15-06-2018, 09:13 PM
Last night I heard an interview with right-wing film maker Dinesh D'Souza. He compared the situation with the (pretty much) compromised FBI to his experience growing up in India. He said that in India, half the criminals were on the streets and the other half were wearing badges.
I think, sadly, that historians will have to ask the unthinkable question about President Barack O'Bama. We now pretty much know that he approved an unprecedented spying operation against the Trump Campaign. But why did he do something extreme like this?
One theory would obviously be that he had a background in the Mayor Daley Chicago Machine which was all about ethical problems and numerous jailed Governors.
But the other is that he spent his adolescence in Indonesia. O'Bama is super-intelligent and we can only assume that he was a very smart teenager when living in Indonesia. Was he exposed to political corruption there? Did that influence O'Bama toward what can only be described as political activity which was outslde the norm for Western Democracy.
History can be brutal to some sad figures. Richard Nixon comes to mind. Though I was a staunch O'Bama supporter in 2008 and 2012, it seems like we have to be asking tough questions about the ethical perspective of O'Bama with these new revelations. Sad to think of the brilliant O'Bama as a re-incarnation of J. Edgar Hoover (or worse).
James Lateer
I think, sadly, that historians will have to ask the unthinkable question about President Barack O'Bama. We now pretty much know that he approved an unprecedented spying operation against the Trump Campaign. But why did he do something extreme like this?
One theory would obviously be that he had a background in the Mayor Daley Chicago Machine which was all about ethical problems and numerous jailed Governors.
But the other is that he spent his adolescence in Indonesia. O'Bama is super-intelligent and we can only assume that he was a very smart teenager when living in Indonesia. Was he exposed to political corruption there? Did that influence O'Bama toward what can only be described as political activity which was outslde the norm for Western Democracy.
History can be brutal to some sad figures. Richard Nixon comes to mind. Though I was a staunch O'Bama supporter in 2008 and 2012, it seems like we have to be asking tough questions about the ethical perspective of O'Bama with these new revelations. Sad to think of the brilliant O'Bama as a re-incarnation of J. Edgar Hoover (or worse).
James Lateer