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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.
***
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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Wow. They really think they own us, don't they?
The Obamas have no class and its no wonder, they're lawyers!
So please forgive The Heart for the off topic posting, but it seems like there no one left that even cares about this issue anymore? Maybe it is as they say, all's well and there is nothing to worry about. Radiation is good for you.
Canada and U.S. cut back radiation reportinghttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/05/09/bc-radia...
It is true that there is no other place where more intelligence gathers around the subject of the ONGOING Fukushima catastrophe then here at Zerohedge. Big gracious thanks for that Mr Tyler. We miss the posts and very educational thoughts from the more then average gallery of commenteers.
Here is more evidence of the ever growing cover up:
Deadly Silence on Fukushimahttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivian-norris-de-montaigu/deadly-silence-o...
Sounds like Layton's first point of order. Have your BC NDP vets hold him to it. Let's see what he's made of...
the deadly silence does not make it go away. it is still on going. the damage is still being done to the air and water. the authorities do not care one bit since the sickness induced will be of the long term nature and according to world population reduction plans on the table, this will be about what they want, plus some other added issues to be added as time goes on. i asked the produce man at the store where i go, where they get their organics from. he said california. so there you have it. only a matter of time now. the government refuses to check anything and is looking the other way. nobody in authority is saying one damn thing about it.........not one.........
+ 1,000,000,000,000,000
I tried talking to some friends about the Fuku situation...they stare at me with a blank look...then shake their heads no...then change the subject...I can't take it anymore...
P.S. Hey Velobabe, easy captcha this evening ;~>
Blessings to you brother...thank you for the great insight and caring comments...your Light is bright!
Misfire...
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those wascally mooooooslim terrorist are really starting to talk now.......
oh my, brought to you by the makers of the best bullshit bagels in the world, the mossad........
why would anyone vote for a man who nobody ever heard of, (unless you lived in the chicago area) good grief.....? does anyone see how voting does not work? it never has work. its like carlin said. it gives you the illusion that you have power, but you don't........you have no power. because our government allows a small cartel to print our own money. we do not control our own money. until we control our own money it won't matter who you vote for. so, the answer is simple. quit voting. stop it.
See, they have this big club, and you and me, we aint in it...
stop voting is like voting for military rule...its always that way it goes...and that is the worst way of all...then its WS scam plus military boot up the ass...we are then in the fourth world ...along with q-daffy.
but by voting, you are saying implicitly that you agree with the system. by not voting, the system will collapse. because it needs your participation in order to continue to exist. by not voting, you make the system reveal itself and maybe some of the sheep will take the blinders off and see that the emperor has no clothes.........
or
continue on doing what you have been doing. either way, it matters not. what will happen will happen and what must be done will have to be done. there is no easy way out now. never was really. only the longer you wait, the worse it gets and like most problems that need to be fixed, the longer you wait to fix them, the worse things get.
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Bush ... our 5 presidents since Reagan (oops getting a little a head).
All brutal CIA prodigies. The question is: who is really pulling the strings and why. The CIA is a nondisting group, but it is run by a power and my guess is that the banks are only a part of it... but the have no human morals, ethics, social decency or greater goal for humanity or the US... or so it seems by their actions.
LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHW Bush, Bill Clinton, GW Bush, Barrack Obama.....
all the same, all controlled
Oops...Not a big supporter of ObaMao, but I preferred him over Hillary. It's the first time I supported a black man beating a white woman since Dennis Rodham dated Madonna.
http://lawworks1.com/publicfiles/PDF's/Invisible%20Contracts.pdf
Invisible contracts.... http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/mercier/
http://yhvh.name/?w=842
Now it's clear? Now? The honeymoon is over, now? Dude, the honeymoon ended before he was elected when he-
1) gave retroactive immunity to Bush and the telecoms for warrantless wiretapping.
2) Supported TARP
3) Chose Geithner
4) Supported the bailout of AIG
5) Made it clear that he wasn't going to hold anyone accountable for anything.
The marriage was in crisis as soon as the honeymoon ended. The erectile disfunction that began on the wedding night has never been fixed. Clearly, Obama has been, not just sleeping with other people, but whoring himself on K street in D.C. He has come home with a variety of STD's, including a bad case of genital warts that have spread to every orifice. The couples therapy that we engaged in against our parent's advice was a colossal failure and a waste of money that only deepened the mistrust. Over a year ago, the divorce was finalized. He has already remarried, and he and Jamie Dimon are happy, apparently.
yup, and chosing Hillary was nice icing
Voting for retroactive immunity for the telecoms as part of the revised FISA, when he'd previously promised to filibuster it, was my uh-oh moment. Democrat vs. Republican is only fascist vs. fascist. Their checks are all signed at the same places, and they serve the same masters.
Funny about O's gold-digging.
You can protest climate change, da Bankstas, just about anything you want, but if it sniffs of "Anti-War" you'll always have a welcoming committee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUHVOu6X21Y
+1
President Lincoln would have to wait in line behind all of Obama's Groupthink morons...and therefore he would never get the chance...
Anyone who bought into the "hope and change" marketing pitch was a kool-aid chuging moron. It was pretty obvious who Obama was before the election. McCain wasn't much better, but a divided government might have at least given us a bit less debt and a lot less ObamaCare.
And ObamaCare is bad because ...
Why don't you ask the 1,400 companies, unions, and organizations that were exempted by the Obama administration. For some unknown reason, they didn't like it.
My individual health care insurance premium has soared 42% since Obamacare. Everything they hike it I call and they tell me it to cover Obamacare people.
I may be forced to drop my insurance if the premiums go up much more.
Great ... keep repeating the talking points ... as i said ..
on behalf of the people who are sick and needed help ...
up yours!!
Finally something to help the middle class ...
Nothing like more spending, more taxation, more debt, more inflation, and lower quality, rationed medicine to help the middle class eh?
Keep repeating those inconvenient facts? Yeah I know the truth makes your type angry
Help the middle class by forcing them to buy overpriced insurance. Woohoo. I guess the unions don't want the help since they applied for and got exempted by the Obama gang. Separate but equal lives
Obama will save the sick who need help by saying he will help them.
WHY DON'T YOU HAVE FAITH!!!
Oh yeah, this will "help" the middle class into the sick-and-poor house.
You're bringing the weapons-grade funny now, newb.
Thanks for the laugh, newb.
Newb?! ... yeah ... whatever
Anyway, see if this makes laugh even more:
A colleague of mine with bad diabetes could not find health insurance coverage ... we all pitched in to help her pay the bills .. not any longer thanks to Obamacare ...
also, a cousin of mine, being treated for cancer does not risk bankruptcy any longer thanks to the removal of the yearly cap ...
I'll take this any day over the 'trickle down', 'help-yourself-under-rigged-rules' ... thank you very much!
Oh... one more thing ... on behalf of all people who are sick ... F@ck You!!
That did make me laugh, thanks, I needed that.
TANSTAAFL, newb.
And like has already been said, if you think ObamaCare is actually about "helping the sick" you certainly are the perfect personification of your Avatar and pseudonym.
Whaaa!?!?
A trillion dollar program to cover 5% of people when the other 95% were satisfied outside of rising cost of coverage, who then saw their costs spike 20% after passage?
I smell a Cornhusker Kickback conspiracy here ;-)
it's always those damn cornhuskers. My favorite is when Rahme pulled insurance and drugs inside for multiple secret meetings and promised them no sacrifices and guaranteed customers. Yup, I'd say this was all about the little guy and saving money.
We are like a two headed Diogenes, searching for something we will never find up there I'm afraid.
I mean really, when it becomes acceptable and common practice to offer bribes to your fellow countrymen can the product of the bribe be said to be virtuous?...I'm going out on a limb here and say no...LOL.
This is what greed & unchecked power looks like...not very pretty.
Obamacare isn't about helping the sick - it's about more taxes. Read it.
Dude ... read it?!?
I am actually seeing how it's already helping people in need ...
Too bad these benefits also apply to the insurance policies that cover people like you ...
Whatever!
"Dude ... read it?!?"
Face/palm.
Yes, but by helping all those 'people in need', you wind up further distorting the price mechanisms which are absolutely key to maintaining a healthy economy.
It's no coincidence once governments grow beyond a certain size, their economies start to falter under their weight. Requiring even more government intervention (read: central planning). And guess what? You wind up with even more 'people in need'.
Do yourself a favor - read this:
http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
Yo... BigJim... when it comes to health care the economy is going down the drain thanks to double digit cost increases courtesy of the private Insurance business ...
Central planning?!? ... more like Cartel planning ...
+ Idio
..the 2 junks you got are from healthcare Cartel members
To quote one of the more memorable obamacare supporters.."Die quickly", bitch.
Hey aptly-named "Idiotsincracy", here is a question for you: Who are the biggest beneficiaries of ObamaCare? Answer: the private Insurance business that you rail against. They wrote the fucking bill, why wouldn't they be the prime beneficiaries? Who do you think is going to cash the checks from mandatory health insurance?
I bet you believe in hope and change too!
Former President Lincoln Advises President Obama To Declare The Federal Reserve Financial Terrorists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvMosRQfaoA