Obama Comes “Clean”
Obama’s Friday Firehouse address may represent the turning point in the 2012 presidential campaign, and Romney didn’t have to lift a finger.
Obama’s thesis that government enables all individual effort and accomplishment, an enabling that producers must repay by disproportionate taxation, betrays Obama’s total ignorance of history, philosophy, human nature, and, perhaps most embarrassing, because it’s the only activity he’s ever seriously pursued, political tactics.
It’s ironic that Obama is associated with “stimulus” because this remarkable thesis efficiently chills incentive at all levels of society. Those that have the capacity to create value will hardly be comforted in knowing that the glory is not theirs, but rather Bael’s, who must be fed. Those with lesser capacities can relax without further effort, comforted by the knowledge that it is they who make all the good things happen. Since the enabling is accomplished by spending taxpayer money, this may be more difficult for the unproductive to pull off since they don’t pay much in the way of taxes.
Of course, the notion that individuals owe government for making their accomplishments possible is vintage Marxism, but Obama is not sufficiently grounded in history or philosophy to appreciate this. It would undoubtedly be news to Obama to know that it is government that is the debtor to the individual, a debt which is discharged by keeping the country safe and the population free.
Already, pundits on both sides of the political spectrum are expressing astonishment that Obama would betray so openly his ignorance of the American way of life and his hostility/jealousy regarding productive Americans.
As a companion piece to the Dems demand for past Romney tax returns, there is a developing interest in Obama’s academic background and record. Obama’s latest pronouncement on the roles of government and the individual will do nothing to assuage this curiosity. The speech will also surely produce increasing skepticism about the notion that Obama is bright, even in his specialty field of pragmatic, parasitic politics.
(c) 2012 Gordon Osmond
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I still talk to friends and neighbors at the market who don’t seem to get who they are supporting for President. The chats always diverge to “women’s choice” and “gay marriage”, which seem to trump the economy, inflation, and unemployment.
Guys like the President have been around a long time. They believe they know what’s best for you and know how you should lead your life. Viva la revolution…
And ignore the fact that in the last 60 years in this country, that the economy has actually performed substantially better under periods of higher taxation on the top tax brackets than the "prosperity" that we're currently experiencing from low taxes on the rich.
He took his speech nearly word-for-word from one made many weeks ago by the Senate candidate and faux Amerindian Elizabeth Warren. Someone in the media should compare the things that come out of his mouth these days with what he was saying in 2008. He duped the public last time, which can happen, but if the people stick with him after all they have seen and heard since, there seems little hope for the democratic process.
Re: his law degree:
"It was as a law student that Obama first made history—and national headlines—when he was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review in the spring of 1990. And as a law student, Obama met many professors and classmates who would prove helpful in his meteoric political rise from state senator to president of the United States in five years. Each seems to have a story about how much Obama stood out...." http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/obama-at…
You are sounding a lot like Donald Trump, do you really want to join his party of ignorance?
I know of no law that requires a presidential candidate to produce his tax returns. He can produce as many or as few as he chooses, and if this bothers a voter enough he can vote against the guy.
There are a lot of sealed records pertaining to Obama's past, but I don't hear most of the media demanding that they be released. They could be as important as Romney's tax returns, but as with the tax returns, there is no law compelling their release.
So Romney and Obama are in the same boat, and both within the law.
He may know that the inalienable rights are not derived from government. However, he fails to discern that a primary purpose of our national government is its service to citizens in protecting each individual’s rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Instead, he sees no obvious harm in government intruding upon such rights.
Barack Obama distorts the meaning of the value we hold that all men are created equal. This is a guarantee extended only to the inalienable rights and to certain other rights enshrined in our Constitution. Wealth, food, shelter, and health, among other things, are not guaranteed by our fundamental law.
Nevertheless, to him, this cherished value somehow translates to a governmental mandate that all men are to be assured of the same outcomes in life. This distorted directive is then most often envisioned by him, and those who believe and think as he does, as the simplistic implementation of taking from the fortunate and giving to the unfortunate under various legislative schemes.
There was some conjecture today that Obama's huge gaffe was due to the absence of a teleprompter. If that's true, I expect that teleprompters will make a quick return to the campaign scene. Of course, Obama won't have this crutch to lean upon come the debates.