(05-12-2017 06:28 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  It would have been much easier for me to point to the fact that in the two years with a super majority, comrade Obama didn't turn us into a communist country because he isn't a communist.

Well, I'm sorry that you think I perverted your comments. That certainly was not my intent, and I did nothing that I thought was doing that. I'm not quite sure how I did that, so I don't know what to retract, if anything.

The reason comrade Obama did not turn us into a socialist/communist country is not because Obama didn't want to, nor because of republicans, who were incredibly inept throughout the Obama years, but because his own party, the democrats, weren't socialists/communists and wouldn't go along. That was my big fear going in, that people kept talking about what a charismatic leader he was, and I was afraid he'd pull the rank and file along with him. He didn't, IMO through some combination of incompetence and being an a-hole, and for that I am eternally thankful.

Obama has spent his whole life being influenced almost exclusively by socialists/communists, from his parents to his grandparents to Frank Marshall Davis to the Marxist profs at university that he thought were "cool" per one of his autobiographies to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn, to just about every significant influence in his life. Are you aware of anyone who ever had a significant influence on his development who did not come from that end--and I mean way out on the end--of the political spectrum? Under those circumstances, it would take a rather extraordinary individual not to lean hard in the socialist/communist direction. And Obama's own words and writings don't suggest that he is that extraordinary individual in that regard. He seems to have pretty much lapped it all up at every step of the way.