(I originally posted this on another site on 6/7/08)

When Barack Hussein Obama is inaugurated as President of the United States on January 20, 2009, He will be in a position of power unprecedented since the days of Lyndon B. Johnson. He will have been elected with a popular vote and popular support unrivaled since John F. Kennedy. The Fine Young Cannibals song “Cult of Personality” comes to mind.

The US Senate will have gained (according to projections) a 55-45 majority for Democrats. Added to a number of Republicans who are called “Rino” for their ease in supporting Democrat legislative causes, this could result in a Democratic supermajority of 60+ senators. Bottom line – no filibuster – no realistic dissent to Democratic legislative causes.

The US House will have gained (according to projections) a 242-193 majority for Democrats. Added to a number of “Rino” Republicans, dissent in the House to Democratic legislative causes could be scant.

The US Supreme Court will hold a 5-4 conservative advantage at inauguration. This means that the court could overrule Democratic constitutional challenges. However, should a single conservative Justice die, retire, become incapacitated, or otherwise be forced to step down, his replacement will likely be a liberal – and will face no real opposition in the confirmation process. The same will be true of all federal lower court appointments. Without a substantive opposition in Congress, Obama’s likely liberal appointments to lower courts will be carte blanche.

Added to this is the decidedly left-wing slant of the American Media Establishment. With the exception of one national news network and a variety of talk-radio personalities, the national media is entirely sold-out to Socialist policy and personality.

Imagine, if you will – a Marxist President, a decidedly Socialist Congress – with only token opposition from Republican Constitutionalists, and a Supreme Court (and lower courts) which have been staffed to support the Congress and President.

Now imagine a new version of “The Patriot Act” without the public and courtroom challenges. It will be focused on all dissent to the Obama programs and processes. Its targets will be Fox TV, Talk Radio, and the Republican Party.

At the courtroom, imagine the prosecutions of leaders of the current Iraq War with real and imagined war crimes. Imagine handing over President Bush, General Petraeus, and others to the Hague for prosecution at an International War Crimes Tribunal. And imagine the US press supporting all of this, and reporting dissent as “angry white men” and “warmongers” instead of as the patriots such dissenters would actually be.

Now, take this one step further. Imagine a natural disaster of overwhelming consequence, or a terror attack involving the use of nuclear or biological weapons. Whether the attack is by an external agent or by the “black hats” in our own government is immaterial. Imagine the press reporting that the attack was by an internal terror agent, and see our 2nd Amendment rights dry up. Then see blue-helmeted soldiers with asian features patrolling the streets of this nation to “keep the peace” while the government isolates dissenters and puts down any resistance to the stronger central authority.

Do you see where I’m going with this? All this can happen within the first 2 years of a Barack Obama presidency.