Barack Obama’s callous laughter last night on 60 Minutes (vid below) proves either (a) he is delighted at the destruction of America’s financial system because, as a Marxist, this has been his design all along (think, “God Damn America!) OR (b) he is a sociopath, of which more below the jump. Neither is good news for the people of the United States.
This is an interesting question. Of course most of our purposes are strongly influenced by our connections and affections with others. Our relationships with others, and our love for them, give us most of the meaning in life. So if a sociopath doesn’t have these things, what is left? What kind of purposes do they have?
The answer is chilling: They want to win. Take away love and relationships and all you have left is winning the game, whatever the game is. If they are in business, it is becoming rich and defeating competitors. If it is sibling rivalry, it is defeating the sibling. If it is a contest, the goal is to dominate. If a sociopath is the envious sort, winning would be making the other lose, or fail, or be frustrated or embarrassed.
A sociopath’s goal is to win. And he is willing to do anything at all to win.
Even die-hard Obama supporters who want desperately for their choice to be right have to admit that Obama’s cold-as-ice, soulless persona is getting increasingly creepy. People are suffering and this guy laughs like Heath Ledger’s Joker. No, worse. At least the Joker had some soul. This guy? He’s got none. There is zero feeling in the man. He’ll diss his grandma, dismiss his preacher, run down Special olympians for a laugh and require MDs to leave bleeding babies to die on a shelf — whatever it takes to win. Speaking of which . . .
What was one of Obama’s first published statements as President? “I won.” Think about it, America.
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Kurt back to the red herring,”God Damned, America” in the context of Reverend Wright emphasising in a homily, given from a Church pulpit, is now one of your favorite and oft repeated forms of ‘yellow journalism’. Reverend Wright’s comment was in the context that too many black men stand convicted, incarcerated and risk the Almighty’s righteous damnation of jailing such a gross mispportionment of blacks to jail. Yes, indeed God may well decide to damn America for such gross injustices in His judgment. Kurt such repeated and out of context demagoguery is beneath you in your quickened judgment against the Obama Administration. What are we already into the Third month, so times up let’s overturn our electorate and appoint whom?
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
I agree with Hazzbinns, Reverend Wright is just misunderstood. He’s really just a sweet soul decrying social injustices.
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, (Retired)
Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois
Excerpts from his NPR Radio interview, 2008″
“God doesn’t bless everything”, he said “God damns some practices, and there’s no excuse for the things that the government – not the American people – have done. That doesn’t make me [to] not like America or [be] unpatriotic”.
“I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic”?
He could have been a black radical subversive and joined the radical “Black Panthers’, he chose to serve the poor in South Chicago for 31 Years. So you now can caste the first stone and let everyone know why you’re called by the moniker “Little”.
Hazzbinns,
Mr. Schultzke mentioned Rev. Wright once, not even by name, and didn’t even use that phrase that “…is now one of your favorite and oft repeated forms of ‘yellow journalism’.” But since you brought it up… Why would someone say “God D**n America” if they were condemning one act of America? Do you say “God D**n my parents” if you were put in time-out more than your siblings? Especially if you’re bad more. Wright was denouncing America as a whole not just our justice system.
Alex you obviously have never seen his entire speech and if you had the context of his, “God Damned, America” would demonstrate, again, how much more potent a sound bite is over a contextual emphasis. The Reverend was expressing his warning/emphasis that America could be held by the Almighty’s judgment as,” He will Judge every Nation” context. Yes, his comment is rousing and his mostly black congregation were stirred by his rhetoric, but he was not calling for violence nor inciting a riot, merely cautioning that the ‘Day of Judgment’ could find our country wanting. So, that’s it in a nutshell, the full video of his speech is harder to come by, post presidential election, but I believe the full written speech may still be ‘googled’. I have shared with Kurt in the passed that Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bombings would be IMO critically judged by the Almighty, certainly other possible areas, as well.
I am a sinner and say this in the perspective that we are all sinners in need of His Redemption. I served our country for six years and I am a veteran. I fully recognize Reverend Wright’s comments in the spirit and context that they were intended.
pm,
Thank you for posting that. I always thought that the outrage over Wright’s comments were overblown diversions from Obama’s true nature and danger. I agree with him that we are under God’s judgment.
I too believe that our country is under judgment for abortion, preemptive wars, the bombings of civilians in Japan and Dresden, the rape, pillage and murder accomplished during Sherman’s March and his later depredations against Native Americans. We have strayed so far from God’s Law as to be nearly unrecognizable by our Puritan and Pilgrim fathers.
We are also under judgment for our larcenous inflationary monetary system from which we have all, at one time, benefited by paying creditors with devalued dollars. We blame government, when we should be blaming ourselves. We reveled in the fake “prosperity” of the last decade. Because I believe that God is living God who is Sovereign over all events, I believe that we are reaping the consequences of the larceny in our own hearts. Part of what we are reaping is the evil of an Obama presidency.
Part of what we are reaping is the evil of an Obama presidency.
Thank goodness you said that. I was beginning to think I was in a black liberation church.
Tis funny he could call “whitey this and whitey that” and still be defended by those above. He may have helped the poor, but the reason obama joined his church was because of the political cover and prestige etc., that it gave him. Notice how he plays basketball every Sunday now. So much for being a committed Christian.
And it just isn’t rev wright, look at all his other friends. You know we were all told that you are judged by the friends you keep.
Heaven help us, we have an unfocused ADD president. Why do I say that? Have you seen anything that he’s written? How about college papers, editorials when he was editor of he law review; what about the stimulus bill – oh no, san fran nan and dirty harry wrote that. He can’t stay still – he has parties at the white house – flies all over the country.
Classic
And can’ t speak without his teleprompter.
“America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous and more admired than before”.
Barack Obama, “The Audacity of Hope”…..read it to see a vision for America.
“Today, we are again called to provide visionary leadership. This century’s threats are at least as dangerous as and in some ways more complex than those we have confronted in the past. They come from weapons that kill on a mass scale and from global terrorists who respond to alienation or perceived injustice with murderous nihilism. They come from rogue states allied to terrorists and from rising powers that could challenge both America and the international foundation of liberal democracy. They come from weak states that can not control their territory or provide for their people. And they come from a warming planet that will spur new diseases, spawn more devastating natural disasters, and catalyze deadly conflicts”.
Senator Obama, 2007 excerpt from “Common Security for Our Common Humanity”.
Wonder who his speech writer was?
Foreward excerpt from “Change we can Believe In” by Barack Obama, 2008:
” But in this moment of great challenge exists an even greater opportunity. For in my travels across this country, I have found that the disillusionment with Washington is not limited to any one party or group of people. It is shared by Democrats, independents and Republicans from all walks of life who are tired of being disappointed by the partisanship of petty politics that stops us from solving challenges like health care, energy and education year after year. These Americans and millions more understand this moment in history, we just can’t afford to keep doing what we’ve been doing. They are ready to come together and choose a new and better future for America”.
Chai-T his speech writer is Jon Favreau, 26Year old Holy Cross grad, whom says,”You always hope that the person can match the lofty moment that the [speech] writer dreams up. To have someone who can do that makes it a joy to work with him”.
I find it humorous that someone who has written two best selling books can be accused of not being able to write. It is hard to judge which of his speeches Obama wrote. Most of his speeches were written with the cooperation of his speechwriter. However, his “A more perfect union” speech has been widely reported as being his creation. So there is able evidence of his ability to write.
Rev. Wright’s primary point in his “Confusing God and Government” sermon was that all human governments are flawed and therefore you should place your trust and faith in God who will not fail you. His secondary point was not to look to the government to provide things that only God can provide.
The part of his sermon that received the most coverage was the part where he was being critical of the US government, but before that he had pointed out the flaws and failures of other governments throughout history. While you may wish to dispute some of his criticisms of the US government, his point was not the individual faults. It was that all human governments fail, lie and change but God does not. So if you don’t like his list insert your own, Rev. Wright’s message would be the same.
I’m not aware of any occasion when Rev. Wright pointed to some tragedy and concluded that the tragedy was proof that God was punishing the America.
Gram,
Can you provide a source for your claim that Rev. Wright used the term “whitey”?
When Obama’s actions match his words, I’ll have more confidence in his words. So far…not terribly impressed. Alarmed, yes; impressed, no.
There is a whole lot of obfuscation and evasion going on above. Chai Tea and Gram get it, but the rest are in denial.
William, have you ever heard of ghostwriters? The probability is that Obama provided an outline for those books, and maybe a rough draft, but someone else honed and teased the text into printable form. What makes me think so?
1) He cannot speak intelligibly without a teleprompter. He is incoherent without that crutch. I’m a writer; writers put words together for a living. Virtually any writer can speak without a prompter. So Jon Favreau, and maybe a half dozen others now, are putting the words he speaks together, but whose words are they?
2) Obama was the editor of the Harvard Law Review, but there was not one word with his byline in that prestigious publication during his tenure as editor. Unheard of.
3) There are no transcripts available for Occidental, Columbia or Harvard. If he really wrote those books, he is capable of top grades. So why does it make sense to withhold the transcripts?
Obama’s dead eyes and that creepy, gleeful laughter speak volumes. Kurt is right on when he wonders if O is a sociopath. They take pleasure in the distress of others. They do not feel. Remember the quote from Michelle during the campaign, when she begged him not to think, but to “Feel!” Apparently she knows her man is missing something in that department.
Anyone who has not read Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals, the textbook for so-called community activists, does not fully comprehend what Obama is about. He is following Alinsky’s outline and methods to a T. The book is about socialism/Marxism and how to achieve it.
You are who you hang with. Alinsky is a Marxist. Numbers of Obama’s friends are Marxists, starting with Frank Marshall Davis, BO’s communist mentor while O was still a high school student — and a friend of Alinsky’s as well. You can almost paper a wall with the list of Obama’s communist/Marxist/socialist friends. If you have even a half dozen friends of a particular stripe, likelihood is 99 to zip that you are what they are.
Like Chai Tea, I am not impressed. I am alarmed.
Sorry, I should add, Jerry Lynn obviously gets it, too. When America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. Alexis de Tocqueville spoke those words long ago, and we are seeing them fulfilled. I could not agree with you more that “part of what we are reaping is the evil of an Obama presidency.”
April 38 Saul Alinsky is dead and his biggest successes were as an organizer of small community based labor efforts. He taught organizing strategies for Caesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in California’s United Farmer Workers Union, not a Marxist organization of any fame? Can you name for me the Marxist within the Obama’s Administration Cabinet, so I can get out of denial?
Jon Favreau worked on Senator Kerry’s Campaign in 2004 right out of Holy Cross but not as a speech writer. Favreau describes how Obama and he create new speeches by a direct, hands-on and relatively direct way of working together. “What I do is sit with him for half an hour, he talks and I type everything he says. I shape it and I write. He writes, he reshapes it. That’s how we get a finished product”. Seems fairly simple and straight forward, he didn’t even mention working in Marxist jargon or quotes from,”Das Kapital”? Apri38 I wouldn’t say your in denial but rather you’re obviously a sore loser following the last Presidential election. If you want to accuse Vice President Joe Biden of not authoring his book then you might have an argument but stating that President Obama hasn’t authored his own best selling books is whimsical and unfounded.
Yes, Saul Alinsky was dead before Obama got to Chicago, but his book is still in print, and it was and still IS the bible of community organizers. I’ve read Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, have you?
Frank Marshall Davis, a communist who was Obama’s friend and mentor, was also Alinsky’s friend and associate in Chicago.
What was Alinsky? His words, after meeting a Russian professor who asked where SA stood on communism. Alinsky feinted, but the answer was clear. He said, “That’s a bad question since the real question is, assuming both of us are operating in and thinking of the world as it is, ‘Whose Communists are they–yours or ours?’ If they are ours, then we are all for them. If they are yours, obviously we are against them. Communism itself is irrelevant.” But the critical answer is, Alinsky was all for American Communism.
On page 46 of Rules for Radicals, Alinsky equates “organizers” with “revolutionists.” He parses words very carefully, obscuring his objectives from critical eyes as much as possible while delivering the message to the faithful. Obama was one of the faithful, an Alinksy-style community organizer; we can reasonably conclude he is also a revolutionist.
Chicago is where Alinsky moved and worked for revolution, and yes, that is the word he used repeatedly. The “second revolution”, his term, is what he planned for. No one who is both informed and honest can legitimately deny that. Alinsky urged using the churches as a power base, and both Jeremiah Wright and Obama clearly got that message.
He also advocated manipulating the banks to create tension between the Haves and Have Nots. The object always was to keep the Haves off balance, in complete confusion. Sound familiar? He urges the use of satire and ridicule to destroy his opposition, and we have seen how ready Obama is to ridicule those who oppose him.
There are even lines on pp 74-75 which may explain Obama’s weird laughter on the Sixty Minutes segment. Alinsky describes the successful organizer: “He is challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting. He stirs unrest.” Ring any bells?
He also cautions against using worn-out Sixties’ terms like “white racist” and “Fascist pig”, as those alienate the middle class. Obama never uses such terms, and Alinsky is the reason why. But his pastor and spiritual adviser of twenty years does not hesitate to use inflammatory language. After all, he was not running for office.
You forgot about Change. That is one of Alinsky’s code words, another one he uses over and over. “We’ve got to have change.”
Obama used it all through the campaign to get a message to people ACORN had “organized.” They knew what it meant: income redistribution.
April38 you didn’t respond to my simple question of which Obama Administration cabinet secretary is a Marxist who’s in denial now? This supposedly strident community organizing movement in Chicago has taken political power within which community or Chicago City Hall Department? For your information churches in poor areas/community(s) have always been advocates for the downtrodden from Roman times. Does that tradition equate to a Marxist movement?
Your ‘Red Scare’ rhetoric doesn’t date back to the 60′s but rather the 50′s and was there any real convictions or proofs behind those ugly hearings and charges back then? Western style Democracy for today is the only viable/accepted form of credible representative government, along with open and fairly certified elections. Communism isn’t rising but rather sits upon the political trash heap of failed revolutions.
The Organized Labor Movement in America has fewer than 20% of the labor force, the weakest in the past 50 years so Alinsky’s organizing was limited and mostly unsuccessful, ask the UAW leadership. If the American middle class has voted for President Obama maybe his appeal is to more than their ‘hammer and sickle’.
Reverend Jeremiah Wright is retired, Saul Alinsky is dead and your effusive alarms are ringing within a closed and vacant industrial plant on Chicago’s southside. Sorry to read that you place so little faith in our democracy and republic to endorse change demanded of our elected officials by their constituents.
I guess you don’t understand black liberation theology.
obama never believed in Christianity but it was the way to move up.
his books were written by a ghost writer. Why, as editor of the law review isn’t there one thing written under his name.
He can’t say anything without a teleprompter, so whose words is he saying. If they were his own he wouldn’t need one.
george soros has the man he wanted in office. I guess money does by elections.
For crying out loud he came from the chicago machine. If he said the sky was blue, I would be sure it was red. I wouldn’t believe anything the man said. Do you let your brothers live in poverty when you have so much? Do you let an aunt have next to nothing? Would you not help her to come into the country legally, by buying her ticket home and then help with a visa?
He, who professed an abiding faith, has not been to church since the election – he plays basketball or goes to a gym.
I hope we can learn the lesson we should by electing an empty suit. I hope the country is not too damaged by the time he is gon.
For heaven’s sakes it is his acorn group that is threatening the IAG families. I’m sure it is with his approval. He stood beck so long. One word from him and these communist pigs would stop.
Think if this was your family. Liddy is $1 dollar a year employee. And he has to sit there and take all that abuse from people who are writing our stimulus bills.
This is a JOKE!
I guess money does buy elections!!!!!!!!
“The Obamas are committed Christians and they are certainly looking forward to a place to worship in their time in Washington (ideally before Easter)”.said Joshua DuBois, the director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Of these churches that best fit the Obamas culturally/idealistically and in terms of community service – which have the best youth programs for [their] children Sasha and Malia?
Obama administration just passed it’s 100Day in Office threshold, guess it’s time to start passing the Impeachment Recall clipboards?
There were no teleprompters at this weeks White House Press Corp interview, recently held TownHall meetings or during the Presidential debates, which most pundits held Barack won 2 out of 3 exchanges.
Your baseless rantings about George Soros, Attention Deficit Disorder, Chicago Machine politician & committed Christian hyperbole are the real JOKE!
Your right he didn’t have 2 teleprompters – he had a huge screen monitor. What a joke YOU are! The questions were voted on and the highest number were the ones asked. Yeah right! If you don’t think they were fitted to his agenda, you’re nuts.
How many months does it take to find a church? Gosh he could invite pastors into the white house to deliver a sermon. However, I hope it’s not the screaming kind he found in his other church, kind of like the imams in the muslem church. So it’s better to play basketball and lift weights (how long has it been when he was forced to leave rev wright’s church?) then take his children to a church? Was it last summer? So if we can both add – say June – 9+ months? I guess you have to be careful which church you would go to but can’t take any time not even 48 hours to pass a billion dollar stimulus bill.
Does finding a church take longer than finding a school for your kids? They managed to find a school.
If he has had time to take bowling lessons (w Tom Baker, 2004 PBA World Champion, $2500 worth) and play basketball, but not time to find a church, how important– to him– is church?
Is he a Marxist or just a sociopath? Maybe both. The following column written by Daniel Pipes of Stanford’s Hoover Institute is must reading in this connection:
http://www.danielpipes.org/5720/the-islamist-leftist-allied-menace
Pipes does not mention Obama, but his vast array of Muslim/Marxist/socialist associations is cause for alarm.
Obama was in no hurry to find a church when he came to Chicago to work as a community organizer, either. He admits he joined Wright’s church to get street credibility, and only in response to urging from local ministers. Now that he has the White House, why should he continue to pretend to be a Christian?
It is also anti-white bigotry, as expressed by his minister of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, also as expressed by his wife Michelle, and in his own statements about his white grandmother, etc. etc..
This video doesn’t prove the Barack Obama is a sociopath. The fact that he’s gone back on every single one of his campaign promises proves that he’s a sociopath. Why do the American people keep voting for sociopaths?
Do you even know what a sociopath is, you cheap douchebag? Sociopaths are usually professional criminals, namely murderers. If you just don’t like him for personal reasons, doesn’t make him a bad person. “Think about it America”. Jeez what a douchebag! Get a life man.