Obama, “I couldn’t help myself. It’s my nature.”

Source: Truth and Common Sense

Climbing out of the box full of square pegs and round holes. What if Obama is what he appears to be.

Posted September 23rd, 2009 by admin

Like I’ve said before, Obama’s almost “Brokeback Mountain” attraction to Chavez is unnerving. Especially since he is working hand in hand to further Chavez’s attempt to takeover Honduras.

At another website I commented on the possibility that we are having trouble understanding Obama because as Americans we have a virtue which can also be a curse and that is we always try to find the best in other people. We do it personally, professionally, and sadly, politically.

I’ve read and listened to all sides of the centrist to right to far right arguments. (I can’t do the left, they are simply insane.) When Charles Krauthammer gave his opinion about Obama, I saw that he did his best to wring out the good qualities Obama had; intelligent, charming, driven, blah blah blah. Krauthhammer and others excused Obama’s missteps as “rookie-ness”, tried to explain his comments and his acts as having a bad staff or a poor understanding of history or diplomatic manners. Everybody is quick to trot out the tired and worn out excuse that all new Presidents make mistakes.

Yet, as we move into his fourth quarter of his first year the missteps are getting harder and harder to explain. The Russian/Poland deal, his backhanded slap to the Iranian protesters, his love affair with all that is Chavez, and now Honduras.

Many people are confused and frustrated in trying to put the square peg of our past experiences with presidents into the round hole we are seeing that is Obama’s behavior. I don’t know how many times intelligent, thinking people I know have scratched their heads and wondered out loud how Obama could think he was doing the right thing when he committed some bizarre action. For example, the speech to the children; many said other Presidents did it before, as they ground that square peg down, but they didn’t address the worksheet and the details of the initial speech, before he got caught and modified it. (Speaking of getting caught, ask yourself what his presidency would look like if there were no checks on his behavior and agenda. Would it resemble more a Chavez administration?) Then there was the hiring of far left radicals, well known far left radicals to boot. People we all read about, but figured no one would seriously consider them for a powerful government position. Yet, there they are. Why?

At some point you have to put aside the tried and true explanations used as an attempt to quantify Obama and look outside the box. In my old business of catching bad guys, I always took the time to study motives. Why do they do what they do? Often it gave insight as to who the bad guy was, and what he might try next.

With Obama you look at his actions and you find yourself bending over backwards to make sense of it. I suggest you stop. Let what you see guide you to the motive and the man. What kind of man embraces Iran and shuns Israel? What kind of man is raised by a radical liberal, surrounded by radical liberals and communists, went to school and sought out radical liberals and communists, worked with and was picked promoted and presented to us by radical liberals with communist/socialist backgrounds? He is the total sum of his life. He is what he is, and nothing in his life to this point has forced him to change that.

If you take Barack Obama and look at him clearly, not with you hoping for the best, what do you see? Would his actions fit the mold of a socialist/communist better than a simply misguided leftie? Why do we think the best for Obama and acted surprised when he brakes and turns hard left every chance he gets. If we had elected Bernie Sanders from Vermont, a committed socialist, and he acted like one, we wouldn’t be shocked. If we elected David Duke back in his heyday and found him shopping for white sheets at JC Penny, we wouldn’t say, “Didn’t see that coming.” If by some freak accident we elected a clone of Ahmadinejad and he started railing about the Jews, we wouldn’t have expected anything else.

So why are we surprised over Obama? Because he told us he is post racial, post partisanship, the new era of politics? I think now, after all we have seen and all Obama has said that wasn’t true, we can draw at least one conclusion- he lies.

Obama is who he is. The quicker we grasp that the better we can begin to resist the direction he will have to lead us in. He can’t help himself, it is his nature.

There is an old fable I use to try and explain this to people who still want to believe the best in all of humanity. It goes like this;

There was a terrible rain. The water in the river was rising and all the animals were trying to flee the island they were on before it went under. There was a rabbit, a turtle, a fox and a scorpion. They all started to swim across except the scorpion for he could not swim. He asked the rabbit if the rabbit would let him ride on his back. The rabbit said no, worried that the scorpion, who was mean by nature, would sting him. The scorpion cried out saying he would not. The scorpion asked the turtle and the turtle refused. The scorpion asked the fox and the fox at first refused, but the scorpion said, “Fox, ask why I would sting you? I cannot swim, if I stung you, you would die, and then I would surely drown. That makes no sense.” The fox, who thought himself smarter than the others decided the scorpion must be telling the truth. So he let the scorpion climb onto his back and they both began across the river. About halfway across the scorpion stung the fox. The fox, dying, rolled over and looked at the scorpion in shock and horror. “Why”, he asked, “did you sting me? Now I will die and you will die!”

The scorpion looked at the fox and said, “I couldn’t help myself. It’s my nature.”

My advice to you with Obama is simple. Be careful or you might find yourself stung as well.