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
Yes- it IS getting out of hand. That is the whole idea, isn’t it...
NUMBERS...mob mentality in the voting booth.
Creepy indeed. Hubris is the classic element of tragedy.
“Do you people see who is talking about when he says “We”?????”
He’s talking about people who don’t pay taxes, don’t have jobs, suck off the system, spend daddy’s money or are here illegally
On what, Rock and Roll?
Yeah, especially that part about being required to conduct war until the whole world is converted or subjugated.
I’m keeping my cynicism.
They can have it when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
He's leaving the outer planets to be changed by Michelle when she becomes president after eight years of Barack.
This man must not become president. As detestable as McCain is, Obama simply must not sit in the oval office.
It is a horse race.
Who is scarier: Obama or Hillary?
The Imperial Obama. If we are a Capitalist society what does this mean for us?
Is there a re-education summer camp in your future? Will we all be sent out in solidarity with the farmers to help with the beet harvest? When will you need to convey your summer home to the “collective” for the good of workers?
Socialism is premised on the assumption that only the government should decide what’s in the best interests of every citizen, even if that involves micro-managing every citizen’s political, economic and personal choices. And he says it like it’s a good thing.
Creepy, indeed. Hubris is the stuff of which tragedies are made.
Smiley Fascism
Un-friggin-believable, isn't it?
I’m finding it’s not necessary to read between the lines with Barak and Michelle. It IS, however, necessary to READ the lines.
There is a clear need for a few banana cream pies to put things into the proper perspective.....
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