{"id":5861,"date":"2017-01-17T06:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T06:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/17\/schall-on-obama\/"},"modified":"2017-01-17T06:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T06:42:30","slug":"schall-on-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/17\/schall-on-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Schall on Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am surprised at how hard-hitting this<\/a> is.  But the punches land right on target.<\/span>  <\/p>\n

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From the first time I saw Mr. Obama, his First Inaugural, I said to myself, \u201cThis is a classical tyrant\u201d and wrote an article to that effect<\/a>. Now, a classical \u201ctyrant\u201d is not some brutal beast. Rather, he is popular, suave, smooth-talking, and ruled only by his own musings. He arises in a democracy when its citizenry have largely lost touch with natural being.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Obama\u2019s notion of America was that into which he wanted to change it. The America of the Founders or the tradition did not much interest him. Indeed, this America was what had to be changed to make the world safe for the America that he was out to re-found, one that looked pretty much like himself. And, to give him credit, he succeeded in many ways. His Muslim and community organizing backgrounds were both traditions that had almost nothing to do with what we once understood to be Western civilization, with its unique American gloss.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I will pass over his religious views. His is a popular leftism that identifies religion as politics. Catholics were slow to recognize the efforts Mr. Obama made to identify religion and positive law. No leeway was left. Religion could not stand in the way of social \u201cprogress.\u201d Who could have imagined even a decade ago that the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion traditions would be under fire for holding back the social engineering that Mr. Obama and his friends foisted on the country\u2019s embassies, laws, military, healthcare, medicine, schools, environment, and even in the food we can\u2019t eat.<\/span><\/p>\n

But is there nothing good that this still relatively young man accomplished? The comedian Jack Benny was once famously confronted by a robber who insistently demanded, \u201cYour money, or your life!\u201d To which Benny replied, \u201cI\u2019m thinking! I\u2019m thinking!\u201d Mr. Obama has made it necessary for us to recall a whole order of being that was relentlessly overturned step by logical step. Do I think that this countrywide recollection is taking place? \u201cI\u2019m thinking! I\u2019m thinking!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

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I am surprised at how hard-hitting this is.  But the punches land right on target.   From the first time I saw Mr. Obama, his First Inaugural, I said to myself, \u201cThis is a classical tyrant\u201d and wrote an article to that effect. Now, a classical \u201ctyrant\u201d is not some brutal beast. Rather, he is … Continue reading “Schall on Obama”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}