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The Orwellian Universe of Mr. Obama

GayPatriot :

“If an ‘astroturfing’ campaign gets real people to show up at events stating their real views, isn’t it … community organizing?“ Now that conservatives are organizing communities of concerned citizens in much the same manner Barack Obama did when once a recent transplant to the Windy City, well, the Democrats (and their allies in the MSM) just can’t fathom the notion of their ideological adversaries expressing their grievances in much as they have done for the better part of the last eight years.

Hail, Caesar!

Kathryn Jean Lopez :

"For Barack Obama, democracy appears to be a distraction. He really does seem to view himself as a Caesar."

Quote of the Millenium (via Patterico)

How Little Things Have Changed:

"“If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.” –Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791"

The "Rule of Empathy"...

Eric Holder Does Justice:

"Holder has been in office for six months now and — will wonders never cease? — it turns out that really, when not subjected to the glare of television cameras and Congressional scrutiny, Eric Holder is part of Team Obama’s effort to transform justice from the rule of law into the pursuit of “social justice,” i.e., an attack on the rule of law in the name of a left-wing political agenda."

Couldn't we work out a swap for Michael Moore?

Doctors in Cuba Start Over in the U.S.:

"Yet for many Cuban doctors, who earn the equivalent of $25 a month, the lure of a life of freedom and opportunities in the United States is too strong to resist. And so these children of the revolution, educated by a Communist regime to reject capitalism and embrace socialism, have ended up in Miami, often tending to elderly Cubans who fled the island before the doctors were born."

The "teachable moment"?

Jay Nordlinger:

"Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Could you remind me, once more, why we have government radio, and government TV, anyway? I guess this is what Dan Rather means by “public media” (as if privately owned media weren’t public). It’s bad enough when an ordinary, commercial outlet is shoddy, misleading, or mendacious. But a taxpayer-funded outlet?

This may be mere emotion talking, but if there’s one reform I’d like to see, it is to do away altogether with government media in this liberal republic (and you know I mean liberal in an older, honorable sense)."

Read it all...

Via The Agitator:

Hugo Chavez shuts down 34 radio stations. But remember, Venezuelans get free health care and stuff, so Chavez may well be a great man.

Precisely what I have been saying...

On race, 'No, he can't!':

"While I have no desire to see Mr. Obama's birth certificate, I do want to see his college transcripts. My suspicion, one could even call it a conspiracy theory, is that Mr. Obama committed himself to a radical curriculum, aligned himself with the far-left professoriate, and sought to keep this biographical information from his political enemies, especially then-rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, for fear that they would paint the former community organizer and follower of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as something other than an advocate of racial reconciliation."

Speals to the narrow mindedness of Guthrie

Peace, Love and Charlie Manson:

"SPEAKING about the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, Arlo Guthrie recently asked, “How many other events from 1969 are we still talking about?” Plenty, as it turns out, and for reasons far more compelling than inexhaustible boomer nostalgia. By any measure, the last year of the ’60s was crammed with events, Woodstock among them, that have lived on as symbolic battlegrounds in the culture wars that have dominated our country’s politics since then."

Right on the $$$$$...

Mark Steyn:

"...health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. That’s its attraction for an ambitious president: It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in a way that hands all the advantages to statists — to those who believe government has a legitimate right to regulate human affairs in every particular."

One leg at a time.....

Jonah Goldberg:

Obama isn’t supposed to be a typical politician. He was supposed to be The One. He was supposed to change Washington. Transcend race. Fix souls. Bake twelve-minute brownies in seven minutes.

Oprah promised Obama would help us “evolve to a higher plane.” Deepak Chopra said Obama’s presidency represented “a quantum leap in American consciousness.” Last month, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas proclaimed that Obama stood “above the country, above — above the world, he’s sort of God.”

Well, now he’s the god who bleeds, and once you’re the god who bleeds, it’s hard to get the divinity back in the tube, as it were."

No...

Can Obama lead without active assistance of MSM?

Hope and Change!!!

JONATHAN TURLEY:

"Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli overruled career lawyers at the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division to drop a complaint against three members of the New Black Panther Party of intimidating voters in Philadelphia during November’s election — including one member Samir Shabazz who brandished a nightstick."

Watch your back....

Clifford D. May:

"Historian Bernard Lewis has observed that a nation can make few mistakes worse than this: to be “harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.” Is that a fair characterization of American foreign policy under the Obama administration?"

Nobody really gets it.....

Markets, Not Mandates:

"Right now consumers are locked into the health insurance and health care plans that their employers choose, thanks to previous government meddling with the health care system and the tax code. Consequently, most consumers simply don't have a clue what their health insurance costs. They have no way to reduce those costs, and no incentive to do so, even if they could."

If people really understood that the current medical care mess is actually caused by of government intervention, perhaps they wouldn't be so quick to offer their lives and futures to the fools who are in charge. No place is that more evident than (of course) in today's NY Times. David Leonhardt takes us painfully through a series of gymnastics for the sole purpose of making sure that the government is in charge of the system, rather than really solving the problems. Read it and realize just how stupid we have become....

And I expected much less....

Popehat:

"I expected more from him. Even while deriding the idea of Change as a strategy, I was hopeful that at the very least his popularity and political capital would allow for some meaningful progress. Instead, Obama seems bound and determined to fritter his capital away, and allow the Democrats in Congress to do what they do best, lose majorities. One more time Joe. “That’s not change. That’s more of the same.”"

A worthy read; but only if you're willing to see all the warts underneath the bullshit....

Let's hear it for "disproportionate force"!

Culture War Replaces Missile War:

"In early 2006, shortly before the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War, an Israeli intelligence officer predicted the future. “Missile war will replace terrorist war,” he told me when I spoke with him at the Ministry of Defense."

Totten usually gets these things right....

Good Night, and Good Luck.....

Megan McArdle:

"I know, most of you have already figured out why I oppose national health care. In a nutshell, I hate the poor and want them to die so that all my rich friends can use their bodies as mulch for their diamond ranches. But y'all keep asking, so here goes the longer explanation.

Basically, for me, it all boils down to public choice theory. Once we've got a comprehensive national health care plan, what are the government's incentives? I think they're bad, for the same reason the TSA is bad. I'm afraid that instead of Security Theater, we'll get Health Care Theater, where the government goes to elaborate lengths to convince us that we're getting the best possible health care, without actually providing it."

In other words - Up Your's, Mr. President!

Mark Steyn:

"The president of the United States may be reluctant to condemn Ayatollah Khamenei or Hugo Chávez or that guy in Honduras without examining all the nuances and footnotes, but sometimes there are outrages so heinous that even the famously nuanced must step up to the plate and speak truth to power. And thank God the leader of the free world had the guts to stand up and speak truth to municipal police sergeant James Crowley."