I have been having a nagging intuition lately
that something is not quite right about Barack Obama. I am not
suggesting there is something wrong with the man, per se. Nor am I
talking about the crazy, even dangerous, policies coming out of the
White House. No, lately, I have been wondering if Barack Obama is,
in fact, the person who is actually functioning as President of the
United States.
I mean, there's no doubt that he fills the
position of POTUS but is he really the one in command? The man
actually seems lost at times. He seems to be reacting to ideas about
which he does not really have a clue. He has left the writing of
this health care bill to Nancy Pelosi's House of Representatives and
she, in turn, has farmed the writing out to several fairly radical
community action groups. When questioned about health care, he seems
not to know or understand the details and even with his
silver-tongue seems unable to demonstrate any leadership on the
issue.
With respect to Afghanistan and the rest of our
foreign policy, he seems equally lost. Especially when it comes to
dealing with other world leaders. He makes beautiful speeches but
seems to be unable to cut deals which benefit our nation. He seems
to be acting as a pawn of much more clever world leaders.
The more I watch the man, the more I see a person
who appears to be the "face" of some other entity or group. He seems
like a "front man". And it is becoming clear that his strings are
being pulled by someone else. He does not appear to be the man in
command of the ship of state. At least, he is not in the driver's
seat.
You might recall that people said about Bush that
he was a front man for the neo-cons and that it was really Dick
Cheney that was running the show. It turns out that Dick Cheney was
not as influential in Bush's second term as many thought but,
perhaps it is true that the neo-cons, whoever they may be, were
pulling some of Bush's strings.
On the other hand, with Obama, it does not appear
that there is anyone who is visible to we the people or the media
who is pulling the strings. If they are there, they are not in
elected positions as Cheney was. They are better hidden than that.
We know that he has been and remains surrounded
by life-long radicals, professed communists and anti-capitalists,
some of whom he has even appointed as czars in his administration.
Thirty six czars, to date. But is it Obama who is picking the czars
or is it the czars who are running the show and propping up Obama as
their front man?
I know all this may sound crazy but, really, when
you look at the man without the idolatry and media worship, does he
really look like he knows what he is doing? Does he seem to have a
direction? Firm convictions? Something he deeply believes in? The
more he talks now, the more his words seems empty of content.
Platitudes about America and the American people which, when he says
them, simply do not ring true. They are words being mouthed but not
believed by him.
Okay, so maybe he is really clever, is firmly
moving the ship to the left while mouthing the words of a centrist
but I don't think so. What I used to think was that he was a really
slick conman who was making us watch his left hand while he was
manipulating us with his right. But, now I don't think that so much.
I think the man is more plastic than real. Now I begin to see him as
the "Great and Powerful Oz": a fearsome presence who is being
manipulated by men behind the curtain. And while Obama does not have
strong convictions, the men behind the curtain do. And they are
moving this country down a dangerous path. All the while, we are
being distracted by Obama and what he says and does.
Okay, maybe I am simply a mildly paranoid
conspiracy theorist. Why, you might ask, have Obama up there? Why
not have one of the actual people behind the curtain run for
President. Well, being a paranoid conspiracy theorist, I can come up
with an answer to that question. Those other people behind the
curtain have backgrounds that are so radical that they would never
have made it past the first few days of a campaign. Additionally,
they are life-long community organizers and they know what kind of
face can be effective if you wish to radically change the nation.
First, you need a black man to gain the support
of the vast black minority. Second, you need a pale skinned black
man so as not to be too much of a threat to white Americans. For the
same reasons, you need a mixed race man who allies himself with the
poor and down-trodden. And you need someone who speaks well enough
to co-opt the language of the right and appear to be a uniter, not a
divider. Someone who sees, or at least can articulate, both sides of
an issue. This is the kind of man you would pick to be your front
man so that while you move things drastically and dramatically left,
the vast majority of Americans will not believe that was the
intention of the moderate appearing front man.
Yes, Obama was a community organizer. Yes, he
could be clever enough to have all this be his idea. But he really
wasn't a community organizer for that long. And when he was, he
didn't do anything truly radical. It was more a time during which he
was being trained than a time when he was driven by a personal sense
of commitment to anything in particular. There are people who are
now in his government who have been community organizers and radical
left wing activists for 20-30 years. These people have deeply
ingrained commitments to changing the system and have been actively
trying to do so for all that time. Obama is not one of them.
In my view, Obama has been trained and used as a
puppet by others for a long time. His successes seem to have come
too easily, as if they have been orchestrated. His life appears to
have been pre-planned. I mean, Harvard Law Review without publishing
a single paper of note. That is unusual. A community organizer for a
short time, a State legislator for a few years, a freshman US
Senator, a convention key-note speaker, and then POTUS. How does
that happen? A person with zero governmental administrative
experience is running the entire government of the United States.
How do 1100 page documents get developed and put
out in such short order? Who is writing all these proposals? Does it
not seem that something is just not quite right here? Forget about
the specifics of the policies for the moment. Have you seen this
level of activity in the first few months of any other
administration in your lifetime? Does Obama seem like the kind of
person that could manage this level of activity in so short a time?
Too much does not make sense here.
So, slowly but surely, I am becoming convinced
that it is not Barack Obama who is running the show. The White House
has been captured by a group of people who are using Barack Obama as
their front man. He is nothing but an articulate but empty suit. We
have to start looking behind the curtains to find out who is really
controlling the "great and powerful Obama".
Something to think about...
