@mysteryman,
mysteryman wrote:
okie,
you are rapidly becoming a one trick pony.
Obama is not by any stretch a marxist, nor would I say he is a radical.
Yes, he does have some radical ideas, but every President did.
As for no experience, can you name any first term President that had previous experience running the country?
And even those that moved up from VP didnt have the "big chair" experience that you seem to think Obama should have.
Okay, you are entitled to your opinion, but I would like to tell you a little about what has formed my opinions. I do not take lightly what I post here, and I do not post stuff just to irritate people, I post what I believe, and I have what I believe to be sound reasons that I can support.
I grew up in an FDR Democrat family. We sat around the dinner table every day, and almost a day never passed that we did not discuss politics. My mother used to tell us the Republicans were for big business and the Democrats were for the "little man."
My family worked hard, we were farmers. We had to do chores before and after school, such as milking cows, and the summers were filled with plowing and cultivating the fields, putting up hay, and rounding up cattle, etc. From the time I was in high school, I worked my summers to earn enough money to go to college, which I did, and earned a degree in Geology. I then practiced that profession for more than a decade, interrupted by a tour in the Army and Vietnam.
To make a long story short, I believe in America, it offered me the greatest of all opportunities, and I am thankful for all of them to this day. I had to work hard, but I would not have wanted a free lunch any other way. I also earned a healthy respect for the oil companies I worked with, I met many great people that worked very hard, with experience in foreign countries. I learned a healthy respect for business, and I changed my political viewpoint, because I realized the Republicans were for the liberties and freedom to work and produce, while the Democrats increasingly became demagogues of work, of the productive, and of the people that made this country what it is today.
My parents remained registered Democrats, but the last 30 years or more, they seldom voted for a Democrats anymore. the Democratic Party is a mere shell of its former self, it has grown into one of the most extreme leftist and corrupt parties that I have ever witnessed in my more than 6 decades of watching the proceedings.
You may know that I was no fan of Clinton, he was in my opinion one of the most corrupt, if not THE most corrupt president in history. When Obama came on the scene, I read his book, Audacity of Hope, did you read it, mm? I also researched his background, I checked out the church that he said changed and shaped his life, and the Jeremiah Wright, and the religious or political philosophy known as "Black Liberation Theology, did you check that out, mm? Are you aware that it is a form of Marxist theology or politics? Are you also aware that Obama kicked off his political career in the home of Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrne, the unrepententy domestic terrorists that founded the weather underground, whose mission was the overthrow of the United States? Are you aware of that? Its a fact. Are you also aware that Obama cut his teeth in Chicago using Saul Alinsky's principles of community organizing, and that Alinsky is a Marxist? Are you also aware that other important people that helped raise Obama were Marxists, mm? Its a fact, I would suggest you read up on all of this stuff, it was not made up by reporters like Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh.
When I make the accusation that Obama is a Marxist sympathizer, I am serious, and there is ample reason to believe it. Its a matter of connecting dots, because Obama is not going to stand up there and tell us he is a Marxist. But he does have slips of the tongue a good many times, such as "we need to spread the wealth around," and such things like that.
Also, mm, what on earth do you think Obama's mantra of "change" was all about anyway? I happen to like America, its constitution and the liberties and freedom guaranteed us, I took the mantra of change a bit more serious, I read more into it, and I think I was right, and I am frankly offended by it. My dad and I did not risk our lives in the military for a guy like Obama to give the country away, or to change it into some socialist state.
To back up a bit, I have a good friend that supported Obama, and he still does, I just think he is not seeing what is going on. I have studied the man, and I read his book. I have also listened to many of his speeches very closely. I admit it is an objective judgement I have made about Obama, but I think you must realize one thing, extreme socialists or Marxists are not going to admit it freely. I had to argue and coax before I actually got cyclops to admit he has Marxist sympathies as well. Marxism and Communism are not popular words, but be aware mm that there are in fact many people running around today that believe in those philosophies, and many of them are in politics these days. And there are many on this forum as well.
mm, also realize Obama is not able to institute all of what he would like to do soon, and I hope never, but that does not prove he harbors no Marxist sympathies in his heart and mind. I believe he does, yes, but hopefully he will fail with most of his initiatives, and I hope also that he could change some of his affections politically, that is also possible, after all the office of president must bring hims some serious thoughts to ponder, in terms of the reponsibility and the greatness of the country.
But I have decided to take the gloves off and quit sugarcoating my opinion. It is what it is, and I make no apologies. I believe in freedom and this country. I believe in capitalism, 100%, and you will seldom or never hear Obama say it convincingly, because I do not think he believes in those same things.
