Just How Dumb Does Obama Think We Are?

If anyone ever wondered what the application of Saul 'Red' Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" would look like they would need to look no further than the Obama administration in action.

The recession is being used to advance Obama's long held core beliefs as well as the hitherto unfulfilled agenda of the left wing liberals in Congress. This crisis has been a positive boon to them. It is hard to grasp, but almost none of Obama's proposals are designed to actually work and when they fail their failure will be used as an excuse to nationalize our banks as well as other sectors of our economy. This is manipulation in its most cynical and dishonest form, but it is exactly what Saul Alinsky taught and what Obama, his faithful disciple, learned so well. Even Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should help the poor. He wants to keep the impoverished directly dependent on the government and the Democratic Party for their welfare and thus make sure they vote for liberals in droves. If government spending was all it took be successful then Sweden would be the most prosperous country in the world and the Soviet Union would have won the Cold War. Even Obama is smart enough to know that when you are in a hole you should stop digging, but his real agenda is not to rescue our economy but rather to transform it into something unimaginable to the vast majority of the American people namely a massive, flabby, socialist, welfare, state where government dependency is the order of the day and central planning rules. Mr. Obama thinks that we are all too dumb to notice his stealth radicalism and the creeping socialism it engenders. He relies on his teleprompter prose and bland affability to disguise his subversion and his betrayal of our democracy.

While Turbo-Tax Tim Geithner has been busy with plans to turn the U.S. Treasury into an ATM for the corrupt United Nations, his proposal to expand the powers of the government to take over any corporation it deems necessary is just one example of the biggest power grabs in the history of the United States. This is more power than good men should want or bad men should have.

Socialism is now on its aggressive and soul-destroying march with all of its well proven pernicious consequences in tow, but it is slightly tempered by Churchill's observation that anyone who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart and anyone who is not a conservative at forty has no brains. Barack Obama is forty seven.