(Via Babalu Blog) I was going to tack this onto the Obama/Che post from earlier this week, but I don’t think enough people would dig back through to see it, so I’m giving it its own post. Certainly worthy of one, given the importance of the…

Hotair has started the Obama bashing in full swing (I am already missing the Huckabee bashing). The story surrounded a perfectly valid request from Obama to a grocery chain.
I don’t know what Tesco did or didn’t promise, but businesses don’t exis…

Color scheme, pose, an all.

Somebody give Barack a cigar.

Take a look at a catalog from your local State U to determine the ratio of say, actual math courses to social justice, diversity awareness etc. courses required for someone to become certified to teach secondary math for instance.

As an added benefit, indoctrination into progressive shibboleths at the expense of mathematical literacy makes it easier to sell the voters on absurd economic “improvements”.

I may have to break out the tin foil hat soon, because I’m starting to wonder if the “sleepers” were awakened and are doing the deeds they were programmed for several decades ago. *yeesh*

Blacklake on February 13, 2008 at 5:20 PM

Well explained. Obama is essentially channeling Mussolini (whom Italian women not-named-Oprah adored), with some necessary adaptation/narrative changes for this time and place.

wherestherum on February 13, 2008 at 5:30 PM

It’s not communism — at least not yet. It’s fascism, and it’s important to define the terms, since the progressive left loves to argue semantics rather than issues. Try reading Jonah Goldberg’s new book “Liberal Fascism.” It’s driving the left nuts.

mksmithwriter on February 13, 2008 at 7:13 PM

Yeah, let’s all slit our wrists. That’ll be immensely helpful.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse, that is excessive gratuities from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses under loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith
From spiritual faith to great courage
From great courage to liberty
From liberty to abundance
From abundance to selfishness
From selfishness to complacency
From complacency to apathy
From apathy to dependency, [and] back to bondage”
– Professor Alexander Tyler, a Scottish historian, writing in 1787 about the fall of the Athenian republic over 2000 years earlier

Any bets as to what stage we’re at?

Proponents of electoral politics and economic development strategies can point to substantial accomplishments in the past 10 years. An increase in the number of black public officials offers at least the hope that government will be more responsive to inner-city constituents. Economic development programs can provide structural improvements and jobs to blighted communities.

In my view, however, neither approach offers lasting hope of real change for the inner city unless undergirded by a systematic approach to community organization…

Neither electoral politics nor a strategy of economic self-help and internal development can by themselves respond to these new challenges.

Barack Obama
1990 Illinois Issues, Springfield, Illinois

O.K.
So at least we have some indication of the Senator’s views on the types of things that do not constitute “hope” and “change”.

Just wondering.

Here’s why you should give a damn: People like Obama wouldn’t be able to sell outright socialist nationalization of companies to the American electorate. But by using their current set of verbiage and tactics, they are on the verge of instead selling fascistic measures that achieve largely the same ends. It is almost entirely about packaging, but that packaging is what makes or breaks the Democrats with the vital swing-voters of the American electorate.

In other words, since Americans more-or-less know what socialism is, most of them recoil at talk of overtly socialist policies. But since they’ve no idea what fascism is, Obama can promote it and get away with being hailed as “hopeful” instead of the far more appropriate “tyrannical.” If you can help people understand that what he’s promoting is straight-up, historical, fascist economics–as in labor ideas befitting Mussolini’s Italy or Hitler’s Germany–you might dissuade some of them from making a disastrous mistake.

Blacklake on February 13, 2008 at 5:20 PM

Sadly, I don’t think socialism has quite the same fear factor for most people as it used to. People don’t understand the reality of it and care only for their entitlements. They are just as ignorant of true fascism, as evidenced by Bush=Hitler, etc. kind of arguments, which is why I think the Dems can get away with it by prettying it up in speeches. And why Obama saying he’ll raise taxes/get rid of tax cuts, doesn’t seem to frighten anyone except people who are fiscally conservative.

wherestherum on February 13, 2008 at 5:30 PM

Americans are mostly socialist right now, who you kidding?!!? We’ve forgotten the true meanings of socialism and communism and liberty. Wilson started it, FDR implemented it, Johnson finished it. It’s only a matter of time.

The liberty experiment is dead. Someone tell the corpse.

The minute someone swallowed the argument that allowing promotion of communism and socialism was required under the law was the moment of our death. BOTH takes the government out of the hands of the people; the government disseminates rights, not the people. Even a child has more rights than a parent.

IT’s over. Scream all you want. la libertà è guasto

Well, this is more of the same kind of collectivist logic that demands huge tax turn-in, universal public health care, and a centralized economy.

Communism. Let’s say it together: COMMUNISM. Let’s quit creating euphemisms and face the fact that we’re fighting an old enemy.

MadisonConservative on February 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM

Right on. Reagan knew it for what it was. They don’t even bring up the word “communism” in classes anymore. And collectivism is used to contrast our nation’s individualism with nearly every other countries collectivist attitudes – like we’re the bad guys for not thinking that way!

Disgusting.

Democrats and especially people like Obama who have never worked in private enterprise just don’t seem to get that.

Didn’t Obama work for nine years in a law firm?

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/20/america/NA-POL-US-Obama-Attorney-at-Law.php

Am I missing something here? Was the law firm not private?

Surely you mean wrapping, eh?! ;)

Tzetzes on February 13, 2008 at 4:37 PM

Yes, yes I did. My bad, should use the preview button more. Thanks for the good catch. =)

PattyJ on February 13, 2008 at 6:23 PM

I’m just hoping McCain doesn’t decide that this is a fine idea.

I sure hope McCain has the nerve to question him about this, and his Farakhan-loving church, in the upcoming race.

Deety on February 13, 2008 at 6:15 PM

Sounds like a great bargain, doesn’t it? Can’t imagine why the stores wouldn’t want to sign on to this extortion . . . er, I mean deal.

And just what do the grocery stores get in exchange for all these concessions?

AZCoyote on February 13, 2008 at 6:00 PM

The opportunity to lose their shirts stocking highly perishable, high-quality, higher priced organic foods in stores located in areas where market research and previous experience has shown great resistance in precisely those target demographic groups to PURCHASING said products.

More people attacking something they don’t have a clue about. That’s the tale of the modern age. Everyone thinks they know everything about everything, and act like it too. Meh.

Seixon on February 13, 2008 at

Please clarify your meaning.

What’s even dumber is that the black communities protested the building of a Wal-Mart Super Center because it would “take away from the Mom & Pop” stores.

And the LAARN group associated with this union group is the one who worked to have the Wal-Mart ban done.

There is from what I am seeing on the web a whole host of groups that work together to accomplish their desires.

CommentGuy on February 13, 2008 at 5:10 PM

So the Alliance gets to tell the stores who they can hire as their employees, what wages they must pay their employees, what benefits they must provide to their employees, and the stores must also guarantee that their employees have the right to join unions?

And just what do the grocery stores get in exchange for all these concessions?

aero on February 13, 2008 at 5:44 PM

LUNTZ: Name one Obama accomplishment.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think with Congress personal freedom and responsibility at its lowest approval rating ever, you have to elect a candidate who believes in change corporatism and gets people to believe in his kind of change socialism. He’s the person I think that’s going to turn things around.