I’m of the opinion that Obama is a fool – a man without the requisite knowledge or character thrust in to office by a set of odd circumstances. For an alternative position, we go to Wayne Allen Root over at Nevada News and Views:
It’s time to stop mincing words. Obama is not a fool. He is not incompetent. He is not a madman. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis, and social chaos- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within. But the bonus is brilliant…as he destroys and taxes to death business owners, he also cripples his political opposition.
Rahm Emanuel cynically said, “You never want a crisis to go to waste.” It is now becoming clear that the crisis he was referring to is Obama’s Presidency. As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Obama’s Columbia University. In 1966, they outlined a plan to socialize America by OVERWHELMING the system with government spending and entitlement demands…
Root was the Libertarian Vice Presidential candidate in 2008. I don’t subscribe to this view that Obama is deliberately wrecking things – but one doesn’t have to in order to agree that Obama’s policies are immensely destructive. If one were setting out to bankrupt America, nothing worse could be done.
The varied expedients which have been used to keep things afloat in America are going to fail. There is just no way to back up all the debt we’re piling up – we can’t tax enough to pay what we owe; taxing at that level would kill economic activity, altogether, and thus make our problem worse.
And so, we’ll slip slide down this hill until we hit bottom – and hopefully learn our lesson both about electing liberals and trying to borrow and spend our way in to wealth.