Two Years After Apocalyptic Predictions Related To An Obama Presidency, Life Goes On
Editors' Note: This article will appear in our forthcoming Intelligence Report.
It was two years ago today that President Obama was sworn in for a second term.
My, how the world has changed.
The economy is purring like a kitten after years of growling like a sour tummy. Jobs are coming back, wages are beginning to rise. The stock market is way, way up.
The war in Afghanistan is finally over. Finally.
More than 10 million previously uninsured Americans now have health insurance.
Did I mention the price of gas? I could go on. But I wonât, because this isnât an article extolling the policies and virtues of our commander in chief.
No, this is a look back at what, two years ago, we called the paranoid prophecies of the rightâs most rabid Obamaphobes â the most frightening predictions of the doom that awaited all of us if Obama were to be reelected in 2012. You remember: real end-of-the-world stuff.
Just for fun, letâs review.
Joseph Farah, the proprietor of WorldNetDaily, the supermarket tabloid of the black helicopter crowd, seemed to have a firm grasp of his fate in a second Obama term. The scribe had already reported drones surveilling his Northern Virginia property. âIf [Obama is] re-elected, itâs gonna be war,â he said. âWe will be hunted down like dogs.â
Anyone seen signs of war on American soil? Nope. Not real war, anyway.
We believe that if Obama wanted to round up Farah, he could find him. And if, say for dramatic effect, he wanted to send in the hounds to chase him like a fox, he would do just that. Perhaps heâs just waiting for the right moment.
Letâs move on. A motivational speaker and self-help author named Robert Ringer (itâs OK if you havenât heard of him) predicted the âMarxmeisterâ would quickly unleash the âdictatorial full montyâ: instant citizenship for all Third World immigrants, a new sedition act criminalizing criticism of the government, forced equalization of income, suspension of habeas corpus, the end of fossil fuel production, and more.
Not yet â though Obama has been exercising his executive powers. We donât know where that will lead!
Next up: Wayne LaPierre, the NRA chieftain who makes nearly $1 million a year scaring the bejesus out of gun lovers, claimed Obama would take away our firearms and âeraseâ the Second Amendment. His first term was, of course, a clever ruse âto ensure re-election by lulling gun owners to sleep.â
We donât know if Obamaâs veto pen has an Amendment eraser on it, but he still has two more years. So, weâll see. For now, guns abound!
Not to be outdone (which would make him irrelevant), the former Clinton aide Dick Morris prophesied to Foxâs Sean Hannity that the presidentâs âbig focusâ would be to make the U.S. a âvassal state to a globalist entity.â To make it even worse, he would sign a treaty so that weâd need permission from Russia and China just to launch a new war. (But what if we wanted to attack Russia and China? Theyâd probably say no.)
Weâll put this one in the too-soon-to-tell category, though if vassal-ness (vassalitude?) is the presidentâs âbig focus,â weâve seen no sign of it. Yet.
In Texas, some county judge named Tom Head called for a property tax INCREASE to help defend his county during the coming civil unrest.
Hereâs what he told a TV station: âHeâs going to send in U.N. troops. I donât want âem in Lubbock County, OK? So Iâm gonna stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say, âYouâre not coming in here.ââ
OK, then.
Two years later, weâve seen no sign of UN troops invading Lubbock County. Or any other of Texasâ proud (but militarily vulnerable) counties.
Finally, we reach our favorite prediction.
The actor Chuck Norris and his wife, Gena, posted a video on YouTube warning of âsocialism or much worse.â
All right. Thatâs fair. You could argue we have all sorts of socialism built into our system: Social Security, the Post Office, etc.
But then Gena quoted a 1964 speech by Ronald Reagan: âWe will preserve for our children this last best hope for man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into 1,000 years of darkness [emphasis ours].â
A full millennium. Of darkness!
Now that would take an act of Congress.