Conservative Refocus/ The Examiner

Barry Secrest

Over the days following President Obama's re-election, the US stock market has undergone a two day sell-off resulting in a loss of over 400 points. On Wednesday, immediately following the election, the market suffered it greatest single day loss of the year.

While numerous experts point to the Europe debt crisis or an approaching fiscal cliff in the US as the culprit, many business owners have indicated Obama's re-election as a direct cause of the faltering business climate and loss of confidence.

One Las Vegas business owner, after having warned his employees of a certain lay-off if Obama were re-elected, followed through with his ominous threat dropping one fifth of his work force in anticipation of a worsening environment.

The following is a list of companies which have announced layoffs directly as a result of President Obama's re-election. Many contracting businesses have indicated that the impending implementation of Obamacare, a looming threat of tax increases, and an overall anti-business environment will now prevail and perhaps even get worse, over the next four years prompting a defensive stance.

List of layoffs and closings courtesy of the website The Blaze:

Westinghouse -

Research in Motion Limited -

Lightyear Network Solutions -

• Providence Journal -

• Hawker Beechcraft -

• Boeing (30% of their management staff) -

• CVPH Medical Center -

• US Cellular -

• Momentive Performance Materials -

• Rocketdyne -

• Brake Parts -

• Vestas Wind Systems -

• Husqvarna -

• Center for Hospice New York -

• Bristol-Meyers -

• OCE North America -

• Darden Restaurants -

• United Blood Services Gulf

Various Offices which will be closing as a result of re-election:

• Caterpillar Inc. will close its plant in Owatonna Minn.
• Mount Pleasant’s Albrecht Sentry Foods
• The Target store at Manassas Mall Va.
• Millennium Academy in Wake Forest NC
• Target Closing Kissimmee FL Location
• The Andover Gift Shop in Andover MA
• Grand Union Family Markets Closing Storrs Location CT
• Movie Scene Milford Location NH
• Update: TE Connectivity Closing Greensboro Plant – 620 Layoffs Expected
• Gomer’s Fried Chicken in South Kansas City
• Kmart in Homer Glen
• Fresh Market on Pine Street in Burlington
• AGC Glass North America to permanently close its Blue Ridge Plant in Kingsport Tenn.
• The Target store at Platte and Academy in Colorado Springs
• The Roses store on Reynold Road in Winston-Salem NC
• Meanders Kitchen losing its West Seattle location at 6032 California Ave
• Bost Harley-Davidson at 46th Avenue North and Delaware Ave. in West Nashville TN
• Townsend Booksellers in Oakland
• The Kmart store in Parkway Plaza off University Drive in Durham NC – 79 Jobs Lost

Conservative Refocus

By Barry Secrest

In 1783, after having successfully won America's independence from her tyrannical occupiers, George Washington resigned his post as commander in chief of all American forces.

At the time, many who stood within the halls of power in the new nation implored Washington to stay on and rule as a people's appointed monarch of sorts. George Washington, being the ever wise leader and an ardent foe of governments styled after authoritarian systems, would have nothing of it.

The nation's first leader went on to unify the  political divisions that existed at the time of the new government's forming and presided over the Constitutional convention of 1787, producing what is inarguably one of the greatest documents in the history of self-governance, the US Constitution. Greatly respected although hesitant, Washington would go on to become the first President of the United States in 1789 and would head the fledgling US government until leaving office with the government firmly established but appropriately limited, in 1799.

Throughout George Washington's self-limited  two terms as Commander in Chief, the first President never felt himself qualified to serve as the Chief Executive of the United States, this despite the fact that he himself might have been one of only a few men in the nation immune and not seduced by the massive powers  granted by the office.

Reproof Where Reproof is Due

Only history and divine providence had produced the leader that the nation so terribly needed at both the exact time and the exact place where few if any others would have proved both adequate and still humbled at the sheer magnitude of the task.

Fast forward to what many have called the post-modern America of today and we find a leadership wholly at odds with what George Washington both espoused and represented. For example, Washington would have never sought to blame the state of governmental disrepair and extraordinary monetary deficits on the previous occupiers in power, nor would Washington have ever noted that his election would serve to calm the bestormed seas from their supposed rising.

However US history is replete with leaders who came and went as the needs of both the people and the nation required of the time.  During the days after Washington's relinquishment of power, John Adams would be elected. Adams was a man who was no more jealous of the power of his office, in relation to the people, than his predecessor and was a fierce advocate of rule by the people.

Following Adams was Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant thinker and inventor and yet another fierce advocate to the power of the rule of law rather than those holding such power. Jefferson was also, not coincidentally, the original author of the Declaration of Independence and a man not all excited  in the delivering of speeches to his constituents.

Following Jefferson was James Madison, who established the powerful Bill of Rights as amendments to the US Constitution, and a slew of leaders after these, who set goals so lofty of the office, that few other nations' leaders could ever hope to even come close to attaining, either the honor of the office, or the power it engendered.

At least not then.

Would America have become the nation that she is today without the bedrock of leaders who laid the foundations of both process and strict procedural customs now observed under a formerly impregnable rule of law? Doubtful and yet, history had provided an exceptional nation with thoroughly exceptional leaders from the dawning of the nation to her seemingly quick decline being felt in this present day.

Welcome Back Carter

In fact, the only other leader in our generation who presided over and gave into a terrible decline was of the same ideological bent as the one currently holding office, and is even now in fact an ardent defender of the same suspect ideologies.

Peer thoughtfully into the annals of a severely damaged America of today, and we find a nation seemingly embroiled in a loss of confidence. Stock Market teetering, credit rating impaired to a AA status, fewer employed now than in late 2008, poverty and hunger more prevalent now than at any time in the last 50 years, America finds itself limping forward unable to gain any meaningful momentum.

Her greatest accomplishment in recent past? The death of a terrorist, the passage of an act which puts 1/6th of the entire economy under government control in the form of nationalized healthcare,  and a financial act that has proven disastrous to businesses needing capital to expand.

Overseas, for the nation, America's condition fairs not much better.

The nation has seen nearly all of its Mideast embassies come under flag-burning protests, fatal assault, or threats of violence in a paradigm camouflaged by a sycophantic Fourth Estate. Conditions in reality being painted the exact opposite of what they would normally appear.

America's loss of wealth and influence can be directly tied to the downgrading of her people's income, which is monumentally lower than in 2008 and her military having been embroiled in a tug-of-war between those who wish to remain mighty and those who pine for a self-imposed redistribution of military equality among nations.

"If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring A Gun" ~B. Obama

Indeed, bringing a gun to a knife fight seems only appropriate for the nations domestic endeavors and only acceptable for those currently in power.

The nation is now in need of a maturity undesirous of public adulation or acclaim, and a mindset most attuned to the solving of problems rather than creating them. Since most of America's problems appear centered on the creation of wealth and prosperity, rather than its sequential degradation, the people need an ardent defender of those principles that made America the wealthiest and most prosperous of all nations rather than a detractor seeking change wholly alien to what has truly made America work.

Proudly laying fallow in the wallows of redistributional excess only detracts from the nation's competitiveness, and surely does not magnify it. If history has always provided what America has always needed, then the choice that lays before the American people is almost painful in its overall simplicity.

On the one hand we have an applicant with a record of undeniable success in the arena of creating wealth equating to jobs, and in the sector of repairing damage equating to the impending collapse by a colossal debt unimaginable in its breadth.

The nation is undergoing a severe decline of wealth, Liberties and individual determination.

On the other hand we have an incumbent with a rare expertise in delivering  the platitudes of potential never realized, and an icon of the enduringly idle. An elocutionist of the grandest order whose fails to inspire even the military of which he directly leads. A man whose record and words suggests an acumen of direct opposition to the first leader of this nation and his successors, where service within the framework of the founding documents seems more a labor in deference to antiquity rather than a pursuit of the highest honor.

Redistributing the Vote

It's come down to a radical community organizer who despises the attainment of wealth versus a traditional Conservative capitalist who desire nothing but to engender prosperity. Many of us, in our astonishment, can't even imagine how these many others could even ruminate over such a choice, but many others they obviously do, so who wins this contest which will determine America's course for the foreseeable future?

The polls appear to be in a dead heat, with Electoral College models alarmingly dotting the media landscape almost as profusely as columnized odes to the greatness of Obama. What does it all mean? The answer lies not so much in the general election polls which, while more or less even, conveniently leave out a gapingly important element.

Everything changed with the 2010 election and the resurgence of Conservatism.

To explain just a bit further, general election polls historically utilize the most recent main election, in this case, 2008.

Indeed, this age-old model might work in most normal election periods but the political changes that occurred in 2010 were monumental, in scope. Over 675 state legislatures changed hands to the Conservatives in 2010, a thing not seen in over 70 years of American politics, not to mention the powerful Tea Party's influence on both political parties and their rephrasing of the issues.

This landscape altering change is not being accounted for in the polls, which means that the apparent dead heat between candidates is falsely skewed over to Obama and the Democrats' favor.

This miscalculation oversamples Democrats by anywhere from 8% to as much as 16% towards a Left-Wing advantage that simply does not exist, in reality, which brings us to an arguable truth that most within the media simply do not wish to see.

Please Stop Hyperventilating...

In order to see the difference,  below is a chart detailing the Blue states for the Democrats and red states for the Republicans after the 2008 election:

Now compare the above 2008 chart with the below post-2010 election chart:

The changes in the respective party make-up is beyond remarkable. What you are seeing is a rejection of the Obama regime's "Transformation of America" and things have only gotten worse from there, since 2010.

In Fact, the states changing from Blue to Red, for the 2012 election, will most likely include the following electoral votes:

• North Carolina  15
• Florida                   29
• Virginia                13
• Ohio                         18
• Colorado                 9
• Iowa                          6
• Wisconsin             10
• Pennsylvania     20

A total pick-up for the Republicans of at least 120 electoral votes, well enough in addition to the 206 which the Liberal media is stating for Romney and easily beating the 270 needed for a Romney win.

Make no mistake, as in the 2010 election there were some serious surprises, and so will there be in 2012, a thing not easily accounted for by typical election models.

The polls have simply not been recalculated for the severe changes wrought in the 2010 election.

Romney will, most likely, break through 300 electoral votes and win the Presidential match, with Obama gaining no better than an electoral count in the mid 200's at best.

By the way, this website also predicted the 2010 result where many others did not.

However, your vote is now imperative and the final chapter, in this unfortunate sequence of events for America, ends with you, the voter.

Make it count.

When we look into virtually every sector, every walk of our lives as Americans--our religion, economy, race, family, healthcare, income, housing...

Not one single part of our lives has been left untouched or unaffected in one way or another, a problem soon to be corrected by the People's mandate.~9/5/10- Conservative Refocus, When Rising Tide Becomes Torrent

 

Update: Or....maybe not.

Conservative Refocus

Barry Secrest

Obama's job approval has plunged tremendously in just three days.

But what could it be that has done this to Mr. Obama? Is it the wonderful economy that the media and the President insist we Americans are now enjoying and should be everlastingly thankful for?

Maybe it's the massive increase in gas prices that seem to be gyrating up and down due to uncertainty in the marketplace, but wait, that was only a concern to the media in the Bush years when the prices were about half what they are at present.

Or, maybe it's the Democracy that's blooming to such a degree in the Mideast, that virtually every American embassy has seen US flags burned under a looming threat of violence in the last 45 days.

Perhaps it was the massive plunge in the stock market over the last seven days that did it.

However, we have seen all of these things to one degree or another in the last four years, but what have we not seen? Well, there is the matter of an embassy staff in Benghazi who were caught up in a terrorist attack nightmare that went on for almost 12 hours and who were completely ignored.

Four of those were killed, including two Special Ops heros who disobeyed orders from the top and rushed to the staff's aid, which included one very reputable Ambassador and his top staff aid, who are now also dead.

The military had two destroyers sitting off the coast of Libya, and at least three fast reaction forces only hours away from where the incident took place. One team was only several miles away.

Emails have surfaced from insiders which prove that virtually every single member of Obama's White House Staff, including those at the US State Department, knew that the terrorist strike was not a mob uprising, which had been the White House talking point from day one.  These emails also prove that the White House, in fact, knew that the assault was taking place and the fact of it had not been squirreled away somewhere, within the chain of command.

Despite repeated pleas for help to US officials, someone at the very top of the command chain refused to offer or allow any assistance.

The CIA has stated that no one in that organization denied help to the Benghazi staff.

The US military cannot currently move without executive approval.

The State Dept, despite its top leaders' repeated requests for relief, was denied any help from the military by the executive branch of the government.

No one, in fact, came to these mens' aid, and now they're dead. Indeed, some military leaders tried to come to the aid of the Benghazi mission, however one of those has been relieved of his command, as a field General, for trying to take decisive action rather than waiting for help from on high. There are rumors that perhaps "un-Obama-approved help" has also stricken a Navy Admiral from his powerful strike team command.

While all of this was going on, the repeated theme from Obama and his staff has been: "It was a video that caused it." In fact, the man who supposedly released the video was locked up on trumped-up charges and remains there to this day.

Even worse, America has heard, and is aware of, the fact that all of this unfolded on video shot by a drone circling overhead while being watched by the top brass at the very peaks of government.

No one lifted a finger.

Obama, meanwhile, jetted off to Vegas and had a grand old time, while the bodies of the dead Americans were being readied for transport back to the US.

So, now the below post makes a great deal more sense than what you've been seeing and hearing from the greatest part of the Mainstream Media at large:

From CNSNews.com: In the most precipitous decline it has seen in more than a year, President Barack Obama's job approval rating has dropped 7 points in three days, according to Gallup.

In the three-day period ending on Oct. 23, says Gallup, 53 percent said they approved of the job Obama was doing and 42 percent said they did not.

• On Oct. 24, that dropped to 51 percent who said they approved and 44 percent who said they do not.
• On Oct. 25, it dropped again to 48 percent who said they approved and 47 percent who said they do not.
• On Oct. 26, it dropped yet again to 46 percent who said they approved and 49 percent who said they did not.

So, maybe a great many Americans are now wondering how Obama might have responded if they, themselves, had been part of the Benghazi staff which was completely ignored.

Obama stated he would hunt the men that did this down, and yet the lead perpetrator has been traveling around and appearing on tv networks throughout the Muslim world as a hero.

He has been photographed drinking coffee leisurely outside several cafes over the past several days.

Maybe the reason for the plunge is that Americans have finally wised up, and just in the nick of time.

Maybe Benghazi was Obama's Alamo in reverse, or maybe it was his 9/11. If that be the case in either measure, then he has failed miserably.

Something we are now used to.