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What kind of president thrives on chaos?
American Thinker ^ | March 25, 2009 | James Lewis

Posted on 03/24/2009 11:47:08 PM PDT by neverdem

Is it conceivable that a president would want matters to get worse?

Lincoln did not pray for a Civil War to befall the country to make him look good; just the opposite. Washington and the Founders did not want the Revolutionary War.  FDR did not actually want to worsen the Great Depression, though he ended up doing just that according to some economic historians.

To be sure, New Deal Democrats deliberately parlayed economic crisis into political opportunities. FDR's sidekick Harry Hopkins never stopped trying to "Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect." The Hopkins formula kept the Democrats in control of Congress for forty years, and now they are trying it again with a trillion-dollar Harry Hopkins Memorial Act. Even European socialists are aghast at our gluttonous Democrats.

Needless to say, the Hopkins formula led to decades of stupid and destructive social policies, devastating Black families that had managed to stay together during the worst years of Dixiecrat oppression in the South, corroding our inner city schools, popularizing abortion and divorce, rationalizing hedonism and drugs, undermining the work ethic, setting women against men, the poor against the rich, illegals against citizens, and phony liberal pacifists against American national security. The Left sprinkles poison seeds wherever it goes -- which is why even Vladimir Putin (!!) just advised us not take the Marxist road to ruin, like Russia did. Imagine that.

What's the actual evidence that Obama is trying to make things worse? At this point, it can only be inferred from his actions and statements. Outright proof of sabotage would trigger a political earthquake. Imagine a White House insider leaking Blackberry emails between Obama and Axelrod about how to make the economic crisis last longer. Imagine evidence coming to light that the five-hour electronic assault on the financial markets on September 17, 2008, was timed to elect Obama. Imagine Rahm Emanuel actually advising the President in a concrete policy discussion, "Never let a crisis go to waste!"

I'm not claiming it's true. It's a question.

Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online seems to be arguing a similar case:

"... the more (investment) value the Obama administration and the Democrat Congress destroy - their demagoguery and fiscally insane policies eviscerating the very tax base needed to pay for their exploding liabilities - the more control they get."  (italics added)  

Here are some relevant facts.

1. Never waste a crisis.

The most cited evidence is Rahm Emanuel's line to never waste a crisis. But it doesn't mean you want to create or prolong a crisis. Lenin famously hoped for things to get worse, so that his revolution would be the only answer in the minds of the people. It is a typical revenge fantasy of out-of-power ideologues, but it is quite another thing to put that revenge fantasy into practice. There is a difference between rage and sabotage.

2. The O budget. 

Nobody knows how many trillions of dollars of money are going to have to be created by the Federal Reserve to buy Treasury obligations, because the Chinese have signaled they're not interested in being repaid in devalued dollars, and are questioning the dollar as a reserve currency. Loss of reserve currency status would substantially weaken United States power.

That is either gross stupidity or actual sabotage. Which is it?

3. Inappropriate giggling.

Even the media are noticing: There is something weird about all the fun this administration is having in a time of national crisis. On Sixty Minutes this week, according to The Politico:

"President Barack Obama said he believes the global financial system remains at risk of implosion with the failure of Citigroup or AIG, which could touch off "an even more destructive recession and potentially depression."

"His remarks came in a"60 Minutes" interview in which he was pressed by Steve Kroft for laughing and chuckling several times while discussing the perilous state of the world's economy."

"You're sitting here. And you're- you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money-' How do you deal with- I mean: explain. . ." Kroft asked at one point."Are you punch-drunk?"

When the lefty media start noticing grossly inappropriate behavior you know you're in trouble. 

The odd laughter did not seem to be a nervous giggle, but rather laughter of someone who sees an irony he knows others won't appreciate, because they don't see the larger game at hand. If they only knew.... If he wants chaos, and all the media and public concern over job losses is beside the point. He is succeeding. They don't get it, but he does.

4. Spreading alarm and scapegoating during a crisis of confidence.

"... Obama made clear that he's afraid the nation hasn't seen the worst of the economic crisis. He said the recession deepened faster than he expected, particularly in terms of job losses." Obama also cited Wall Street's high-risk, high-reward culture as a main cause of the economic meltdown. He took aim at traders and executives in personal terms-saying they need to leave New York for North Dakota or Iowa to appreciate how out-of-whack their pay looks to the average American.

"I mean there were a whole bunch of folks who, on paper, if you looked at quarterly reports, were wildly successful, selling derivatives that turned out to be. . .completely worthless," Obama said, with a chuckle.

I don't know what else to call this, but there is something badly wrong with the tone of Barak Obama going on the Tonight Show to trade gags with Jay Leno, when the market value of American investments has been cut in half. Or calling for "a new era of responsibility" after passing the most grossly irresponsible piece of piggery in American history. Those things are either deeply cynical and malevolent, or deeply out of touch with reality. Either one is bad news for the country.

5. Incompetence or worse in foreign affairs.

"We hope we don't regret our trust in the United States," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said at the Brussels Forum conference to an audience of senior world politicians and experts." He was talking about Obama waffling about the missile shield the US promised to install in Eastern Europe, to defend against Iranian, and if necessary against Russian missiles. The Poles have a history of being betrayed by the West in World War Two and the Cold War. They see a militant Russia again, and Europe is being pathetic. No wonder they are afraid.


"I am afraid Russian generals and even the Russian president continue to threaten us with the deployment of medium-range missiles," Sikorski said. 

The US rep naturally pooh-poohed all those fears.

We'll see what happens.

I don't think we have proof -- yet -- of outright sabotage at the very top. We do have reason to worry.

The time to rein in this administration is right now: All House members are running for re-election, and a third of the Senate. They are raising money and making plans. Democrats are seeing the Obama glamour wearing off so fast that they are getting that terrible sinking feeling: Uh-oh, the Messiah is in trouble.  Americans are not helpless against this president, and conservatives should be working to support the best candidates for Congress at this very moment.


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21 posted on 03/25/2009 12:54:36 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: neverdem
PSYCHOPATH IN A SUIT

Oozing charm and charisma but with no emotional depth; more sizzle than steak. These are the ones who are manipulative and ruthless enough to do whatever it takes and stick the knife into anyone standing in their way. With their finely honed political skills, sharp timing and chameleon-like abilities, they thrive on risk, chaos and upheaval. And they are cold-blooded enough to claim later that they did nothing wrong.

—From THE AGE 2-21-03

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/20/1045638423969.html

22 posted on 03/25/2009 12:57:53 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

Releasing the names of the bonus recipients, knowing that their bonus was legal and approved by the administration was nothing but planned provocation.

They might as well have said ‘let’s make sure they get the bonus and then we can release the information and use it against ‘those dirty capitalists’ -

When I saw that on the ‘news’ in Australia I thought it was one of the most reprehensible acts I had ever seen. But there will be more.


23 posted on 03/25/2009 1:06:22 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: neverdem

They want to destroy capitalism. They want this. They want it much worse.


24 posted on 03/25/2009 1:09:01 AM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Fred Nerks

The plan to award him an honorary Doctorate of Law at the University of Notre Dame appears to be another planned and orchestrated provocation. Things designed to foment strife between different groups. In this case targeting the Catholic Church. It’s like yelling “Fire!” in a crowded movie theater. It will have similar results.


25 posted on 03/25/2009 1:13:53 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

Get your news from Canada.

Americans Largely Silent as Their Nation is Systematically Destroyed
Canada Free Press ^ | March 24, 2009 | JB Williams

Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:47:42 AM by PlainOleAmerican

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213853/posts

At the foundation of personal freedom is the right to make your own decisions, invest and risk your own capital, own your own property and keep that which you are willing to work and sacrifice to earn. It’s called economic freedom, aka capitalism.

But capitalism is public enemy #1 in America today, thanks to decades of class warfare and the art of division via social envy, all for purpose of political gain.

Life, Liberty and the right to individually define and pursue Happiness has been replaced with the right of some to take from others against their will, in the name of a greater common good, better defined as the entitlement mentality.

(from each according to his ability to each according to his need...remember?)


26 posted on 03/25/2009 1:16:47 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: neverdem
“Inappropriate giggling”

More akin to a sinister laughter.

“When the lefty media start noticing grossly inappropriate behavior you know you're in trouble.”

“I don't think we have proof — yet — of outright sabotage at the top. We do have reason to worry.”

“Proof”? The proof is in the pudding. Anyone who didn't see the agenda of this reprobate from the moment he stepped onto the stage, is mentally deficient.

At this moment, I am compelled to open my veins and bleed out what I believe in my patriot heart and mind to be true.

America is in dire, dire, straights right now. Our enemies have seized control of our nation and we are in one hell of a fix. Some might think that we will vote these people out of office eventually, and then we'll get our country back on the right track. I'll say this...if this THING, that is occupying our White House at the present time...is allowed to serve one full term...then you and I will never vote in a presidential election again. I pray that I'm wrong, but mark my words. "Those that make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK

27 posted on 03/25/2009 1:27:31 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness.)
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To: Markos33
occupying our White House at the present time...is allowed to serve one full term...then you and I will never vote in a presidential election again.

Amnesty is bubbling about in Congress right now. If that becomes law then it doesn't matter if there are elections in which we can vote or not. 20-40 million new socialist-Democrats will not end elections but they will make elections into mere formality. Add a DOJ-backed and lavishly financed ACORN(which is already in place) and it is easy to see that after Amnesty no Republican will ever again be elected to a national office and the number elected to local offices will decline rapidly.

28 posted on 03/25/2009 6:16:51 AM PDT by arthurus ( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

One who doesn’t know how to do anything else.


29 posted on 03/25/2009 6:21:26 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: GeronL
They want to destroy capitalism. They want this. They want it much worse.

Unfortunately I agree with you. He smiles because many in the country buy into this liar's madness. Destroy the successful to get control of the country and the world.

30 posted on 03/25/2009 7:27:09 AM PDT by BILL_C (ANSWER Palin is unqualified with SO IS OBAMA, but Gov.Palin is all American, and is NOT A MARXIST!)
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To: neverdem

We elected our first black president
and
We got our first US monarch -
Barack I.


31 posted on 03/25/2009 7:53:08 AM PDT by syriacus (Who else but a sociopath attempts gallows humor in front of his victims?)
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To: neverdem

It’s even worse than you think. Obama isn’t planning for electoral victory in 2012. He isn’t even planning for his party’s electoral victory in 2010. He knows he won’t be reelected. He knows his party will suffer huge losses in 2010. He is determined to do as much damage as possible in these first two years, so much damage as to be irreversible.

An enormous clue came last week when Obama was hosting Gordon Brown. The off the cuff snubs he heaped on Mr. Brown were not accidental. They were deliberate, planned to insult in an unmistakable way. This was a backhanded slap at England itself. Obama doesn’t hate Gordon Brown. He hates England, the colonial oppressor. The key to Obama is his father, an anti-colonial Kenyan Mau-Mau. This is the true face of Obama. And he doesn’t just hate England. He hates America and he’s giving us the back of his hand just as he’s doing it to England. And we don’t realize it. That’s why he’s laughing. He knows if things get bad enough he might be able to pull off a Hugo Chavez style coup d’etat using his new “Youth Corps” for the purpose. Obama is a true Leninist revolutionary who managed to ride a tidal wave of public enthusiasm right into the White House.

He must be exposed as the foreign usurper he is or this country is doomed. He is the Trojan Horse which we have pulled through our gate.


32 posted on 03/25/2009 8:25:26 AM PDT by Call_Me_Ishmael_33319
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To: neverdem
Cloward-Pivin on steroids.
33 posted on 03/25/2009 9:02:06 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Thanks for the link.

I have worked with psychopaths.

The worst in the workplace are females, as they can usually manipulate the managers, who are still mostly men, very skillfully.

But I am aware that your reference here is 0bama.

34 posted on 03/25/2009 11:45:05 AM PDT by happygrl (BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
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To: Fred Nerks

Like this ?

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5974253.ece


35 posted on 03/25/2009 11:47:15 AM PDT by happygrl (BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
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To: neverdem
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36 posted on 03/25/2009 11:50:25 AM PDT by Canedawg (Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny- M. Levin)
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To: Call_Me_Ishmael_33319

Hear, hear, and hurl, hurl.


37 posted on 03/25/2009 12:05:38 PM PDT by txhurl (ralph...history books will read: Lincoln freed the slaves & Obama enslaved the free.)
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To: Call_Me_Ishmael_33319
He hates America and he’s giving us the back of his hand just as he’s doing it to England. And we don’t realize it. That’s why he’s laughing. He knows if things get bad enough he might be able to pull off a Hugo Chavez style coup d’etat using his new “Youth Corps” for the purpose. Obama is a true Leninist revolutionary who managed to ride a tidal wave of public enthusiasm right into the White House.

He must be exposed as the foreign usurper he is or this country is doomed. He is the Trojan Horse which we have pulled through our gate.

You have really hit on something.

I don't know enough to say whether 0bama is a narcissist or a psychopath.

But I do believe that he has never really identified with America.

He spent formative years in a foreign country, attending a foreign school, practicing a foreign religion.

When he lived in NYC attending Columbia, his friends were almost entirely South Asian Muslims.

He then became a Community Organizer in Chicago, attacking as an outsider the political powers-that-be.

He joined a fringe outside-the-mainstream-Christianity Church.

He sees many of us as "bitter clingers to guns and religion."

He does not identify with us Americans at all.

For these reasons alone, regardless of any psychopathy, he is the most dangerous man ever elected to the presidency.

38 posted on 03/25/2009 12:24:42 PM PDT by happygrl (BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
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To: happygrl

On another thread I expounded on how both 0 and Michael Jackson are media creations, bob-sledded through life by A&R men, whose protection and exploitation of these golden boys produced ‘men’ suffering from classic cases of narcissism and paranoia.

Turns out 0 rifles through Michelle’s wardrobe - WTF?


39 posted on 03/25/2009 12:32:52 PM PDT by txhurl (ralph...history books will read: Lincoln freed the slaves & Obama enslaved the free.)
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To: happygrl; Call_Me_Ishmael_33319; LucyT

And just like Lenin, obama wants the the REVOLUTION to be world-wide, he’s not happy just to destroy the US:

Anti-capitalist group boasts of attack on Sir Fred Goodwin’s home

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5974253.ece


40 posted on 03/25/2009 3:01:16 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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