President Obama In His own Words

One of our dear readers pointed out to me that in my previous post, my partial list of the industries and organizations that President Obama has demonized was unsupported. I offer the following in support of my list. Although the Administration has many people who speak additional words on behalf of the President (Gibbs, Emanuel, Geithner) this is the President of the United States in his own words:

President Obama Blames the Medical Profession for high health care costs, thinking of themselves and not their patients --
July 23, 2009:
"And part of what we want to do is to make sure that those decisions are being made by doctors and medical experts based on evidence, based on what works, because that’s not how it’s working right now. That’s not — that’s not how it’s working right now.

"Right now, doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that’s out there. So if they’re looking and you come in and you’ve got a bad sore throat or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, “You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out.

"Now, that may be the right thing to do, but I’d rather have that doctor making those decisions just based on whether you really need your kid’s tonsils out or whether it might make more sense just to change — maybe they have allergies. Maybe they have something else that would make a difference."

President Obama demonizes the Insurance Industry -- March 8, 2010:
“Every year, insurance companies deny more people coverage because they have a pre-existing condition. Every year, they drop more people’s coverage when they’re sick and need it most. Every year, they raise premiums higher and higher.”

“When I was young, just got out of college, I had to buy auto insurance. I had a beat-up old car. And I won’t name the name of the insurance company, but there was a company — let’s call it Acme Insurance in Illinois. And I was paying my premiums every month. After about six months I got rear-ended and I called up Acme and said, I’d like to see if I can get my car repaired, and they laughed at me over the phone because really this was set up not to actually provide insurance; what it was set up was to meet the legal requirements. But it really wasn’t serious insurance." February 25, 2010, President Obama confusing who pays when you are rear-ended, while slamming the insurance company/industry.


President Obama indicts the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Department
"The Cambridge Police acted stupidly." ~~ President Barack Obama, July 22, 2009, on the arrest of Professor Henry Gates.

President Obama on "people waving tea bags around" (President Obama ,April 29, 2009) "So, I have been a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having these rallies about taxes. You would think that they would be saying 'Thank You.' " ~~ President Barack Obama, April 15, 2010.

President Obama slams banks and bankers:
"I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street." December 12, 2009

"Banks don't get it." December 9, 2009

"Here's the problem," Mr. Obama said, "It's almost like they've [banks] got -- they've got a bomb strapped to them and they've got their hand on the trigger. You don't want them to blow up. But you've got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger." March 18, 2010

President Obama insults Wall Street firms
"Unless your business model depends on bilking people, there is little to fear from these new rules." ~~ April 22, 2010

"That is the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful, an outrage." ~~ January 29, 2010

It appears that President Obama and/or his handlers are following a plan taken from Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals," published in 1971. President Obama knows of the Alinsky method because he used it in community organizing and employed it in his 2008 campaign. It was so successful, that he became President, evoking this note from Alinsky's son:

"Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday." ~~ L. David Alinsky.

Whenever the Administration wishes to undertake a new initiative, it appears they follow Radical Rule #13, excerpted from Alinsky's book, pages 127-134 :

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

"In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.'..."

"...any target can always say, 'Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?' When your 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the 'others' come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...'

"One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other." ~~ Saul Alinsky.