Saturday, August 24, 2013

House member says Obama encouraging voter fraud with legal action against Texas - The Hill's Floor Action

House member says Obama encouraging voter fraud with legal action against Texas - The Hill's Floor Action


The Democrat Party Submits to Mexican LA RAZA Supremacy and helps Mexico Build the LA RAZA Welfare State in America

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THE LA RAZA BREEDERS - NO WORD FROM CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR VICTIMS of LA RAZA VIOLENCE! - Catholic Church set to launch mass immigration amnesty pitch - Washington Times

Catholic Church set to launch mass immigration amnesty pitch - Washington Times


According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-la-raza-looters-mexico-and-democrat.html


PAT BUCHANAN

WHOSE COUNTRY IS IT???

PAT BUCHANAN ON OBAMA’S HISPANDERING FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES:

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BUCHANAN ON HISPANDERING OBAMA’S CONTEMPT FOR OUR LAWS AND BORDERS:

What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?

He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.

The Democrat Party Submits to Mexican LA RAZA Supremacy and helps Mexico Build the LA RAZA Welfare State in America

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ANOTHER LA RAZA RAPE

TEXAS – UNDER LA RAZA OCCUPATION.

A DOZEN MEXICAN ILLEGALS GANG RAPE A 13 YEAR OLD CHILD FOR HOURS.

THESE ARE THE ANIMALS THAT JUMP OUR BORDERS TO LOOT OUR JOBS, WELFARE AND VOTE DEM!
       

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THE DEVASTATING COST OF MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION, LOOTING, WELFARE STATE, VIOLENCE, RACISM and CRIME TIDAL WAVE

 

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City Journal 


How Unskilled Immigrants Hurt Our Economy

Immigration’s bottom line has shifted so sharply that in a high-immigration state like California, native-born residents are paying up to ten times more in state and local taxes than immigrants generate in economic benefits.
 
MEXICANS ARE THE MOST FOUL, VIOLENT AND RACIST CULTURES IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. THEIR OWN COUNTRY IS A DUMPSTER OF CRIME AND THEY  ARE TURNING AMERICA INTO A MEX LA RAZA LOOTED WELFARE and GANG STATE!
THANKS TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!
Gang member laughs at victim's wife before being sentenced to death for Pico Rivera triple murde
ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE NOW BY MEXICAN GANGS.
                             
206 Most wanted criminals in Los Angeles. Out of 206 criminals--183 are hispanic---171 of those are wanted for Murder.
Why do Americans still protect the illegals??

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Unemployment rates rise in 28 US states in June…… Obama’s solution? amnesty for 40 million “unregistered” Mexican dems and legalization of Mexico’s looting!

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The danger, as Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson argues, is that of “importing poverty” in the form of a new underclass—a permanent group of working poor.



 

OBAMA EXPANDS LA RAZA SUPREMACY OVER GRINGO LAWS - New Obama policy warns agents not to detain illegal immigrant parents - Washington Times

New Obama policy warns agents not to detain illegal immigrant parents - Washington Times


Heather Mac Donald: White House doesn't want to enforce immigration

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are you still being conned by Obama?

THE SABOTAGE of the AMERICAN BORDERS by PRESIDENT OBAMA to BUILD THE LA RAZA DEM PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS and DESTROY the GOP WITH AMNESTY for 40 MILLION NEW UNREGISTERED DEMS

Byron York: What is the real number of illegal border crossings?

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BY ORDER OF MEXICO: Non-deportation rate drops — to 99.2 percent



Saturday, May 18, 2013

The Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants who have applied under President Obama's new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday.

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DEPORTED MEXICAN LOOTERS TELL REPORTERS… WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK! GOOD GRINGO LOOTING AHEAD and will continue to vote for OBAMA!

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Obamacare: Multi-Million Dollar Corruption Central - LA RAZA DEMANDS MORE FREE MEDICAL - GRINGOS PAY!!! | Judicial Watch

Obamacare: Multi-Million Dollar Corruption Central | Judicial Watch


 

MEXICO BANKRUPTS CALIFORNIA HOSPITALS  - MEX CONSULATES URGE LOOTING OF LEGALS

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JUSDICIALWATCH.org

While the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal government.

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LA RAZA LOOTING - Illegal Aliens Demand Free Organ Transplants | Judicial Watch

Illegal Aliens Demand Free Organ Transplants | Judicial Watch


 

MEXICO BANKRUPTS CALIFORNIA HOSPITALS  - MEX CONSULATES URGE LOOTING OF LEGALS

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JUDICIALWATCH.org

While the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal government.

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BUT SHOULD ILLEGALS BE VOTING??? Trayvon, voting rights expected to dominate MLK march event - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com

Trayvon, voting rights expected to dominate MLK march event - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com


THE RISE of MEXICAN FASCISM IN AMERICA - FUNDED BY AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS

“WE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY (U.S.) BY VOTE IF POSSIBLE AND VIOLENCE IF NECESSARY!”

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Agendas of MEChA, La Raza, MALDEF, and Southwest Voter Registration Projects These are transcripts of live, recorded statements by elected U.S. politicians, college professors, and pro-illegal alien activists whose objective is to take control of our country "by vote if possible and violence if necessary!" 1. Armando Navarro, Prof. Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside at Latino Summit Response to Prop 187, UC Riverside, 1/1995
 
OBAMA’S SURRENDER to MEXICO and the rise of LA RAZA FASCISM IN AMERICA – FUNDED WITH AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS BY BARACK OBAMA.
 
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WHAT THE HELL, WE ALL KNOW LA RAZA IS VOTING FOR LA RAZA DEMS NATIONWIDE. . . THEY DRIVE ILLEGALLY, STEAL OUR JOBS WITH POCKETS FULL OF PHONY ID'S, CONTRACT ILLEGALLY, GET WELFARE ILLEGALLY. . . only a gringo fool would believe the Mexicans are respectful of our voting laws. . . they're no more respectful of our voting laws that Obama!

THE OBAMA - HOLDER REGIME EXPAND LA RAZA SUPREMACY IN TEXAS - ILLEGALS NO ID to VOTE! Government to sue Texas over voter ID law

Government to sue Texas over voter ID law

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-obama-holder-regime-expand-la-raza.html

 
 

THE OBAMA ASSAULT on AMERICANS for WALL STREET - Obama lays out program to slash higher education funding - WHILE HIS CRONY CRIMINAL BANKSTERS at JP MORGAN LOOT STUDENTS

Obama lays out program to slash higher education funding

BARACK OBAMA – JP MORGAN’S RENT BOY? OR SIMPLY A SERVANT OF WALL STREET’S BIGGEST CRIMINAL BANKSTERS, ALL OF WHICH END UP WORKING IN THE CORRUPT OBAMA WHITE HOUSE!

PROBABLY THE ONLY TRUTH OBAMA EVER TOLD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WAS THAT HE WAS “NOT HERE TO PUNISH BANKS!”… NOPE, AND HE NEVER HAS. THEIR CRIMES, LOOTING AND PROFITS HAVE SOARED UNDER OBAMA.
YOU WOULD NOT HAVE FOUND OBAMA’S DOJ GOING AFTER OBAMA’S PALS AT JP MORGAN. HOLDER IS TOO BUSY HISPANDERING FOR LA RAZA, SUING AMERICAN STATES AND SABOTAGING OUR LAWS AND BORDERS SO THE OBAMANATION CAN BUILD HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS.
“Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).”
OBAMA’S OLD PALS J.P.MORGAN STILL mUCKING OVER CONSUMERS… IT’S LIKE OLD TIMES FOR THE BANKSTERS!
Headline: California lawsuit alleges illegal collection practices by JPMorgan Chase FUCKING OVER AMERICAN STUDENTS
THE LONG HISTORY of BARACK OBAMA and HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS JP MORGAN… STILL LOOTING AMERICA AND THE WORLD!
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This is the unadulterated voice of finance capital speaking. It should be recalled that JPMorgan is deeply implicated in the speculative operations that have devastated the lives of hundreds of millions of workers around the world. In March of this year, a US Senate committee released a 300-page report documenting the criminal practices and fraud carried out by JPMorgan, the largest bank in the US and the world’s biggest dealer in derivatives. Despite the detailed revelations in the report, no action will be taken against the bank’s CEO, Jamie who enjoys the personal confidence of the US president.
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DID OBAMA PUNK US OR IS HE SIMPLY A  FAILED PRESIDENCY?
OBAMA, THE MAN THAT NEVER VOTED DURING THE BRIEF PERIOD HE WAS IN THE SENATE, OWNED AND OPERATED BY BIG BANKSTERS, IS NOTHING BUT A CON JOB CALLED “CHANGE”… OR DICTATOR IN THE MAKING.
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EITHER WAY HE IS THE MOST FAILED PRESIDENCY IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY.
BANK PROFITS
YES, UNDER THE BANKSTER-OWNED PRESIDENT OBAMA, LIFE IS GOOD FOR HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS. THEIR PROFITS and CRIMES ARE SOARING AND SO ARE FORECLOSURES.
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“Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).”
A CASE OF INCEST! OBAMA PARTNERS WITH WALL STREET’S BIGGEST CRIMINAL BANKSTERS, MOST OF WHOM NOW WORK IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!
CRONY CAPITALISM: OBAMA PROTECTS JP MORGAN, THE BIGGEST BANKSTER CRIMINALS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, AND ONE OF OBAMA’S BIGGEST BANKSTER DONORS!
Nearly five years after the greatest financial crash since the Great Depression, triggered by rampant illegality and fraud on the part of the major banks, not a single major institution or leading bank executive has been indicted, let alone tried, convicted and jailed.
The criminal charges are part of an attempt by the Obama administration to create the appearance that it is cracking down on Wall Street criminality, while it continues to shield top executives and allow banking fraud and criminality to continue unabated.
“Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).”
CRONY CAPITALISM: JP MORGAN’S RENT BOY, BARACK OBAMA HAS HELPED HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTERS LOOT AMERICA BIG TIME!
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…it’s probably all he’s ever done well in in his pathetic corrupt political life!
…no filthy politician in American history has taken more loot from looting banksters than the WALKING CON JOB BARACK OBAMA… and not one bankster has gone to prison! HOW’D THAT HAPPEN?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?$?
“Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).”
Report details massive wealth loss for youth in US
By Nick Barrickman
18 March 2013
A recent report from Washington DC-based Urban Institute (UI) shows that overall percentage of wealth in society for those in “Generation X and Y” (those in their 20s and 30s) has been consistently dropping and is currently at a level which may be unprecedented.
 
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THE AMNESTY ASSAULT on AMERICA’S YOUTH – It’s all about keeping wages depressed!
 
Here are some key facts presented by the CBO: 1) There are now 40 million foreign-born people living in the United States, making immigrants a bigger share of our national population than at any time since 1920. 2) Twenty-two million — a majority of the foreign born — are non-citizens. 3) Eleven-and-a-half million — a majority of the non-citizens — are illegal aliens.
Amnesty's Message: Send Us Your High School Dropouts
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DURING BARACK OBAMA’S FIRST TERM, 2/3s OF ALL JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL.
IT’S ALL ABOUT MAKING BILLIONAIRES BY KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED.
SHOULD WE KEEP IMPORTING FOREIGN BORN TECH WORKERS YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR?
“Tech tycoons like Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg have gotten rich while wages in the technology sector have stagnated.”

Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored By The Tech Hub's Elite
TECH GIANT APPLE COMPUTER SAYS HELL NO TO PAYING TAXES and HELL NO TO HIRING AMERIANS! KEEP THE BOATLOADS OF CHINESE AND INDIANS COMING!

Tech firms fight hiring rules in immigration bill

Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY1:21 a.m. EDT May 7, 2013
Americans would "be shocked to know that most of the H-1B visas … are going to outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said during a recent hearing.

Story Highlights

  • Bill provision that would require firms to post jobs for Americans is targeted
  • Technology firms have spent millions on lobbying on immigration
  • Judiciary Committee set to start working on bill
WASHINGTON – Technology firms, exercising new political clout on Capitol Hill, are lobbying against a measure in the leading Senate immigration bill that would make it harder for them to recruit workers from abroad without first taking steps to hire Americans for highly skilled jobs in programming, engineering and other fields.
The measure, part of a sweeping compromise bill drafted by a bipartisan group of eight senators, would require job openings to be posted on a new government website for 30 days and order companies to first extend job offers to "equally or better qualified" U.S. workers. It would give the U.S. Labor Department the power to review and challenge those hiring decisions.
Proponents say the measures are needed to curb abuses by companies who they say use the visa program to hire cheaper labor. Technology companies say the proposed rules would cripple their ability to hire the best employees from a global workforce and represent inappropriate government intrusion in internal hiring decisions.
The fight over hiring practices is part of the massive lobbying campaign underway on the immigration measure and will offer a fresh test of the technology industry's growing influence in Washington. The companies involved in the computer and Internet sectors spent nearly $140 million in lobbying last year -- more than twice the $69 million the industry poured into influencing Washington a decade earlier, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin work on the bill Thursday.
The hiring battle centers on the program that grants H-1B visas, which go mostly to college-educated foreigners in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Technology companies say they face a chronic shortage of qualified workers in these fields. The United States sets an annual limit of 85,000 visas for these companies, and the competition for them is intense: This year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services opened up the application process April 1, and the cap was reached within a week.
Industry groups have made big gains in the Senate's immigration proposal. The bill, for instance, Would increase the H-1B cap to 205,000 annually. However, tech officials warn the new recruiting requirements could drive companies to move their skilled jobs overseas, rather than comply. A commonly cited example: Microsoft's decision to open a software center in Vancouver, British Columbia, after Congress failed to pass immigration legislation in 2007 that would have significantly increased the number of H-1B visas.
Under the bill, "employers are going to have an arbitrary government standard imposed on every hiring decision," said Robert Hoffman, the top lobbyist for the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group. The proposed rule, he said, ignores subjective factors that influence hiring. "A perfect example: How does one define whether or not someone has the personality to fit into a corporate culture?" he said.
"We are not trying to change any of the fundamental policy goals that they are trying to achieve" in the Senate, Hoffman said. "We are just trying to tweak it, so that these goals and other goals, like retaining the best and brightest and growing in the United States, so that those types of goals are advanced as well."
Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, has criticized the visa program, saying it allows firms to hire "cheap indentured labor."
"The technology industry is asking the government to come in and intervene in the normal functioning of the U.S. labor market, specifically on their behalf," Hira said.
Bruce Morrison, a former Connecticut congressman who lobbies on behalf of a group that represents American engineers, said the organization will object to any effort to "dilute worker protections" as the measure moves through the Senate. "The arguments from the companies is that there aren't any Americans to take these jobs," he said, "so there shouldn't be any problem."
The biggest users of H-1B visas are not brand-name companies, but little-known staffing companies that provide foreign workers on a temporary basis to U.S. companies — including banks, health insurance companies and big retailers. Cognizant, a New Jersey-based company that employs 27,000 people in the USA, is the top user of the temporary visas, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services records show. Most of its workers come from India.
In addition, three India-based outsourcing companies rank among the top five recipients of H-1Bs, according to the federal data.
Americans would "be shocked to know that most of the H-1B visas … are going to outsourcing companies," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., one of eight senators who drafted the immigration bill, said during a recent hearing. "They're going to these firms, largely in India, who are finding workers, engineers, who will work at low wages in the U.S."
Durbin is a driving force behind the hiring requirements in the Senate proposal.
The measure would make business harder for staffing companies dependent on foreign workers. It would impose higher fees on firms that rely on overseas employees for more than 30% of their workforce. Starting in 2016, the bill would bar granting any new temporary visas for foreign workers at companies with more than half their workers on the visas. Both measures apply to companies that employ more than 50 people.
Cognizant spokesman John Procter said he did not have a breakdown on the percentage of the company's workers in the USA on H-1B visas. He said the bill imposes an "arbitrary, detrimental restriction on the number of skilled immigrants."
"It would really change the way America does business," he said. "The company is very focused on educating legislators and making sure this language doesn't make its way into any final outcome."
Cognizant hired its first federal lobbyist in 2010 andby last year, it had spent nearly $1 million on federal lobbying, congressional records show. Its team includes Democratic power broker Heather Podesta, who did not return a telephone call. Other companies also have stepped up their political activity.
Last month, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix's Reed Hastings, Google's Eric Schmidt and other technology executives teamed up to underwrite an advocacy group to promote their views on immigration. Two of its subsidiaries began a seven-figure advertising campaign to shore up voter support for key senators in the immigration debate.
The tech industry "has clearly come of age," said Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation. "In the last decade, we've seen this tremendous recognition from Silicon Valley of the need to play in the power circles — to both protect their bottom line and to alter the political scene to their advantage."
 
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/06/tech-firms-lobbying-against-labor-immigration-measure/2137837/

"Barack Obama's kind of change is where you sit down and you cut a deal with the corporate world," Edwards Campaign Manager David Bonior said during an interview with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. "If you look at his record in Illinois when he had a major — sponsored a major health bill that's what he did. He watered down with the help of the corporate lobbyist and they got a weak product out of that."

Scarborough asked: "Are you saying that Barack Obama is a sellout to corporate interests?"

Bonior replied: "He was four years ago in Illinois. All you have to do is look at the legislation I'm referring to."

Bonior was referring to health care legislation that Obama was instrumental in passing when he was an Illinois state senator five years ago, in part because he worked with insurance companies to make additions to the bill that would ensure their approval of the measure.

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All this while the administration was cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest - from drug companies to auto unions to doctors - in which favors worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged.

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Krauthammer: The decline of Obama

By Charles Krauthammer

 


What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?

All this while the administration was cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest - from drug companies to auto unions to doctors - in which favors worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged.

The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by

farming out his agenda to Congress and allowing himself to be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership.

ALL THREE, OBAMA, REID AND PELOSI MAKE JUDICIAL WATCH’S 10 MOST CORRUPT EVERY YEAR!

But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous. Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chavista ex-terrorist William Ayers, of PLO apologist Rashid Khalidi, of racialist inciter Jeremiah Wright?

But forget the character witnesses. Just look at Obama's behavior as president, beginning with his first address to Congress.

Unbidden, unforced and unpushed by the congressional leadership, Obama gave his most deeply felt vision of America, delivering the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president. In American politics, you can't get more left than that speech and still be on the playing field.

In a center-right country, that was problem enough. Obama then compounded it by vastly misreading his mandate. He assumed it was personal.

This, after winning by a mere seven points in a year of true economic catastrophe, of an extraordinarily unpopular Republican incumbent, and of a politically weak and unsteady opponent.

Nonetheless, Obama imagined that, as Fouad Ajami so brilliantly observed, he had won the kind of banana-republic plebiscite that grants caudillo-like authority to remake everything in one's own image.

Accordingly, Obama unveiled his plans for a grand makeover of the American system, animating that vision by enacting measure after measure that greatly enlarged state power, government spending and national debt.

Not surprisingly, these measures engendered powerful popular skepticism that burst into tea-party town-hall resistance.

Obama's reaction to that resistance made things worse. Obama fancies himself tribune of the people, spokesman for the grass roots, harbinger of a new kind of politics from below that would upset the established lobbyist special-interest order of Washington.

Yet faced with protests from a real grass-roots movement, his party and his supporters called it a mob - misinformed, misled, irrational, angry, unhinged, bordering on racist.

All this while the administration was cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest - from drug companies to auto unions to doctors - in which favors worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged.

"Get out of the way" and "don't do a lot of talking," the great bipartisan scolded opponents whom he blamed for creating the "mess" from which he is merely trying to save us.

If only they could see. So with boundless confidence in his own persuasiveness, Obama undertook a summer campaign to enlighten the masses by addressing substantive objections to his reforms.

Things got worse still. With answers so slippery and implausible and, well, fishy, he began jeopardizing the most fundamental asset of any new president - trust.

You can't say that the system is totally broken and in need of radical reconstruction, but nothing will change for you; that Medicare is bankrupting the country, but $500 billion in cuts will have no effect on care; that you will expand coverage while reducing deficits - and not inspire incredulity and mistrust. When ordinary citizens understand they are being played for fools, they bristle.

After a disastrous summer - mistaking his mandate, believing his press, centralizing power, governing left, disdaining citizens for (of all things) organizing - Obama is in trouble.

Let's be clear: This is a fall, not a collapse. He's not been repudiated or even defeated. He will likely regroup and pass some version of health insurance reform that will restore some of his clout and popularity.

But what has occurred - irreversibly - is this: He's become ordinary. The spell is broken. The charismatic conjurer of 2008 has shed his magic. He's regressed to the mean, tellingly expressed in poll numbers hovering at 50 percent.

For a man who only recently bred a cult, ordinariness is a great burden, and for his acolytes, a crushing disappointment. Obama has become a politician like others.

And like other flailing presidents, he will try to salvage a cherished reform - and his own standing - with yet another prime-time speech.

But for the first time since election night in Grant Park, he will appear in the most unfamiliar of guises - mere mortal, a treacherous transformation to which a man of Obama's supreme self-regard may never adapt.