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TheRealMafoo on 09 September 2009
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highwaystar101 said:
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 don't think Obama wants to be a Castro-esque charachter at all, I think he is much more like a timid Clement Attlee. Infinately more comparisons can be drawn to Clement Attlees' government of 1940's Britain, than it can to Fidel Castros' Cuba.

 

let me ask you this.

If you had two kings. One was a loving king that made sure all his people were fed and clothed, and one was a evil king that killed and raped people as he sees fit. Would you see those two places as the same government?

I sure would.

Obama is not going to turn us into Cuba. He would love to have the power to do so however. He has tried to move more power to his office then anyone before him. He has talked about a federal police force, has moved the census burrow under him. He tells more people what they are allowed to earn. He tried to tell banks what that can take as payments on loans, and when they would not listen to him, he tried to change the law so they had to. He is creating a new "legal regime" to house people as long as he wants. All the overstepping of Bush, he has not overturned. He now wants the power he condemned when he ran for office.

He wants to do what he wants to do, and if any law gets in his way, it's seen as nothing more then a roadblock that needs to be removed. Not as a good thing put into place to protect the people of this country from a president.

The only thing that would keep him from becoming a dictator, is he doesn't have enough time to change enough laws. Sadly, all his work will put the starting position of the next guy that much closer (just like Bush did before Obama), and i am sure the next guy will want to be a dictator as well.

All the weapons we have to stop that, we keep giving away in the form of more executive power.