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I find it hard to refer to Obama as “President”, when he is still a “Community Organizer”.
According to Wikipedia:
community organizers generally assume that social change necessarily involves conflict and social struggle in order to generate collective power for the powerless.
So you’d think the PRESIDENT of the United States could use his bully pulpit, and its power of persuasion to help tackle state and local government financial problems. After all, if nothing is done, we face a possible collapse of our nation (more on that in a another post..)
But no, if you travel over to BarackObama.com, our President’s web site, you will find our President cheering on the masses. He criticizes the Governor:
Republican Governor Walker Scott Walker has proposed a radical plan to take away the collective bargaining rights of public workers. Those who teach and those who plow the snow-filled Wisconsin streets would no longer be able to organize for better working conditions and rights in the workplace.
Since Tuesday, the streets of Madison and the halls of the Capitol building have been filled with thousands of ordinary folks who are sending the strongest message possible to their state legislators—their rights are not up for negotiation.
Organizing for America–Wisconsin, who has been among the most vocal advocates for state employees’ rights, is tweeting live from the rallies and pulling together the voices, videos, and photos of this movement.
Since when have we seen a sitting President back teachers illegally “striking”. Where is the leadership, the help in dealing with crushing fiscal problems? Where is the leadership in addressing runaway public pension costs?
Perhaps what we see is what we can expect from a President who received hundreds of millions of dollars from these “public servants”. Past SEIU President Andy Stern said in 2009:
We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama — $60.7 million to be exact — and we’re proud of it.
If Obama wants to be a community organizer, he should resign and carry on the fight. If he wants to be President, he should act like one.
In 1962, Ronald Reagan gave a pivotal speech that defined him.
The speech is full of memorable phrases that are as relevant today as when he said them.
This is the issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down: [up] man’s old — old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
And do you think of Obamacare when he says:
the full power of centralized government” — this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don’t control things. A government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.
We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
Watch:
I just received this in an email from my broker:
What the 2011 tax changes mean for you.
• When you sell equities (such as stock) acquired in 2011, we will be required to report details about your gain or loss to you and the IRS on Form 1099-B. (Mutual funds, ETFs, fixed income investments, and options will be affected in subsequent years.)
