What Is President Obama Really Trying To Do? (The author has to ask?)

Townhall.com ^ | August 30, 2009 | Ausin Hill

[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?

[freeangel]

Duh—that was easy. He’s doing his level best to destroy this country as fast as he can and before most of the US citizens have caught on to his treasonous behavior.

[mazda77]

Too late.

[timetostand]

“Well, I would hope that Americans would stand up and oppose such a takeover that he thinks he can achieve.”

If marshall law was imposed
How do we comunicate and form a coheasive defence and/or offence against a total take over by the government commies. Trying to fend of the enemy without communication would be impossible

[libstripper]

Look at the FR posts before the '08 election. Many of us predicted exactly what this anti-America, anti-American communist and secret Mudslime would do: try to turn American into Zimbabwe West, JUST WHAT HE'S DOING.

[Shady]

Trust me, there will be. There will be.

[ExiledChicagoan]

He’s trying to take over your country. Period.

[Shady]

But in order to do that you have to have the military and the police on your side, they are not and never will be. When he tries to do that he will not be able to control the revolution. He means to destroy everything so we can’t afford to live, eat, etc. That is much worse.

[Gorzaloon]

How do we comunicate and form a coheasive defence and/or offence against a total take over by the government commies. Trying to fend of the enemy without communication would be impossible

The Media is the soft target. Focus on it. They were responsible for this mess.

[libstripper]

Actually, even the military would oppose him so I don’t think he has a chance of achieving his goals.

Why do you think he wants a civilian force that's as well equipped and funded as the military? That's why. This isn't new. Lenin did the same thing with the Cheka and Hitler did it with the SS. The illegal Alien is striving as hard and fast as he can to make himself into a full blown communist dictator and caliph. Viewed in that context, supplemented by the understanding that he's a secret Mudslime, everything he's done makes perfect sense

[TYVets]

0bama wants to turn the US into a Fascist country run by Chicagoland thuggery politics.

[screaminsunshine]

But a few are connecting. It is a lot better than 20 years ago when I first became..aware. People no longer think I am a total kook politically when I talk about the Constitution.

[libstripper]

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.

I'd jump for joy if he were no more than the reincarnation of Al Capone, who definitely didn't want to destroy America, just steal form it.

[livius]

Personally, I never thought he was just another dumb and venal corrupt Chicago pol; he’s been an ideologue all along. However, it’s true that his ideas are not his own, he was only a minor player in Chicago, and he’s not very bright; for example, he probably really doesn’t understand the economy.

But he doesn’t need to understand the economy and he doesn’t care if he does or not, because his objective is to destroy it and destroy us. I think he probably will need some kind of crisis to do this, because resistance is building and speed is of the essence.

[Shane]

We need to be more than “VOCAL”. We need to organize, as well or better than our communist opposition. We need to vote the existing Congress out, enact term limit legislation, and vote in a new Congress, that understands that they are elected to represent the people of the United States and uphold the Constitution during their limited time in office.

If we fail to do this, we are doomed. We have allowed a Political Class to develop, who are only interested in accumulating power and money and have long ignored their oath of office and their duty to protect the United States.

[nathanbedford]

This article is not directed to us. It is directed to the great White middle of America who voted for Barack Obama out of a generosity of spirit because they wanted to do the right thing, they wanted to install the first African-American in the Oval Office and end racism in America once and for all. It is directed to those people in the Bermuda shorts and the straw hats and the sunglasses with the strings that go around the back of their necks, who tend to believe the mainstream media when it told them that George Bush was a fool and Dick Cheney was evil. The folks who wake up in the morning and accept what they see on the today show.

These people do not want to believe that they were defrauded in one of the biggest flimflams in world political history. The author is smart enough not to shout at people, "how could you have been so stupid? We told you he was a Marxist!" No one wants to admit that he was taken in. Mark Twain portrayed this feature of the human character in Huckleberry Finn. The author knows that it is human nature to get defensive and kill the messenger if one is confronted directly with his own stupidity. He also knows that it is human nature that if someone thinks he has come to a conclusion by his own lights he will tend to hold that opinion forever. So the author does not slap middle America in the face with its own gullibility, he lets people come to the conclusion themselves.

As they do come to that conclusion, which I think is inevitable, they will be angry all right, but they will direct that anger where it belongs: at Barack Obama. He is the political grifter who is taking their liberties, soiling their patriotism, impoverishing their children's future.

They have a right to be angry. Anger is often the obversehe side of fear and our people have good grounds to be fearful. If one looks at the real debt structure of American which at minimum is projected to $9 trillion dollars but probably more like $26 trillion or even more depending on how far entitlements run out of control, how weak the dollar gets, how poorly we do trying to borrow money from other countries. As even those of us with the most ostrich like tendencies can no longer avoid the reality of these numbers and can no longer deny that America is spinning toward the abyss, their anger will be terrible.

So give the author some credit for subtlety and a lot of credit for understanding human nature.

[screaminsunshine]

Anger Denial Sadness Acceptance... The de-briefing of Liberals is a hard process.

[RoadTest]

“What are Barack Obama’s objectives? What is he really trying to accomplish, as our President?”

The objectives of the New Age/New World Order: Kill 2 billion people, set up a world government, destroy all Christians, put Antichrist in office, create his image to be worshipped and bring the armies of the world to the valley of Megiddo for the final rebellion against our loving Creator and Savior.

Isn’t he the perfect flunky to do that?

[J40000]

“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!”

-—You are SO dead on that I had to repost.

[C210N]

Any question as to whether -10bama is in for the ride of his life with his background handlers, consider two other countries as evidence: Kenya and, more recently, Honduras. His association with 0’dinga and what 0’dinga unleashed in their election combined with what has been and is being pulled with Zelaya in Honduras is a good way to peek thru a keyhole into the intentions of this -10ministration.

[nathanbedford]

I think you're right.

I would add to my comments additional reasons for the author shrinking from drawing the final conclusion that Obama is a dangerous, radical, ideologue.

Beyond those characteristics, Obama is also African-American and the author has no doubt seen what has happened to anyone with the temerity to criticize Obama. The other side is just itching to play the race card and muddy the waters. The great mushy middle of America which is only now awakening to the desperate straits that has put itself in, will be twice befuddled if the argument descends into whether or not the critics of Obama are racists.

Beyond being African-American, Obama is a disciple of Saul Alinsky and he knows rule 12 which is to personalize, fix, and discredit your opponent. Add the race card to the weapons in Saul Alinsky's armory and these truly wicked people might just succeed in confusing enough people to escape the electoral judgment they so richly deserve.

This is the ideal time for Michael Steele to come forward and lead the attack because the worst day can call him as an "uncle Tom." I just don't think that Michael Steele has the firepower or the candlepower to do it.