Although it's not officially recognized, today is Propaganda Day. I have declared it thus. I read an interesting blog by a friend that really strikes some excellent points in our current national debate. I don't agree with her on every point because I am not her and thus think and process things differently based on my experiences and knowledge. We are individuals.
I call it Propaganda Day because that is exactly what it turned out to be. My friend is right, we don't trust Obama and the cronies he has given jobs in Washington. Ayn Rand once wrote that there were two types of businessmen. The type who ran their businesses and the type who run to DC. Now we've got DC in the business of doing business which is something I'm fairly confident none of our forefathers had in mind when drafting the constitution our government is supposed to be run by.
Any government has a contract, a social contract, to deal fairly with the people whom it governs. The moment they break that social contract they invite scorn and dissatisfaction. When they break that actual paper contract, say, the constitution, they invite anarchy and insurrection. This is just the recipe that Thomas Jefferson was describing with his "the blood of patriots..." quip.
Inviting yourself into the schoolrooms was a good move. I mean, the Teacher's Unions get the whole "the hand that rocks the cradle..." thing. Social engineering is an ugly thing. Basically, what you have to do is convince a majority of people that they are either entitled to something or too stupid to understand it so just let the professionals handle it. Now, forgive me, but isn't trying to convince an entire country of people that they are entitled to free health care social engineering, and when that fails trying to convince the kids of it so you can have an easier time taking away more of our rights down the road? In essence, softening them up ahead of time?
I don't like what Obama is doing. I don't like his policies. I don't like his friends. I don't like "The Chicago Way".
It has nothing to do with what color he was born, where his father was from. It has everything to do with the fact that tries to shove shit down our throats while telling us is medicine and will make us feel better. We know it's not medicine, we know it will not make us feel better, but there are the gullible among us who think that since he's the president, surely he knows what's best!
Why? Does he get some kind of crystal ball or ability that makes him automagically right? Being president these days just means you raised more money. Because he surely did not get the job because he was qualified to do it. Before he was elected Senator in an admittedly crony driven town, he was a freakin "neighborhood organizer", which makes him no better qualified to do the job as president than the life guard at your community swimming pool. Put it in that perspective and suddenly our mistrust doesn't seem so silly.
If Obama wants to run backroom deals and put his cronies into offices for political payback in Chicago, let him do it and let THEM handle it. However, since people put him into the highest office of our land, it comes to US to deal with him and his ilk.
In any other arena, if I showed an inability to do my job with any competency whatsoever, I would not be hired, and if I somehow did manage to get hired, I would be summarily fired once my Peter Principle was realized. However, in Obamaland, the inability to correctly pay taxes makes you the first candidate to head up the tax bureau. Looking at it that way, perhaps Van Jones should have been the head of the Office of Protocol for the State Department, rather than the Green Jobs Czar.
I will be less diplomatic than my friend Devon and suggest that the ONLY reason that Obama was, in fact elected president, was that the media and left wing liberal machine (Gasp! Left Wing Liberal Conspiracy, Oh My!) was so intent on electing a black president, that Snoop Dogg would have made the cut, had he run for the office. However, I be Chris Matthews would have actually performed fellatio on Dogg on public TV whereas he just insinuated he would with Obama.
Since we don't, actually, consider women throwing knives out of ponds as a basis for government, and rely on a constitution written over 200 years ago by men who could never have foreseen how bastardized their words would become, we have to accept that he was duly elected president.
We also have to make sure that it never happens again.
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