Barack Obama has socialist goals. He knows it. I know it. Most engaged Americans know it. What he can’t do is argue for his socialist policies on what he views as the merits because then the rest of America will know it too.

If you can’t convince people based on the merits of a rational argument then you must find a way to persuade them that your policies are necessary. President Obama preferred method seems to be to create villains. The first villain was the AIG bonus getters. They are still his favorite target and the excuse for new taxation on banks. To smooth the way for health care “reform”, our President told us that doctors cut off feet and removed tonsils just to make more money, he has vilified insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies and claims that only government has pure motives (really). When it comes to global warming, producers of electricity and gasoline are the villains.  And of course, he always has a fall back villain…the Bush Administration.

I argue for reform to health care by opening up competition across state lines and personal health savings accounts. I can argue all day the merits of these positions without once making someone out to be evil.

I can argue global warming is a hoax on scientific terms and not once mention that the proponents are lying pieces of crap who have received billions of tax payer dollars to push the global crisis dijour.

I can point out the merits of keeping terrorist in Guantanamo by stating that we are at war with an unconventional enemy without once mentioning that our President and Attorney General live in a fantasy world were world opinion turns into something tangible.

Our president learned his trade in the “civil rights” movement in Chicago. I quote “civil rights” because he was no better then Jesse Jackson. He used civil rights to promote one thing…Barack Obama. He used civil rights to argue for things that didn’t make sense. Take a look at the South Side of Chicago. Did our chief community organizer attain any significant civil rights victories for the people there? Has he turned them around and set them on a path for success or is it the same depressed area it has always been?

Look for the pattern: Demonize instead of argue the merits.

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