Figuring Out Obama

Okay, there are parts of Obama that are easy to figure out.  He's a man of the left.  (The Federal government knows best.)  He also subscribes to cultural equivalency.  (We're no better than any other nation.)

But, let's get down to specifics.  What's he doing usurping the authority of the Congress?

That question is not all that complicated.

He has no interest in working with the Congress.  There are two reasons for this, in my opinion.

First, it's not his style.  He's got the mindset of a community organizer.  Congress, in his mind, represents the fat cats who run the city and state.  He sees himself as a Saul Alinsky, someone who's going to get what he wants by kicking them in the shins.

Second, he sees himself as a lame duck and maybe he is.  If so, he sees no point in building bridges with Congress -- especially now that the American electorate has just turned its back on him by turning the Senate over to the Republicans.  His best bet, as he sees it, is to narrow his objectives  down to trying to ingratiate himself with those groups he thinks he has a chance of dropping into his pocket.  Labor is already pretty much in his pocket.  African-Americans are, of course, also in his pocket.  But, even they are becoming discouraged by his ever more tarnished image.  The group he is now focused on are Latinos.

He may, however, run into some problems.  First, is the enterprising nature of most immigrants.  They know where they came from.  They came here because  here they can find opportunities not available to them in the countries they just left.  Do they want a country that is leaning in the direction of the one they just came from?

They know the nature of the governments they just left.  Do they want their new country to become a mirror image of the place they just came form?

Obama's nightmare?  That Latinos will vote Republican.