Who Is He?
August 13th 2008 23:52
(To those of you who like coming here, sorry for the absence. The Olympics always grab my attention).
To the more important matter: Barack Obama. In about a week and a half, this man is going to stand in front of 70,000 people in Invesco Field and give his acceptance speech as the Democrats’ nominee for President. Plenty of conservative commentators have covered the insanity that this will be, including the “Obama sign” of raising your hands above your head and forming an O. I sure hope that happens. That will freak so many people out the race will be over. He won’t need chanting Germans any more, he can use 70,000 Dems acting like Germans saluting Obama.
My question is how can anybody truly support this guy? Who is he? He won’t go on conservative talk shows and answer real questions, so we have to go by his history.
First, we have his childhood. Michelle made the erroneous claim again that he was raised in poverty by a single mother, so he can’t be an elitist. I’m sorry, but there are two problems with that: 1) he was raised by his mother and STEPfather, in Indonesia at or above middle class. 2) He went to a very respected private high school in Hawaii for those years at the expense of his grandmother and scholarships. Then he went to an Ivy League school. I’ve seen firsthand what those schools can do to the brains of otherwise smart people and turn them into elitists.
He was not raised poor. He did not live on food stamps and welfare like I did in high school at my public school.
Second, he began attending a radical church in Chicago twenty years ago, yet claims the only thing he learned there is his salvation. Can anybody say, and retain their intellectual honesty, that they sat in a church with a pastor that spewed out the rhetoric Rev. Wright did and not leave it if they disagreed for 20 years? It’s not like there aren’t other churches. And don’t give me the out of context crap. You don’t need context to accusations that white people created AIDS to destroy black people. He wasn’t quoting anybody when he said it.
One of three things are happening with this one: either Barack has been so busy in politics that he missed a lot of church (which would explain why Michelle seems more radical than him); or he chose to ignore certain things (meaning he stayed for political expediency, not for the messages); or he has taken this stuff to heart and is saying what people want to hear. He claims the second choice and every now and then slips out stuff that makes you believe the third. For instance, he recently said he was for reparations for blacks for slavery in the form of more tax dollars to programs for their communities.
Third, he has been politically carried to his position with the help of people like Bill Ayers, a terrorist former member of the Weather Underground. Liberals try to pooh-pooh this as just one neighborhood guy, but he was involved with this guy more than just neighbors and who else influenced him? His father? No, his father was absent. The influences on a S. Chicago black man at a radical church with radical left wing friends are the only influences he had for the last 20 years.
He proved this in his service. He has been the most liberal member of the legislative bodies he’s served in. He wants health care for everybody? Then why did he help craft legislation in Illinois that guaranteed expensive premiums for insurance full of stuff most people don’t need. Illinois is one of many states (and individuals can’t shop for insurance across state lines by the way) that has mandated coverage for health insurance, instead of letting the market drive what companies offer. That has driven up the cost.
Finally, he has not clearly detailed anything. I went to his website today, and except for his $4,000 college tax credits and $500 working person tax breaks, there are no specifics that I could find. In Germany he spoke about the redistribution of wealth on a GLOBAL level, as he does A LOT. He rails against the rich, who already pay 90% of the taxes the government collects. His website speaks in general terms about universal health care, free college tuition, national service, national 401(k), free job training, wage insurance, free child care, etc., etc. No specifics.
He can’t be specific. He has to say things like “Don’t believe in me, believe in your dreams,” to make you think he’s going to help those dreams come true. The rich earned what they have and they use it to employ America. Between the jobs they create with their companies and the spending they drive the economy with, the rich are great! And the beautiful thing about America, without Obama, is that we can all get there! We have the freedom to be poor, rich or anywhere in between. History has shown that whether you’re a couple of whacked out libs (Ben and Jerry, for instance) or a conservative maverick (Ross Perot, for instance) you can be one of those rich people.
What proves my belief in his strong Marxist tendencies though, besides what I’ve written above, is that his number one theme is based on class envy. He slams tax cuts for the rich, while me, a middle class American, benefitted from those tax cuts as well. The rich still pay the most. The top 1% of Americans make 22% of the money but pay 40% of the taxes. The top 25% in terms of wealth make 68% of the money but pay 86% of the tax bill.
That’s the reason that so much of his tax talk is about GIVING money to the bottom 50% in the forms of tax credits for college and for “working”. The bottom half of wage earners, half of American workers, paid only 3% of taxes. How can you give them a tax break? We aren’t paying taxes!
Obama is a socialist, there’s no doubt in my mind, and no doubt that he’s dangerous.
To the more important matter: Barack Obama. In about a week and a half, this man is going to stand in front of 70,000 people in Invesco Field and give his acceptance speech as the Democrats’ nominee for President. Plenty of conservative commentators have covered the insanity that this will be, including the “Obama sign” of raising your hands above your head and forming an O. I sure hope that happens. That will freak so many people out the race will be over. He won’t need chanting Germans any more, he can use 70,000 Dems acting like Germans saluting Obama.
The One in Germany
My question is how can anybody truly support this guy? Who is he? He won’t go on conservative talk shows and answer real questions, so we have to go by his history.
First, we have his childhood. Michelle made the erroneous claim again that he was raised in poverty by a single mother, so he can’t be an elitist. I’m sorry, but there are two problems with that: 1) he was raised by his mother and STEPfather, in Indonesia at or above middle class. 2) He went to a very respected private high school in Hawaii for those years at the expense of his grandmother and scholarships. Then he went to an Ivy League school. I’ve seen firsthand what those schools can do to the brains of otherwise smart people and turn them into elitists.
He was not raised poor. He did not live on food stamps and welfare like I did in high school at my public school.
Second, he began attending a radical church in Chicago twenty years ago, yet claims the only thing he learned there is his salvation. Can anybody say, and retain their intellectual honesty, that they sat in a church with a pastor that spewed out the rhetoric Rev. Wright did and not leave it if they disagreed for 20 years? It’s not like there aren’t other churches. And don’t give me the out of context crap. You don’t need context to accusations that white people created AIDS to destroy black people. He wasn’t quoting anybody when he said it.
One of three things are happening with this one: either Barack has been so busy in politics that he missed a lot of church (which would explain why Michelle seems more radical than him); or he chose to ignore certain things (meaning he stayed for political expediency, not for the messages); or he has taken this stuff to heart and is saying what people want to hear. He claims the second choice and every now and then slips out stuff that makes you believe the third. For instance, he recently said he was for reparations for blacks for slavery in the form of more tax dollars to programs for their communities.
Third, he has been politically carried to his position with the help of people like Bill Ayers, a terrorist former member of the Weather Underground. Liberals try to pooh-pooh this as just one neighborhood guy, but he was involved with this guy more than just neighbors and who else influenced him? His father? No, his father was absent. The influences on a S. Chicago black man at a radical church with radical left wing friends are the only influences he had for the last 20 years.
He proved this in his service. He has been the most liberal member of the legislative bodies he’s served in. He wants health care for everybody? Then why did he help craft legislation in Illinois that guaranteed expensive premiums for insurance full of stuff most people don’t need. Illinois is one of many states (and individuals can’t shop for insurance across state lines by the way) that has mandated coverage for health insurance, instead of letting the market drive what companies offer. That has driven up the cost.
Finally, he has not clearly detailed anything. I went to his website today, and except for his $4,000 college tax credits and $500 working person tax breaks, there are no specifics that I could find. In Germany he spoke about the redistribution of wealth on a GLOBAL level, as he does A LOT. He rails against the rich, who already pay 90% of the taxes the government collects. His website speaks in general terms about universal health care, free college tuition, national service, national 401(k), free job training, wage insurance, free child care, etc., etc. No specifics.
He can’t be specific. He has to say things like “Don’t believe in me, believe in your dreams,” to make you think he’s going to help those dreams come true. The rich earned what they have and they use it to employ America. Between the jobs they create with their companies and the spending they drive the economy with, the rich are great! And the beautiful thing about America, without Obama, is that we can all get there! We have the freedom to be poor, rich or anywhere in between. History has shown that whether you’re a couple of whacked out libs (Ben and Jerry, for instance) or a conservative maverick (Ross Perot, for instance) you can be one of those rich people.
What proves my belief in his strong Marxist tendencies though, besides what I’ve written above, is that his number one theme is based on class envy. He slams tax cuts for the rich, while me, a middle class American, benefitted from those tax cuts as well. The rich still pay the most. The top 1% of Americans make 22% of the money but pay 40% of the taxes. The top 25% in terms of wealth make 68% of the money but pay 86% of the tax bill.
That’s the reason that so much of his tax talk is about GIVING money to the bottom 50% in the forms of tax credits for college and for “working”. The bottom half of wage earners, half of American workers, paid only 3% of taxes. How can you give them a tax break? We aren’t paying taxes!
Obama is a socialist, there’s no doubt in my mind, and no doubt that he’s dangerous.
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Comment by S.L.
The Political Brief
I have a feeling that he's related to Mortimer Snerd, but since Edgar Bergen has passed on, I'd like to know who has their hand up his back.
Comment by RubySoho
Music Zone
Thought Zone
Awesome.
Sign me up!
Comment by MomsInTheRight
Except he doesn't. He doesn't want health care or even compassionate care for babies who survive abortion. I find many of his ideas dangerous for the future of our country, but his views of abortion and approval of infanticide are appalling.
Comment by S.L.
The Political Brief
Comment by MomsInTheRight
The abortions would be free to those receiving them but it is me and my family and yours too who will be the ones paying for them in higher taxes and I personally find that unconscionable.
Comment by Jonathan Biviano
Politics Realm
Marriage Bits
Believe it or not, some people WANT to be poor. They don't want the hassle. I've met them. I've tutored their children.
But when I was in the Soviet Union in the late 80's, everybody HAD to be poor, it wasn't a choice. Only KGB and politicians had money. The rest got the neccessities from the government. They also had to work for that pittance, even if it meant digging up and filling in the same hole every week (saw that with my own eyes too in the six weeks I was there).