Posted on 10/18/2011 2:17:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama acts as though he merely sympathizes with the Wall Street occupiers' "broad-based frustration" about how America's financial system works, but he's doing a lot more than sympathizing. He's fanning their flames.
Perhaps we should take a look at what, exactly, Obama is supporting and contrast it with the tea party movement he so roundly condemns.
In May 2010, when a White House dinner guest suggested to Obama that racism was a motivating force behind the tea party opposition to him, he raised nary a finger of objection and even affirmed that there was a racially biased "subterranean agenda" afoot in the anti-Obama movement. About that same time, the administration had lumped the tea party protesters into a group to be monitored as "domestic terrorists."
Ever since this authentic, grass-roots movement spontaneously erupted throughout the nation, Obama and the leftist establishment have engaged in a systematic effort to demonize and discredit tea party protesters as extremist, racist and violent. Nancy Pelosi predicted the protests would lead to a climate of violence. In a recent interview, Obama portrayed tea party ideas as extreme positions that are rejected by "a vast majority of Americans."
Those of us who identify with the movement and have attended some of the rallies know that in their false characterizations, Obama and his supporters are either lying or projecting. The protests have been remarkably peaceful, respectful and lawful. We are talking about Americana here, folks -- people who believe in American ideals and who object to the government's bankrupting us and destroying our liberties.
There has been no tea party-instigated violence at these rallies, and there has been no racism. Bearing false witness is egregious; doing so in exploitation of the race issue is worse.
Why do we believe that in defaming tea partyers, Obama is projecting? Simply because he is a community organizer at heart with an ends-justify-the-means ethic. He has been engaged in political street agitation his entire adult life, so it is natural for him to assume his political opponents would engage in the same tactics. But they don't.
We see in the Occupy Wall Street protests -- and some of the Service Employees International Union protests that have preceded it -- the attitudes and atmosphere that prevail among leftist activists, whose aimless angst is directed at everyone but those most responsible for causing the damage they are decrying: their fellow leftists.
For a bird's-eye view of the type of protest Obama and his fellow leftists pretended to fear in the tea party events, we need look no further than the Wall Street occupier dust-ups. Here hateful and violent rhetoric abound, just as the ugly specter of racism, particularly against Jews, is in full relief, all of which are as verifiable in the YouTube videos of these protests as their absence has been in the tea party videos.
On her blog, Michelle Malkin cites a Denver protester saying, "There's a lot of stuff that needs to change, and it if doesn't, violent revolution will come."
He continues, "If you get the thirteen families that own the world, including George Bush and his administration, get them in front of the White House and hang them and shoot them, because they deserve that." And if that doesn't impress you, how about the protesters "calling for the beheading of 'white kids,' the 'hanging' of capitalists, and the murder of parents," as reported by the blog "Pundit Press"?
This, my friends, is representative of the type of protest our community organizer in chief claims to be "monitoring" and nevertheless supports -- the type that has led to more than 750 arrests throughout the country, compared with only one arrest in all the tea party protests.
Hindsight vindicates our early assurances that the tea party protests were not going to lead to violence because they were populated by people who honor the rule of law. Indeed, the tea partyers' lawful behavior is an outworking of their substantive ideals, just as the occupiers' lawlessness is reflective of their underlying anarchy. The former respect proper constitutional restraints; the latter more closely resemble a mob.
With Obama, it's all smoke and mirrors; nothing is as he would have you believe. Every negative thing he says about the tea partyers is false, including that they don't represent the sentiment of the American majority, which is bursting with outrage at Obama's reckless agenda.
And whereas he pretended to fear violence from the tea partyers, he is actually trying to foment unrest among the occupiers. Their lifeblood is class warfare, and he is stoking its flames every single day.
With no ideas left on his plate that a long suffering American public is willing to further indulge, much less embrace, Obama is reduced to what he knows best: stirring public discontentment and unrest, hoping that this will somehow serve his political interests.
Cal has nailed it to the wall of truth. OBAMAO can stick his hammer and sickle uphis red azz.
OOPS! I mean Mr. David Limbaugh. I’m asleep at the wheel.
OOPS! I mean Mr. David Limbaugh. I’m asleep at the wheel.
Obama was merely a child of seven or eight at the time of the radical ‘60’s. He must be having regrets about having been too young then and too important now to join them in the streets with a wild afro or dreadlocks, untrimmed beard and fingernails, dirty socks and underwear, pockets full of rocks and granola, slogans, herpes, lice, scabies, etc...How romantic!
| Let the Occupy Wall Streeters rant so America can see progressives for the vapid lunatics that they are. Here's a few to begin: $20 minimum wage regardless of employment, trillions of dollars in new spending on alternative energy and infrastructure, and debt forgiveness -- all debt on the entire planet. Hate the Jews and Israel. Hate people who work. Hate people who have money. Hate hygiene in any way shape or form. Hug the environmentalists. All this looks like Obama's re-distribute wealth conversation with self-employed plumber Joe Wurzelbacher in Toledo, Ohio on October 12, 2008. ''Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?'' Wurzlebacher asked. Obama explained, ''I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.'' The more they talk economic justice/redistributive change, the worse it is for Zer0. Liberalism has finally succeeded in creating an entire generation that feels they are entitled to other people's stuff without actually having to work for it. Forever trapped in the entitlement mentality, they want to reconstitute the Soviet Union in modern 21st century America. Click to hear Obama -- ''Gonna help me'' |
“Liberalism has finally succeeded in creating an entire generation that feels they are entitled to other people’s stuff without actually having to work for it.”
I’m not going to suggest that you believe that anyone, working or not, is “entitled to other people’s stuff”.
The only way I can think of for that to be even a little bit true is when somebody has legally willed it to them.
Ironic that these protesters are part of the percent that pays no federal taxes protesting against the people that pay their share. The one thing I don’t understand is why now? The elections of 2011 are almost all local and I don’t see the protesters having the fortitude to stay until 2012. Since this is obviously part of the Obama 2012 why now? Is this just training for next year or am I missing something?
What we see in the streets now is the acknowledgment by the left that the war on the private sector can no longer be won politically; so in juvenile fashion they taunt the victors.
The “occupations” are merely collective whines, as the left’s foot soldiers have always been more comfortable wallowing in victimhood.
This is what capitulation looks like in an idealogical war where no one dies, no one is permanently neutralized; they can only send you the message that they’re still here, and at least they feel they are still relevant-sort of a collective version of an Obama speech.
We’d be well served to simply ignore them, and continue to endeavor to take our country back at the ballot box.
This is Obama’s Flea Party.
They are Stalinists who want to control America through violence and intimidation.
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