Obama Gets The Silent Treatment
Aug 27, 2014 Military
They give him a pity clap at the end…
Perhaps it is time for the rest of society to stop applauding the empty rhetoric and incompetence….
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Silence The Opponents Now Reaches America
Mar 27, 2010 Political
The latest uproar over threats made to lawmakers is overshadowing the reality that most of the communication involved people who only cussed out lawmakers. The people who made the threats should be found and dealt with appropriately. We should also realize that whether they represent the left or the right (a distinction that has not been determined) they represent a small fraction of either side.
But a bigger thing is taking place. The left is using the recent comments as a method to shut down opposition and to marginalize those with legitimate concerns and complaints over the health care takeover that was signed into law.
Paul Krugman of the New York Times gets a laugh out of this and says that one can look but not find calls for violence from Democrat politicians. I have yet to see calls for violence from Republican politicians but Krugman has found them. He cites Sarah Palin’s map with rifle sights on targeted elections as proof of a call for violence. Her use of the word “reload” has also caused a stir among the left. How often have Democrats called political races “targeted”? Should we take that as a call for violence?
Krugman seems to have a short memory for it was Barack Obama who said that he was the only thing standing between AIG employees and pitchforks. It was the Democrat wing at ACORN who arranged bus trips to the homes of these people in order to harass them. It was Obama who said that if they bring a knife he will bring a gun and it was Obama who told his followers to get in their faces…
This is the Alinsky crowd working to isolate the opposition and keep it on the defense.
Pretty soon we will have to worry about an America that resembles Venezuela:
The owner of Venezuela’s only remaining TV channel that takes a critical line against President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday, raising concerns the government is carrying out a widening crackdown aimed at silencing opponents. Yahoo News
How long before this takes place? How long before the opposition is silenced? They are working on it now.
The call for the Fairness Doctrine to be reinstated is but one method being considered to silence the opposition.
But it will not work.
Never surrender, never submit.
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Obama On Wrong Side Of History
Jan 30, 2009 Political
When Barack Obama was running for the presidency he made a lot of promises. This is nothing new as all politicians try to be everything to everyone and they all make tons of promises. Most people know that they cannot keep the promises and, more importantly, the voters know it.
That is, of course, except for Obama supporters. Peggy the Moocher actually believes that Obama will buy her gas and pay for her house and countless others, including the doting media, believe that Obama will change the world.
Barack Obama has tried to lower expectations since he was elected and even stated, in an interview, that it was campaign rhetoric. In other words, you didn’t actually believe that, did y’all?
During Obama’s less than stellar inauguration speech he said:
“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history ….” [emphasis mine]
The sainted one is trying to get this economic stimulus boondoggle passed and he has been courting Republicans, not because he needs them to get it passed but because he needs them to share the blame if it fails to stimulate the economy (and it will be a failure). But along the way this disciple of Saul Alinsky used rule #13 in Rules for Radicals in an attempt to silence dissent (this is listed as rule 12 in some references).
[note]Rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)[/note]
Barack Obama picked a fight with Rush Limbaugh by saying that Republicans could not listen to Limbaugh and get anything done. Why would the president of the United States single out a private citizen for scorn? Why would the president go after anyone unless he felt that person was a threat? Interestingly, Limbaugh came out with his own economic plan in the spirit of bipartisanship and this seems to have stifled the sainted one.
Rush Limbaugh is a voice of dissent. Dissent use to be a good thing when it was Democrats dissenting. They told us constantly that dissent was a patriotic thing and their messiah even reiterated that point. The days of clinging to power by silencing dissent are over.
But then, as he has done since he swore in, Obama did the opposite of what he said. He said no lobbyists and he made an exception. He said no silencing of dissent and he wants to silence Limbaugh and any other voice that does not sing in harmony with his tune. Stop listening to Limbaugh or we can’t get anything done is the same thing as saying that the dissenting voice is getting in the way so we need to quiet it.
I know Obama’s ascent to the top was historic on a number of levels but it would seem that in practice Obama is on the wrong side of history.
And that is according to his own words.
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