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Obama's Statist Ambitions
RealClearPolitics.com ^ | 7/1/2009 | Gene Healy

Posted on 07/01/2009 5:20:42 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies

Fresh out of college, before becoming a community organizer, Obama took a job with a consulting firm that helped American companies operating abroad. The horror of editing business manuals for a year gave Obama a lesson in the "coldness of capitalism," he told biographer David Mendell. "I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself that I wanted to be."

As his career progressed, Obama tempered his critique of capitalism, and developed an uncanny ability to make free-marketeers believe he's simpatico. Meanwhile, he amassed one of the least business-friendly records in the Senate (the "most liberal senator" in 2007, according to the nonpartisan National Journal.)

But in a 2005 commencement address at Illinois' Knox College, Obama let his guard down, and let loose a leftist stemwinder that would have done Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-OH, proud.

"There is no individual salvation without collective salvation," Obama proclaimed, making clear that government would stand in for God as our savior.

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1 posted on 07/01/2009 5:20:42 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

“”There is no individual salvation without collective salvation,” Obama proclaimed, making clear that government would stand in for God as our savior.”

And all CNN had to do was quote this and right now we would be hailing President Clinton.


2 posted on 07/01/2009 5:24:19 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Climate change alarmists are Warm-Mongers. Now that's funny right there. I don't care who you are.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
"we would be hailing President Clinton."

Eeeeeewwww, that's a nasty thought.

3 posted on 07/01/2009 5:28:42 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
When I first saw that headline flash past I read it as: Obama's Satanist Views

When I realized what it actually said I thought to myself: Eh, not much different, really...

4 posted on 07/01/2009 5:29:24 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: WayneS
Sorry... Ambitions, not Views.

Eh, not much different.

5 posted on 07/01/2009 5:30:15 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
You look like an angel

Walk like an angel

Talk like an angel

But I got wise

You're the devil in disguise

Oh yes you are

The devil in disguise

:)

6 posted on 07/01/2009 5:33:51 AM PDT by BARLF
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To: WayneS

heheh...not much diff is right considering it’s Obama!


7 posted on 07/01/2009 5:41:23 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama: "Enough about me, let's talk about you...what do you think of me?")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I’m not sure we’d be hailing her! Complaining about her, more likely - but not hearing the end of our nation, our rights and our way of life in every word she said.


8 posted on 07/01/2009 6:06:30 AM PDT by livius
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

This jerk is pure evil.


9 posted on 07/01/2009 9:17:26 AM PDT by boomop1
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