Behind Agenda Lies Mind-Set That Is Chilling »
Posted By RTHTGakaRoland 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Political OpinionThe serious, and sometimes chilling, provisions of the medical care legislation that President Obama has been trying to rush through Congress are important enough for all of us to stop and think, even though his political strategy from the outset has been to prevent us from having time to stop and think about it.
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What we also should stop to think about is the mind-set behind this legislation, which is very consistent with the mind-set behind other policies of this administration, whether the particular issue is bailing out General Motors, telling banks whom to lend to or appointing "czars" to tell all sorts of people in many walks of life what they can do.
The idea that government officials can play God from Washington is not a new idea, but it is an idea that is being pushed with new audacity.
What they are trying to do is create an America very unlike the America that has existed for centuries — the America that people have been attracted to by the millions from every part of the world, the America that many generations of Americans have fought and died for.
This is the America for which Michelle Obama expressed her resentment before it became politically expedient to keep quiet.
It is the America that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright denounced in his sermons during the 20 years when Barack Obama was a parishioner, before political expediency required Obama to withdraw and distance himself.
The thing most associated with America — freedom — is precisely what must be destroyed if this is to be turned into a fundamentally different country to suit Obama's vision of the country and of himself.
But do not expect a savvy politician like Barack Obama to express what he is doing in terms of limiting our freedom.
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spkguy3 months, 2 weeks ago
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"In other words, these people have gone full-blown lunatic on us. Curious, I also looked up the Investors Business Daily editorial cited by Human Events. Published a week ago Friday, it is chock full of lies, distortions and other foolishness, such as the claim that the House bill would compel senior citizens to undergo mandatory euthanasia counseling every five years."
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"But my favorite part of the editorial deals with the British health-care system, which if you believe IBD is basically condemning the old and disabled to die.
“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless,” the editorial claims.
Of course, that same Stephen Hawking who wouldn’t have a chance in the United Kingdom was in fact born in the United Kingdom, has lived his entire life in the United Kingdom and lives there still today, at the ripe old age of 67. (He was in fact hospitalized earlier this month.) Hawking is, you might say, living, breathing proof that these people are first-class fools."
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
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It must be scary to be a racist con worshipping paranoia spewing oxycottin addicts, seig heiling faux noise.
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I think, cons, you better dig that hole under the doublewide and stock up on batteries for your AM nutter radio. Shoot anyone in uniform, they are coming to take your purty sister/wife, your guns and your bibles. Beware the mailman, he is a UN agent.
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