I think he's evasive and angry, for sure. But where does the ideological stance transition to certified cuckoo?
Of course, a bad philosophy can cause mental health issues (i.e. David Hume). Holding contradictions is a great way to achieve raving lunacy. Stalin said a lie told often enough becomes the truth. I think we can certify him as a sociopath (Rand called his kind the Attila). For Obama, the only consistent outcome to his policies have been to divide the US into fragments and erode its foundation. That is to say, he is eroding capitalism. Name it: Obama-Care, Guantanamo, Cuba, Syria, military spending, prison reform, etc.
Thankfully, he has not totally understood or been courageous enough to severely limit individual rights. But the libtards fill that gap. These political Jotun erode that by giving anatomically male students the right to shower with anatomically female students. All these negations make our enemies feel stronger. The extremist elements wish to institute Sharia law and can use Taqiya (defined as communicating falsehoods in order to protect Islam) to implement double standards. We are expected to want to limit real rights (life, liberty, property) because of the absurdity of fake rights (economic, educational, etc.).
That is, invent fake rights to erode real rights, take control of the culture, take control of the economics, take control of the individuals. Change your story each time because there are no objective principles but mob rule.. that's what's happening. It's an ingenious power ploy to get back at... the happy for being the happy, the successful for being the successful, the good for being the good.
Obama is not so far from this set of beliefs. Does that make him crazy? It doesn't matter as much as the fact that it makes him dangerous.
Obama is pathologically ideological. His belief structure combined with his ego drives his actions. As a result he is so completely convinced that he is right that objective reality plays no part in his thinking. His goals go far beyond collectivism. He wants to destroy anything and everything that conflicts with his world view. Is that insanity? Or is it something far worse?
Lots of declaration and conclusions but no arguments, evidence or support for them.
Ever heard of Cosmopolitanism? Cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all human beings belong to a single community, based on a shared morality. A person who adheres to the idea of cosmopolitanism in any of its forms is called a cosmopolitan or cosmopolite. IMO, to understand President Obama's administration I need to understand American philosophy and/or Cosmopolitanism.
Appears? I were to know of you or you of me what appearance would we be presenting that we could say of the other, I know what philosophy you embrace without our identifying it outright?
Yours are personal actions. President Obama presents a man engaging Cosmopolitanism. Now whether other cultures have the same appreciation of a Cosmopolitanist for all humans having a common moral sense may not be justified. In fact I find it a bit naive but still find in its practice a reasonable likeness to American Pragmatism being exercised in world affairs by his State Department and internally in the national endeavors to give all a chance at health care and education. Not a worthy philosophy? Certainly more worthy than one which would find approval in a ten minute test to see if a citizen is smart enough to vote. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/...
but the founders only allowed male land-owners to vote. and the "common moral sense" to which you refer is not evident in BHO's actions. . he is raping this country for personal power and legacy. -- j .
So you say, but is he unique in that aspect? What? Was President Obama the first to institute Federal Wild country ownership and Federal Parks? Lest you give me some particulars I can't just be convinced on pejoratives only, or do you insist I must be?
we have, in my humble opinion, had presidents and other "representatives" of the people committing nasties on the citizenry for more than a century. . take the Fed, for example. or the disconnection of the currency from an objective standard. . or "social security," a scheme through which votes are bought with your money while you think it's waiting for you and age 65. . need I go on? . BHO will have rung up more federal debt than all of his predecessors, and that is one wrong thing -- no pejorative needed. . regardless of his excuses, it is rape. -- j .
There are 535 who have the power to exact change. Blame one person if you must. I find it naive and a necessity to have a scapegoat. Scapegoats have a function. Debt? Spending and taxing originates in the House, not with President Obama who but presents a budget. Which budget of his has been approved as is?
why on earth are you arguing FOR this abysmal failure of a president? scapegoat? . start with Reed and Pelosi. . continue with Schumer and the grafters associated with the keystone pipeline. the fact that the house approves the dollars spent makes their scapegoat eligibility rise to a hundred percent like BHO's. I would run them all out of town on a rail. . fire them all and hire new. -- j .
I'm not defending President Obama so much as critiquing your argument, which to date has not the form of an argument to it, only declarations. IMO, the 535 are ALL scapegoats that the massive bureaucracy, the REAL looters require to stay employed on our hard earned labor and managerial skills. Running out all of them and allowing the bureaucracy to remain is an exercise in futility if the expected result is ... well what is it? Gold standard? What of the overpopulation? Atlas Shrugged was science fiction remember like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Both transmit a societal philosophy confined by the authors' visions.
The "elephant in the room" of the globe is population. The higher the society's education, the lower the reproduction rate. The hope is that intelligence is not selected against. A long range view from an 8 year stint as President MUST, IMO address the population Malthusian trap. Is President Obama working for that? In that question is how my concerns over President Obama's actions are centered. Japan, now Italy is the nation with the smallest population growth. Immigration not included. The ramifications of an ignorant immigration wave becoming educated and reducing its population growth rate is the hope. Has that education to population growth reduction holding with Islamic immigrants? I can't say I've ever seen such demographics, but then I've not looked very hard, perhaps in Iran?
you say population, but I think that you mean world culture -- you are concerned that the world is becoming more stupid because of reproduction trends. . I agree. . and the education which people in even the "best" countries are receiving is so distorted that the majority of the world's population is not being led forward by it.
do you consider that Rand's vision was wrong in some way? I also loved Harsh Mistress, and thought that Heinlein's vision was also very fine. . and I am absolutely certain that BHO's vision is directly aimed at every negative aspect of humanity's future. . he wants a fascistic form of government here, supervised by an elite who want personal aggrandizement at the expense of a permanent underclass held captive within a system of inducement and welfare.
the future absolutely requires that Rand or Heinlein's vision be more common than not, and that is why I am trying to contribute so heavily here. . (and the people are fun!)
I'm here to advance the arguments quality by insisting on you giving more than conclusions, for the moment and more in the way of evidence and supporting true premises to connect with the conclusion. All I see are many words of but conclusions. Sure I know you're convinced but how do you know you're convinced. WHY? What convinces you?
obvious things make up the evidence, for me -- the manipulation of the money to support the stock market, the effective withdrawal of southern border patrol and dissolution of border constraints, the eager movement of the invaders into position to vote for the granters of amnesty, the replacement of our military leadership with weak-kneed generals while the strong ones are run off, the systematic advancement of Muslim participation in the u.s. while Christian and Jewish influences are diminished or ignored, the serious slights to Israel in deference to Iran, the insane "Iran deal" which gives away our influence with Iran, the stupid transpacific partnership and alliance with the u.n. to give up u.s. sovereignty, and the refusal to celebrate traditional u.s. holidays like easter.
do you want more evidence? . the fact that these progressive instigators will not practice the "tolerance" which they profess to support ... they will not let Fox news do a democrat debate.
there is so much more, but maybe you get my drift. -- j
p.s. I neglected to mention the nationalization of the u.s. health insurance market. . immoral. .
BHO like many other politicians is addicted to power! He will soon go from being the most powerful man in this world to completely powerless. He sees his legacy going to rubble and also sees that he will be rated one of the worst Presidents this country has ever had. Of course he is mad, angry, afraid and most of all not yet done dismantling anything he can that this country cherishes. His most telling quote, "I will stand with the Muslims" and he certainly has. Expect to see his Executive Order pen working over time in the next 12 months.
A comment of 'I hope so' becomes 'not soon enough.' Question if a President is removed being judged as incapable how much of - as you suggested - executive orders etc. are nullified at what point would that start if at all.
Any and all Executive orders by a sitting President can be deemed null and void by his successor. More often than not what we end up seeing are the orders that can be left in place as a benefit to the new President remain in effect while those deemed non beneficial are cancelled quickly.
He has some of the classic traits of being a sociopath - narcissistic, detached, charismatic, liar. He grew up under the foggy mental cloud of Islam and Marxist activism. The book seems to make a very interesting case about how and why his irrational thinking and anger could devolve. I've noticed how he manipulates through code words and the idea that he really means nuclear climate change is very compelling.
We've entered the most dangerous part of BHO's presidency (last year and a half). Watch out for reckless irresponsible executive orders against Americans. BHO: The Audacity of Deceit. 666?
If they get to the point they ignore disapproval and an override of his veto, then we will have some serious issues. I wonder at what point the military steps in and says" Sir, we must respectfully ask you to pack you damn baggage and go away".
I had attributed Obama's over the top positions as simply leftist ideology, but when he began addressing military audiences, stating that the biggest threat to our national interests was climate change, I began to suspect he was a few cards shy of a full deck.
I don't want to give BHO the McNaghten Excuse: that he cannot tell right from wrong. Or the Durfee Excuse: that he is irresistibly impelled to do what he does.
I always though BHO was delusional based on his insane actions and his pride in them. I think that heactually thinks that he is doing good and has accomplished much to change America for the better. All the negative talk against his beliefs makes him furious that people can't see all the good he's done. The puppets never realize that they are controlled by puppet masters. What should Obama be remembered as? The Meat Puppet President."
How can so many be so right about this fellow, easy, it is because he is not dealing with a full deck. The power of the presidency has gone to his head. He has made so many bad decisions that have been pointed out over the past 6 years that it is taking it's toll. I suspect every thing we read or hear from people in power all over the world who point out his bad decisions can't be wrong. If it were one now and then okay but it is becoming a chorus. I wonder how bad it is going to get for the remainder of 0's term? All I can say is brace your selves.
The situation we are in with Obama as President is the fault of the stupid b--t--ds who voted for him.As to the shrink making those comments, as much as I despise Obama, I remember an article Ayn Rand wrote about "The Psychology of Psychologizing", where she wrote of some psy- chiatrists (or psychologists? or both?) "permit- ting themselves" to diagnose "a man they had never met." And she expressed satisfaction at Goldwater's winning his suit against them.
Of course, a bad philosophy can cause mental health issues (i.e. David Hume). Holding contradictions is a great way to achieve raving lunacy. Stalin said a lie told often enough becomes the truth. I think we can certify him as a sociopath (Rand called his kind the Attila). For Obama, the only consistent outcome to his policies have been to divide the US into fragments and erode its foundation. That is to say, he is eroding capitalism. Name it: Obama-Care, Guantanamo, Cuba, Syria, military spending, prison reform, etc.
Thankfully, he has not totally understood or been courageous enough to severely limit individual rights. But the libtards fill that gap. These political Jotun erode that by giving anatomically male students the right to shower with anatomically female students.
All these negations make our enemies feel stronger. The extremist elements wish to institute Sharia law and can use Taqiya (defined as communicating falsehoods in order to protect Islam) to implement double standards. We are expected to want to limit real rights (life, liberty, property) because of the absurdity of fake rights (economic, educational, etc.).
That is, invent fake rights to erode real rights, take control of the culture, take control of the economics, take control of the individuals. Change your story each time because there are no objective principles but mob rule.. that's what's happening. It's an ingenious power ploy to get back at... the happy for being the happy, the successful for being the successful, the good for being the good.
Obama is not so far from this set of beliefs. Does that make him crazy? It doesn't matter as much as the fact that it makes him dangerous.
.
Ever heard of Cosmopolitanism? Cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all human beings belong to a single community, based on a shared morality. A person who adheres to the idea of cosmopolitanism in any of its forms is called a cosmopolitan or cosmopolite. IMO, to understand President Obama's administration I need to understand American philosophy and/or Cosmopolitanism.
he appears to lack one for himself. -- j
.
I went to engineering school instead of other choices
I chose to accept a usaf "scholarship" with the
accompanying service obligation
I carried my paperback copy of AS with my books,
as a conversation starter
I used fuel-conserving vehicles and lived within my means
don't there seem to be things which hint at a philosophy
in a person's actions? -- j
.
and the "common moral sense" to which you refer
is not evident in BHO's actions. . he is raping this country
for personal power and legacy. -- j
.
"representatives" of the people committing nasties on the
citizenry for more than a century. . take the Fed, for example.
or the disconnection of the currency from an objective
standard. . or "social security," a scheme through which
votes are bought with your money while you think it's waiting
for you and age 65. . need I go on? . BHO will have rung up
more federal debt than all of his predecessors, and that is one
wrong thing -- no pejorative needed. . regardless of his
excuses, it is rape. -- j
.
of a president?
scapegoat? . start with Reed and Pelosi. . continue with Schumer
and the grafters associated with the keystone pipeline.
the fact that the house approves the dollars spent makes their
scapegoat eligibility rise to a hundred percent like BHO's.
I would run them all out of town on a rail. . fire them all
and hire new. -- j
.
The "elephant in the room" of the globe is population. The higher the society's education, the lower the reproduction rate. The hope is that intelligence is not selected against. A long range view from an 8 year stint as President MUST, IMO address the population Malthusian trap. Is President Obama working for that? In that question is how my concerns over President Obama's actions are centered. Japan, now Italy is the nation with the smallest population growth. Immigration not included. The ramifications of an ignorant immigration wave becoming educated and reducing its population growth rate is the hope. Has that education to population growth reduction holding with Islamic immigrants? I can't say I've ever seen such demographics, but then I've not looked very hard, perhaps in Iran?
you are concerned that the world is becoming more stupid
because of reproduction trends. . I agree. . and the education
which people in even the "best" countries are receiving
is so distorted that the majority of the world's population
is not being led forward by it.
do you consider that Rand's vision was wrong in some way?
I also loved Harsh Mistress, and thought that Heinlein's
vision was also very fine. . and I am absolutely certain
that BHO's vision is directly aimed at every negative
aspect of humanity's future. . he wants a fascistic form
of government here, supervised by an elite who want personal
aggrandizement at the expense of a permanent underclass
held captive within a system of inducement and welfare.
the future absolutely requires that Rand or Heinlein's vision
be more common than not, and that is why I am trying to contribute
so heavily here. . (and the people are fun!)
I wonder exactly why you are here, mw. -- j
.
obvious things make up the evidence, for me -- the manipulation
of the money to support the stock market, the effective withdrawal
of southern border patrol and dissolution of border constraints,
the eager movement of the invaders into position to vote
for the granters of amnesty, the replacement of our military leadership
with weak-kneed generals while the strong ones are run off, the systematic
advancement of Muslim participation in the u.s. while Christian
and Jewish influences are diminished or ignored, the
serious slights to Israel in deference to Iran, the insane "Iran deal"
which gives away our influence with Iran, the stupid transpacific
partnership and alliance with the u.n. to give up u.s. sovereignty,
and the refusal to celebrate traditional u.s. holidays like easter.
do you want more evidence? . the fact that these progressive
instigators will not practice the "tolerance" which they profess to
support ... they will not let Fox news do a democrat debate.
there is so much more, but maybe you get my drift. -- j
p.s. I neglected to mention the nationalization of the u.s.
health insurance market. . immoral.
.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/obama-may-...
If they get to the point they ignore disapproval and an override of his veto, then we will have some serious issues. I wonder at what point the military steps in and says" Sir, we must respectfully ask you to pack you damn baggage and go away".
I don't want to give BHO the McNaghten Excuse: that he cannot tell right from wrong. Or the Durfee Excuse: that he is irresistibly impelled to do what he does.
He knows what he's doing.
Let him get what's coming to him.
the fault of the stupid b--t--ds who voted for him.As
to the shrink making those comments, as much as
I despise Obama, I remember an article Ayn Rand
wrote about "The Psychology of Psychologizing", where she wrote of some psy-
chiatrists (or psychologists? or both?) "permit-
ting themselves" to diagnose "a man they had
never met." And she expressed satisfaction at
Goldwater's winning his suit against them.