Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:27:14 PM
This may seem a little harsh to the casual observer. Obama has a history, going back to his political roots in the South Side of Chicago.
These roots have ingrained some of his characteristics, and many of them are not obvious to the national scene yet, because Obama has not been truly tested yet.
I will flesh this out in the coming months, as his policy experiments run into the walls they do, because they are well to the left of the political mainstream in this country.
Obama is a sneaky, smooth-talking, vindictive product of the Chicago political machine that produced the Daley family and grew the likes of Blagojevich. He has little or no respect for the Constitution and eventually will grow an enemy's list that would make Nixon proud.
Those of you out there that disagree with him and have any sort of media mouthpiece to do anything about it should be prepared to have the IRS start getting intimately involved with you.
This man does not broach opposition, when it shows evidence of working. He is confrontational when he is up against it, as evidenced most recently when he was behind in the polls in early September in the Presidential campaign.
The Clinton's were the same way. They had the luxury of running two Presidential campaigns against two losers, so they weren't tested there. Hillary last year had no clue about how to take down a Black man who was more than willing to dredge up the race card to his advantage.
Obama will do whatever it takes. The only limits he sees on his power are self imposed. The Constitution in his mind is absolutely flexible.
This should worry more people than it does at the moment. You'll see.