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December 27, 2009
“Seniors are America’s new Jews”
By Stuart Schwartz

SNIPPET: “What Sarah Palin termed “dealth panels” are only a small part of a new bureaucracy that will stand between seniors and life. Small wonder The Wall Street Journal characterized Obamacare as an “assault” on seniors, while a British newspaper, surveying events across the pond, starkly stated “the elderly might as well have a bull’s eye painted on their backs.” It continued, “Creepy, right? It’s totalitarian, it’s ugly, and it’s not the American way.”

But it is the American way in a nation governed by Obama, who has a vision that requires some to have less so that others may be given more. And the vast middle class of seniors, almost 40-million strong, a lifetime of working and paying taxes behind them, are the ideal scapegoats to fund a radical Democrat vision.

James Lewis describes the Obama team approach with devastating clarity: they have perfected scapegoating, an “emotional high explosive that you can direct at will.” And not just Will-we’re talking Bernice, Fred, and Gladys, the fifteen percent of the population who have the audacity-an Obama word-to age.

Seniors now find themselves as the official go-to group for a president intent on taking both life and property and giving to those who are younger, more diverse, to illegal immigrants, and Democratic Party allies. Consequently, the Obama-led Democrats, with the help of intellectual and media elites, have declared open season on grandma and grandpa, with Newsweek Evan going so far as to feature a cover detailing “The Case for Killing Granny.””

SNIPPET: “Democrat healthcare is one of many “audacious visions,” a Georgetown University professor wrote, to replace a Judeo-Christian culture with a statist worldview. The founders were wrong, Obama says, when they unashamedly founded a nation based, as Thomas Jefferson put it, upon the belief in the dignity of each individual-regardless of age-who possesses “personal liberty” given “by the Author of nature.”

The president Newsweek editor Evan Thomas called “sort of God” takes issue with the view of seniors dictated by the “Author of nature,” that rock of Judeo-Christian culture who demands in his Word, in Deuteronomy, that humanity “Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be long...”

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob views long life and respect for seniors as a blessing. But the Democratic Party healthcare bill is no Deuteronomy, long life is viewed as a market-driven curse, and for Barack Obama-the god of Harry, Nancy, and Evan-seniors are expendable.”