I guess we now need to have a disclaimer that "I am not the artist", but I really like this one.....
Rahm and David (the un-indicted co-pimps) seem to want to pimp slap all opponents.
Posted on 08/07/2009 5:13:55 AM PDT by markomalley
Dissent, it turns out, is no longer patriotic. President Barack Obama’s White House and his Democratic National Committee have unleashed an all-out assault on what they call “angry,” “manufactured” and “lobbyist-funded” lies about health care reform. Look closely and you realize that’s how they classify all dissent.
Obama, when speaking at Notre Dame University last spring amid anti-abortion protests, said, “When we open up our hearts and our minds to those who may not think precisely like we do or believe precisely what we believe, that’s when we discover at least the possibility of common ground.”
But his record of dealing with actual dissent paints a different picture, one that suggests he has so much faith in his own good intentions and clever plans — and so little skepticism about the power of government to do good — that he sees all disagreement with his policies as condemnable.
“David Freddoso has made a career off dishonest, extreme hatemongering,” Obama’s presidential campaign wrote about my friend and now Examiner colleague David Freddoso last September in an effort to get a radio host to drop him.
The campaign e-mail called Freddoso a “card-carrying member of the right-wing smear machine” and said his anti-Obama book (for which I was the editor) contained “lies and smears about Barack Obama.”
The one “lie” the campaign claimed to find in the book turned out to be completely correct — that Obama “voted to raise your [taxes] if your taxable income is greater than $32,500 a year.” The Factcheck.org page the campaign cited actually proved Freddoso correct. The other “lies” they attacked were differences of interpretation.
The personal attack on Freddoso, filled with slurs and devoid of factual critiques, illuminates Obama’s current crusade against the “mobs,” “fishy e-mails” and “manufactured” dissent against his plan for massive regulations, subsidies and new government programs in the health care industry.
The White House does have a point here: Some of the protests these days are out of line. Shouting down Congress members at town halls is not practicing democracy, it’s bullying. Claiming, contrary to all evidence, that Obama is not an American citizen is not debate, but close-minded inanity — inanity possibly stemming from racism.
But Obama, through his White House, his campaign and his DNC, has lumped all dissenters in with the shouters and the birthers. There’s a political gain to this tactic, to be sure, but it certainly doesn’t reflect the open-mindedness and fairness Obama was supposed to bring.
Linda Douglass, communications director for Obama’s Office of Health Reform, said her job includes collecting “disinformation” about health care, and the White House asked Americans, “If you get an e-mail or see something on the Web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
What counts as “fishy”? Is it only the e-mails falsely claiming “reform” mandates euthanasia, or is Obama also counting as “disinformation” the videos displaying his past advocacy of a single-payer plan and arguments that the plan amounts to taxpayer funding of abortions?
Obama’s attack on Matt Drudge for posting those videos, the White House’s broad dismissal of town-hall protests as “mobs” of “manufactured” dissent and his DNC’s intentional conflation of health care protesters with birthers suggests that anything rejecting the White House’s conclusions on health care counts as “fishy,” or worse, and must be reported to authorities.
Obama’s White House and his DNC have repeatedly said “special interests” oppose reform because they “profit from the status quo.” (Obama doesn’t name anyone, because, awkwardly, the drugmakers and health insurers are lobbying for “reform” and buying television ads supporting the general idea.)
But has Obama ever acknowledged that most of the people who oppose his proposed reform do so because they believe it economically harmful, wasteful, unconstitutional, immoral or damaging to families?
The DNC suggests that all town-hall dissidents are “funded by K Street lobbyists.” This is an odd line of attack coming from the DNC, considering the DNC and its House and Senate campaign committees have already brought in more than $1 million from lobbyists and $629,000 from the drug industry.
One could fairly call Obama’s DNC a special-interest group funded by K Street lobbyists advancing policies for political gain that profit drugmakers and insurers — but that might be deemed “fishy.”
The Joker wants to rule, not govern.
Enslaved by debt so high it can never be repaid. Economic freedom is freedom itself.
Big Brother is watching
Dictators, don’t like dissent.
Obama doesn’t want a fair debate.
He doesn’t even want an unfair debate.
He wants to shove his mind down your throat.
“Claiming, contrary to all evidence, that Obama is not an American citizen is not debate, but close-minded inanity — inanity possibly stemming from racism. “
Had me until right there.
You can disagree that I want to see proof of eligibility, but to throw the racist card in there is over the line.
Narcissistic people do not respond well to ridicule,irony or sarcasm.
...I expect Rush will be off the air within a year....they simply cannot allow him to continue.
Nobody is claiming that Obama is not an American citizen. Nobody.
Typical misdirection by the Dems.
A good article but he has to get a dig in at those who are convinced Obama is not eligible to be president. Carney hints that we are inspired by racism. Can someone get to this guy and tell him a sop to the MSM meme won’t win favor with them for him and it does terrible damage to a lot of honest citizens who otherwise agree with him. Freddoso ought to lean on this guy.
Now I know why ammo costs so damn much.
Is this truly from the SAN FRANCISCO examiner?! I thought it was a lot cooler when I walked the dog this morning: Hell is freezing over.
“Fair debate” and “fair elections”
are not how he came to power.
In all his previous elections, he got the media to unseal records on his opponents in order to clear the field, essentially leaving no opponent to run against.
Gosh, the America patriots are sitting on a PILE of guns and ammo,
have lines in the sand drawn all around them,
and are just waiting for someone to cross one of them.
Taking Rush off the air would be a big loud shout of “IT’S ON!”
“Shouting down Congress members at town halls is not practicing democracy”?
Nonsense it is democracy at its purest.
Many congress crooks refuse to follow the wishes of their majority constituents.
Many refuse to even listen and block ANY dissent.
It is the only thing that worked in 2000 in West Palm Beach at the Board of county supervisors mangleing of the Bush Gore election.
Players of the race card MUST be mocked and ridiculed.
W was "The Decider", Zer0 is "The Teller".
They are simply calling the congressbastards on their lies when they spout them.
I guess, to a congressbastard, this is unexpected.
Really? So?...Where's the evidence? We would like to see it.
When did it become “racist” to ask, “Please release your long form birth certificate, and all other documents related to natural born citizenship?”
Also...I believe this very smart author is deliberately lying. It isn't about citizenship. It is about **natural born** status.
You know this is real bad when it comes from the SF Examiner of all papers..
Of course. A tactic to obfuscate the honest fact that Obama refuses to release his Long Form Birth Certificate and has fought doing so for the past 17 months.
Despite claims “there’s nothing to hide”.
OK, then. Let’s see it.
This man will not leave office without violence. Not after 4 years and not after 8 years. His attack dogs don’t need orders, they know what’s expected of them.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Post of the Day!
That is what it is all about. "I am the Pres--ent do my way"
Come on man, you know these crooks forever have had the folks like lambs in their presence.
Your Papa would have kicked you had you been unruly to a congressman. Today he’d be there yelling at the bastards.
But hey years ago they were pro American.
I predicted mass riots in the streets to the likes we have never seen in the country if he didn't get elected. It will be the same if he ever losses an election. Race will be made the issue, not the lack of competence. I am sure he will try to find a way to run again in 2116.
This needs to be repeated whenever you hear someone parroting the Obama line that the health care industry is funding opposition to "reform".
The insurance companies know there is tons of money to be made in the short term when government mandates that everybody has insurance.
They also know that government is likely to subcontract a lot of insurance work to the major private insurers -- at least the ones who give the most money to the Democrats.
And some in the medical profession, the ones that are not as successful, or work primarily in areas where there is a lot of free care, see raises in their future if there are people to pay for all the health care.
The support from the industry shows that they know "health care reform" will not cut any money out of the system, but instead will inject billions of new dollars.
The bad guys around the world figured this goofball out first. Now the American people are starting to see that he is a very thin skinned rookie kenyan.
Hey barry, whatcha hidin?
good post - mark.
I thought Hillary said, actually screeched, that debate and dissent was patriotic.
BO is nothing but a Chicago street thug.
He made it quite clear that The Little Man and the Ayatollahs were in command, not the people.
Obama is emulating the Iranian model here in the United States of America.
JMHO......if I am still entitled to one!
Re-education camp will be fun! We’ll all be there together!! I spit out my coffee when I saw this one!!
The Dems are panicking. 0s numbers are going to the basement, and all the new congress-creeps are facing lost seats next year.
I hate this jacka$$....Pukelosi also
I thought he loved it, it’s his trade.
Create crisis, seem to find the solution.
Same beast, different name.
Which race?
Where’s the common sense? The guy’s raised and put through the best schools, is president and still blames ‘the man’.
You’ll never see another black president after this, i’d like to thank the clueless that voted for this fraud and never bothered to research, but looked at his ‘race’.
I am not so sure sometimes. Can you be a citizen and receive aid for foreign students? Can you be a citizen of Indonesia without renouncing US Citizenship? There are many questions about Obama and his past to which we simply do not know the answers.
For convenience, here is the email address for fishy comments: flag@whitehouse.gov
"Obama, when speaking at Notre Dame University last spring amid anti-abortion protests, said, “When we open up our hearts and our minds to those who may not think precisely like we do or believe precisely what we believe, that’s when we discover at least the possibility of common ground.”
Obama was lecturing and sermonizing to Catholics at Notre Dame, who might be pro-life, to "open their hearts" to abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and his global depopulation agenda. There was no indication he meant for pro-abortion liberals to "open their hearts" to be tolerant of Catholics or pro-life conservatives. That line was not addressed to liberals, secular humanists, and atheists.
I fear the 2010 election will be a national repeat of the Minnesota senate race with ACORN stuffing ballot boxes to guarantee liberal candidates hold their Congressional seats. We are seeing a national expansion of Chicago style thug politics all resigned at keeping Obama and his cronies in power so they can drag the US kicking and screaming into socialism. God save our Republic.
A revolution is not a dinner party.
You have to understand the "progressive" mind.
They regarded 1981-2009 as an unfortunate, temporary setback. In their view, November 4, 2008 was the last battle - Yorktown, if you will - and they believe that now, they can do anything.
Correct.
I’m expting Glenn Beck to be assassinated any day now.
People should have seen this man was Think Skinned Narcissistic Teapot Dictator wanna be during the election, but the filter of the Media created a set of Rose-colored glasses that could not be circumvented.
Now we are being RULED by El Bamadente, the American Hugo Chavez.
“Is this truly from the SAN FRANCISCO examiner?! I thought it was a lot cooler when I walked the dog this morning: Hell is freezing over.”
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You beat me to it!! LOL!!!
Oh, so is not just me... I shared this thought w/wife just yesterday!
Things are ugly all around us.
Sad times indeed.
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