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Obama’s achilles heel

Posted 15 Sep 2009 in Barack Obama, incompetence, Nancy Pelosi, totalitarianism

With the overwhelming success of the 9/12 protests now behind us, it’s time to assess our strengths and weaknesses to formulate a new game plan. As the Samurai maxim says; “After a victory, tighten your helmet cords.”

In many Hollywood movies, there’s a moment wherein the hero realizes his invincible opponent is anything but. J.R. Dunn over at American Thinker penned an excellent article that demonstrates that turning point.

With actual tyrants we get decisiveness, aggressiveness, complete control of government, and a strict ruling hierarchy. With Obama, we get lollygagging, lack of attention, key projects such as the stimulus, cap & trade, and health care farmed out to the likes of Van Jones, Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, and Zeke Emmanuel, none of whom appear to be reporting to anybody, and a general air of offhandedness. Obama appears to have an undergraduate’s conception of how serious work is accomplished: he has all the great ideas; somebody else does the heavy lifting.
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The popular impulse of the 9/12 marchers will fade if not given direction and purpose. But it’s awful hard to provide those when you’re hiding under the bed. We need to sit down, take a deep breath, and look closely at Obama and his collection of goofs without fears or illusions. What we will see is no political Godzilla but a hack pol elected to a position well above his abilities and trying to trigger a national social revolution using cheap Chicago ward-style political tactics. This man is vulnerable. He is not a nail-hard military tyrant or a glowing-eyed cyborg. He can be tripped up with ease. But you can’t trip anybody if you’re running from your own shadow.

It’s important that we don’t get overconfident and underestimate our political opponents. I disagree with Dunn’s assessment that Obama is not a tyrant – few dictators start out revealing their iron fist. I believe he definitely has the makings of one. The two main things standing in the way of his aspirations are his own incompetence and The Second Amendment.

Still, it’s encouraging to step back and realize that Obama is a prime example of The Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” Let’s hope – for the sake of the country – that once Obama’s radical plans are defeated, he’ll sink back to being a leader who remains within the constraints established by the Constitution rather than trying to bypass 233 years of American tradition to usher in a socialist utopia.

Tyrants can be extraordinarily hard to defeat. An empty suit and a teleprompter, not so much.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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