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January 30, 2009 - 3:35 am - by Richard Fernandez
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2009-01-30 18:26:46

programmer: Have him do something about those ears, then I might consider it.

But seriously, we are the last people that Obama would ever listen to.

Ironically, if he did, he would flip this unbelievably bad beginning, and save his second term. He could do it all in 3 week. But he cannot because it runs counter to his every belief, impulse and even his very ways of knowing the world. He wants to destroy the system (or perhaps his puppeteers do)>

Obama is completely alien to the American experience, culture and tradition. He does not get it–he cannot get it. He does not want to get it.

This is becoming more obvious every day. It is becoming evident as well that he actually does deeply believe is his communist claptrap. No matter how those beliefs are mediated by mere personal political ambition and calculations or modulated by character flaws or personalty disorders, he is a true believer; it is core to his being and thus he carries with him all of the animus toward the US and the Western tradition that goes with Marzism. He literally cannot escape it.

The Republic faces a grim struggle.