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Neo-Neocon notices some things unflattering to our current President…and yet, of interest to all sorts of ordinary citizens, at all kinds of points across the political spectrum:
Left and Right alike, people are busy asking the question “Who is Obama, what is he?”
I cannot recall another president about whom this question could be asked so often and with such great urgency. To be sure, some of them gave us unpredictable moments, or favored policies that surprised us (think Nixon and China). Some of them changed while in office, such as the pre-9/11 vs. the post-9/11 George Bush.
But in some essential way, we knew who each president was and what he stood for, even if we might heartily disagree with every bit of his agenda or even dislike him personally. Obama is the first president we’ve ever had about whom many of us are beginning to suspect he has been lying not just about this or that topic, but about his very essence: who he is and what he wants for America.
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Richard Fernandez notes the Obama pattern that is emerging:[A] President can’t be like an onion without creating problems. He sends a variety of signals to his supporters, to his enemies, to the ordinary citizens of the country. And every leader — even Stalin and Hitler to use extreme examples — had an implicit duty to be consistent. Consistently bad, maybe, but consistent. So supporters and enemies could know which end was up.
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Maybe I’m making too much of it, and it is just my personal opinion, but I’ve always felt there was something that I wasn’t quite getting about the President. It’s there, just on the edge of vision. And then it’s gone. One day I’ll see it clearly, but it’s an elusive thing.
I don’t see any note of this made in NN’s writings, or in her excerpts, or in her links…from what I’ve sampled…maybe it’s there and I missed it.
But what scares the piss out of me is this: President “Barry Sottero” is, within the pool of knowledge that is at my command, the very first President of the United States — ever — to have gone under a plurality of names. A generation ago, this would have been unthinkable…for a POTUS, anyway. And a century ago it would have been a disgrace. Public-service-honor and personal-honor were inseparable; and ambiguity, of any kind, lacked compatibility with either one.
So even if you’re in love with the hardcore-lefty politics. The question stands: What in the hell are we doin’?
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Obama is a true fellow travellor. He believes America is a dangerous force, and that a world more equal and similar is a less dangerous world.
Since the world cannot simply be raised except as America once demonstrated in raising it, which is unacceptable, America will be diminished to meet the world as it’s wealth is spread.
He really has no idea what will happen in that event. He is also a true narcissist.
Obama has been as clear as he can allow himself to be to our late enemies: do nothing to attack or provoke America, or he will not be able to take care of things on pace. It’s been quite a pace.
But can so many enemies be trusted to follow Napoleon’s advice?
- jamzw | 09/21/2009 @ 20:22‘Never interrupt our enemy when he is making a mistake.’
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An overreaching, self hatred, self flogging, white guilt, we’re global citizens no better than impoverished soon to be jihadis, using all the worlds resources, war is bad, Bush lied, spread the wealth, capitalism left us behind, post racial mental breakdown coupled with an overabundance of psychoactive drugs meant to “calm” us down because we’re all “too stressed”, let’s be happy and text each other while driving what we just ate for lunch on our way home to watch the latest Youtube video of some dumbass who makes us fell smarter in comparison.
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