Draggingtree Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 American Thinker: July 7, 2012 Contempt: The Defining Characteristic of the Obama Presidency By Mark W. Hendrickson From the very beginning, many writers, scholars, and commentators have attempted to define the essence of Barack Obama's presidency. It isn't easy to find a simple label for such a multifaceted individual. On any given day, Obama may seem like a play-for-keeps Chicago pol who rubs elbows with some shady characters; a hardcore environmentalist wedded to a radical green agenda; a crony capitalist with surprisingly close ties to deep-pocketed corporate interest groups; a progressive wanting to sunder the chains of the constitution to hugely expand government à la Franklin Delano Roosevelt; a Jimmy Carter clone, whose foreign policy is marked by turning his back on America's allies while wooing, if not embracing, the leaders of unfriendly regimes; a Fabian socialist, too cagey to advocate outright socialism, but always in favor of more government economic planning and more redistribution of wealth; a hardcore radical with close personal and ideological ties to various militant revolutionaries (e.g., Bill Ayers), political revolutionaries (e.g., Saul Alinsky), and communists (e.g., Frank Marshall Davis, who is the subject of my colleague Paul Kengor's newest book, The Communist). All these assessments ring true, but they are incomplete. The ideological influences acting upon Barack Obama are multifarious. There is, however, an attitudinal quality that seems to be the common denominator linking those ideological underpinnings. The salient, definitive characteristic of the man and his presidency was crystalized for me when Congress cited his attorney general for contempt. "That's it," I thought: contempt. Never have we seen a president so full of naked contempt for any person or idea or policy that does not accord with his own vision, plans, and beliefs. Obama doesn't just disagree with others; he holds them in contempt. Obama has shown contempt for American friends Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/contempt_the_defining_characteristic_of_the_obama_presidency.html#ixzz1zxCq0Czy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinz Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Spot on! I can throw away my thesaurus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 At least I know that he feels the same about me as I do about him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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