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?
Steele? Nahhh! He is from the McCain school of useful idiots. Palin may be the only hope. She needs to start now laying out irrefutable truths.
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.
One thing he may be doing is losing his base:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnhKGdBI-CM&feature=player_embedded
Six months ago I never would have believed we would be where we are now.
Obama still has roughly 90% of the stimulus money left. Expect that next year much will be spent in an effort to save the congressional majorities. It will be spent on advertising and on ACORN-type voter intimidation and resurrecting dead voters.
My biggest worry is some event occurring which might trigger him to action...a natural disaster or a terrorist attack for example. He is a student of Alinsky. Those who pay attention are aware but the vast majority of people are not. After all, they say, he is the President of the US.
+100
And now, all that was "hidden" from those voters is spilling out, the people and the agenda, and we are beginning to feel the results and see where the horse is taking us.
I pray that a sufficient number of Americans will wake up and shake off the obamaspell so that what's been done can be undone. In the mean time, I hope for the best and keep preparing for the worst.
As the famous Hollywood “actor” Ed Asner is fond of saying, “The USSR had the right idea, they just didn’t get it right and made mistakes. We can do better.” When pressed about those “mistakes” dear old Ed denied that the Soviet Gulags was one of them...
Barry Lynn. Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is also of the same persuasion.
I’ve been educating people about our Constitution for years. When I was a cab driver I carried copies with me to pass out to fares. Even today it’s surprising how many have never read it.
HE IS EVIL and we need GOD’s Help to stop him.
Bring God back to government, schools and society as intended by our founders.
Absolutely, which is why he's doing what he's doing, just like you wrote. It's leading to some event, some crisis they can take advantage of, possibly where the loyalty of the military and the police will be divided.
They have history's successful revolutions to study and adapt to our society and their biggest advantage is that most people refuse to even consider something like that could happen here.
Could be. Maybe he will have the Capitol set on fire or maybe the Pentagon.
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.
Below is some of what I was posting with the exception of Malkin's recent comments:
Six months into the Obama administration, it should now be clear to all Americans: Hope and Change came to the White House wrapped in brass knuckles.*
*Michelle Malkin: Bully Boys: A Brief History of White House Thuggery townhall.com ^ | July 29, 2009 | Michelle Malkin
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.
Yep - and I am hearing more and more people say “How will we pay for it?” - even from those who supported Obama before. One of my favorite bartenders is seeing the light. She supported him primarily for his promise of “free” health care. Now that’s changed to “affordable” health care. She was looking forward to employer provided “free” health insurance - I explained she’d still have to pay a portion of the premium. The bar owner has about a dozen employees. I asked how long he could stay in business after paying a few thousand a month out of pocket for employee health insurance.
Now she feels like she was suckered but doesn’t want to admit it.
Fair enough- but even IF Obama doesn't understand how the economy works- he DOES have the likes of Volker, Summer etc. who DO know how the economy works. The question then becomes- why do they stay on board with Obama? The entire situation is baffling. Whether through incompetence, ideology mixed with egos or a combination - this administration is taking us over the cliff.
he ran on not having a past...
“They truly are the equivalent to a teenager rebelling against their parent...”
True, if you consider their radical philosophy a natural state for children. However, these are the same people who founded such movements as the Human Extinction Movement and who are now running the county.
They are indeed in a boat, armed to the teeth, going against the current, disregarding the stage of the tide, all wearing self administered blindfolds which make them feel ‘cool’ while helping their self esteem reflect their internal visions of their self grandeur and glory.
Everyone else is lessor and to be disregarded, unless useful for advancing the above self image.
“...leave the Democrats no doubt that they are on thin ice pushing us to the limit.”
Who for the most parrt could care less.
It doesn't much matter whether she admits it, it matters whether she votes it.
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