Politicians and presidents of both parties have occasionally suffered from open-mic syndrome saying something when they thought the microphone was turned off they wished had not been made public.
It happened to President Obama on Monday in Seoul when he told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that once re-elected he would have more flexibility to deal with missile defense. The president asked Medvedev to relay to incoming President Vladimir Putin his request for patience and space.
The comments sent shivers down the spines of conservative who believe the president is a not-so-closeted socialist. They recall his criticism of the Founding Fathers for constitutionally limiting a presidents ability to bring about change unilaterally. They fear that unconstrained by the need to run again Obama will perform a political version of Girls Gone Wild with the Constitution shredded and America transformed beyond recognition.
Dick Morris believes that an unleashed President Obama would cause even more damage to the country. The former adviser to Bill Clinton appeared on Foxs Hannity Monday night and delivered an ominous prediction of what an Obama second term might look like.
I believe that hell proceed to a single-payer system on health care said Morris. I think Obamacare was just an intermediate step in his mind. If hes re-elected particularly if theres a Democratic Congress he will eliminate the private health insurance industry and all insurance will be from the government and it will all be according to one plan. Secondly I think that he will completely reverse the initiatives of the Bush 43 administration in opening up vast new forms of oil drilling in the U.S. And well eliminate this incredible opportunity we have to dominate the global oil markets and put the terrorists out of business. But thirdly I think that his big focus will be to make the United States a vassal state to a globalist entity.
With any other president this might sound like blather from the extreme right. But consider the new book by Van Jones Obamas former green energy czar who was forced to resign for past extremist views and statements including his signing a 2004 petition from 911Truth.org a group that claimed George W. Bush knowingly allowed the 9/11 terrorist attacks to happen. In Rebuild the Dream Jones claims that Obama could have done more to yank the country leftward had he not been determined to be bipartisan at all costs.
What would more look like in an Obama second term? Again Dick Morris thinks he sees the future: The G-20 and the IMF will acquire sovereignty over our economy. I think that he will sign the International Criminal Treaty that would oblige the United States to get U.N. approval -- which is to say Russian and Chinese approval -- before going to war. I think he will sign the Rights of the Child treaty which would create a legal basis for suing to increase foreign aid to poor countries.
Morris was not finished: I think that hell sign the global ban on small arms back-door arms control in the United States. I think hell sign away royalties for offshore drilling by going along with the Law of the Sea Treaty. I think that hell ban U.S. weapons in outer space which will eliminate an anti-missile capability.
And the most important thing the president will do according to Morris: Hes going to transform America into two countries a small number of people who pay taxes and a large number of people who dont work and are dependent upon the government to create a permanent leftist-socialist base in the United States.
If that is not cause for alarm even panic what is? In the 2008 presidential campaign candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America. Given a second term and especially with a Democratic Congress he will. Just give him some space.
Examiner Columnist Cal Thomas is nationally syndicated by Tribune Media.
Politicians and presidents of both parties have occasionally suffered from open-mic syndrome saying something when they thought the microphone was turned off they wished had not been made public.
It happened to President Obama on Monday in Seoul when he told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that once re-elected he would have more flexibility to deal with missile defense. The president asked Medvedev to relay to incoming President Vladimir Putin his request for patience and space.
The comments sent shivers down the spines of conservative who believe the president is a not-so-closeted socialist. They recall his criticism of the Founding Fathers for constitutionally limiting a presidents ability to bring about change unilaterally. They fear that unconstrained by the need to run again Obama will perform a political version of Girls Gone Wild with the Constitution shredded and America transformed beyond recognition.
Dick Morris believes that an unleashed President Obama would cause even more damage to the country. The former adviser to Bill Clinton appeared on Foxs Hannity Monday night and delivered an ominous prediction of what an Obama second term might look like.
I believe that hell proceed to a single-payer system on health care said Morris. I think Obamacare was just an intermediate step in his mind. If hes re-elected particularly if theres a Democratic Congress he will eliminate the private health insurance industry and all insurance will be from the government and it will all be according to one plan. Secondly I think that he will completely reverse the initiatives of the Bush 43 administration in opening up vast new forms of oil drilling in the U.S. And well eliminate this incredible opportunity we have to dominate the global oil markets and put the terrorists out of business. But thirdly I think that his big focus will be to make the United States a vassal state to a globalist entity.
With any other president this might sound like blather from the extreme right. But consider the new book by Van Jones Obamas former green energy czar who was forced to resign for past extremist views and statements including his signing a 2004 petition from 911Truth.org a group that claimed George W. Bush knowingly allowed the 9/11 terrorist attacks to happen. In Rebuild the Dream Jones claims that Obama could have done more to yank the country leftward had he not been determined to be bipartisan at all costs.
What would more look like in an Obama second term? Again Dick Morris thinks he sees the future: The G-20 and the IMF will acquire sovereignty over our economy. I think that he will sign the International Criminal Treaty that would oblige the United States to get U.N. approval -- which is to say Russian and Chinese approval -- before going to war. I think he will sign the Rights of the Child treaty which would create a legal basis for suing to increase foreign aid to poor countries.
Morris was not finished: I think that hell sign the global ban on small arms back-door arms control in the United States. I think hell sign away royalties for offshore drilling by going along with the Law of the Sea Treaty. I think that hell ban U.S. weapons in outer space which will eliminate an anti-missile capability.
And the most important thing the president will do according to Morris: Hes going to transform America into two countries a small number of people who pay taxes and a large number of people who dont work and are dependent upon the government to create a permanent leftist-socialist base in the United States.
If that is not cause for alarm even panic what is? In the 2008 presidential campaign candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America. Given a second term and especially with a Democratic Congress he will. Just give him some space.
Examiner Columnist Cal Thomas is nationally syndicated by Tribune Media.
