On a recent Monday evening Charles Krauthammer talked frankly and unemotionally to a small group of people at the Center for the American Experiment. For those of you who have followed Mr. Krauthammer’s intellectual and writing abilities over the years, will especially appreciate the gravity of his comments. The man is a profoundly gifted reporter of things the way they are!
The following notes were taken by a member of this audience:
“1. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come to Washington to make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, including dismantling capitalism. He can’t be strightforward on his ambitions, as the public would not go along. He has a heavy hand, and wants to ‘level the playing field’ with income distribution and punishment to the achievers of society.
2. His three main goals are to control Energy, Public Education, and National Health Care by the federal government. He doesn’t care about the auto or financial services industries, but got them as an early bonus. The cap and trade will add costs to everything and stifle growth. Paying for free college education is his goal. Most scary is his healthcare program, because if you make it free and add 46 million people to a Medicare-type single-payer system, the costs will go through the roof. The only way to control costs is with massive rationing of services.
3. He’s surrounding himself with mostly far-left academic types. No one around him has ever even run a candy store. But they’re going to try and run the auto, financial, banking and other industies. This obviously can’t work in the long run. Obama’s not a socialist; rather he’s a far-left secular progressive bent on nothing short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the hard left. AGAIN, WATCH WHAT HE DOES, NOT WHAT HE SAYS.
4. Obama doesn’t really see himself as president of the United States, but more as ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate and coordinate various countries and their agendas. He sees moral equivalency in all cultures. His apology tour in Germany and England was a prime example of how he sees America as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors. This is the first president ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies.
5. He’s now handing out goodies. He hopes that the bill and pain will not come due until after he’s reelected in 2012. He’d like to blame all problems on Bush from the past and hopefully his successor in the future. He has a huge ego and is a narcissist.
6. The current level of spending is irresponsible and outrageous. We’re spending trillions that we don’t have. This could lead to hyper inflation, depression or worse. No country has ever spent themselves into prosperity. The media is giving Obama, Reid and Pelosi a pass because they love their agenda. But eventually the bill will come due and people will realize the huge bailouts didn’t work, nor will the stimulus package. These were trillion dollar payoffs to Obama allies, unions and the Congress to placate the left so he can get support for his agenda.”
I am certain that the vast majority of Americans have no fear yet of this president and the consequences of his political, financial, and verbal ruthlessness, consequences which will cause indescribable disorder in the country. I am still in the minority here. I agree with every assumption made by Charles Krauthammer in these notes taken at this recent meeting at the Center for the American Experiment. Except maybe for one…This graduate student president is indeed a State Socialist comrade. ghr
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There have been imperialists on the right bent on the same ultimate goal of world conquest – Napolean for one.
I’m not bothered by Krauthammer’s sharp eye for reality. I’m bothered that it leads people to view those on the left as somehow a different creature.
Prager goes so far as to say we live in different worlds – we do. But to make Obama out to be some kind of alien – an alien with a death wish no less – is a minority view I will never share.
duff
Dear duff2beat: Napoleon dictated before the division of left from right evolved.
I believe that by the spoken word, and actions the contemporary American leftwing has become somehow a different creature and has become quite open about it. I don’t think president Obama is keeping much hidden about his interest in establishing a Socialist State here in the United States, do you? That is the first for an American president.
I agree with Dennis Prager regarding these two worlds of American life. Forty years ago neither party advocated and never would have suggested owning an American corporation.. Even FDR didn’t manipulate that arrangement.
From Dennis” programs I don’t think Dennis makes Obama some kind of alien, but does emphasize with evidence that the president is authorizing a change from private enterprise to State Socialism not with his sweet words, but by his actions.
Glenn,
You’re right, Obama is not keeping much hidden about his socialist beliefs, but that does not make him an enemy.
What I am doing is challenging the language used on this blog so that more people might actually read it. You have entry after entry with no responses except for an occasional “bravo”.
Phrases such as “State Socialist comrade” and “have no fear yet of this president…” only suggest that Obama really is bad and someone to be feared. Good luck convincing any but the most “radical” right wingers to believe that.
Unless it is your aim to simply sharpen our rhetoric and further alienate (no pun intended) us from “them”. But I don’t see any point in that.
And I’m no expert and am less educated than you, but “left” and “right” probably existed before there was some official division some time after Napoleon. Left being big brother government and right being imperialist in nature, which Bush has been accused of (wrongly, of course). And in fact throughout American history there have been times when “progressivism” was the good and right path – Abe Lincoln was a “progressive” in the best sense of the word (as is Dennis in his own words).
duff
State socialism is my enemy as an American!