Yes... the World.
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
No, wait a minute. The Obamaniacs and God-fearing leftists will think it really was Him putting His mark of approval on the New Messiah. Back to the drawing board .
LOLOL! Bless you:) I really needed that!!
“If Barak becomes president, will we all have to committ mass suicide down the road or take a ride in a flying saucer. This cult thing is getting out of hand. Sheesh”
The scary thing about Obamas supporters is that they seem to be proud to considered cult members. I’m sorry that’s way outside the creepy band of OK.
Yes... the World.
Yes.
Have to change all the maps to read USSA
“So who’s moving to Montana?”
Wyoming or Idaho might be a better bet. Old Ted Turner and his liberal buddies have bought up a lot of land in MT.
Obama is 3 years removed as a hack in the Chicago democrat machine and is now challenging Al Gore as Messiah.
LOL, absolutely.
(west side of the state. You’re all welcome to join the vast right-wing conspiracy in eastern Montana. ;)
How do the moonbats always manage to takeover the most beutiful geographic regions?
Superb point.
The founders roll..
We should move to Mexico. That way we can sneak back in and get amnesty later.
}:-)4
Beware the angry bakers......
His rhetoric reminds me of a whole litany of tin-pot dictators ...
but you have to be informed and engaged the right way or you will be required to go to re-education training.
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.
Al Gore is so last week. Of course given his girth he could be the new Buddah.
What’s wrong with that? President Bush often phrases his arguments for the war in Iraq and the larger war on terror in terms of how it will improve the world as a whole. There are a lot of things about Obama that worry me, but his opining that the actions of the United States and its citizens can make the world a better place — not just our own country — isn’t one of them.
"Today, Germany ... tomorrow, the whole world ..."
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