Comments on: Is Barack Obama intentionally trying to weaken America?

By: dad29

dad29 — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:36:52 +0000

The longer he is in office, doing the things he does, the more I am persuaded that he IS deliberately tanking the country.

The first path he’s chosen, and the fastest one to demolition, is bankruptcy. We looked at TARP askance (I thought it was necessary, but an evil). Well, GWB started it…and all Obama did was finish it.

Then “stimulus.” Most Americans were uncomfortable with it, like TARP; but the actualities (Gummints benefit, no one else) emerged and it tanked.

THen the TEA Party revolution…the election. That should have been a signal.

But he now submits a budget which is, to put it kindly, a laugher. It is awful. Horrendous. Terrible. Un-doable. Even the MSM has nothing good to say about it.

That submittal–his budget–has tipped me into the “he wants to destroy the country” camp. The document is not a product of naivete, nor “dumb.” It is a deliberate effort. Of course he doesn’t expect it to be approved; but the question is: “where is the Overton Window compromise??”–and it is clear that the compromise—COMPROMISE—will demolish the country’s bonds.

FWIW.

By: Phineas

Phineas — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:47:02 +0000

While “intentionally destroying America” would be an over the top description of Obama’s motives, I do think he and his intellectual allies in American Socialism are on a deliberate course of American decline, because they see US strength as a source of problems. I wrote about this a few weeks ago, in fact: http://is.gd/twFYmg

As for whether motive is important, I think it is, if only because we need to understand why our opponent does something in order to effectively gauge his goals. It’s not essential –the oncoming train wreck is scary enough to warrant opposing almost everything Obama wants with all our will– but I do think it’s important and helpful.

BTW, my impression of his budget proposal is that it’s meant to foster a deliberate confrontation with the House, with the intent of polarizing the sides and creating a crisis. He’s already got the incremental step toward Socialism he wanted in ObamaCare: deadlock over the budget gives him the chance to prevent it’s being undone. The man is a student of Alinsky and Cloward-Piven, after all.