Why Aren't Americans Obeying Obama?

Townhall ^ | July 26, 2009 | Austin Hill

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Why are Americans disobeying President Obama?

Because in the United States, most adults don’t think of themselves as helpless children, and we don’t regard out President as one to be “obeyed.”

We entrust tremendous power to our President (although that power is not ultimate or without limits). We may admire, esteem, respect, and place our hopes in the office of the President, if not the occupant of the office. And we “follow” our President, however willingly or unwillingly, as he leads the nation over the course of time.

But we don’t “obey.” In The United States, our President is one of us. So why is President Obama seemingly so indignant that Americans have dared to question, doubt, and even disagree with his plans to take-over the American medical profession, and the American healthcare industry? I’m not merely observing that Obama is arrogant - there’s nothing new about big ego’s in the White House. Even our second President, John Adams, thought he was such an obvious choice for the Presidency that he didn’t even campaign during his re-election bid, and was outraged when Thomas Jefferson un-seated him.

But in roughly seven months, President Barack Obama has demonstrated an unquenchable need to control the lives of private citizens, and the workings of private sector society, and his indignation is aimed at those who would question this. Two American car companies, multiple banks and financial institutions, the rates of salaries paid to business executives, the entire American medical profession and health care industry, even content on the internet - - Obama will control it all. He knows best in all circumstances, and our role is to simply comply.

Perhaps President Obama’s quest for control has something to do with his upbringing and family lineage. He likes to point out how important it is that he has lived overseas, how he understands the horrible ways in which Americans are perceived abroad (especially within the Muslim world), and how he is able to transcend our narrow, American points of view. But could it be that, despite his diverse, multicultural perspective, President Obama lacks a distinctly American perspective that is common among the several hundred million of us imperfect, limited, narrow people who actually grew up here? Could it be that President Obama perceives the very office that he occupies as being something different than what so many of us slow-thinking Americans perceive it to be?

Although our President barely knew the man, his father Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was, nonetheless a communist in the government of Kenya. The President’s Dad once theorized that it would be fine for the government to tax the wealthiest citizens in his country at a rate of 100%, so long as the “greater good” was served. Mr. Obama was eventually fired from his job in the Kenyan government, largely because Kenya was in the process of privatizing its economy, and he was severely out-of-step with his associates. But his ideas were nonetheless his, and Mr. Obama had a clear preference for the heavy hand of government, over the allegedly “greedy,” “selfish” tendencies of business owners.

In my previous writings about this matter, readers have been quick to tell me how rude, insensitive, and “racist” I am. But how many American Presidents, how many American citizens, have come from this kind of legacy? If one’s personal heritage has any impact on one’s present-day existence, surely President Obama’s family heritage of communism has, in some fashion, informed his view of the world today.

And what about our President’s early upbringing? It certainly contrasts sharply with mine. During my first through fourth grade years in an American public school, I experienced President Richard Nixon win re-election in a landslide, Vice President Spiro Agnew resign in scandal, Gerald Ford appointed to the Vice Presidency as Agnew’s replacement, Richard Nixon resign in scandal, and Gerald Ford ascend to the Presidency. They were tumultuous times. Yet those transitions of power happened peaceably, without gunfire or military engagement, and all according the United States Constitution.

But President Obama spent ages 6-10 in Indonesia, under the Presidency of Suharto, the second President of Indonesia who clung to power for over thirty years (1967-1998). Suharto was an anti-communist, and definitely a friend to the West during the Cold War. Nonetheless, Suharto built a strong, centralized, militaristic government around himself, and fought-off multiple coup attempts from the Indonesian Communist Party. Suffice it to say that the young Barack Obama spent some early and formative years in an environment where communism was alive and well. Might his perspective on the world be a bit different from yours or mine?

Americans will probably never “obey” President Obama the way he might like us to. The real question is whether Congress will simply “obey” the President - or provide a “balance” to his quest for power.

[Raycpa]

We have no King but Obama!

[Tai_Chung]

I thought this article would be about the air pressure in my tires. That is his energy plan, right?

[fatnotlazy]

Obey Obama?

I obey my God, my boss and certain figures in authority. I obeyed my parents when they were alive. But no way would I obey Obama...or any other politician for that matter? He’s my employee. He should be obeying me.

[imintrouble]

The most often used word I have heard from Presidential speech was the word “serve” - the President will “serve the people of the United States if elected.”

Someone might want to pass it along to the hundreds of writers and attorneys BO employs.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"So why is President Obama seemingly so indignant that Americans have dared to question, doubt, and even disagree with his plans to take-over the American medical profession, and the American healthcare industry?"

Because he is authoritarian, a control freak, and puffed up by grandiose messianic fantasies about his own importance, the product of deep insecurities and a disturbed childhood where there was a major disruption in the relationship with the natural father. His neurosis drives him to an exaggerated and inflated notion of the state as an all-powerful substitute parent who will solve all problems. Obama's behavior is typical of other schizoids who try to play a role reversal in power relations in which a patient tries to assume the identity and role of the doctor.

[P.O.E.]

Unless one subscribes to ancient superstitions, going back from the divine right of kings to prehistoric shamanism.

[cripplecreek]

“Obeying”?

ROFLMAO

We don’t obey republicans, why the hell would we obey the enemy?

[Condor51]

But we don’t “obey.” In The United States, our President is one of us.

So why is President Obama seemingly so indignant that Americans have dared to question, doubt, and even disagree with his plans to take-over the American medical profession, and the American healthcare industry?

Because he was raised by COMMUNISTS. That's why!

[Diogenesis]

1. Apology to France and Europe ("America Has Shown Arrogance")
2. Apology to the Muslim World ("We Have Not Been Perfect")
3. Apology to the Summit of the Americas ("At Times We Sought to Dictate Our Terms")
4. Apology at the G-20 Summit of World Leaders ("Some Restoration of America's Standing in the World")
5. Apology for the War on Terror ("We Went off Course")
6. Apology for Guantanamo in France ("Sacrificing Your Values")
7. Apology before the Turkish Parliament ("Our Own Darker Periods in Our History")
8. Apology for U.S. Policy toward the Americas ("The United States Has Not Pursued and Sustained Engagement with Our Neighbors")
9. Apology for the Mistakes of the CIA ("Potentially We've Made Some Mistakes")
10. Apology for Guantanamo in Washington ("A Rallying Cry for Our Enemies")

[bert]

......I thought this article would be about the air pressure in my tires. .......

Recently, we were treated to a dog and pony show where each of the cabinet members was tasked to provide cuts and savings. So far as I can tell, not a single one ordered all department vehicles to have tire pressure increased or to appoint a monitor to measure savings.

So far, we have no tire pressure czar either.

[KeyLargo]

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Well I apologize to the rest of the world as an American for having this Zero in power!

Not that I had any part in bringing him into power....

But unfortunately, he represents us to the rest of the world.

[PA-RIVER]

Our Kenyan Leader can KMA.

[culpeper]

Maybe because the guy is a joke ?

[aruanan]

I see that and raise you:

[taxtruth]

I think it’s because he likes to drink beer in the Whitehouse with people he thinks are stupid.

[PA-RIVER]

The good thing for Obama is that if this gig doesn't work out he has every right to try governing Kenya or Indonesia.

The way he bowed to the Saudi dictator, I suspect he has a future there too.

[KeyLargo]

[Popman]

The real question is whether Congress will simply “obey” the President - or provide a “balance” to his quest for power.

Yes that is the REAL question.

Obama is in for another 3 1/2 years whether we like it or not.

Our congressional assclowns are up for reelection every two years so they are supposed to be responsive to their constituents, I can only influence my one representative who happens to be a rock ribbed conservative, but I plan on letting my two Florida Senators know they will pay dearly for voting for the Obama health care bill and I will work against them daily to see them unseated if they vote for it.