I would not be surprised if Obama trumps up a way to suspend elections until whatever emergency he engineered was "over".  Kind of makes me nervous sharing a border.

It is a sad day in hell when Canada has to sell its oil to the Chinese who pay full price as Obama stalls and stalls over enabling the USA to buy it at a 25% discount.  No no no he would rather enable OPEC nations to throttle every dime out of the US and use that money to kill Americans abroad.

Now he uses excecutive order to enable this minimum wage fiasco which of course will tank the economy even further.  No surprize there after he bailed out GM communist manifesto style!

Obama you have made Gramsci giggle in his grave.

I feel the same way.  I hate finding myself leaning towards conspiracy theorist's fevered positions, but there I am.  The deep bow to the Saudi King was easy to explain... He just thinks that if he is personable and respectful the world will fall in love with him.  And with failing to utter one syllable for nearly two weeks when the people of Iran were being killed in the streets while trying to change their government... well, maybe he was afraid to take a position that might make things worse?  When he refused to allow anyone to call terrorists "terrorists" or even "Islamic Extremists".... just being PC?  When he came out for the "Arab Spring" when everyone could see that it was more of an openning to the Muslem Brotherhood and extremists than to any increases in liberty?  When he had people high in the Muslem Brotherhood to the Whitehouse?  When he allowed weapons to walk from Libya, carried off by extremists?  When he chose to value his political talking points above American lives in Bengazi - with lies about "it was all caused by a video", with failing to carry out an investigation, with failing to cooperate with congressional investigations?  When he allowed Syria to become a new breeding ground for Al Queda?  When he let the Iranian sanctions to be set aside with nothing in return?  It all gets to be a bit too much.  Something is there.  I'm not going to say that he is a Muslim, but the alternative is that he has some kind of delusional beliefs in this area that are so far out there that he can't bring them out into the open.  FDR appeared to have some strange, almost pathological facination with Stalin.  Maybe it is a psychological vulnerability that opens up for anyone on the far left, who is in a key leadership role, that has to try to win over hearts and minds in a democratic nation, when their arrogance and deepest wish is to just take out a gun and give orders.  Maybe their decades of driving towards the goals of Progressivism (to be in control) and being frustrated by others being "allowed" to have a choice, maybe that leaves them wide open to having a powerful attraction towards whoever the current moment in history holds up as an effective wielder of tyrannical force?  Kind of like those women who find themselves attracted to bad guys.

(Edited by Steve Wolfer on 4/09, 1:25pm)

Steve,

I believe that our posts overlapped. 

IMO, Obama can best be explained by the liberalistc desire to 'see both sides' without referencing the nature of the sides themselves. 

I also see an individual who's obsessed with compromise, regardless, again of the real nature of what's at stake.

Moreover, I see him as basically lacking moral principle. For him, everything boils down to an assumed 'consequence'. The problem here is that you'd need a cristal ball to help you determine what the consequences would be--and none exists. 

Lastly, he simply isn't very smart. 

So actually, I feel that the four above statements deny any realistic reason to think that he's masterminded a conspiracy. Rather, he's just blundering along, from crisis to crisis...and the bad guys are taking him to the cleaners.

Brad

Steve, 

Speaking as an ex-teacher on campus, moral relativism is far more a method that's used to get students to question their own valuses, rather than some sort of ideology. For example, when I taught ethics, I fairly described the entire range of approaches: Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Nietzsche, Sartre, Dewey, etc...and let the students argue it out. My job was to referee, to verify textual reading and explanation, and clarity of expression.

Moving on... Obama's background as a community organizer among Chicago's African Americans does not quality him to be president to begin with.

Belief-wise, he's blindfolded and grasping the elephant by the tail and calling it a snake. In other words, the 92% of Americans who are non-black don't see bongo-bongo atavism and black islam as even remotely relevant. Yet (for the sake of argument!) these views 'count' within the spectrum of beliefs within Black Chicago.

Many intelligentl iberals--such as Sunstein-- are falling over themselves to rationalize this nonsense. But conservatives have it right: we've elected someone not of our intellectual genre. 

In other words, again, no 'conspiricy'. Rather, just a natural sympathy on his part based upon background that's horribly misplaced.

Steve:  

This latest is about as pathetic as it gets.

Fred