Posted on 02/20/2008 11:49:06 AM PST by SE Mom
"Barack Will Never Allow You to Go Back to Your Lives as Usual."
Last night I appeared on Hugh's show, and his producer Duane mentioned a Michelle Obama speech at UCLA. Captain Ed talked about this a bit, but I hadn't seen anyone transcribe the part of the speech where it gets a little... unnerving. It starts at about 8:41 in the audio.
Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
I'm sorry, nowhere in the Constitution does it authorize the President of the United States to demand anyone shed their cynicism. And I'm all for people pushing themselves to be better, but I don't think the President demanding it is the way to go about it.
And what if we kind of like our lives as usual? What about Americans' freedom to be uninvolved and uninformed?
Darleen at Protein Wisdom transcribed what follows:
"You have to stay at the seat at the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama not just on Tuesday but in a year from now, in four years from now, in eights years from now, you will have to be engaged."
Ah. Apparently apathy will be criminalized, then?
Does anybody on the left side of the aisle find this rhetoric a little creepy? Isn't this describing an authoritarian presidency way beyond anything George W. Bush has done or proposed?
Do the powers of the presidency really encompass everything Michelle says Obama wants and plans to do? Based on this rhetoric, isn't he actually running for messiah?
02/20 02:26 PM
Wth is OB talking about. I used to believe that Hillary would fire up the R base but this guy will do it even moreso...IMO he will fall apart in the GE.
‘Who is scarier: Obama or Hillary?’
Honestly, this guy creeps me out, but even MORE than he, his SUPPORTERS give me major heebie-jeebies.
They are like Jim Jones followers. Yikes.
Not for long.
“No papers?”
Free-staters have already staked claim to NH.
They could use the numbers.
http://www.freestateproject.org/
There’s *adult* pols? I’ll have to speak to their handlers.
” we will change America...and we will change the WORLD”...
Isn’t that exactly what Islam has planned to do?
This guy is sounding more like a bona fide lunatic all the time....
Apparently from the columns I've read a number of them are just a bit nervous about Obamamania. Some of it is Hillary backers unhappy about her political demise. But a lot of it is lib Dems witnessing hysteria on a major level and finally recognizing the untamed, unhinged beast that is the Dem Party today. Dems and libs have always been suckers for messianic populists/demagogues. Now they have one who couches his socialism in pretty, earnest phrases. We'll all reap the whirlwind if he gets elected.
Nonsense. He is only a man until ALGORE tells us otherwise.
“Who is scarier: Obama or Hillary?”
Neither. It is the American people who plan to vote for either one of these two.
And ALGORE will reveal the Way Ahead when Obama p.b.u.h. advances way ahead, on MARCH FORTH, a date of great significance to Harvard notreally Muslims.
*puff*
“The Svengali-like control Obama has over people makes me wonder......”
He doesn’t have any real control over people. These idiots have bought into the illusion, there’s no way he can maintain this. Halle Berry says she’ll pick up paper cups from his path, but she says that because she knows she’ll never be asked to do that. As soon as he tries to exert his control over his minions, about half of them will bolt, and go back to their Play Stations.
omg ;)
“Who is scarier: Obama or Hillary?”
Neither. It is the American people who plan to vote for either one of these two.”
Bingo!
Michelle Obama’s speech was like a modern-day version of “Animal Farm”.
He is a Communist... just as dumb, and just as rabidly fanatical, as any before him.
“The WORLD???”
Yes, a leftwing America means a glorious left-wing World, all smiling and happy under the multi-culti banner of peace-through-world-govt.
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