Posted on 03/08/2009 1:56:56 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
He hasn't called anyone an "evildoer" or denounced an "axis of evil." But make no mistake: President Obama is putting together an enemies list.
Strangely, though, those on it are not terrorists or foreign dictators. They are mostly Americans lucky enough to have succeeded through capitalism and democracy.
In the President's words, they are guilty of being "special interests" and "lobbyists." The Bush-era tax cuts were merely "an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy" and he will bring fairness by raising taxes on "the wealthiest 2% of Americans."
His barbs flow almost daily, faulting corporate leaders for "greed" and shirking "a sense of responsibility." And sometimes he suggests the problem is criminal, as when he defended his plan for an expanded government push into health insurance as necessary "to keep the private sector honest."
Less than half-way through what should be a 100-day honeymoon, the Obama administration is on a war footing. Make that a class-war footing.
Sometimes the targets are critics, including two TV commentators singled out by press secretary Robert Gibbs for faulting the President's bailout plans.
Sometimes the targets are Republicans, like conservative talker Rush Limbaugh, the focus of a plan led by chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to divide the GOP and score points with the Democratic base.
But the tone of the President's own attacks on industry and his spending and tax policies are increasingly worrying Wall Street and much of the business world. With the stock market reaching lows not seen in more than a decade, including a 20% drop since Inauguration Day, headlines like "Obama's bear market" are suddenly routine.
The President dismisses the growing perception he is adding to the economic pain.
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Does anyone know how Obama made his millions?
Fomenting class hatred is fundamental to the Alinsky way .....and therefore fundamental to Obama’s approach.
It’s all he has ever known.
His attack on the private sector is designed to set the table for "economic justice" which means racial reparations to blacks from whites. He will demonize and go after corporations first, because they have deep pockets, were around (some of them) in slavery days, and there is little sympathy for them in the general populace.
The mainline churches will collude with this antisocial aggression, trying to save their dying congregations by recapturing the moral capital they held in the old, real civil rights struggles. Plus of course it makes liberal preachers feel so special about themselves when they can justify taking it out on someone with impunity.
Unrestricted grants from the treasury will come later, when the ground has been suitably prepared.
Read 1984, and the description of the "Two Minutes' Hate."
Blame everything on "Emmanuel Goldstein," enemy of the people.
The rats are trying to make Rush into the latest Goldstein.
You are 100% right.
What class warfare? We’re all poor now, thanks to those bailouts.
The criticisms of Goodwin I have seen have been from leftists when he attacks people like Hillary and Pelosi.
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