I'll take a look at it VinTek thanks. Out of curiosity where are you from?

"The President is a relcutant capitalist (the system is stacked against the poor and working class; the predatory system rewards the wealthy and restrains the poor) – not a socialist or communist.

President Obama wants to restrain capitalism through taxation. Give what you get/make to other people.

The President doesn’t want to sieze public property. Instead, the President wants to regulate commerce to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor.

President Obama is shaped by Historical Grievences such as Slavery in the U.S. and Europe, Bad treatment of Indians, and U.S. exploitation of 3rd world countries. The President views the U.S. as the bad guy.

President Obama is a Social Justice Anti-Capitalist.

The big spending by President Obama hasn’t helped the economy. The liberal economic vision set by President Obama has increased the debt in the country significantly.

President Obama’s focus is to take from those who have some and redistribute it to those who have less – this is about class warfare. Will the President succeed in winning the election on this platform?"

Obama: The Affirmative Action President. WASHINGTON POST. Written by : Matt Patterson

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world’s largest economy, direct the world’s most powerful military, execute the world’s most consequential job?



Imagine a future historian examining Obama’s pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer”; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote “present”) ; and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator.



And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s “spiritual mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?



Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:



To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.



Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass — held to a lower standard — because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:



And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?



Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon — affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.



Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are notqualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.



Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin — that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn’t racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.


True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the nextstep, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?



In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people — conservatives included — ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that’s when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth — it’s all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.



And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?



In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

You refer to two COMMENTATORS! They are expressing their opinion not reporting the news. Those are not articles they are political opinion pieces.

Did you bother to fact-check the information before forming your opinion? Or are you just going to believe what the articles say on faith? Because I found very few facts that can even be verified. So how could someone even begin to form an opinion?

Notice I did say "a couple of things"... But yes the article was in fact in the Washington Post.

I guess I should specify my questions.

Do you agree or disagree with O'Reily on the fact that Obama isn't a communist or socialist - and instead a social justice anti-capitalist?

What did Obama accomplish before he became President? When has President Obama ever taken responsibility for what is going wrong with the country/economy? I'd love a reference to a date, time, and place.

Also do you agree or disagree President Obama has shown evidence of narcissism?

Curious.

Just as I'm curious about your take on the 2 HRL articles I linked to earlier. And the questions I had regarding the article you linked to regarding the Pharoah's heart. Seriously Eagle, I think every time the information presented isn't going your way, you change the subject.

Also do you agree or disagree President Obama has shown evidence of narcissism?

What did Obama accomplish before he became President?

I looked at the articles on Obamacare. While they were both interesting I remain unconvinced Obamacare in it's current form would be a good decision overall.

What did Obama accomplish before he became President? When has President Obama ever taken responsibility for what is going wrong with the country/economy?

As far as I am concerned his only accomplishment that matters is defeating McCain/Palin in a democratic election that did not require the intervention of the supreme court. Last I checked, that gives him the qualification for being president.

I'm guessing that you hate the guy for some reason.

LOL! I love this! Obama has accomplished more in the past 3 years than Bush accomplished in 8. So what do we do? Attack how unaccomplished he was before he became president!

Who gives a crap what he accomplished as an obscure state senator? We're 3 years into a presidency - why are we talking about what he did (or didn't do) half a decade ago? Do you honestly think anybody cares more about what he did as a senator than all the things he's accomplished as president?

He's ended two wars.
He's killed the worlds #1 terrorist.
He made health care accessible to 30 million uninsured Americans.
He brought Iran to the brink of collapse without firing a shot or risking a single troop.
He helped depose and eliminate a military dictator in Libya.

And so on and so on. Yes he's dealing with a crappy economy. Guess what - EVERYBODY is. That's not a problem unique to Obama or the US. Countries in Europe are in economic shambles, literally going bankrupt left and right. The US isn't perfect, but it's in much better shape than Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, etc. etc. etc.

But geez, it's an election year, how are we supposed to attack this guy? I know, let's point out how "unaccomplished" he was in high school! LOL!

It's so desperate and pathetic that it's laughable.

So let's see, Kombat is Canadian, yet he seems to have better information about our government than our Texan friend here. That doesn't say much for our educational system or our electoral process.

Who gives a crap what he accomplished as an obscure state senator? We're 3 years into a presidency - why are we talking about what he did (or didn't do) half a decade ago? Do you honestly think anybody cares more about what he did as a senator than all the things he's accomplished as president?

What some people don’t know is that Obama actually lifted this from former Mass. senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. Obama was trying to say that businesses only succeed because government built the infrastructure first or that businesses succeed because the government allowed you to have a business.

First of all the only way for government can build infrastructure is to collect taxes from people who work in and run businesses. So really he has it backwards, government can only succeed by leaching off of businesses. Secondly there are many businesses that succeeded with no government assistance. Thirdly he is saying that you can’t succeed just because you worked hard or because you’re just smart. The most successful people out there are more often than not the hardest working and smartest out there. This is just more class warfare [hog wash].

http://talkstraight.tumblr.com/post/274 ... build-that

He's [Obama] ended two wars.

2. Economy: With his policies and the threat of more such policy, he has destroyed more wealth than any human being in history, which is always what happens when you set out to redistribute wealth: you end up destroying it. Federal spending, the budget deficit, and national debt are now at highest level as a percentage of GDP since WWII. 46 million Americans now living in poverty, the most since the Census Bureau began keeping records in 1959.

4. U.S. Credit: Under his presidency the U.S.'s credit rating was downgraded – a first in the history of the U.S.

This is especially true in regards to protecting our allies the Kurds.