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How Obama Thinks [Obama Exposed!]
Forbes Magazine ^ | 09/09/2010 | Dinesh D'Souza

Posted on 09/09/2010 12:56:05 AM PDT by Undocumented_capitalist

The President isn't exactly a socialist. So what's driving his hostility to private enterprise? Look to his roots.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy. The Weekly Standard summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad.

The President's actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and supporters alike.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africancolonialism; anticolonialism; democrat; democrats; dineshdsouza; epicfail; forbes; howobamathinks; impeachobama; obama; socialism
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To: Undocumented_capitalist

Obama had a lot of help from his liberal democrats and some rino republicans—they all need to go.


41 posted on 09/09/2010 3:45:30 AM PDT by liberalcide1
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To: Cobra64

The link took me right to the article.

Here it is for you: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html


42 posted on 09/09/2010 3:45:43 AM PDT by November 2010
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To: Bikkuri

Did “Agenda: Grinding America Down” get released into theatres or is the only way to get it by buying the CD?


43 posted on 09/09/2010 3:51:42 AM PDT by November 2010
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To: Undocumented_capitalist
Dreams From My Father as the Kenyan's Mein Kampf? The analogy would seem to be close.
44 posted on 09/09/2010 3:53:31 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: Undocumented_capitalist
Anti-colonialism also explains Obama's weird and insulting behavior toward all things British.

Obama's dominant theme may be anti-colonial, but there is also a strong element of socialism and the whole is mixed with Chicago-style politics of thuggery and bribery.

45 posted on 09/09/2010 4:06:09 AM PDT by Marylander
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To: Undocumented_capitalist; All
From the article:

"What then is Obama's dream? We don't have to speculate because the President tells us himself in his autobiography, Dreams from My Father."

"According to Obama, his dream is his father's dream. Notice that his title is not Dreams of My Father but rather Dreams from My Father."

"Obama isn't writing about his father's dreams; he is writing about the dreams he received from his father."

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46 posted on 09/09/2010 4:13:18 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Undocumented_capitalist

The President isn’t exactly a socialist...


Uh, yeah, he is at LEAST a socialist, and quite probably a Marxist. Look at the people who mentored him and who he surrounds himself with now. He is doing his best to appear like he cares about free enterprise, but its just an act. Kuds for Glenn Beck for doing the job the MSM won’t do and exposing Obama’s circle of friends.


47 posted on 09/09/2010 4:16:50 AM PDT by rbg81 (When you see Obama, shout: "DO YOUR JOB!!")
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To: sneakers

bump


48 posted on 09/09/2010 4:20:47 AM PDT by sneakers
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To: Undocumented_capitalist

But Obama said earlier this week that he likes lean government. What amazing gall.


49 posted on 09/09/2010 4:24:56 AM PDT by rod1
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To: Undocumented_capitalist

The article explains Obama’s refusal to close the border also.


50 posted on 09/09/2010 4:29:03 AM PDT by tommix2
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To: Undocumented_capitalist

“From a very young age and through his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction...profits are a measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and America’s power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes the globe’s resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the planet.”

His hatred of America has always been evident; here’s the explanation.

“Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s.”

The fruits of disregarding merit to right old wrongs, both real and imagined.


51 posted on 09/09/2010 4:32:09 AM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: Spok

bookmark


52 posted on 09/09/2010 4:34:56 AM PDT by mplsconservative (I stand with Israel.)
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To: Undocumented_capitalist

Excellent article. Anti-neocolonial-nut-case bump!


53 posted on 09/09/2010 4:45:16 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: tdscpa
obama is perfectly described as a socialist

No. Obama is perfectly described as a Marxist Lenninist collectivist. There is all the difference in the world.

The concern of collectivists is their personal power and personal gain by controlling the collective. They are the Orwellian "pigs" who are more equal than all the other animals.

They are not socialists interested in delivering on the social contract between government and the people by providing the services that they were elected to provide. They do not have the education, skills and experience to deliver on anything.

I am not in favor of socialism, but European socialism is heaven on earth compared to the scorched wasteland left in the wake of these self-aggrandizing collectivists.

54 posted on 09/09/2010 4:51:06 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Undocumented_capitalist

This is one of the best descriptions of what motivates Obama that I have ever read. We do, indeed, have a very deluded and dangerous man sitting in power over this nation.


55 posted on 09/09/2010 4:52:58 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Undocumented_capitalist

Great article. Thanks for the past.


56 posted on 09/09/2010 5:01:33 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Undocumented_capitalist

It’s long, but I’m glad I read it. Explains a lot. Thanks for posting this.


57 posted on 09/09/2010 5:05:55 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: TeachableMoment
my working theory is that big business hates free markets, and would rather compete at the political level, where they stand an almost 100% chance of winning the little regulations and subsidies that drive the smaller companies out of business.

It is also why they like our so-called justice system. It is just another cost of doing business, a portfolio of known costs they can amortize over their diverse income pool. One law suit more or less makes little difference. To the small guy the cost of lawyering up one more time is ruinous.

58 posted on 09/09/2010 5:06:52 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Rocky

And D’Souza’s explanation also explains Benito Obama’s horrible treatment of England.


59 posted on 09/09/2010 5:10:27 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: rbg81
he is at LEAST a socialist, and quite probably a Marxist.

I think it is a mistake to see socialism as a step on the path to Marxist-Leninism. The former exists quite comfortably with democratic institutions. Well-educated and capable people in European governments and parliaments debate ways and means of accomplishing identified needs of society and even more or less deliver on these promises more or less well. Americans have a problem that there should be more self reliance, but it is a difference in degree.

Marxist-Leninists are first and foremost about power and control of the collective. They are totalitarian in approach. The Swedes and Danes do not have gulags. Virtually every M-L state has had its political prisons and death squads. They deliver for themselves and their peers, their fellow thugs. They really have little intent of delivering any more on a social aim than they absolutely have to to maintain their control of the collective.

60 posted on 09/09/2010 5:12:31 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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