Is Obama Making His Next Career Move?

American Thinker ^ | June 29, 2011 | James Lewis

[atc23]

Article has many basic points that are inaccurate. See above this post. Napoleon killing "tens of millions of Euros" That was Hitler and Stalin.

With so much truth out there about Hussein, there is absolutely no need to get basic stuff wrong.

Hussein will be out in 2012, a failed experiment by the left to install a totalitarian "ruler" over Joe Sixpack America.

We survived worse than Hussein. He will be personally rebuked and most of his most egregious stunts will be revoked and repealed.

[Mouton]

In my view, the only next job he is qualified for is right side can puller on sanitation truck number 6 in Alexandra Virginia...and even that would tax his abilties.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Totally agree - best part of the article is to compare the unholy alliance of leftists and muzzies to the Nazi-Soviet pact in WWII. Makes a lot of sense.

The one thing I’d add is this.

If you study the career of Lyndon Johnson it was one of seeing the potential in a position of power and not just seeing how it’s been used in the past. The best and most famous example is the Majority Leader gig in the Senate, which, before LBJ, had no real clout but did when he got done with it.

But even before this he basically did the same thing when he was a congressional aide much earlier in his career when he got himself elected head of some sort of association of congressional aides. This was documented in Caro’s series of biographies on LBJ.

You could argue Hitler did the same thing with the chancellorship in Germany and there are probably many other examples as well.

By analogy, it would be a mistake to measure the potential impact of the Sec Gen gig based on past performance. A calculating politician can basically “buy low sell high”. Insert themselves into a position that has heretofore been mostly ceremonial and figure out a way to transform that position into one of real, perhaps even absolute, power.

[nathanbedford]

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.

It is ironic that it is the left that periodically publishes psychiatric profiles of Republican and conservative candidates to demonstrate their unfitness for public trust because of their mental deficiencies. I believe an empirical investigation into the motivations which impel leftists to become what they are would be a far more fruitful field for the study of man than their junk science analysis of Republican candidates.

My own theory goes right to the subject's narcissism. I often use the analogy of the Skinner Box to illustrate the principle. Skinner demonstrated that he can control animals in a box of his design by rewarding them with pellets for desirable behavior. He even succeeded in getting chickens to play baseball by this method. In a sense Skinner was the God over what went on in his box. It is the primordial urge in mankind which is so vividly described in Genesis to play God which motivates man toward statism. What better box in which to play God than the entire apparatus of the federal government unless, of course, it is rule of the world by one world government?

So Obama is a God player and the solipsism invests him with a feelings of omniscience and omnipotence which we have heard him utter, for example, when he told Harry Reid, "I have a gift." His tolerance of children singing songs to him as though he were Chairman Mao is utterly damning of his psychic condition.

A reading of Whittaker Chambers reveals an insight into the mind of communist apparatchiks which is thoroughly frightening. But one characteristic which I find interesting is the separation between the leaders and useful idiots. Clearly Obama who has been a loner all his life regards himself as a leader who despises the rest of his own party as useful idiots.

This is what I was trying to allude to in the last paragraph of my last post. Stalin must destroy Trotsky. Leftist radicals must eventually destroy or be destroyed by their provisional allies the Islamic fundamentalists. Finally, the Democratic Party-or at least the leaders- must turn on itself like a pack of ravening dogs.

Obama sees himself as the top dog.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"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."

Not to be picky, but the Weimar Republic didn't come into existence until 1919. In 1917 Germany was an imperial monarchy ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm. The Weimar republic was created by a national assembly. I'm not sure what you mean by leveraging an ideaology to bring down a government concerning the German republic created from the ashes of WWI. Are you perhaps somehow referring to the Bolshevics in Russia?

[NoExpectations]

"We survived worse than Hussein. He will be personally rebuked and most of his most egregious stunts will be revoked and repealed."

Wow, I wish I had your confidence.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I like your psychological analysis of marxism. It works.

My longtime held psychological analysis is perhaps a useful adjunct as it is not competing but rather complementary.

Marx’s essential incorrect assumption which I think is subconsciously echoed by adherents and fellow travelers is basically this.

It’s simply one of scale and has to do with emotional ties.

If you think of it the nuclear family is one of many social units where “from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs” not only makes sense but demonstrably works and has for as long as humans have been around.

There are probably other social units (tribes, some voluntary associations) where this in fact works.

The error that the marxists make is quite simply one of extrapolation. If something works on these small scales than of course it will work on a national scale. And of course this has been proven to be false.

But since most everyone has grown up in a family of one sort or another and has directly experienced this arrangement, this is the subconscious appeal of this dangerous ideology. So there is almost a psychological weakness that predisposes many people to believe in the false premises (and promises) of marxism since this error of extrapolation is quite easy to make if one is not intellectually rigorous.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Great analysis in your post 24.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I like your analysis and how forms of socialism works on a smaller scale. Such as families and voluntary associations. However, I would add that the one thing that the socialists miss out on with these smaller groups is the fact that in all of these groups it works because there has been a sense of trust and mutual respect built up amongst it’s members. All of these groups you mention only work in this world of socialism because of that trust and mutual respect. This is impossible to replicate on a national or international level with people of disparate wants, desires and needs.

[liberalh8ter]

Excellent article. I believe this author has Obama’s number. Pray for America and pray for Christians and Jews.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Precisely so - that’s exactly the point.

It’s a bit like those math tricks where you prove that 1 = 2. (or something like that). In those math tricks you divide by 0 but you do it in a clever way and do it symbolically and not explicitly so a lot of folks miss it.

Socialism basically concludes that 1 = 2.

The “proof” that socialism “works” is that “see it works in a family situation”.

The “divide by zero” step is related to your point - that in a family people respect, trust and love each other (not to mention there is the genetic argument that says people want to see their own genes propagate). But like the math paradoxes many people miss this logical sleight of hand.

[McGruff]

Comments? I see a different future career for former President Obama.

He's already got a head start.

[The Theophilus]

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

Maybe that is when he will reveal his true Birth Certificate showing his Kenyan birth and therefore making him eligible.

[DustyMoment]

Is Obama Making His Next Career Move?

Joining the PGA tour starting in December 2012!???

[sergeantdave]

American leftists are cowards. They believe in nothing, and who will stand and fight for nothing?

The American leftists of the 1930s at least had guts to stand and fight. The modern-day American leftist will never do that. He’s already doomed and soon dead but doesn’t realize it, whether muslims or patriots destroy them.

We had a bunch of fat SEIU pigs try to disrupt a Tea Party gathering. When confronted, they ran into a building and locked the door. Then through the windows they started screaming Help! Police! The cops, laughing their butts off, escorted the crybabies away.

Don’t underestimate leftists and never turn your back on one. But will the American left stand and fight face to face? Never.

[The Theophilus]

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.

Those are all interesting observations except this weird belief that the United Nations has any clout or power. I don't see UN missile silos, air-craft carriers or spy satellites. They don't hand out money and control countries nearly as well as the IMF, and the existence of G8 and other more exclusive groups is clear evidence that the real powers only used the UN as a stepping aid to put the united States under the boot heel of Tyranny. In that regard the UN has been barely successful. I believe that is why we are tormented with the likes of the current Regime. The nexus of the Soviet Empire and the UN failed to accomplish what a generation of Marxist policies and sedition from within have managed to do, with the masterpiece of their craft seen in the last few years.

For the very reason that those who lust for power through a UN type vehicle are narcissists, and every diplomat associated with the UN is a narcissist, the clash of egos and ideologies, like in the Muslim world, will be, in effect, its own governor and its own demise.

More importantly, I believe that we are missing the 800# gorilla in the room. Basically the merging of Mark 3:23-26 ("How can Satan cast out Satan") and Ephesians 6:12 (Spiritual warfare) makes for a better template in which to consider the events of our time. A persuasive argument can be made that the subjects of our discussion here are Hell bent on rebelling against each and every command and principle established by God. The common enemy of those in whom we speak, are the true Saints of God, and while they may appear to struggle for dominance, they still have a common goal - and that is the eradication of Christianity and raw uninhibited rebellion against God. In Covenant Theology, eschatological teachings point to a Restoration of Paradise. In view of the Light vs Darkness paradigm ever present in Scripture, it follows that the aim of the underworld is to be the exact opposite and work to be the polar opposite of Paradise. This is the grim reality which we must face.

Dismissing the alien teachings of the Futurists WRT prophecies concerning the Last Days, and viewing present events with orthodox glasses on, an argument can be made that the Gog and Magog are the enemies of God, we can debate if that would include both companies in this discussion namely Progressive/Marxists and Muslims, but the OT descriptions do have an analog throughout Church history even to this present day.

The difference now from then is that in Satan's Groundhog Day repeating of events, replacing what didn't work, and tweaking what seemed to work, instead of a global unity against Christians in the form of religious might (eg. Catholics, Muslims) or in military might (eg. Hitler, Soviet Union) it is coming ideologically and economically. This might be the charm, and Revelation 18:21-24 would seem to indicate this is the final push since the economic world is sprinting headlong into an inevitable thousand years of darkness.

The repeated patterns of history in this regard are the nations coalesce, doom to the Godly people seems imminent, the Church is purified by sword and fire whereas only the remnant remains, and the bad guys fall into chaos and eat each other. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

So the Marxists and the Muslims will coalesce as they have a common enemy, they will purify the Church (witness the millions of Christians slaughtered in the Congo this last decade), likely global in its reach, and one of two things will happen: (1) they will eventually fall into chaos and eat each other plunging the world into a thousand years of Darkness, or (2) this time Satan is unbound for the Mother of All Rebellions, 70AD on steroid, and we witness the Parousia.

History tells us that the survivors are the one who are prepared, not those who plunge lightly armored into the fray where they are immediately cut down.

[thirst4truth]

I once read an article about a syndrome in the business world I think called "Peter Pan"? This is a go getter person that gets a job and immediately wants to move up to the next one, never completing or attaining success in the last position. Many times they are incompetent and if they did not move on quickly, everyone would see they were unable to do the job they just left.

How many "jobs"/positions has BO had and not completed but moves quickly to the next higher level of power?

[redpoll]

>>>>I think this article might be on the right track.<<<<

I agree. The writer does a good job outlining the philosophy behind the behavior. I’m sure that there are a few specifics here and there which won’t match the reality as it unfolds, but a Devil’s bargain between Islam and the Left looks like what is happening.

I feel a little like Athens just before the Battle of Marathon.

God help us.

[Quiller]

You are absolutely correct -- my mistake.

And yes, I was referring to the sealed train that crossed Germany to St. Petersburg, carrying the "virus that would destroy Russia."

The German intent was to use Lenin to destroy Russia through revolution. The result? Yes, Russia was taken out of the picture, but the Ally's loss of WWI, and the success of communism in Europe, argues that leveraging the ideology to destroy the government wasn't exactly what Germany intended.

[SaraJohnson]

Will the Left’s Islamic messiah attempt to rule the world? Yes, if he can. Are these the times for this to happen? God only knows.

For those who don’t understand the danger of the globalist ideology and their culture and attitudes, get with it! Algore is talking about global eugenics and Obama who embraces that social ideology and has named Christians domestic terrorists, molests old ladies and children at the airports without batting an eye, and who hates freedom and places himself above the rule of law, is associated with every sort of dirty bird and gangster, sold weapons to the Mexican cartels who are associated with Hamas, wants to rule the world. The globalists’ ideal world will be hell - even for “smart” limo liberals.