Obama Thinks Dangerously

Eventually I'll get around to an item I want to do on the way Obama thinks. He does not think like an average, or traditional American. He thinks like a Marxist. And once you realize that's just another way of saying collectivist, it's actually indisputable given what there is to work with already.

Any way, here's one new case in point:

MR. OBAMA: And, you know, the immediate bonuses that went to AIG are a problem. But the larger problem is we've got to get back to an attitude where people know enough is enough, and people have a sense of responsibility and they understand that their actions are going to have an impact on everybody. And if we can get back to those values that built America, then I think we're going to be okay.

And Leno's probably too much of a mope to even get it: 

(Applause.) MR. LENO: Well, you know, it’s interesting, when you said -– it's, like, I had to laugh the other day when the CEO of AIG said, okay, I've asked them to give half the bonuses back. Now, if you rob a bank and you go into court –- (laughter) –- and you go, Your Honor, I'm going to give you half the money back. (Laughter.) And they seem stunned that we’re not jumping at this wonderful offer.

Equating wealth creation to bank robbery, even if government regulations or over sight were bad, is not good. It isn't even funny. And as for Obama confusing a notoriously generous American spirit bred in freedom and Free Market Capitalism with our market system itself?

This is not good. The man has no grounding in Capitalism at all.

Comments

[Rick]

we've got to get back to an attitude where people know enough is enough, and people have a sense of responsibility and they understand that their actions are going to have an impact on everybody.

If you turn around the people who that statement is about you get a completely differently meaning.

How about people feeding at the public trough start knowing enough is enough and have a sense of responsibility and understand their actions have an impact on everybody.

[Roy Mustang]

God help us all.

One Big Ass Mistake America

[mark l.]

"we've got to get back to an attitude where people know enough is enough, and people have a sense of responsibility and they understand that their actions are going to have an impact on everybody."

that is so rich, coming from a guy who had to have his stimulus bill by president's day.

biggest off budget spending package, ever, and you have less than 12 hours to read it and vote for it...

when is the president going to realize that his actions have an impact on everybody?
when is he going to pursue a sense of responsibility? he wanted his bill, he got HIS bill. He was going to take credit for it, whether it succeeds or fails(and the msm reports it as a success, maybe he should take some responsibility.

currently he is delegating his authority to mob rule, after delegating his stimulus bill to nancy.
how's that working?

[ginger snaps]

Maybe the congress should give an example to the country and serve for a dollar and vow to pay their taxes and begin to take responsibility by taking continuing ed in Ethics. Maybe they should take some responsibility and remember that they are serving their country and its people instead of figuring out ways for their office to serve them and their unmitigated thirst for power. Maybe some of the Wall Street people are wrong but some of the Government people have been just as wrong. Americans are getting annoyed this is starting to look like "the pot calling the kettle black" as my grandma would say when she thought everyone was to blame.

[WBestPresidentEver]

Can you even imagine how bad it would be if he and his entire staff and their crews "were not on" their Prozac ? Congress has overdosed.

I still think people just don't get it. He is a wolf in sheeps clothing. No doubt about. He turns on his charm and people fall for it and think he is such a nice guy. If they only knew.

Please people wake the hell up.

All of Government has gone mad. They are trying to take the publics attention off of what they hell they are doing to this country with all this huge spending every single day and are focusing on those EVIL wall street rich people. LOL. The public is so stupid they are clinging to every word "it" says and congress is so pathetic and they know it that they blame all the economy problem either on the evil doers on Wall street or President Bush.

They all need to go and "THAT ONE" needs to resign now !

[Brian]

I never experienced the seventies as I was far too young but I have been told by my parents and others that they were some tough times. The Vietnam War situation and Watergate had soured many. Coupled with the Middle East troubles giving us gas lines and airplane hijackings. The craziness with Patty Hearst and the SLA radicals. And then the Whip Inflation Now moments during Ford's presidency. It all culminated with Carter's inflation, hostage crisis, three mile island nuclear episode, gas lines again, and just a stagflation-like malaise striking America.

I see this as my generation's seventies. We have the worry of terrorism, the economic fear of stagflation, and just a downright funk in our spirits. The irony is that Obama ran on a campaign of Hope and Change and it has been nothing but. The glory and the solution to all our troubles has been invested in the government and not the people. God help us.

The welfare state is unsustainable. We are currently headed towards financial oblivion. I don't know how my generation is going to overcome their blind, ignorant adulation of a man who has sold them out. Where will they be when they are called upon to pay back the money owed to the Chinese? Retirement safety net will be nothing. Even if they promise Social Security benefits they will be nearly worthless due to the inflationary policies. They will weaken the value of the dollar to pay back the debt. And then it will become a situation that our creditors will start demanding payment in hard value such as gold.

This is truly a frightening future for the health of the United States. And I must say as a resident of the dysfunction that is the state of California, we are the country's future 10 years ahead. It sadly looks like California will tax itself into bankruptcy and financial ruin. The US feds may have to bail the state out but WHO will bail out the US ten years later?

Our country must get its finances in order immediately. God help us.

[WBestPresidentEver]

Amen Brian ! Amen..
God help us somehow, someway.
Please come down here soon. We need you bad.

[rssg]

The Fresh Prince of Hot Air barely qualifies as an American, that's why he doesn't think like an American.

Our Halfrican Prince was brought up, in and around communists, anarchists, muslims and assorted socialist-intellectuals. Duh. That's why he is the way he is.

God help us.

[Xerocky]

"MR. OBAMA: And, you know, the immediate bonuses that went to AIG are a problem. But the larger problem is we've got to get back to an attitude where people know enough is enough, and people have a sense of responsibility and they understand that their actions are going to have an impact on everybody. And if we can get back to those values that built America, then I think we're going to be okay"

The thing that strikes me the most about the above words, is just how vague and meaningless they are.

"The bonuses are a problem." Why? Because the public noticed them? If the public hadn't ever found out would they still be a huge problem?

"But the larger problem is we've got to get back to an attitude where people know enough is enough, and people have a sense of responsibility and they understand that their actions are going to have an impact on everybody."

What do you mean? Who do you mean? Barny Frank? Frank Raines? Didn't YOU Mr. Obama take $100K from AIG? Didn't Mr. Dodd as well? And then you bailed them out... so...what are you talking about?

"And if we can get back to those values that built America, then I think we're going to be okay""

Who are the "WE" that you're talking about? "We" the afore mentioned group that I just listed? Or "WE" the people of the United States of America. Because I have news for you, "WE" didn't do this. "WE" didn't pressure banks into giving loans to people who couldn’t possibly pay them back. YOU did. ACORN did. We didn't issue credit default swaps way beyond our ability to pay, which was business stupid no matter how you slice it, and then go begging for a bailout, 3x (or more, stay tuned!!!)

So who are you talking about when you say "WE"?

Mr. Obama, try to be more clear,and less vague. Please try to speak in complete sentences.Please try to say exactly what you mean.Please try to say something that would be considered ...leadership.

[Lala]

He's so eloquent when he's saying nothing, isn't he?
I just don't get how anyone at all says this guy is a great speaker. It's all empty air.

[13yankeebravo]

He's not socialist but fasicist.

[Mark Turner]

Obama's penchant for socialist thought almost approaches Marxism. I live in Singapore, which has a non-Marxist socialist government similar in principle to much of Europe. However, while the government here subsidizes many programs, there is no entitlement mentality (it is actually considered shameful or embarrassing to rely too much on government handouts). There is also no class warfare or protectionist approach; the government values social harmony, foreign investment, foreign talent, free trade, and free market capitalism in general as a mechanism for sustainable growth. I do not see these characteristics in Obama, and wonder what he and his Europhile followers actually want for America -- it doesn't sound good, whatever it is.

[smoothjim]

Somebody ask Jay Leno how many cars are enough.