240B posted this on GBR and I thought it was a good take on it.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: "I am not a dictator; I'm the president. So, ultimately if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?"
The psychology of this really jumps out at you. There a lot going on in this statement.
1. Obviously, he has thought about being dictator. He has spoken about how great it would be to be an 'overlord' several times.
2. Is he reminding us, or himself, that he is not a dictator? Why would anyone ever even think about sending the Secret Service after congressmen? Why would this thought come into someone's head in the first place?
3. Obama hates people in general. It is difficult for him to accept the fact that he works 'for' Americans and has to work 'with' the congress. He hates this, and he has these, 'I'm not dictator' epiphanies, and 'I've learned that I can't do it alone, I must work with congress', revelations, about once every 3 to 6 months.
4. Obama does not play nice with others and doesn't feel that he should have to answer to anyone about anything ever. He loaths negotiation and compromise of any kind. In his childish, incredibly narcissistic mind, he should be able to just 'declare' to congress and the world anything he wants to happen, and is it.
5. He is absolving himself of any responsibility for his own recklessness. Which he does endlessly. Again, in the vein of a childish personality, he is saying, "Well, you wouldn't let me be dictator; this is all your fault." "I tried to stop those evil adults from leaving, but I couldn't."
6. He is setting up some future act of dictatorship. He is laying a foundation for tyranny and when he does it, he will point to this and say, "Look, I tried not being dictator and it didn't work. I have to become a dictator because of 'you', not because I want to."
7. This guy will never in his life accept responsibility for any of the negative consequences of his own actions. I have rarely seen a person more completely irrational in the sense that nothing bad is ever his fault, but everything good comes from his beneficence. So far, the American people, the American congress, and the American military, have all let 'him' down, it could never be the other way around.
Poor Obama. Such a glorious shining intellect and personality, who is stuck being President of a bunch of dummies and stupid religious bitter clingers, and they won't even let him be dictator. Those bastards! I hate you, I hate you!!
Yeah, but it was the reporter who suggested he convene a meeting and prevent Congressional leaders from leaving. She lead him to this line of thinking.
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
Quote: Palinista wrote in post #9Yeah, but it was the reporter who suggested he convene a meeting and prevent Congressional leaders from leaving. She lead him to this line of thinking.
It doesn't explain away his other slips of the tongue though. Look at the date.
Uploaded on Aug 22, 2011 http://www.standwitharizona.com On July 25th Barack Obama told the National Council of La Raza ("The Race"): "I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own... The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. But that's not how -- that's not how our system works." Then on August 18th, he did bypass Congress, changed those laws "on his own", and began a massive amnesty-by-decree for potential millions of illegal aliens
He isn't the brightest person on the planet when he telegraphs to the world what he wants to do.
The end result is that we deserve the beating we're getting because fundamentally transforming a nation is painful.
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson