I think we’re kidding ourselves if we think the Obama Doctrine is: “We’re Number Two... or Three...or Four...”
We’re lucky if it’s only we’re number twenty, thirty, or forty. It’s probably more like we’re number 120th or worse, perhaps even dead last.
One guy hates our nation and governs a certain way as a result, and the other professes to love our nation, but believes it could be a lot greater if only he could govern moving us to the Left.
Wonderful. Our nation is located between two boxers throwing blows who want to fix it. And fix it they will.
Heaven help us.
No Communist nation has ever been economically successful for very long. Often, their prosperity is grossly exaggerated. Recall that few in the West anticipated the economic collapse of the USSR.
A combination of incompetence & corruption will just as surely collapse China. It is only a matter of time & circumstance.
0bama is #2. Flush him.
Those on the left see the world as static with one pie with it’s size set. The pie will not, can not get any bigger. Those on the right see the world as opportunity with many pies of varying sizes and they can be increased in size with effort. New pies can be created also like Bill Gates’ Microsoft.
Those on the left will say “I am going to work to earn money”. This ties in with one pie, set size and there is no more. Those on the right say “I am going to make some money”. They talk in terms of creating wealth and then proceed to do exactly that.
To Obama we are stealing from the rest of the world to maintain our wealth. In reality we decided we wanted a bigger pie so we built one L of a big one and if the blasted socialists would get off our backs we can build another one even bigger.
One thing in Europe I noticed they always talked about earning money. Here in the US it almost always is “I’m going to make money”. Let us not adopt European ways.
They study "poverty." Their fake concern for the "poor," which buys them power and votes, even causes some of them like John Edwards to establish "poverty centers," where they can get uninformed rich people to contribute money so they can peddle their vote-getting pity for the poor.
What they should be doing is studying Adam Smith's "Inquiry in to the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" so that whatever real concern they have about the poor can be directed into increasing the nation's wealth, thereby creating jobs and incomes for even the poorest among us.
Now why don't they do that?
Is it possibly because their own "self-interest" is power, not helping poor people have good jobs and adequate income?
Naaaah. . . . .
A president whose indoctrination and chosen ideology focuses on how to buy power with promises of "redistribution," giving no thought to the necessity of a wealth-creating mechanism to fund such promises is a charlatan who cannot be trusted.