He believes socialism will make the poor wealthier. He believes he knows the way and that all the others before him failed because they did it wrong. It is childish magical thinking.
He's clueless how to create wealth. He's never done it in his entire life. He thinks there is only so much wealth and that he has to take from those who have it in order to give it to those who don't and that magically everyone as a whole will be better off.
He has no concept that it will only destroy what wealth there is making everyone poorer in the process. There's the endless wreckage of socialism all over the world and he's too arrogant, blind and ignorant to understand where it will lead when he pursues it.
The same applies to foreign policy. He has magical thinking on how the world works and what the results of actions will be.
There's no signs of intelligence there. Only blind dogma being parroted from others.
An empty suit devoid of reason. He's way over his head and there can be no likely outcome other than failure.
We disagree in that you apparently believe there's some underlying grand intelligence that got him where he is. There's nothing in his past to suggest that. He's a pretty face that can give a good speech that the powers that be in the Democratic party used as a front to gain power for themselves.
At least that's what I think...
Maybe I'm wrong, but I've seen little evidence of it so far...
< splutter>< sarc> But . . . but . . . are you saying you WANT Obama to fail? < /splutter>< /sarc>
I don’t think so. He is a Marxist. The capitalist system has to be taken down before the workers’ paradise can be installed. He does believe that “the workers” will be better off then because they will be equal. The “poor” will be included in that because they will be transformed into workers, one way or another. People shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking that his goals are our goals. His Marxism may well be, because, with his upbringing and education he never learned about reality and how the “poor” get un-poor the most efficiently but his election has frozen the attitude and system that he has learned from his mentors and professors, all of them Marxists and Communists. Naiveté is irrelevant now. He will use a considerable will and intelligence to further a radical socialist vision that he possesses, whether in naiveté or in cynical power hunger. Lenin was not naive, nor was Ho Chi Minh, nor Castro. All were very effective.
And no, no underlying grand intelligence. An individual is perfectly capable of being a Marxist. He will have tremendous support if he is capable of getting power. He has the Left on his side just as Reagan had the Right on his side. He may be naive in that he does not understand history, but Leftists have never understood history. That did not hinder the rise of the USSR.