Fraud and the ‘Fundamental Transformation’ of America

Just five days before the election of 2008, which would catapult him into the presidency, candidate Barack Obama gave a speech in which he made what is now one of his infamous statements: “We are just five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

In typical fashion, the press was too busy making goo-goo eyes at Obama to parse out what he meant by that statement, much less ask why a “fundamental transformation” of America would be necessary or desirable. Bestselling author and commentator Mark Levin asked what is perhaps the most salient question when he said, “Who wants to ‘fundamentally transform’ something they love?” Would anyone announce that they planned to “fundamentally transform” their betrothed days before their wedding? Do parents gleefully anticipate “fundamentally transforming” their child days before its birth?

In the eight years that followed, America got a taste of what Obama had in mind. His pernicious legacy includes inflamed racial hatreds, a disastrous rollout of kinda-sorta single-payer healthcare (preceded by a litany of lies and followed by de facto insolvency), an apology tour to the Middle East, the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed fourAmericans (including Ambassador Chris Stevens) and about which the administration lied to the public, and funding terrorism by sending $400 million in cash on pallets to Iran.

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