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
As I have been saying from day one, he is the Anti-Christ.
“Id go for Wyoming. John Kerry has land in Idaho!!”
Wyoming it is!
I think that as these cults evolve and progress the cult leaders eventually start believing their own BS and drinking their own Kool-aid. They deluded the followers but then they end up deluding themselves as part of the process.
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.”
No question. This creep makes Hillary seem as comfortable as a pair of old shoes.
I get the feeling he is going to propose community service offsets.
“So whos moving to Montana?”
Yipee-yae-oh-kae-a-a-a.
See # 77
If you weren’t so darn far from the ocean, I would already be there. ;>)
As I told the missus in 06; “The willfully ignorant will choose their first tyrant in 08.”
Ping to read later
I have some acerage on the high ground!!
“That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones.”
On government subsidized Amtrak railcars?
thanks for these links. ping for later.
Line I heard last night: "We have a senator from New York who was born in Illinois, and a senator from Illinois who was born in a manger."
His model of the state is the Hive. It’s exactly what the Founders rejected, and it’s chilling.
This mini-Mussolini will force me to vote for McCain, I’ll bring a big barf bucket and take a hot shower afterwards.
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