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.

On Earth Day

"It always makes it easier to fight a war if you demonize people, so that you are not killing human beings, you are killing the devil." ~~ Retired Army Colonel, Harry Summers

The Obama Administration has demonized quite a few "devils" in 18 months:

... Doctors
... Insurance Companies
... The Cambridge Massachusetts Police Department
... The Tea Party Movement
... Banks
... The Auto Industry
... Wall Street

And, who is most likely to accept this argument of demons, as being responsible for the "ills of the moment" -- the labeling of "them", or "they" as being the ones responsible? Young people are the most likely to buy the argument of demonization without pause, ages 11 - 25.

So, if I were mindful of the power of propaganda -- as demonstrated by the brilliant film-maker, for Adolph Hitler, Fr. Leni Reifenstahl -- what audience would I go after as fertile ground for my message. That's right -- the youth of the country, any country, your country.

... Al Gore announced today, "Inconvenient Youth," a website to indoctrinate our youth without questioning the gospel according to Al Gore, Nobel Prize Laureate, Oscar Winner, former Vice President of the US.

... "Barack Hussein Obama, Hmmm. Hummm. Hmmm" ~~ Maryland Elementary School Children

... http://www.climate.nasa.gov.kids/ -- part of Climate Kids, which is part of kids.gov, a part of the White House Websites, confidently states in #6 that "People Cause Global Warming" and yes, there is the picture of a Polar Bear clinging to melting ice, with the caption: "Polar Bear clinging to melting ice, surrounded by open seas." Awww!

The Polar Bear looks pitiful, doesn't he? Like he is going to drown at an moment now, as soon as we adults melt the ice that he is clinging to. The truth is that Polar Bears are excellent swimmers and have been seen as far away as 100 miles from land. Our kids do not know that they are being manipulated.

www.epa.gov/ozone/science -- Kids are treated to cartoon drawings citing 1992 data proving that CFC's have caused a huge hole in the atmosphere over Antarctica. "Animals can't get enough food to survive and eventually people don't get enough food either." Pretty scary stuff to read, as an adult; imagine how you would feel as a kid!

Dear reader, we are paying for the government to do these things (Al Gore is being paid by others, I guess). Is that what you want done with your money -- presenting a point of view to children as fact, when we are generally 50/50 in disagreement on everything?

There is too much government waste of our money anyway. Let's not have it used to proselytize our children to bureaucratic views.

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all its powers to repress dissent, for truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state.

~~ Joseph Goebbels, 1897-1945 -- Reich Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda for the National Socialists German Workers Party (NAZI)

Alea Jacta Est

In Mr. Obama's own words:

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"I now have been in 57 states -- I think, one left to go." ~~ Candidate Barack Obama, Oregon, 2008.

"Anybody been to Whole Foods lately and seen what they charge for arugula?"

Candidate Obama in Iowa, 2008, relating his own grocery store shopping experiences to the common people.

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"It's not surprising then that they [voters] get bitter, they cling to their guns or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustration." -- Candidate Barack Obama to middle-class voters in Pennsylvania, 2008.

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

"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued that region for centuries." ~~ President Barack Obama, Florida, 2010.

"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 2010.

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Maybe this explains why the President is not permitted to have Press Conferences and uses a Teleprompter (TOTUS) all the time.

President Barack Obama speaking to elementary school students in Maryland, 2010.

Joan -- the Editor

Just in case you thought the Chicago Manual of Style was rough on writers whose careful quotient was low, please meet JOAN -- Mrs. Giles.

She can spot a single space after a period as soon as she turns the page, and then takes obvious delight in darkly circling the needy spot. SPACE, she tirelessly writes.

Then there is my need to capitalize words for emphasis, uhh, Emphasis. My penchant for this new and inconsistent addition to the English Language must be very frustrating for Joan, offending her sense of proper rule-following, since I do it over and over Again. If the poet, ee cummings, could play with capitalization and word placement,

why

Can't I?

Finally, I find the ellipsis a very useful form of punctuation ... say, when characters are thinking, looking for just the right ... word. Or, when the villain catches himself from saying the spot was caused by "blood" and instead says ... "wine" after a pause for consideration or for ... effect.

Joan's quarrel with my ellipsis is that they should be . . . that is, three periods separated by spaces, but that really calls too much attention to itself. I want something that the reader "trips" over and pauses to catch their ... balance, rather than pausing to catch their . . . balance.

Joan is very specific, and I'm ... well, Scattered. The differences between us has kept us married for 44 years, and has led to some spirited, if arcane, Discussions.

"Grammar is not a time of waste."

~~ Bart Simpson

Writing

Rewrite, revise, ellipsis, spellcheck, Chicago Style Manual, rejection letter, Chapter Three, drop cap, page break, cut, paste, copy, clarify, redo, find, replace, eat, pay attention to wife, cook, wine. Sleep.

"I'm not a very good writer, but I am an excellent rewriter."

~~ James Michener

Writing

Revising, revising, revising -- capitalization, grammer, em dash, grammar -- cutting, substituting, moving, synonyms, missing words, fleurons. Singing, shopping, church, cooking -- revising, revising, revising. Five pages a day, 125 to go.