Food for thought
 

Did I cut and paste? YUP and its a great read

Dr. Krauthammer is on Fox News. He is an M.D. and a lawyer and is paralyzed from the neck down. A friend went to hear Charles Krauthammer. He listened with 25 others in a closed room. What he says here, is NOT 2nd-hand but 1st. The ramifications are staggering for us, our children and their children.

Last Monday was a profound evening, Dr. Charles Krauthammer spoke to the Center for the American Experiment. He is a brilliant intellectual, seasoned & articulate. He is forthright and careful in his analysis, and never resorts to emotions or personal insults. He is NOT a fear monger nor an extremist in his comments and views. He is a fiscal conservative, and has received a Pulitzer Prize for writing. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News and writes weekly for the Washington Post.
The entire room was held spellbound during his talk. I have summarized his comments, as we are living in uncharted waters economically and internationally.
Even 2 Dems at my table agreed with everything he said! If you feel like forwarding this to those who are open minded and have not drunk the Kool-Aid, feel free.

Summary of his comments:
1. Mr. Obama is a very intellectual, charming individual. He is not to be underestimated. He is a cool customer who doesn't show his emotions. It's very hard to know what's behind the mask. The taking down of the Clinton dynasty was an amazing accomplishment. The Clintons still do not understand what hit them. Obama was in the perfect place at the perfect time.

2. Obama has political skills comparable to Reagan and Clinton. He has a way of making you think he's on your side, agreeing with your position, while doing the opposite. Pay no attention to what he SAYS; rather, watch what he DOES!

3. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come to Washington to make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, including dismantling capitalism. He can't be straightforward on his ambitions, as the public would not go along.He has a heavy hand, and wants to level the playing field with income redistribution and punishment to the achievers of society. He would like to model the USA to Great Britain or Canada .

4. His three main goals are to control ENERGY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, and NATIONAL HEALTHCARE by the Federal government. He doesn't care about the auto or financial services industries, but got them as an early bonus. The “Cap and Trade” bill will add costs to everything and stifle growth. Paying for FREE college education is his goal. Most scary is his healthcare program, because if you make it FREE and add 46,000,000 people to a Medicare-type single-payer system, the costs will go through the roof. The only way to control costs is with massive RATIONING of services, like inCanada . God forbid!

5. He has surrounded himself with mostly far-left academic types. No one around him has ever even run a candy store. But they are going to try and run the auto, financial, banking and other industries. This obviously can't work in the long run. Obama is not a socialist; rather he's a far-left secular progressive bent on nothing short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the hard left. Again, watch what he does, not what he says.

6. Obama doesn't really see himself as President of the United States , but more as a ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate & coordinate various countries and their agendas. He sees moral equivalency in all cultures. His apology tour in Germany and England was a prime example of how he sees America , as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant, rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors. This is the first President ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!

7. He is now handing out goodies. He hopes that the bill (and pain) will not come due until after he is reelected in 2012. He would like to blame all problems on Bush from the past, and hopefully his successor in the future. He has a huge ego, and Dr. Krauthammer believes he is a narcissist.

8. Republicans are in the wilderness for a while, but will emerge strong. Republicans are pining for another Reagan, but there will never be another like him. Krauthammer believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty & Bobby Jindahl (except for his terrible speech in February) are the future of the party. Newt Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage. Sarah Palin is sincere and intelligent, but needs to really be seriously boning up on facts and info if she is to be a serious candidate in the future... We need to return to the party of lower taxes, smaller government, personal responsibility, strong national defense, and state's rights.

9. The current level of spending is irresponsible and outrageous. We are spending trillions that we don't have. This could lead to hyperinflation, depression or worse. No country has ever spent themselves into prosperity. The media is giving Obama, Reid and Pelosi a pass because they love their agenda. But eventually the bill will come due and people will realize the huge bailouts didn't work, nor will the stimulus package. These were trillion-dollar payoffs to Obama's allies, unions and the Congress to placate the left, so he can get support for #4 above.

10. The election was over in mid-September when Lehman brothers failed, fear and panic swept in, we had an unpopular President, and the war was grinding on indefinitely without a clear outcome. The people are in pain, and the mantra of change caused people to act emotionally. Any Dem would have won this election; it was surprising it was as close as it was.

11. In 2012, if the unemployment rate is over 10%, Republicans will be swept back into power. If it's under 8%, the Dems continue to roll. If it's between 8-10%, it will be a dogfight. It will all be about the economy. I hope this gets you really thinking about what's
happening in Washington and Congress. There is a left-wing revolution going on, according to Krauthammer, and he encourages us to keep the faith and join the loyal resistance. The work will be hard, but we're right on most issues and can reclaim our country, before it's far too late.

These elections are swung by the women folk. Most of us vote the way we
are going to vote regardless of how things are going at election time. The
women were weary of the war and wanted a change. I dont think they
realized Obama had not even as much ran a 7-11. Well they are getting
starting to get angy because things are not improving and are still madder
than hell about that mammogram thingy. Even if he had nothing to do with
it, doesnt matter. They are women, they never forget.

Why not do what everyone else does on a message board?

Explain what the article is about in your own words and submit a link for those who want to know more?

Because I didnt feel like it

Lazy posts seldom generate any meaningful discussion.

Just sayin..

:D They hate it when we only give em one sentence because they can't
dissect it with their liberal question mark scalpel.

To the OP, what is your point?

I think everybody on this board is quite familiar with Krauthammer. I read every one of his op-ed pieces in the WashPost. Unfortunately, he kinda went off the deep end when his NeoCon dream of restructuring the Middle East by invading Iraq didn't quite pan out. As a result, the content and tone of his commentary has gotten very strident and nasty over the past couple of years. I used to enjoy and admire his work. Lately, I find it to be just a slightly watered down version of Faux News with a thin intellectual veneer applied.

Good luck with that. :D

I gave up reading Charles' oped column years ago, does wonder for one's blood pressure. That man is just plain miserable and wants everyone else to be the same.

This makes me laugh though when then call the WashPost a liberal paper; sure it has all those flaming liberals like Krauthammer, Will, Gerson, Samuelson, but they do keep their token liberal in Dionne.

It's right there in plain sight atop his head.:D

Aww, chit ! (grin)

Wow, and I thought I was Mr. Doom and Gloom? Holy Smokes.

Thanks for the info.

Time to go walk the dogs,

Dave

And here we go with that "We're gonna end up like Canada!!!" business.

Yeah, so?

Dave

If I was in the fourth grade I bet that would make me laugh outloud.

That's all right grasshopper, you should make it by next year.

You were almost funny, now your just an ass.

Is that your area of expertise?

Things get heated and thats cool. It all comes with the territory here. But name calling aint to cool.

Ohhh, you got him there! Let's beat him up on the play ground at recess. Hey, hey, he just said "takes one to know one"! You gonna put up with that!? Take his lunch money!

Oh thats sarcasm right? And its at my expense correct?.....brilliant!

I would really hate to see the level of conversation here reduced to the lowest common denominator. Except that if that happened, I might spend time on other things that I need to.

Regards,

D-Ray

Fellas, fellas................

D-rays right. I have clothes to wash, a car to clean, dogs to walk, and a cartridge to mount sometime today. Just thought I'd pop in to see what's going on and I see this.

Enough! Go to your rooms! You can come out when you've grown up a little!

Dave

Just for clarity's sake, I did NOT make the last post as one free from sin, so please, don't anyone take it as a thrown stone.

Any luck at the thrifts?

Regards,

D-Ray

Naw, haven't made it to the bins, been trying to set-up a Grado cart on a Revox linear arm (PITA). Can't seem to get the tracking force right.

Dave

I went to the dump today. Niente.

Then I went to a local record store that's closing, 50% off on used vinyl & CDs, 40% off on new. I was VERY late to the game. Everything's really picked over but I still scored ten nice used LPs for around $14.00.

That's why I'm not watching the games. :)

John

Man, good luck, Dave. Linears are really cool but fussy.

John

Especially when the previous owner was a jackass. It's up and running now, but he had a twenty dollar cart on it with the tracking force set at 3.8 grams and the adjusting screw "Lock-tited". Tomorrow I tackle this RCA cord that has no less than three splices in it, (To make it longer----about twelve feet.).

I think we're violating some sort of rule here.

So,.....Get back on topic!:D

Dave

That's not possible. We're libs. Libs are too afraid to step outside well defined boundaries. I know this because the cons tell me so.

John

Don't worry about the cons. I've got your back. :D

When you consider what the OP was, how can you get off topic?

Regards,

D-Ray

I thought we are the ones that are totally out of control? Oh, that's right, only because we refuse to live by Glenns, ooops, I mean Gods ( No, it's Glenn Becks, because he IS God now.), rules. :rolleyes:

You know, the highly moral code that Jesus passed on. The one that tells us that earthquakes are caused by queers, and that we shouldn't offer any help the devastated Haitians because it might make "Obama" look like a humanitarian.

Jesus, the guy that told the sick; "If you want healthcare go out and get a job, you lazy bastards!" And that it's okay for bank executives living on the public dole to give themselves multi-million dollar bonuses for doing a shitty job.

The God that wants you to hate anyone that doesn't share your beliefs.

That God.

Not the real God, that I know and love. Not the one that told us that a wealthy man has a better chance of squeezing through the eye of a needle than to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but the God of Sarah Palin, Hannity and Lindsey Graham. The profit over people God.

I think I'll shut up, now. I'm f**kin' up my own "Chi".

Dave

What or who?

John

Yes.:rolleyes:

Regards,

D-Ray