Posted on 12/10/2009 7:58:42 AM PST by SmithL
Barack Obama's faux populism is beginning to grate, and when yet another one of those "we the people" e-mails from the president landed on my screen as I was fishing around for a column subject, I came unglued. It is one thing to rob us blind by rewarding the power elite that created our problems but quite another to sugarcoat it in the rhetoric of a David taking on those Goliaths.
In each of the three most important areas of policy with which he has dealt, Obama speaks in the voice of the little people's champion, but his actions cater fully to the demands of the most powerful economic interests.
With his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, he has given the military-industrial complex an excuse for the United States to carry on in spending more on defense than the rest of the world combined, without a credible military adversary in sight. His response to the banking meltdown was to continue George W. Bush's massive giveaway of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street. And his health care reform has all the earmarks of a boondoggle for the medical industry profiteers.
Health reform was the subject of Obama's Tuesday e-mail, which proclaimed in its heading, "We will not back down." Addressing me by my first name, which I assume is in acknowledgment that I, like the millions of other suckers with whom he so intimately corresponds, had contributed to his campaign, he began with a clarion call for yet another contribution, this time to donate.barackobama.com/FinalStretch.
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“I am Barak Obama! I saved the world! Now, gimme a dollar....”
That website is simply creepy.
Where’s that “THAT’S RACIST” animated-gif picture?
In all my years alive I have NEVER seen anyone in the position of the presidency do more than you to undermine the very concept of the United States. Not even Jimmy Carter comes close.
I have become convinced by your choices that you are either a blithering idiot, as seen by the tiny fraction of your nominees who have any private sector experience compared to all other presidents back into the century before last, or an arrogant fool, as seen by the tiny fraction of your nominees who have any private sector experience compared to all other presidents back into the century before last. Same for your plans for health care. Same for your breaking the bank through deficit spending. Same for your cash for clunkers. Same for your support of that complete fraud of anthropogenic global warming and every bit of statist crap built on top of that from "renewable energy" to cap and trade to Copenhagen.
You've been an embarrassment and disaster for the United States and a blight upon the world. You've set back by at least a generation the chances for a competent black or fractionally black individual to be elected President.
In 2010 the first adjustment will come. In 2012 the second. And soon after that you will be that diminishing revolting burp people have to experience after having swallowed something that had lots of pretty garnishes but turned out to be fundamentally unfit for human consumption.
I and all the others you guys derisively refer to as tea-baggers will not back down either.
Apparently we have one of the few liberals here who is willing to call out Obama on his continuation of the Wall Street corporate welfare begun by Bush.
The Ceuceascu’s were Robert Sheer’s idea of ‘Camelot.’ Politicians and media folk who don’t think BO’s far enough to the left really give me gooseflesh. I do believe he’d be more accommodating to them if he thought he could get away with it though.
“that I, like the millions of other SUCKERS with whom he so intimately corresponds,”
Hey, someone else remembers Smokey Stover.That was one weird- ass cartoon ahead of its time.
The sadness of this is that some of these libs actually believe the crap the progressives peddle. Funny that they blame their hero Obozo rather than the flawed ideology of progressivism. Nothing blinder than a man that will not see.
They are so totally blinded by the lies. Progressives aren’t about the little guy Mr Scheer, they just take from all the littler guys and surround themselves with, power, other people’s money, and a trashy small minded superiority.
So wake up fool. Utopia and social justice is a big of a scam as Climate change.
And this is from an Obama Donor. BTW, another donor in the comments has already unsuscribed from Obama’s spam list. The One is losing his strongest supporters — his donors.
Woof. From a liberal rag, the best condemnation of Olamabam-bam I’ve yet seen.
Woof. From a liberal rag, the best condemnation of Olamabam-bam I’ve yet seen.
Scheer wasn’t smart enough not to be fooled in the first place by Obama, but at least he is waking up. Still, I am sure he will fall for the next smooth talking lefty demagogue to come around.
The real fun part is that the Left hates Obama for different reasons than the Right hates Obama. Sounds to me like Barry’s just trying to get more $$$ for his slush fund now that his scheme to use Stimulus money is being exposed by Talk Radio.
Why should he need to “battle back” against the special interests - he and Reid keep saying they have the supposed 60 votes in the Senate to pass his disastrous bill.
Methinks the Senate Blue Dogs are saying no, no way. Especially those running for re-election next year. Those statewide results in Jersey and Virginia put the fear of God into them.
Extremely creepy. You know what really creeps me out? I don’t recall any other president have his own logo. The only person who comes to mind when you thinks personal logos is hitler.
1506 nix nix!!
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