That's schools of thought about Barack Obama, not of Barack Obama. If I tried to publish the latter, Mr. Gibbs would never let me post on Political Pistachio ever again. And my head would explode like Michael Ironside did to his colleague in Scanners:
We begin with a subset of the "Obama is a dictator" school of thought, brought to us by Dr. Walter Williams: "Obama as Soros puppet":
Well, there's no question that The One is "beyond learning"; not because he's incapable of it (or was - the ability may well have completely atrophied and petrified by now), but because his stupendous narcissism and hard-left extremism do not permit his conscious mind to even contemplate the need. Why bother to learn when you already know everything? The mindset that brought us.....ObamaCare.
But I do not believe that O is a Soros puppet. A bagman, sure; but the term "puppet" implies that Red Barry wouldn't be doing what he's been doing and is doing and is yet to do were George Soros not pulling his strings, and that clearly is not the case. Communizing America is what Barack Obama was born, raised, trained, indoctrinated, and brainwashed to do, and his inbred megalomaniacal egotism filled in whatever cracks that lifetime of ideological programming didn't. Put another way, without George Soros, King Hussein might not be in power, but he'd still be the American Castro.
Turning back to the "Obama is incompetent" school of thought, we cite....Walter Williams. But he brings a key insight into it; being African-American himself, he laments the bad name the disastrous Obamidency is giving, ironically, to his own people:
"Back in 1947 when Jackie Robinson came into the Major Leagues … he had to be that good. Blacks could not afford an incompetent baseball player," Williams said.
"And as a result of Jackie Robinson, [Roy] Campanella, and all these other guys, I can get out and play baseball, and basketball as well, and nobody watching my behavior can say, 'Well damn, those blacks can't play baseball or basketball..'
"That is, right now we can afford, black people can afford incompetent baseball players or basketball players or football players but they cannot afford an incompetent president. And it turns out that Barack Obama is an incompetent president and a part of the tragedy of it."
It's rather reminiscent of Vulcan first contact protocols. In the Star Trek universe, Vulcan exploration vessels were crewed with the best people in each discipline, so that when they made first contact with an alien species, that people would see the best of Vulcan, not their equivalent of Peter Griffin and his buddies on an average weeknight at the Drunken Clam.
In the same way, one would have thought that black Americans would have wanted The First Black President to be the best, not a strutting fustercluck of a miserable failure. But that's what we got, and if one is of a predilection to believe that Americans are inescapable closet racists, that one would have to conclude that after this horrific experience, it might be generations before voters will take another chance on an African-American candidate.
Of course, these are the same people that would all but try to assassinate a man like Dr. Williams, or a Dr. Ben Carson, or a South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, if any of them successfully sought the presidency, so your mileage may vary.
At any rate, who bears the blame for this? Sixty-two million numbnuts:
But he said that says more about Americans than about Obama.
"This is the first time in our history that a person could have been elected to the highest office in the land who had long-time associations with people who hate our country such as Rev. [Jeremiah] Wright, who said, well black people should not sing God Bless America but … Damn America," Williams said.
"He was a long-time associate with Willie Ayers, who bombed the building along with his wife and other shady characters and so this says something about the American people who would elect a person to office like that."
And (allegedly) re-elect him. That the best explanation is a toxic stew of white guilt and the Affirmative Action mentality speaks to how appalling is the state of political culture in this country, for which ObamaCare may at last be the camel-back-breaking straw.
And, lastly, a terminal turn from boobery back to tyranny, courtesy of George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley:
Republican lawmakers have complained that Obama's changes to the healthcare law, including delays and tweaks of certain parts of it that are causing problems, are unconstitutional because they must be passed through Congress.
"The Framers [of the U.S. Constitution] would have been appalled that you can have very clear violations of the Constitution, but literally no one can actually get a hearing to review them," Turley said.
"At a minimum, courts should recognize that members of Congress have standing to challenge these types of rules and policies. If they did, many of these things would be struck down.
"We have the emergence of what is often called an imperial presidency, something that we have resisted for generations."
And to which we have finally fallen.
Exit question: How do "We, The People" terminate King Hussein's "royal prerogative"? Something tells me O has already planned for that contingency. Still think he's incompetent?
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