Like many political Americans, right or left or center, I’m still grappling with what President Obama did this week. I’m trying to get a handle on what it means not so much for the country and the economy, but rather for Barack Obama.
On Monday evening came the remarkable announcement by Obama that he had compromised with Republicans on a “framework” to extend the Bush tax cuts. My take on that action was that Obama was motivated entirely by politics and not at all by ideology.
That take was quickly reinforced on Tuesday, when Obama, almost chastising his angry left-wing base for not understanding political realities, analogized Republicans to “hostage-takers,” holding Obama and America and its poor and proletariat ransom to tax cuts for the bloody rich. The president bemoaned his moral dilemma, forced as he was to “negotiate” with Republicans, who kneel before what Obama described as “their Holy Grail”: “tax cuts for the wealthy.” It was a stunning metaphor, and rather offensive: That cup overfloweth, apparently, with the real presence of the blood of the workers, which Republicans and their loyal factory bosses and greedy landlords slurp up from the fruits of the assembly line.
“These tax cuts for the wealthy — ” said a visibly bitter Obama ” — this is, seems to be, their central economic doctrine.”
Of course, it is not the Republicans’ “central economic doctrine.” One of the worst mistakes you can make in politics or in life or in war is to misdiagnose your adversary by allowing emotion to supersede logic.
But here’s the crucial point on Obama’s assessment: it was clear that this wasn’t the standard class-warfare claptrap we typically get from Democrats. This wasn’t mere political rhetoric to toss to the unions to make them happy at the expense of those with more money. No, Barack Obama uttered these words with such conviction and such contempt that you could tell it was from the heart. It came off not as Democrat demagoguery, but as reflective of the class-based worldview that I suspect is the core Barack Obama.
It made me think of Frank Marshall Davis and other Marxists in Obama’s past — and of a man named Dr. John Drew.
Read More: By Paul Kengor, American Thinker
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Ask them how many of them ever had a job and if they were hired by a poor person?
All that his hurt shows is that he is what most Americans know him to be: A dyed -in-the-wool-Marxist. It is why he speaks with such conviction because he actually BELIEVES in Communist
theory and given a free hand, which he will NEVER have in this country, would impose a totally Soviet Style Communism in THIS country. Historically, it has never worked and it will not work here. It is an a position of ascendancy in China now but, the fact of the matter is that China has FLOURISHED, not because of Communism, but in spite of it once the politburo decied to allow limited FREE ENTERPRISE. Eventually, the Chinese people will revolt and do as did the Patriots against what they saw as British oppresssion of a far lesser nature than the Chicoms; that too is a matter of HISTORY.
The hurt he shows indicates he is preparing to follow his emotions next. This is a most dangerous time. We don't want a Stalin or Mao happening here. The pieces of a government capable of the oppression required are not quite in hand but damn close.
AMEN TO THAT, BUT—WATCH!
I have to agree.
It would appear that Robin of Berkeley's psychoanalytical profile of Obama was spot on.
It's pretty clear. The House has only a few short weeks to bulldoze to the MAX the liberal socialist agenda items through. The tax item was one thing that was surely inadvisable to not pass, so they passed it, preserving a scrap of Obama's dignity (he is on the brink of being impeached because of the lack of a valid birth certificate) . The rule now is "Watch the other hand"… What else are Pelosi and Reed scheming to shove through unannounced this December? Remember, EVERY minute is charged with possibility to pass measures in the House and in the Senate, which Obama will sign in the next minute. Remeber that the first income tax bill was passed around 1919 near MIDNIGHT CHRISTMAS EVE. Look forward to long passes to the goal all the way into and through the innauguration of the new Congress on January 2(?), 2011. Until the ceemony is done and the hands of the new congressmen drop to their sides after swearing in successfully, there is still room for foul play. This is hard ball!
"he is on the brink of being impeached"
Hardly. NOT ONE member of the House or of those just elected has suggested impeachment–and it will take at least 218 of them to impeach–and then at least 51 Senators (and only 47 are Republicans) to remove him from office. In short, it wwon't happen, Ange.
HAY HAY TEACHER JAMES MCPHERSON YOUR SO FULL OF HOT MUSLIM AIR, YIKEESS, NO ONE IN THERE RIGHT MIND WOULD BELIEVE PRES OBAMAS ROPE-A-DOPE EXCEPT YOU. YIPPEE, BECAUSE THE TEA PARTY WILL BE HOLDING FOR A UP OR DOWN BILL, WITHOUT ALL THE LIBERALS BULLSHIT PORK ATTACHED, YIPPEE, NOW TAKE THAT TO YOUR MUSLIM UNION TEACHERS. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND SARAH PALIN POTUS.
WRONG Again the house can ask for his papers, excuse me they can demand his papers and when he can't come up with any he can be turned over for prosecution. wi9th out proper papers he is a fraud NO IMPEACHMENT NEEDED
Nice try, but probably wrong again. The House can ask–or demand–all they want. But under precedents set by the Reagan, Clinton and Bush adminstrations, they probably won't be able to get him to turn over anything he doesn't want to give them.
And even if we pretend they'll pursue it, by the time that's resolved by courts, he'll be in well into his next term–with the GOP likely losing seats in the House in the meantime because they'll look whiny, obstructionist and desperate.
But I do hope they try.
Solomon once said, "Surround yourself with fools and you will become a fool." Look at Obama's czars–ENOUGH SAID!
They just don't hear US !!
obama is a turd and the sooner we get rid of him the better
A Marxist to the core is this FRAUD and CON-MAN PAR-EXCELLANCE! His NAME? BARACK H. OBAMA a non-NATURAL BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN. He was born in KENYA AFRICA, and it was the AMERICAN COMMUNIST MEDIA who elected this FRAUD.
It is certainly a man pleading for his base to erupt in dissent. He fancies himself so well versed in legal trickery that he can stage a Lincoln style war against dissent if he can only get the fighting started. Unfortunately for him, all the votes he bought, promises he made and cash he is throwing out to every political hack behind him is being swallowed up by them just as one might expect. There is no honor among thieves. There is no oath that will bind them. All that can be extracted from his pandering to emotions must be done quickly and without regard for any rules, laws or debates. Revolution of the kind he is a study of can not exist among factions. The only way it can succeed is through violent action. He should re-read Kagan's thesis, if he's read it at all.
If anyone is interested in how our system is designed to resist faction it is explained in Federalist 10. It is imperative the constitution be upheld and the principles it was designed about be understood by all who care for liberty as being the highest political end.
I cannot understand why on earth Reid was put back in there, what I can gather from it it was the same way Obama got in there but fraud ballots, thousands of them in 17 states through Acorn, why on earth isn't anything done about this, same thing in Alaska. Do we not have any laws to abide by anymore, We still have the same bull krap, Pelosi and Reid, how bout all the waste they are trying to add to the Bill the Republicans and Obama just worked out and big mouth Pelosi/Reid got their poisons waste added, about 6 of them, I sure hope they let it fail and then in January the Republicans can do it right and make it retroactive back to December. Those two are sick and just can't stand defeat, hope they get lots of it. It was just a sad thing that Reid got back in there. Imigrants and people with no brain, evidently.
"I cannot understand why on earth Reid was put back in there"
Did you see or hear his opponent? There may not have been many people he could have lost to, but Sharron Engle was a bad choice by the GOP.
If American's are smart, they will go to Obama's Organization for America and join up to receive the emails he sends the youth of this country. He has NO plans to NOT run in the future and is working his youth AGAINST this Republic AND the successful, to set up his Socialist Agenda. I feel with his statements, he is setting up the Republican's and the wealthy to look like the "Enemy" to his little minions. Just as he did with the Mexican's on the California Mexican radio station in Glendale, California – just before the election of Brown and the other democrats- when he told the Mexican's they had to "Punish the Enemy". This President is the MOST DIVISIVE President this nation has EVER had in office. You bet, his words are chosen carefully and with meaning – ALWAYS!
AMERICA(The REAL ISRAEL BY THE SEED OF JOSEPH, NOT JUDAH;WAKE-UP(GEN. 48:16)! LOOK WHAT OBAMA's FATHER DID TO KENYA! HE MADE THE ONLY OTHER REPUBLIC IN THE WORLD, KENYA, A MARXIST STATE! IT IS LUCIFER'S WORLD UNLESS YOU ARE CALLED OUT OF IT! LUCIFER WANTS THE REAL ISRAEL, LOSING KNOWLEDGE OF IT'S NAME BECAUSE OF BREAKING THE CORRESPONDING SABBATH COVENANT THAT WENT WITH IT, DESTROYED BY GOING INTO MARXISM(ANTI-MESSIAH BY DEFINITION)! OUR TRIBULATION(JACOB'S TROUBLE) WILL BEGIN EITHER IN THE LATE/EARLY WINTER OF 2011, 2012, OR 2013! P.S. BEWARE OF THE FORBIDDEN FOREIGNER PUT OVER ISRAEL AND REMEMDER WHAT HIS FATHER DID TO KENYA! WATCH!
Is this article saying Mr. Obama is a Marxist believer and really believe the rich pay Estate taxes? The Rich like Gates and Buffet put $ 30 billion into a Charitable Foundation and they still have the money – avioded the 15% capital gains tax, avoided the 55% Estate tax and they get to deduct the $ 30 billion each from their current income tax saving another 35%. They support the Estate tax on the little rich farmers and small business people but they do not trust the government with their billions – HUH.
Come on Progressive/Marxist liberals do the math, $ 60 billion each and zero taxes and it is your program that allow them to avoid your rules on the middle class. Just stop being a liar and stop the TAX the RICH class warfare for it just breeds hate and envy.
AMERICA: Do YOU remember during his campaign he promised to "fundamentally transform our system of government" into Marxism and got voted into office big time, especially by the women vote? Do you really think that the coming massive hispanic voting-block soon coming in will NOT VOTE OBAMA! WATCH! Tell me in NOVEMBER, 2012! AGAIN; WATCH!
VICTOR HAVE YE SO LITTLE FAITH? THE RUPS IN JAN. WILL MAKE HIM PUT UP OR GET OUT. WE CAN ONLY HOPE IT ENDS IN A LON G PRISON TERM FOR HIM PELOSI REED AND EVERY BODY THAT WITHHELD THE INFORMATION THAT WOULD HAVE KEPT HIM NOT ONLY OUT OF THE W. H. BUT WOULD HAVE KEPT HIM OFF THE TICKET . ITS TOO BAD WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT WILL STOOP TO WHAT PELOSI AND THE DEMS DID TO GET HIM ELECTED.YOU CAN ALSO BET EVERYTHING YOU OWN THE CLINTONS KNEW HE WAS AN ILLIGAL THEY SHOULD GO DOWN WITH HIM
Hussein, the Sociopath Narcissist is clinically INSANE!
ret expat MD: NBME; ABIM; ABNM; ABR w/spec comp NR
Nothing but a joke4. Keep blaming Bush and the Republicans for his failures. What an idiot. A little kid in a candy store. Flying on OUR 747 to campaign, and tell everyone how terrible the republicans are. T ake this kid out of the candy store, and his deviate czars, union thugs, and GE morons, and send them to Kenya, where they belong.
Barack Hussein wanted ALL the glory of telling the world he solved the problem, then when it backfired he call the Republicans NAMES. Does this remind you of a schoolyard PUNK. And he is the head negotiator with the rest of the world. God help America.