Typhoid Barry

The American Thinker ^ | September 22, 2010 | Robin of Berkeley

[Scanian]

There's a fascinating phenomenon in medicine of a "carrier" of a disease. The most famous example is Typhoid Mary.

Mary was a cook in the early 20th century who spread typhoid to over fifty people, although she never contracted the infection herself. There are carriers of a variety of illnesses. For instance, a person can test positive for TB without having suffered from the disease.

Typhoid Mary is, I think, an apt metaphor for not just carriers of physical disease, but of psychological mayhem. I'm referring to people who wreak havoc without so much as lifting a finger.

The most extreme example is Charles Manson. Manson rots in prison for life, charged with crimes he did not personally commit. Hypnotically, he compelled his young charges to mutilate and massacre.

Jim Jones, the messianic San Francisco preacher and fan of Marx and Hitler, is another example. At People's Temple in Guyana, Jones managed to convince over nine hundred people to commit suicide by drinking cyanide-spiked Kool Aid -- even to feed it to their children.

Psychological carriers are on a continuum from the most deranged, like Manson and Jones, on down the totem pole. I regard those Columbia University luminaries, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox-Piven, as Typhoid Elitists.

From tony ivory towers, they concocted their theories about overwhelming and crashing the system. While the duo kept out of the fray, they aggravated and agitated urban black youths to riot.

Their manipulation of ghetto kids so outraged a then-young black reporter, Juan Williams, that he wrote an angry treatise for the Washington Post, "If Liberals Need Riots, Let Whites Do It." But that didn't stop Cloward and Piven from continuing to exploit blacks as foot soldiers in their quest for revolution.

Regarding the enigmatic Obama, there are many theories percolating to understand his modus operandi. Maybe he's a warrior righting the colonialist wrongs of his father. Or perhaps he's a fiery radical, à la Bill Ayers, raging against the system. Some people conjecture that Obama is a closet Muslim, trying to unleash sharia law on the United States.

While Obama appears to sympathize with all of the above, he doesn't embody the warrior spirit. A freedom-fighter has fire in his belly; he burns with an inner combustion, even though his cause may be twisted.

Bill Ayers, for instance, got down and dirty by bombing the New York City Police Department, the Capitol, and the Pentagon. Van Jones served time in jail during the Rodney King riots.

But Obama the warrior? I don't see it. He's a poser and a posturer, a blank screen on which others project their fantasies. Obama does not embrace his father's dreams, nor does he have many of his own.

He's just Barry, an orphan with no country, the perennial outsider. A loner who prefers his own company or the anonymity of crowds. In clinical terms, he may be a "secret schizoid" -- outwardly engaged but, in actuality, uneasy around people.

Obama comforts himself with pleasures -- parties, golf, vacations. He's easily tempted by the allure of wealth and power. Through his affiliation with the slumlord, Tony Rezko, he and Michelle acquired a mansion.

Where was Obama's righteous indignation when black tenants endured rat-infested, unheated apartments? Where was Obama's towering passion when he cavalierly eliminated the D.C. school voucher program? As for his father, if Obama is ablaze with Barack Sr.'s spirit, why did Junior skip the man's funeral, and why did he allow Dad's family to live in squalor?

Obama is no warrior. He's the middleman, the closer. This country has had a date with destiny since the radical Left began spreading its poison decades ago. Obama is simply the empty suit brought in to close the deal.

Obama doesn't have the fire, or the cajones, as Palin memorably phrased it, to be a revolutionary. He likes his arugula and his fine wine. He will not get his manicured fingers dirty.

Like Cloward and Piven, he's another version of the carrier syndrome, a sort of Typhoid Barry. He gestures with his middle finger about Hillary and whips the crowd into a frenzy. Or he cajoles people to hit back hard, and maniacs beat up conservatives.

Obama sneers that Cambridge cops practice racism, and voilà, attacks against police burgeon. He demonizes the banks, and AIG employees receive death threats.

Obama doesn't lose his cool. Aside from the occasional passive-aggressive comment (for instance, saying snidely that Rush Limbaugh can play with himself), he's composed. Obama knows his role well. It was conceived and crafted before he was even born.

Unlike Mary, Obama is a carrier not of typhoid, but of something much worse -- the sickness of hatred. He mesmerizes the masses with his magnetic charm. He casts a hypnotic spell over the desperate and forlorn.

They become the warriors. With the snap of the hypnotist's finger, they'll do the dirty work for him.

[verga]

Nailed it.

[mmercier]

hypnotized and mesmerized.

i collect these little pigs for my amusement.

they do indeed abound. always have, and always will.

psychic vampires.

i got two now.

[mmercier]

i’m creeping myself out on a reread...

the two “i got” are alive...

yikes...

i need an intervention.

[November 2010]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!? What the heck are you saying?

[giotto]

He's the middleman

I agree, but who is he working for? That's the 64 trillion dollar question.

[stevem]

People will be trying to assess the psychology of Obama for a long time. It the end it doesn’t matter. He wants to destroy the United States and still has the power to do it. If he isn’t made impotent in six weeks, this nation is finished. Then it won’t matter what disease he is carrying.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I agree, but who is he working for? That's the 64 trillion dollar question.

International Marxism. George Soros is the most visible "leader" at the moment but there are many. Go to DiscovertheNetworks.org and learn more about the groups and the individuals. David Horowitz is a hero and a national treasure who has amassed tons of information on this after starting out as one of their own.

This has been developing slowly for over 100 years and now they are trying to cement their gains with a complete takeover of this country. They think they must destroy it in order to rebuild it in their image.

[Shane]

“He's the middleman

I agree, but who is he working for? That's the 64 trillion dollar question.”

Not so difficult to discern, it's George Soros.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

"He's the middleman....but who is he working for? That's the 64 trillion dollar question."

And the answer is......

I firmly believe he is working for the same group of world elitists who control the Federal Reserve, the same group that most all of our modern presidents have belonged to, the same group that meets each year as the Bilderbergers, the same group that is determined to create a One World Government or "New World Order" as they now call it.

[Eagles6]

Last night my Dad said that the demonrats have a “political plague” and must be quarantined far from DC.

[mmercier]

why do i do this...? because someone must...

no force has ever subdued the afghan savagery... least not in recorded history. smashing your head against a stone shows devotion, not sense.

we are destroying good people here and there. what happens there matters not to me. what happens to those of us who inevitably return here does. agere contra has valid point, training ala spanish civil war.

this whole war on terror is unworkable given current political reality. this country is insolvent. we have leaders who have spent the next decades gdp, and some. we must somehow reintegrate tens of thousands of scarred warriors into an economy that has no place for them.

killing is not an easy thing. killing for a country who's political leadership has no intent or concept of winning is vastly worse. after the nam there were at least people willing to go out and spit on you.

many of those who will return shortly will have only a small anonymous group of cheerleaders in this ether. no one will even bother to spit.

they shall be left alone with their conscience.... and a bunch of anonymous armchair fags that could not kill a mouse in their kitchen.

afghanistan was a $hithole before this war. afghanistan will be a $shithole after this war (all wars end).

how many of my brothers should we sacrifice...?

[Scanian]

Follow the money. Soros has the most money.

[Chode]

i’m starting to believe that the boy truly is Nyarlathotep...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep

he is described as a “tall, swarthy man” who resembles an Egyptian pharaoh who wanders the earth, seemingly gathering legions of followers through his demonstrations of strange and seemingly magical instruments, the narrator of the story among them. These followers lose awareness of the world around them, and through the narrator’s increasingly unreliable accounts the reader gets a sense of the world’s utter collapse. The story ends with the narrator as part of an army of servants for Nyarlathotep.