The wild paranoid fantasies of the right continue. Republican Representative Pete Sessions of Texas apparently thinks Barack Obama is a really, really evil guy. Obama, Sessions says, hopes to wreak havoc on our country in order to carry out his power-hungry agenda.
At the beginning of April, a Fox News poll asked respondents whether they believed that President Obama “wants the financial crisis to continue so government can take over more businesses and grow the federal government.” Only 23 percent said that they thought Obama wanted it to continue, but that minority view was recently endorsed by a top-ranking Republican official. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), the chairman of the NRCC, told the New York Times that he believes President Obama aims to “‘diminish employment and diminish stock prices‘ as part of a ‘divide and conquer’ strategy to consolidate power.”
Sessions further argues that Obama’s platform is “intended to inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill it.”