Here is one link: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/11/obamas-america-the-view-from-prague.php
I do seem to swim to the beat of my own drummer, if I might mix metaphors in an appropriate manner. I can see why someone saw fit to attribute this to someone outside the system, capable of seeing it from a high level, from a distance.
But what I do is phase in and phase out. I can exist in the system, and outside it. I can and often am the only person on the planet saying certain things. My treatment of the financial system is a good example. And I think this makes me useful. It is a burden, a hardship, a heavy load sometimes doing the WORK of seeing things with fresh and untainted eyes, but it is my “terrible privilege”, to quote Tony Stark.
The background of this commentary should be obvious. In his first few years, and again when he was running for reelection, I often summarized the negatives of Obama.
There can be no question that the “Stimulus” was a political payment–with zero or even negative economic utility–and little question that large, multi-billion dollar sums were redirected to causes and people unknown.
There is no doubt that the IRS was used as a political weapon.
There is no doubt that Fast and Furious was a very cynical ploy to support gun control.
There is no doubt that Obamacare is intended over time to either force Single Payer, or create a system in which a small insurance oligarchy controls the market, and works in a fascistic fashion with the government to create complete bureaucratic control.
There is no doubt in my mind that Obama created ISIS, in the process of trying to overthrow the government of Syria in support of Saudi objectives.
There is little doubt in my mind that Obama, his supervisor Valerie Jarrett, and whoever his actual backers and handlers are, want the Iranians to get nuclear weapons.
To this small and very incomplete list can be added many things, which would include the secret things we still don’t know about, such as the possible intentional diffusion of chemical weapons to Al Quedists in Syria for a false flag operation. One happened. People died. Does anyone other than me remember this? Do you remember Obama wanted a war, with our soldiers fighting next to the rapists and murderers of women and children, in support of their supremacy?
I will say this: if you required all voters to describe the major candidates, their views on three specific issues, and the pros and cons of those views, you would reduce the electorate by at least 90%.
We have people who can’t say who we fought in the Revolutionary War. We have people who can’t name the century in which the Civil War started, or find France on a map.
In important respects, Donald Trump is the conservative–really, moderate–answer to Barack Obama. He appeals to the same needs, the same desires, the same avarices, but adds to this at least some REASON.
It has become problematic rooting for this country. It has become socially disadvantageous in many groups to root for white people, for working class people, for the people who founded, and run this country.
We KNOW what happens when you put Mexicans in charge of a country. They create Mexico. Do we want that? Do even they want that? The root problem with most Latin Americans is that they have no problems with the abuse of law and principle, as long as it is THEIR group in charge. Much of the world is like that. Only in the Western world have people risen above principal identification with their clan to look to the well being of the whole. And look at what we have created. The place everyone else wants to come to, take advantage of, and in their avarice, to tear down.
Things to do. I’m ranting. That’s enough for now.