Yesterday the Dow dropped by 419 points.  So how far does it drop today?  Or do we see some of yesterday’s losses reversed?  And --- the big question --- what’s with this effort to make us all believe that this is just “bad luck” brought on by the earthquake in Japan or free subways in Greece?  How much longer are the American people going to be expected to swallow that nonsense?

Just what has happened to bring us the worst recovery since the Great Depression?  Why can’t our economy get on track?  Just last week 408,000 additional American applied for jobless benefits.  If you’re not one of them, well then good for you.  That’s great.  But do you know what it means for many of the 408,000 American wage earners who were just added to our unemployment rolls?  How many tens of thousands of additional fathers do we now have who can’t look their wives and children in the eye because they think they have now failed in their primary function of providing for their families?  How many working wives do we now have – just in the last week – who now feel an emptiness for not being able to contribute to the family’s struggle to make it through this economy?  While hundreds of thousands of Americans are beating a path to the unemployment line, to the food banks, to the thrift stores, and to the bankruptcy courts, Barack the Magnificent is on a bicycle path on Martha’s Vineyard.  Ain’t life grand! (Apologies to Widespread Panic)  

But not to worry, unemployed Americans! Our Dear Ruler will present us with his final solution – his grand plan for jobs – just a few weeks after he and Michelle make their way back to Washington from Hoi Polloi Land.  

Don’t mean to rattle your chains, folks – but it is well past time for you to consider what might have been the unthinkable a few years ago.  It’s time for you to consider the possibility that our failure to emerge from the recession into a growing and robust economy is by design rather than  just “bad luck,” as Obama would have you believe.  

Now I’m about to go on a rant here – and once I get into cruise mode I’m not going to stop to try to drag up specific references, sources, dates and the like.  I’m the judge here, and I’m taking judicial notice of many of the following facts.  Judicial notice?  OK … here’s your definition:

Judicial notice is a rule in the law of evidence that allows a fact to be introduced into evidence if the truth of that fact is so notorious or well known that it cannot be refuted.

Well I’m just ever so sorry if you haven’t been reading of the utterances of Barack Obama; of his upbringing; of his past associations and of his very admissions in his own books.  

So here’s what I want you to consider.  If you can come up with specific and verifiable facts that refute these ideas, then by all means share.  You know the number to the show (877-310-2100) and the email address is somewhere on this page.  Have at it.  If you don’t have specific knowledge that what I’m saying here is untrue, then maybe you should consider the possibility, however remote, that the problem with Obama is much more severe and dangerous than you ever imagined.

Do you remember when, five days prior to the election in 2008, Obama stood in front of a group of supporters and told them that “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America!”?  Is it now time for you to pay a bit more attention to that “fundamentally transform” thing?  Come on … give me the quick definition for those two words.  Or .. just taken this definition from Websters.  We know what transform means (after all, it’s not like you’re listening to sports talk), so we’ll take on “fundamental.”  It means “of, pertaining to, or affecting the foundation or basis.”  So what Obama was saying on that day before the dumb masses of this country made him president was that it was his intention to fundamentally transform the very foundation and basis of this country.  Tell me, is that what you were signing up for? 

OK … transform from what to what?   This is where it gets scary.  

Maybe looking at the history of Barack Obama – where he came from – would give you a clue.  It’s not very politically correct to say this, but his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, has been described by many as being a Marxist.  She attended Mercer Island High School near Seattle, Washington – a high school described by many as a hotbed of communist teachers, administrators and activism. His father, Barack Obama Sr. was widely believed to be a Marxist, I can’t find references to the political philosophy of Lolo Soetoro, Dunham’s second husband and Obama’s step-father, but we do know that he was a practicing Muslim.

After Obama’s mother divorced Soetoro she move back to Hawaii with young Barack.  There she took up with (we’ll leave the definition of their relationship there) a dedicated communist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis.  Obama references Davis in his books, but only by the name “Frank.”  He talks of the profound influence Davis had on his life.  Some suggest that Dunham’s relationship with Davis went back to her earlier years in Hawaii and that Davis may, in fact, be Obama’s father.  Phuleeeeze.  This is another “birther” diversion that means nothing and gets us nowhere.  Davis had a profound influence on Obama. That’s enough.  The begator is not as important as the begatee.  

Is a trend starting to emerge here?

Let’s wrap this up quickly by pointing out that in Obama’s own books he speaks of his gravitation toward Marxist student groups and professors during his undergraduate college years at Occidental.  It is there that a man by the name of John Drew (now a PhD political scientist) encountered the young Obama and, according to Drew, convinced him that the communist revolution Obama envisioned would never happen in this country due to the presence of a strong middle class.  Drew writes that their conversations resulted in Obama dedicating himself to transforming the United States to a Marxist economy through political activism rather than encouraging a violent overthrow.

There’s that “transform” word again.  

Don’t forget also that when Barack Obama made the decision to formally announce his entry into the political world – he chose the warmth and cozy confines of the living room of two dedicated Marxists, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dhorn, as the venue for his political debutant ball.   

And this is the guy who spoke of “fundamentally transforming” the United States of America? 

So … let’s absorb all that I’ve already told you about Obama’s past, and add to our little mix some of Barack’s greatest hits over the past few years.  Again, paraphrasing here because I just don’t have the time to get the exact quotes:

•  We need to raise taxes because we need to spread the wealth around.

•  Working for the private sector is “working behind enemy lines.”  In other words, the private sector is America’s enemy. 

•  Sometimes you have to just admit that you’re making too much money.

•  Yes, an increase in capital gains taxes would probably result in a decrease in tax revenue, but we need to do it out of fairness.

• Some people just have more money than they need and they should pay more taxes.  

If you will go back and read the writings of Barack Obama Sr. you will see a seething animosity toward capitalism.  You will see some of the same in the writings of his son.  I’m convinced that Obama believes that free enterprise and capitalism are exploitive economic systems wherein people only acquire wealth by plundering others.  As you page through volumes of Obama’s speeches and statements over the years you will see a definite dedication to the “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need” tenant of Marxism.  

Where does that leave us?  Is it possible that this leaves us with a President of the United States who is engaged in an intentional and dedicated effort to sabotage and to damage, beyond repair, the capitalist free market economy of The United States?  Does this leave us with a president who is joining with his radical leftist friends in the Democrat party to “fundamentally transform” our nation into the very model of a European socialist welfare state with al all-powerful central government planning and implementing every economic step?  Does this mean to destroy free enterprise in America?  Anti-capitalism is certainly at the core of Obama’s upbringing; does he hope make it his legacy?  I understand that these are all very uncomfortable questions when applied to our president, but considering both his background and his actions as president, do we have the luxury of casting those arguments aside as nonsense?   Does Obama sees himself as the savior of the oppressed – the man who will bring American free enterprise and (in his mind) it’s history of exploitation to its knees? 

I can understand why you would want to reject this scenario out of hand.  Simply put, most Americans just can’t bring themselves to believe that the man who occupies the Oval Office could be a Marxist revolutionary dedicated to the destruction of Capitalism.  There are dots here, my friends.  Many dots.  Just connect them.  The image you will see isn’t the dollar sign.  It looks more like a hammer and sickle.  

Have hope though.  Obama will present his jobs program a few weeks after his return from vacation.  Perhaps as many as a million more Americans will fill out that application for unemployment while we’re waiting.  And when the plan does emerge will it be a plan to turn lose the engine of free enterprise?  Will the fears of American jobs creators be put to rest?  Will consumer confidence soar on Obama’s recognition of the vitality of the private sector and it’s ability to drive America to a new prosperity?