The decision to run for the office of President of the United States, alone, already indicates a significant degree of psychosocial pathology. Which person of sane mind would voluntary go through the typical abuses of an election campaign? Who would really want the responsibilities that come with the highest office in the land and, most importantly, what sane mind would consider himself/herself qualified to shoulder those responsibilities?
In Chapter Five of The Canary’s look at Obama’s origins, family and past, we looked at his relationship with his wife, Michelle. Now that midterm elections have occurred, we want to look at this relationship in light of the American people’s growing frustration with President Obama.
What role does Michelle play in sculpting Obama’s image? Is Obama unpopular because of her influence, or in spite of it?
So, it has happened! Republicans captured the Senate, secured governorships in states that nobody ever imagined could turn red and further expanded the majority in the House. Obama, to quote a New York Times headline “vowed to cooperate within limits,” and the new Senate Majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, also promised a “spirit of compromise.”
All of this, of course, sounds promising, but when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is!
Barack Hussein Obama Jr.’s last two years of his second term will, likely, become historic for all the wrong reasons: We will probably see
Alinsky was considered the ideological and tactical “father” of community organizing, and, indeed, developed much of his ideas on Chicago’s South Side, where Obama Jr. started his career as community organizer and, later, politician. It is unclear how much Obama knew about Saul Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals” when he initially moved to Chicago.
In the absence of knowledge about previous relationships, Michelle is the only source of information we have about Barack Obama’s behavior in more intimate relationships. One of the more interesting descriptions of their relationship can be found in +The New York Times‘ magazine from October 26, 2006, in a piece by Jodi Kantor, “The Obamas’ Marriage.” Though recent reports suggest significant frictions between Michelle and +Barack Obama, this portrait well-documents Michelle’s strong influence on her husband, which was strong even preceding their marriage.
In Obama’s mind, only such an idealistic new world order that brings economic equality to a previously racially and economically divided world of haves and have-nots can make good for the past sins of slavery and capitalistic economic exploitation of the third world by colonial powers.”
Listening to the news, it’s hard not to reach the conclusion that the incompetence of the federal government is reaching new heights on an almost daily level. There is ample evidence that this is not just the +Democratic Party‘s problem. But whether it is more of a Democratic than #Republican issues is, of course, of importance.