Best case? Another George Washington (who rejected efforts by the congress to make him a king and voluntarily left office at the end of his term) COULD emerge from the process.
Worst case? An American FIDEL CASTRO.
My reading of Perry's piece is that if Obama IS heading to be America's Castro ANYWAY (and from here, it sure as hell looks that way to anyone with half a brain), we're better off to roll the dice and take our chances.
I suspect you may have been one of those who held that what we're now suffering through “could never happen here.”
Since it has, it's entirely possible that Perry's scenario COULD as well. Just because something has never happened before doesn't mean it can't, does it?
No, I'm one of those who doesn't think that the military will or should trample all over the Constitution in order to 'save' it. And if Perry is so damned smart then why didn't he think his scenario all the way through? Removing Obama is the easy scenario. It's what comes next that is the tough part. Too tough, it appears, for your military genius Mr. Perry.
The Newsmax story was pulled.I called customer service and was told that it was removed because of “Customer†complaints.Yeah RIGHT.Wake Up People.
What Perry is saying is There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.”
He then merely lays out why it is a possibility and NOT that he is advocating that it happen. And the "it" he sees as a possibility is:
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared responsibility?
And for that, NewsMax pulls it???
Apparently, simply suggesting that there is a remote danger of a military coup due to obama's agenda and mishandling the military is the same thing as saying he wants the military to takeover. Sorta like criticizing obama's policies is due to racism.
John L. Perry Biography
John L. Perry, an award-winning newspaper editor and writer, who served on White House staffs of two presidents, contributes a regular column to NewsMax.com.
Newspapers under his direction were consistent winners of awards for journalistic excellence. The Associated Press Managing Editors Association named him one of the 12 best newsroom managers among the AP's member newspapers.
Perry has received numerous awards for column and editorial writing and for public-service and spot-news reporting.
He has worked as an editor or reporter for several daily newspapers, including the Tampa Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times, the Buffalo Evening News and the Clearwater Sun.
With a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, he was one of the first American journalists allowed into the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.
Perry also has had a distinguished career in public policy. He served President Lyndon B. Johnson as deputy under secretary of commerce and was a White House speech writer and race-relations trouble-shooter for President Johnson.
In the Jimmy Carter administration, he was executive assistant to the under secretary of Housing and Urban Development and was interim director of public information for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Perry served as press aide to Gov. LeRoy Collins of Florida and executive assistant to the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.
A specialist in corporate communications, strategic planning and crisis management, he was public-affairs counselor to several international and national businesses.
Perry was also assistant to the president of the National Association of Broadcasters, a member of the top-management team and director of public relations for the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tenn., and an academic fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif.
I did a google search on the article...seems the libs are sh*tting themselves over this article.