THE DAILY BLADE: Obama Gets A “Makeover”
Last year, everyone was talking about this image of Barack Hussein Obama:
Now everyone’s talking about this one:
Posters of Obama as the Joker bearing the caption “socialism” have been tacked onto utility poles all over Los Angeles over the past few days, and no one has yet figured out who is behind the guerrilla protest.
For those whose knickers are in a knot about the “racist” image of Obama in whiteface, the Los Angeles Times’ David Ng points out what should be too obvious to have to point out: “The Joker was a garish parody of a clown, and a clown can be any race - the white makeup doesn't necessarily have an ethnic subtext.” For his part, attorney-blogger John Kinsellagh (among others) notes that almost exactly a year ago to the day, Vanity Fair magazine depicted George Bush as the Joker. And back in March, New York magazine gave Bernie Madoff the same treatment.
Whereas Ng is puzzled by the portrait (“it is completely devoid of context … a free-floating cipher that can be appropriated and re-appropriated by everyone … [i]t can mean anything and it could mean nothing”), Rush Limbaugh explains the connection between Obama and the Joker:
[The Joker] had a big damn chip on his shoulder about his childhood and about a bunch of other things. His goal was to undermine the whole system. … And to effect the change that the people of Gotham City didn't want, the Joker created chaos upon chaos. The whole city was focused on him and what he was going to do next. He viewed crisis as an opportunity. So the Joker orchestrated crisis after crisis after crisis. And the Joker wore a mask. …
Obama has admitted to wearing masks. In "Dreams from My Father": (paraphrasing) "It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned. People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved, such a pleasant surprise to find a well mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time." This is his tactic for fooling white people. This is the mask.
But every once in a while the mask slips a little, as when Obama shoots someone who’s displeased him one of his “gansta glares” (last item), and when he reflexively blamed (second item) the white police officer who made a controversial arrest of a black elite, and when the Obama Justice Department dismissed a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who intimidated voters from entering a Philadelphia polling place during the 2008 presidential election (a repeat of the shenanigans that went on during the caucuses, second item) – a decision that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is fighting to reverse on the grounds that “other hate groups” may be emboldened to stake out polling places in future elections.
Americans voted for Obama because they thought he was "post racial" - Rev. Jeremiah Wright notwithstanding. What if it turns out that, like Wright, he is most racial?
When They’re For You, It’s A “Throng.” When They’re Against You, It’s A “Mob.”
As Dems fan out across the land to try to explain healthcare “reform” and why the legislation must be written and passed at breakneck speed, they are being met by skeptics and dyspeptics, reports The New York Times:
Senator Arlen Specter and the health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, were heckled and booed in Philadelphia on Sunday.
In Austin on Saturday, a throng of protesters enveloped Representative Lloyd Doggett, Democrat of Texas, at a supermarket where he was trying to meet constituents. They carried signs that said “No Socialized Health Care” and chanted “Just say no!”
And in Morrisville, Pa., Representative Patrick J. Murphy, a Democrat, expected 25 people at a “Congressman on Your Corner” event on Saturday. Instead he was met by a boisterous crowd of about 150 and a barrage of questions on health care.
The protests, organized by loose-knit coalition of conservative voters and advocacy groups, were a raucous start to what is expected to be weeks of political and ideological clashes over the health care overhaul President Obama is trying to push through Congress.
The conservative groups, including FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, are harnessing social networking Web sites to organize their supporters in much the same way Mr. Obama did during his election campaign.
But the Obama administration and the Democratic Party doesn’t see this as a grass roots protest movement at all, reports The Washington Times:
The Obama administration Tuesday condemned opponents of its health care legislation for "manufacturing" public outrage across the country even as the White House and its allies prepared to wage their own public relations battle for vocal backers in scores of congressional districts in coming weeks.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs painted the efforts of conservative-backed advocacy groups as "astroturf" - suggesting the grass-roots opposition to the president's health care plan was artificial.
Mr. Gibbs did not rule out speculation that the conservative groups were tapping into some public distress with the president's plan, but Democratic Party activists said protests at town hall events across the country were more likely a charade organized entirely by vested interests in Washington. …
The scope of the opposition effort is unclear, but the White House attempted Tuesday to downplay its critics by describing angry protesters who have appeared at town-hall events across the country as pawns of the Republican Party and their lobbyist allies in Washington.
The Democratic National Committee called the protesters a "mob" and said they believed people were being bused to events by "well-funded, highly organized groups run by Republican operatives and funded by the special interests."
In an E-mail this morning, Free Us Now’s BettyJean Kling reminded The Stiletto of a very fitting quote from Thomas Jefferson: “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” These tactics show that Obama and the Dems are starting to fear us.
As for The Stiletto, when it comes to healthcare “reform” give her liberty or give her death – literally, because should she become gravely ill her only choice of treatment would be a red pill or a blue pill (video). All the health insurance companies that would have covered the lifesaving operation she would need will have been driven out of business (video) and/or no specialist would be willing to perform the surgery for the amount of money (s)he will get reimbursed under the public insurance plan.
BTW, there is another portion of Patrick Henry’s speech that is eerily à propos of the snake oil President Barack Hussein Obama is peddling: “[I]t is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.”
The painful truth – for those who can handle it – is there is no such thing as free healthcare. Not even in MA (sixth item).
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