Since Obama took office, I have seen nothing but fawning and ogling by much of the media - including the NYTimes and Washington Post. The TV networks are useless in that they seem uninterested in reporting anything that is not flattering to Obama - and when they do, they make excuses that it's all a result of some right wing conspiracy.
Last time I checked, looked into a mirror, I was reminded that there is no way in Hell a Nazi party will admit me as a member - but I am one of those that are dismayed and terrified at what Obama wants to do. So, why would Nancy Pelosi label those that oppose Obama as racists or some such? It is Pelosi who is out of order and seems to want to see chaos so she can assist Obama take over the healthcare system.
Obama is uninterested in anything that would impact our economy positively - but continues to do whatever he can to destroy it. Oh yes, I believe that. it is all about philosophy - what he has believed in, what he has written about, what he has said since he became president. Obama is driven by a sick ideology that considers the US of A evil and so must be controlled and people punished. We have the best health care system in the world - What we do makes it possible for others to practice their policies - If we, the last bastion of free enterprise, a country that allows for anyone to be successful, were to turn to policies like much of the world, the world will be doomed. Who will innovate, create the new technologies, new drugs to solve future problems?
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged was written 50+ years so. She was prescient indeed. What we are witnessing is nothing less than the dismantling of everything productive in the name of the people by those that have no idea what it takes to create and sustain an economy. Obama is worse than a parasite, he is the Anti Life - unable to bear to see a fully functional economy that has been the world's engine for such a long time. Oh yes, we are still a functional economy and while we are struggling, we will come out of it - Unless Obama kills whatever is left of us - as he seems determined to. I did not decide to adopt this country as mine only to see some pathological individual like Obama determined to destroy it. I hope the country wakes up to realize who Obama is and starts the process of unravelling this monstrosity in 2010. The process can start earlier by this Congress, a few of them anyway, raising principled stance to his dangerous policies and legislation even if they fail at it.
2 comments:
Dear Professor,
I don't know much about American politics except what I happen to read in Time and NYTimes. Yet, I am greatly surprised to read your post on Obama.
I wonder if you are not taking an extreme stand on what the president stands for. I am an Indian. I am perplexed by Obama's unwillingness to call Pakistan a terrorist state. All the same, I welcome the olive branch he has shown to the Muslim world.
What appears to be his anti-capitalist approach is only a consequence of capitalist excesses writ large in the Wall Street.
I am also an admirer of Ayn Rand.But was not her viewpoint an extreme one? Too logical to be practical?
The world is crying out for balance, equanimity and reconciliation. We can do without further polarisation and fundamentalism whether it be Islamic, communist or capitalistic.
Regards,
Srivarahan
Thank you for your comments. "Extreme" stand? Nothing I have written is as extreme as Obama has since he gotten elected. There is no such thing as "capitalist excess" - Oh, sure we will always have thieves and charlatans. If you examine the causes for the financial distress, problems with the auto industry, health insurance, housing/etc - they all can be traced back to governmental interference (yes, Republican and Democrat). Obama has, in the short time he has had the reins done more to destroy much of what has worked than anyone I am aware of - and I watched Jimmy Carter.
A common fallacy is that the Muslim World is against the West because of what the West has done. It is not. Yes, there are crazy religious elements in every corner (yes even in Hinduism/Brahmins even) - but what the Islamic world has unleashed today is unique and we cannot negotiate with a gun to our head.
Ayn Rand's views were not extreme, but very logical yes. If Obama thinks he can talk his way out of problems, he is sadly mistaken. What Obama is doing with Zelaya and Honduras is dangerous - playing into the hands of Chavez and Castro - Obama does not care.
I recommend you going back to what Obama has written, what he has said, the philosophy of those around him to understand why Obama is out of touch with the real world. Obama will insist on unilateral disarmament even as Iran builds a nuclear weapon and continues to threaten other nations.
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