How Dangerous Is Obama?

American Thinker ^ | February 8, 2012 | James Lewis

[neverdem]

It's now quite clear that Obama is playing chicken with Israel on Iranian nukes. That is why Leon Panetta came out with a statement this week accusing Israel of planning to attack Iran. If that statement is true, it's the worst kind of sabotage, undermining the advantages of surprise. If it's false, it is intended to place Israel at the focus of Iranian rage. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

The goal of Obama's nuclear brinkmanship is to drive Israel into making dangerous territorial compromises. This is a Carteresque policy: blame the victim, and arm her enemy. Jimmy Carter enabled Iranian radicalization starting with Ayatollah Khomeini, heedless of the disastrous and possibly genocidal consequences. Carter recently said that an Iranian nuclear weapon was no big deal, as if a nuke in the hands of a suicide-preaching Khomeinist ideology machine is just fine with him. Well, the Saudis know their Iranian enemies a great deal better than Jimmy Carter does, and they are sending their money to Switzerland.

Obama and Carter represent the dangerous "left of the left wing" Democrat foreign policy establishment, the folks who thought we should surrender to the Soviets, who created the retreat from Saigon, and who rationalized the Iran-Iraq War, which killed a million people after Carter allowed Khomeini radicalism to rise in Iran. The destruction caused by left-leftist foreign policy "thought" from the Democrats is immense. Over the years, they have colluded in hundreds of thousands of deaths abroad -- covered up by the mainstream media. They are Lenin's useful idiots, who colluded in 100 million Communist terror victims in the 20th century alone, and they have not changed one little bit.

Such people are dangerous. When they enabled Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward" at the cost of 40 million Chinese lives, all...

[Condor51]

Here are a few examples of what the British did in order to create (in 1914) what is now called Nigeria and what Obama is doing to you: (1 thru 5 points)

Good examples of what 'our historical friend', the Brits, left for everyone to deal with. But let's not forget that the Brits also left the same FUBAR mess in the Middle East that we're dealing with today. Even when giving India their independence they couldn't do that right and left the mess with the newly created Pakistan and the no-mans-land in Kashmir (Jammu and Kashmir) where there's still 'border wars' today.

But our imperialistic Brit friends weren't alone, they had European countries 'Empires' like France, Spain, and Belgium also leaving FUBAR messes in Africa and the ME -- like France with Lebanon ('Beirut, the Paris of the ME'). Then they all had their little colonies in SE Asia, like the Dutch East Indies and my personal fave, French Indochina (thanks for nothing France).

But out of all the European Empires, the Brits left the biggest messes world-wide after WWII, and for the USA to deal with₍₁₎. (Now I'll be labeled an Anglophobe for bad mouthing England, whoop-dee-doo.)

(1) looking back further, I don't see why the USA got involved in WWI. That was a war among European Empires. The 'German-Mexican telegram' was a very poor reason to declare war. Mexico was never a threat - period.

[SJackson]

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[hope]

We have a Kamekaze President.

[ETL]

Why is it that Progressives are always referred to as “intellectuals”

That is only how THEY describe themselves.

The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illinois Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn ("intellectual"), referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers ("intellectual") (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that ["intellectual"] Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html

[Venturer]

Kennedy did face down the crises, but if not for Kennedy we would not have had a crisis in the first place. He sold out Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

[ETL]

0bama is a muslim by birth. raised muslim. the only ‘christian’ in his family. obviously he’s a muslim does he lie about that? of course. islam actually encourages deception when working against its foes.

From AsiaTimesOnline
Feb 26, 2008

"Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. ...

Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.

There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech. ..."

Article: Obama's women reveal his secret
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html

[ETL]

Maybe that’s why Progressives are so warm to Islam

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
by David Horowitz

Amazon Book Review:
"Vastly Illuminating!" September 25, 2004
By Kat Bakhu

"I had long wondered why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. David Horowitz has answered that question thoroughly and convincingly in his Unholy Alliance. Where I felt bewildered and confused, I now feel crystal clear. Unholy Alliance is such a great book.

It begins with the leftist movements at the beginning of the 20th Century, and works its way up to the present day, exploring the anti-American attitude of these movements in detail. Horowitz shows that the enemies of the US back then are largely the same group today, operating under the same misperceptions, making the same mistakes, and pursuing the same impossible utopia.

Individual chapters are included on the Patriot Act (I was persuaded that it is a GOOD thing); the democratic flip-flop on Iraq once G.W. Bush implemented what they agreed with Clinton needed to be done; the driving components of the current anti-war movement; as well as chapters on individual personalities who are major spokespeople of the Left. Horowitz covers a lot of ground, and he covers it concisely and clearly. Unholy Alliance is richly informative without ever being boring or plodding.

This book is so illuminating that I simply cannot do justice to it here. I love people who reason so clearly that they help me get my own reasoning clear. Horowitz is just that type of person! In the terrain of mindless clichés (no-blood-for-oil, etc.), he is a breath of real fresh air."
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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left -by David Horowitz
Not all dissent is equal, and Americans whose actions are calculated to give aide and comfort to the butchers who murdered 3,000 innocent people on September 11, 2001 are not patriotic at all... they are, in fact, quite the opposite.

$18.00 from David Horowitz's website, FrontPageMag.com:
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[DaveA37]

“How Dangerous Is Obama?”

In one word..........EXTREMLY

[MrB]

He's the spearpoint. There was a bunch of preliminary work done to get him where he is, and a lot of "iceberg" under the surface that we don't see.

Agenda: Grinding America Down

[ETL]

"I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it." --Obama, 2008 campaign promise (see above)

Note that he is boasting that he was against the Iraq war even when nearly everyone at the time, including JF Kerry, Hillary, Gore and Ted Kennedy, was convinced Saddam had WMDs and was a serious threat to use them against us or our allies. They and most other dems voted for the war to remove Saddam.

[Nowhere Man]

I really cannot figure out why the rest of America’s citizens has not seen this individual for what he is—a dangerous psychopath who would like nothing better than to see the destruction of a free world.

Who cares? As long as he keeps the gravy train rolling and adding boxcars of goodies to it. That's all they care about. I came to the conclusion that the people who are on the take from the government while being able bodied, are far more dangerous with their votes to this nation than 1000 Mohammed Attas armed with 707's fully loaded with fuel.

[urtax$@work]

"How Dangerous Is"...

Is" and Has Been" would be more accurate. Men have already lost their lives under an unlawful govt.

[Taxman]

Thanks for the post — very important that as many Americans as possible read this article.

Here is my takeaway: “We are ruled by delusional saboteurs who will do anything to destroy our national security on behalf of their dream of international peace — which means international tyranny, of course.”

We must vote Obama and his LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist thugs out of office in November!

[ripley]

Thank you for the reading suggestions! Much appreciated.

Best Regards :>)

[madison10]

Quite dangerous. Autumn of 2007 to the present have been THE LONGEST four years of my life. The U.S. has been taken down the wrong path.

[Bellflower]

How hard would it be to his DNA at one of these places? I wonder what tales it would tell.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

It's now quite clear that Obama is playing chicken with Israel on Iranian nukes.

[tdscpa]

Why do we have a military? Obama has already surrendered to Mexico, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

He would disband the military entirely, if it would not push up his unemployment rate.