Perhaps you've seen the Facebook post making the rounds -- "Are you safer now from Ebola and beheading than you were six years ago?"
ISIS aside, though suffice it to say this threat isn't ending anytime soon, a big part of the reason that Ebola has made the transatlantic leap from Africa is because of the unwillingness of a president whose ancestors hail from the continent to impose a flight ban on air passengers from nations stricken with the deadly disease.
Despite the fact that three dozen other countries have imposed such restrictions, Obama remains inexplicably reluctant to do so. Rush Limbaugh has a compelling theory as to why (audio) --
Now we may be on the verge here of what I will call Ebola without borders. How uncanny or ironic is it that a guy from Doctors Without Borders ends up bringing Ebola to New York City, since arguably Obama's policy of a nation without borders brought it here in the first place. They say we have doctors without borders, we have Ebola without borders, and now we have a nation without borders, and the key to all this is -- no borders. And yet everything's going to be fine. And I think this idiotic, simple-minded bizarre notion that if we shut down flight from these countries, it means we shut down aid flights?! If we shut down flights from Africa, then we are shutting down our opportunity to help people in Africa? How does that work?! It doesn't work!
Think about all the places the United States sends aid to disasters or emergencies like tsunamis and this kind of thing. We send emergency aid, we send food, we send medicine. We've gone to Afghanistan, Manila after a tsunami, Japan after their nuclear meltdown, Rwanda, Somalia, we go everywhere! How is shutting flights down from three or four nations in Africa going to stop that? Are there commercial flights out of any of those places at those times? No! Yet somehow our C140s and our mighty Navy, we manage to get billions of dollars in aid and thousands of American relief workers to these places whenever we have to. How come all of a sudden now if we restrict flights from arriving we can no longer spread disaster relief around?! It doesn't make sense.
And I tell you, again, it's all because no matter what, you cannot take the politics out of anything that happens because any event is going to be politicized and massaged and used to the benefit of the Democrat party agenda, including this. And right now the big agenda item is amnesty and Obama's green cards for 9 million to 34 million illegals and if we, if this government makes any step toward shutting down flights, shutting down borders, then it becomes problematic. Then they have basically admitted that it makes sense to do it and it would give them credibility problems if they keep the border open for illegals in another part of the country. So that's why. ... The people in this country are being subordinated to the political agenda of the president and his party, even when it comes to Ebola.
Bad enough that Obama is devoted to redistribution of wealth, while becoming abundantly wealthy himself. Appears that he's also committed, through incompetence or design, on redistributing ill health.
