Posted by
Noam D. Gear on Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:03:00 PM
See Mark Sanford’s comments today
I am surprised and delighted to see that other people are beginning to see the similarity between President Mugabe in Zimbabwe and President Obama in America.
Allow me to expand it for you:
- Both Obama and Mugabe went to elite Universities (Princeton; Oxford)
- Both got degrees from elite Law Schools. (one from Harvard; two from University of London).
- Both spent a while teaching and lecturing at a Law School. (Chicago; Zambia)
- Both are intellectuals of reputation.
- Both were “community organizers” (Chicago; Rhodesia)
- Both of them are fantastic orators. (Do you need proof?)
- Both of them have countries with abundant and fertile agricultural lands.
- Both of them rose to power from a new political base of young people who were persuaded that they had “no hope” without their leader. (Pol Pot too, by the way)
- Mugabe created a security force by hiring up many people from among his young political base of previously-hopeless people. His security force was used to extract money and belongings from the rich and give them to the poor. The part about giving to the poor was completely forgotten at the half-way point. Obama has proposed the “Civilian National Security Force” that would be “as large and well funded as the US Army”. No telling what he will use them to accomplish.
- Both of them use Marx’s “Social Justice” rhetoric liberally when stoking their political base.
- Both stress “Economic Justice”, and redistribution of as central to their mission.
- Neither of them had any prior experience in managing an organization, much less a government.
- Both fight/fought Catholic Hospitals that served the poor. Mugabe wanted to impose high tax on the imported medicines that were being distributed (free) to the poor. Obama will sign FOCA and force Catholics to perform abortions—or quit medicine.
- Both of them took immediate action to quash critics when their ideas began to fail severely.
- Both rely on printing money to devalue currency to cope with their own budgetary incontinence—which is astronomical. More about that later.
The similarities become smaller and less distinguishing after this. Plus, we are only 50 days in.
Mugabe went on to use his “Security Force” to seize farms from farmers so that he could give the land to the “the poor”. In this case, “the poor” were Mugabe’s political contributors and high-ranking officials in his Security Force. These people knew nothing about farming and they created a durable famine that is slowly killing 40% of the population in a region that had been known as “The Bread Basket of Africa”. The famine is now being helped along by an outbreak of cholera, which could have been treated with medicine at Catholic Hospitals, but…oops. Another million or more fled to Zambia and other countries.
When inflation in the US reaches 22,000,000% per year like Zimbabwe, and when the super-intellectual Obama orders the treasury to print new $100,000,000,000-dollar notes (with his own image) so that people can use one of these notes to pay for groceries… then we will know for sure that we actually elected the second-coming of Mugabe as our president. Of course, half of us will be dead by then. And speaking of death…
If simple scale is applied, and if Obama manages to involve the agricultural base of the USA into one of his “Fairness” programs, then Obama’s famine will starve about 150 million Americans to death. For comparison, that would be approximately: 70 Million more death than Mao; 120 Million more than Stalin; 60 fold more than Pol Pot; and 30-fold more than Robert Mugabe.
I just wonder whether Obama will be the clear winner of the competition with other legendary leaders of “Social Justice”, or will he just take a spot in the middle of the pack somewhere. Time will tell.