He was just the face man for the cabal which snuck him into office.
Sad thing is, it seems as though he actually thinks he was the guy in charge.
“He was just the face man for the cabal which snuck him into office.”
Mama Pelosi and Daddy Reid. They sure ran a game on the citizens of the United States. Wrote the heathcare bill ultimately dubbed “Obamacare” in secret, and rammed it thru so that the boy-emperor could sign it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3620748/posts?page=16#16
From yesterday’s thread with the same discussion:
The following excerpt is from an old FR thread - about a booklet written in 1939 about FDR - called “The Revolution Was”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts
“To the revolutionary this same dreary stuff [Communist literature] was the most exciting reading in the world. It was KNOWLEDGE THAT GAVE HIM A SENSE OF POWER. One who mastered the subject to the point of excellence could be fairly sure of a livelihood by teaching and writing, that is, by imparting it to others, and meanwhile dream of passing at A SINGLE LEAP FROM THIS MEAN OBSCURITY TO THE PRESTIGE of one who assists in the manipulation of great happenings; while one who mastered it to the point of genius — THAT ONE MIGHT DREAM [”Dreams of my father?”] of becoming himself the next Lenin....
Which of these brilliant young men in spectacles was of the cult and which was of the cabal — if there was a cabal — one never knew. Indeed, it was possible that they were not sure of it among themselves, a time having come when some were only playing with the thought of extremes while others were in deadly earnest, all making the same sounds. This was the beginning of mask and guise....
What it represented was a quantity of bitter intellectual radicalism infiltrated from the top downward as a doctorhood of professors, writers, critics, analysts, advisers, administators, directors of research, [actors, news reporters!] and so on — a prepared revolutionary intelligence in spectacles. There was no plan to begin with. But there was a shibboleth that united them all: “Capitalism is finished.” There was one idea in which all differences could be resolved, namely, the IDEA OF A TRANSFER OF POWER....
The prestige of the elite was natural for many reasons; but it rested also upon one practical consideration. When the opportunity came a Gracchus [he was a Roman elite that was a populist and took from the rich to give to the poor] would be needed. The elite could produce one. And that was something the Communist Party could not hope to do.
Maybe one of the reasons why Valerie continues to sleep in the Obamas' guest room is to make sure he stays "in character".