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DRAFT — The Marxism of President Obama: The Mask Falls (3)

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Third of three, shortly to be rolled into a single post, after, you know, editing (which will generate a fourth, but that’s another story).

Get In The Game

This speech revolves around paragraphs 50 and 51, to the extent that the rest of it begins to seem like mere padding, especially since there are only 60 paragraphs in the whole speech.  It’s as if he needed several pages of warm-up time, working up the nerve, to drop his proposition.  Can’t say I blame him.

Because he blames American corporations for the economy not responding to his stimuli, of course the solution must lie in changing the behavior of American corporations.  Paragraph 50:
[pullquote]American companies have nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets[/pullquote]

So if I’ve got … Continue reading →

The Marxism of President Obama in One Paragraph

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President Barack Obama is a modern American Marxist because he does not understand the way Capitalism works, which causes him to mis-diagnose the American economy.  When he says Capitalism, he is thinking of Mercantilism, and he casts about in time-worn fashion for something to replace it.  The two responses to the depredations of Mercantilism were Marxism and Capitalism, and since the President does not see a difference between Mercantilism and Capitalism, the only solution to him is Marxism.  He wonders why the rest of us cannot see it so clearly.

So there it is.  I continue to work on my analysis which has so far (to my surprise) led to the above conclusion.  That analysis is currently scattered over several blog posts in varying stages of the editorial … Continue reading →

Planks of a Platform

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I’ll use this post to collect some thoughts about planks, a platform for Tea Party activism.

I view the Tea Party not so much as a social conservative movememt, but a no-kidding Constitutional and financial movement which has symbiotoc relationship with many constituencies, some of which are opposed to one another. Therefore, the proper business of a successful Tea Party is to maintain as narrow a focus as possible, and to be as serious as possible in that goal, so that not only does it not alienate constituents through unnecessary distinctions, but it also makes the case for its core concerns in a convincing enough manner that the constituents are content to walk with one another for a time at any rate.

So the gay rights people and … Continue reading →

Ethical Resistance to Communism in the U.S. Government

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This is a working document which I will make public in the interests of doing better work.  I’ll use this post to collect some thoughts about how to conduct oneself in an ethical resistance to the creeping plagues upon our Republic.

First and foremost is that no matter how it is formulated I am not interested in any resistance which does not begin and end with an ethical stance toward the job at hand.

One thing that is clear is that there are a lot of well-intended people out there who step in poo in some form or other, and stink the party up. These folks reveal themselves early, as they are not hiding. There are also some bad actors, who go malignant after wheedling their way in … Continue reading →

A Crucible for the GOP and the Tea Party

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Right now is a deceptively important point in time. The Democrats know this, and so do the status quo Republicans.

Tea Party frustration with establishment Republicans is at levels not seen since 2009. The Obama administration is burying (Barrying?) us with the paper equivalent of human-wave attacks. We have a primary election to start worrying about, which will have us at each other’s heels for a while.

It has been long enough since the smashing Tea Party victory that the thrill has faded a bit, and certainly been doused with cold water by GOP cronyism like Hal “14-term Prince of Pork” Rogers being appointed Chairman of Appropriations, for crying out loud. It is also such a long way to the next election that polls are meaningless, allegiances are … Continue reading →

The Marxism of President Obama: The Mask Falls (1)

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This is actually my second post on this topic, but this is the incident which made his chosen trajectory clear to me. President Obama’s speech of February seventh to the United States Chamber of Commerce was stunning not only for its fall-flat lack of any accomplishment, but more notably for the bald-faced affirmation of Marxist principles.

The speech is a watershed moment in this Presidency, and I feel will be studied from a bit more historical a perspective, given the passage of some time. I won’t spend overlong on details, as the speech can be seen on YouTube (here, here) and certainly is available from the White House. The speech is a half-hour of mostly repetitive formulations of three things: a flawed analysis of what … Continue reading →

The Marxism of President Obama

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One of the hallmarks of Marxism is a fundamental misunderstanding of the way that capital works. The President displays this ignorance proudly as he blames “speculators” for rising oil prices.   I quote:

“The problem is, is that oil is sold on these world markets, and speculators and people make various bets, and they say, ‘you know what, we think that maybe there’s a 20 percent chance that something might happen in the Middle East that might disrupt oil supply,’” he said.
“‘So we’re going to bet that oil is going to go up real high.’ And that spikes up prices significantly,” said the president, who recently launched his reelection campaign.

That’s his assessment of the root cause: evil borrowers and lenders are manipulating markets for … Continue reading →

Obama a Liar

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I suppose I could wail and gnash my teeth over how angry I am, etc. But at this point I’m far past accepting this as true, and simply trying to show unequivocal documentation to those who are less inclined to agree that he is, in fact, a liar.
Senator Obama, 2006:

“Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

President Obama, 2011:

“We will raise the debt limit. We always have. We will do it again.”
[Politico] He warned that anything less would undermine the solvency of … Continue reading →