Obama's Fundamental Transformation

As Team Obama moves the campaign into high gear, the Administration is making moves to fulfill the one campaign promise Obama actually made: to "fundamentally transform" America.

Most Obama voters didn't seem to understand what Obama meant by this, because voters generally assume politicians use generalizations and sales "puff". Therefore, centrist voters assumed Obama meant "improve the economy" or "put Americans back to work" or "reduce taxes." Those in the hard-core left- and the conservative right- understood his terminology. Obama said exactly what he meant, and meant exactly what he said. While most Americans have worked in the private sector, Obama has spent his entire life outside the private sector. So while he's seen private enterprise, he doesn't actually have any experience with it. His mentor, a communist agitator by the name of Davis, told him it was really, really bad, though.

Hence, the Obamacare health system takeover. It was not a fundamental plank of the Obama campaign, but suddenly emerged as an emergency; if the government did not take control of the health sector, Americans were told, it would just collapse. So, while the insurance companies still exist as entities, they have become mere extensions of the government. That is how private industry works in the Fascist Socialist model, with government and big business cooperating to control the behavior of the citizenry.

During the Obama Administration, it has become clear that Obama does not need legislative action to "enact" his agenda. There was Fast and Furious, a covert gun-running program designed ostensibly to find criminals, but since no guns were tracked, more likely designed as an excuse to impose gun-control agenda items. There have been the EPA regulations to limit pollution, designed to drive out coal usage in electrical generating plants and remove over 40 percent of America's capacity.

There was the "slow-walking" of applications to deny oil drilling permits in the Gulf, despite a Federal Court Order. There were the "waivers" of Immigration deportations, based on Executive Orders "reinterpreting" statutory deportation requirements. HHS is issuing "waivers" of the TANF requirements in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, in defiance of express statutory language. So another aspect of Obama's "fundamental transformation" appears: the power of the President to transcend Constitutional limitations and statutory law without anyone in authority calling his office to account.

Another important aspect of Obama's "fundamental transformation" is consistency. Obama is not moving to reform immigration. If he did, the Democrats would lose it as a wedge issue. After all, who can compassionately be anti-immigrant (what's "illegal" mean? it's good, right?) He isn't concerned about the economy; private business is doing "fine." Foreign policy? Why, the Arab Spring! Democracy in the Middle East! Why should America be concerned about a few Islamists taking power? No, it is the direction of his administration which counts, and that is always toward a concentration of power into the hands of the government. After all, progress is the result of government action; if you are a mere citizen, "you didn't build that."

Obama's campaign slogan, "Forward", is the traditional cry of the Socialists. It is no accident, but a deliberate coming out of the closet for socialism in America. It is the open acknowledgment by the Democrat party that it has adopted Socialism as its platform. That is the "fundamental transformation" that Obama apparently has been working towards all his life.