[on the shutdown]

If there were ever a moment in Obama's presidency when his dictatorial, 'my way or the highway' style of leadership were in full display for the American public to see, it is now. Yet amazingly, many do not see it. They do not realize that Obama regards himself, not as a humble public servant elected to serve all Americans equally, but as a political Messiah waging war against the perpetrators of injustice in America-- white Republicans, who have created a nation which in his view is fundamentally evil, discriminatory,unjust and shamefully uncaring toward the poor, by virtue of its capitalistic, free market economy that creates a gulf between the "have and have nots." It is his 'sacred mission' as a freedom warrior to "bring down" the America that has been in order to erect a fundamentally different nation by installing statist, socialist polices that steal from the rich to give to the poor and that utterly demolish the Judeo-Christian value system that has given rise to our unique form of government, that gives maximum protection to individual liberties and rights. In Obama's mind, it is the collective that matters, not the individual-- the creation of his utopian world, not the preservation of fundamental liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. That is why he is so intransigent in his mindset toward those whom he views as the perpetrators of injustice. Unlike the clueless Republicans who think they can 'collaborate' with him by means of 'compromise,' Obama sees himself as a man at war, and as [Pat] Buchanan points out, he is sadistic in the extent to which he is willing to use pain and suffering as a means to achieve his revolutionary goals. Republicans had better wise up and realize you must fight fire with fire. What war was ever won by the side that refused to fight back? Who has ever gained victory in battle by yielding everything to the enemy-- armor, sword, and shield? We are a nation at war, whether we like it or not, and Obama is the one who fired the first shot. He and his cronies must be defeated by a 'do or die' mentality that exceeds his own.