Ideologues or Just Slightly to the Left?

by j. wright


President Obama met with some Republican Congressional leaders recently and asserted, "I'm not an ideologue. I'm not." Oddly enough that statement took me back to November of 1973 when President Nixon uttered the memorable words, "I'm not a crook." Many of us recall how that ended the following summer.
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Whether President Obama is an ideologue or not is up for grabs, it's not for me to decide. I do however look at those with whom one associates as one measure of a person's core beliefs. Take some of his more controversial Czar appointments, high level, executive posts not confirmed by Congress and with little to no Congressional oversight.
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Former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones for example, now resigned, an admitted Communist whom presidential aide Valerie Jarret once said, "We've had out eyes on him for a long time." That's comforting.
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Then there's the Guantanamo Closure Czar Daniel Fried who believes that the U.S. caused the war on terrorism and that terrorists should be granted legal rights above those of our citizenry.
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John Brennan, the Terrorism Czar has had a ton of face time on TV recently in attempting to explain the Christmas Bombing suspect folly. Brennan has no diplomatic or governmental affairs experience, supports open borders and the disbandment of the U.S. Military. Beyond that, he is anti-CIA. Great.
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Weapons Czar Aston Carter wants all weapons in the U.S. destroyed and the U.N. gun ban on all firearms put in place.
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Obama's WMD Czar Gary Samore seeks to destroy all WMD beginning with the U.S. arsenal first, a unilateral move as a "show of good faith." Did I mention that he is a former Communist too?
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Of some thirty or more Czars, these are just a few of the extremist folks appointed in recent months to oversee our nation's future. Ideologues? You decide.