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Obama's Fate
American Thinker ^ | February 12, 2014 | J.R. Dunn

Posted on 02/12/2014 1:04:11 AM PST by neverdem

It's no surprise that Barack Obama's authoritarian streak is revealing itself at last. It was always there; clearly apparent in his rhetoric (e.g., his envy of Chinese president Xi Jin-ping's powers), his abuse of executive orders, his threats against Congress, his sultan with fly-whisk attitudes toward his opposition, and even his vacations, which reek more of third-world trash gamboling on the Riviera than any American leader (George W. Bush settled his mind by clearing brush in Texas, Reagan at his ranch in Santa Barbara. Obama unfortunately finds the brush already cleared in Martha's Vineyard and Hawaii.) The sole question that remains is how anyone can deny it.

Obama comes by his attitude toward government honestly enough. Just before the 2012 election I published a piece here at AT analyzing Obama's political background. He spent most of his formative years in Indonesia, exposed almost exclusively to the influences of Indonesian culture -- Islam, mass public corruption, and a political system based on two-fisted authoritarianism. Obama's political heritage is rooted in the postwar Islamic strongman role pioneered by Gamel Abdul Nasser, the leader of Egypt from 1953 to 1970, and then refined by numerous other such figures, including Achmed Sukarno and Mohammed Suharto of Indonesia.

Sukarno was a colorful leader who controlled a populist coalition of the military, the peasants, and the intelligentsia (among them a powerful communist party), through a three-ring political circus in which the main attraction was Sukarno's never-ending one-man battle against the West. After nearly two decades of this, the country was in serious danger of going into the dumpster -- Sukarno had pulled Indonesia out of the UN and was kissing up to the Chinese, in the process turning ever larger sections of government over to the local communists. This lost him the military, always a mistake...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; obama; obamacare; zerocare
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1 posted on 02/12/2014 1:04:11 AM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem
It's no surprise that Barack Obama's authoritarian streak is revealing itself at last.

At last? Hasn't this dip stick's authoritarian streak been showing for, oh let's say, close to 6 years now?

2 posted on 02/12/2014 1:16:24 AM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: neverdem

Save


3 posted on 02/12/2014 1:16:28 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: neverdem

Makes sense to me.....


4 posted on 02/12/2014 1:18:55 AM PST by woofie
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To: neverdem

Later


5 posted on 02/12/2014 1:26:23 AM PST by I_be_tc
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To: neverdem

A very good article.

Obama’s scary, but what scares me even more are the fools who think he’s doing just fine and think they should fear conservatives instead.


6 posted on 02/12/2014 1:26:57 AM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: neverdem

Well. The author was brave to write this piece, and AT to publish it. Every word of it is true, though I’m not as sanguine as to how far Hussein might try to go.


7 posted on 02/12/2014 1:28:10 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Bullish
Obama’s scary, but what scares me even more are the fools who think he’s doing just fine and think they should fear conservatives instead.

Very Scary !!

8 posted on 02/12/2014 1:28:23 AM PST by onona (The entitlement army doesnÂ’t vote for candidates, they vote for gravy.)
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To: neverdem

I hope he’s right and feel he is, but who knows? And what will trigger it?


9 posted on 02/12/2014 1:33:09 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author says something minor will trigger an avalanche upon him. He mentions some possibilities but if I’m reading right it’s Divine Intervention he’s depending on. Could be.


10 posted on 02/12/2014 1:37:33 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: John W

What caused the Arab Spring? The fall of the Iron Curtain?


11 posted on 02/12/2014 1:41:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: neverdem; CAluvdubya; Ms. AntiFeminazi
Obama has only one fate. Most people have not taken notice of this fact. I am an historian, soon to be published later this year. I have taken the last seven years to study what was in our Founding Fathers brains when they came up with those three most wonderful documents.

My study has given me the perspective as to how deeply George Washington understood his Oath of Office. He took special care to devise the formula by which all presidents would follow as they were "inaugured" as the executive of our country. He laid out the Oath carefully because he wanted to pull down as many blessings from God as was humanly possible. He also warned presidents following him about the seriousness of the Oath in his Farewell Address.

The Oath of Office is a solemn oath. It specifically and solemnly calls on God to witness the event. And because God can not be witness to a lie, if he is forced to witness the person's deceit, that person brings down curses upon himself.

By design Obama lied to us and forced God to witness this lie. The lie was that he had absolutely no intention of fulfilling his Oath. And as a result he incurred curses upon himself that he can not rescind.

Obama's fate is that he is cursed.

12 posted on 02/12/2014 1:42:12 AM PST by Slyfox (We want our pre-existing HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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To: neverdem

I’d like to see his “fate” behind bars or seeking asylum from his muzzies buds.


13 posted on 02/12/2014 1:54:52 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: All

I have learned you can’t muse on some issues, lest it gets deleted. so lets just say, for those who think its only Obama who wants to turn us into a Marxist state, you’d be mistaken.


14 posted on 02/12/2014 2:06:19 AM PST by willywill
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To: neverdem

Because of Obamacare, Obama is already seen as a loser, a buffoon. And then there are conservatives, who see him as evil.

Bad things have to actually happen, for liberals to come to any conclusion. You know, the donkey and the two-by-four.

The 2014 mid terms perhaps? Obama has destroyed his party, and this November they will be able to quantify the damage.


15 posted on 02/12/2014 2:06:58 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: neverdem
The Furies will be unleashed. In the same way that an avalanche is unleashed by a mere footstep, events will spin out of control, impossible to stop or direct. The forces have been building up for years. Eventually, they will burst forth. When that happens, there will be nothing human that can stop them.

Let me help. Whoosh!


16 posted on 02/12/2014 2:14:26 AM PST by 867V309 (I love potatoes-except, of course, Lena Dunham)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Part of it was rebellion by the oppressed.


17 posted on 02/12/2014 2:42:08 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: neverdem

The ODS is thick with JR Dunn.../ S


18 posted on 02/12/2014 2:47:21 AM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: freeangel
"I’d like to see his “fate” behind bars or seeking asylum from his muzzies buds."

I'll take the behind bars, no asylum for the creep.

19 posted on 02/12/2014 2:48:06 AM PST by DeaconRed (The Cajuns in LA have a saying for ZERO and his minions: Hooky Junk)
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To: LucyT

Ping


20 posted on 02/12/2014 2:51:14 AM PST by maggief
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