"Barack Will Never Allow You to Go Back to Your Lives as Usual." (YES IT CAN get creepier)

The Campaign Spot at NRO ^ | 20 February 2008 | Jim Geraghty

[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

[SE Mom]

Not to worry- I think their union is already backing him:)

[sageb1]

http://jonestownapologistsalert.blogspot.com/2007/03/date-mon-sept-18-1972.html

“I know that Pastor Jim Jones is God Almighty himself!” cried one of the more than 1000 people who overflowed the auditorium of Benjamin Franklin Junior High School on Geary Boulevard yesterday morning and Saturday night.

“You say I am God Almighty?” asked the Rev. Mr. Jones, the charismatic pastor-prophet of the People’s Temple Christian (Disciples) Church near Ukiah, who was holding special services in San Francisco this weekend.

“Yes, you are!” shrieked the unidentified but obviously ecstatic woman, as the audience clapped or waved their arms and shouted approval at Sunday services.

Busing

The Rev. Mr. Jones has been consistently attracting congregations of more than 1000 people - who travel by the fleet of ex-Greyhound buses from as far away as Los Angeles and Seattle to his home in Redwood Valley, seven miles north of Ukiah, and to services such as those this weekend in San Francisco.

Among those attracted is the assistant district attorney of Mendocino County, Timothy O. Stoen, who has affirmed in writing that the Rev. Mr. Jones has raised 40 people from the dead.

Jones arrived in California in 1965, accompanied by 165 of his parishioners from the People’s Temple of Indianapolis, where he served as pastor.

He is a darkly handsome, 41 year old, part-Cherokee who is an ordained minister of 1.9 million member the Disciples of Christ (Christian) Church.

[JamesP81]

So all of us naysayers need to get behind mccain and the GOP and make sure as hell that this communist neophyte is not elected.

You have no idea how much it hurts me to say it. I absolutely detest McCain with a powerful will. If we weren't at war, I'd let him hang out to dry like the RINO he is. Unfortunately, we are at war, and I don't know if we'd survive 4 years of his presidency.

[SE Mom]

Context, context..

[sageb1]

!!

[roses of sharon]

LOL, and don’t forget John Edwards campaigned in 04 promising to make the disabled rise from their wheelchairs!!

[driftless2]

I’ve read similar comments by Obama supporters who apparently believe he will be the magic president. In fact I read such an article this morning in The St. Paul Pioneer Press. To wit he will be able to hold his supporters accountable for their behavior. How he would do this is left unexplained. These fools are in for huge letdown if he gets elected. Their lives won’t change a bit. Then what?

[rattrap]

You misspelled Panama...

[Tax-chick]

Or, “If you take your eyes off him, he might do something really, *really* crazy!”

I think they’re both narcissists, just like the Clintons.

[longtermmemmory]

Harvard TRAINED him to be a communist and he is ACTING like a communist.

He seems more like a number 2 from the tv show prisoner.

[Aggie Mama]

LOL =)

[Vigilanteman]

And what if we kind of like our lives as usual? What about Americans' freedom to be uninvolved and uninformed?

You haven't heard of re-education camps?

A few weeks ago, I thought Obama was just a more bombastic version of Jimmy Carter. Now, I'm wondering if he is a gentler version of Adolph Hitler.

[the lastbestlady]

The rest of us have to work for a living? I don’t know how the moonbats are bankrolled, but it always seems like they have plenty of money. The west side of Montana has gotten so bad that if you WORK in Montana you can’t afford to live there! ugh!

[beefree]

“allowed to watch”

Check out congress actions on “Fairness Doctrine” vs “Broadcaster Freedom Act”. The FD could ruin conservative talk radio and christian television. Watch all legislators, local, state and federal and protect freedom of speech

[beefree]

seems to be what is happening with obamania

[the lastbestlady]

I’d go for Wyoming. John Kerry has land in Idaho!!

[SE Mom]

To wit he will be able to hold his supporters accountable for their behavior. How he would do this is left unexplained
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Last night (and likely before- I just noticed it last night) he said- there will be college tuition $$ and/or credits available...then he said- this will not be FREE- you WILL pay it back by joining the Peace Corps, doing community service, etc., etc. Can this be called anything BUT socialism, verging on communism??

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These fools are in for huge letdown if he gets elected. Their lives won’t change a bit. Then what?
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All HE double LL breaks loose?

[Beckwith]

Who is scarier: Obama or Hillary?

Hillary is Thomas Jefferson (in drag), next to Obama.

[nothingnew]

what irony; he is going to demand the masses be informed and engaged; if they were informed and engaged now, he would never have the opportunity to come to power and demand the masses be informed and engaged.

Touche!

FMCDH(BITS)

[hinckley buzzard]

Don't forget the part about how Obama is going to "heal our souls". I don't know which of these disease entities is more creepy but that is definitely the word for these toxic cult leaders.