The Chosen One

The Claremont Institute ^ | Jjuly 13, 2011 | Angelo Codevilla

[libstripper]

Presumptuous and daring, flouting politically correct prohibitions against looking too closely at his time's Establishment, Niccolò Machiavelli went on to detail who did what to whom to establish the papacy's temporal power. Cesare Borgia's cruel triangulation between Rome's Orsini and Colonnesi factions, not miracles, had made the papal states into a major power.

In our time, asking how a young man of scarce achievement got into position to win the Democratic Party's nomination for president courts the contemporary synonyms for "impious": "birther," "conspiracy theorist," and, of course, "racist." Granted, to inquire into what formed a president is not as important as to understand what he does. Nevertheless, because fully to know where anyone is going requires grasping whence he comes, let us open ourselves to wonder how, minus miracles, a 10-year-old boy without obvious talent who had lived in Indonesia since age six ends up with an eight-year scholarship to Hawaii's most exclusive school; a scholarship to Occidental College; a transfer into Columbia University; acceptance into Harvard Law School, and editorship of its law review; and how he goes from job to prestigious job without apparently mastering any of the previous ones. No wonder some of Barack Obama's supporters treat him as if he were anointed by an extraterrestrial power.

[libstripper]

This very well written article, based on six of the most significant books written about the Illegal, does an excellent, relatively brief, job of explaining who he is and where he came from. Aside from not discussing his likely religion (Islam), it provides an excellent, horrifying, description of the forces that made him, one that confirms all of the worst suspicions we have had about this profoundly evil, destructive, anti-American individual.

[RedCell]

Ping for later.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Good read.

[Thank You Rush]

Thank you - I think! Looks pretty comprehensive if we can stand it. Should be interesting reading - even maddening. That’s OK - everything about the man is maddening but I don’t have to see him or listen to him while I read through everything that’s here.

[libstripper]

The author did such a great job that reading it is a lot like climbing down into the bottom of a hideously rank cesspit without a gas mask. You really get to know what's down there.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Machiavelli was brave enough to have The Prince published posthumously. This took so long that he wrote his Discourses, at many times the length of The Prince, to embellish on it.

[cashless]

Here's what I see. 1950s liberal who loved Roosevelt in charge of the CIA comes up with an idea that blows up in his face and through a series of events and circumstances condones an uncunconventional, promiscuous girl that allows the mingling of the gene pool to give an unknown. The unknown is schooled in Islam not Christian values (antithetical to his immediate ancestry) and thus is open to any number of competing influences. By the very funding of capitalists enterprises, a new breed of rich little spoiled brats that never worked a day in their life and were never taught goo from evil, nourished the unknown, led in his disclosed but unexamined education, and brought their masterpiece to fruition as a senior at Colombia (hate America first) university where we have the unveiling of the Communist inspired Barry Barack Hussein Obama Sotero, community organizer. He had cushy jobs at anti-American institutions, mingled among the founders and promoters of radical anti-American organizations, learned from those individuals to hide his true intents, got into politics and waited for the call from his handlers, financiers, mentors, and dupes in the leftist controlled, bankrolled, and traitor filled Democrat party. Since 90% of the MSM are of the same mindset as the leftists in the Democrat party (same schools, same indoctrination), he was not elected because he was worthy. He was elected because we, fellow Americans, have been coerced into believing the lie that there is no reason to expose every one of these organizations and their leadership and memberships as damnable traitors to the American and Western way of life. We stand on a precipice. Will we be aware enough of our surroundings to step back or will we let the leftists name call, perjure, and bully us back into the submissive flock we were?

[LucyT]

"This very well written article, based on six of the most significant books written about the Illegal, does an excellent, relatively brief, job of explaining who he is and where he came from. - Aside from not discussing his likely religion (Islam), it provides an excellent, horrifying, description of the forces that made him, one that confirms all of the worst suspicions we have had about this profoundly evil, destructive, anti-American individual. "

. . . . A lot of information in the article; check it out.

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[onyx]

Thank you, LucyT!

[little jeremiah]

Thanks for the ping - will read tomorrow.

[thecodont]

Thanks for the ping. Read the whole article.

[MHGinTN]

IIRC, Rush Limbaughgives kudos to the Institute fairly regularly. I wonder, now that this is coming forth from there, will Rush deign to address the ‘anomolous’ marxist, anti-American pResident soiling the Oval Office?

[Candor7]

At the conclusion of this astute essay:

“Obama is as close as one could imagine to a made-to-order front man for contemporary, upscale, shy-about-itself, nouveau socialism.”

Yes and that brand of socilaism is based on radical racial and etnic nationalism, with a goal of “historic justice.”

This historic justice is nothing different that that used by Hitler and Mussolini.In short Obama by his very lights is a nationalist socialist, whose ideas of subverting our nation involve the use of false crisis, executive orders, fear, and in the last analysis will involve violence against the American people, as it did with the peoples of Obamas historic predecessors.

The remedy is simple. Get rid of Obama and his strangling movement any way we can.Impeachment is due with a view to informing the public about just who he is and his destructive goals for America, even if that fight cannot be ultimately won.It can be at the ballot box after America is informed.

[TigersEye]

That is the most informative article about 0bama, or indeed socialism/communism in America, that I have ever read. Thanks for pinging me to it.

[GregNH]

Thank you for ALL your pings and FReepMail. Much appreciated.

[little jeremiah]

I need to read it tomorrow. Was going to today but struggle instead with 8 gallons of cherries.

[TigersEye]

Gosh! that sounds like the pits. (groan) You will like this article though. ;-)