Obama administration exploits fear
Bookworm on Mar 11 2009 at 2:51 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
We all know that the Obama administration, through statements by Rahm, Hillary and the Obamunist, views America’s economic woes as an opportunity to advance its agenda. Never waste a good crisis, they say, and what better thing to do than to create the crisis that they then intended not to waste. Jonah Goldberg, in one of the most impassioned columns he’s ever written, spells out the fundamental evil in this view:
Recall that not long ago, the first item on the bill of indictment against the Bush administration was that it was “exploiting” 9/11 to enact its agenda. Al Gore shrieked that President Bush “played on our fears” to get his way. In response to nearly every Bush initiative, from the Patriot Act to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, critics would caterwaul that Bush was taking advantage of the country’s fear of terrorism.
The Bush administration always denied this, and rightly so. If the president had admitted that he was using a national calamity for narrow partisan or ideological advantage, it would have been outrageous. Indeed, every time Karl Rove or some other administration official said anything that could be even remotely interpreted as using the war or 9/11 for partisan or ideological gain, the editorial pages and Democratic news-release factories went into overdrive with righteous indignation.
Well, now we have the president, along with his chief aides, admitting — boasting! — that they want to exploit a national emergency to further their preexisting agenda, and there’s no scandal. No one even calls it a gaffe. No, they call it leadership.
It’s not leadership. It’s fear mongering.
Franklin Roosevelt said that all we have to fear is fear itself. Now, Barack Obama tacitly admits that all he has to fear is the loss of fear itself.
In other realms of life, exploiting a crisis for your own purposes is an outrage. If a business uses a hurricane warning to price-gouge on vital supplies, it is a crime. When a liberal administration does it, it’s taking advantage of a historic opportunity.
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I guess what’s most amazing about these “a crisis is just an opportunity to further our own agenda” comments is that the Liberals are totally in the open about it.
Even ten years ago, these comments would have been made only within a caucus room, and only after looking around the room to ensure no one was present from the “outside” who might chance to overhear. The sheer cynicism and crassness exposed in such a deliberate manipulation and exploitation of the American public…
But these days, they speak it openly, this total cynicism and crass manipulation. They simply do not care to hide their true stripes anymore. And no matter how devotedly by Obama-Love the public may be, this stuff slowly sinks in.
Can you imagine a mother in Home Depot, fingering a six foot long linked chain, looking around to the ten or so nearby other customers, and announcing, “I’ve already bought the bicycle tire tubes. With this, I’ll be able to inflict bone bruises on my snot-nosed little monsters, and no one will be able to see the difference. I can’t WAIT to get home and try it out.” In total seriousness.
That’s the Home-Depot equivalent of our crass and cynical Democrat rulers of the day. It will not be forgotten.
That’s just what charismatic demagogues do.
Move along, folks…..break it up…….nothing to see here……
It’s a bunch of hypocritical, lying leftists acting badly……so?
No real story to report here…….dog bites man, after all.
Mike D –
You and Jonah Goldberg hit on something I was thinking about the other day.
I happened to be watching a debate between Bill O’Reilly and Marc Lamont Hill, Ph.D. on socialism. What shocked me was how Dr. Hill just came right out and stated what would be done. I mean, he was “sort of” joking . . . but he wasn’t.
Here is just an excerpt from their conversation where Hill is making the argument that they just want to “equalize opportunity” by improving schools. Bear in mind that this comes AFTER Dr. Hill admitted that he “doesn’t have a problem” with “wealth redistribution”:
HILL: But if you live in a neighborhood where you don’t have a school, where you don’t have a teacher, where you don’t have a book…
O’REILLY: Where, what neighborhood is that? Botswana? Where is that?
HILL: You don’t have to go to Botswana. You can go to New York.
O’REILLY: They don’t have schools? Every neighborhood has schools.
HILL: They have substandard schools. We have first-class jails and second-class schools.
O’REILLY: All right.
HILL: That’s what we need to repair.
O’REILLY: The government is not going to be able to impose, all right, good schools in every community.
HILL: But we can impose opportunity. I don’t want equality of outcome. I don’t expect that. I just want equality of opportunity.
O’REILLY: That’s a socialist tenet.
HILL: With your money and your house, we’ll be able to do that.
Mike, I almost came out of my chair. Again, Hill kind of laughed a little bit but I guess those of us who are familiar with the history of socialism know that this is no joking matter. This is exactly what happens.
At the end of the debate, Dr. Hill asked if he could call O’Reilly “comrade.” It made me nauseous. But what depresses me is that in the long line of leftists and socialists, Dr. Hill is just a light-weight. There are plenty of leftists and socialists who would have no trouble taking much more than the people’s money and homes.
Sorry –
Here’s the link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508916,00.html
Deana
I heard the same discussion, Deana, when the mask slipped oh-so-slightly.
What I thought about Prof. Hill at the moment that I heard him say that is that he has never had to earn his way in life by creating “value” for others. Instead, he lives a cloistered, tenured existence whereby he is guaranteed to be protected against the consequences of his ideas. He is a parasite and I can only hope that, some day, the walls of academe with come crashing down around people like him, leaving them naked and exposed and forced to earn their own way in the world.
Danny –
I hadn’t thought about before but you’re right. People like Hill ARE insulated from the consequences of what they advocate. Perhaps that sense of protection is what makes them comfortable with being so bold about what they intend to do.