Here's his textbook...........
Posted on 09/15/2010 8:49:24 AM PDT by rhema
For those who've struggled to find out what makes Obama tick, the mystery is over. It's simple. His beliefs and values fully embody the same philosophy, to which the vast majority of American university faculty members are fully invested. He promotes, with near perfect predictability, their left wing, collectivist, counter-American viewpoint. There are a thousands and thousands of academics out there gripping a similar playbook.
Those observers who missed this point early on either went to college long ago or dutifully studied a narrow curriculum and failed to scrutinize the cultural inclinations and revolutionary intentions of their Oz-like, academic surroundings. Only now are some waking up to find, "We're not in America any more."
Obama is the child of two PhD's and, other than having been a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, has no appreciable practical work experience. Given his upbringing's remote fatherly attention and his rejection of his mother's native culture, it may be safe to say that Obama is more truly a progeny of academia than he is of either of his natural parents.
One writer currently claims Obama is channeling his father's Kenyan anti-colonialism. More accurately it is the groupthink of academia to which Obama is fully assimilated and loyally patriotic, not America or Kenya. Academia is the foster parent of the entire Woodstock generation, culturally orphaned from their WW II fighting parents whose shoes they never could fill.
There is a natural tendency for those of any given profession to encourage the technique and culture of their profession. The militarist will support a chain of command and promote defensive readiness. The religious leader will prescribe faith and offer guidance. The athlete will promote physical exercise and a daily routine.
Accordingly, the academic will replicate the domineering teacher-student relationship and reject out of hand all notions not academically and, these days politically, correct. Today's dominant academic culture promotes large government, wealth redistribution, and a stylishly green and globally socialist point of view. To them American borders and culture are irrelevant.
Simply put, Obama is and wants almost everything that regular, self-reliant, non-academic Americans aren't and don't want.
Webster's provides a definition of academic as "merely theoretical; having no direct practical application." Since there are few social or economic theories that have proven as unworkable and impractical as leftist-collectivism, it is fitting that it is currently academia's most widely ascribed-to theory. Obama's dogged fidelity to left wing ideology makes him the model president for today's academia.
The left did not always dominate academia. Before the 1960's, its culture was less a student of its own conclusions. The "me" generation of Viet Nam war protesters come to infest and then dominate the academy, enforcing a cultural litmus test. The academic credential itself has come to overshadow experience, individual merit, and character as a prerequisite to success. While the academic vision once saw the university as a fountainhead of scholastic truth, it now sees itself as the force of human correction.
Obama has carefully sought out and surrounded himself with advisors whose professional lives are nearly void of practical experience. Considerations that are patriotic, Judeo-Christian, militaristic, capitalistic or free market oriented are unquestionably irrelevant to Obama's bloated administration of arrogant, academic social planners.
Obama's personal characteristics make him today‘s quintessentially desirable academic. Being biracial makes him a diversity model. Being youthfully slight and unmarked makes him appear metro-sexual and pacifistic. His (occasionally black) verbal cadence and lawyerly delivery give him a popular and assuring listen-ability. Obama's marbled religious background is as multi-denominational as a university hospital chapel. The curious confiscation of so much of his personal documentation coupled with his untouchable minority status produces in him the unassailable air needed in the leader of a stealth revolution.
Obama's legislative centerpieces are constructed to be like huge mythical tomes of the Ivory Tower; books which we are to revere and obey, yet are too vast for us to fully decipher. Rather than sell the country on one of several carefully considered solutions, he seems to issue directives based on preordained doctrine. When Obama must compromise, it is a slow and torturous process. There is a sense with Obama and his academic cadre that Americans have fallen into Wonderland's rabbit hole and are whirling, unstable and uncertain, while being forcefully attended to by blind visionaries bent on dictating the madness of a hellish and impossible utopia.
It is doubtful that history's great movers could have included leaders like our modern academics. Teaching has been long regarded as secondary in importance to actually doing. Most of us whose parents were too old for Woodstock grew up with the saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach". Had Thomas Edison foresworn business, joined academia and spent his life teaching the theories of batteries and conductivity to the world's young, he might never had developed the light bulb. His less commercial career would have been more politically correct, though his students would have had substantially less light by which to read books after sun down.
Obama is spooning out a "hope and change" medicine, and the American public is rushing to the back of the line to receive it. This isn't a first for academic prescriptions. If art imitates life then consider the literature, music, painting and films of academic favorites like Alice Walker, John Cage, Agnes Martin and Stan Brackhage. If you are drawn instead to the artistic output of Willa Cather, Aaron Copeland, Andrew Wyeth and John Ford, you won't be alone, unless you're at a fine arts faculty meeting. The fact that communism, along with whiney lesbian literature, dehumanized atonal music, paintings consisting only of 112 almost identical paint brush strokes and abstract movies of grass stuck in peanut butter have failed to be great popular successes is, according to leading academics, a sign of American's domination by ignorant and unsophisticated Tea Party types.
As America's professor in chief, Obama considers American citizens to be mere students who can be easily chided and condemned as disruptive if they dare to ask a confounding or disruptive question. This is why he likes to say, "The time for talk is over" and that arguments against his policies are products of a "network of misinformation."
Obama's Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, says he wants to "coerce people out of their cars." Speaking about how Americans generally don't like Obamacare, HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius insidiously stated, ""we have a lot of re-education to do". Maybe instead of building re-education camps with money borrowed from China we can just ship Tea Party Americans directly to Chinese re-education camps.
Academia, via government, has become so aggrandized that it assumes the right to direct all human arguments. Citizens are to become the obedient students of a more knowing and politically correct class of elites. Washington's adversarial lawyer-politicians, like neo-monarchists of a new American Royal Academy, have been deployed as warring vassals to seize power and wealth with legislative, judicial and now, presidential authority.
When will mature adults and true Americans, those who learned life's real lessons, lived in a practical world and developed beyond their whimsical school days, stand up and assume the responsibility of mature leadership?
You can’t apply for a job without revealing your GPA.
I want to see Zombie’s GPA from college and law school.
What are they hiding?
Simply put, King Obama is a black communists Muslim, and carries the normal radical Muslim beliefs. He will continue to use our system of Government to destroy our Constitution.
No sale. 0bama, like most people, was formed by his parents and caretakers, before ever reaching college. Sometimes the child becomes a copy, sometimes a negative in reaction, but generally speaking the formative years are prior to adulthood. Duh!
Here's his textbook...........
“What are they hiding?”
The fact that he needed tutoring to pass a urine test, perhaps?
Bump for later
Interesting counterpoint to Dinesh D'Souza's article from Forbes.
islamism
Beware of the Academic/Government complex.
Ironic that the title of his new book “Of Thee I Sing” is a line from a song sung to the tune of “God Save the Queen”.
True, but his parents and caretakers were devout believers in "the groupthink of academia."
islamism? Not as a religious faith -- I suspect his faith is "There is no god but Obama and Obama is his prophet" -- but only insofar as islam is Not American.
This is closer to the mark than D’Souza’s analysis but does not quite get to the nub of it. Obama is Frank Marshal Davis’ avatar is is doing the work ol’ ‘Pop’ would like to have done himself. Wright and Ayers are Obama’s living links to Davis’ red/racist revenge philosophy.
“...is is doing ...”
should be “...and is doing...”
Pretty sound analysis, especially when you study some of his actions in office.
Most administration appointments are also academics with little or no actual experience (much like himself)
Look at his SCt. appointmen—a Harvard law professor without judicial experience or real world experience.
Finally, look where some of the stimulus money is going. I read yesterday that we are funding $800,000 to study the genital washing habits of African males after sex. Wonder how many permanent jobs that created among the unemployed?
There’s an entire generation of academics and journalists out there that were indoctrinated by the folks that McCarthy was chasing down.
BTTT!!!!
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