Obama's communications director, Anita Dunn, said her favorite "philosophers" are Mother Theresa and Mao Zedong. Neither were philosophers, exactly. One is approaching sainthood and the other killed millions, but they both possessed determination and wouldn't give up when pursuing their goals. Dunn admires that. If the goals don't matter, that's a virtue. If the ends justify the means, the means don't matter. If people are means and not ends, they don't matter. The implication is that the goals of the Obama administration override the well-being of the American people.
It's good that people like Anita Dunn open their mouths. They rightly assume that many Americans, including all who voted for Obama, either lean toward "progressive" socialism/communism, or don't really understand it, or don't care. Given the poor education in history of most Americans, the millions that Mao killed (and Stalin and Pol Pot) don't exist to create a recoil from Dunn and the administration. If she'd said Hitler was one of her favorites, or maybe even Stalin, she couldn't have gotten away with it. But at the moment Mao is regaining popularity even in China, in the way Che Guevara is popular here. Che was a killer too but he's a star and people would rather not know the complicated details. Che's had a great PR team. One popular Obama campaign poster painted Obama in Che's famous poster/T-shirt image. Way cool. Next election it might be Obama as Mao. It sure isn't going to be Obama as the Dalai Lama, who got the cold shoulder from Obama so as not to offend the Chinese government, to whom we owe so much.
Obama doesn't seem to have the cojones for our own more legitimate military goals even in Afghanistan, which he said he favored, let alone for mass murder. However, he is the kind of man who could be used to take down this "mean country." Mass murder won't be necessary, though, if Americans lie down for the nationalization of industry and increasing confiscation of their incomes and freedom of choice.
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