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At best, Obama is an attractive symbol for America and a compelling communicator; but he’s
1.   Not an executive. He’s shown an utter inability to focus, to set priorities and to consider 2nd and 3rd order or long-term consequences to his actions.  Lack of focus on priorities is fatal as a CEO; (but, maybe  less so for a political leader?)
2.   Not a steward or fiduciary for America.  Obama clearly does not see his primary job  as one of overseeing the security and well-being of America during his tenure as its chief  executive.  He’s not only unwilling to stand up for America, but he also regularly seems to go out of his way to apologize for her history.  This makes it apparent that he believes his most important job is to change America into what he and Michelle think it should have been had we not suffered the Founders’ flawed vision.

At worst, Obama’s aims seem truly radical (if stealth); his methods pure Alinsky; and his success derivative of obfuscating the truth, creating crises, and rushing changes into law that no one can possibly absorb under artificial deadlines — all aimed at limiting private property rights, changing the Constitution and forever altering our free market system?

For those who consider Obama’s training and background irrelevant, they can now evaluate him as a Commander-in-Chief and CEO from what he’s done over his first 6 months.

Among many other things, these evidences have come in the form of:
1.   A $787B “stimulus” package (sold as preventing a “crisis from becoming catastrophe”)
2.   The failure to focus on addressing the banking crisis as “Job  One”
3.   The migration of TARP funds to non-banking concerns, viz., auto industry
4.   Announcing tax increases in the middle of a  recession
5.   Failure to identify projects to fund job creation (Thus, <10% of stimulus yet spent)
6.   Announcing that there would be “no pork” or “earmarks” in the “stimulus” package in order to get it passed without review when there were nearly 10,000 buried in the  unread bill (including a $9B high-speed rail line to Las Vegas for Harry Reid)
7.   Bailouts of the banking and auto  industries
8.   The appointment of a 31-year-old to manage the recreation of the auto companies
9.   The exalting of union claims above those of bondholders (violating a 200+ year history of  contract law/property rights)
10.               The appointment of 34 unvetted  “czars” — creating more than in the House of Romanov between 1762 and 1917!
11.               The failure to appoint a Cabinet of tax-paying, competent Americans  (reason for the move to the Czar system of administration?)
12.               The appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court despite an apparent lack of qualifications and judicial temperament,
13.               The dark-of-night passage of “Cap and Trade” legislation  (300-page-long addendum inserted at 3AM the morning of the vote in the  House)
14.               The high pressure tactics to rush through a budget-busting $1.6T takeover of healthcare.
15.               Phony “townhall” meetings with a fake cross-section of  Americans selling Obamacare on ABC.
16.               “Lying” about budget deficits — projecting 4% GDP growth by year-end.
17.               “Lying” about job losses — projecting that if Congress would just ram through the “stimulus” that job losses could be halted at 8%  (currently on their way to 10% and rising).
18.               “Lying” about the costs of nationalized healthcare — (just as when politicians projected Medicare’s cost in 1990 to be $3 billion, its actual cost turned out in 1990 to $98 billion — 30 times as  much)
19.               Pretending that new entitlement programs will  provide lower costs, better care, no significant tax increases, more competition (as government joins the fray!?) and keeping current private options.  Claiming “free” healthcare will  make America more competitive is baffling.   Everyone knows the above are lies; but no one seems ready to call them  out.
20.               Forcing the “stimulus” package on states to impinge on “States  Rights”
21.               Failing to support the freedom-loving citizens  in Honduras and  Iran (and instead, giving comfort to  their dictators) to say nothing of his ineffectiveness with North Korea and anti-Israeli pronouncements.
22.               Allocating $4B of “stimulus” funds to ACORN, the  voter fraud thugs.
23.               Seeking to push through Union Card Check, the so-called “Fairness  Doctrine,” and threats to take away 2nd Amendment rights (see Eric Holder),  etc.
24.               Moving the heretofore non-partisan census into the Whitehouse under the direction of Rahm Emanuel.
Change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.”
Note how closely Obama is following the rules for internal revolution, based on Alinsky’s specific instructions:

1.   Pursue an “Ideology of Change” (Alinsky’s phrase for the most effective way to market revolution)
2.   Target the banks that serve the steel, auto, and other industries.
3.   Start class warfare — Fuel the anger of what Alinsky calls the “Have-Nots,” and the “Have-some-but-want-mores” against the“Haves.”
4.   Use crises to create  fear.
5.   Use pollution as a foil to grab power.
6.   Set up “jobs programs” to make workers dependent on government.
7.   Show supreme self-confidence.
8.   Make communication skills your key  weapon.
9.   Use simple catch phrases and vague  slogans (‘Of the Common Welfare, [Nazi  takeover of Germany],  ‘Bread and Peace,’ [Bolshevik Revolution])   In this context, it’s not hard to imagine that ‘Change’ & ‘The Audacity of Hope’ will one day be seen as the battle cry for the Obama revolution.
10.  Use deception  –  “…in war the end justifies almost any means.”
11.  Remain calm, appealing, likeable while inciting fear, conflict, defeat.

Thanks Denise

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