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October 23, 2009

Quin Hillyer: Yes, "The One" Should Fail"

An interesting and thought-provoking morning read.

Quinn Hillyer on why we should all hope that Obama, who happens to be "a black man," fails:

[...] Barack Obama's thugocracy is dishonest, dangerous, and malicious, but it cannot be stronger than the aroused might of a free people. His foreign policy deliberately debases U.S. interests rightly understood, in an effort to suborn our sovereignty in favor of a United Nations he in turn wants to control. But even on foreign policy, there are certain checks on his power that can be called into play. We who oppose his aims -- yes, Michael Wilbon (Washington Post sportswriter who blasted Rush Limbaugh), we who hope that Obama, who happens to be "a black man," fails, and fails miserably at those ends -- must not, however, fall into Obama's Alinskyite traps. We must keep our own eyes on the ball.

The ball right now is the unprecedented power grab in the name of health care. That is Obama's whole immediate domestic ball of wax. Because Obama is losing on the issue, losing quite badly, in the court of public opinion, he is trying to change the subject and distract our attention so we, the broad American public, will ease our pressure against Democrats skittish of doing a lemming act on health care. If we ease our pressure on them on health care in order to fight Obama on other fronts, those skittish Democrats might succumb to the White House pressure instead and use parliamentary tricks to pass the legislative monstrosity Obama seeks.

That's what the attack on Fox News is all about: It's a distraction. That's what the attack on Rush Limbaugh was and is: a distraction. Attack on the TEA partiers: distraction. Attack on insurance companies, and so on and on: distraction. distraction, distraction, distraction. "The basic tactic in warfare," wrote Obama's organizational idol, Saul Alinsky, "is a mass political jujitsu." And "the real action is in the enemy's reaction." And "the major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition," so "pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

[...] They promise transparency, but they stonewall legitimate Freedom of Information Act requests on subject after subject. They stonewall legitimate information requests even from ranking congressmen. They refuse to turn over information about the fired or disciplined Inspectors General. They won't turn over information about their decision to subvert Honduran constitutional democracy in favor of an anti-American leftist thug. They won't turn over information about the New Black Panther decision. They lie about who made the decision. They lie about their efforts to politicize recipients of government arts grants. They brag about controlling information given to the press, and about controlling the press itself. They have a communications director who idolizes mass murderer Mao Tse-tung. They have a manufacturing czar who also speaks favorably about Mao. They have a science czar who quotes Mao, and who says it is not unconstitutional to coerce abortions or to put prophylactic chemicals into the drinking water (!!!).

Continue reading: Yes, "The One" Should Fail." There's much more.

Related: Charles Krauthammer - Fox Wars (The Obama administration wants to delegitimize any significant dissent.)

Posted by Richard at October 23, 2009 6:37 AM

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