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"Barack Will Never Allow You to Go Back to Your Lives as Usual." (YES IT CAN get creepier)
The Campaign Spot at NRO ^ | 20 February 2008 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 02/20/2008 11:49:06 AM PST by SE Mom

"Barack Will Never Allow You to Go Back to Your Lives as Usual."

Last night I appeared on Hugh's show, and his producer Duane mentioned a Michelle Obama speech at UCLA. Captain Ed talked about this a bit, but I hadn't seen anyone transcribe the part of the speech where it gets a little... unnerving. It starts at about 8:41 in the audio.

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

I'm sorry, nowhere in the Constitution does it authorize the President of the United States to demand anyone shed their cynicism. And I'm all for people pushing themselves to be better, but I don't think the President demanding it is the way to go about it.

And what if we kind of like our lives as usual? What about Americans' freedom to be uninvolved and uninformed?

Darleen at Protein Wisdom transcribed what follows:

"You have to stay at the seat at the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama not just on Tuesday but in a year from now, in four years from now, in eights years from now, you will have to be engaged."

Ah. Apparently apathy will be criminalized, then?

Does anybody on the left side of the aisle find this rhetoric a little creepy? Isn't this describing an authoritarian presidency way beyond anything George W. Bush has done or proposed?

Do the powers of the presidency really encompass everything Michelle says Obama wants and plans to do? Based on this rhetoric, isn't he actually running for messiah?

02/20 02:26 PM


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackhusseinobama; barakobama; chebama; elections; michelleobama; nobama; obama; obamatruthfile
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To: Tennessee_Bob

Wth is OB talking about. I used to believe that Hillary would fire up the R base but this guy will do it even moreso...IMO he will fall apart in the GE.


121 posted on 02/20/2008 12:53:59 PM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: BenLurkin

‘Who is scarier: Obama or Hillary?’


imho, Obama by a mile!
in a recent speech, thought I heard him talk about (young?)people enrolling in organizations that help others, i.e. Peace Corp. That’s probably what his wife meant when she said he’ll never allow you to go back to lives as usual.
When I heard Obama speak about this ‘service’, my first thought was of Hitler’s youth Brown Shirts.
I read clips from Obama’s book and, again imho, it is frightening to think he may be President of America.


122 posted on 02/20/2008 12:54:02 PM PST by 4integrity
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To: SE Mom

Honestly, this guy creeps me out, but even MORE than he, his SUPPORTERS give me major heebie-jeebies.

They are like Jim Jones followers. Yikes.


123 posted on 02/20/2008 12:54:30 PM PST by Shelayne (**Simply speechless**)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Not for long.


124 posted on 02/20/2008 12:54:39 PM PST by HonestConservative
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

“No papers?”


125 posted on 02/20/2008 12:55:41 PM PST by Tax-chick (If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't shoot! It might be a lemur!)
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To: Tennessee_Bob

Free-staters have already staked claim to NH.

They could use the numbers.

http://www.freestateproject.org/


126 posted on 02/20/2008 12:56:08 PM PST by wilco200
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To: mwl1

There’s *adult* pols? I’ll have to speak to their handlers.


127 posted on 02/20/2008 12:57:58 PM PST by wolfcreek (Powers that be will lie like Clintons and spend like drunken McCains to push their Globalist agenda.)
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To: SE Mom

” we will change America...and we will change the WORLD”...

Isn’t that exactly what Islam has planned to do?


128 posted on 02/20/2008 12:58:08 PM PST by 353FMG (Vote for the Person who will do the least damage to our country.)
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To: TheThinker

This guy is sounding more like a bona fide lunatic all the time....


129 posted on 02/20/2008 12:59:18 PM PST by Quickgun
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To: mwl1
"unnerved"

Apparently from the columns I've read a number of them are just a bit nervous about Obamamania. Some of it is Hillary backers unhappy about her political demise. But a lot of it is lib Dems witnessing hysteria on a major level and finally recognizing the untamed, unhinged beast that is the Dem Party today. Dems and libs have always been suckers for messianic populists/demagogues. Now they have one who couches his socialism in pretty, earnest phrases. We'll all reap the whirlwind if he gets elected.

130 posted on 02/20/2008 1:00:06 PM PST by driftless2
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To: SE Mom
One of Barack's victims!

Obama and Hillary

131 posted on 02/20/2008 1:01:10 PM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: SE Mom

Nonsense. He is only a man until ALGORE tells us otherwise.


133 posted on 02/20/2008 1:01:23 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( Peel back tabs for tagline. Do not remove this label. Obey.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Who is scarier: Obama or Hillary?”

Neither. It is the American people who plan to vote for either one of these two.


134 posted on 02/20/2008 1:05:14 PM PST by 353FMG (Vote for the Person who will do the least damage to our country.)
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To: SE Mom

And ALGORE will reveal the Way Ahead when Obama p.b.u.h. advances way ahead, on MARCH FORTH, a date of great significance to Harvard notreally Muslims.
*puff*


135 posted on 02/20/2008 1:06:44 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( Peel back tabs for tagline. Do not remove this label. Obey.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

“The Svengali-like control Obama has over people makes me wonder......”

He doesn’t have any real control over people. These idiots have bought into the illusion, there’s no way he can maintain this. Halle Berry says she’ll pick up paper cups from his path, but she says that because she knows she’ll never be asked to do that. As soon as he tries to exert his control over his minions, about half of them will bolt, and go back to their Play Stations.


136 posted on 02/20/2008 1:07:38 PM PST by snarkybob (')
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To: missnry

omg ;)


137 posted on 02/20/2008 1:09:54 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: 353FMG

“Who is scarier: Obama or Hillary?”

Neither. It is the American people who plan to vote for either one of these two.”


Bingo!


138 posted on 02/20/2008 1:10:56 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: SE Mom

Michelle Obama’s speech was like a modern-day version of “Animal Farm”.

He is a Communist... just as dumb, and just as rabidly fanatical, as any before him.


139 posted on 02/20/2008 1:12:39 PM PST by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: SE Mom

“The WORLD???”

Yes, a leftwing America means a glorious left-wing World, all smiling and happy under the multi-culti banner of peace-through-world-govt.


140 posted on 02/20/2008 1:14:15 PM PST by WOSG (The 4-fold path to save America - Think right, act right, speak right, vote right!)
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