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Obama's 'Missing Link'
American Thinker ^ | December 10, 2010 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 12/28/2010 11:47:22 PM PST by neverdem

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To: wolfcreek

No mystery: the media is far left leaning, willing sycophantic servants to the ‘death to the Republic’ scum, and the majority of the electorate are so dumbed down that they are programmed in their behavior by that same media scum.


21 posted on 12/29/2010 8:42:49 AM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: panthermom

The American culture has been so diluted and bastardized, I really don’t think they would have paid attention even if he was vetted. The information was out there for those who wanted it, the masses chose to ignore it.

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Amen to that. All the info WAS out there.


22 posted on 12/29/2010 8:51:25 AM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: SE Mom

This is extraordinary.

I invite the FBI agents monitoring FR to read this article carefully- if you’ve not already. Then ask yourself, what did you vow to protect in your oath?

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This is discouraging. The FBI needs to monitor FR to find out what’s going on? If this government did it’s job right, Obama wouldn’t be in the White House today.


23 posted on 12/29/2010 8:54:35 AM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: DefeatCorruption; panthermom

The American culture has been so diluted and bastardized, I really don’t think they would have paid attention even if he was vetted. The information was out there for those who wanted it, the masses chose to ignore it.

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Amen to that. All the info WAS out there.


I humbly disagree. The MSM was nothing other than a propaganda machine for 0bastard, and none of the so-called “conservative” people delved much into any of this. The hardcore leftists would have voted for the fiend no matter what, but I assert that he would never have won the election, nor been a candidate, if even 25% of what is known about him was talked about in the MSM.

The MSM is wholely leftist. The masses did not actually choose to ignore it, they just didn’t know about or try to delve deeply by reading FR or Atlas Shrugged or other conservative investigative websites.

The MSM is as evil as the Dem party - in fact it is nothing but the media/propaganda arm of the Dem party. And the “conservative” media? Feh, they don’t touch the real dirt on 0bastard, so they’re part of the problem.


24 posted on 12/29/2010 9:20:48 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: neverdem

There are several threads on FR regarding John Drew and his statements. What I always thought was odd is that surely many people knew him yet when he went public with this, not a single person came forward to call him a liar. Why? My guess.....Because he wasn’t lying and they figured it would be better to let the media ignore it and hope that not many people saw it.
Hannity or Beck have not interviewed him yet.... YET. Hopefully they will do so closer to 2012.


25 posted on 12/29/2010 9:25:22 AM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1400 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: panthermom

he got to where his is today because at the core our citizens are sick.
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This is true, BUT, keep in mind, our media is now like the old media in the Soviet Union. Not all people have cable news. They only see what is on ABC, CBS, NBC or their local newspaper. Therefore, many know nothing about this Marxist, nothing at all. The MSM made sure of that. Had the MSM not covered up everything about him, he would not be in the WH today. I am certain of that.


26 posted on 12/29/2010 9:28:44 AM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1400 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: little jeremiah

I repeat, information on Obama was out there. I did my research when he first came on the scene....didn’t know a thing about him, but I made it a point to learn more. While everyone around me was literally swooning over “the one”, I tried to tell them what I was learning, but they were convinced he would save them all. YES, the MSM is a leftist machine, but like my mother used to tell me, if everyone jumps off a cliff, does that mean you will too? I saw his evil manipulations early on and anyone using operating brain power would have learned this too.


27 posted on 12/29/2010 9:37:43 AM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: neverdem
Found it


28 posted on 12/29/2010 9:38:39 AM PST by wastedyears (It has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with control.)
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To: mojitojoe
Hopefully they will do so closer to 2012.

Oh, you mean if he's still alive by then.

29 posted on 12/29/2010 9:43:02 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: neverdem
This retelling of dynamic of the arc of Drew's life and that of Obama's, and the great appeal of Marxism to college kids, as reported here and elsewhere and seen with my own eyes worldwide have inspired a birth of a ponder in my mind. There is something very disconcerting to those coming of age (adulthood) in our modern era, worldwide, that is stroked and comforted by Marxism. Obama seems to be close to or at the pinnacle (within mankind) of that discomfort because of his life, and with the opportunities presented him -- via his Mom, via his Grand-dad Dunham, via Frank Davis and all the Marxists he met thereafter -- he thus has become like what in far-eastern cultures is called a God of a thing, an avatar, similar to what Carl Jung calls an archtype. A unique character that aggregates all the forces related to some intrinsic of human being.

What I am interesting in, this ponder, is what is that dense set, compact manifold, of psychic, sociological and psychological forces underlying this coming of age dynamic are? Cultural estrangement, a broken family (and broken village), reactionary psychological detachment, and a deconstructionist spite are all part of it, clearly, but I can not easily make out the rest of it.

I do not think it is the "goth" transition -- that of the end or "killing" of childhood innocence as represented in various idioms in the goth culture, it's something deeper. One that can sustain longer in life, one that explains why so many of the idiot sophomore Marxists in dorms remain locked into that deluded ideology til late in life.

30 posted on 12/29/2010 10:10:06 AM PST by bvw
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To: panthermom
"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin."

- James Monroe

31 posted on 12/29/2010 11:13:16 AM PST by americanophile
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To: bvw
......he thus has become like what in far-eastern cultures is called a God of a thing, an avatar, similar to what Carl Jung calls an archetype. A unique character that aggregates all the forces related to some intrinsic of human being.

Thanks. Now waddawedo?

32 posted on 12/29/2010 11:13:41 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (America can survive fools in office. It cannot long survive the fools who elect them.)
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To: bvw

Outstanding post.


33 posted on 12/29/2010 12:13:41 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Identify the causes of sickness, then have a better chance at a cure. I suspect part of the cure is restoring a respect for honesty, but I don’t know how to bring that about, and I don’t quite see how the intuited cure “pride in honesty, shame in dishonesty” relates to the nexus of sociological causes underlying the election, idolization and support for the symptom, Obama.

I also trust that if men in this generation fail to takes steps to a cure, that G-d will indeed inject massive doses of respect for honesty and the dignity of the individual soul into the system. And it could be that process will not be pretty or happy, but G-d will cure.


34 posted on 12/29/2010 12:14:24 PM PST by bvw
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To: combat_boots

Thanks!

One effect is that Obama doesn’t have to do anything in office, all the golfing, vacationing and shopping only adds to his stature as an demi-God. Note how ‘his’ accomplishments were not to him at all, they were due to those Czars chosen for him, and approved as fellow-travelers by him, and by legislative scumazoids like Reid and Pelosi. He never “read the bill”, he walks out of meetings, has no attention or real direction to give. Everyone under him is vamping, or toadying


35 posted on 12/29/2010 1:02:23 PM PST by bvw
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks for the ping!


36 posted on 12/29/2010 1:55:14 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: bvw

Easy...it’s self-loathing. That’s why enlightened self-interest remains a foreign concept to them.


37 posted on 12/29/2010 2:09:05 PM PST by To Hell With Poverty (The War on Poverty is over. Poverty won. - Howie Carr)
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To: DefeatCorruption

Not everyone has internet. Not everyone is savvy about the fact that the media is less truthful or trustworthy than Pravda under the Soviets. Not everyone is born fully wise and conservative. Some people are young, just figuring things out after being indoctrinated in school and colleges. Sure, people are responsible for being ignorant, but the media is vastly complicit in this. Takes two to tango.


38 posted on 12/29/2010 8:20:11 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: Jim 0216
This interview is interesting but shouldn't be that surprising.

Who's surprised by the obvious?

39 posted on 12/29/2010 8:38:15 PM PST by lonestar
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40 posted on 12/29/2010 10:38:19 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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