Do you believe Obama is a natural born citizen? A socialist? A Muslim?In order:
No, I am not a birther. Here is Barack Obama's Certification of Live Birth and a newspaper birth announcement. Both confirm he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
I do not think Obama is officially a socialist, either. He is definitely a radical progressive socialists can get behind. I think Obama’s problem is more likely that he has lived a life sheltered from the private sector. He has been nothing but a student, a teacher, a social activist, and an elected official. His life experiences have given him that general naïve nature that lets progressivism run rampant.
What I mean by that is he has no sense of the practical. Socialism looks good on paper in the classroom, but there is no way to get it to work for very long before the political system crumbles. Obama can only see the utopian possibilities of the former, not the economic and political realities of the latter. The sad part is he does not know that he cannot. He told Republicans he was not an ideologue and I think he genuinely believes he is not.
Obama is not bound by ideology. He is an egomaniac with his ow view of how things should be. He has proven more than happy to stomp on anyone, progressive or conservative, who gets in the way. It obviously does not bother him his healthcare reform law is going to cost his fellow Democrats dearly in November because he is ready to push unpopular immigration reform, too. He only cares about his progressive will being doe. That makes him more dangerous than a mere socialist, if you asked me.
I am still in the camp Obama is not a believer period. He strikes me as one who views religion with an anthropologist’s eye. Listen to this short speech on what he believes the role of religion in politics ought to be:he specifically attacks Christianity here, but speaks of all religion in general as being subservient to the state. In other words, it isa personal thing and a social phenomena that ought to be tolerated up until it gets in the way of “proper” public policy. Those are not the words of a religious believer period.
I am aware Obama stopped calling himself Barry and began calling himself Barack after a college trip to Pakistan. I am skeptical he was motivated by Islam to do that. If anyone cares to offer up evidence to the contrary, I am open to hearing it.
