Posted on 06/09/2014 10:20:49 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
I didn't.
I knew it would be bad when they said we couldn’t use his middle name “Hussein”. Couldn’t believe what I was hearing.....still don’t believe it.
I had absolutely no doubt what we were in for.
First; I knew he was an atheist/communist from his upbringing, association with Bill Ayres and attendance at that “House of the Village Soviet with a steeple” church he attended.
Second: When he talked about rubes in the sticks bitterly clinging to their guns I knew he looked down at ordinary patriotic Americans as unintelligent peasants to be exploited.
Third: When he said under his energy policy “utility rates would necessarily skyrocket” and any attempts to open a coal-fired power plant would lead to bankruptcy, I knew he intended to impoverish the average American.
Fourth: When he said “We can’t have 5% of the world’s population and use 25% of the world’s resources and expect the rest of the world to say that’s OK,” I knew he intended to turn America into a third world country.
Fifth: When at his victory riot in Grant Park he said he would start the process of “Fundamentally transforming America,” I knew exactly what that would mean. Destruction of the affluent, independent middle class and herding all of us onto the collective farm of government dependency. All necessary to transform America into a perpetual one-party dictatorship.
Sixth: When he said he’d side with Muslims when things got tough I knew he was going to sell out Israel and give away the store in the middle east.
Seventh: When he sent the bust of Churchill back to the British, I knew he was going to abandon all of our traditional allies and gut every fundamental underpinning of our foreign policy that had been in place since 1941.
Nothing he’s done has surprised me. Whether he’s the master of this or just an empty-suit sock puppet manipulated by others, doesn’t matter.
I knew he would be every bit as bad as he has been. He has done irrevocable damage to our Constitutional Republic, and things will get worse before they get better.
Its easy to see and to understand whats going on. No one or few actually believe the things they type on the internet/say in public and anyone why tries to live up to their beliefs are mocked as purists and blamed for not being pragmatists.
It only took one generation for that to happen. Now, being a squish is ‘cool’. Even among most so called ‘right wingers.’
Proof? Read any given thread on right wing websites.
His claim to executive experience was running his presidential campaign gave many of use ample knowledge of what he would be like.
He is the quintessential example that senators make poor executives because they are professional bloviators. Obama has been bloviating since he took office, and continues to do so. Problem? >> Speech >> Resolved.
I would take two years of Biden as well. Biden is far left, and an idiot to boot. But he’s not nearly as malignant as 0bama.
Yes, yes and yes. Evil is never good.
This was almost my worst fear. My worst fear is he declares martial law and suspends all further elections. I don’t want to have to die with a rifle in my hands.
I knew he would be this bad.
In fact, I’m a bit surprised it isn’t as bad as I had expected.
I expected the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 9th, and 10th amendments to be utterly gutted by now.
He’s made a good start on amendments 1 and 4, but the others seem to be a bit more resilient than either he or I anticipated.
I thought he would have nuked all 57 states by now, but he does have more time to achieve it.
I thought it would be worse by now. I thought armed Americans would March on DC by fall of 2010. I was wrong.
[This vanity was published October 4, 2008 just BEFORE Obama's first election. There is nothing in here that I would change and I can only wish that I had got it wrong. I think it justifies laying claim that, yes, many of us anticipated that it would be this bad. ]
The idea of the Authoritarian Personality originated in The Frankfurt School as a means of undermining the position of the father within the family circle and thereby undermine the family itself and ultimately the nation as a bulwark against communism. It was heavily larded with pseudo-Freudian analysis and was expanded to subvert all institutionalized authority. Every season we see an article, usually by some college professor with too much time in his hands or sometimes by psychiatrists acting either singly or in gaggles, opining that the current president, if he be Republican, is somehow psychologically deficient. No Republican president or Republican candidate in my lifetime has escaped this ritual psychoanalysis.
A recent excrescence of this genre is the book by Naomi Wolf in which she ludicrously argues that America, led by George Bush, is on the verge of descending into fascism. I have posted my objection to this sort of pseudoscience and I have tried to debunk this cheap propaganda so I am reluctant to engage hypocritically in the same game now. Well, I am going to do it anyway. I aim to indict about half of our whole society. The half, and likely more than half, that will vote for Barak Obama. My psychological conclusions do not pretend to the trappings of the "science" of the psyche and adorned with the word games of Freudian analysis, rather they are rooted in common sense.
The conclusion of anyone with common sense who has seen the films of innocent children singing their Obama songs or who has watched the quasi-military chanting and saluting of the Obama Youth in military garb must conclude that there is something very, very wrong with these people. I remember when I first saw the YouTube Children singing their Obama song I became conscious after a while that my mouth was gaping open, so appalled was I. My reaction to seeing the paramilitary gang marching into the karate hall was a mixture of embarrassment that these kids would make such fools of themselves and anger that adults would so brazenly manipulate children. Then I felt a creeping sense of unease that there was something potentially very sinister going on. Dear merciful God, this is Orwellian!
Beyond a very healthy repugnance to the spectacle of brainwashed children put on display, beyond the inescapable Maoist symbolism of it all, a commonsense person asks, what kind of man would permit this to go on in his name? What kind of parent would not seek to protect his child from such a man? What kind of pathology would lead parents who presumably love their children to consign those children to the demons of mind control? How could Americans fall for such a transparent cult of personality?
Unfortunately, we need not be uncertain about what kind of man would permit this grotesquerie to be advanced in his name. History provides us with plenty of examples: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Kim Jong-Il come to mind and now we add Barak Obama to the list. Why has he not spoken out and repudiated this? Would not a decent man do so if only for the children?
If Obama will not speak out now as a candidate when a little modesty, even false modesty, would advance his chances, what will he do when he gains office with no resistance anywhere on the horizon; no opposition in either the House or the Senate, no voice in traditional media to be raised against him, no institutional resistance on a national level of any kind organized to discourage him? Because he condones this obscenity one must ask, Is Obama really a narcissist as has been claimed? If so, how far will he go when he has the levers of power in his hands when there is no effective resistance to his ego?
How dangerous is Barak Obama?
Is he too dangerous to be put in a place where he could literally get us all killed? Or Is he the indispensable man in some sense? I do not think so. There is nothing in his career that suggests that he is the man for this season. In a time of war he has no military experience. In a time of looming financial disaster, he has no economic credentials. If he is potentially dangerous and if he is not indispensable, why would so many people want to put him in a position where he could do us harm, even get us all killed?
My commonsense explanation is that there must be a pathology, a mass psychosis, that brings people to the point where not only are they eager to make him the most powerful man in the world but they are invoking his name and calling upon him to be their savior. This they do rather than falling on their knees out of fear of The Real God. This is the Obama pathology.
To a middle-class conservative who instinctively rejects conspiracy theories and normally wants to think the best of people because that's what he learned in Sunday school, this deification of an empty suit is as bewildering as it is frightening. What in the world are these people thinking? Do they not weigh the risks of consigning their fate to an unqualified man, worse, a person tainted his whole life with stunningly dangerous confederates including felons and Communists and terrorists? What is the upside? What is it about this man whose career is utterly uninterrupted by any accomplishment which would motivate these people to risk their children and my children to whatever he might do to them? How do they know? How can they be sure? Don't they have any doubts?
My problem is that I am seeking after that which I cannot find. I want to find an explanation in logic for a phenomenon of emotion. It is easy for middle-class conservatives to overlook the power of emotion even though history provides plenty of examples even within our own culture in America. Can logic explain why so many drank Jim Jone's Kool aid? Why Charles Manson commanded such blood loyalty? How many cheered OJ Simpson's acquittal? Why did princes Diana's passing traumatize a nation? These are not questions which are answered with everyday commonsense. One almost has to go to the Bible to see the answer in Old Testament allegory which lets us know that evil is and there will always be worshipers of the golden calf.
I fear that in November we conservatives might find ourselves involuntarily embarked upon a journey that is foreign to our epistemology. We may be going into dark places and we might well be pushed into a netherworld where our common sense values are of no use because it is a place where down is up and black is white, a place where gravity does not pull but pushes, a place where we will need a pocket translator in order to converse in English with our government, our children's teachers, and our keepers even though they superficially use the same words we do. We sense we are about to be overwhelmed by forces guided by the ghost of Saul Alinsky.
I fear the downside of the Obama Pathology after his election may extend to dimensions we cannot begin to fasten to our everyday understanding or to our common sense. We have no way of knowing what will come because we don't know anything really about Barak Obama. We do not know if he is purely evil, we do not know if he is a committed communist, we do not know if he is a racist, we do not know if he wishes to see the submergence of the United States into a greater world order, we do not know if he is a megalomaniac, we do not even know, God help us, if he hates America. We do not know, in short, if we are backs - to- the- wall confronted with the Liberals' quadrennial nightmare: A real Authoritarian Personality.
We do know that Barak Obama has already encouraged a cult of personality whose implications are truly frightening and fundamentally un-American.
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He was a state senator in my state. I knew !
He was such an insubstantial man, I feared the worst.
I’m not surprised by zero but I am amazed that the American people gave him an extra four years to complete the destruction of our country. I’m even further amazed that not a single congressman of either party has objected to zero’s fake birth certificate, his phony selective service registration and the invalid social security number he’s using.
Thanks I will check that out.
An aged communist agitator from the 60's who is now on blood thinning medication ? Yeah, that will be better then Obama. At least Obama can still read the teleprompter. Do you think Hillary will keep Holder ? You betcha !
I’m with you. Bite-me is a doofus, and makes more malapropisms than Yogi Berra, but deep down, I can’t believe he would try to turn the U.S. into a 3rd World Dictatorship like the current HMFWIC.
Besides, if (when?) Harry Reid becomes minority leader of the Senate in early January, 2015, Biden might actually try to talk to the Legislative branch of the Government, instead of bypassing it whenever possible.
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