Wednesday, March 17, 2010 12:43:00 AM · by neverdem · 45 replies · 992+ views
American Thinker ^ | March 17, 2010 | Robin of Berkeley
Posted on 03/17/2010 11:02:49 AM PDT by American Dream 246
People are strange When you're a stranger Faces look ugly when you're alone Women seem wicked when you're unwanted. Streets are uneven, When you're down. -The Doors
For much of my life, I felt like a Stranger in a Strange Land. This is not unusual. Look at the history of most leftists, and you'll find the very same thing.
I grew up with a surname that wasn't my own. My father anglicized it years before I was born, trying to ward off the anti-Semitism that shadowed him.
I grew up without God. My parents had no use for a God who, they believed, had no use for the Chosen People.
My family had escaped the teeming masses in the Jewish ghetto for a suburban Promised Land. Nestled in our cookie-cutter house, we watched television each night in separate rooms.
I left home for college easily and never returned. It's not hard to leave a place when you've never quite arrived.
In my early 20s, I flew across the country to make a home among the homeless in Berkeley. There I found people just like me: people from somewhere else, running away from something or toward something, never quite sure which.
In Berkeley, we use the phrase "family of choice." It denotes that we have traded our difficult blood relatives for those more to our liking.
After a while of living in Berkeley, though, you discover the downside of living among expatriates. For one, many folks don't have the social skills to actually get along with others. Friendships can have short half-lives.
As it turns out, people who don't feel obligated to their real family may not be particularly loyal to their "family of choice." Consequently, when you need a ride to the doctor, friends may decline if there's something else they'd prefer to do.
Though it has taken decades, I no longer feel like a Stranger. I've learned that I belong, that I am "loved by an Unending Love." But now, looking out at the political landscape, I have the unsettling experience of beholding the many dispossessed.
The ultimate Stranger in a Strange Land is, of course, Obama. It's no wonder; given his bizarro family, there was no one with whom to bond. Pitifully, the focal point in Obama's life story -- the brave, oppressed Obama Sr. -- is a chimera, all smoke-and-mirrors.
Obama has surrounded himself with other Strangers. His friends are society's misfits: Van Jones, the self-proclaimed Communist; John Holdren, enthralled with devolution and eugenics. Chicago pals Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn tried to destroy their own nation with terrorism.
Obama has been called a Citizen of the World. While liberals find this appealing, what it actually means is that Obama has come from nowhere and belongs nowhere.
Someone with no country or roots has nothing. Bob Dylan described the predicament and the danger: "When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose."
This is why Obama can casually throw his grandma and pastor under the bus. And Obama can seamlessly enter into a shady land deal with slumlord Tony Rezko, knowing full well that he deprived black people of heat in frigid Chicago winters.
Obama can profess love for his father but allow paternal relatives to live in abject poverty in the projects in Boston or shacks in Kenya. He can cavalierly end the D.C. school voucher program, cheating poor black kids of a decent education.
Obama's Strangeness allows him to destroy the Democratic Party by forcing health care legislation that the populace vehemently opposes. If the party crashes and burns, it doesn't matter much to Obama. He was never one of them anyway.
In therapy lingo, Obama may have an attachment disorder. This diagnosis is often applied to children languishing in orphanages or shuttled among foster homes.
These kids may look normal, but what's missing is the ability to connect to something or someone wholesome. All grown up, unattached adults may lack empathy and, in extreme cases, a conscience.
A disconnected president puts us all at risk. We've survived narcissistic presidents before, even neophytes. But we've never seen the likes of Obama.
We've never had a president who is angry about everything but passionate about very little. We've never encountered a president who hasn't bonded to his own country.
So who is this Stranger anyway, Barack Hussein Obama? What makes him tick? Whom does he love? What fills his heart with joy?
Grasping the essence of Obama seems as futile as trying to catch snow. Perhaps part of the reason we know so little about Obama is that there may be very little to know.
The lyrics of a Beatles song keep ringing in my ears:
All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong?
We may never know where Obama comes from, not even the basic facts of his life.
But those of us paying attention know one thing loud and clear: A Stranger in a Strange Land does not belong in the White House.
You’re right, it is a must-read. Probably the most insightful into understanding the WHY of what he is/does.
I “grok” your comments here. It is some scary manure, that’s for sure.
Obama is no such thing.
He knows exactly what he is doing amd knows the playing field quite well.
Such articles only serve to make him seem less dangerous (akin to the Nutty Professor etc...)
Great article, great quote.
I have seen similar cases among Americans who have lived their formative years abroad. I say that from the perspective of having lived 25 years of my adult life abroad in nine different countries.
But, it’s not his own country. He is the odd man out.
“O”s a cipher-I wonder how he can keep a straight face. In fact, sometimes it seems like he really is smirking.
Obama has the instincts of a tin-pot dictator from a banana- republic. He has never known anything more about America than that it has about 57 states. Why we have a man still in office with the name Hussein is a mystery and an embarrassment.
Obama is cunning and uses the illusion of the “angry young man” to cause us to “forgive” his youthful transgressions and to sympathize.
Look behind the curtain ...
- by decades of neglect of passing on the core ideas and principles of liberty enshrined in our nation's Declaration of Independence and incorporated in the structuring of government by the Founders' Constitution, we have created generations of "strangers" who were born in America's heartland, brought up in its churches and schools, and are only now beginning to appreciate the liberty they inherited as their birthright--because they sense that it is being taken from them.
It is time for a rediscovery of the ideas of liberty which made America a place of refuge for oppressed peoples from all over the world for over 200 years! We are not strangers in a strange land. We are citizens of a place founded on a set of ideas which placed "We, the People" and our Constitution for self-government over all elected officials, and all under the care of a "Divine Providence" and "Sovereign Ruler of the Universe." (See Declaration of Independence and Madison's writings).
He doesn't view them as privleges, but rights. He is angry because his father abandoned him. His mother moved out of the country and married a foreigner who adopted him. He lived four of his most formative years in an alien culture and then he was shipped back to his grandparents to raise him. In both Occidental and Columbia, his roommates were foreign students. He is biracial making his sense of personal identity difficult.,
Obama is very angry and he used that anger as an agigtator and community organizer who was constantly battling against the establishment. His associations with other angry people like Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Farakhan, etc. are evidence of that anger. And his wife is also an angry person witness her senior thesis at Princeton and her statement about finally being proud of this country.
Obama is cunning and uses the illusion of the “angry young man” to cause us to “forgive” his youthful transgressions and to sympathize.
Nonsense. The quote from the article says it all, "We've never had a president who is angry about everything but passionate about very little. We've never encountered a president who hasn't bonded to his own country." Obama's "cool" and unemotional mien reflect his detachment and lack of involvement so typical of sociopaths.
I agree, Obama has had an extensive education in leftist politics, far more extensive than any normal person outside of the political realm. He knows exactly what he’s trying to achieve, whether he succeeds or fails is up to us.
It is very difficult to maintain a national identity and shared sense of endeavor when you have a Balkanized society based on multiculturalism and diversity. The values and vision of our Founders are not shared by many of the residents of this country. And it is only going to get worse.
I think it tells part of the story. Certainly not all of it, or even half of it.
People can be both evil and stupid. He definitely knows he’s destroying America and is doing it on purpose, but I am 100% sure he will lose, and hopefully everything he has signed, hired, and appointed will become null and void, once his past and his citizenship status become revealed.
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