Barack Obama

The main campaign slogan of President Barack Obama was, Change We Can believe In. Given that slogan, we must ask a question: "Why did President Obama hire many of the same people who worked in the Clinton administration?" That doesn't seem like change. It seems like status quo.

During the election, why did Obama consult Robert Rubin, who just recently resigned as head of Citigroup, a company on the verge of its own collapse and that has received some $45 billion in bailout funds, for advice on the economy? Why did he appoint Larry Summers to be director of the White House National Economic Council and Timothy Geithner, former head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to be his secretary of the treasury? All of these men were members of the Clinton economic team and played a part in the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, an act that forbade banks from selling investments. Banks selling investments in the form of derivatives is a big reason why we are in this mess today.

— Robert Kiyosaki; Rich Dad's Conspiracy of The Rich

One reason why Presidents Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. said almost the same words, that a bailout would save the economy and never happen again, is because they are elected to protect the system—not fix it. Could one reason why President Obama has hired virtually the same financial team from the Clinton administration be bccausc he is interested in protecting the same system—a system designed to make the rich get even richer? Only time will tell. Although President Obama is proud of the fact that he did not accept campaign money from lobbyists, the truth remains that his financial team is full of insiders who helped usher in the crisis they are now charged with fixing.

— Robert Kiyosaki; Rich Dad's Conspiracy of The Rich

If President Obama really wants to make changes in Washington he needs to change this cozy relationship between the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. government, and the rich and powerful.

— Robert Kiyosaki; Rich Dad's Conspiracy of The Rich

But that such an administration could be elected in the first place, headed by a man [Barack Obama] whose only qualifications to be President of the United States at a dangerous time in the history of the world were rhetoric, style and symbolism - and whose animus against the values and institutions of America had been demonstrated repeatedly over a period of decades beforehand-speaks volumes about the inadequacies of our educational system and the degeneration of our culture.

— Thomas Sowell; Dismantling America

The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his [Barack Obama] words, rather than on the record of his deeds. What that means is that, even if we somehow manage to survive this man's reckless economic policies at home and his potentially fatal foreign policy actions and inactions, the gullibility and fecklessness of those voters who put him in the White House will still be there to be exploited by the next master of glib demagoguery and emotional images, who can lead us into another vortex of dangers, from which there is no guarantee that we will emerge as a free people or even as a viable society.

— Thomas Sowell; Dismantling America

Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, or who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children.

Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn't know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?

Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government - people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America's influence in the world.

— Thomas Sowell; Dismantling America