I think there are 2 different issues here. They are nepotism and what I like to call the "power of association." If I was president I would absolutely appoint friends, relatives, acquaintances. and others whenever possible if I felt they were the best in that area and would help me further my agenda and goals for the country. I think the president can appoint whoever he/she wants to appoint. The second issue that I think Squash and others are bringing up is the extremely important issue of the power of association. I think the majority of us keep a close eye on this as parents. We don't want our kids hanging out with the kids that party all the time, get bad grades, and have "I hate everyone" written on their arm with permanent marker. Why? Because we understand as parents the "power of association" and if your kid starts hanging out with kids like that, it won't be too long before you start noticing the same behavior from your child. Ironically, we seem to forget that this applies to adults as well as kids. At work, you start hanging out with a group of guys or gals who are all divorced. They invite you for a drink and before you know it, there you are, drinking and listening to everyone trash talk their ex. You keep hanging out with this group long enough and after a while you start noticing that your spouse has all kinds of flaws and annoying habits and you start engaging in the trash talk about your spouse. And eventually if this continues you are on the road to divorce yourself because you want to be like your friends. Your group of friends says a lot about who you are. So who are the president's friends? What ideology do they subscribe to? Your friends tend to be those that are like minded. You may not agree on everything of course, but generally your friends are like minded. So to say it doesn't matter that so many friends and appointees in the Obama administration have been associated with socialist groups,( or in the case of Van Jones a self avowed communist), and have anti capitalist views etc. is simply ignoring reality. The president clearly has some very liberal views (redistribution of wealth being one-from Karl Marx)) and I don't see that as some secret. He has talked about it more than once. Many of his advisors and spokesmen have espoused the same point of view which makes perfect sense.(Like minded) So since Left Foot is always asking us to bring up a "real issue" to talk about and I believe I have, I am going to ask Left Foot to be open minded and instead of dismissing others point of view for saying that those in the Obama administration and Obama himself are socialists/marxists,I am asking Left Foot to take some time to Really do some research on the backgrounds of the president's "friends." I think there is legitimate reason for concern. Be open minded enough to look at everything. There is no stronger evidence than the written and spoken word.
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