A Sober Assessment ...

I'm probably as guilty as the next conservative of seeing Obama as a proto-dictator. Mostly I've seen him as a front-man for some group that is using him as a smooth talking facade for their own intentions running in the background, generally I expect for money and power, although one can't rule out the more sinister themes of tyranny down the road. The American Thinker SEE HERE ran an insightful piece today by J. R. Dunn which points out, and I think quite rightly, that Obama just doesn't fit the dictator mold established by such stalwarts as Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini and the like. He's just not up to the comparisons on the whole. This of course doesn't address the issue of whether he's just a facade, a stand in for a coterie of powerful folks that are off stage pulling his strings. But Obama isn't up to the tyrant job based on his profile so far. That's the case that the American Thinker piece makes and I think it is cogent.