While I couldn't bring myself to watch President Barack Obama's
1,000th-1,004th health care propaganda spiels on the Sunday shows, I did
read some transcripts and watch a few video highlights. What is it about
this guy's personality that compels him to keep beating his head against the
wall?
Why does he keep doing the same thing over and over expecting a
different result?
The more Obama stumps for socialized medicine the less popular
it becomes. Yet Obama keeps going back to the well, apparently believing
that if he just explains it one more time -- or maybe 10 more times -- to
the ignorant masses, his wards will finally come around to his way of
thinking.
On the one hand, it seems that Obama truly believes that the
majority of people are as sick as he is of America and reject many of its
founding principles. After all, during his formative years and beyond, he
was always surrounded by those -- family and mentors -- who had bones to
pick with America and its "exploitive" capitalistic economy. To say that
most of his role models were outright Marxists is hardly inflammatory
hyperbole.
When it was time for him to make his own associational choices,
he opted to continue the pattern in which he'd been raised, from the church
he chose to the angry, activist, anti-establishment street agitation he
embraced in Chicago.
So he very well might believe that his attitude favoring
fundamental change for America is the norm and that the only ones who want
to preserve the nation's "outmoded" founding principles are selfish, moneyed
elites and those they control. Indeed, on the campaign trail, he was
explicit about his intention to pursue fundamental change. Those paying
close attention and not blinded by the Utopian slogans of hope and change
were fearful Obama was quite serious about his plan to push America's reset
button.
On the other hand, Obama had to be aware that many Americans,
even if he mistakenly thought they were the minority, did not share his
jaundiced view of America. Otherwise, why did he have to organize the
Chicago streets? Why did he have to train ACORN in its corrupt practices --
corrupt practices I'm sure Obama justifies under an ends-and-means
rationale? And how could Ronald Reagan or the Bushes ever have been elected
if everyone thinks like Obama?