Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Is Obama Making His Next Career Move?
American Thinker ^ | June 29, 2011 | James Lewis

Posted on 06/29/2011 12:21:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041 next last
Comments?
1 posted on 06/29/2011 12:21:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

So is that the only way a person can run for Secretary-General of the UN, a position which as far as I can tell is a lot of soapbox with very little actual clout? That is: to get nominated by the government of his or her home country? Otherwise Obama ought not to care if the next president is a Republican, he still can run for a UN post (from Kenya if he has to).


2 posted on 06/29/2011 12:26:53 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
His place in the Progressive Gallery is secure.


3 posted on 06/29/2011 12:30:05 AM PDT by clearcarbon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama=loser bore. Napolean’s creed. Good tools to take into life. I think Sarah Palin has taken to exercising this winning leadership much more than the loser Obama. Soon Obama will have no job.


4 posted on 06/29/2011 12:30:30 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think this article might be on the right track


5 posted on 06/29/2011 12:33:20 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

“You tell such breath-taking whoppers that normal people can’t imagine that you don’t believe a word of it yourself. Most people will believe in Big Lies more than little lies, if you repeat the Big Lies over and over again — and if you control the Organs of Propaganda.”

That was also discussed in The Overton Window by Glenn Beck.


6 posted on 06/29/2011 12:35:05 AM PDT by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

BTT


7 posted on 06/29/2011 12:43:02 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

“A reasonable guess is that Obama wants to be UN Secretary General.”

I’ve said that for a year or two now. It seems an obvious next step for him and his path to crush our country. It’s the final reason (of many, IMO) we should withdraw from the UN and tell them they have to meet somewhere else - off U.S. soil - from now on.

“To do that he needs two things: Radical Muslim support, and the international left, especially European socialists.”

They’re all his peeps - he’s Muslim, also a “citizen of the world”, and he’s molding our country into the European socialist model. (He hates our ally England, though, but that’s a personal thing going back to his daddy.)


8 posted on 06/29/2011 12:53:46 AM PDT by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Very good piece of writing - thanks, 2DV, for posting it!


9 posted on 06/29/2011 1:06:12 AM PDT by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: llandres

B. Clinton thought he wanted that, too, until he saw all of the money out there with fewer strings and less work attached.


10 posted on 06/29/2011 1:10:25 AM PDT by des
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

excellent column, but the “l’audace” quotation was not Napoleon, it was Georges Danton during the French Revolution:

“Il faut de l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace”

Doesn’t change the points of the Lewis column, but writers are always mis-attributing that quotation for some reason. Danton said it in a speech to the National Assembly, not so long before he himself became a candidate for the guillotine for being insufficiently pure in his extremism!!


11 posted on 06/29/2011 1:16:41 AM PDT by Enchante (May 1, 2011: Death to Bin Laden, Death to Bin Laden..... al Zawahiri is next!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
While the article is full of decent individual points, in regards to it's overall theory, it's a waste of bytes: The UN Secretary General can't come from the one of the countries that sits on the UN Security Council. *

(* - This assumes that Obama wouldn't try to get the job using his Kenyan credentials, or that he wouldn't aim to knock the U.S. off the UN Security Council while he's still sits in the Oval Office....)

12 posted on 06/29/2011 2:21:58 AM PDT by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: llandres

I’ve said that for a year or so also but I’m not so sure it is Sec Gen of the UN.
There are those working on world government and it may be something other than the UN he/we are looking at.

I may be wrong but I have never thought he was going to run in 2012.
He has been smart enough to get most of it done in one term. He can call on Hillary, who is every bit the Marxist as he, to finish the job. They made a deal in 2008 if you remember.


13 posted on 06/29/2011 2:26:43 AM PDT by armourup (Your Doctor is 100% wrong about Lyme Disease.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
That's how Napoleon managed to kill tens of millions of Europeans in his attempt to conquer the world after 1800.

Huh?


14 posted on 06/29/2011 2:38:29 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet; Enchante; Yossarian
This is a very good opinion piece even though some of its power is vitiated by his assertion about Napoleon killing tens of millions of Europeans and, as Freeper Enchante point out, his misquotation of Napoleon on audacity. Also, as Freeper Yossarian points out, he is apparently ineligible to become Secretary-General and, in any event, presuming Obama's career motivation is wildly speculative.

But it is a very important opinion piece because he has laid down several fundamental and key principles.

First he understands Obama as a narcissist which informs all his behavior from childhood through this administration.

Second, he understands that Obama is a Marxist and he understands that that, in turn, implies that he wants one world government, most likely through the United Nations.

Third, he understands that to a radical leftist such as Obama, the United States constitutes the principal obstacle to the achievement of one world government under socialist principles. Ancillary to that understanding is the idea that Israel and Great Britain as two very close allies of the United States also represent impediments to the accomplishment of that dream of one world rule and so they too should be undermined and disparaged.

Fourth, the fundamentalist Islamic jihad seeks the same intermediate goal as do the international radical socialists, the destruction of the United States of America as a significant impediment to one world rule. Incidentally, they regard the United States Constitution as a significant impediment to the destruction of the United States.

Fifth, the narcissism of Obama individually and leftists generally lead them to presume that in the end days after the destruction of the United States they will prevail over Islam. Islam presumes the converse. Both regard the other as useful idiots.

To some degree or other all Marxists are narcissists and that explains why there is such a ferocious infighting among them. Our job, if we wish to save the Republic, is to exploit that tendency.


15 posted on 06/29/2011 3:05:20 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nathanbedford
Concur.

Also, Patton was audacious because he was privy to the take from Ultra and sometimes knew the Germans' order of battle before Berlin did.

Easy to attack when you know exactly where your opponent is weak, according to their own communications. (He raised concern in the Allies' high command that he would compromise Ultra by being so unfailingly *right* in when and where to attack. Thank God the Germans never caught on, being so smug that they thought their code was unbreakable; and thank God for the Poles who helped bring to the West a knowledge of the machine and how it worked.)

Cheers!

16 posted on 06/29/2011 3:05:35 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet; Yossarian

I think Lewis summed up Bambi’s evil personality and his peculiar ability to mentally reconcile conflicting systems (the left and Islam) by focusing on the fact that they both have one thing in common, they hate the US and the modern world (as does Obama).

However, as Yossarian pointed out, he can’t be the UN Secy Genl if he runs from the US because a person from a country that sits on the Security Council can’t hold that position. It’s certainly possible that he could throw off all pretence once he is no longer president and just acknowledge his Kenyan or Indonesian citizenship, or possibly he could even convince the UN to change its rules for him. However, if the UN Secy Genl position is out, then what does he want?

I have also always thought that Obama saw the US presidency as simply a stepping stone on the way to something else, something “bigger,” but I can’t figure out what that something might be.


17 posted on 06/29/2011 3:07:36 AM PDT by livius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
The author may be exactly correct in his thesis; I had thought smaller, president of Kenya for instance, but emperor of the world, via the UN, seems more Zero's piece of cake and would fit nicely with Hillary as president of the World Bank. Moon, now in his second term, could conveniently resign to open the slot at the right time - harder to do if Moon had been replaced, but he was actually ‘unopposed’ and reselected June 21st - fancy that.

what a fight we have before us!

18 posted on 06/29/2011 3:19:01 AM PDT by blueplum
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nathanbedford
. . . as Freeper Yossarian points out, [0] is apparently ineligible to become Secretary-General.

And of course, 0 has always been such a strict observer of eligibility requirements. ;)

First he understands Obama as a narcissist which informs all his behavior from childhood through this administration.

Not to quibble, but his childhood includes this administration.

Obama is a Marxist

I think more that 0 is a cynical pragmatist who embraces Marxism only because it advances himself to do so. He understands he could never advance in the conservative or libertarian camp on his own dubious merit, and therefore must fly the flag which empowers him as a minority. Once he gets where he wants to go, or if it ever hindered his progress, 0 would throw Marxism into the dustbin as readily as he does any 'close adviser' who becomes a liability.

the narcissism of Obama individually and leftists generally [The left presumes] that in the end days after the destruction of the United States they will prevail over Islam.

The left would do well to consider the experience the Weimar Republic had with trying to leverage an ideology to bring down a governemnt. It couldn't control the result in 1917, and the left will not be able to control the result, if they get what they hope for, in 20XX.

19 posted on 06/29/2011 3:26:16 AM PDT by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama may indeed become Secretary General-- but to what avail?

Will the Euro-socialists even have governments by 2017?

20 posted on 06/29/2011 4:30:49 AM PDT by Lysandru
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson