We’ve met the enemy and… he is “us”!
Danny Lemieux on Oct 01 2010 at 10:29 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Not militant Islam, not a resurgent Russia or China, not North Korea, not Iran….us! Conservatives, independents, and anyone else that disagrees with his agenda. Or, so says President Barack Hussein Obama.
Why is it that Barack Hussein Obama and other Lefty presidents and presidential wannabees (Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Carter) feel compelled to rouse their base by saying “I will fight for you…against…[insert name of individual or group]” when it is clear that whom they plan to fight against are other Americans that disagree with them? With Obama and Clinton, these attacks became personal against specific individual American citizens (Rush Limbaugh comes to mind).
What ever happened to the idea of the President as our leader? Isn’t he /she supposed to be “our” leader, as in the leader of us all? Instead, these Lefty Presidents position themselves as the great dividers, exhorting groups of Americans to fight each other.
Please help me remember. Did Reagan talk this way? Nixon? Bush I? Bush II? I remember George W. Bush, for example, being gracious toward even his most vituperative opponents (e.g., Cindy Sheehan) and making a point of standing up for the rights of other Americans to disagree with him.
If only Barack Hussein Obama could muster as much indignation toward our country’s real enemies instead of trying to pit Americans against one another.
Obama has publicly labeled me the “enemy” on the basis of my beliefs and values. He has publicly exhorted his followers to fight against me. Sadly, I have to say, Barack Hussein Obama is not my President. He told me so.
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…the difference between feeling you are someone’s “leader”, and someone who feels they are your rightful “ruler”…
I first remeber this crap starting right after GW Bush was elected. It was around that time I remeber seeing the bumper stickers that said things like “not my president”, etc. It might have even started before that, but thats when I started really noticing how childish and petulant liberals are when they lose. And since then I have noticed they are even worse sore winners. I feel like we are living through an era of perpetual adoescense… with no end in sight. When did it happen? Was it with the Baby Boomers? Gen X’rs? What happened in our society? I’m so exhausted with what passes for political discourse in this country… its so adolescent and childish. I cite the example of Stephen Colbert in Congress… wtf is that all about… like they dont have any seriouos work to do? Or Obama attacking Fox News by name. It’s all has the feel of high school/college level politics of electing a school president, council, etc. Ugh, I just want an adult to be in power again. One party is run by a bunch of adolescent no-nothings and the other party is run by a bunch of spineless ninnies pretending to be adults.
Sean
An executive of my acquaintance was fond of the saying, “Fix problems, not blame.” Obama’s attitude is precisely the opposite. He has no interest in the intellectual process of problem analysis, nor in the executive function of implementing solutions. In this he reflects the dominant “progressive” attitude, in which society is merely a neo-Hobbesian battlefield of group against groups.
Obama would destroy the spirit of any organization that had him for a leader, whether a small business, a Little League baseball team, a ship—or a country. The corrosive nature of his personality become more evident by the day.
At least he hasn’t suggested blowing us up yet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/30/10-10-no-pressure-film
I was reminded yesterday that another “transformational” president — that would be FDR — also engaged in attacks against members of the opposing party. He did that in the Fala speech. However, there he showed a deft and humorous touch that took it away from the vindictiveness that Obama shows.
Your examples of graciousness, Danny, are all Republicans. I wonder how many Democratic examples there are? In other words, the only thing that distinguishes Obama from his Democratic predecessors insofar as he governments only for one party, not the nation, is the crudeness of his rhetoric.
Incidentally, I read a while ago a book about the Secret Service (and I can’t recall right now its name, but it’s a new release). With the exception of Nixon, who was an outlier, the Secret Service recalls the Republican presidents as gracious, and the Democratic presidents as mean-spirited and selfish. Telling, right?
The progressive movement was at its height during the 1930′s and by ‘sheer coincidence‘ the expression Public Enemy No. 1 also entered the language.
Identify, isolate and attack – he’s in warrior mode. He’s failed and fighting and he won’t go gently into that goodnight. What we have today that the 1930′s did not, is a voice that can be heard, repeated and used to counter, dilute and diminish the ‘error’ message. In a world of 24/7/365 we have the benefit of the cyber world to stay the course.
The Communists used these strategies to great effect in the 1917 Revolution in Russia.
The student follows the master. And sometimes, the student even exceeds the master.
Spiff, as for time line, it was gradual. Piece by piece, the Left became stronger as they gained more cult members around the country and in different social spheres. The greater the membership, the more open they could be with recruitment and organization, which created a greater recruitment drive and higher membership.
The left find common cause with Muslims due much to the fact that the Left’s style of organizing enemy defeats is very similar to Islam’s. Undermine, infiltrate, and then take the local institutions over and make it their own once they have reached “critical mass” in membership and penetration of the local society. The Hagia Sophia used to be a Cathedral, you know. But if you’re Muslim, why would a Muslim know that. They still think the Arabs invented Arabic numerals.
It’s much akin to somebody falling asleep thinking it is safe, only to wake up when the house is on fire. The fire didn’t start all at once everywhere. It started small, piece by piece. It only seems like it suddenly appeared because people finally woke up and smelled the smoke.
I think for once, the Left has told us the truth. They are our enemies. That isn’t hard to understand, now is it.
That we are considered enemies has been showing up in the polls. Or rather the inaccuracy of them. Given the lists Obama is creating, the DOJ is creating, the Dem “thug” groups are creating, plus how they went after the contributors to, was it Pro Prop 8 groups in CA, who in their right mind would answer the questions of some fool who calls you up out of the blue? Is it a pollster or one of the “thug” groups creating a hit list. Plus, who has landlines anymore? The only risk I see is that if the “polls” skew in their favor, it will give cover to the voter fraud they have in place.
But I do think more and more people are keeping their political views to themselves when a stranger calls.
“But I do think more and more people are keeping their political views to themselves when a stranger calls.”
Now all they have to do is to ensure that their facebook pages are purged when necessary. Otherwise, the government will just natonalize Facebook and guess what. All the juicy information will now be given to Obama’s secret police, at no cost.
Funny you say that, JKB. My wife and I long ago stopped answering pollsters for exactly that reason. My wife is a teacher and (forcibly indentured) member of a union so she has to be very careful about not expressing her political views.
These polls are probably like a cash crop in order to pay off favors to the “favored class” of henchmen in the Left. A way to say “good job, doggie, here’s a treat”.
It’s not like it produces anything of value, this polling. Yet it is paid for. But who gets paid, eh?