Posted on 05/11/2009 7:29:56 AM PDT by mikelets456
We were out on my friend's back porch the other night. Unfortunately, discussion led into politics. During our discussion we all agreed that this administration is making A LOT of bad decisions. However, we started to discuss if the Obama administration were just a bunch of people doing what they thought was BEST for the country. I said, "No, I believe this group knows exactly what they are doing and it's to take control of this country and take all the wealth....they are doing this intentionally". Well, it got a bit heated and my buddy kept saying that they were doing what they thought was best for this country....but they would NEVER intentionally do this country harm. OK, this is were we had that "awkward silence". I said, "isn't it all relative"? "You could say Hitler, Chavez, Saddam, etc thought they had good intentions as well...correct"? "They thought what they were doing was the best for the people and themselves...correct?" That did it....I got the total silence and the quick comment "that's a very extreme view....so how about them Phillies..."
Oh boy, am I losing it? I'd like to get some feedback here.
MISSION TO DESTROY - no question about it
I believe you are the one who is right, not your friend.
I think we need to remember to not give up, but to keep talking about this, pushing our own reps’ (even though they are part of the problem if they feel the heat, they wont roll over for Obama so easily)...
we cant just assume Obama can do whatever he wants.
That is giving up.
That is un-American
We have to continue to fight back
Seems to me your buddy doesn’t talk enough politics, or he’d be more aware of what is going on.
I am certain.
“that’s a very extreme view....”
That’s exactly what Obama is counting on!....If you are not hard core ACORN nuts then he hopes you will think it’s not P.C. to say he’s taking over the country with his extreme hard left ideas. That’s just not possible! Obama is a nice guy!....All bull crap! The left has been taking baby steps over the last 50 years to get to this point. They are going at a full gallup because they run everything now! What they have already done is breathtaking! They are dismantling America, believe it!
On a side note - thank goodness for Dick Cheney - the former VP is a beacon of decency and a dear Patriot!
The Obummer Admin. is:
Taking over Chrysler Corp and handing 55% of the company to the UAW, as political payback.
They are voiding legally binding contracts and mortgages.
Threatening investors to take 23 to 29 cents on the dollar payouts.
Yep, I'd say that this bunch of mobsters should be in prision not the White House!
I agree.
The New World Order will come for all this. See you all at the camp or in the mountains.
Why is the word OR in your headline?
.....yeah....like Hitler, Chavez and Saddam were/are NOT EXTREME? Look what they did to their countries......while America sleeps or is complicit. Remember during the American Revolution....about 30% were FOR Independence from England, 30% were against it, and 30% didn't care or couldn't decide....
Don't give up.....America is worth FIGHTING FOR!!!
“Why is the word OR in your headline?”
OR = ON?
You have answered your own question. Destroy.
I cannot rationalize Obama’s actions with the concept that he’s a well-meaning fool. Nope. This is so blatantly bad, so nakedly anti-American, so willfully supportive of the goals of Islamic terrorists, that I have no doubt at all that Obama is going to spend 4 years destroying this country, completely on purpose.
Even the official line from the government in Beijing is that Chairman Mao made some serious mistakes although the citizenry there who lived through it will privately tell you he was a megalomaniac.
These people were and are pathological narcissists. Clinton and Nixon are run of the mill narcissists. Is Obama run of the mill or Pathological (mentally ill)?
The view from across the pond. WONDER WHAT HE REALLY THINKS??
If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter.
Obama’s problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.
That is why he opened Pandora’s Box by publishing the Justice Department’s legal opinions on water boarding and other hardline interrogation techniques. He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley, Virginia to try to reassure a demoralised CIA that had just discovered the President of the United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda.
“Don’t be discouraged by what’s happened the last few weeks,” he told intelligence officers. Is he kidding? Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies and can train its operatives to withstand them - or would do so, if they had not already been outlawed.
So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be irradiated by a dirty bomb. Your view of this situation will be dictated by one simple criterion: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the twin towers...
President Pantywaist’s recent world tour, cosying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America’s enemies. Here, they realised, is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?
I don’t think Patton thought Rommel was “doing what he thought best”.
Simply put: you made your point so effectively they had no reasonable response. Well done.
1. belief that socialism(force) is the only way to provide for victim classes
2. belief that America is should follow intelligent ideas of academic establishment
3. Democrats serving their special interest customers
Great question; one I know I have struggled with, as I’m sure others have as well.
I think everyone is at a different stage of realization. What I hope is happening is that folks are starting to “think” something just isn’t right with the current state of the country. Maybe they can’t put their finger on it, but I think maybe a sense of foreboding is starting to take hold. A “feeling” (a term I hate to use because the left uses it) that nothing good can come from the decisions/actions of this administration.
Then comes your question: Is this intentional (whether well intentioned or malevolent) or is it just naive incompetence?
If you are wrong, then history shows that Americans will wake up at some point and kick the pendulum in the other direction (i.e., Carter out/Reagan in). If you are right, then I’m afraid that the stage is being set for an ugly battle. A battle closing in on the visible horizon. Sadly, I tend to agree with you . . .
What do your friends think “social justice” means?
Thats a term straight from Obama’s own lips on multiple occasions as to his agenda.
If anyone has ANY doubt as to what Obama wants, simply look at how our enemies see it... they are dancing in the street now claiming total victory.
Oh... and don’t just think that they will sit around as we gear up for 2010 elections.... They are already way ahead of us on that one.... starting with the census.
When you add up the evidence for his definition of ‘change’, you can only come up with the conclusion that he is leading the US in this direction because of a plan. Now you are seeing this ‘change’. Not what most expected.
That's how you know you were right, and so did your friend
I’m sure President Obama is doing what he thinks is right, but that doesn’t make it any less dangerous. Unfortunately, I’m noticing FReepers getting all worked up over trivial side issues, claiming this or that is evidence that he’s out to destroy America, thinks he’s above the law, yadda, yadda, instead of staying focused on the really dangerous things he’s trying to do, such as expand the socialization of health care. We need to identify the important issues, and stay focused on fighting the Obama administration’s dangerous initiatives in those areas, instead of carrying on endlessly with personal attacks on the man, and preposterous claims of conspiracies involving him and his senior advisers.
Example: The recent AF1 photo shoot flight. There were people on FR claiming that President Obama knew all about this in advance and *deliberately* kept it secret because he *wanted* to terrify NYC area residents. Uh huh, sure. That’s what he does all day — tries to think up ways to terrify people in areas that overwhelmingly voted for him.
An even sillier example from further back: There were numerous threads on on Obama and his half-sister scattering their grandmother’s ashes of a seaside cliff in Hawaii. Every single thread I saw had numerous people claiming that this was illegal, citing some federal law about national waters, and claiming that he obviously knew it was illegal and did it anyway because “he thinks he’s above the law”. No matter how many times somebody pointed out that the federal law did not apply to waters this close to the shore, because those fell under Hawaii law, under which the scattering was perfectly legal, the threads and posts continued to crop up. Many FReepers managed to completely forget that they claim to support state sovereignty and oppose meddlesome federal regulations, in their eagerness to claim evil, law-breaking intent on Obama’s part.
Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist. Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obamas language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves.
Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of Peoples Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time.
All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you dont know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.
You are correct.
On our domestic front, we all know that there is an economic crisis. And we all know the quote from Rahm Emmanual: "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
On the international front, we also face a crisis. Our enemies know this. They see our crisis. Will our enemies let this crisis go to waste?
Not bloody likely. They will make their moves now, while the guy in the White House is so eager to curry favor from them.
It is unassailable that Obambi etal are making fundamental changes in the way America works. The move toward a European style socialist structure is underway in many areas which you and your friends well know.
It is clear that these moves are intentional.
The argument is the manifestation of these policies. Your position is that these policies will “destroy” the country, other's are not so sure that they will. If your world view is such that going green is good, that everyone deserves free health care and the rich should pay more taxes then these policies will not destroy America, they will simply remake it more consistent with that view. If you enjoy the freedoms and benefits of capitalism and think these policies will take that away, the Obambi is destroying America.
But we all know that these policies will change America in ways most would not like to see it changed.
schu
The snake in the WH will continue to poke fun at the opposition just as he did the tea parties. It is time we racheted it up another notch to get the serious attention of the 3rd world dictator masquerading as president before it is too late.
It’s like Ann Coulter saying to Joy Behar of THE View when Joy asked Ann if she wanted to be waterboarded and Ann’s response was, “Would you want to be aborted?”
Even a doofus like Joe Biden couldn't cause this much damage by accident.
There is no doubt Obama is hell-bent on destroying America and turning it into a nation of slaves working to supply the wealth he needs to reward his slobbering followers.
It’s like Ann Coulter saying to Joy Behar of THE View when Joy asked Ann if she wanted to be waterboarded and Ann’s response was, “Would you want to be aborted?”
this is where the rubber hits the road; you either believe evil exists, or you don’t.
Evil clearly exists; obama and his ilk are evil; they are implementing their evil ways on us.
I suggest we put pressure on the Muslims he claims he will stand with against Christians and Jews in his book. Start protesting them and pestering the Saudi embassy for their crimes against women. The faster we make him implode and start reacting tyrannically, the faster we could get him out of office. Saudi’s want at least 58 dollars a barrel for oil. We slow our buying again like we did last summer.
We target Obama’s pressure points the same way his administration is targeting ours.
I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive.
His belief system is such that America needs to be taken apart and rebuilt.
It’s wrong to call these people naive, misguided, etc.
They know exactly what they want and how they intend to do it.
I thought this scripture applies:
“Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud. “
Psalm 123:4)
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