just begun.

 

So with this successful track record, I thought perhaps a few more predictions from my crystal ball would be helpful:

 

* Europe is within days of a massive economic implosion that will put the entire global economy at risk of economic disaster. The Greek bailout is now in tatters. The EU is about to break apart. European banks are insolvent. There isn’t enough money in all the world to save the EU. This will set off a chain reaction of epic proportions across the globe.

 

 

* At least the EU downfall is good for one thing. They are Exhibit A proving that the toxic cesspool of big government, big taxes, big spending, big unions, fat pensions, early retirement, and too many people working for government is poison to any country’s economic survival. The EU experiment proves that government is too big to succeed. Unfortunately Obama’s model for America is Europe.

 

* The bad news is Europe won’t go down without a fight…with America’s money. The result of this economic Armageddon will be “the mother of all bailouts.” I predict Bernanke and the Fed will team with central bankers all over the world to create the biggest coordinated economic rescue in world history. Call it QE3…call it “the mother of all bailouts”…call it “Stimulus Squared.” The name doesn’t matter. The dollars involved will be the headline grabber. Trillions of dollars of artificial money will be pumped into the system in a desperate attempt to save the world economy. This will be the biggest government intervention in world history. And as always- it will fail miserably.

 

* The short term result of more central bank financial fraud and intervention will be a rising stock market and relief the world over. Global media will hail Obama and the Fed as saviors. You’ll hear economic experts claim “We’ve saved the world’s economy.” But of course they will be wrong- again. Just as dozens of stimulus programs never “saved” Japan, but instead left her in a coma for two lost decades, and gave her the world’s worst debt problem. Soon we shall see the results of this arrogant and perverted thinking on a global scale- with a much worse economic crash, a shocking stock market decline, and a longer Great Depression.

 

* In response to this economic chaos, crisis and despair, as well as skyrocketing inflation and collapse of fiat currencies, the streets of America will resemble the anarchy of Greece. Gold will soon soar to $3000 per ounce, on the way to $6000 and higher.

 

* Obama will go down in history as the man who presided over the destruction of the U.S. economy and the unimaginable loss of our country’s AAA credit rating.

 

* Obama will lose in November 2012 by landslide proportions to either Texas Governor Rick Perry or New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The Tea Party- the group Obama has demonized- will once again prove itself the most important force in U.S. politics.

 

* But it will all be too little, too late. The Obama Great Depression is here. We are in for perhaps the ugliest decade in world economic history.

 

Hopefully we will learn important lessons from this painful episode:

 

Socialism always sounds sexy, until your economy collapses and your government runs out of other people’s money. It’s always the same ending.

 

You can’t put a “community activist” who has never run a business, created a job, or made a payroll, and has only one talent- reading teleprompters- in charge of the world’s biggest economy. This story was always going to end badly. That one was easy to predict.

 

Wayne Allyn Root is a former Libertarian vice presidential nominee. He now serves as Chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee. He is the best-selling author of “The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts.” His web site: www.ROOTforAmerica.com