Very well said, Jeff.
Yesterday on Fox I head someone (can't recall who) talking about how 'inept' this president has been. For a change -- because it doesn't happen very often -- Dinesh D'Souza (the author of 'Obama's America', on which the new movie '2016' is based) vehemently disagreed, stating that the president is achieving exactly what he wants, because his genuine goals are diametrically opposed to the ones he says he plans to achieve. It was refreshing to finally hear someone say that.
All a person has to do is look at the church the president attended for 20+ years -- Trinity United Church of Christ, where he was married, and where his children were baptized. Jeremiah Wright is a follower of Black Liberation Theology, a religion that sees America's successes and prosperity as having been achieved on the backs of minorities and the weak. It virtually ignores the hard work, vision, inventiveness, and leadership that caused this country to become the most moral and prosperous in the history of mankind, and focuses instead on nurturing a victim mentality. And, as would follow, a guilt mentality on the part of the country he leads.
Obama, as a member of Wright's congregation, both absorbed and disseminated the idea that America should be ashamed of her prosperity. All one has to do is look at his policies -- from his energy policies, which demand America's adherence to 'green energy' programs (while the rest of the world answers to no one), harming our industries, our energy production and our job situation ... to his refusal to close our borders, and his granting of amnesty to non-citizens ... to his disastrous policies in the Middle East ... and everything in between.
All of this president's policies have been aimed at reducing the personal liberties of the citizenry, burying business and industry under a mounatin of regulation, and distributing our wealth and our expertise globally. It doesn't really matter whether he is seeking to 'punish' our country because of the perceived 'injustices' we have caused over the past two centuries, or whether he simply wants to cause a perverted kind of 'parity' between us and the rest of the world. He exhibits an allegiance to a global mentality -- something that is beyond dangerous for an American president to embrace.
Whatever his reasoning -- his church beliefs, his Marxist mentors, etc. -- his presidency has been detrimental to America. And purposefully so.
~ joanie
Amen Joanie. Obama was raised by leftists...in a very disfunctional way. His mother moved around from one man another and one third world country to another. As it turns out, she left Soeto in Indonesia because he ended up embracing the free market and capitalism and soe could not countenance it...filling the young Barry with progressive visions of his “real” father, Barack, who was a committed and to the end leftist who hated the west and viewed England and America as Colonial powers that had pillaged his country and needed to be brought down.
Alamo-Girl, Gail and I saw 2016 too this last Saturday. I encourage everyone to see that film, as Joanie says, based on the book. In it we find out why Obama will not help his own half brother living in Kenya in a literal tin shack. Iit is because his brother does not subscribe to marxism, and sees clearly that had the Eurpeans been left to run the country until a more normal transition could occur, which would have included the free market, Kenya would be far better off than it is today. He points to other nations who did that and indicates how bustling they are and how their standard of living is far greater than what has resulted out of the socialist revolution (help guided by his own father) that took Kenya and has left it a poor third world country. His brothjer may live in a shack, but he is very intelligent and sees clearly.
It is clear that this is why President Obama will have little or nothing to do with his brother. Barack Obama not only adopted his father’s name, but he willfully adopted his father’s dreams and goals. That is why his book is entitled, “Dreams from my Father.”
And this after his own relatives (half brothers and sisters), informed hiom of how abusive his father was, and how unfaithful he was to several wives (all living at the same time) and their children whom were born of him.
In keeping with his willful decision, he gravitated to Black Liberation Theology which aligns with his anti-American, anti-colonial beliefs and his hatred for the systems upon which they are founded. Understanding this about the man explains everything he has done and is doing.
Thank you, Joanie, for your rsponse here. If you get a chance, please also look at the thread I posted here on FR about the American Turnaround beginning in 2012. This country and its businesses are literally waiting, and holding back capitol (as well they should) until they see what this election brings. If Romney and Ryan are elected, you will see a literal boom from all segments of the economy as they anticipate the cut in taxes, regulations, and a business friendly atmposphere that will be ushered in.
Which will lead to more jobs, cheaper energy, a growing and healthy market, and the end of Obama Care which would stifle every bot of that along with this Kenyan Marxists other initiaiteve.
God’s speed and blessings to you both.
America is indeed at the corssroads of History
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
Exactly, dear sister in Christ! And whenever he fails to achieve his stated goals, he blames someone else for it every time. (He's really not responsible for the accelerating disorder of our society, you see: Bush did it!)
Indeed, this is the "secret of 0Bama's success," and why I call him a Black Magician.
0Bama's "rhetoric" is designed to conceal what he is actually up to. Just like a magician, who uses techniques of misdirection to divert attention from the actual "trick" being performed, so that you are spending all your time looking at his right hand, so as never to see all the mischief that his left hand is doing.
"Watch the birdie!!!" over here, and you will never see what of the magician's intent is actually going on. The success of the trick DEPENDS on this sort of misdirection of attention.
He conceals himself behind his WORDS, while his actual DEEDS go largely unnoticed — by an audience which wants to be persuaded by the magician, which wants his "tricks" to work, and aren't all that curious about the actual details of the performance. They have a willingness to "suspend disbelief" when it comes to this guy.
The Left has a habit of always blaming the other guy for what they are themselves doing. In this way they hope to "innoculate" themselves against all just criticism.
I wonder: How much longer will the American people allow themselves to be routinely deceived like this?
We may get our answer, on November 6th.
Dear joanie, thank you ever so much for your (as usual) eloquent voice in these matters.