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TheRealMafoo said:

highwaystar101 said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Did you miss the "Obama will not be the next Castro because he does not have time on his side"?

No, the US can not turn into Cuba over the next 8 years. But it can over the next 50.

Yeah I read what you said about having time on his side, but that means you think Obama wants to create a Fidel Castro-esque state in the first place. I can assure you he wants the USA to be more like Europe and not like Cuba. If you gave him 50 years I think you would end up with Europe2.0 where private industry by far and away larger than the public industry, as opposed to socialist Cuba.

I think he wants to be a dictator. The difference in what he want the US to be and what Castro wants Cuba to be are academic.

Castro has the power to make Cuba anything he wants it to be. This is what Obama wants. What he makes it is not important. Giving a man that power, is.

I've struggled with this issue in regards to Obama (I did with Bush as well).  There is no doubt that he is a narcissist and he has rocketed past the normal checkpoints that slow people down on their path to the Presidency.  He seems to view himself as someone always capable of doing more (well intentioned imo) and the only place higher that he can go from here is to become a dictator.  But the leap to "actively strives to be a dictator" is a hard one for me to sign on to.

I think subconsciously he desires it...but then so do I.  Who would run for the office if they didn't feel like they could do a better job?

Personality wise he fits the bill, but I think it is a leap to actually say he is actively seeking it.  I'm not sure if you were going that far or not, but I'm not really on board that idea either way.  For now he seems like an overly ambitious, exceedingly naive, and disturbingly inexperienced leader that is trying to enact his entire agenda in the first two years (perhaps so he can play golf the last two years =P ).

Beyond that I think it is reasonable to be cautious and to watch what he does closely (like you would any president), but I don't think raising alarms is really called for at all so far.