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Obama Gives Up the Fake "Hope and Change" Act ... And Adopts the Neocon FEAR Playbook
I voted for Obama, hoping that he would change things away from the Neocon fear-based politics to something better.
But as I warned right after the election in 2008:
I - like most Americans - am relieved that the trickle-down emotion du jour has shifted from fear to hope. It feels nicer.
But it is no more real than switching from watching the tv from the horror channel to the feel-good-movie channel.
They are both fiction. Neither the Neocons or Neolibs deliver on their promises.
The Neocons drummed up fear of terrorists, but actually made America less secure, and stomped on our liberties in the process.
The Neolibs promised hope, but gave none ...
Hope is just an emotion. Admittedly, real hope for fundamental and lasting change is important.
But false hope ... is less than worthless . . . it is dangerous, for it lulls people to sleep so they won't demand real change.
After the Honeymoon is Over
When
the honeymoon between the voters and Obama is over, people will judge
him on who he picks to lead his cabinet and what he actually does.
After the honeymoon is over, the only questions will be whether Obama:
- Protected our liberty and restored the Constitution and the rule of law
- Restored the balance of power
- Ensured justice
- Kept us out of imperial wars
- Stopped the looting of our treasury and pockets ...
Whether or not Obama does these things - and not whether he administers the hope drug - is the question.
Unless
the fundamental tyranny, injustice, imperialism and economic
foolishness are addressed, then America will have one heck of a hangover
when the drug wears off.
Well, it is now clear that Obama did none of
those things, and our country does have a hangover. The bailouts and
hand-holding of Wall Street has continued, without any help for Main
Street. None of the biggest financial fatcats who committed criminal
fraud have been brought to justice. We've gotten in yet another
senseless war in Libya. The TSA, Homeland Security and other government
agencies are becoming more repressive than ever.
As I noted last year:
Virtually all of our politicians are corrupt. See this, this and this.
The giant banks are running the show.
The healthcare bill being rammed through Congress "is just another bailout of the financial system", and law school professors say that it is unconstitutional.
America is on a permanent war footing, when the people (and soldiers) are sick of war.
Our civil rights have been eroded, and yet we are not being made any safer.
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Obama has sold us out.
Indeed, the American people understand that we're in trouble. As CNN Money pointed out last week:
Just
22% believe the country is on the right track, Rasmussen tells us.
According to a new Gallup poll, more than half of us say the economy is
in recession or depression, despite the fact that output has been
expanding since the summer of 2009. In fact, more of us (29%) say the
country is in a depression than say the economy is growing (27%).
From Hope to Fear
Many have accused Obama of being Bush's third term. Even McClatchy asks whether Obama is morphing into Bush.
Obama can't sell hope anymore. So he's switched to the Neocon fear card.
For those who think that the heightened fear of terror is solely due to Osama being taken out, remember, as I noted in February, long before the Osama raid story broke:
The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security - Janet Napolitano - just told congress that the U.S. might be facing the greatest threat of terrorist attacks since 9/11:
And in some ways, the threat today may be at its most heightened state since the attacks nearly 10 years ago.
This is what the front page of the Drudge Report currently looks like:
(click for larger image. Granted, Drudge calls himself a conservative, but all of the media is beating the terrorism drum).
Do
you remember when Japan's nuclear accident was in the news? How about
the war in Libya, or the Federal Reserve document release showing that a
lot of the money went to foreign banks (including Libya), the wives of
Wall Street titans, and other elites? These stories have been pushed off
the radar by the terrorism hype.
Remember, the father of the
Neoconservative movement (Leo Strauss), who tutored many leaders of
the current administration, believed that a stable political order
required an external threat and that if an external threat did not exist, one should be manufactured. Specifically, Strauss thought that:
A
political order can be stable only if it is united by an external
threat . . . . Following Machiavelli, he maintained that if no external
threat exists then one has to be manufactured"
And see this for background.
FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert
professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and the
Washington Post have all said
that U.S. government officials "were trying to create an atmosphere
of fear in which the American people would give them more power".
Indeed, the former Secretary of Homeland Security - Tom Ridge - admits that he was pressured to raise terror alerts to help Bush win reelection.
Indeed, scientists have demonstrated that fear of terrorism makes people stupid and compliant. So if governments can scare people with exaggerated, shadowy threats, it can do whatever it wants.
Are
we going go back from koolaid drinkers of false hope to mindless
terrorized sheep? Or are we going to stand up as brave, independent, thinking people
and demand real change?
Postscript: If you believe that Obama is less brutal than Bush, read this.
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George you vote for a guy on a Tuesday and pen a caveat the next day. My question to you is why did you vote for him?
For a guy who is frequently accused of seeing things that aren't there, apparently you failed to see that the writings of Strauss and Alinsky come from the same dark place.
Obama Gives Up the Fake "Hope and Change" ActYou mean he made a big fat juicy promise (to hoodwink voters) and then failed to deliver
...typical politician/socialist/human scum
Obama bin Lyin' TOP TEN gaffes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MUXtg7XdyE&NR=1
57 STATES
OK, this is my first post so go easy on me. I have been reading for quite a while, deciding it was time to add my opinions as well. There is not one damn thing I will say that is good about Obama, he is as bad as bad gets. It is sickening to see where this country is heading under this regime. I hope for our children & grandchildren's sake we can stop this runaway train of theft. I feel like the rest of you, this crap needs to stop Now!
Obama's uncle must have served in the Soviet Red Army, because it was the Soviets that liberated Auschwitz/Birkenau. American troops were never there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV1sxq8mqvA
Welcome to the club, Steel Magnolia!
WE NEED A SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Thanks & you are so right, we need to stop this, but how, when the fricking game is so rigged. The insane are steering the ship and they don't care where the hell we crash, they all have safety life boats to take them to luxury islands or wherever. We are so screwed, but we need to remember there are a lot more of us than there are of them.
We can try peacefully with Ron Paul...
http://www.dailypaul.com/
or we'll have to earn our freedom again after 236 years by overthrowing the government... a la Egypt and Tunisia. The Yemenis are still fighting for their freedom after 32 years under Saleh, but with free American guns and loads of Saudi butter to support that regime, they're having a tough time and so is Bahrain, Syria, et al... this is the year of revolutions. And to think that all this pain and blood could have been avoided if we had honest money. Buy physical silver and buy gold with your savings. You can start there, otherwise there will be no savings once the government has eaten away your 401(k). What will your paper money savings buy when gas is $12/gallon, and when a gallon of milk is $24, a loaf of bread $21 and with food and energy prices rising faster than wages for the lucky ones with jobs, what will the rest of the country do? Those on foodstamps... today it's 25% unemployment if you follow the real stats, not the gov BLSBS. Think about it. Fight back and hit where it hurts: Silver and Gold (physical only).
USS Maine = lie
Pearl Harbor = deliberate set up
Gulf of Tonkin = lie
911 = lie
OBL = lie
killing of OBL = lie
Operation Northwoods = govt was going to kill a bunch of Americans to advance war on Castro
Wake the F up people. Turn off your TVs and don't support these LIARS with your time and money. One Big Lie on top of another Big Lie. It should be enough for any real American to want to puke.
Don't forget all the little lies like Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman. When you can tell any story you want and everyone accepts it like a child why would the govt ever stop shamelessly lying?
obaMABUSh the two headed beast
I am not going to name MOST of Obama's appointees in the Whitehouse, BUT Rahm (hey - I gave you NAFTA) Emanuel, and the his buddies from the banks and synagogues should pretty well tell you where we are at..........duh!
So, Geo Wash is now one of the self-identified rubes who swallowed whatever Obama Girl was singing.
Don't worry, be happy Rube.
See above
CNN led with the fear story all day to distract from the horrible economic/jobs situation. This will work until there are cuts in government spending.
This Barama is turning out to be quite the assassin. Who'da thunk it? Got to close Gitmo, can't waterboard but he can order a double tap between the eyes of OBL. Whom ofcourse has been dead for some time, several times. This is his progressive globalist playbook "ends justify the means", even if it means killing.
The Barama bypasses CONgress and cuts straight to his NATO one world government to not assassinate Gadhafi, just his children, grand children, wives, compound. Soon Gadhafi will get a double tap between the eyes. Of course at Barama's wish. Hey, he did a good job on them teenage Somalia pirates, bambambam. The man is a killing machine.
Suck it up you libs that voted for the guy.
http://www.rense.com/general94/falsefl.htm
We Must Not Forget! Ever!
I would be laughing at GW for falling for that H&C garbage and tell him to vote conservative next time....
But then I look at the sad sack puppets of the elite that the GOP is trying to prop up as candidates and just sigh.
Its amazing. With enough money and gold wrapping paper, you really can sell bags of **** to the American people.
ps would someone tell captcha not to ask for 3 character answers if it only accepts 2.
Perhaps there will be stronger criticisms of U.S. policy helping to erode our freedoms, but until it comes this one is the strongest to date :
WE GO THERE, THEY COME HERE by Michael S. Rozell (economics professor retired) May 8, 2011, The LRC Blog
Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire-Hathaway, owns BNSF (Burlington Northern Sante Fe railway). Five years ago, BNSF started Citizens for Rail Security, and it has almost 10,000 members. In the name of preventing terror incidents, they are primed to spy on passengers and report “suspicious” behavior. That would be like the man on the BART system who was talking loudly about weapons of mass destruction before the police took him away. An oppressive police-state replete with spying, informants, accusations, distrust, visible weaponry, checkpoints, searches, arrests, and scanning devices is spreading poison throughout a land that once was carefree to a normal extent.
This won’t go away until the U.S. stops its significant intrusions in the politics, economies, and military affairs of other nations, as in the cases of Palestine and Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, and others.
We go there, and they come here. An example is Hezbollah south of the border. As far back as 2007, there are reports of Hezbollah in South America. In the last year or two, reports of Hezbollah in Mexico have surfaced. (The timing of this latest report appears to be a CIA-type manipulation of information.)
We go there, and they come here. That’s the root excuse for a U.S. police state. That cause is going unaddressed by the U.S. government. Its ambitions are just the opposite, which means it doesn’t care about a peaceful and carefree America. It’s short-sighted to think that they come here out of the blue or for no reason or because they suddenly hate us or because they hate freedom or because they are Muslims. They come here because we have gone there. This is the blowback, that and a self-imposed police state. Childish joy over the death of one man murdered in Pakistan doesn’t cut it. It’s not a solution. It doesn’t address the root, which is we go there, they come here.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/87503.html
Warren's going long police state and FEMA camps. What a fucking surprise...will there be a Business Class?
Cold turkey on the Hopium and straight to the Smack down.
Looks like it's the re-elect George W. strategy all over again.
You wrote, on your blog: "I have children who are counting on me to leave them with a reasonably safe and sane planet"
Then you need to set your children straight, right here and now. No child would assume such a ridiculous thing. Using your pretentious "reasoning", the Japanese children now homeless after the tsunami are now berating their parents for letting them down.
Get a frickin' grip, will you? You are not a World Historical Figure. Can't you see the results of pretending to be one, coming from our White House, right now?
fear turns to sheep...
astounding if exploited by politycoons.
but rule based strategies (conscious) will surely fail for socialcontrol, as information-integration (unconscious) learning best characterizes social interaction. and as high working memory capacity is likely a prerequisite for political ascendancy, and high working memory capacity individuals favor rule based learning over information-integration strategies, these artificial controls will fail as their progenitors are biased to be fundamentally wrong in a holistic sense.
what works at a dodgers game will not for the planet.
meta awareness of this employed fear's purpose will convert it to mistrust, and then to outright anger. the disreputation of the political class shall become mainstream, washing tin foil with it.
we dont have Time to deal with denial (or fear, at least of humans anyways), we have thirty year half lives to reject.
Our Constitution was established to promote six goals:
Unfortunately our Country has been taken over by bankers and financiers with no allegiance or loyalties.
Thomas Jefferson knew it when he wrote: "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gain."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild knew it when he said: "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."
William Henry Vanderbilt knew it when he said: "The public be damned."
Pain will be needed to correct the situation.
"we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
You know ... "A Republic, if you can keep it."
Who would junk that comment?
In all seriousness I first did a double-take when I saw:
Pain will be needed to correct the situation.
At first I thought it said:
Palin will be needed to correct the situation.
(Oh, my failing eyes)
And then I realized that 80% of her name is Pain. Could that be the sub-textual psychological sado-masochistic sense of sacrifice and atavism that triggers the attraction in her base?
AND...........Palin could be worse than what we have???.... You have no knowledge of the depth of Obama's damage..........
I'm sure the framers of the constitution had some goals in mind but I don't think they were enumerated 1 through 6 (unless I missed a very important history lesson).
Ha! He's no framer more like a framee from some of his comments above where, like a dupe, he's defending the trojan horse of Obamacare but the comment contained content that was righteous if not technically accurate.
The junk was probably an egregious carry over from comments above. I call two minutes for hooking (even tho he's pimping the thread)
What do you mean just gave up? Obama is the second coming of George W Bush!!!
Gitmo - still open
Troops- still in who-gives-a-crap-istan,and O is doubling down in Libya
Spending? You thought a part D drug plan for seniors was obscene? I'll raise you a trillion.
I actually have been hearing rumors that Halliburton is considering offering him a board position after he leaves in 2012.
Bush 44.
Always has been. Just another political COG in the machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_of_government
Peter Schiff said one of the historic ways of "stimulating" out of a depression is war!
Watch oil gold and silver double in the next 12 months.
BOOYAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You all are big fucking idiots if you think things would have been different with McCain/Batshit. You are all having the same old tired argument. It no longer matters who the president is anymore. The sooner you morons get that through your dumb ass partisan skulls the better off we all will be. Wake up and stop making this about Obama, he just does what he is told.
Well said, anger warranted, its frustrating speaking with the dead.
Let's go back to States. They are closer and perhaps more willing to listen. See if they can make any sense of things.
Don't get me wrong ... I agree with you.
However, I have a big problem ith people who believe in a 'natural' economic system, a system that would work wonderfully without gornment ... there is no such thing ... the laws of the univers are natural ... those of finance and economics are not ... we make up the rules and we need a government for the people and not for the oligarchy.
So, while I agree with you in theory, I am not ready to dismiss things that help the heart of this Country: the middle class!
Time to expand your closed mind a bit: http://pixel420.com/pixel420/stateless/
There ARE natural economic laws because there are laws governing the physical world and human nature. Goods and services cannot be decreed into existence.
I agree with you as well. Bottom line though is 'real' change won't come until people die. As horrible as that is, it is the truth. We will never have a system that looks out for people instead of one that is fucking them over until the people responsible are held accountable. But these people own the corrupt system, Just ask Mr. Spitzer what happens when you try to get too close "politely". These people have to die, awful public deaths, assassinations, whatever, and the American people rise up and show a new government that we won't stand for this shit anymore. Do I think this will happen? Not in my lifetime but I hope my unborn child will be able to affect some real change in America. That is if I choose to stick around much longer....
creative destruction is always at work.
maybe not as public, but you get the point.
Unfortunately Obama bought into the 'trickle down', socialized-finance economy. (Plenty of money at the top ... Corporations doig as well as ever)
However we have had more reforms in favor of the middle class in two years that in the previous 8 years (what a nightmare!!)
also, nothing better than starting a race with both arms and legs tied and hanging upside down .... and when he begins pushing reform, here come the American people and in 1 1/2 years put back the clowns they had kicked out for causing the great recession ....
Awesome!!!
You should have just wrote:
It's all Bush's fault!!!
and be done with it instead of all the pathetic blah blah blah excuses.
I mean after two years of $1.7 trillion deficits, inflation, continuing wars, and 9.5% unemployment, those crazy voters decided they didn't like what was going on. Things were going so well.
Let's see ...
after the worst and most idiotic presidency, obama is elected because of the need for change after the worst economic crisis in decades ... he comes in ... reverses job losses into job creation, saves the banking/finance system (courtesy of the middle class), helps corporations recover, etc...
not fast enough? ... thank the people who caused the mess in the first place (and that goes beyond GW)
Anyway, what did the other loser do? ... you know GW?
And now:
Doublethink to perfection; he helped the banks at the expense of the middle class, but thank god he helped the banks at the expense of the middle class.
Get a grip m'boy.
Look, I realize you're a ridiculous troll, but I'll try anyway. "job creation"??? Pretty much every month Obama has been in office the number of jobs created has been less than the growth of the working-age civilian population. Only in the Orwellian world that you and Obama live in, does that constitute "job creation". "Saves the banking/finance system"?? Saves it so the GS bankers can keep getting their sweet bonuses every year. Seriously, you can't be this stupid. You must be a troll.
Shouldn't you be off somewhere doing stand-up?
...but, but, stocks have done well <sarc>off
...but, but, stocks have done well <sarc>off
I didn't vote for McInsane or TOTUS. McInsane is off his rocker. I knew TOTUS was a conman fronting for other conmen. All you had to do was listen to his promises of pie in the sky utopia to know he was a punk, liar and thief.
It's not the puppet for which to blame it is his masters, the lizard overlords.
~D'jean Splicer
My dear Americans, why aren't you voting with your feet?
If you can't leave the country, you have an excuse... because you are prisoners.
It would be easier to flood into Mexico and change their country and let all the Mexicans take over what is left of America. Didn't they pass an exit tax in 2009 where the government would basically tax your assets at 35% if you leave? I believe it is Internal Revenue Code Section 877A.
Yes, I heard about it.
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