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
Of course, this is just re-hashed Carter II with untenable expectations.
But note, he has given himself an escape hatch: when change does not materialize, he will blame the people for the not sufficiently "changing from the bottom up."
Malaise II.
Agreed...>sigh<...McCain, ugh....
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks Barry Hussein Obama Osama YoMama is the Anti-Christ!
“When the Anti-Christ comes, he will be loved by millions.”
Actress Hallie Berry was quoted as saying, “I will pick up paper cups off the ground to clear his path.”
The Svengali-like control Obama has over people makes me wonder......
Hillary is scarier b/c she will transform evil into action.
This guy is just pitifully naive, in love with himself, and will be totally ineffective.
>>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. <<
Wow! So he wants to abolish Welfare, food stamps and section 8 housing?!
He’s got my vote!
Or am I somehow missreading that...?
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No, you’re not misreading that, you’re just one failed Five-Year Plan early in your interpretation of dogma, that’s all.
“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.”
M. Obama, “then he slapped my ass and sent me to bed without supper.”
"I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?"
Time to spend serious workouts at the range.
Who is scarier: Obama or Hillary?
Hillary: Ruthless, uncaring, willing to cover up for rape and abuse by her husband, possibly a murderer, known to illegally peruse and misuse FBI files, willing to trade favors for money from Red China, willing to engage in secuirities fraud, known socialist.
Obama: Messianic movement leader, taught in a Madrassa, member of an allegedly Christian church but one that has given awards to Luis Farakhan, his mother married two muslims, most socialistic member of the Senate, will remove troops from Iraq ensuring American defeat, had a Communist mentor in youth, trained in an Alinsky organization, tied to Kenyan politician who has signed agreements to implement Sharia law, has had both his Democratic primary opponent and Republican general opponent in his Senate race destroyed by scandal, possibly an anti-christ.
It’s the last one that gets me. I vote for Obama as the scariest.
Clancey.
I’m still waiting for “Yes we can” to turn into “Oh no you didn’t!”
“Actress Hallie Berry was quoted as saying, “I will pick up paper cups off the ground to clear his path.””
Koolaid?
If the adult politicians in the Democratic Party are paying any attention, they have to be unnerved by this social psychology nonsense, which is a dry hole politically... buyers remorse has got to be setting in. Borderline kooks.
Sorry to hear that. A few years ago my wife and I stayed a few days in Kalispell while visiting Glacier Nat Park. Beautiful country. Really liked the area around Flathead Lake.
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer. Tomorrow belongs to me.
On government subsidized Amtrak railcars?
No, this means they will force us all to live in communal housing projects. It takes a village, after all.
Ahhhh, the tyranny of evil acting as a messiah with a flock of full fledged worshipers.
We need to be aware of tyranny but, as long as we have the 2nd Amendment, we need not fear it.
Montana hell.
Wyoming has better fields of fire.
I'm really mystified at the statements of many of his supporters. Just exactly what do they think he will be able to do for them? Other than receiving more tax-payer paid freebies I mean. That will only go so far. But somehow Obama has managed to convince these idiots that their lives will be changed dramatically with his election. When that doesn't happen (if he is elected), you might be right about hell breaking loose.
There are more guns in GA and it's warmer.
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