After 19 months in office Obama still blames Bush for what he inherited and pats himself on the back for his promise to ‘fundamentally transform the United States of America.’

He won the 2008 presidential election by claiming to be a moderate and governing from the center.

However, as we have witnessed since he has been in office, Obama doesn’t say what he means.

According to Rasmussen Reports recent poll this week,  Obama has a disapproval rating of 44% with an approval rating of 27% and an approval index rating of  minus 17.

Obama and his cronies would like us to believe the rhetoric they put forth that the grave state this nation is in, is because George Bush left him with a deteriorating economy and a collapsing real estate market with home owners in housing they could least afford.  Oh, there were other blames used by the left wing that they placed at George’s doorstep including the break up of Al and Tipper Gore.

Everything that has gone wrong — and not much has gone right — is Bush’s fault.

It seems to me the people are now assessing Obama’s actions rather than the words that role off his silver tongue.

He believes in big government and has done nothing but spend putting the nation in debt to the tune of $13 trillion.  He believed in bailouts and executed the takeover of financial institutions, banks and the auto industry; implemented  health care reform and financial reform — ‘fundamentally transforming the USA’  — introducing policies and programs people have clearly told him they don’t want.

These socialistic programs have resulted in a faltering economy, a bleak job picture with unemployment at the 10% level (government figures that no longer reflect those who have run out of unemployment compensation and the underemployed).  The true job picture more likely represents 20% unemployment in most states and growing .

Corporations are cash rich and not hiring.

While Bush bashing in the Obama administration is in vogue, they conveniently refuse to acknowledge that one of Obama’s cronies, Rep. Barney frank (D-Mass.) had a front-row seat to the  real estate/mortgage crisis for years.  Yet rather than fixing the problem, he used his influence to block efforts that could have helped prevent the meltdown.

The result, the collapse of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which Obama is now going to bailout again with taxpayers money.

Under Financial Reform Obama talks about protecting consumers, but it is nothing more than another big government power grab ignoring the root cause of the financial crisis.

“Had Fannie and Freddie not been there to buy these loans, most of them would never have been made,” writes Mark A. Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute. “And had the taxpayer not been standing behind Fannie and Freddie, they would have been unable to fund such large purchases of subprime mortgages.”

As a result the domino effect took place leading to tumultuous financial loss for most, including homes and jobs.

In a recent column Howard Rich, Chairman of Americans for Limited Government, notes that Obama’s new reform does not address the fundemental problem.

He writes, “In addition to imposing a slew of new regulations on banks that had nothing to do with the crisis, Obama’s new law maintains the same strict government-mandated lending quotas as before.  Accordingly, while Main Street leaders (which provide capital to small businesses across America) are forced to navigate a maze of new regulations and restrictions, the real culprits of the disaster are not only going unpunished – they are being allowed to conduct business as usual while receiving a steady stream of taxpayer-funded bailout money.”

The “proxy access” of this law’s provision will permit labor unions, environmental activists and “community organizing” groups, the very ones that urged subprime mortgages along with the government, will be allowed to by pass existing state laws on corporate director elections and place their representatives on corporate boards of directors.

The law will not end bailouts for private sector firms – as Obama promised – therefore the law’s “orderly liquidation” provision permits the secretive Federal Reserve to seize control of any firm that it deems a threat to “financial stability” which opens the door to bailouts of companies that aren’t even asking for taxpayer money.

Obama gets a pass from the main stream media, identified as ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, New York Times and Washington Post.  They don’t cover the socialistic policies of Obama, nor his past radical associations, they are more or less in his pocket, an extension of his press office.  However, the people of America are getting their information from multiple sources, such as bloggers and Fox News.  This is supported by the decline in the revenue of the main stream media and the near demise of print media.

They are seeing Obama for the actions he has taken, not the words he has spoken.

Aside from Obama being far from what he portrayed himself with rhetoric — a moderate — he is more closely aligned, by his past associations, with that of a radical, following the policies of “Rules For Revolution”, which was the original title of Saul Alinsky’s book ” Rules For Radicals.”  This, as I have said before in this column is the model Obama is following for the transformation of the USA.

Part of the Alinsky model was what he implemented early in his administration, traveling abroad as David Horowitz described in his 51 page booklet, “Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution The Alinsky Model,” he  ‘apologizes to foreign dictators abroad for sins he alleges his own country committed and appointed a self-described communist (Van Jones) and an admier of Mao Zedong to a top White House post.’

What is truly behind Obama’s poor approval rating is the public’s final realization that his actions are what is to be watched, not his words, for he is escalating America’s march to Marxism.

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Recommended reading: “Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution The Alinsky Model by David Horowitz.  The cover of this 51 page booklet depicts the photos in order of history: Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, Saul Alinsky, Barack Obama.  If you have trouble finding a copy of this well written piece by Horowitz, a former radical, E-mail me and I will supply you with one free of charge on a first come basis until my supply runs out.  Reply to me (donstorch@donstorch.com) at the bottom of this column with your name and address.