Obama unravelling 5 days before election

Benghazi news is leaking out daily painting a picture of a neglectful Obama administration which failed to address security concerns at the consulate and embassey in Libya. We shouldn't have had an embassey in this dangerous, irrational, unpredictable place to start with, but that would have sent the wrong message when Obama is promoting the narrative that al Qaeda has been defeated and is on the run. On the run where? From one camp to five others in Libya? Obama has made the mistake of pretending to be a Great Warrior, and he's not. Obama should leveled with the American people, and he should have been working to get us out of the mideast, but instead he's deceived the American people, played Captain America and the coverup is killing him.

Plus, the Left has never understood the average American, but it's even worse now. This election is not about Right and Left, with the Left battling a cartoon bunch of racists and homophobes out to destroy civil, compassionate society, but this is how Obama's operatives portray the "Right", while Obama portrays the battle as between the rich and powerful capitalists against the poor and the middle class worker. Most average Americans are really neither Left nor Right, but many are disatisfied with our current economic condition, and they are war weary. Average Americans, black, white, brown, young, old, male, female, etc, will come out in numbers that devastate Democrats, and the Left will not see it coming. It's the fault of the Left, because media, the unions, the special interest groups, the universities, the intellectuals and elite government officials who represent the Left think they have marginalized the Right, because the Left thinks in terms of racist Tea Partiers, or the homophobe screaming at a poor gay person, or a fat white business man keeping women down because he sees them as inferior. The Left has hopelessly mischaracterized the Right and have conflated their version of the Right with the average American. This is a fatal mistake for the party.

Glenn Beck 4/5/2011 -- unions/government/corporations

Beck said it himself -- it's getting boring. It's either Soros, Van Jones, Socialist groups linking arms with unions or more connections being made to a global New World Order -- just the usual.

To start with, Beck tipped his hat to Paul Ryan for coming forth with what is considered a serious effort to cut government spending. Then Beck revealed more plans on the Left to continue their Revolution. The connections between unions, the American Left, radical Islamists and socialist groups of all stripes all lead to what we've described here, and Beck has described, as anti-capitalism -- an end to western values.

Radicals like Francis Fox Pivens and Van Jones believe that an American revolution will end capitalism and bring about an American-style socialism which will cooperate with other nations in a global revolution to turn the tables on the wealthy and powerful and redistribute the wealth. The only snag (well, not the only) is the problem Stalin and Mao and others had -- you can't force producers to produce. At some point when you begin "eating the rich" the rich rebel, then there's no money to redistribute. This is basic, and no one thinks it will happen, but it has, and it will again.

What the left doesn't realize, or won't realize because they crave power, is that any system has to protect production, property rights, individual rights in general and the rule of law. Yes, the power players are out of control, but the State power players are leading the way. It's not as simple as putting radicals into government positions, like Samantha Powers, because State power craves power for the sake of power, not to help the powerless gain power. The State will hand out as much as it can hand out, but the State is not into handing out power and freedom. Beck is the only popular, influential tv host who is bringing the Left's madness to the forefront. This has to change.

Capital-correctness

More and more I realize that most anti-capitalists on the Left are not so much anti-capitalist but they are against the wrong kind of capitalist. Joseph Shumpeter wrote about Marx's association of class and capitalism -- the capitalist is always the expropriator and then there's the worker associated with labor. It's a class distinction rather than taking capitalism objectively.

All the comments I've seen so far from the left regarding Ariana Huffington's 315 million dollar payday from AOL praises her worthiness for such a huge sum, and I've never heard anyone on the Left refer to Soros as a Fat Cat, or John Kerry as a greedy capitalist pig. It matters on the Left who has or made the money, and if the correct person is rich then it's not associated with capitalist greed. However, the Koch brothers, or Glenn Beck's salary are different issues -- they become self-interested capitalist players concerned only with their own enrichment and not with the plight of the needy.

Obama's new-found business-friendly posture has this same capital-correctness attached to it. Capitalism is fine if the right capitalists make the money, fulfill their duty to society and the State and build the right products or provide the right services. Even Obama has become wealthy, but no one is accusing him of exploitation -- however, if Ann Coulter writes a book that is successful in the market, she's making a killing off fear-mongering and pushing red-meat to extemist Tea Party-types.

I find this fascinating.

Update on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 01:57PM by M. Farmer

Whoops, I did find one un-happy ant-capitalist who disses Huffington.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten-column-huffington-aol-20110209,0,7406565.column