Is this old post the ghost of Obama's Future?

If you don't mind me saying, I like a person who tries to improve on human nature, first his own, and then to help others stay unified. If our country needs anything now, it is someone who practices what he preaches, and unifies the country to do good. What do you think?

A Candid President Arose and Delivered This Amazing Speech

George Washington, from his farewell address:

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy....

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose; and there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.... If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.

This assessment is accurate now and was prescient then.

Your thoughts? Less discuss this in events affecting the USA.

Best,

Mike

The Moscow Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika's office has been hard at work rounding up the usual suspects in the highest profile cases he is tasked by President Vladimir Putin with "investigating." The usual suspects are Jews, Ukrainians and Chechens.

Who does the regime suspect for Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder? Why, two Chechens. Brilliant detective work.

And who must have murdered Russian Central Bank deputy chief Andrei Kozlov? Definitely some "amateurish Ukrainian hitmen and middlemen," reported the Economist; and they were allegedly hired by Alexei Frankel (a Jewish man), whose motive was supposedly revenge because Kozlov yanked Frankel's bank's license for money laundering and other improprieties (same source). However, after he did so, Kozlov reportedly "complained of pressure from high-ranking officers in the security services in relation to these cases" according to friends. Pressure to do what? The Economist report didn't say whether the friends reported pressure to yank Frankel's license, or, pressure over having yanked it.

And we all know that even though Yukos was already broken, its leadership jailed, exiled or otherwise silenced, and its assets ultimately nationalized, a former Yukos official exiled in Israel, Leonid Nevzlin must have arranged the poison murder of Alexander Litvinenko. He is also a Russian Jewish man, by the way. Oh, and he did it for Boris Berezovsky.

It takes a peculiar kind of nihilism to use xenophobia and ethnic hatred as a tool to unify the most important political blocs and parties against disfavored ethnicities; to rationalize their persecution; and to unjustly accuse and try them for whatever crimes the radical regime wants to commit for which it needs a fall guy. And, doing the latter reinforces the former.

That is how the regime does business.

The Putin regime knows.