The mystery of how a virtual unknown could be elected to the highest office in the land, if not the world, still puzzles many of us.
How did a virtual blank sheet of paper obtain this office and what are the implications? These are issues explored in a disturbing analysis entitled Summing Up Obama (So Far) by David Solway.
The problem is that we know virtually nothing about the man’s past or his political intentions. Solway states:
Leaving aside the ongoing “birther” controversy focusing on the vexed issue of the president’s legitimacy, the “Obama problem” really has to do with the conundrum of his political identity. Is he a bone-stock socialist or a far-left radical determined to impose a neo-Marxist regime upon republican America, or merely a “person of advanced views and reactionary feeling,” asTheodore Dalrymple says of Virginia Woolf? Perhaps, as Jonah Goldberg suggests, coining a phrase, he is a “neo-socialist” who believes “in the power of government to extend its scope and grasp far deeper into society”? Is Obama a closet Islamist, as some have alleged? Is he a media artifact, the digital remastering of an epic hero enacting an ancient fantasy of salvation? Is he a volatile prevaricator, saying one thing, then saying another, making solemn promises and regularly breaking them, whose erratic behavior must leave us bewildered before an ever-widening credibility gap? Or is he a university-educated postmodernist for whom the concept of truth has been relativized beyond recognition? Is he just a political rookie whose lack of executive experience shows up alarmingly in a capricious and anemic foreign policy? An old KGB hand like Vladimir Putin must look at him and think, “What a patsy.” Ditto Hugo Chavez, King Abdullah, Bashir Assad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Castros and a host of other shrewd manipulators and world-wise autocrats.
Solway explores many issues and facets of Obama in a troubling article. He raises many questions with regard to the sphinx-like figure, but Solway is unable to provide many answers. He concludes with that admission:
This appears to be as far as we can go for now, with more to come to a political theater near us. One thing, however, seems undeniable: so far, not so good.
Despite the lack of answers, the read is worthwhile. The article will be more pleasing to the anti-Obama crowd than his backers. However, it would be interesting to get the reaction to some of the issues from Obama’s supporters.
I am a loyal monty pelerin reader: and I understand that here it is not odthe that one attacks/questions a person !as it is often crude and anyway the systems in america are failing
However:ia ma pleased to see that questionin obama is becoming a serious issue
Birt certificate : this is a crude demand but valid as no one is supposed to be above the law
Here in africa the leaders are above the law as a matter of course
And the results are there for all to see:
Its a tragedy of unimaginable scope if this pres and his team(!) Cannot be stopped
The main journalists (known world wide) are the worst in 100 jears collectively:it could be construed as treachery that they keep on misinforming the public:citizens are busy and don’t read 10 papers daily!
Its a disgrace that TV and written journalists and their “owners” are selling usa out and should be written into history books in time to come.
What are they thinking?some one should ask oprah if she is able to read her own business:balance sheet.its not possible to keep afloat if more$$ is going out than coming in….
It does not matter how much one likes someone personally.
The bills have to be paid and the country has to be kept safe and sustainable on all levels.
EU could keep nanny staes as they had USA keeping backdoor safe
I think they aare failing now completely: as USA really cannot bail out anyone: its a fairy tale and any accountant can tell you that catastrophy is on doorstep of west.
His only supporters are the MSM media ,public union. Employees and half of congress!
Very much african style politics.he keeps on dishing bailouts to these faithful
Real problem is media that does not inform tax generating taxpayet citizens:
One wonders if it is possible that journalists have really become this idiotic:can they read their own household balance sheets at least??