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A Stranger in Our Midst
American Thinker ^ | 4-29-10 | Robert Weissberg

Posted on 04/29/2010 4:13:07 AM PDT by radioone

As the Obama administration enters its second year, I -- and undoubtedly millions of others -- have struggled to develop a shorthand term that captures our emotional unease. Defining this discomfort is tricky. I reject nearly the entire Obama agenda, but the term "being opposed" lacks an emotional punch. Nor do terms like "worried" or "anxious" apply. I was more worried about America's future during the Johnson or Carter years, so it's not that dictionary, either. Nor, for that matter, is this about backroom odious deal-making and pork, which are endemic in American politics.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alinsky; antiamerican; ayres; jennings; obama; progressives
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1 posted on 04/29/2010 4:13:07 AM PDT by radioone
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To: radioone

Wow. He hit the nail on the head. We are being ruled by outsiders - by non-Americans.


2 posted on 04/29/2010 4:17:50 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: radioone
Perhaps the clearest evidence for this "foreigner in our midst" mentality is the name given our resistance -- tea parties, an image that instantly invokes the American struggle against George III, a clueless foreign ruler from central casting. This history-laden label was hardly predetermined, but it instantly stuck (as did the election of Sen. Scott Brown as "the shot heard around the world" and tea partiers dressing up in colonial-era costumes). Perhaps subconsciously, Obama does remind Americans of when the U.S. was really occupied by a foreign power. A Declaration of Independence passage may still resonate: "HE [George III] has erected a Multitude of new Offices [Czars], and sent hither Swarms of Officers [recently hired IRS agents] to harass our People, and eat out the Substance." What's next?

Yes! An "Enemy" in our midst.

3 posted on 04/29/2010 4:26:09 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: radioone
I was more worried about America's future during the Johnson or Carter years..

That right there 'invalidated' the entire article!

Carter was bad, no doubt because he was stupid as hell but Obama is a completely different animal .. He is taking over/destroying this country .. by choice!

4 posted on 04/29/2010 4:27:46 AM PDT by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: radioone

Yup. The people in charge may have American papers, but they may as well be foreigners. Obama may actually be a legitimate citizen on paper, but he most definitely is not one of us.


5 posted on 04/29/2010 4:31:00 AM PDT by Nepeta
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To: radioone

hmmm...ws the really a slip....or was it a slip....???

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/washington-post-mistakes-malcolm-x-for-obama/


6 posted on 04/29/2010 4:31:25 AM PDT by gunnyg (THINK: NOVEMBER TOO LATE???/!!! Our Novembers Are Behind Us...)
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To: plinyelder
I was more worried about America's future during the Johnson or Carter years..

I found that strange, also.

The rest of the article lays out the case that Obama is more dangerous than Johnson and Carter, and yet he was more worried then than now? It doesn't make any sense.

7 posted on 04/29/2010 4:39:33 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: radioone
I reject nearly the entire Obama agenda, but the term "being opposed" lacks an emotional punch.

Then be for a nation based on meritocracy and initiative and personal responsibility.

Be for achievement and accomplishment as opposed to dependency on government and self pity and failure and whining.

We must shame those who seek a handout from the government, who seek reward without work, who seek something for nothing.

They are already ashamed of themselves, but Obama is soothing their embarrassment like a presidential wet nurse. And he is making their weakness sound acceptable by charging that anyone who opposes it is "racist."

His followers know that isn't true...they know they are wallowing in weakness and cowardice. But their shame is so deep that they are cowering to Obama's demonic bullying.

At first, what happened in our country was an enigma to us conservatives. But it is quite clear now.

Obama has sliced and diced the politics of racial grievance he learned from Jeremiah Wright and has tailored it to fit in the Marxist (actually Luciferian) politics of Saul Alinsky.

But he is in new territory, having moved beyond the experience of Alinsky (remember that Alinsky only knew how to rattle the cage...he never actually achieved anything).

Obama has actually achieved the presidency and all the power that brings. Obama is now operating according to some new template, and doing quite well actually in terms of destroying our country and dividing its people.

Obama is rapidly moving to alienate our former allies, to embrace muslims (domestically and abroad) and empower angry racial minorities. He's even trying to remove Bibi from power in an effort to destabilize Israel.

He's shoved an unimaginably great burden of debt on America's most productive citizens and now is setting about to regulate the financial industry into crony capitalism.

Of yeah...Obama knows exactly what he's doing and he's doing it incredibly well.

The only unanswered question is "what rule book is he using"...

I for one believe his knowledge and vision comes straight from the pits of Hell.

8 posted on 04/29/2010 4:42:30 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself... - D.H. Lawrence)
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To: Texas Fossil
""We" elected the enemy." -----

Jim Quinn (warroom.com)

9 posted on 04/29/2010 4:44:19 AM PDT by ICAB9USA (I cut off part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: ICAB9USA

WE does not include ME.

But it is the Enemy none the less.


10 posted on 04/29/2010 4:46:54 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: plinyelder

Johnson and Carter were liberals and not very good presidents. However, at least they grew up in the US, went to school there, were grounded and rooted in “middle America” whatever that is. Hussein represents the people of the (third?) world rather than the people of the US. On every issue his reflex reaction is against the established order. Let us all hope that the American electorate wakes up in November and gives legislative power back to the grown ups.


11 posted on 04/29/2010 5:13:40 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name now that we have the most conservative government in the world?)
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To: radioone

Go to youtube and watch Victoria Jackson’s “There’s a communist living in the whitehouse!”


12 posted on 04/29/2010 5:24:24 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: radioone
After auditioning countless political terms, I finally realized that the Obama administration and its congressional collaborators almost resemble a foreign occupying force, a coterie of politically and culturally non-indigenous leaders whose rule contravenes local values rooted in our national tradition.

-remember Michelle Obama telling us we have to change our traditions. No one asked her why.

Author articulates the gut feeling most of us are carrying around, that the MSM tells us to ignore--we are fringe or racist.

Whenever a president is using tricks and in constant selling mode, he is advancing his own agenda against what the People want.

The time between now and elections will be full of ways to rig the system against us.

13 posted on 04/29/2010 7:04:53 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: ICAB9USA

No, “They” elected the enemy.


14 posted on 04/29/2010 7:32:28 AM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: tiki
No kidding. That is WHY I put "we" in quotation marks.

Got it?

15 posted on 04/29/2010 8:40:35 AM PDT by ICAB9USA (I cut off part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Agreed!


16 posted on 04/29/2010 2:57:45 PM PDT by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: radioone
bump

Rush just covered this on his show. Says author nailed it, the feeling most Americans have, Obama is not one of us.

17 posted on 04/30/2010 9:31:20 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Madame Dufarge; plinyelder
"I was more worried about America's future during the Johnson or Carter years.."

I found that strange, also.

The rest of the article lays out the case that Obama is more dangerous than Johnson and Carter, and yet he was more worried then than now? It doesn't make any sense.

Remember how Johnson and Carter made such a hash of domestic and foreign policy with the threat of nuclear armageddon looming over the horizon. They were abject disasters. Only folks in D.C. and the largest cities are worried about nuclear detonations as a remote possibilty now.

It makes sense if you consider the current threat of nuclear war, IMHO.

18 posted on 04/30/2010 10:17:56 AM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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decades of being oblivious to Rev. Wright's anti-American ranting,

Good article, but I think the writer is simply trying to give Obama the benefit of the doubt on this point. I, on the other hand, believe that Obama soaked up Wright's America-hating beliefs like a sponge, and lives those beliefs each and every day.

19 posted on 04/30/2010 10:18:58 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (ClimateScandal.org)
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To: radioone

Good post!


20 posted on 04/30/2010 10:27:07 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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