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Obama’s Big Reason for Going Small
National Review ^ | October 28, 2012 | Stanley Kurtz

Posted on 10/29/2012 11:39:50 AM PDT by Snuph

Why is President Obama casting aside the dignity of his office and sacrificing his likeability (his real firewall) with such a silly and tawdry closing campaign? Big Bird, binders, bayonets, bulls*****r, Romnesia, Lena: Why triple-down on triviality when it seems so counterproductive? It’s as if Obama were flashing a great big Biden-sneer at half the country. Is this any way to win an election, much less govern a nation afterwards? Actually, from Obama’s point of view, the answer is emphatically yes. The president’s campaign may look small, yet its ambitions are large. That is the BFD that voters had best understand before Election Day.

The binder thing looks desperate, of course, and in part it is. The Obama campaign can only hype a war on women with the materials Romney and the Republicans provide. The pickings so far have been slim, but don’t let Obama’s tactical failures distract you from the vaulting ambition of his strategy. Obama isn’t just going for a win. He’s shooting for a “realignment.” Obama is trying to shape a new kind of electorate, creating a long-term Democratic majority that would allow him and his successors to stop catering to the center and finally govern decisively from the left.

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1 posted on 10/29/2012 11:39:50 AM PDT by Snuph
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Obama is just throwing everything they can, like the guy out of bullets throwing his gun, a garbage can, and, eventually, a red solo cup...in vain.


2 posted on 10/29/2012 11:43:15 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: Snuph
Obama is trying to shape a new kind of electorate, creating a long-term Democratic majority that would allow him and his successors to stop catering to the center and finally govern decisively from the left.

Big Bird and Binders are going to get him there HOW exactly??


3 posted on 10/29/2012 12:37:57 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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The primary, that is the main or perhaps principle reason for going small is that he couldn’t go large.

It might be called pragmatic marxism.


4 posted on 10/29/2012 12:51:29 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: Snuph
Obama is going small amount because his options have inevitably narrowed but they have been narrowing since before he made his State of the Union speech after the 2008 election. At that time we knew he would not deviate from his Marxist course.

He did not fail deviate out of ignorance, he knew how Bill Clinton had survived under the same circumstances and Obama chose to go in the opposite direction, courting greater risk. Why? What made Barack Obama persists in his in-your-face leftism?

Obama could not abandon his great gamble to socialize America any more than Hitler could refrain from starting World War II to advance his agenda described in Mein Kampf. These narcissists are compelled to act out their fantasies believing that they are uniquely anointed to do so. They believe in their own destinies just as they believe in their own powers to persuade and dominate.

Obama could not abandon his personal jihad against America any more than Hitler could abandon his murderous hatred of Jews.

Almost 3 years ago on November 17, 2009 I posted this reply:

I think he is a narcissist who survives and prospers not by addressing problems but by manipulating people. Narcissists like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama are not stupid, they are wonderfully clever and exceedingly effective in reading their victims and manipulating them.

I think that Barack Obama has a worldview provided to him, posthumously, by Saul Alinsky which gives him a framework for analysis. In other words, Obama does not "analyze", rather he "sorts" and puts data into their appropriate slots provided by the philosophy of Saul Alinsky. He has learned a vocabulary which enables him to contrive a front of effectiveness, a seriousness of purpose and depth of character which is all a sham.

Think of Barack Obama as the professional coordinator at an Alinsky meeting. For those old enough, think of Barack Obama as the leader of an EST meeting of the 1970s. These experiences give him an eschatology, a vocabulary, a forensic ability to manipulate, and ego satisfaction. What was he doing as editor of the Harvard Law Review if he was not producing actual work? He was acting out as a community organizer with the shtick modified to fit a new venue. If one examines his career at every level the pattern is the same. As a constitutional law lecturer he produced no written work but he was evidently perfectly fit to the culture of the law school. In the Illinois Senate he voted present but ingratiated himself with the Daley machine. He barely passed go in the United States Senate but he knew the vocabulary and he passed muster with the likes of George Soros. In each instance, Barack Obama behaves as a narcissist, very shallow, producing no work product, but selling a great package.

If one takes away the Marxist belief system provided to him or reinforced in every step of his development from his mother to Frank Marshall Davis, to Columbia University, the Harvard Law school, William Ayres, to Reverend Wright, one is left with a truly hollow man. That is why Obama is such a dangerous ideologue. There is no Obama apart from a lifelong sham, a compensation for always being advanced beyond his competence because of his race and his ability to manipulate. He simply cannot stop the act and get off stage because there is nothing but the act.

Obama is a man without a soul and without a spiritual compass. His relationship to Reverend Wright reveals that he has no real spiritual quality to him for there could hardly be a more rank apostasy than in the church which he attended for 20 years. It has nothing to do with spirituality and everything to do with ego satisfaction. It is the opposite of the Judeo-Christian message.

Obama cannot abandon his radicalism because there is no other there there. He is a massive compensation system. His body is a life-support system for his narcissism and the narcissism is utterly dependent on the received wisdom from Saul Alinsky and the rest of them.


5 posted on 10/29/2012 1:10:05 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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