As a 'convert' to conservatism, and a patriotic American believing in highly respecting the office of President, and firmly convinced that all 'legitimate' authority comes from God, it has taken me quite some time to dissect the mind of our President to come up with an understanding of the direction in which he plans to take us...  

And all this is not without much prayer, tolerance, study, reflection, and insight...!!!  

First of all, Scripture is clear, "...by their fruits you shall know them..."  

In other words, lemons come from lemon trees, oranges from orange trees, acorns from oak trees, apples from apple trees, milk from cows, wool from sheep, etc...  

In fact, for the person of faith, it is relatively easy to judge another's actions by observing this time tested formula...!!!  

And since I am very fond of analogies, I'll give you a simple one...one that places into some perspective, President Obama and his somewhat hidden, if not clandestine, agenda...  

First, a word about CAPITALISM...all societies and civilizations thrive on CAPITALISM...it isn't a dirty word...it merely suggests that in order to acquire any material goods, including food, shelter, and clothing, you must either work, barter, or pay for them...even if they were to be graciously given to you (material goods) without cost, someone would have had to 'pay' for them...  

Now back to our analogy...  

Now, pay close attention...this will come quickly...!!!  

My favorite ice cream flavor is Butter Pecan, with Chocolate a close second...in fact, if I'm really in the mood, I like a generous dip of each on a sturdy cone...  

Baskin Robbins caters to ice cream lovers...they offer more than 31 flavors...true artistic capitalism and merchandising in action...virtually everyone can find a flavor they enjoy there...!!!  

My father, when he was alive, would only eat Vanilla ice cream...period...!!!  

If President Obama controlled the ice cream industry, he would offer no more than four flavors...Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry, and Butter Almond...suggesting that four is plenty to choose from, and 31 would be extravagantly wasteful...!!!  

The Obama/Biden model is just the opposite of The Baskin Robbins model...  

You see, it is not 'freedom' that is the goal, but conformity to a predetermined set of standards agreed on by a select few 'intellectuals'...  

*******END OF ANALOGY*******  

For those who wish to dive further into this topic...read this, written nearly a century ago, but very apropos to our present times:      

"We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond; and on these faces there is no smile..."

"Upon dissecting it we discover the "Modern Mind" to contain three main ingredients and to combine them through the force of one principle. Its three ingredients are pride, ignorance, and intellectual sloth; their unifying principle is a blind acceptance of authority not based on reason. 

Pride causes those who suffer from this disease to regard whatever they think they have learned, whatever they have absorbed, through no matter how absurd a channel, as absolute and sufficient. 

Ignorance forbids them to know with any thoroughness what men have discovered about these things in the past, and how certainly.

Intellectual sloth forbids them to examine an argument, or even to appreciate the implications of their own assertions." 

-Hillaire Belloc Survivals and New Arrivals