How Obama Thinks

[Zeus]

How Obama Thinks
Dinesh D'Souza
Forbes Magazine dated September 27, 2010

The President isn't exactly a socialist. So what's driving his hostility to private enterprise? Look to his roots.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy. The Weekly Standard summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad.

The President's actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and supporters alike. Consider this headline from the Aug. 18, 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal: "Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling." Did you read that correctly? You did. The Administration supports offshore drilling--but drilling off the shores of Brazil. With Obama's backing, the U.S. Export-Import Bank offered $2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras to finance exploration in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro--not so the oil ends up in the U.S. He is funding Brazilian exploration so that the oil can stay in Brazil.

More strange behavior: Obama's June 15, 2010 speech in response to the Gulf oil spill focused not on cleanup strategies but rather on the fact that Americans "consume more than 20% of the world's oil but have less than 2% of the world's resources." Obama railed on about "America's century-long addiction to fossil fuels." What does any of this have to do with the oil spill? Would the calamity have been less of a problem if America consumed a mere 10% of the world's resources?

The oddities go on and on. Obama's Administration has declared that even banks that want to repay their bailout money may be refused permission to do so. Only after the Obama team cleared a bank through the Fed's "stress test" was it eligible to give taxpayers their money back. Even then, declared Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, the Administration might force banks to keep the money.

An interesting and good read

[true_blood]

That was a good read. Thanks for posting.
Mike Savage talked about this a bit last night on his radio show. Glenn Beck talked about this about a month ago;
The President's actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and supporters alike. Consider this headline from the Aug. 18, 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal: "Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling." Did you read that correctly? You did. The Administration supports offshore drilling--but drilling off the shores of Brazil. With Obama's backing, the U.S. Export-Import Bank offered $2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras to finance exploration in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro--not so the oil ends up in the U.S. He is funding Brazilian exploration so that the oil can stay in Brazil.
Now, why would a POTUS, order a moratorium on American off shore drilling, create job losses and possibly edge gas prices up here in America? Why give Brazil or Mexico all that money, especially in these trying times, to help fund them? Doesn't make sense does it? Is he the President of the United States or Brazil or Mexico? He's definitely not looking out for America's best interests or the American people's best interests, that's for sure.
(Kind of sounds like that whole "redistribute the wealth" thing to me.)

[dutch508]

(Kind of sounds like that whole "redistribute the wealth" thing to me.)

Of course the USA must lower it's standards of living so the rest of the world can rise. You think Barry simply meant spread the wealth around the USA?

[true_blood]

Of course the USA must lower it's standards of living so the rest of the world can rise. You think Barry simply meant spread the wealth around the USA?

Very true! I agree.
America has had it "good" for so long, it's time for other Countries to experience some wealth and prosperity. That's the Obummer's thinking.

[Freeper]

Of course the USA must lower it's standards of living so the rest of the world can rise. You think Barry simply meant spread the wealth around the USA?

How about he spreads his own wealth around and leaves the rest of us alone?
I don't even have any wealth yet all his policies are taking money from me to fund his crap.

[JohnnyReb]

He thinks?????....I would have never guessed.

[MrsSmith]

This is more than interesting, it explain most of his moronic moves.  Moronic, that is, for someone that loves America and the American dream.  If D'Souza is correct, Obama is worse than a typical America-hating leftist idiot, he is the worst type of hypocrite...having taken and used every one of the things he is trying to take away from the rest of us...being the sort that will raise energy costs because HE can afford to heat and cool HIS house as he pleases, the sort that will use any means possible to kiss up to Muslims while actively covering up and removing Christian symbols... and followers.  He is a pompous fool.

And he is the most powerful person on the planet.   

[NHSparky]

Barruh never heard of the expression, "A rising tide lifts all boats--unless you're chained to the bottom and then you're pretty much ****ed."

Or maybe he has and just wants to make sure those chains on our feet are nice and strong.

[AllosaursRus]

Barruh never heard of the expression, "A rising tide lifts all boats--unless you're chained to the bottom and then you're pretty much ****ed."

Or maybe he has and just wants to make sure those chains on our feet are nice and strong.

All the while wearin' a life preserver and handin' them out to his buddies so they survive and we drown!

[JohnnyReb]

  He is a pompous fool.

And he is was the most powerful person on the planet.   

The world now goes... ....at him.

[true_blood]

The world now goes... ....at him.

I actually give him one of these = 
HA HA!