Posted on 08/30/2009 3:36:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
What are Barack Obama’s objectives? What is he really trying to accomplish, as our President?
Our current Commander-In-Chief won the presidency last year with very broad, generalized campaign themes of “hope,” “change,” and to a lesser degree, “transformation. ” He promised a foreign policy that would correct all the “mistakes” of George W. Bush, and an economic policy that would take wealth away from “rich” people and give it to people who were “deserving” of it.
Today, after roughly eight months in office, nobody doubts that President Obama has brought about a dramatic level of ”change.” But what is the purpose of Obama’s “change,” where is it leading, and what is all this “change” supposed to produce for the United States?
Despite philosophical and policy differences, most U.S. Presidents (certainly those of of recent history) have been, in their own ways, beholden to an agenda of keeping America safe and prosperous. But today I wonder if anyone believes that our President’s current agenda actually enhances safety and prosperity, or if, perhaps, some other agenda is being advanced.
In terms of foreign policy and national security, President Obama campaigned on, among other things, a promise to repair relationships between the U.S. and the rest of the world, relationships that he claimed President Bush had horribly damaged. Seven days after his inauguration – and before making any sort of televised address to the American people – President Obama made a regionally televised address to the “Muslim World” in the Middle East, to “reassure” Muslims that “Americans are not your enemy.”
Since then, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has scoffed at our President, publicly calling him “naïve,” and challenging Obama to a “debate.” A poll released last week indicates that, now, a mere 4% of Jews in the nation of Israel (our nation’s greatest ally and the most stable nation in the Middle East) believe that our President is “pro-Israel,” while a majority of Israelis oppose Obama’s demand for a a temporary freeze of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. And despite President Obama’s “demand” that Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the terorrist convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, be held under house arrest in his home of Libya after being released from a Scottland prison last week, the very Muslim Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi nonetheless provided a celebratory hero’s welcome to al Megrahi, and allowed him his freedom.
President Obama has unnerved the Jewish world, and appears to have emboldened the terrorist world. This does not provide a pathway to safety and prosperity for the United States.
In terms of his economic policy, President Obama is perhaps even more perplexing. As a candidate he expressed all-out disdain for American corporations and repeatedly promised to increase corporate taxes and regulations, expressed anger and “outrage” when corporations reported profits that were too big, and promised to “give back” corporate profits to “the American people.” At the same time, Obama was fond of reminding America that one of his chief economic advisors was investment and wealth creation guru Warren Buffett .
Today, Buffett stops short of admitting that his friend Barack has made any mistakes, but nonetheless admits that the so-called “economic stimulus bill” entailed tremendous waste, that the level of our national debt is staggeringly dangerous, and that the economy is in far worse condition than most people realize. And while I have been anticipating that, eventually, we would see an emergence in the press of the idea that President Obama is “in over his head with the economy,” I didn’t figure this would happen until after the 2010 elections . Only 3 months ago it seemed that President Obama could, politically speaking, continue for the foreseeable future to blame economic troubles on George W. Bush.
But reality has emerged in the media much sooner than I had predicted. Economic news outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg, and Financial Times have raised concerns over the dangerous levels of deficit spending, while thoughtful writers like Fred Barnes and John Stossel have carefully analyzed the President’s own remarks about economics, and his behavior in office, and have concluded that Obama doesn’t know how the economy works.
But does President Obama simply not “get it” on economics, or is there another issue in play? Certainly the President has an agenda of re-distributing wealth, taking away from “rich people” and giving to those who he believes are deserving. But his policies reach beyond mere wealh re-distribution, and if current policy trends continue, there will simply be less wealth in the United States that can be re-distributed.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to argue that President Obama is seeking to advance American peace and prosperity – this is so, at least in terms of how “peace” and “prosperity” have customarily been defined. Does President Obama have his own definitions for these terms? And how might his agenda of “transformation” entail something entirely different from anything America has known before?
An excellent question! I think that he is causing way too many of us to wonder just what he is up to. His choices of people would cause anyone to wonder what the heck he is doing. Top that with what he is actually trying to do and you can understand the tremors he is causing throughout society.
If it doesn’t, it should
...an economic policy that would take wealth away from “rich” people and give it to people who were “deserving” of it.
In other words - from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
His Czars will be run his Thugocracy and Americorp/ACORN/Weather Underground will be his army. Be very afraid.
He wants control of the airwaves which he will accomplish with his Czar of Diversity Lloyd. New FCC rules will shut down any radio station that carries conservative talk. Emergency powers will allow him to shut down the Internet. We will be without any sources of information except that which he chooses to feed us via the State-controlled media.
Someone has to be really naive not to see that he out to destroy this great country
I just pray there is not a major crisis before the 2010 election.
He is a Communist Revolutionary Radical. You do not have to be a Rocket Scientist to figure it out. Just connect the dots.
It’s S O C I A L I S M
Well, I would hope that Americans would stand up and oppose such a takeover that he thinks he can achieve. Actually, even the military would oppose him so I don’t think he has a chance of achieving his goals. That includes even taking over the communications outlets. Just let him try!...
It is already at a crisis point... if he continues with his “takeover” policies, we will see and overcome in numbers. He doesn’t have a chance even with his community organizers...
We all need to pray
It's getting harder for me, in my own mind, to come up with some explanation that competes well with yours.
Occam's Razor is getting, in this environment of official posturing, propaganda, and disinformation, its biggest workout since the Vietnamese War.
***I keep wanting to delude myself into believing that he’s just a small time crook from Chicago, who’s found himself winning the political lottery and hasen’t a clue what to do. But then the paranoid side of me says he knows exactly what he’s doing.***
You aren’t paranoid, but it isn’t Obama who knows what he’s doing, it’s his communist handlers.
But too many people refuse to connect the dots - or they still think the failed Marxist economic model will somehow work under the Great One.
The currrent administration is based upon an anti-establishment mentality. They truly are the equivalent to a teenager rebelling against their parents. They are more focused on NOT being like the parent and they will do the exact opposite, even though their actions are harmful to themselves. I use the analogy that it is like crossing a river in a row boat, rather than a canoe. In a canoe the person is looking forward, toward their destination, adjusting for the obstacles such as rocks, rapids, winds..... While a person in a row boat is seated backwards. The are focusing on the shore they are trying to depart from. They cannot see where they are going and as such, usually run into all the obstacles. The current president did not create a vision of the future like Reagan did when he ran for office, he ran on not being the past. He’s in a rowboat!
It’s past the prayer stage and time to take action. This whole thing isnt all Obama’s doing . He is only one man. He is backed by a political party lusting for power and willing to sell us out to get it.. We have to frighten the sycophants in that party enough for them to realise that the American people run this country, not it’s leftist politicians.
Be at the Tea Party 9-12 , be vocal, leave the place clean, but leave the Democrats no doubt that they are on thin ice pushing us to the limit.
Simply put, B.O. is trying to destroy our nation.
You got it
The US as leader of the free world is a big obstacle to creating a world government.
A NWO can not exist as long as America adheres to the Constitution, maintains capitialism and a free market economy, and believes in American Exceptionalism.
Once the USA is dismantled, there really isn’t too much standing in the way of creating a NWO.
American individualism conflicts with globalism. So...
-Take a world apology tour and strike at the psyche of American exceptionlsim. Check.
-Destoy the free market economy and implement Marxist principles. Check.
-Chip away at the Constitution and restrain liberty. A work in progress.
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