MUST READ: Michael Goodwin Calls Obama a Manchurian Candidate
Michael Goodwin of the New York Daily News has an outstanding opinion piece that pretty much sums up my feelings towards the entire political culture at this point. Here is the key passage:
Yet even “Tonight” host Jay Leno broke from full flattery to reveal his qualms about the meaning of the bonus tax. “Here’s something that kind of scared me,” he said. “If the government decides they don’t like a guy, all of a sudden, hey, we’re going to tax you and then, boom, and it passes.”
Obama brushed it off, part of an endless road show claim that he will bring back “common sense” to the financial system and restore “those values that built America.”
If only. In truth, there is no history for what he is doing. He is the most radical President of our times, far outside the mainstream of our political philosophy.
He is not a reformer who fixes things. He fancies himself “transformative,” a man who reshapes and reorders. It apparently begins with smashing the existing order under the pretext of managing the crisis he inherited.
During the campaign, a fellow journalist confided that “I know Obama is a Manchurian candidate, I just can’t figure out what for.”
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What is he a Manchurian candidate for? This is the question of the day, and perhaps the decade. The problem is that we do not know, nor have we ever known, who this man truly is. We blindly elected a man based on not a single scrap of evidence that his rhetoric had any substance. Now we are saddled with his own peculiar brand of transformation – a brand that is festooned with inexperience, flawed social theory and – apparently – anger.
Since I was in High School I judged the character and actions of our political leaders based on the simple question of whether they ‘truly believed that what they were lobbying for was the best course of action for the country’. In short, whether they believed what they were saying. Pretty much overwhelmingly I believed that they did – with a few glaring and obvious exceptions. This time I don’t. I’m truly scared that we have a president who not only takes the oath of office lightly, but actually wants to destroy the fabric that has made America great.
I agree on the manchurian point. Obamas election victory is a true barometer o Americas intellectual decline.
Americans who voted for Obama voted out of anger and not on common sense. Now
We are stuck with a tyrannical leader that could mark the end of the US as we know it.
Obama is in for the same, if not worse, harsh treatment Bush received, except in 4 yrs
Instead of 8.