They are in full panic now as their messiah is being exposed
for the charlatan, con artist, and lunatic that he is.
Posted on 08/07/2009 10:56:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Democratic party is panicking, lashing out like a cornered animal, all because its effort to take over the health-care industry is coming apart like so much wet toilet paper.
Nancy Pelosi, who will get her own bound volume in the annals of asininity, has outdone herself. When asked by a reporter whether the protests at various town-hall meetings represented legitimate grassroots opposition or were manufactured “AstroTurf” stunts, she replied, “I think they’re AstroTurf. You be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.”
Now this is a pas de trois of dishonesty, slander, and idiocy. Not only is Pelosi lying when she says protesters are bringing swastikas to these town halls, not only is she suggesting that American citizens are Nazis for having the effrontery to get in the way of Obamacare, but she’s also saying that the alleged swastikas are obvious proof that these protests are manufactured by slick P.R. gurus.
How does that work? What public-relations genius says: “Okay, we need these protests to seem like an authentic backlash of real Americans. Make sure everyone has enough Nazi paraphernalia!”
Meanwhile, Sen. Barbara Boxer insists the protests have to be fake because the protesters are too “well-dressed.” Likewise, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says this is all “manufactured anger” because the protesters — he calls them the “Brooks Brothers Brigade” — are too tastefully appointed to be authentic protesters. Apparently only filthy hippies can petition government.
This, of course, doesn’t preclude the possibility that the protesters are also Nazis; they were snappy dressers (Hugo Boss made SS uniforms, after all). But we’ll leave that there.
The White House is asking supporters to submit the names of anyone who forwards e-mail with “fishy” information. “Fishy information” herewith defined as anything that serves as a speed bump for the White House steamroller.
The DNC has put out an ad claiming that the “right-wing extremist base” is out to “destroy” Barack Obama, so it has unleashed “angry mobs . . . mob activity straight from the playbook of high-level Republican political operatives. They have no plan for moving our country forward, so they’ve called out the mob.”
The DNC ad points to a memo written by an activist named Bob MacGuffie as proof that Republican political ops are pulling the strings. It turns out that MacGuffie, a decent-seeming fellow, is a rank amateur whose Right Principles PAC has collected a mere $5,017 and disbursed the staggering sum of $1,777, and has 23 members on Facebook and five followers on Twitter, according to The Weekly Standard’s Mary Katharine Ham.
It’s difficult for mere mortals like us to fully grasp the enormousness of the Democrats’ hypocrisy. Put aside all that talk of dissent being the highest form of patriotism. Overlook that Democrats would have upended jerry cans of gasoline and immolated themselves in protest if the Bush administration had asked people to inform on their neighbors. You can even forget that the DNC’s claims are untrue.
But how can we ignore the fact that the world’s most famous community organizer is whining about community organizing?
But wait: It gets better. As of this writing, the entire BarackObama.com site was dedicated to “Organizing for America,” with a special page dedicated to “Organizing for Health Care,” where supporters are asked to flood town halls and “make certain your members of Congress know that you’re counting on them to act.”
They only thing they left out is the instruction to leave the Brooks Brothers jackets and swastikas at home.
The reason for the panic is simple. Obama and the Democrats feel entitled to have their way on health care. This sense of entitlement is understandable. They won the election and control everything.
The problem is that Americans don’t like what they’ve heard about the plan, and Obama is incapable of selling, or unwilling to sell, it on the merits (perhaps because he knows the plan will lead to the single-payer system he has long sought but now denies wanting). That’s why Obama spends most of his time either attacking critics or denouncing the status quo.
Simply put: This administration believes it knows best. It feels it is the only legitimate beneficiary of “people power.” It thinks it has a monopoly on democratic organizing. And it is terrified that it will be hobbled if it loses this fight.
So, it just stands to reason that anyone who stands in the way must be a fraud, a puppet, a goon — or even a Nazi.
— Jonah Goldberg is editor-at-large of National Review Online and the author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. © 2009 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
"...he knows the plan will lead to the single-payer system government-payer system government-run system he has long sought but now denies wanting..."
I’ve been watching the threads on the town hall “debates” and have to wonder: Does this man want a civil war? Because that’s what’s coming down the road.
Scary.
Rev Manning said that whites would riot and I think he was pretty close to the truth.
Excellent article
Barry, Barry, O’Great King of Community Organizers, it must seriously bite to have the same tactics you and your spawn utilized to get you into office used against you, huh? lulz
America does not need to be “organized”. It needs to be liberated.
Marxists like Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, think salesmen
are the scum of the earth, and that is simply why
they can’t sell this forced collectivization of the
medical/health industry, they don’t know how to close.
They refuse to answer the customers questions, they
insult the customers intelligence, and they wonder
why they can’t close. There must be something wrong
with the customer!
A real salesman like Zig Zigler would have had this
sold long ago, and everyone would be happy, because
he stood on the same side as the customer and made
sure the product fulfilled all the customer’s needs
and was affordable.
Democrat/socialist want everyone to swallow the poison
when we can see the skull and bones on the label, all
the while telling us never mind the taste, it’s good
for you. But we will take our medicine later...
Nope America ain’t buying it.
The soviets pushed forced collectivization on their ignorant
farmers and it destroyed their means of agriculture, now
Obama is trying to do the same collectivization with
health care....and the result will BE THE SAME!!!
A community organizer should never whine and cry about people organizing at the grass roots.
He does want a civil war. He is even promoting it by continually stirring the pot of boiling anger. His arrogance and his un-cooth (sp?) behaviour along with Pelosi et al are staggering to behold.
The main reason he is continuing to stir up the anger is so that he can bring down the hammer. As in Martial Law. One way or another, this demon possessed POS is going to RULE with an iron fist. He thinks he’s invincible. It can only be “the people” and their military that show him he’s not. And frankly, the sooner, the better. CO
You are in serious trouble. He is applying the Saul Alinsky doctrine right now. That is: isolate the problem, ridicule it and then crush it!! CO
They are in full panic now as their messiah is being exposed
for the charlatan, con artist, and lunatic that he is.
“How does that work? What public-relations genius says: “Okay, we need these protests to seem like an authentic backlash of real Americans. Make sure everyone has enough Nazi paraphernalia!”
ROFLMTO....how do these people sleep at night, and how could Americans have elected such bozos.
Are you just now figuring out, what we have been saying since Zero came on the scene two years ago?
AS a Presidential candidate let me add, as I don’t need a bunch of reminders of his being in Illinois and US Senate.
Obama better turn some of his attention away from Health Care for the moment and take a quick look at the rising and rising gas prices.
If gas prices keep rising and rising, sick people won't be able to use his health care plan, as they won't be able to drive to the doctor's office because they won't be able to afford a gallon of gas.
So, Obama, please turn some of your energy and focus to the rising and rising gas prices and do something about it.
Picture of a Democrat party offical slapping a protestor at the Tampa town hall
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