Age is north of 68 and tested IQ north of 135 but that doesn’t matter. The constitution, bill of rights and virtually all founding documents were written to be clear to everyone.
Before 1994 we were dealing with things like the renovation of Tip Oneal’s office bathroom, not to the largest spending orgy in the history of the world — probably including the Great Pyramid, King Solomon’s Temple and the Ziggurat of Ur (Tower of Babel) - all adjusted to today’s dollars:-o)
John Maynard Keynes was a socialist whose theories were written primarily to provide an interventionist rational to make marxist/communist thought and policies marketable in the west.
A crude but realistic analogy would be a con man who goes to Vegas and buys a stack of chips with a hot check in hopes that he can win a fortune at the tables before the check bounces and the sheriff shows up.
In the Obamanomics version of Keynes the plan is to try to write a hot check so large that the bank will cash it anyway for fear the casino will go bankrupt and default on it’s mortgage from the bank.
People we better quit exchanging zingers and think about this. Regardless of whether you adore Obama or hate him, he is, as far as we know, the least qualified president ever elected.
By his own account, as described in his biography, in his formative years he was drawn to and his political values shaped by marxist.
A major intellectual mentor was a communist poet.
His religious mentor was the wacko “black liberation” theologian Jeremiah Wright.
He served on the board of the Joyce Foundation which supports in whole or in part virtually every anti-gun statistics data mill operation from Violence Policy to the Brady Campaign.
He is a university graduate, but his records are sealed.
He is presumably a citizen, but Hawaii says his birth certificate cannot be released without his permission.
He says he believes in the constitution and bill of rights, but thinks the constitution should not be permitted to restrict the power of the federal government— exactly what it was written to do.
He says he believes in the first amendment, but thinks the government should enact legislation to silence public criticism from citizens.
He says he supports the second amendment, but you can quickly document almost 50 direct statements and actions he has made against it and, so far as I have been able to find, not a single word for it outside of the campaign.
The list is, or at least promises to be, endless.
Like his messiah prototype, his birth is shrouded in mystery and myth, his childhood is veiled in uncertainy and legend and can probably not be factually verified and even if it can it won’t be because of the potential catastrophic effect on the vision of hope he gives to the thousands who flock to be spellbound by his oratorically stunning and deceptively simple message of deliverance from their oppression. They don’t even have to actually do anything to earn it — just a simple profession of faith (and a vote)
Well he is now ensconced on the mount but it remains to be seen whether he will be able to walk on water or feed the multitude with the few rotting fishes remaining after Barney Frank, Dodd and their fellow Sanhedrin and the other moneychangers in the temple have eaten all they can hold.
Add to it that there is some evidence that “his oratorically stunning and deceptively simple message of deliverance from their oppression” may have delivered using NLP/hypnosis techniques, which would be mass manipulation of the highest order. How transparent!
In addition, he spoke of “changing American”; “remaking America”; “creating a new Declaration of Independence”, “ridding ourselves of old ways of thinking and outdated ideologies”, etc. Given the history you cited, it is hard to see these statements is mere political rhetoric.