Barack Obama: still not ready for prime time
Bookworm on Sep 14 2011 at 11:33 am | Filed under: Barack Obama
I’m a very casual person. My children’s young friends are allowed to call me by my first name. I’m invariably dressed in jeans or yoga pants. I wear high heels about five times a year, and panty hose exactly that often. We dine off of melamine plates and drink from plastic cups because they don’t break when you drop them. (I do have lovely European style manners, though, and can party with the best if called upon to do so.)
My casual approach to life is fine because I’m a suburban homemaker. I do not occupy a prominent and ritually important position. I do not represent a company or a nation. Barack Obama is our nation’s representative. While I don’t expect the formality that characterized Louis XIV’s court, I do believe that part of his job description is to comport himself with dignity. Obama has signally failed in that regard.
1. Obama is willing to auction himself off for a few dollars.
I know this is true, because I got a solicitation in my email today:
Today, I want to ask if you’ll join me and three other supporters for a meal and conversation sometime soon.
Please donate $5 or more to be automatically entered for a chance to join me for dinner.
If this sounds a bit familiar to you, it’s because we’ve done this before. In fact, my hope is that I’ll be able to keep doing these dinners throughout the campaign.
Perry took umbrage at the charge that he’d sell out for $5,000 (or, he implied, any either amount of money). Obama, however, is willing to sell his dignity for just $5.
2. Obama, like a high schooler, is asking people to let him know if he’s being insulted.
You’ve all heard now about the ridiculous Attack Watch, which is the ugly step child of Candidate/Senator Obama’s “Fight the Smears.” Seth Mandel nails the immaturity behind it all:
But that [Fight the Smears effort] was a senator running for office. As odd as it was then, he’s now the president. Who in the administration thinks this is the appropriate way for a president to act? We’ve heard countless references–from conservatives and liberals–to the administration of Richard Nixon. But in truth, Nixon had a better grasp on politics than Obama. Most of the hubristic overreaches that got Nixon in trouble were things he tried to hide. Obama is openly promoting a program to “report” on private citizens.
3. Obama doesn’t treat his office with respect. Not the office of president, but the office itself.
Again, that behavior is a less than inspiring combination of classlessness and disrespect.
4. Obama doesn’t behave with dignity or respect at a deeply moving national ceremony commemorating the violent deaths of almost 3,000 American citizens:
5. Obama’s wife doesn’t quite grasp that she, too, is a representative of the people of the United States:
It’s no excuse to say that Laura Bush might be leaving the plane on a formal occasion, while Michelle is just on vacation. Michelle is, at all times, the First Lady of the United States. She’s not a suburban mom, and should never appear in public that way.
6. Again, just like a high schooler, Obama publicly snubs people who are just too embarrassing to be around:
In the same vein, like a child, Barrie isn’t good at hiding his pique.
The idea of someone’s being a “statesman” is an old-fashioned notion and has pretty much been abandoned in the modern age. A statesman isn’t merely a politician. Instead, the term carries with it connotations of a true calling to serve the public and to behave in a way that is consistent with a nation’s highest aspirations. Barack Obama is no statesman. He’s a petulant, paranoid child (Paging Attack Watch: there was just an insult here). He lowers the standing of the entire presidency, not because of his policies, which are wrongheaded, but still supported by large numbers of people, but by the details of his conduct.
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There’s a subtle tell at work here with Attack Watch. The Brights at the White House know full well that AW is going to get spammed by tens or hundreds of thousands of mocking or tongue-in-cheek “alerts” from fed-up conservatives. But the real point of AW is to give Obama supporters a pretend place to come to defend their man. “I found an insult on Bookworm and reported it to AW. I’m a vigilant, bwave defender of The One!”
Too late. I already reported myself! (I need the publicity.
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You found my picture!!!!!!!!!!I guess I was wrong about the flip flops…but you knew it was the picture I was describing.
He’s a petulant, paranoid child…
Pashaw! You’re over-reacting. Oh wait …
“But if you love me you’ve got to help me pass this bill.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/181507-obama-if-you-love-me-youve-got-to-help-me-pass-this-bill
They’re simply trash. From the south side of Chicago. I’m from Chicago too. I know these posers. They are repulsive. They have moved or been pushed along the cursus honorum of the liberal establishment, absent any real achievement or attainment and are now promoted well above their competence or intelligence. Barack Obama has a gift for self presentation and a monumentally haughty ego but no real ability or capacity for learning. A sly sleazy Southern pol like Bill Clinton looks like Disraeli by comparison. I feel the same way about many of the Obama support troops: Valerie Jarrett, Van Jones, Elizabeth Warren, Elena Kagan. Phonies, ditzes, posers.
I used to work for a publisher who aspired to classiness. Whenever he wanted to show how cultured he was, he’d start talking in this plummy Lord Plushbottom tone, as though he were addressing the help. (Well, come to think of it, I was.)His wife was a Philly Mainline wannabe who considered herself a well-bred dame but always came off as ridiculous.
I had returned from a business trip to Switzerland and was reporting to him about what I had done in Basel and Geneva. I pronounced the names of the cities as most Americans would, “Baa-zill” and “Juh-nee-vuh.” So he wagged his finger at me, and through half-lidded eyes softly corrected me: “Ball” and “Juh-nev.”
Usually I just suffered through his petty arrogance, but this time I responded. “Ed, I’ll pronounce the names of those cities correctly when you stop saying ‘Lozz Ann-gel-eeze’ and start pronouncing it as God and the Spaniards intended, ‘Lohss Ahn-ghell-ace’ (for the ghell, insert Yiddish chutzpah-style ch sound).”
Over his head. The same way that any attempt to inject class into the Obamas would be.
You should add the picture of Bush and Obama at prayer. Bush bows before his God. Obama put his nose in the air because he has no god but himself. ( that’s how we know he is not a muslim.)
Don’t forget his toast mess with the Queen!
I had seen the photos of the LIC (Liar in Chief) with his feet on the desk / tables in the White House. I am a Texan and know better than to put my feet on the furniture. The body language of his doing that shows the utter contempt he has for those lesser being around him. . .
But then, to see MsPRESBO whispering to him and the evil smirk on his face during the flag ceremony at the 9/11 service, that takes the cake. The contempt he has for the United States is so easily seen. There is a difference between being born an American and being an American. Those who love our country understand.
There’s the numerous lame gifts to foreign dignitaries – videos to Gordon Brown, an iPod to the Queen (!) with his speeches on it, etc. You’d think there was a department that could help them out with sort of thing, but such is the burden of always being the smartest guy in the room.
And then there was the Michelle & Oprah’s tacky speeches to the Olympic Committee in attempt to have Chicago host the Olympics.
Sadie beat me to it! (Her comment above).
But I’ll repeat it because malignant narcissist Obama was on the campaign trail today and actually said this:
“If you love me, you got to help me pass this bill,” Obama said, repeating the line to more cheers.
At least his handlers have him speaking from the heart today! He didn’t need a teleprompter to say that line!
It’s all about the LOVE! Adore me! Love me! Of course you do! It’s not about the benefits (or drawbacks) of the bill. Hell no! It’s not about the suffering jobless people. Hell no! It’s only about the LOVE… it’s only about ME ME ME!
“If you care for those suffering jobless people, those poor souls living on the edge, their sons and daughters at the dinner table with little to eat, and who will go to bed hungry tonight, you got to help me pass this bill!” But hell no! That would be about *them*. But it must be about Obama. ”If you love me, you got to help me pass this bill!”
“I love you Obama! I love you! I love you! Eeeee! Eeeeee! Touch my hand! Touch my hand! Eeee! He touched my hand, he touched my hand! My life is complete! I’ll never wash that hand again! And it’s the same hand that Justin Beiber touched! Eeeee!”
The best record of “smears against the President” are direct quotes of the POTUS. “Speaking Austrian… profit earnings ratios..” : someone is trying to smear the POTUS by painting him as an ignoramus. What? You mean he ACTUALLY said those things>
There’s enough material, clips, quotes and anecdotes for a “little book.”
It’s contest time!
Title/description example:
* Quotes from Chairman Meow – The adventures of a cat burglar, who pawed his way into the White House and soon “littered” the West Wing.
All of your points, one through six, are spot on.
I’ve wondered in the past about the first one, namely, what’s the point of collecting such small donations? Then it hit me: statistical camouflage for large donations. If you collect a zillion small amounts, you can claim that the average donor is a little guy (as opposed to looking at the median donation). Astroturfing applied to fund raising.
gpc31,
Perry didn’t handle the question well, that’s for sure. Where is the *large* donation from Merck that would justify Perry’s intrusion into the rights of parents, in this Gardasil vaccination issue?
When you’ve received $36 million in donations, and the donation in question is $5,000… That means that you can be bought by EVERY donation in that $36 million that is $5,000 or more. That would be ridiculous. So the angle that the campaign donation itself is evidence of corruption doesn’t fly with me. Yet the question remains.
I had been thinking that Perry’s “opt-out” clause made this a minor issue. I mean, heck! Child requests a piece of paper from the nurse’s office, parent signs it, child returns it, and viola, opt-out is accomplished. Very easy.
Except that’s not the case. Oh, no, not by a long shot. That is NOT what is going on here. If you want to read an article about why “opt-out” is practically IMPOSSIBLE in Texas, read this:
http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/about-that-gardasil-mandate-opt-out-perry-is-touting/
Read that and then, as the parent of a 12-year-old girl for whom you wish to “opt-out”, consider whether you think you could succeed in opting out. I especially like the fact that every two years, you have to resubmit the paper work, EVEN IF you succeed the first time! Talk about Nanny Government!
gpc31
I would love to figure out a legitimate way to get 5 million people to give me $5 each. I could retire. Plus I would be safe in saying there are at least 5 million people on welfare, who want it to continue, and would be willing to send 5 bucks to Obama and forego maybe one of those instant lottery tickets tonight That way they could be assured the dole would continue. Notice I didn’t suggest giving up the Muscatel. There are limits after all.
A couple of things:
First, I don’t know about Texas, but I know that in California children are required to have immunizations of various sorts in order to enter school. From that angle, I don’t have an issue with Perry’s requirement. The difference, of course, is that strictly speaking, HPV is not a communicable disease. The problem is that it’s a sexually transmitted disease and that tends to get people’s attention…”you think _my_ little girl is going to be doing _that_??”. To be honest, I haven’t done any study about it – I don’t know the plusses and minusses of the vaccination – but if I were a candidate who had the position that HPV was nature’s punishment for promiscuous sexual behavior and that therefore young women _shouldn’t_ have vaccinations … how do you think _that_ would go over??
Second…bizcor…I don’t think you can even buy Muscatel any more. Shortly after I was married, I used it for some chicken dishes that were pretty good – and since Muscatel was the wino’s choice of drink because it was so cheap – it was _my_ choice for a cooking wine. I thought I’d try a repeat recently, and couldn’t find it in my local market. Didn’t try any liquor stores…just my usual grocery stores…but couldn’t find it. Have you found it recently??
suek says: but if I were a candidate who had the position that HPV was nature’s punishment for promiscuous sexual behavior and that therefore young women _shouldn’t_ have vaccinations … how do you think _that_ would go over??
Suek, that’s why the opt-in would clearly have been the best way to go. The disease is cancer, so it is non-communicable. I suspect an opt-in would be a very easy process, where opt-out is nearly impossible. But the way regulatory burdens make *everything* so damned difficult, maybe opt-in is just as ridiculously difficult as opt-out. The vaccination would remain free (paid for).
suek, muscatel has enjoyed a sort of revival in California. It’s a pleasantly sweet—but not overpoweringly so—wine when well made. The drawback is that it has become much more expensive than the cheap stuff winos and home cooks used to buy. If you have a big wine shop like Bev Mo or Liquor Barn near you, chances are good you can find some muscatel. Just be prepared to pay much more than you would have years ago.
>>Just be prepared to pay much more than you would have years ago.>>
Yeah. Well. That covers pretty much everything.
My daughter is pregnant with her first. She and her husband have moved to Ok. She has absolutely nothing in the way of baby stuff, can’t exactly have a baby shower, and closest family is 8-10 hours away (in Texas). I started looking for baby stuff online, and the stuff is so different from what I had for mine that I’m a fish out of water. She’s decided she wants cloth diapers (I wonder how long that will last!) as their budget is tight. So I looked for diapers. No more a simple choice of Curity gauze type diapers or the prefolded birdeye cloth diapers – now they’re flat or fitted, with all sorts of gizmos. And “onesies”…which I gather is a sack or one piece suit with “footies” attached.
And the “necessaries”… Someone told her she had to have a car seat ($100 price range) or the hospital wouldn’t release the baby to go home…
Holy cow. I’m not sure I’m ready for this…!
The one good gizmo I saw in the store was a pacifier with a thermometer in it. And the cost was about $8 – pretty reasonable since the “forehead” and other “non-invasive” thermometers, shall we say were in the $25-$35 range. Of course, the kid has to use a pacifier…but personally, I’m all in favor of pacifiers. Lots easier to wean them off of later than fingers/thumbs.
suek …
For what it’s worth ($$$-wise) there may be resale/thrift shops in your daughter’s neighborhood. I know of one specialty resale shop locally that focuses 100% on infant-toddler merchandise. They are doing boom business. Tell her not to rule out garage sales.
Sonny – you want me to have lunch with you, it’ll cost you. I have much better things to do with my time.
[...] Barack Obama: still not ready for prime time The idea of someone’s being a “statesman” is an old-fashioned notion and has pretty much been abandoned in the modern age. A statesman isn’t merely a politician. Instead, the term carries with it connotations of a true calling to serve the public and to behave in a way that is consistent with a nation’s highest aspirations. Barack Obama is no statesman. He’s a petulant, paranoid child (Paging Attack Watch: there was just an insult here). He lowers the standing of the entire presidency, not because of his policies, which are wrongheaded, but still supported by large numbers of people, but by the details of his conduct. [...]
Mike Devx re#15 thanks for that link. I am learning quickly about the good Governor.
SUEK I wouldn’t know about the availablity of Muscatel. I do not drink wine. It makes me incredibly stupid very quickly. It was a euphanism.
In thinking about the $5 from everybody I have decided that I am going to offer people a chance to have dinner with me. I make a killer Pot Roast and put a little wine in it. Who wants to buy the first chance?
Oh. when I analyze this article “James Carville Tells Obama: Panic”, I see such good things, I’m almost ready to do another CrazyDance!
See if you agree with me. (Maybe, read the article, come to your own conclusions, then read mine?)
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/carville-obama-panic-2012/2011/09/15/id/411086?s=al&promo_code=D0FD-1
My conclusions?
Carville has two suggestions:
1. Fire people, you need new faces. These people are not succeeding. Make your own case.
2. Fight, fight, fight!
As to #1: But Obama is an idealogue. When he tries to “make his own case” he comes across like a hectoring fanatic. All he can do is mouth other people’s words from his teleprompter. Otherwise, he CANNOT communicate with the American people. He doesn’t understand them. He cannot connect. And everyone he has in place, he agrees with. They’re a bunch of ivory tower leftist intellectuals who have never run anything successfully either. Who is he going to replace them with? Just more of the same.
#2: When Obama fights, all he knows is the language of violence, intimidation, and confrontation. What Carville wants is for him to go out there and passionately, clearly, defend his programs and rip apart his opponents ideas. But Obama can only rip apart his opponents, not their ideas. (See #1 above) Because all he knows is: violence, intimidation, confrontation. He CANNOT do what Carville needs him to do.
Finally, this president *is* a malignant narcissist. He will never admit that he is the problem. He will not self-modify.
SO! Obama has as much chance of succeeding as Lady GaGa has of becoming a thoughtful, serious artist. We’re on comfortable ground for the foreseeable future.
and one more that, politically, will make you feel good all over:
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/george-marlin-federalist-pataki/2011/09/14/id/411018
It is reassuring, in a grotesque way, to realize that the leopard really cannot change its spots. Obama’s narcissism dooms him by trapping him in the prison his own self-regard. That the walls are psychic, and can be demolished by an act of will, cannot occur to him.
So, let’s look ahead. I think there is a chance that whatever rational leaders are left in the Democratic Party may actually force Obama out, leaving, let’s say, Hillary as their candidate. If she does run in 2012, how does she solve this dilemma:
She will be there because the party has repudiated Obama. How does she make that repudiation palatable to voters? How does she explain that she’s a better candidate than Obama? She can do one of two things: She can say that she is the better person to advance Obama’s wonderful agenda. If so, she runs the risk the American people are not going to buy Obama’s agenda simply because Hillary is more pleasant about shilling for it. The agenda is a road apple no matter how much whipped cream you pile on it.
Or she can directly reject Obama and his ruinous policies. But if she does so, she’ll raise more questions than she can answer. For example, why didn’t the party realize how bad he was when it ran Empty Suit in 2008? Or, why should we trust you to be better at seeing Obama’s flaws when you never said a thing about them as long as you gnawed the bone of the prestigious government post he tossed your way? How does your candidacy make you a better judge of what he did wrong than your Republican opponent? How are you any better than Brutus?
The idiocy of the left is now so pronounced that I have gone on Amazon and ordered a year’s worth of popcorn. Watching socialism self-destruct is going to make me do a Devx CrazyDance and push earth’s corn species toward extinction.
I’d like to share a series of emails I received tonight. As a reminder, I may have mentioned that there is a discussion group in my building. I no longer attend meetings – sitting with a group that is sworn to keep their heads up their a** is beyond my pay scale and tolerance (save but a hand full).
Email #1
Maybe a good topic for the discussion group:
“What else could be done with $535 million (½ a Billion) of tax payers’ money or, how to ignore, defend, and justify this one”…
Email #2 Solyndra is just the beginning. There’s MORE on this “Green Jobs” political payback and crapola AND some other interesting shenanigans. Had enough of this Hope and Change yet? 2012 can’t come soon enough! http://defendourconstitution.blogspot.com/2011/09/solargate-albatross-around-obamas-neck.html Email #3 (my response to Email #2)
A post script to the Solyndra debacle is that the company restructured the taxpayer loan last year allowing the hedge fund investors to have first dibs on $75 million of their investments. This was illegal according to the commission assigned to investigate, since the law clearly states that taxpayers are always first in line to be compensated.
Email #4 (and the reason, I no longer attend meetings) Would you consider the effort and funds spent searching for weapons of mass destruction on the same level of “crapola” as the attempt to get us started in creating jobs in a new technology? And you came to your conclusion without the benefit of hearing the results of an investigation into what really happened? Is your approach “shoot first and ask questions later” Email #5 (my response to Email #4) Nothing like a bait and switch to stir the pot.
I am sure this won’t be the end of the give and take. I thought you would all like to see how a truly “liberal” stilted brain responds [email #4] by playing the WMD card (an alternative to the basic “race card.”
Will keep you updated. If there is anything you think I should add, please share it with me.
SADIE, this is how we arrive at civil war. We are almost there. It happens when two sides are so irreconciliably opposed that there is no ground for mutual understanding. The only thing that forestalls violence is when each side refrains from trying to force the other to submit.
Unfortunately, the left loves force.
Charles 27: The idiocy of the left is now so pronounced that I have gone on Amazon and ordered a year’s worth of popcorn.
Charles, between you and the ethanol subsidies, there’s not going to be much corn left to feed the world’s poor. Please reconsider! Couldn’t you nibble on arugula instead, while watching the great Dem meltdown show? Or in support of Al Gore’s desire to ban meat from man’s diet, how about tofu?
But you’re right, the idiocy on the left is truly breathtaking. Today’s line is that Obama hasn’t been strong enough in fighting back against the Republicans. ”Obama is going along with the ridiculous Republican austerity plans!” is the claim. And they are serious!
Austerity!?!?! What austerity? The government is still spending a dollar for every 60 cents it takes in in revenue. And that means we’re groaning and moaning under some insupportable burden of austerity??? If we were a household earning $30,000, we’d be spending $50,000 every year. Adding $20,000 in debt, every year. Austerity???
That’s what passes for wisdom among the Democrat left these days. God, please, help the American People continue to wake up!
They’re not just spending, they are printing more fiat currency. Meaning, there’s nothing to back up the worth of the dollar, so its value keeps going down. That means for people with 10,000 dollars, the federal government can reduce that to 5,000, and then 2,500 by doubling and quadrupling the money supply. This in turn reduces the value of the debt, which is why they keep doing it. If debt is worth 4 trillion, all they need to do is to print 2 trillion and use that to pay off the “debt”.
>>Unfortunately, the left loves force. >>
I’ve thought about this. Yes, the left loves force – as long as they themselves don’t have to participate. They like to keep their hands clean.
They only use force when they have enforcers. What they do is make sure they have enforcers by making promises of wealth and power when the deed is done.
So…who will be their enforcers? The military? Police? SEIU? disaffected Blacks?
Personally, I’m betting on Blacks. It’s true that they’re disorganized, but use of mob violence would create a chaos that would possibly put police and military on their side when those same forces might not otherwise cooperate. SEIU is organized – meaning they might become a challenge to power.
And I keep remembering – “Never let a crisis go to waste”.
At the heart is immorality and corruption. Which Founder was it that said that the Constitution was enough to govern a moral people? And if that basic morality is lost, is it like innocence in that it can never be regained?
Not happy thoughts.
It is my concern that Hillary might be drafted at the convention. This would not bode well for the Republican candidates who have been focusing on Obama. To have to suddenly shift gears and campaign against Hillary would require a revamp of strategy. Right now they can go after Obama’s record. Hillary doesn’t have a record to speak of. There are a lot of women who would vote for her and she has one heck of a Rolodex. The rank and file democrats would be relieved that Obama was out and feel OK with voting for Hillary.
She would be as bad as or worse than Obama. She is a nasty woman, who holds nothing but contempt for the military. She is also a communist.
> Which Founder was it that said that the Constitution was enough to govern a moral people? And if that basic morality is lost, is it like innocence in that it can never be regained?
I’m 99.9% sure it was John Adams, suek.
> Not happy thoughts.
These are not happy times. But those of us who aren’t young, we’ve had it rather easy for decades. Now the bills are all coming due, and we don’t have it easy. If we’re going to make a difference, we have to be willing to go where the truth has us go. If ALL of Congress and Washington DC is venal and corrupt, including the Republican Party, are we prepared to go where the truth tells us we must go? Just asking, at this point…
Here’s an interesting article with ramifications for ObamaCare.
In this article, Raum Emmanual (Obama’s White House Chief of Staff 2008-2010) now mayor of Chicago, is going to force all city employees to join the “wellness program”, or pay $50 per month.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Shape-Up-or-Pay-Up-Emanuel-129945248.html?dr
I sent this email to my relatives. I’m going to let it sit for a while, revise it, and send it on to groups of friends later tomorrow…
The email:
This is a VERY interesting article to me: It’s implications for what’s going to happen to us if we stick with government-mandated health care, instead of the old-fashioned doctor-patient health care.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Shape-Up-or-Pay-Up-Emanuel-129945248.html?dr
The key paragraphs:
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“We will help you be a good steward for your health,” Emanuel said Friday, “but if you choose not to, you’ll pay that price and that is the price you’ll have to pay.”
The mayor believes the program will help cut the annual $500 million bill for health care for city employees.
“We are going to implement a citywide wellness plan for city employees,” Emanuel confirmed at a recent press conference, “because health care costs for the city are being driven by 10 percent a year, and we’re not seeing revenue grow that way.”
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First of all the government is not going to “help you be a good steward”, it is going to FORCE you to be a good steward. Else, you’ll pay $50 per month if you don’t “get with the program”. It is force because, as he says: “you’ll pay that price and that is the price you’ll have to pay”. That’s force.
Second: Why are they doing this? Answer: Because they cannot control the costs. Read the second paragraph and you’ll see that that is EXACTLY the reason they’re doing this. Now think about ObamaCare. Everyone knows it is going to cost more money than they’re saying, and they’re not going to be able to control costs either. So what’s going to happen to you under ObamaCare? Just like with these city employees, they’ll start forcing you to do this, and forcing you to do that, to keep the costs down. And everyone admits that bureaucrats will control what kinds of health care you can get, NOT your doctor.
Most importantly: Where will it stop? If they can force you to do this, they can force you to do almost ANYTHING. What if the costs keep going up? Well, they’ll move on to plan B, whatever they’re going to force you to do next. And then after that. And then after that. Once it starts, it will not stop. Where do YOU think they will stop?
Remember under ObamaCare they have this “individual mandate”: The government, for the first time in our history of our country, is going to FORCE you to purchase something whether you want to buy it or not. In this case it is insurance, and only among the insurances that they’ll allow. But in court they’ve made the claim that they can force you to buy ANYTHING for the public good. Some lower courts have already declared it unconstitional, some have declared it ok. It’s going to the Supreme Court soon…
(It’s not the same as auto insurance by the way. I know at least three people without auto insurance. They choose not to drive, so they don’t buy insurance. The government never has FORCED you to buy anything you don’t want to buy. Until now. That’s why it’s going to be a huge Supreme Court case.)
I thought this was relevant to this post.
Michelle Obama went shopping at Target. The White House spin masters are trying to distance Michelle from her Marie Antoinette reputation. She’s even wearing a baseball cap. How demeaning to the office of First Lady.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/spotted-michelle-obama-shopping-at-target/
Re: Mike’s at 35…
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/government-sues-bae-systems-firing-600-lb-employee/story?id=14623887