Drink another glass of Kool Aid --- On Thu, 9/3/09, Geoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Geoff <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [OT] He's Not Jimmy Carter > To: "'ProFox Email List'" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 10:57 PM > < I hope I'm wrong. > > - Bob> > > so do we, but unlike you, we live with self-evident truth > that you are > wrong. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf > Of Bob Calco > Sent: Friday, 4 September 2009 12:22 PM > To: 'ProFox Email List' > Subject: [OT] He's Not Jimmy Carter > > http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/03/tk > > - - - > Conservatives are taking too much solace in the precipitous > drop in Barack > Obama's approval ratings, and too many of us are > overconfident that his > administration is merely a replay of the hapless presidency > of Jimmy Carter > that was easily swept out in a landslide election. > > Today's situation is far different, far more conducive to > our political > adversary's political power, than that which faced Carter. > And Obama is an > entirely different breed of cat. He's more ruthless, more > tactically savvy, > and has far more dangerous objectives. A drop in his poll > ratings isn't as > serious a setback for him as similar occurrences were for > the peanut farmer > from Plains. > > ... > > More important than all that, though, is that Obama's > personal skills, aims, > and training are like nothing we have ever seen before in > the White House. > Every other president before him has intended at most to > achieve change > within the American political system. Obama wants to change > the system > itself. He is a radical's radical, with an authoritarian > impulse. His > Alinskyite training means that social unrest doesn't > unnerve him; it plays > right into his hands. Social unrest is both his modus > operandi and his > mid-term goal. The more unrest, the greater the crisis; the > greater the > crisis, the more excuse he has to use and consolidate > central power in order > to completely remake society. > > And unlike Carter or most other Democratic presidential > nominees of the past > 45 years, Obama has tremendous oratorical skills. Sure, > Bill Clinton could > please lots of audience members with small promises, but he > did not possess > half the ability to inspire people (however misguidedly) > that Obama does. > Obama has the talent to raise demagoguery to an art form. > > Already we see a cult of personality around Obama, one > deliberately > encouraged by the Obama political operation. Already we see > him push for > centralizing, fascistic economic powers. Already we see him > creating "a > civilian national security force that's just as powerful, > just as strong, > just as well-funded" as the regular military, complete with > uniformed youths > (and even senior citizens) formed into "cadres." And in > order to make > AmeriCorps less answerable to the public, Obama fired the > Inspector General > trying to blow the whistle on nefarious AmeriCorps > activities. Now he is > using AmeriCorps and the National Endowment for the Arts to > politically > agitate for his "recovery agenda." > > And that's not to mention the Big Brother-like data-mining > and reporting of > "casual conversations" to a White House website, or the > creepy address to > all the nation's school children -- or the continued public > trashing, by the > permanent Obama campaign known as Organizing For America, > of ordinary > citizen protesters as "Right-Wing Domestic > Terrorists." > > Obama also is politicizing the Census; giving contracts to > ACORN; letting a > recognized hate group like the New Black Panthers go free; > undermining the > CIA at every turn, radicalizing the Supreme Court; > re-orienting the civil > rights division of the Justice Department; appointing more > "czars" than > anybody can keep track of and who, unlike Cabinet members, > do not answer to > Congress; resisting transparency on TARP bailout funds; > refusing to enforce > financial reporting requirements on union political > organizers; and doing > all sorts of other things designed, as are the items above, > to consolidate > power, tilt the deck, and rig the political rules in his > favor for the long > haul. > > In foreign affairs, his radicalism is even more apparent. > He keeps > undermining allies while embracing enemies. He deliberately > undercut the > brave protesters in Iran. He stubbornly continues to punish > Honduras and its > citizens, via economic and travel sanctions, because > Honduras actually > followed its own Constitution in removing a harshly > anti-American president > from office -- when he should have been rewarding Honduras > for its > commitment to the rule of law. Yet while he punishes > friendly Hondurans, he > refuses to punish radical leftist Ecuadorean president > Rafael Correa when > Correa's government tries to shake down an American company > for $27 billion. > It's all very bizarre. One wonders what exactly his agenda > is. But it's > clearly something the likes of which we've never seen. > Again, the comparison > with Carter's foreign policy is telling. Carter's was full > of woolly-minded, > pie-in-the-sky idealism, but it didn't deliberately > mollycoddle sworn > enemies. Obama's, on the other hand, portrays Obama to the > world as if Obama > himself is more admirable than the nation he supposedly > represents -- a > nation for which he continually apologizes. This attempt, > so far quite > successful, to garner personal, worldwide glorification is > another gambit > for power. Again, it makes him nobody for domestic > political adversaries to > trifle with. It gives him tools never enjoyed by the Jimmy > Carter who was > burned in effigy by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his pals in > 1979 and 1980. > - - - > > Obama is a threat to our lives, not just our way of life. > > Seems more people are starting to realize it. Too late. > > I hope I'm wrong. > > - Bob > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
