Posted by
Systems Analyst on Monday, September 21, 2009 12:13:28 AM
I haven't posted for a while, but once again, I feel compelled. There has been a lot of talk lately on radio and TV about "people who hate Barack Obama." In truth, unless Mr. Obama's personal sphere of influence is much larger than I can believe, I seriously doubt that there are enough people who actually hate Barack Obama to warrant any public comment.
Most of America hates, despises, and fears Barack Obama's policies, and for excellent reasons. Personally, none of us really give a fig about the man himself. We will probably not meet at church, our kids don't play with his kids at school, we are not neighbors, and neither he nor his wife are likely to be occupying the next cubicle at work. On a personal level, he is completely irrelevant, and we have no feelings about him either for or against.
No, what we hate is the idea that we have a communist in the White House, and he is determined to spread that particularly disgusting social disease by whatever means necessary. Yes, we do want him stopped cold, but it is nothing personal. We just don't want to live in a communist country. Most of us find that position quite reasonable, and not ideologically blind at all, especially considering the last hundred years or so of world history.
Yes, I am well aware that I have dropped the dreaded "C" bomb twice in one paragraph. I am also well aware that we are not supposed to notice the socialist tendencies of nearly every appointee in the current administration, but come on, people! He may not have a hammer and sickle tattooed on his forehead, but Stalin's Five Year Plans were less socialistic and totalitarian than Obama's ideas of economic stimulus, energy policy, and health care.
Communism can be defined as a fully socialized economy enforced by a fascist dictatorship. It embodies the worst of both economic and political worlds. President Obama has taken majority stockholder positions in two of the nation's three largest automobile companies, has exercised de facto control over the management of most of the financial industry, and has vigorously promoted a socialized medical system to replace private health insurance. He has voided legal contracts and international treaties for his own personal convenience, apologized to our enemies for defending ourselves and our allies, and has proposed legislation designed to bankrupt both producers and consumers of energy, simply by government fiat. And that was only his first hundred days.
Ladies and gentlemen, the evidence is clear, and has been since even before the Democratic Primaries. The current Presidential administration wants to force socialism down the throats of America, and sees no reason to let trivia like freedom and the Constitution stand in the way. I think the time has come for the Naming of True Names. Our President, ladies and gentlemen, is a communist.
So, yes, we do want him stopped. Yes, we do hate everything he stands for. But no, the simple truth is, the man himself is nobody special, and we don't really care about him one way or another. If we could make him retreat to the Oval Office and be quitely Presidential while the rest of us go about our business, that would suit most of us just fine.