This is one of those things that will definitely leaving you scratching your head. Because when a guy like this is saying that Barry must be defeated, it kind a makes you wonder if things might be a whole lot worse than you thought you knew they were. Because a former professor of Barry's has apparently now turned against his one-time student, publicly urging voters not to re-elect him. Roberto Unger posted the above video on YouTube detailing the specific reasons why he believes that Barry does not deserve a second term in the White House. While his reasons may be different than mine, we both arrive at the same conclusion. And that's what's important.
Mr. Unger is a prominent Brazilian politician and is also someone who was an adviser to Barry in 2008. he has said: 'President Obama must be defeated in the coming election. He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.' The 65-year-old academic was in frequent contact with Barry on his Blackberry throughout the last election campaign but this time around there has been no contact as he says that he no longer agrees with many of Barry's decisions. His list of complaints against Barry "Almighty" is a rather long, and detailed, one. And he appears to be none to shy about revealing them.
He presents his list of grievances in the video entitled 'Beyond Obama'. And it is this video that the esteemed philosopher is rather scathing of Barry's plans to salvage America's ailing economy, saying that his policy consists solely of 'financial confidence and food stamps'. A fact that I can't really disagree with. He adds: 'He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.' The politician admits that if Republican candidate Mitt Romney wins the election 'there will be a cost... in judicial and administrative appointments'. He seem willing to accept that fact.
However he seem to direct his most barbed remarks toward the Democrat leader saying that Barry has 'evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle'. His summary of the past four years is equally scathing: 'Give the bond markets what they want, bail out the reckless so long as they are also rich, use fiscal and monetary stimulus to make up for the absence of any consequential broadening of economic and educational opportunity, sweeten the pill of disempowerment with a touch of tax fairness, even though the effect of any such tax reform is sure to be modest.'
While most of Mr. Unger's comments seem to be politically to the left of Barry, he insists that the Republicans would be no more destructive than the Democrats as 'the risk of military adventurism' would remain the same. The academic also attack Barry's efforts to reform healthcare. Mr. Unger argues: 'He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight.' He also suggests that, despite their fierce rivalry, the Democrats' agenda is little different to that of the Republicans, saying the party aims 'to put a human face on the program of its adversaries'.
The good professor concludes his little video by saying: 'Only a political reversal can allow the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life.' Mr. Unger is a renowned politician in his native Brazil. He has twice has run for president of Brazil and has served as Minister of Strategic Affairs. Unger was one of the founding members of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and drafted its founding manifesto. He has also advised on politics throughout Latin America. The professor is a respected author having published dozens of books on economics, philosophy and politics. In philosophy, his arguments are said to focus on some the greatest problems of the human existence.
So here we now have a guy who supported Barry in 2008, even acted as an advisor, of sorts, as having had a change of heart, so to speak. Now you would think, because of his background and political leanings, he would again be a very vocal supporter of Barry. But what's that old saying, even a nut will run out of a burning building. And since what we have here, thanks to Barry and the Democrats, is very much a burning building, I can understand his having changed his position regarding his choosing not to support Barry in his quest for re-election. Especially as things continue to burn down around us. But even so, regardless of his reasons, his comments do add credibility to the argument that Barry must be prevented from serving another term.
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