Vanity: Barack Obama, CEO of Shakedown, Inc.

For two days Rush Limbaugh has been explaining a recent epiphany of his. His epiphany is that he now understands BO’s Modus Operandi. To summarize that revelation, Rush is making the point that BO does not lead, he does not govern, that all he does is campaign. As he campaigns, he attacks those who oppose him ideologically, typically Republicans but now the TEA Party and any other group (such as the NRA) that opposes any of his many radically leftist pet projects.

I’m surprised it took Rush this long to make that observation, and it surprises me even more that he is missing the piece of evidence that makes this M.O. and all of what BO has done quite obvious.

In Mau-Mau’ing the Flak Catchers, Tom Wolfe develops the argument that in the late 60’s and early 70’s a new industry developed. That industry was that of special-interest groups staging protests (mau-mau’ing) at various government buildings and in front of various bureaucratic offices until a spokesperson (flak catcher) would agree to sit and negotiate terms of a ‘peace settlement.’ The peace settlement almost always involved a cash transfer from the flak catchers to the mau-mau’ers. This became big business for those special-interest groups and it became part of the regular operations of all government entities. In Shakedown, Kenneth R. Timmerman details how “Reverend” Jesse Jackson moved the business of mau-mau’ing the government and its agencies to mau-mau’ing corporations in America. Essentially, Jesse Jackson would target a substantial corporation, accuse them of discriminatory practices, and then ‘shake them down’ for a contribution to his organization Rainbow/PUSH. (a ‘non-profit’ but highly lucrative organization) Jesse Jackson so perfected his business of mau-mau’ing the flak catchers that eventually he didn’t have to actually stage the mau-mau’ing but simply imply the threat of protests in a well targeted and well timed call and then would schedule a meeting to discuss the ‘peace settlement.’

Like any big business, the mau-mau’ing industry had many branches and division from the national all the way down to the local levels. BO was a Community Organizer. Now, “Community Organizer” is nothing more than the job title for an intern in Chicago who wants to make his or her career at Shakedown, Inc.

BO became senator of Illinois using the politics of personal destruction and every other cheap and dirty trick that is the business model of Shakedown, Inc. After he was state senator, he tactfully voted ‘present’ on just about every piece of legislation that came his way, except for those that supported his radical agenda (such as legislation to prevent doctors from treating babies that survive an abortion and thus forcing them to watch them die). You see, this is how the Community Organizer, who is nothing more than an agitator, an agent provocateur, a mau-mau’er operates. They complain of an injustice and then accuse their target of participating in unjust behavior or activity. The Community Organizer never has to actually change anything. They simply need to shake down some compensation or concession from their target. In fact, contrary to wanting to effect any true change, the employees of Shakedown, Inc. don’t really want there to be any changes that eliminate the problem. If they do – if they were truly successful in their stated objectives – they would have nothing to complain about, no one to accuse. They would put themselves out of business. So, they don’t want to effect any changes for the better as they define it. They simply want to accuse, intimidate, and leave the target with the choice of fighting back and thereby having their reputation destroyed by the protesters of Shakedown, Inc. or hand over the cash or other concessions demanded as part of the ‘peace settlement.’

As President, BO is not a statesman, he is not a governor, he is not a leader, and he is not trying to push reform that will truly improve the nation. As CEO of Shakedown, Inc., all he wants to do is shake down his targets for either cash (that he can redistribute to his cronies) or for concession in social issues to move the culture further to the left by demanding that the bastions of traditional American values give up some of their moral foundation.

So it is not surprising that BO does not lead or govern, or even that he does not act like a true executive. That is not how he has been trained from an early age and that has not been a skill set he had to or wanted to develop in his long career as a Community Organizer (mau-mau’er). His goal is to accuse and intimidate in order to shake down his opponents. If the shake down leads to something that can be spun as a net benefit for the nation (even if governmental agencies and his fellow democrats have to twist and distort and lie about the statistics, such as unemployment and the national debt), then he is happy to take the credit. Taking credit for the success of mau-mau’ing proves the importance of having him serve as the Community Organizer in Chief. But when his opposition points out how his policies are harming the nation and any of the groups he has targeted for mau-mau’ing (small business, the private sector, the military, conservatives), the Community Organizer in Chief can simply point to his targets and further accuse them of obstructing the improvement and healing of the nation, thus using the very failures he creates as part of his grievance to demand further contributions and concessions from the flak-catchers.

The points you made were very valid — as a student of guerrilla warfare - the tactics that Obama uses have been used before...if you ever get a change to read Skocpol (she’s a communist) - you’ll see that they go to great pains to hide what they did to topple the seated power...but if you read through the BS - you can discover their tactics...so this has been played before...

The reality is that it might not have worked in the 80’s - but over the last 20 yrs — there has been a dumping and strict change in favor of what is being used as propaganda...first starting at the Brick-n-Mortar college level - and then supplanting it self into the public schools to where you now have a ripe environment for someone like Obama...these things take time - but time is something we (conservatives and patriots) do not have much of...either we turn the tide now (I don’t think they counted on the Internet to express the 1st Admend.) or we will see fundamental change that leads to oppression...

over to you,

Good points. And that’s why they are talking about clamping restrictions on the Internet. They don’t like all the free interchange of ideas going on. They don’t like its organizational power (except when it is moveon or OWS organizing). They don’t like experts sitting at home analyzing their spin and revealing their lies.

MarketWatch used to have a great comments section. They ended it because they didn’t like people exposing their lies. Typical of where the Internet may be headed.

Thanks for the comments.

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