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Obama's tyrannical ambition
Power Line ^ | 7/1/2009 | Paul Rahe

Posted on 07/01/2009 10:06:55 AM PDT by mojito

President Obama has one distinguishing feature. He is a man of rigid self-discipline. Politicians are a lot like actors: they tend to be vain; and, more often than the rest of us, they are presented with the temptations to which the vain are prone. Many--one thinks of Bill Clinton, John Edwards, John Ensign, and Mark Sanford--succumb. If, however, in his personal life as an adult, Barack Obama has strayed from the straight and narrow, we have heard nary a word.

It is, in fact, a sign of his astonishing self-discipline that we know next to nothing about his life apart from what he chose to impart in the two autobiographies he published. For a long time now, for longer than we can perhaps imagine, every move he has made has been carefully calculated, calibrated, and choreographed. In this regard, he is in the fullest sense what every politician aims to be: a self-made (one might even say a self-invented) man. It is easy to see why someone like Evan Thomas should think him a god.

Once in a while, however, when Obama gets separated from his teleprompter, the mask slips a tad.

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; tyranny; tyrant
Interesting essay by a leading historian.
1 posted on 07/01/2009 10:06:56 AM PDT by mojito
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" . . . a sign of his astonishing self-discipline"

That's why 0bama smokes. He has astonishing self-discipline.

2 posted on 07/01/2009 10:09:50 AM PDT by spald
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Except for the fact that I don’t believe that he was a “self-made man”. He was made by those he followed, like Ayers and Alinsky.


3 posted on 07/01/2009 10:11:04 AM PDT by RC2
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"If, however, in his personal life as an adult, Barack Obama has strayed from the straight and narrow, we have heard nary a word."

Jeez, what a pantload! Might want to read his two (so far) autobiographies and Google "Larry Sinclair", dumkopf!

4 posted on 07/01/2009 10:16:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In memory of my father, Gunnery Sgt., USMC, WWII and Korea, 1925-2002)
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To: mojito

bookmark


5 posted on 07/01/2009 10:18:14 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did you read the entire article? It’s excellent!


6 posted on 07/01/2009 10:28:33 AM PDT by twigs
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a stitch in time, saves nine


7 posted on 07/01/2009 10:28:43 AM PDT by fortunate sun (Beer Hall Politics didn't work in Germany. ACORN Politics won't work in America.)
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I would tend to agree. He is not so much a self-made man as a top-down/bottom-up engineered politician in a particular ideological mold.


8 posted on 07/01/2009 10:31:24 AM PDT by Lexinom
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Great article. Glad it recognizes our only truly evil president, Woodrow Wilson, for what he was.


9 posted on 07/01/2009 10:31:27 AM PDT by Texas Federalist
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Rigid self-discipline? Drugs, nicotine, parties, dates, pizza flown on on an airplane. And that’s just the stuff he doesn’t hide.


10 posted on 07/01/2009 10:39:00 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Rent this space.)
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save


11 posted on 07/01/2009 10:44:55 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

If I was married to Muchelle I would be on drugs too, and she would be wearing a catchers mask at all times.


12 posted on 07/01/2009 10:49:20 AM PDT by Venturer
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Obama is a front man for the power behind him. He is doing the agenda of the powers behind him..

Of course, he will slip in personal objectives too. He is an empty suit. Others are making the decisions for our nation. Which is why he can paly golf often, travel to New York for a date night. etc. He shows up for the liberal press and apologizes to other nations for the foreign aid we have given to them. We must do more!!!!!!!!!!!

ARGH!!!

God help us in our day. Amen.


13 posted on 07/01/2009 10:49:58 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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If, however, in his personal life as an adult, Barack Obama has strayed from the straight and narrow, we have heard nary a word.

Since most details of his life story have been suppressed, this is hardly surprising.

14 posted on 07/01/2009 11:04:19 AM PDT by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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“-President Obama responded to a question by acknowledging that his plan aimed to reduce medical costs by aligning “incentives” in such a fashion as to discourage the sick and the dying from undergoing “additional tests” or taking “additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care.”

Apparently those from our greatest generation, to Obama’s displeasure, have overstayed their welcome. So Obama seeks to “encourage” them to go ahead and pass over. Now we know what he really meant by hope. Obama hopes all the old school Americans will go ahead and die so he doesn’t have to worry about them causing any rabble rousing when he donns his crown assuming total control over all our lives.

Can you imagine some FA bureaucratic moron making our health care decisions? Can you see her now, filling out her office chair to well beyond it’s intended capacity, slurping on her big gulp,cramming wads of potato chips down her pie hole, and talking to her boy/girl friend on her cell phone while stamping **DENIED** on our medical chart?

Think this won’t be the case if the commie in chief and his comrades in congress get their way?


15 posted on 07/01/2009 11:52:20 AM PDT by takenoprisoner (Freedom Watch: fight for freedom with everything you have.)
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“Here is where Obama’s ‘incentives’ reappear. The government-run insurance program will, for all practical purposes, be a monopsony—the sole purchaser. It will be in a bargaining position enabling it to dictate the price that it will pay, and, of course, it will pay very little. You, as an individual purchaser, will have no leverage at all; and, like those not covered by employer-sponsored insurance plans today, you will have to pay through the nose.”


16 posted on 07/01/2009 12:28:41 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Fili et Spiritus Sancti.)
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Good post. This evil Fraud is the front man for the likes of Soros, Alinsky, Ayers and all else New World Order. These are the pukes that intend to play God by intituting their brand of Euthanasia. !! NEVER did I ever think I would see the day that America would allow this. The country is being steamrolled and everyone is pontificating and sighing. It’s really time for a military coup and a revolution all rolled up into one “gig”. Call it: “Operation Out on your Ass”. It must happen if the country is to survive. My two American cousins are scared to death and one is almost out of business after being a wildly successful businessman for over 30 years. I’m praying for y’all. CO


17 posted on 07/01/2009 1:32:55 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (Conservatism is to a country what an antibiotic is to an infection - Healing!!!!)
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*his name is obozo, because he’s nothing more than a pathetic Marxist clown.

18 posted on 07/01/2009 2:40:57 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available FREE at KnightsForLife.org)
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Barack Obama has strayed from the straight and narrow, we have heard nary a word

Here's two words -- Larry Sinclair.
19 posted on 07/01/2009 3:05:36 PM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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