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ObamaCare ad reveals infantile assumptions
NY Post ^ | Dec 21, 2013 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 12/21/2013 12:41:09 PM PST by Innovative

Pajama Boy’s place in Internet infamy was secured as soon as the insufferable man-child was tweeted out by Organizing for America.

The vision of the Obama Democrats, distilled to its essence, is of a direct relationship between the state and the individual without the mediating institutions of family, church and community that are an inherent check on government power.

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote long ago of the infantilizing tendency of all-encompassing government. “It would be like the authority of a parent,” he wrote in a famous passage, “if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.” If you wanted to illustrate what Tocqueville was getting at in one meme, Pajama Boy would be good way to do it.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: healthinsurance; obamacare; pajamaboy; socializedmedicine
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To: prisoner6

Flannel shirt & flannel pants worn while sleeping. For children, they’re seen together because the kid can’t keep them fully on otherwise; that’s what the idiot manchild is wearing.


41 posted on 12/21/2013 5:20:25 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: Innovative

He looks like Alan Greenspan before his swing band days


42 posted on 12/21/2013 5:52:32 PM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: livius

The State is Mother. The State is Father.


43 posted on 12/21/2013 9:46:12 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SkyDancer

But he’ll still have his Barbie collection.


44 posted on 12/21/2013 9:54:09 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: grumpygresh

BWAHAHAHAHA!


45 posted on 12/21/2013 9:56:32 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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