Obama’s Inaugural Speech Presents His New Strategy and Blueprint for Transforming America
President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech is fascinating, as it presents his strategies, tactics, and new political line. Let’s look at it closely.
Obama begins with a very clever bit of hypocrisy:
We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional — what makes us American — is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
So here is Obama saying that the essential basis of American democracy is the Constitution, American exceptionalism, and the Declaration of Independence’s claim of unalienable rights granted to the citizen.
Yet he is on record repeatedly rejecting each of these three ideas.
According to him, the Constitution is flawed for providing only “native liberties” and there is no such thing as American exceptionalism. Also, on several occasions he couldn’t even get the quotation from the Declaration right.
Now he is smarter. He doesn’t say these things are outdated or wrong, but rather that he is going to implement them properly. This is a bold act of misdirection to soothe criticism and to place on himself the mantle of America’s founding documents, pulling the rug from under his critics and appropriating for himself their arguments and symbols.
Next, Obama presents a new worldview intended to justify what he wants: statism, an imperial presidency, social and economic hegemony for the federal government (and within it, the executive branch), more regulation, and more spending.
How does he make this leap? By making it sound like a walk “to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.” In other words, to implement what Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin now, in 2013, requires doing the exact opposite of what everyone has always thought Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin wanted.
Obama explains:
– Rights may be “self-evident, they have never been self-executing.” So who is the guarantor that the people will get those rights? Answer: the federal government.
– America can only succeed if there is a national infrastructure. And as we know from his previous speeches (you didn’t build that!), only the government can build or back the “railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce; schools and colleges to train our workers.”
– “A free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.” Yes, but it has always thrived under fewer rules than Obama wants, while it has plummeted with the level of rules and definition of fair play Obama has imposed on it.
– We are skeptical of central authority and know government can’t do everything, so for Americans, “celebration of initiative and enterprise; our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, are constants in our character.”
Up to this point, Obama wants to sound as if he’s largely reading Mitt Romney’s inaugural address. Then there comes a very big “but.”
Times have changed, and “so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.” In other words, to protect the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and individual rights, we need a bigger government, more taxes, more spending, and more regulation.
Neat, huh?
Yes, just as the Minutemen of the American Revolution and the soldiers who fought fascism and communism needed all these things, Obama continues (wrapping himself in the flag), so does modern America to fight … well, what exactly? Presumably they are the forces of racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and the greedy one percent.
Obama wisely does not specify the targets. That will come later.
While the speech may seem soporific to some and routine to others, it sets out an entirely new road for the United States. Its directions can be described as: turn left, and keep going.
Consider this passage:
No single person can train all the math and science teachers we’ll need to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores. Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation, and one people.
Really? And how does that follow? It isn’t as if someone says: “Hi, I’m Bob and I’m going to train all the math and science teachers we’ll need and build the roads and research labs.” There are, after all, other alternatives.
By the way Prof Rubin, yes everyone noticed. Some liked it and others were horrified. This is also not a new fight. Since the founding of our republic there has been a fight between federalism and individualism.The arguments between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams come to mind. Remember Jefferson wrote the Va Bill of Rights which became the US Bill of Rights, but he helped author the French Rights of Man. European socialism and viewpoints are not new in the US. Neither is the concept of an imperial presidency which was the brainchild of Alexander Hamilton (Federalist Papers) At times federalism has won and at times individualism (small government). Name calling, insults and disingenuousness is also not new.
Obama is neither the beginning of our nation (no matter what his acolytes would have you believe) nor will he be the end of our nation (no matter what conservatives would have you believe). We have been through alot worse over the centuries and so have our friends. But one thing we have learned through the years is that the only one you can truly count on is yourself no matter who is in power. (Government no matter the party in power is venal and only truly interested in maintaining itself.) Stop thinking somehow that without political diligent hardwork you will live in a utopia filled with unicorns and rainbows. Stand up for what you believe in. Just stop whining already.
Excellent! The special interest extemists know everthying you say but, it dosen’t fit well into their self serving movtives to control the minds of some into a commune mentality. As you say though — nothing new!
“Obama is neither the beginning of our nation (no matter what his acolytes would have you believe) nor will he be the end of our nation (no matter what conservatives would have you believe). We have been through alot worse over the centuries and so have our friends.”
Ahhhh…nice to see that you retards here at PJMedia have finally come to the last and final stage of grief over your pathetic, humiliating defeat in october…Acceptance. It took awhile, I know, I know. But your here, now. Shhh, shhhh, it’s ok.
Aren’t you going to be surprised…
“come to the last and final stage of grief over your pathetic, humiliating defeat in october”
Hmmmm, October? Do you get to vote early in those extra 7 states the messiah visited in 2008?
Go back to your Media Matters support group and find some new material. What a nincompoop of a troll.
Except you’re never happy – are you? It always has to be more, More, MORE!!!
Now you want to strip people of their right to defend theirselves – while keeping your own body guards, of course.
You folks keep talking about how the rich aren’t paying their fair share – but what you mean is you want to strip people of their retirement savings.
Know this, if you were serious you’d go after all the CEO’s (who are ALL democrats) and billionaire’s (who are all – except the Koch brothers – democrats) and the actors, and directors, and prodeucers, and coaches, and athelets – who are almost ALL democrats – to pay their fair share. And lest we forget – the richest people in congress are DEMOCRATS!!!!
YOU tell ALL these people to pay their fair share. Tell them to write a check. It’s voluntary, after all. Start a campaign to all these people – DEMOCRATS – to PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE!!!!!
Triple Dog Dare You!
It’s ALWAYS fascinating when sanctimonious Illiberals use vitriol, ad hominem to make their ‘case’. ‘..retard..’ eh?
And here I thought Illiberals were friends to the mentally disabled. Oh, that’s right. Your boy Barack Kardashian’s ‘..Special Olympics’ jab on Leno exposed that fraud you and he juxtapose.
Author Barry Rubin uses lucid, reason in his article and YOU respond with an ill thought, juvenile-like rant. Typical..
Lastly, check your spelling BEFORE referring to others as less intelligent and ‘awesome’ as you.
Illiberals, the gift that keeps on giving.
“…you retards here at PJMedia..”.
Retards? Retards? That from someone who apparently has been taken in by one of the greatest cons (progressivism) and con-artists (Obama) ever? That from someone who grants their allegiance to a devotee of Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky, and is and has been an associate of Bill Ayers and numerous other left-wing loons?
I don’t know, G. Slate. Are you really so sure you are so fully up to speed yourself when you call others “retards”. Doesn’t appear to be so.
G slate departed from liberal orthodoxy. Are we experience a shift in propaganda lexicon? No mention of thee ubiquitous racism when attacking the right?
Weird how Dems find actual pride in racism and pandering to race to win elections. Have fun in the ethnic Tower of Babel your stupid political correctness has created. Your great-grand kids will be speaking Spanish and trying to reverse engineer safety pins with native Third World exceptionalism.
That’s after they’re done with the ritual urinating on your grave for what you morons have wrought.
Well, well Obamabot, did you mean Novermber ? I remember no loss in October.
Mistaken: It was not Jefferson that wrote the Virginia Declaration on Rights–it was Madison and Mason that did the heavy lifting! To be sure, it was Madison that assembled and clarified what would be included in the U.S. Bill of Rights, not Jefferson! Moreover, it was the thoughts and the writings of Madison and Mason that Jefferson took his inspiration in the Declaration of Independence! Go read both documents and get a heaping dose of reality. After all, Madison is the father of the Constitution, right? Yes. Lastly, it was the thoughts and mindset of George Wythe, Jeffersons mentor and great American patriot, that Mr. Jefferson took his ideas.
I think Jefferson was a great patriot, yes, but he was only as good as those around him!
Seriously no need to be rude. That I was mistaken as to who wrote the Va Bill of Rights is really not the point. And i wasn’t talking about the Constitution and who wrote it, merely the inspiration for the Bill of Rights.But I stand corrected.The truth is its also not relevant where Jefferson got his ideas for the Dec of Indp. In all reality it did not come from either Mason or Madison but Locke and Rousseau and honestly with a little Voltaire thrown in as well if you need to be exact. The fact is Jefferson wrote the document, whomever his inspiration. Great men and women have many muses but its what they do with that muse that counts. Furthermore, Jefferson did help write the French Rights of Man.
The point was that this nation has had an ongoing fight between federalists and individualists since the beginning of the founding of our republic. We have survived and altered our national perspectives on every issue throughout our history. Whatever happens with Obama this nation will survive Obama too. None of any of this political wrangling is new.
actually, we have not had worse. we have had a few stupid ones here and there, but never an out and out psychopath and narcissist. and, btw, i voted for obama this time because the mean-spiritedness and unmasked contempt was even greater on the republican agenda. indeed, this may very well be the end of our nation, as we have nowhere to go and no one to elect in good conscience.
So you vote for a psychopath, someone who you think will destroy this nation because you think the republicans are meanies. The question was, was the republican candidate more competent than Obama? Honestly I think your reasoning is way off and quite frankly not very logical and actually rather self-destructive. Who votes for their own suicide?
Well, to put it this way, this man was neither ashamed or afraid to brazenly commit vote fraud to be put in the WH this time. Why do you think he had all census records sent to the WH for keeping. He also had the illegals able to get drivers licenses which many then used to vote with. We have a lier, a cheat and a fraud in the WH.
As I sit here with my mouth agape, I am appalled at such an admission. Looking at the landscape it is unfathomable to me how someone can allow two utterly incompatible thoughts to cohabitate in their mind.
He’s a psychophant and a narcissist, yet you voted for him because others were contrary to this, and the end result you can see in this is the possible end of our country? Are you freaking crazy?
Oh well, such is the mush-hearted, mealy-mouthed, watery-thinking that will be the end of the republic.
Sheesh.
I think that no matter what the media says, there are more of us then they are of them. We just stand in the corner and take it when we see people who state their principles and then retract them because of pressure just like the Republicans in the congress and senate. They just stand there and say what can we do like little children. It is up to us to stand up for true justice and protect the rights we fought for all these years. We can do it with peace and within the confines of the law without being wimps. I say bring back Sara Palin…I know her name is a dirty word but at least she tries.
Amen.
I agree, we must come together collectively, come together and throw the bum and the mooch out of our house!
In his WBEZ interview, Obama talked about “negative liberties” (what the government cant’t do) and not “native liberties” as the article says:
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be OK .
But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.
And that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that. (Emphasis added)
Having made this interpretation of what the Warren Court thought, what do you think on this subject?
Voting wasn’t an issue in the Civil Rights movement. Black men got the vote in 1870 – women didn’t the vote until 1919.
He presented a beautiful choclate sundae of whipped cream and cherries topped upon excriment. This is nothing more than “unicorn talk” and “pixie dust” used to enchant the average american voter. I fear it will take a confligration to wake them from thier fantasy. There are 80 million people in this country that are of no use whatsoever. God has turned his countenance away from us because we have rejected him. Good is evil (Christian’s and marriage), evil is good (sodomy and aborion). How did we get so upside down?!!!
America needs to get down on our knees and pray. Hunker down…it is going to be a wild ride. I pray I don’t live to see the ending.
I couldn’t get myself to watch the Inauguration yesterday. Just couldn’t do it.
Reading the excerpts of the Obamanation’s speech is excruciating. It’s absolute garbage — as you say, pixie dust and unicorn talk followed by rainbow fireworks.
From this Canadian’s vantage point, I’m watching an American train wreck which I find hard to believe is happening. How have so many Americans been duped by this imposter? The saying fact is stranger than fiction is perfectly illustrated by Oblahblah’s re-election after four years of complete ineptitude and divisive politics.
God bless America.
I hope God blesses America. And the rest of the world, while He’s at it. But, Canadian person, look to your own population. You can be suddenly shocked also, as we were, by the termites that have been beavering away for the last few decades. Our sin is that we have been too blind, too accommodating, too civilized.
Thanks for that (the blessing part) but we brought this on our selves. You had you troubles and were smart enough to dig out. We haven’t got their yet.
I must say, in our own behalf, that tens of millions of us stayed home – and I’m pretty sure I will be doing the same from here on out – because the gop keeps giving us the choice of a lesser of two evils (and I say that knowing Romney was agood man personally – but his policies stank and he was a weak candidate), which means we are still voting for evil. We are tired of voting for evil.
lolly, you can’t stay home! You’ve got to vote. I know the GOP have been less than stellar in their candidates, etc. but do you think that siccing the Obamanation on the U.S. and on the world is the way to go?
Malatrope, I wasn’t being smug towards Americans when I commented on how unbelievable it is that they re-elected Oblahblah a second time. We — never me! — elected Pierre Elliot Trudeau a number of times and after almost 30 years of his party’s (Liberals, aka the Librano$) “rule”, aided and abetted by the jackasses in our media, Canada is a thoroughly socialist country. Our Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his party are slowly turning things around but our media have a visceral hatred of him and it’s been an uphill struggle. PM Harper doesn’t play to the media at all, which makes them madder if that’s possible, and just quietly puts one foot in front of the other and gets things done.
Cheers!
batb, I actually wasn’t trying to accuse you of being smug
I was just pointing out that we all, all of us in “western civilization”, have a whole heck of a lot of work to do to turn this ship around. No worries!
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According to exit polls in Israel Likud-Israel Beiteinu won the election with 31 seats (about 25%).
The great surprise is Yesh Atid party, a new centrist/center left party that won 19 or 18 seats.
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Israeli Election Results – 99.8% of the votes
The final results will only be known tomorrow. In a nutshell, the Israeli public seems to have moved to the left rather than to the right as was predicted, but it’s not quite as simple as that.
Likud-Beitenu – 31 seats (of 120)
Yesh Atid (Yair Lapid’s Party) – 19
Labor – 15
The Jewish Home (Naftaly Bennet’s party) – 11
Shas (Sephardic/haredic) – 11
Yahadut HaTorah (haredic) – 7
HaTnuah (Tzipi Livni’s party) – 6
Meretz (far left) – 6
Raam-Taal (Arab, Islamist) – 5
Hadash (communist, mostly Arab) – 4
Balad (Arab nationalist) – 3
Kadima – 2 (down from 28 or 29…)
“Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation, and one people.”
Eine Land, eine Volk, ein Fuehrer, huh, Barry?
“What makes us exceptional — what makes us American — is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’”
So what makes us exceptional is a disavowal of the divine right of kings? That a commoner is as good as a king?
That first sentence has nothing to do with a qualitative equality among men, but compared to royalty. Why would slave owners write such a thing otherwise? It is not an abolitionist or equal rights document, but what it says, a declaration of independence from the king of England and why.
Obama is an idiot. He has a distorted view of the world and its history, and the bad part is he acts on it.
Please, please, good people! High thee to today’s Trifecta episode on this here PJTV site: “Hail To The Leftist!” It is an excellent discussion of this very issue!
Ahem, that would be “hie”, not “high”. Blame the spell-checker.
I hope so. There are oceans of difference between the idea of a classless and equal society and the idea that god himself put kings to rule over me.
Anyone with more than two functioning brain cells should have seen this coming when obama was campaigning for the 2008 election. Remember : “I want to fundamentally transform this country.”? That statement told me everything I needed to know about obama…and I haven’t been wrong about him yet.
For me it was when he said that people can’t put their thermostats at 72 degrees in the winter or summer and eat whatever they wanted and expect the rest of the world to be ok with that.
My reaction was: what does the world have to say about anything we do in our country? It was our technology and our infrastructure – we built it all. And it’s not like we didn’t share it. Every country on the planet SHOULD be like us – if it weren’t for THEM! It’s THEIR fault – not ours – that they’re not!
Now we have a guy that wants to body slam us into poverty and is proud of it. Who wants to be THAT guy? He’s proudly trying to become the next Nero.
From everything that Obama and his wife have done it is evident that they hate our country. They love to live like a king and queen on taxpayers money, in fact they spend more money tha Queen Elizabeth. She spends about 58 million a year on the royal family staff, servants, travel, food, cooks, etc., while King Barryo and Michelle spend 1.3 billion a of taxpayer funds on vacations, staff, czars, food and upkeep at the WH. It costs air force I $180,000 a hour for gas and that seems to be Obamas home. He stays on it. We now have two of the most repugnent people in our great nations history in the WH.
Obama’s speech is quite consistent with his education initiatives determination to implement Amitai Etzioni’s Communitarian approaches to society in the place of our historic emphasis on the Individual. It is lurking in the unread definitions of what College and Career Ready actually mean. Plus we already have Professor john a powell who headlined at the White House at Building One America insisting we must destroy the whole concept of the unitary self.
His definition of freedom reminded me of John Dewey’s:
“Freedom is a social benefit conferred by the collective intelligence of society.”
I guess society’s elected representative upon being sworn in without a need to face voters again says he is taking it back. For the greater good.
But wait, O’Dismal, isn’t Detroit, Oakland, Newark, Philly, S. side of Chicago, interior of Kalifornia, and most big cities already approaching nirvana? I mean they have their welfare, food stamps, housing, heating subsidies, gov’ment schools, and cell phones. What more could they want. Chicago even has your gun ban? Isn’t it perfect yet? Oh wait, you want the rest of the towns and cities to approach this perfection, too? I get it, the great leveling. Except the ruling class never gets leveled, does it? What are we going to get our very own “special” stores, “special” driving lanes, and “special” everything else that only the ruling class gets to use. Guess you’ll have to get busy and construct those dachas on the sea for them.
Eyes wide shut. (Goodbye, America.)
Seems to me that, had the GOP and its far right extremists had a legitimate platform of resolves for the problems of the nation that, were seen as genuine by a majority of the voters, such discussions as this, wouldn’t be on the forefront. The GOP has nobody to blame for a second Obama administration but themselves!
Just face it Dude, the Democrats ran a slick campaign, but they’re hardly champions of Democracy or the “will of the people”. They worked their asses off the last 2 presidential elections to convince people they weren’t going to go after guns, that they weren’t going to raise taxes on anybody except the wealthy, that they were going to fix the economy. Now what’s the agenda one month later? Gun control, we don’t have a spending problem and need more revenue (after raising taxes on the wealthy), we need more environmental regulations, and barely a peep on the economy or jobs, which they’re hoping everyone is too distracted to notice. Basically a bunch of items that the Democrats indignantly and repeatedly insisted we were lying about when we warned the people that it’s what they would actually do. It’s basically saying to the electorate: “hahaha we fooled you stupid f*cks and now you don’t matter for another 2-4 years”. The Republicans would be extremists NOT to stand against that.
Excellent TPM. They crafted a message of propaganda. With 0bama’s Basij, aka MSM, running cover, their message sold. Now they are crafting their fair share fair share fair share message to come for the only thing that will sustain their spending bacchanalia, middle class tax increases, big ones. They will be crafting fair share fair share fair share until the 2014 midterms. The drama will build on their tactics and betting that the Basij stay firmly in place. Holding the Basij in place is crucial. La Casa Blanca will be entertaining the Basij lavishly.
Pointing fingers at everything other than at the real truth will get you nowhere fast! For all the suposed superior intellect on PJM only a couple of commenters out of the boatloads ever contribute any rationale for solutions to anything. All you do is act like spoiled little children spouting “mamma, johnny did this to me; mamma, johnny did that to me, blah, blah, blah! The writers on PJM write articles expressly to inflame your inmature, childish consciences and like sheep all you superior intellects fall right into step.
Our nation needs people who are bent towards identifying ‘real’ problems and problem solving, not whinners and complainers. PJM does an excellent job of separating the suposed intellectuals who have no ability to solve anything — just whine and complain.
Why is Mr. Rubin in such a state of shock at the communist agenda put forth by Dictator Obama in his coronation speech? Hasn’t he been listening to what this evil wanna be communist Dicatator has been saying and doing over the last four years? People need to quit expecting this monster to act in a reasonable, sane matter about this country which he so clearly hates and dispises. We are face to face with Tyranny. Time to recognise we are at war.
Mr. Rubin (who is facing death, I believe, from cancer) is simply trying his damndest to get more people to open their eyes, get off the boob tube, and use their brains for something other than keeping their skulls wet. He recognizes that we are at war, clearly, by his earlier writings. He is not in a “state of shock”. He is trumpeting. Which you, Mr./Ms. Junius, would do well to emulate, on these blogs and to your friends and neighbors.
This is the war of all history. America is the spark that must not die.
First of all know he does not have a mandate. He and his compadres who are very adept at vote fraud, vacant lots, dead people, people voting more than once, precincts with more people that voted for him in one instance 50,000 than there were even registered voters. Voting machines that flipped Romney votes to Obama votes. So realize that our nation is still a center right nation. Obamas whole thing is smoke and mirrors and it is encouraged by a lying ,deceptive media.
wait for the American reichstag fire. then watch as history repeats itself.
Actually, I believe you are witnessing it now. There are mass shootings all over the country. Instead of one every decade or so, it’s starting to me a weekly occurance. I’m starting to believe the nutcases who have been saying this is staged (contrived, if you will). There are just too many and the public is starting to turn. They are starting to demand TOTAL gun control.
To me that’s it – the big IT! To me that is just monstous! Who are WE to take from our prodgeny to right to defend themselves?
The Republican party controls the purse strings of America. How about we just drive off the cliff for the next four years. Completely defund this lunacy.
The Republican Party? Is that where your hopes are my dear? Oh, poor thing…
The GOP is gone, six under, dead, won’t move, no breath, stiff… Unless you happen to be a maggot there is no use for them.
This will be solved by We The People or it won’t. These are the times that try men’s souls.
When will either political party notice that age discrimination is ingrained in America?
and, no, you can’t sue. another myth.
If anyone was paying attention, I am sure they wonder when gun control, climate change, and immigration reform become so much more important than jobs, which once in a awhile WAS a campaign issue.
Jobs were a campaign issue as recently as September, October and the first week of November.
In places like Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Iowa, there was a lot of talk about “vulture capitalist” Mitt Romney breezing into town so that he could close down steel mills, manufacturing plants and the like. And there was talk of keeping jobs in America, rather than letting Mitt Romney outsource all the jobs in Ohio and Wisconsin to China.
There was even a slogan about how the President kept this country from plunging into the worst depression of all time by saving auto jobs in Michigan and Ohio — it went something like, “Bin Laden is dead and Detroit is still alive!!!”
But that was a long time ago, and the only things that matter now are amnesty, guns and gay marriage.
all this wisdom and know-how from a man who has never accomplished anything, except fooling half a dumbed-down country into spending their children and g’children’s future on handouts for votes. oh yeah, he did learn a bit about gun running in his first term. i think he already knew about the partying and drugs and such from his earlier choom choom (interceptor) days.
what this halfwit knows about infrastructure, banking, or anything else you could put in a thimble. yeah, we should expect great things from our intern in chief. chw
The speech was radical? You guys are like the man in the joke who was sent to a psychiatrist by his worried relatives. The shrink decided to give him a projective test. He showed the patience a square. “What’s this?” “It’s the picture window of a big house in Hollywood. A movie director has a starlet on the couch and boy is he putting it to her!” So the shrink shows him a triangle. “It’s the keyhole to a hotel room. If you look through the keyhole you can see that an orgy is going on. Everybody is naked and boy are they going to it!” Finally, the shrink shows him a circle. “That’s the porthole of a yacht. When you look through it, you can see a playboy and two hookers. He’s got one of them on the floor and the other….” The shrink cuts him off, “I’m afraid you’re obsessed with sex.” “I’m obsessed? You’re the one with the dirty pictures!”
Er…no. Your response reveals that you are even more clueless than Mr. Rubin…and just as disconnected from reality.
You, and others like you, are the problem, Mr.”Harrison.” But, you can’t see that. You think that you’re the solution…when what you are is a tyrant.
If I’m a tyrant, I lord it over a notably small domain. You might as well accuse me of being a basketball or an ocelot. That would make about as much sense. Even your insults aren’t coherent. Maybe your problem is neurological.
The pot calling the kettle black — comes to mind!
Nice try Jimbo, old buddy. Author Rubin states “Portray those who don’t support you as engaged in evil, racist, etc., practices. Thus, those who criticize you are illegitimate and don’t deserve a fair hearing, much less compromise.”
Rubin’s statement is supported by this by author and scholar Oleg Atbashian, and Russian émigré, “This is what made it easy for Stalin to purge his opponents: by the time he charged them with treason, the orchestrated media coverage had already made them universally hated. Having purged all of his enemies, Stalin continued to manufacture the evidence of their presence.”
Orchestrate with the media to make your opponents (anyone who disagrees) “universally hated”. The tactic of a tyrant. Read what I just presented you again. Maybe it will sink in and you will get it. Maybe?
Also, read Atbashian. You just may learn a few things and be less eager to comment so foolishly.
You know you’ve got to have a lot of nerve to liken yourself to the victims of Stalinist terror because somebody makes fun of you on a comment thread. Of course you have to be fairly deluded to think that coming up with a national health insurance scheme or trying to promote non polluting sources of energy is some sort of harbinger of tyranny. Sheesh, talk about drama queens.
Geez — talk about wearing blinders. He wasn’t talking about what Obama HAS done, he’s talking about what Obama is in the PROCESS of doing. I believe it may be in reference to the choice Obama made, inter alia, in his speech yesterday to divide rather than unite. In light of his 2008 speech about “fundamentally transforming America, this is to many, alarming.
Jim, ‘Yooper’ didn’t say what you purported AT ALL. You drew your own conclusion to fit your narrative, bub.
Though I’m glad you called Uhblame-O Care what it truly is – a ‘scheme’.
As for ‘non-polluting sources of energy’ – FYI. There are infinite-like companies researching the aforementioned.
It didn’t/ doesn’t take an environmentally-inept ideologue like Barack Kardashian, the EPA or any other big government, federal entity to twist company’s arms as such to research the alternative energy construct.
These companies, many of which are oil companies have been doing R&D for DECADES.
You’re sadly but another who hears, reads what they want to and ignores everything else altogether.
And your ok with obama trying to undo the 2nd Amendment by executive fiat (illegal AND unconstitutional)?
What part of sic semper tyrannis don’t you get?
It figures you’d quote that particular piece of Latin. If John Wilkes Booth were alive today, who doubts he’d be a Republican?
Any particular reason for that or just the fact that he was a Confederate sympathizer … which would have made him about as far from Republican as it was possible to get.
Of course, I’m sure you’ll reply with the tired old lie that every single Southern Democrat suddenly became a Republican after the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act …
I won’t cite the tired old lie; I’ll cite the tired old truth. I can’t help if you’re sick of hearing it. It’s like the General Franco still dead bit on Saturday Night Live. The modern Republican party has taken the place of the old Democratic party and vice versa. And I didn’t read about the process in the history books; I read it in the newspapers. I’m old enough to have lived through most of the process as the red and blue states exchanged colors and the Republican party, to which I once belonged, by the way, became a mostly regional Southern affair.
Jimmy writes “….liken yourself to the victims of Stalinist terror”? Did I do that? Obviously not. But if were to claim any kind of victim status it would be in the form of a loud protest against those of you who seem to be hell-bent on jamming the failed products (progressivism, socialism, Marxism) of your willful ignorance down the unwilling throats of millions of your fellow Americans. Jimbo writes further, “coming up (forcing on an unwilling populace) with a (failed) national health insurance scheme” and “trying to promote (force thru regulation and crony capitalism) non polluting sources (currently inadequate and economically unsound…..ethanol subsidies anyone?) of energy (via a demonstrable hoax called global warming)”.
Sorry James, your hero (Obama….mentored by Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky) has you marked as a dupe. Hopefully your, and those of similar mindset, actions manifested largely by willful ignorance will someday be reversible before it inflicts permanent victim status (terror) upon us all.
Fact is that you are in over your head.
Small quibble. Exactly how can the ACA be called a “(failed) national insurance scheme” when it doesn’t go into effect until next year? I’m not a big fan of the ACA, mind you—a single-payer insurance program would be much cheaper—but its hard to believe that any system could be worse than the current mess. The U.S. has the worst health care system of any industrialize nation. We pay vastly more, and we don’t comparable results.
Meanwhile, the world is getting warmer. Deal with it. Neither your ideology or mine has anything to do with it.
Please don’t waste your time and energy on the likes of Jim Harrishmuck. He has venomous opinions on every topic, even ones he knows nothing about. He is simply too ignorant to understand how ignorant he is. However, he thinks he knows everything about everything and thinks he has the solution to all of the world’s problems. The guy is what Thomas Sowell might call a self-anointed messiah. He believes that civilized and successful people and countries are intrinsically evil and he has a vicious hatred of Jews and Israel. His posts are often incoherent ramblings. He evades questions, he tells outright lies and he throws tantrums. Please don’t waste your time and energy on this immature, malignant, narcissistic, attention-starved, anti-Semitic demagogue.
sigh.
I blame the guy who told Mitt Romney to leave his wife and daughters in law out of this fight.
A delegation of Mormon women attended Seneca Falls. They already owned businesses- including manufacturing corporations. They had the right to vote. One city council was composed entirely of women. The Seneca Falls theoretical activists did not know what to make of these women. They didn’t match theory.
The first female senator sent to Washington was a plural Mormon wife. She was a fully-fledged medical doctor. The first independently elected rep was, again, a Mormon wife.
O whingeing on about Seneca Falls shows what a total, clueless jerk he is. As a politician, he should know his history.
Doesn’t matter what was said, all the left/liberal “progressives” out there want Socialist tyranny or bust because it’ll be equally rotten for everybody.
Obama is (IMO) an innumerate — math, numbers, simple arithmetic — appear to be beyond his comprehension. He seems incapable of understanding what piling up trillions upon trillions of dollars in debt will mean for the United States. Thoroughly oblivious or willfully indifferent or is it deliberate? not that this doesn’t have an “up” side — hopefully bankruptcy will curb his more destructive impulses. But there was another aspect of his speech which bothered me — it is his Manichean splits — his demonizing some, while painting himself as angelic. (I will not say where I have heard this before). If Obama would spend a fraction of his energy expressing his disdain for America’s real enemies (say, for the militant Islamists overseas murdering our troops) as opposed to demonizing fellow Americans for a difference in a political opinion, I would, perhaps detest him a bit less. Unfortunately, he not only despises Americans of the “wrong” opinions, he actively arms and embraces America’s enemies (such as the Muslim Brotherhood). He’s like the inverse of a Joe McCarthy (wonder if next, he’ll set up committees to ferret out and imprison American patriots?)
Barack Hussein Obama is a Communist and the worst President in our nations history.
He is disgusting. It angers me to read articles about him. How did half the voters get duped into voting for him the second time around?
He is the more fashionable. In a society with no real obvious problems the superficial becomes tantamount, the society becomes more like an infant, and decides like an infant. Hence the population decides on appearance and not substance. The adolescent society reasons if you vote cool you are cool, hence Obama.
The rreal qestion is why did the millions of voters who could have voted him out of office stay home??
Too bland a way of saving the country??
BTW did you notice that great and wise leader used a particular phrase previously used by his ideal diplomat, Neville chamberlain, “And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice–not out of mere charity, but because PEACE IN OUR TIME requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity; human dignity and justice.”
Freudian slip, new policy guideline or both?
This as China arms for war.
it is brainwashing and hypnotism …it is filled with platitudes ..it is for the malleable useful idiots.
most people with some independent thought could see obama was a communist in 2008
You have broken it up nicely Mr. Rubin and are asking the right questions regarding how to take the information. the occupant of the white house does actually tell us what he intends to do …and it isn’t pretty and it isn’t constitutional.
Rubin’s analysis is excellent, i.e., as far as it goes–and that is not far enough. Obama has ended the separation between Church and State, transforming it into an Obamaian religion of the “collective” incarnated in the fed. gov. that will see to the rewarding of every single person’s efforts. “Newsweek” caught the meaning of Obama with the title page promulgating Obama as “The Second Coming”. What the forefathers (and mothers) formed (= “The First Coming”), associated with the symbolism of Christian messianism, is being “fundamentally transformed” into the realization of the suppossedly “true” (alas, only implicitly realized in its fullness until Obama was begat) meaning of the American “experiment” as seen in the Declaration and interpreted by Obama. Note that Obama has fused liberty, equality and inalienable rights into the current form of governmental “rewarding” of each single American, i.e., a material equality. The realizer is the collective, viz., the fed. gov. under Obama’s rule (= “The Second Coming”). Here is where religion and state are fused. It is a this-wordly “relgion”, but one that taps into religious emotionality and hitches it up to a politicial ideal. Once upon a time Obama claimed that the individual is not saved unless the collectivity is saved. I will predict that such a collectivity-fusion will turn against its heretics. What am I saying? Already, religious groupings such as the Catholic Church or Evangelicals or, I think, Orthodox Jews, are being forced at the point of a gun (which is the power of the state’s realization of ideals, laws, etc.) to act re contraception or abortion against the group’s fundamental moral beliefs. Obama must particularly break the Catholic Church (the most powerful non-gov. religion whereby civil society shares its “rewarding”, viz., help for the unfortunate). This is being done by forcing the Catholic Church to surrender to Obama’s rules or retire from public life.
Some Evangelicals say that each of use will meet his “Maker”, viz., God. Obama wants to ReMake the fed. gov. The act of “MAKING” anew is indeed a Second Coming. This is not an act of “reforming”, but of a new re-creating (= re-making) of the government. One cannot REmake anything without first UNmaking it. The constitutional nature of the fed. gov. was one which was aimed at limitation of a centralized government. Any “Re-Making”, if the term is to retain its semanticity, means that the fundamental function of governments in the USA must be first UN-Made in order to experience fundamental transformation. Obama is effectively creating a new Constitution! This is literally a confession of betrayal. Obama swore to uphold the Constitution, not to re-make it. We will soon have a king again or a Caesar or a new institution called “the Obama”, a semi-divine term that will ring down the ages as the family name of Julius Caesar did.
Enough said! A comment does not allow for adequate articulation. I will tentatively suggest that the apparent positive attitude towards Islam shown by Obama finds it origins in a kindered belief insofar as Islam does not separate religion for social organization. At the moment, my thesis is but a suggestion.
It’s not a new strategy – it’s just restating the original.
Final stage to erase freedom, or rather, consolidate its erasure, which began decades ago.
Turning up to the polls to elect the Non-Obama was such an easy thing to do, and no one did it.
“I cannot think of one thing that Obama has either proposed or done to help those on the streets of Detroit or the hills of Appalachia.” Well, what are you waiting for, Barry? The federal government? You’re a free market guy, individual initiative and all that. Do you want Obama to do EVERYTHING? Sheesh.
Hope you are doing well Mr. Rubin?
To cut it short, he praised those who he could bribe by using their money to buy their votes. He misdirected with topics that would not call attention to his last term and lack of success on everything. He will continue to divide the country with class-race hatreds to keep his politcal party dominant. All their failures will be scapegoated on the GOP for “obstructing progress.”
Obama is a man with mediocre intelligence, we glimpsed that during the first debate, and he simply read the speech prepared for him. I’m afraid the the US needs to endure the man and his policies consequences– if it survives them.
Obama’s words are not weighed, neither had he realized the value of what he is delivering. He hadn’t read it through nor must have not known what his speech writers know, not to mention his own unquestionable ‘simplemindedness’
His incessant emphasis on rewarding everyone, everyone to get what they want is a shoddy, irresponsible assurance of reward without a person to necessarily lift a finger to earn what he, you, will practically enjoy. He is turning USA into a continent of welfare dependents. His economics defy producer-consumer, income-expense, resource-product basic elements. (Not unless if he is the inexhaustible source).
Lamentable is, this seeming ‘socialistic’, ‘utopic’ promise of his and his speech writers’ fancies are now implemented, foreseeing oppositions, it is proven, concentration camps are now ready to be dispensed with. Crew and staff enlisted to carry out incarceration and executions. The unwitting American public is still scarcely aware of this unconscionable reality. So help us G_d.
“No single person can train all the teachers” , is as usual another straw man argument, nobody any where ever claimed that one person could train all the teachers. i did not listen to his speech because i know this is the style he always uses and i can not d stand the sound of his voice and he is going to tell one lie after another insulting my intelligence.